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He doesn’t even talk about those kids who got that signed baseball back from that giant junk yard dig
For real how could he miss that
And it was Darth Vader the whole time!
Next time you react to a TopTenz video, whenever that might be, it should be either "10 cancelled military operations that would have changed everything" or "10 people who did terrible things, for good reasons".
I think you'd enjoy both videos.
It's clear the dazzle paint works a treat: car companies still transport and trial new models using that technique to make it very hard for the competition and the press to get details on novelties before they want them to have them. I think even in other languages the German term Erlkönig is used
yep used to live in a place that had a proving ground not too far out of town and would see convoys of cars with the zebra camo all the time.
"What? That's crazy! So crazy it just...might...work!" -Pistacio, Master of Disguise
So some additional info about Mexico and escaping prison not being a crime: The act of escaping, or attempting to escape is not a crime because Mexico recognizes that it is natural for a human in captivity to seek freedom. However, other things that happen in escapes can and will result in more trouble. For instance, if you escape from prison and kill a guard you will be charged with murder, just not the escape itself.
Most crimes start from natural desires, so I'm not sure about that reasoning.
@@jdotoz I’m not saying it’s a good thing or not, just saying that’s what they do.
I mean... the very act of escaping doesn't hurt anyone? And the criminal doesn't take the responsibility to be in prison since they're put in there by force? 🤔 It's counterintuitive, but it has logic
@@jdotoz those are only crimes when they involve a victim though. Even drunken disorderly, you are victimizing the public by being loud and obnoxious.
It's inconsistent if they have other victimless crimes in Mexico, like say, drug use/possession of small amount of narcotics, or suicide. I think in the US actually consuming drugs isn't a crime, it's judt posession. Though in some conservative areas, if you say, injure yourself shooting up and they can drain your abcess and test the exudate for drugs, they can charge you with "posessing" it because you were "keeping it" (in a pocket of skin). Anything to put more ppl in prison.
we have the very same law - or lack thereof - in Germany, with that exact same reasoning. Escaping from prison will not give you additional prison time, unless you commit other crimes, like assault or property damage, in the process.
Thanks for the shout out Chris!!! Great video 👍👍👍
Regarding the supermarket robberies: nowadays they are much less common as these businesses don't have as much cash on hand due to credit and debit cards. We also don't hear of them much, because they almost always happen when the money is being transferred into the armored truck to take it to the bank, so it often falls into the category of armored truck robbery.
If you watch old British TV crime shows (stuff like The Sweeney) they were always robbing security vans because in the 1970s everyone got paid in cash. Now that everyone gets their money paid straight into a bank account, they're not worth it.
I would also say that at least in impoverished areas, it’s tough for grocery stores to operate, the margins are very slim most of that cash is going to pay suppliers and what’s left over mostly
goes to pay local employees. Most poor communities are desperate to have a grocery store and once they get them even the criminal element tends not to rock the boat as often they close pretty fast. Having been at a couple usually is security is something like multilayer locked steel doors plus the vault, silent alarms, cameras, guards. Cash is frequently removed from the registers etc. there’s a lot more invisible security at grocery stores than you think. I’ve even seen some go so far as to have barbed wire on the roof as someone had tried to break in that way. (I suspect the pneumatic tubes went into the ceiling and the roof was how these guys accessed them)
Now I could see someone trying to knock over a Whole Foods in a wealthy area but they also have the money for a lot of security too.
As someone who plays Silent Hunter and World of Warships, I can confirm that dazzle camo does sometimes throw me off my aim
i think there's a new sub game similar to the silent hunter games out now
I remember Appolo 13.
I was in grade school, & we were praying in school for the astronauts' safe return.
Hi Chris, fan from Brazil here. To give some context on how big of a problem inflation was in Brazil before the Real Plan, between 1950 and 1993, Brazil had only one year with inflation below 10% and in 1993 we had an inflation near 2500%.
This may not seem much compared to the hyperinflations in post WW1 Germany or post WW2 Hungary but the longevity of the high inflation period created an inertia that was extremely hard to break.
The 10 years prior to the Real Plan were witness to many failed stabilization plans, from price controls to freezing bank accounts, the last one so impopular that led to the impeachment of the sitting president Collor (side note: he was the first president elected by direct vote in thirty years and won the election in 1989 against Lula, Brazil current president).
