Get's a C- in a science class, promptly turns around and tries to apply to MIT. I mean, at least Earhart was an optimist...

@negativeindustrial

5 жыл бұрын

Holly Irons 1. She was a woman accomplishing firsts during the original feminist movement. 2. I’m not sure being accepted into MIT was quite the feat it is in the modern era. 3. From all accounts her one true skill in life was her determination/stubbornness (Good for her). LOL Of course she did! 😝

@valentinisenberg7419

5 жыл бұрын

The avg iq has raised three points per generation basically, mixed with the population density we now have. It was just a matter of being smart enough back then. They didn’t have to turn down people who deserve to be involved. Now they only take so many of the ppl when all are basically qualified. Huge difference

@artkarounos816

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same 😂

@parzival8331

5 жыл бұрын

Wasn't it in math.

@pjvalenciano

5 жыл бұрын

That’s called “action instead of words”

Great video and one of ones I have enjoyed the most. I seen some people say she wasn't a great pilot at all, however she did all things you talked about and like you said they were better pilots out there. She was still a great pilot in her own right.

Hi, Just to let you know, I REALLY appreciate the time and effort you guys put into all your videos. Amelia Earhart is one of my all time favourite people in history, I had actually toyed with the idea of requesting a video on her a few weeks back.... Now I don't have to, Thanks and keep up the great work!!!!

I love her story. I have read and watched everything on her I can find. thank you for this Simon.

Brilliant as always, Simon! I've always been interested in Earhardt and this has been the best bio I've seen to date. Kudos to you and your team and I can't wait for the next one. D.

13.25 ..... When she landed in Ballyarnet in Derry my great uncle, James McGeady, was the first person she spoke to 😃

@lucygirl4926

5 жыл бұрын

Oh wow, really? Very cool indeed...

@christopherharvey5468

4 жыл бұрын

Sarah Mc Laughlin so cool.

Love these, keep them coming!

Love these videos!!

A really well done Bio, thanks.

Love Biographics as always! I had hoped you guys would've discussed TIGHAR's research on the Earhart case, though! Maybe an Earhart Part 2 video?

I am addicted to this channel ✌🏽🔝

@ayoangie7099

5 жыл бұрын

ME TOO!

@Curtis69213

4 жыл бұрын

This channel needs a podcast. I’m so addicted to these narrations of discovering them two days ago

@bma1193

3 жыл бұрын

Same! Makes me want to create one of my own but for Black historical figures 😁❤

Excellent video, very informative!

Again , super documentary , super delivery , addictive viewing .

Thank you so very much. Early aviation history is so intriguing

Dude... You're the best. I've watched ALL these videos twice during quarantine!!

In Gordon Coopers autobiography,he said the concensus amongst the pilots of the day;she didn't apply the offset method of navigation. Before radar and GPS,a pilot would go a certain distance,say 100 miles. The pilot would veer to the left or right about 1 degree. When theyd go the 100 miles,they would turn to the right or left toward their landing target. This would help for accidental drift in the flight plan. If the pilot made a straight line for target,they might drift but not know to the right or the left. This especially done flying over the ocean,where there are no landmarks to help with navigation.

@terrycarlson2064

4 жыл бұрын

Did she die with her husband?

thanks so much for creating an episode on Amelia!

Got to love KZread, it’s advertisement of choice for this video was one for a vacation package to the Amelia Islands...

"Ad astra per aspera" To the stars through difficulty. My home state, Kansas' state motto...🌾

@stephanieh.777

4 жыл бұрын

And there have even been astronauts from Kansas, to prove it true. ;-)

@eriktael

3 жыл бұрын

Per aspera ad astra i think. It does not change the point.

I watched a documentary a few years ago that seemed to prove they'd finally found Earhart's plane - pieces of wreckage that matched the make and model of her plane. It would be interesting if you could track down that information and make a second report about her.

I learned a lot I didn't know. Thank you Simon Whistler.

0:40 - Chapter 1 - Beginnings 5:10 - Chapter 2 - Hardships 9:45 - Chapter 3 - First flight 12:10 - Chapter 4 - A world record 13:45 - Chapter 5 - Fame 14:20 - Chapter 6 - The final challenge 15:55 - Chapter 7 - The final flight 18:25 - Chapter 8 - Disappeared 19:10 - Chapter 9 - What happened ?

