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Fiorello La Guardi: America's Favorite Mayor #sponsored

20 Jun 2025

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Maximinus Thrax: The Barbarian Emperor of Rome

16 Apr 2024

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#rome #biography Nothing lasts forever. Today we remember the might of the Roman Empire but it could not go on endlessly. When exactly the decline began is something for historians to debate, but we can argue that the empire reached its peak in the 2nd century AD, during the reigns of the Five Good Emperors, and slowly went downhill afterward. Then, that slow decline fell off a cliff 50 years later when the end of the Severan Dynasty brought about a long period of great instability and weakness known as the Crisis of the Third Century. And this upheaval was triggered by the violent and murderous reign of a giant of a man, a Thracian barbarian known as Maximinus Thrax. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Eric's Stuff: Storyrant: https://www.youtube.com/@UC6Sk2h2WsYMxnGERAH_FbGg Link Tree for Books and Socials: https://linktr.ee/EricMalikyte Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/ @FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/ @wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Further Reading: Herodian - History of the Roman Empire since the Death of Marcus Aurelius Historia Augusta Edward Gibbon - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire https://www.worldhistory.org/Maximinus_Thrax/

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Sidney Poitier - Breaking Down Hollywood's Color Barrier

27 Mar 2023

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George Custer: An American Leonidas

30 Sep 2022

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The Forty Elephants Gang: The All-Women Gang That Robbed London Blind #sponsored

15 Apr 2025

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#biography #history #truecrimestories 🔒Remove your personal information from the web at https://joindeleteme.com/BIOGRAPHICS and use code BIOGRAPHICS for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Eric's Links: Cosmic Horror Ebook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb Storyrant: https://www.youtube.com/@storyrant OEI Analog Horror Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/@officeofextradimensionalint Grimdark Magazine #39: GdM's catalogue page for the issue is here: https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/product/grimdark-magazine-39/ Subscriptions available here: https://www.patreon.com/GrimdarkMagazine Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/ @FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/ @wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Further Reading: Brian McDonald - Gangs of London https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250219-a-thousand-blows-how-a-women-only-gang-menaced-victorian-london https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/dec/27/girl-gang-london-underworld https://books.google.ro/books?id=fVg-EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT163&dq=%22hoister+bloomers%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22hoister%20bloomers%22&f=false https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/forty-elephants-south-londons-supreme-shoplifters/ https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/culture-news/a63840210/a-thousand-blows-forty-elephants-true-story-disney-plus/ https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/forty-elephants-gang-who-real-mary-carr/ Sponsor

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Mickey Cohen: The Mob Goes Hollywood

21 Jun 2022

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John Wayne: America’s Favorite Cowboy

22 Jan 2026

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The 20th century gave birth to a new kind of celebrity: the movie star. Motion pictures had the portability of books combined with the visual spectacle of artwork and the performance acumen of theatre productions, making the stars of this new medium the first celebrities with a truly global impact. And for a long period of time, no movie star had a bigger impact than John Wayne. For over thirty years, John Wayne was one of Hollywood’s highest grossing actors. He specialized in Westerns: playing a cowboy so well he practically came to define the genre. But his cultural impact went beyond the silver screen: for many people, John Wayne was the physical embodiment of America itself. The traits he portrayed in his films: rugged individualism, self-reliance, toughness, cool thinking under pressure, were all seen as essential to the American spirit, the American character. When Nikita Khrushchev came to visit the United States, he wanted to do two things: visit Disneyland, and meet John Wayne. What many people didn’t know, however, was that many of the things that made John Wayne, well, John Wayne, weren’t natural: they were the result of a carefully orchestrated public relations strategy, initially done by the movie studios he worked for, and then largely propagated by Wayne himself. John Wayne wasn’t a person: he was a persona, invented and shaped by the man who played him. He was exceptionally image conscious: he would only play roles that he felt “John Wayne” would be suited for, and would be very particular about scripts and camera work to make sure he was portrayed in a way that matched his audience’s perception of him. The result was an almost cult-like following among his fans, who even decades after his death continue to make him one of Hollywood’s most popular actors. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Eric's Links: Cosmic Horror Ebook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb Storyrant: https://www.youtube.com/@storyrant OEI Analog Horror Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/@officeofextradimensionalint Grimdark Magazine #39: GdM's catalogue page for the issue is here: https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/product/grimdark-magazine-39/ Subscriptions available here: https://www.patreon.com/GrimdarkMagazine Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/ @FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/ @wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Additional Reading: John Wayne: The Life and Legend by Scott Eyman, Simon and Schuster 2014

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Charles II: The Merry Monarch

20 Oct 2023

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Alexander Hamilton: The Father of the American Economy

20 Nov 2021

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