The Real Plan was probably the biggest social achievement for Brazil, because the poor couldn't protect their money from inflation, while de rich had access to the financial sector and earn interest overnight.
Operation Mincemeat might count.
I was going to suggest that if nobody else did, but you got in ahead of me.
I'll just add the enormous range of peculiar "funnies" and other unusual constructions that facilitated the D-Day landings, from swimming tanks and PLUTO to "Mulberry" harbours and concrete ships and barges.
The "dazzle" camouflage was so named because the alternative method of the time was to illuminate the periscope with a searchlight, which prevented the enemy from seeing anything BUT the light, and so preventing them from establishing speed, course, or even the size of the ship using it. The problem is that you first need to find out where the periscope is going to be appearing. It is highly effective though - how many of us have sat waiting at a junction for ages before pulling out onto a major road, because of a bright light approaching, only to discover when it buzzes past that it is a moped that you had easily enough time to pull out ahead of, instead of a powerful machine able to exceed any speed limit that may exist at that location. That is exactly the same and is the reason I have long opposed daytime headlights on motorcycles, when daytime running lights exist and are far more effective because they scatter the light they produce instead of focussing it.
I love how with pykrete the government twice had a demonstration about how strong it is. Both times someone shot at the pykrete and both times the bullet bounded off and hit someone in the meeting.
A friends father helped with the Iran hostage crisis, he worked with the Canadian government and later went on to work at the embassy in China until retirement.
He HATED Argo, for one specific line near the end of the film where one character essentially says “let them have the credit” to footage of people cheering on Canada for its aid in the hostages return. I think as a film, it’s epic, harrowing, and deeply entertaining. As a Canadian however it feels like yet another example of America ignoring or downplaying its allies accomplishments to make its own look bigger.
In the Star Wars Expanded Universe (pre Disney) probably the most iconic villain is Grand Admiral Thrawn who is a military genius. He studies the art of different cultures and species to understand how they think and uses that information to create strategies to defeat them. Not real but still very cool.
As someone that was a manager at a "nice" grocery supermarket, we had an armed robbery twice in 15 years. Neither was ever apprehended.
I was thinking of other crazu plans. Such as Alexander having a 1000 yard causeway built to beseige the city of Tyre, or the Hatten Garden Heist, or even the Ardennes strategy in ww2.
I remember first hearing about the asuangs as a kid in the 1980s via checking out a children's book titled "Juan and the Asuangs" from my local library. The book tells a story of a young boy (Juan) whose village was being terrorized by an asuang and his quest to deal with the threat. It's really freaky what some of the creatures can supposedly do. The main one in the book could split its body into upper and lower halves. The lower half was rooted to the ground like a tree stump, while the upper half could fly around and capture prey (mostly children or livestock). In the story, Juan defeats this asuang by finding its lower half and putting hot peppers on it, which burned the creature up from the inside once its upper half returned and reattached.
mananggal! they are scary but beatable lol
9:50 I'm one of those. My brain processes extremely quickly, and I can see patterns in things that shouldn't/aren't supposed to have them. Things like Concentration or Simon (repeating the light patterns) I'm phenomenal at.
It can be tough to apply that to normal everyday function sometimes, though.
The capture of Quebec City from French in the Seven Years War is legendary. James Wolfe (age 32) commands the British troops to cross the St. Lawrence river. William Howe (age 30) is also present. A French patrol spots their boat and begins asking questions. But a British soldier fluent in French is able to bluff past the patrol boat.
Wolfe lands ashore and leads his men up a narrow footpath to the Plains of Abraham to outflank the French defenses of Quebec. The path is so narrow that the British soldiers have to walk in a single file line. It takes all morning to get Wolfe's men across the river and onto the field of battle where they can maneuver. If the French had attacked when they were crossing the river or when they were on the footpath or before everybody was lined up then James Wolfe goes down in history as one of the worst commanders of all time.
The French commander, Louis Montcalm, falsely believes that his reinforcements are too far away and the British have more reinforcements on the way so he attacks at mid day. The French regulars make a concerted effort but the French militia falter. The militia fall to the ground to dodge bullets, or spread out to take cover and the French regulars are left unsupported. The regulars are annihilated where they stand and then the French militia retreat.
Montcalm, his 2nd in command, his 3rd in command, and Wolfe all die in the battle. The last French soldier retreats from Quebec City. He merely leaves instructions to the civilian governor on how to properly surrender to the British.