@dsg1992

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙌🏼

Hi there I have to say that I love your videos great information! I was wondering if you had considered doing a biography on Morgan freeman

I think this has been one of my favorite since the beginning of this channel

A suggestion. Beryl Markham was a contemporary of Amelia Earhart's and lived quite an interesting life. She'd be a great subject for this series.

I remember having to have it explained to me why you must write out how you solve math problems and why. It never occurred to me to write it down, because I didn't solve the problem that way. It's not necessarily a lack of attention to detail, it's just that it feels like a pointless waste of time.

Great content keep it up!

Please, if there's enough info available, make one of Bessie Coleman. Thanks!

My grandfather, Erle W. Miles, Sr., knew Amelia E. (He was an early pilot with Pitcairn, then Eastern. ).

Amelia Earhart had a rather LONELY EXISTENCE! VERY SAD!!!! Such a LOVELY, SMART woman!!!! ALL girls should learn Amelia Earhart's story! Thank-You AGAIN Simon!!!!

@lucygirl4926

5 жыл бұрын

Stop screaming, please lol

@quanbrooklynkid7776

5 жыл бұрын

@@lucygirl4926 lol

@craigcarson3390

3 жыл бұрын

Donald?

These are actually really helpful now that I'm doing a history course. Especially those of Stalin and Rommel, those helped a *lot*. Thank you!

Amelia was so pretty, as well as intelligent, brave, talented and determined. If she'd been born 50 years later, she might have been the first woman astronaut, I reckon!

Great channel!

@Biographics

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

How about Jaqeline Cochran? Test pilot,air racer, founder of the WASP in WW2.

Please make one on Jimi Hendrix?

@jonhope248

5 жыл бұрын

Also Stevie Ray Vaughn

@michaelbatts5655

5 жыл бұрын

Ronnie James Dio as well

@justinh6651

4 жыл бұрын

Wish granted

What's the name of the song that plays at 19:06? I love the piano, it's beautiful.

@jamesdavis9036

3 жыл бұрын

It bugs me that he never gives the name of music he uses

I'd like to believe she landed on an island and continued to live there until she died of old age. She was a warrior; and warriors don't go down easy

Why no long discussion about how she appears in Star Trek Voyager? That was one of the best episodes and it shows how even decades later, she's still a prominent figure in the culture! Also I like Star Trek lmao

“Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.” - Amelia Earhart final letter to her husband

Wait this whole time I thought she disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle....weird. great video👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

But missed out the most interesting and commonly held theory of her disappearance: that she was shot down by a Japanese aircraft. Navigation was not an issue, there was a beacon on Howland Island but she never reached it. Constant radio transmissions from the plane would have made it easy for the Japanese who were in this contested area, to track her. Also it's on record that the Japanese thought she was spying/taking photographs of the islands she was crossing.

@artkarounos816

5 жыл бұрын

Karl P If it’s on record why is it not official and only a theory and what spy plane sends constant radio messages and if the Japanese were listening they would have heard English and no reporting of military targets.

I was born in Atchison KS & have always followed her history. So sad she didn't live to fulfill & see her dreams come to fruition.

6:00 I've never seen a locomotive like that, with the little cabin in front. Anyone know more about those?

A pretty pilot! I pray she rests in ☮️

Do sir David Attenborough

Amelia was my 6th cousin, I found out via Ancestry.com. it's pretty awesome, we share a relative, James "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny" Otis.

@brandonk8948

4 жыл бұрын

I love that nickname! I'm a cousin to her husband, Putnam.

@bma1193

3 жыл бұрын

There's another commenter who says they're cousins with her too!

In 2005, I was on a military historic tour of the Pacific. While on the island of Saipan, our guide showed us the prison building that they claim the Japanese held her captive in for most of the war. and, apparently she died there of most likely dysentery

Amelia Earhart one of many women I look up to as a history teacher.

@tistedmentality3715

6 жыл бұрын

Forgot to add future to the history teacher part.

@Fig_Bender

6 жыл бұрын

tisted mentality you're gonna teach future history? That's one class I wish they had when I was younger, or older

Great video. Please do Mustafa Ataturk. I'd love to know more about him.

Well done

What's the make and model of the locomotive at 5:58?

Left out that she was a founding member of the Ninety-Nines in 1929 and became the first president of the organization.

