The story of Canada, the Dutch and tulips is also History That Deserves to be Remembered. From Wikipedia's entry on the Canadian Tulip Festival: "In 1945, the Dutch royal family sent 100,000 tulip bulbs to Ottawa in gratitude for Canadians having sheltered the future Queen Juliana and her family for the preceding three years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in the Second World War. The most noteworthy event during their time in Canada was the birth in 1943 of Princess Margriet at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. The maternity ward was temporarily declared to be extraterritorial by the Canadian government, thereby allowing Princess Margriet's citizenship to be solely influenced by her mother's Dutch citizenship. In 1946, Juliana sent another 20,500 bulbs requesting that a display be created for the hospital, and promised to send 10,000 more bulbs each year."

@MrPlusses

4 жыл бұрын

British Columbia, Canada produces over 20 million tulips annually. Each flower is cut by hand. Over 100,000 people come from around the world just to see hectare after hectare of intense colours every year.

@ThisIsGoogle

4 жыл бұрын

Stfu

Fact, every year the Dutch send Canada around 10,000 tulip bulbs for helping them win WWII. Thank you Netherlands. 🇨🇦🇳🇱

@franktucker5802

4 жыл бұрын

sc0tte416 Botanical war reparations,that would be a great history guy episode.

@sc0tte1-416

4 жыл бұрын

@@franktucker5802 Indeed, it would! Cheers

@fassay

4 жыл бұрын

Please also send salty licorice!!

I have met people who proudly proclaim the value of their possession and I realize that , until they find someone willing to pay that price, anyone can declare any cost value on anything. I was a business owner and owned art galleries and bred and showed dogs and horses so that was an every day occurrence in my life where an item was vastly over-valued by an artist or proud owner.

History Guy, this is the best explanation for the crash of the Tulip Market, I've ever heard. Thank You

My father in law in New Jersey tried many times to create a nice tulip garden. But the squirrels always came and ate off8 the flower heads, leaving dozens of stems. It looked like he was growing pencils!

@edwinsuijkerbuijk5106

4 жыл бұрын

cutting of the flower head leads to more bulb production. topping of the heads in fields for bulb production is a common thing. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hH-nt7lmhtjOnJM.html

@Peppersfirst

3 жыл бұрын

😂

Tulip Mania is a universal example of market speculation in all economic classrooms. It is the easiest to understand economic bubble.

@willdunn8846

2 жыл бұрын

This certainly sounds a lot like the current NFT mania..

I knew people that were going to send their kids to college with the Beanie Baby collection.

@rtelles1127

4 жыл бұрын

Allen Atkins LP

@erictaylor5462

4 жыл бұрын

Beanie Babies! I had a Bernie Baby collection! I should have known that Madoff fucker could not be trusted.

@erictaylor5462

4 жыл бұрын

@kragseven If someone tells you it's going to be *HUGE* it won't be. I had a bunch of Star Wars toys in 1977. I lost them all before 1983. Some of those toys are now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. grrrrr

@andrewwmacfadyen6958

4 жыл бұрын

Wise people adopted Cabbage Patch Kids.

@michaelmccarthy4615

4 жыл бұрын

Benie Baby collectors were nuts as you got to know them...

In only schools has teachers like you, kids would actually learn much more. Keep up the great videos!

@michaelmccarthy4615

4 жыл бұрын

Actually better parenting and societal changes have a larger effect....

@daviddixon9458

4 жыл бұрын

Why would you be a teacher in the USA? Poor pay and poor conditions. In Australia teacher training is a minimum of 4 years and after 5 years of teaching most teachers in Australia will earn a minimum of 100K pa.

@michaelmccarthy4615

4 жыл бұрын

@@daviddixon9458 is Australia taking applications for citizenship?

@daviddixon9458

4 жыл бұрын

@UCwTzhsy_oPp6v9CLXvd09eA I'm sure it is. I've every visit I've made to the country. Wonderful people and many wonderful things to see. New York City and State remains my favourite part of the country.