The untrained French militia quickly loses resolve and proposes surrender to the British just one day before a French relief column arrived. The terms of surrender set the tone for the whole history of Canada. The French are allowed to keep their language, their property, and their religion if they only swear an oath of loyalty to King George.
There's a great documentary on UA-cam about the Press Your Lucky guy. He ended up losing all his winnings through robberies and an addiction to scratch off lottery tickets.
27:40 The biggest project in the Netherlands at the moment is currently expanding (or rather slowing down) the water throughput through the big rivers in order be able to better handle water surges coming from Germany and Switserland. I live near the Meusse, and nearby large area's are added next to the river to allow flooding in case of high water levels. Similarly near Nijmegen a 2nd socalled Spiegelwaal (literally Mirror Waal) was dug out and the Nijmegen Bridge (Market Garden Fame) and Oversteek Bridge (Literally Crossing Bridge) (a bridge placed on the location of the crossing of 504th Parachute Infantry) where expanded to cover the newly created Veur-Lent island and the Spiegelwaal. At the moment ongoing activities are in place to future prove the Waal Dykes near Nijmegen
8:47 $110,000 in 1984 is a touch more than $339,000 today. That's pretty awesome that he not only won big, but the fact that he didn't keep going after mental fatigue from focusing that hard, because he kept winning. Good on him on knowing when to hold them, when to fold them, when to walk away, and when to run. :D
12:00 Silent Hunter 4, for example. My favorite submariner game.
Just wanted to say as a fairly left leaning guy and history facinated, that tuned into your livestreams recently, you are the only self-proclaimed conservative UA-camr which opinion I genuinely respect.keep your head up dude ❤
#7 It's debatable if dazzle camo worked. U-Boat captains said it indeed made ships harder to target, but conversely if ships spent all that money to be painted in dazzle, U-Boat captains said they knew this was the more important ship to target thus dazzle camo acted as a torpedo magnet.
Off the point for the last one, but as far as i'm concerned organ donation should operate on an 'opt out' system.
All adults in England are considered to have agreed to be an organ donor when they die, unless they have recorded a decision not to donate, or are in an excluded group.
As for the grocery store story, they likely aren't robbed because of their size. There is also the issue of not being able to see everything within the store because the shelves block too much from eyesight. They just aren't a good target for bank robber type thieves because the situation would be too hard to control.
"The Man who never was". The British placing a corpse in the sea off the coast of Spain, carrying 'important' false military documents. The chances of the body being found were slim. The British were concerned to retrieve the body from the Spanish authorities, or pretended to be, hoping the latter would give Nazi diplomats a sneak preview.
Those Mulberry harbors used on D-day must have been a pretty crazy idea.
The Charge at Beersheba by the Australian Light Horse Regiment.
Mounted Infantry are not properly equipped to perform Cavalry Charges, they had full-length rifles instead of carbines and the closest thing they had to swords was their bayonets.
And yet they did one anyway, and managed to take the town of Beersheba with relatively few causalities in 1917.
According to some versions of the story the Ottoman Forces holding the town began panic-firing and didn't adjust their zero to account for the Australians getting closer to them, so by the end they were shooting right over the horses and their riders.
Re: pneumatic post. It’s still used within large buildings etc. but city-wide networks are all lost. However, Prague pneumatic post is a last preserved municipal network having 34 miles long network. Unfortunately, it got rendered inoperative by the 2002 floods.
With regards to dazzle camo, there's actually some potential for it to make a comeback. Modern passive targeting systems to avoid using detectable radar and computer/AI pattern recognition for final target confirmation might give an advantage here. It likely wouldn't look just like the WW1 dazzle but there is some potential for it in the modern era.
I’m a bit surprised that the Berlin Airlift hasn’t been mentioned. It was an incredible undertaking, and really seemed quite impossible from early logistics shortages, before some of the kinks were ironed out.
The kidney swap story reminds me of the movie 'Pay it forward'. It's quite a cheesy movie but great message.
one crazy idea i can think of was the ghost army or inflatable army used back in ww2 to trick the Germans.
#9, they had to teach the hostages to speak with Canadian accents, I'm Canadian and did my best to kill my accent but it rolls back whenever I'm mad or excited. I tell you what there buddy lmao
In Vietnam my father called the C-130 "Spooky" because not only was it a gunship he said it played "spooky" music particularly around morning fog shrouded mountain firebases.