Anyone know the name of the piano song?

You should do a video on Charles Lindberg!

As always Sir,, AWESOME JOB. IF You don't mind the pronouncement of Spadina Hospital. Phonetically Spa dye na. Sorry, I'm from that area. Not trying to be rude, just helpful.

The place where she landed in South Wales is actualy pronounced Burry Port........ I should know, I live about 8 miles from the place where there is a memorial there for her!

Please do one on Pancho Barnes, who could fly circles around Amelia.

Have you ever done a biography of Bethany Hamilton?

I love your channel. You do a great job. But.......... It's Derry not London Derry. I meant I don't call London DublinLondon

You are the best

What an amazing woman. She never gave in.

for such a small state Iowa has a connection to a lot of famous people.

With so many bio requests for Mr.Simon to do.. his vlogs will make him " The Last Man Standing.."

Do a bio on Sylvia Plath

You did a Biographic on Amelia Earhart, but have not done one for Charles Lindbergh, who Amelia was named “Lindy” after. Will you, please, do a Biographic on C. Lindbergh? (Edit) I did very much enjoy watching the one about A. Earhart, as I do all of your videos that I watch, but I can’t seem to keep up with your rate of production by any watching I do. However, of course, I still watch when I can.

Simon, perhaps a video on Brigham Young? Or Joseph Smith the Latter-day Saint prophet? Cheers to your great work!!

Can you guys do Wendell Scott

An amazing woman, it's a great pity that she and her possibly drunk navigator ended up disappearing over the Pacific Ocean, I have a lot of new theories as to why this happened. But they will take too long to explain. Even so we will probably never really know that happened! I learned a lot today! Thank you, Simon!

I know you're a British lad at heart, so I'd love it if you could do a Biographics episode for Jay Kay of the band Jamiroquai. He had a particularly rough start to life, which I think makes his successes in music all the more sweeter.

@christineparis5607

6 жыл бұрын

electricmaster23 Never heard of him. Very interested. Thanks!

@t.jackson2613

6 жыл бұрын

One hit wonder?

@electricmaster23

6 жыл бұрын

Only if you're American and don't really follow the music scene. Jamiroquai has sold more than 26 million albums worldwide, including the record for the best-selling funk album of all time (which was _Travelling Without Moving_ in 1997).

I'd love to see a video on Ric Flair

A biography about Franz Josef Mesmer would be nice.

Please do a Bio of Abu Hajaar, the most awkward ISIS member. Legends says he is still rolling to this day..

ADMIRAL Nimitz’s immortal words to acclaimed KCBS investigative correspondent, and Amelia Earhart researcher Fred A. Goerner, “Now that you’re going to Washington, Fred, I want to tell you Earhart and her navigator did go down in the Marshalls and were picked up by the Japanese.” A Lockheed engineer, interviewed by Randall Brink and F. Goerner, claimed to have installed two Fairchild spy cameras on the Electra 10-E. The US govt. built a Howland Island airstrip, docked a Coast Guard ship to guide Amelia, created flightplan worldwide logistics, and assigned a 17-day Navy Task Force search, for her clandestine surveillance using celebrity status as cover, not for her daredevil aviation. ONI discovered Earhart’s captivity through Japanese radio intercepts and a 1937 Jaluit Atoll intelligence photo. ONI, Adm. Nimitz, USMC Gens. Erskine, Vandegrift, and Watson, the 2nd Marine Division commander that invaded Saipan in 1944, substantiated A. Earhart and F. Noonan perished on Saipan for espionage through evidence found, and interviews conducted by military intelligence services. These famous highly decorated flag officers made this pronouncement, with no axe to grind, and with no ulterior motives. Hundreds of witnesses from Mili, Jaluit, Kwajalein Atolls, and Saipan, placed her in Micronesia, west of Howland Island. Scores of US military witnesses (Thomas Devine) observed Amelia’s Lockheed Electra in hanger,(Julious E. Nabers) ordered destroyed, (Robert Wallack) her briefcase and personal effects recovered on Saipan. In 1964, Everett Henson Jr. of Sacramento, and Bill G. Burks of Dallas, came forward as the two former U.S. Marines who recovered skeletal remains of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan in an unmarked grave, with Tracy Griswold supervising, outside a small graveyard on Saipan in July of 1944, and placed them in metal canisters for transport to the U.S. For more substantiation, see Mike Campbell’s ‘earharttruth.wordpress.com’, & Rich Martini’s ‘earhartonsaipan.com’. Follow the military’s, Saipanese and Marshallese corroborated facts, not CIA-paid scientist or mouthpiece fraudulence. Amelia’s Earhart’s 1937-1944 last days captive are classified and suppressed by the federal govt., due to political (FDR) elections, wartime secrecy, and post-war diplomacy.