@daviddixon9458

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelmccarthy4615 yes they are. If you are interested see www.australia.gov.au/information-and-services/immigration-and-visas/migration-to-australia and if you want an idea of teaching in Australia from an American's point of view see kzread.info/dash/bejne/f3aVzM6ecpPfm6Q.html

Here in Mt. Vernon Washington we had a large Dutch community and we have the Skagit Valley Tulip festival every year. Masses of people come to see the fields of tulips.

@lynemac2539

Жыл бұрын

And they are beautiful as is the surrounding scenery!

I read about this in 3rd grade, I asked questions about how and why, what could make an inedible suddenly valued and just as suddenly not. We decided it was the manner the news spread, and, the fact that sellers were not inclined to inform buyers of the fluidity of specifically Tulips. Thanks you much for covering this topic.

@Smokey298

2 жыл бұрын

It all comes down to human psychology and the fear of missing out. Whatever the thing is, if there is a percieved scarcity and a percieved demand people want to buy it.

"Homer you knuckle-beak, I told you a hundred times, you have to sell your pumpkin futures before Halloween BEFORE!"

@mickey4125

3 жыл бұрын

"Come on Homer, how'd ya make all the money?" "Take a wild guess!" "Eerrr, pumpkins?" *narrows eyes* "Yeah Barney, that's right."

NFT’s remind me so much of the Tulip Craze, currently waiting for that bubble to pop!

@alexsal9798

2 жыл бұрын

Hoping it pops soon Its getting very tiring

I am a bit disappointed that you couldn't find any stories of Dutch pirates with tulips to go with this snippet. Because, well, you know ....

@terryboyer1342

4 жыл бұрын

Mark I've heard Dutch pirates often wore a tulip in their lapels for style. Hope that helps!

@chrisneedham5803

4 жыл бұрын

I heard they ate the bulbs in the winter of 1944/45

@timmmahhhh

4 жыл бұрын

Copy Jimmy Buffett with this video and let's see if he comes up with any song ideas. Perhaps A Pirate Looks At Tulips or The Great Tulip Planter Holdup?

@browserrr1

4 жыл бұрын

@@chrisneedham5803 That is correct. When the Germans stopped all transport of food to the cities bulbs were eaten as a last resort.

@glynnirelan1092

4 жыл бұрын

@@chrisneedham5803 the dutch still send them to the RCAC as thanks for service.

In the mud 1980's I ordered a whole lot of expensive tulip bulbs from the Netherlands. I lived in the Napa Valley and when they arrived my wife planted them all while I was a work. It was a long wait but then in the Spring the magic started and it lasted for a whole month. I had never seen anything like it because I had never been to Holland. When I was a boy in Japan my mother planted King Alphreds in the garden but they were just a big sea of yellow. She called them by the old border name - daffa down dillies. The Japanese gardner thought they were ungainly 醜い. The problem with Tulips is that they look artificial or contrived except for the minnature species. I am old and live in a city now but I drop wild flower seeds here and there as I shuffle about. I have never seen a blooming.

Your unbridled enthusiasm for history and the simple format of your history documentaries here on KZread come together to make every bit of history that you share an absolute delight to enjoy. And it brought a smile to my face watching you squee over MagellanTV. ^^

I love tulips. We have a city named Holland in Michigan and their Tulip Festival is beautiful. One year, spring weather came so early that by the time the Festival was scheduled, the tulips had bloomed and fallen. Not to be too disappointed, they whipped up some t-shirts for the occasion and went on, calling it Stem Fest.

@timan2039

4 жыл бұрын

Thats Michiganders for you, always making lemonade. 😊

@sharonmullins1957

4 жыл бұрын

Live near there too.

@groermaik

4 жыл бұрын

@@timan2039 I don't care what the legislators say, we are "Michiganians".

@timan2039

4 жыл бұрын

@@groermaik I just use the term that my friends, native to MI, use.