In ww2, there was an allied ship that grabbed a bunch of tree branches to camouflage itself with the islands to stay safe from the Japanese
A couple of crazy things come to mind. The first was the Japanese using long-distance balloons to bomb the West Coast of the US. The second was a story of a man who worked in a bank and stole one penny out of the interest on the deposits of thousands of people. He got caught, however, when one customer noticed the penny difference.
In Haiti Papa Doc dressed up his Tantan Makut as zombies and convinced the locals he controlled them to the point that when he died the locals were convinced he would return.
I saw Chris was very surprised that escaping prison is not a crime in Mexico, the same goes for a lot of countries in Europe.
The thought is that the human spirit innately seeks freedom, and so purely following that yearning isn’t illegal in of it self, but any crime you commit during the escape (damage to government property, assault, etc) is punishable, just the escaping part isn’t a crime. So in the improbable event that someone flew a helecopter into the yard and flew a prisoner away, that might not be an illegal act by itself (would depend on local laws though, while a lot of countries don’t have prisoner outfits so it wouldn’t be theft of government property it would probably be a violation of some air-space regulations)
The amount of patience😂😂😂 they had kids going that under enslavement
They made a movie about #4 (the Mexico escape) as well. It is called Breakout (1975) starring Charles Bronson (pilot), Robert Duvall (prisoner), Jill Kelly (prisoner's wife) and a young Randy Quaid.
That part about brazil is pretty crazy, here we study about these days, and all the teachers talk about how crazy it was, we had about 6 currencies in like 10 years, also, there was a new job, where one dude with a price tag "pistol" would work just to change prices in the middle of the days, so people would just run around trying to grab stuff before he changed the prices, because by the law, they couldnt charge the new price if your product still wasnt tagged, pretty crazy to think, also, it changed our "groceries shopping"culture, because even nowadays its still common to see markets full in the first days of the month, because now people buy most of the groceries at the start of the month, when they get paid, he said that on the video but didnt specified how it literally became a cultural thing that still exists haha
I’d say you might be able to put Patton’s Ghost Army on this list. Using blow up tanks and planes, as well as falsifying paperwork of an entire corps to throw off the defense of an invasion is pretty crazy.
A bank drive-thru? Is this some kind of joke I'm too un-American to understand?
Its real. Many bank branches not in office buildings have drive thru service. Some supermarket chains try to have drive thru pharmacy services as well
It’s a good way to deposit or withdraw smaller sums of money quickly, and large checks, opening or closing accounts, and such is done inside the bank.
Google Camouflaged Swedish Navy Ship, that is some next level stuff.
"You're mission, Mr. Phelps, should you decide to accept it..."
I’d love to see VTH do a reaction to the video ‘know your allies: Britain’. It’s an informational video made by the war department to educate their troops on who they’re fighting with and against and it’s a really interesting insight into how 40’s America viewed Britain and in some ways how little Britain has changed.
No, I’m sorry but the vampire thing isn’t cool, that’s just evil. Think about it. You kill someone, drain their blood and then use their corpse to make their friends think a supernatural monster is coming to kill them. That doesn’t sound much different than nailing someone to a cross to inspire fear. Also to make this whole scheme work they had to have been able to capture the person without making any obvious injuries, then they actively chose to kill them and desecrate the corpse.
I actually heard once that the rebels didn’t think it was a vampire, they knew it was the enemy and were scared by the fact that a human could do that to another human. Kind of disturbed by your reaction Chris.
Unfortunately, war is war. [ I’m not saying it is “right “, - just look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It did help to end the war. What would have happened if the U.S. actually tried to invade the Japanese homeland island ❓].
@@jeffking4176 by that logic I could just say “Kill everyone who could ever pose a threat to me. Then there can’t be war”. Even war has rules and for good reason. If you choose to break them then you give your opponent an excuse to do likewise
Escaping from a prison is not a crime in Germany.
But helping someone to escape definitly is.
Read about the escapes from Colditz prison. Only Hitler thought that putting all prisoners with escape experience in a castle they did not have plans of and leaving them mostly unsupervised was a good idea.
12:22 Now I want to see VTH do a Silent Hunter playthrough
Titanic's sister ship Olympic was painted in dazzle while being used as a troop ship during World War.