What a great role model 🤩

Will u do one on billy graham or Marvin Gaye?

Now that I have gone down the rabbit hole I question everything, nothing in this world is what we think it is......

Can you do a documentary about Josip Broz Tito?

@richardsanchez9190

4 жыл бұрын

He did

she's chillin in a tube some where in the delta quadrant. damn aliens

Wow, my whole life I never knew there was a another person (Noonan) along with her!!!!!!

Side trivia fact about Amelia's husband. I have been doing some extensive family research and recently discovered some fun facts about being related to Amelia Earhart through being a distant cousin to her husband, George P. Putnam. We share the same grandfather from Massachusetts, Lt. Nathaniel Putnam 1619-1700. The story about the family's connection to George gets even cooler. My 2nd great-grandfather, Robert William Sawyer was a lawyer who moved out west to avoid a scandal that had occurred with his marriage. He relocated in the small community at the time of Bend, Oregon. While there he would write anonymous news articles regarding local events and would humbly submit them beneath the editor's door of The Bulletin, a local newspaper owned by George P. Putnam. One day though he was caught and confronted by Putnam who was so impressed by these anonymous submissions that he offered my grandfather a job on his staff. He accepted and within a few years Putnam declared he wished to pull up stakes and move on. He offered the newspaper to my grandfather who continued running it for several years thereafter. It was exactly ten years later that George would go on to marry Amelia Earhart. Through my research I also discovered that unbeknown to both of these men was that they were both distant eighth generational cousins. Granted, I acknowledge I'm not in direct affiliation or heir of Earhart's legacy but it really cool discovering the family connections through backroom history and family geneologies.

Wonderful. The "I" in Spadina is pronounced "eye"

@Fig_Bender

6 жыл бұрын

Dennis Tesolat Simon often misprnounces, or even adds, syllables

I just wish we knew what happened to her and Fred.

Pls do Heinrich Himmler

@preknife

6 жыл бұрын

blackzed I posted it before he did it

Please do Princess Diana

Londonderry is in Northern Ireland....

How about a biography of Nina Samone?

9:00 the summer of 1918 or 2020 is a very bad time to come down with influenza and pneumonia...

Dang, I'm trying to afford groceries and she was buying planes!!!

the thumbnail was broken for me

He makes a little mistake in this video. He says 'Londonderry' but I'm sure he meant 'Derry'.

Bury Point?? It’s Burry Port.

Probably my favourite woman in history. 🙂

It's Derry

Do J. D. salinger he's my favorite author.

As someone from Newfoundland I'm guna leave this Sounds like New-frown-land without the r

amazing. she’s almost exactly 100 years older than me.

What about Amy Johnson

I went to college in her home town of Atchison, which really loves to cash in on her fame.

@christineparis5607

6 жыл бұрын

Joshua Radick Enthusiasm often translates into consumerism...

@Fig_Bender

6 жыл бұрын

I live in newfoundland, she departed on one of her major voyages from here and I've never heard anyone here ever mention anything about it

@negativeindustrial

5 жыл бұрын

Rayne SG a.k.a. inkyrayne on IG Well, that and she only just departed from there. It’s not like she grew up there or anything. I’m sure she shopped at a department store too but I doubt you’ll find any plaques on the site of it.

@negativeindustrial

5 жыл бұрын

Rayne SG a.k.a. inkyrayne on IG Sorry, didn’t mean to step on your tribal feelings of superiority. Canada is indeed a country of many redeeming qualities.

@negativeindustrial

5 жыл бұрын

Rayne SG a.k.a. inkyrayne on IG It’s pretty clear what you’re saying, I just don’t care. You should be well used to that. I doubt anyone is much interested in your trite statements.

Amelia is my 6th cousin, 6x removed through the Otis family.

It seems her mother kept lifting her up and supporting her no matter what she chose. I mean damn she chose to do so much and she more or less found her soulmate too no less.