Hey Chris you should really watch the first crusade by kings and generals. Even if you don’t react to it on this channel it’s a great series
Amazing video! Especially the escaping from prison in a helicopter 🚁one
Hello, there is a channel named Cambrian Chronicles, they cover welsh history, which can complement your Anglophilic self. Day 2 i guess
They actually brought Press Your Luck back! It’s hosted by Elizabeth Banks now if you have any interest in watching the show again
As the head of loss prevention for a super market type large retailer, robbery and theft happens a ton
I think Woodrow Wilson misses you Chris :O
They've done something similar with bone marrow by having a registry or potential donors who get tested and wait for a match. I first enrolled when someone in my hometown had leukemia and ran a registration drive. We all hoped one of us would match him (I don't remember exactly, but in the end I don't think he survived), but at the very least the odds got better for everyone. To my knowledge, I have never been matched, though now that I think of it, I have moved *a lot* since then.
12:36 shout-out for using the RMS Olympic "Old Reliable" war time picture. The only Olympic Class Liner to survive until 1930's.
Brazil's economy is still kind of bad, for some people a $70 video game is like their whole two week paycheck.
My addition would be how the CIA sourced titanium from the Soviet Union which was used in the construction of SR-71 spyplanes.
Interestingly enough, the real life inspiration and namesake for the character Neil McCauley in Heat was mostly known for robbing supermarkets and department stores, usually on the days when they would receive large cash shipments. Obviously for the movie Mann changed McCauley and his crew's bread and butter to be bank heists because that's more tantalizing for viewers, but it just goes to show that in reality most career thieves are really just criminals of opportunity above all else.
23:30 it's even more amazing with ALL the new technology we have, we have yet to go back.
Robbing the supermarkets by intercepting the pneumatic tubes: that's how they plan to rob the speedway in Logan Lucky. Great film, by the way.
Using a heliocopter to escape a Mexican prison was incorporated into a plot of a Charles Bronson movie, Breakout.
"Argo" was a bright spot in the CIA's otherwise checkered history.
Today, the Canadian Parliament would never be able to keep it a secret.
Thank you: Fascinating!
ln response to your request for further suggestions on these lines:
A catalog of actions that starts with negative intent of a perpetrator, but ends up having a surprisingly significantly positive effect.
Since this a very broad canvas, I suggest a focus that implicitly allows for a big picture retrospective re-interpretation of events in which the instigator can viewed be as puppet serving a positive end, despite their intended negative motivation.
Fun fact: Here in Denmark trying to escape from prison isn't illegal at all and doesn't ad to your current sentence :P
4:39 A.K.A. the one time I was able to tell my history teacher "fuck yourself" and get away with it.
Brazil mentioned 🎊
Hey man, Canada love its Bloody Mary's. ;)
The helicopter escape happened a few times in history, as late as 2009 a successful one happened in Belgium where the girlfriend of a prisoner threatened a pilot during a 'birthday flight' and landed on the courtyard. They picked up 3 guys without any problems... Since then, all Belgian prisons have nets and anti-helicopter poles.
I second watching the Apollo 13 movie. I haven't read the book it's based on, but I've read Gene Kranz's autobiography "Failure is Not an Option" and it's a phenomenal read. (Kranz was head of mission control for the Apollo missions)
17:56 that's 1000000% Peter Krause the actor
A little bit more on Michael Larson: he was a scam artist who was involved in various Ponzi and pyramid schemes and ended up losing 50 grand when his house got robbed. He had withdrawn a bunch of cash in dollar bills trying to win a radio contest where you win a prize for matching the serial number on a bill. There's a movie in the works about him. Game Show Network did a documentary about the episode about 20 years ago.
That supermax prison you mentioned...Is it OSP? I work inside there two days out of the week. It is definitely an experience.
That's the one!
Good to see Fact Boy Whistler back on the channel.
There was a movie made in the 1970s, "Crazy Larry, Dirty Mary" where they robbed a supermarket.
I worked at a grocery store for 30 years and there wad6a bank branch up front next to our checkout lanes. It was held up twice.
One of the craziest ideas that happened in history that I think of but it worked was Robert E Lee’s 1863 victory at Chancellorsville VA where he split his army in the face of a superior enemy and succeeded in driving General Hooker’s army back across the Rappahannock River in northern Virginia
Also Washington’s crossing of the Delaware
Lee split his army TWICE at Chancellorsville.
23:00 "The three man crew aboard the shuttle..." Apollo 13 had a shuttle, or was it a Command Module?
One might barely consider the CM a "shuttle" since it made a round trip (or not, since it only worked once per vehicle), but no, that's more or less a goof on his part.
Winning “Press Your Luck” was like card counting in casino Blackjack.
#1 was the work of the economist Alvin Roth, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 2012. It's simply the application of economic theory to a real world problem.
Haven't seen pnumatic tubes in 30 years. They used to be everywhere before widespread computerization.
I'm pretty sure the movie was based on Lord Of Light by Roger Zelazny which is a fantastic read. They even had promotion posters ect. which I have seen, it would have been a great film if they could have pulled it off.
In a fair few countries, escaping from jail isnt a crine because it's considered a "natural urge" or something of the sort. They just catch you and bring you back and dont add to the sentence.
One I thought of was the inflatable tanks in ww2
The importance of consumer confidence. FDR get the perception of confidence (something Hoover didn't exude), whether it was shipping money to the banks, giving fireside chats, etc. that the perception of confidence became reality in many people's minds. That perception is so powerful that we constantly have to break the myth that the New Deal ended the Great Depression. It did not...WWII did.
I just enjoy watching your beard slowly gray out video to video, as mine is also doing.
Brazil mentioned !
Speaking of inflation...
On July 10, 1946, the record for hyperinflation was set when Hungary’s inflation rate hits 150,000% per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours. For the month of July, Hungary will hold the record inflation rate of 41,900,000,000,000,000%...or prices doubling every 15.3 hours.
Hungary had financial issues ever since the loss in WWI and the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. But the problems escalated following WWII. While Hungary remained untouched by WWII early on, by 1944 it was utterly destroyed by the Nazis and Soviets fighting back and forth. About 90% of their manufacturing was destroyed plus their railroad infrastructure. And what remained was stripped by the Soviets at the end of the war as reparations.
With no tax base and looking to stimulate production, the government decided to simply print money…A LOT OF IT!!! They flooded the banks, the public, everything with printed money at a time when prices were already going up. In a span of a year from July 1945 to July 1946, the total money in circulation in Hungary went from 25 billion Pengö to 47 septillion Pengö. By July 1946, Hungary’s highest denomination bill was the 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 (One Hundred Quintillion) Pengo, compared to the highest bill in 1944 being a 1,000 Pengo.
To put things in perspective. In March of 1941, the exchange rate between the U.S. and Hungary was 5 Pengö equaled one dollar (or a Pengö equaled 20 cents.) By July of 1946, 460 trillion Pengö equaled one dollar!!! Another way to look at things. If you bought something for 379 Pengö in September 1945, that same product in July 1946 would cost 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Pengö by July 22, 1946!!! Prices were going up so fast that collecting taxes was nearly impossible. If the government was late even an hour or so collecting taxes, that money was already worthless.
The government was powerless to stop things early on. They experimented with new and different colored money. They indexed the money to inflation. Nothing seemed to work. Finally, by late 1946, they stabilized the currency again with a new one called the Forint (which is still used today.) The Pengö was pretty much worthless and trillions of them were simply removed from the economy.
So who lost in this inflation fiasco? The workers did who saw 80% of their earnings wiped out by inflation. Additionally, creditors were destroyed as they had lent money worth something and saw returns of worthless money. Production did slowly recover and the transportation system improved. However, all that was lost in 1949 when the Communists rose up, ended the Republic of Hungary and replaced it with the People’s Republic of Hungary. This new Soviet puppet government was known for some of the most repressive policies with hundreds of thousands of Hungarians killed that spoke out against it.
17:40 as a Filipino I am stunned that I didn't even hear of this
Dazzle camouflage is back, it's being used again In a limited way in Ukraine and Black Sea, due to the use of drones with optical guidance- Again results are reported as being variable.
I thought it would have things like the 4 min miles, transatlantic flight
What about Washington giving his troops measles so they build immunity?
The story of the Glomar Explorer is up there with these stories I think.
The channel windigoon does a excellent video on the Philipines and CIA. "That Time the CIA Faked a Vampire Attack to Take Over a Country"
Hi Chris, would you be willing to react to "Going Camping at the End of the World" by Internet Historian? It's the Rapture scare in 2011, and how people reacted to it. I'd be interested to hear your opinions on it, since you're a pastor and all. There's all a few historical tangents in the video, as well.
The kidney swapping is so awesome and I'm mad I've never heard of this! I guess it means my life/the lives of my immediate family/friends haven't been affected by it, so that's a positive I guess.