@groermaik

4 жыл бұрын

@@timan2039 I am native to MI. I was born in Detroit, where the weak are killed and eaten.

There is a very good movie on this topic. It's called Tulip Fever, with Alicia Vikander, Judy Dench, Christoph Waltz. Great story.

@theoutlook55

4 жыл бұрын

I've heard of that movie, yes.

@timeforthinkers7418

4 жыл бұрын

sorrellman, thanks for the snippet. I will look for it.

History is something we all appreciate when we get old.

Thanks History Guy for educating me on a subject I probably never would have known about without your great KZread channel. The premium channel for very interesting history lessons researched and presented by the couple who are the best in the business. Tulips.... Who woulda Thunk?

@larsblomdahl2759

4 жыл бұрын

Now it is called bitcoin .

This is one of the most bizarre things that has happened in history. I mean beanie babies were crazy, even court cases happened during that craze. However I have never heard of anything approaching the tulip craze.

@johnopalko5223

4 жыл бұрын

Well, there was the "dot com" bubble...

Being from the Netherlands, this was a particularly nice video to watch. Yes, greed soon diminishes interest and therefore causes its own demise. Beware America. 🌹

@chrisneedham5803

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I had the same feeling after 12 Cadbury Cream Eggs

@tersee123

4 жыл бұрын

@@chrisneedham5803 LOL Ha ha ha, good comment Haa!

@timmmahhhh

4 жыл бұрын

Housing bubble 2008, and the greedy overturning the safeguards to prevent the next one. The American business community is too obsessed with short term gains and has its collective head too far up Ayn Rand's posterior to learn.

@tersee123

4 жыл бұрын

@@haraldgriefbacon1373 I sincerely hope you're wrong, and prey the baby boomers teach their grandchildren of the age when people (college students) used to say, "I seek my post secondary education to serve the betterment of mankind" (as opposed to accrual of wealth). In those day's college students faced the draft after graduation, faced the treat of "The Bomb" and the memory of Hitler. All that caused us (Humans) to take a good look at what matters and, more importantly, what we are capable of!

@LindaCasey

4 жыл бұрын

@@chrisneedham5803 😜

That was the most enthusiastic sponsor ad I have ever seen on KZread. Must be some good stuff.

Do “A History of the Suite and Tie” in America. It would be interesting to listen to the documentation of why and what made so many men dress the same in the early 1900s

@jimmyshrimbe9361

4 жыл бұрын

Suit*

@mike62mcmanus

4 жыл бұрын

I saw a man in a dress today.

@rosyclaire

4 жыл бұрын

A suite is two arm chairs and a sofa.

@mike62mcmanus

4 жыл бұрын

@@rosyclaire No, it's a candy bar.

@catspaw3815

4 жыл бұрын

@@rosyclaire a suite is a series of rooms in a hotel

I recall the Dutch sent over a million tulip bulbs to the USA as a Memorial right after 9/11. Sir, you have a singular gift for history, thank you.

Whenever I want to find a youtube video on a subject, and see a video on this channel covering it is like hitting the history lottery. LOVE this channel!

Reminds me of the Beanie Babies craze in the 1990’s. Collectors were keeping their tags on the dolls and saving them because, for some reason, they thought they’d be worth much more in future years. Maybe they are? I haven’t thought of them until this video!

Thank you HistoryGuy! I signed up for MagellanTv using my Amazon Fire TV device a couple of weeks ago on your recommendation. I have really enjoyed watching the documentaries they have available and I will continue the subscription. I am happy to be able to help support you by using a service that supports you. As always I really appreciate the way you deliver the actual facts of history without lacing those facts with biases, political or otherwise. Great Work!

My red, white outside and blue inside tulips are still favorites. They started out as grandma's then they were mom's, now they are mine. These bulbs are at least 70 years old.

Watching this from the Netherlands

@chrisneedham5803

4 жыл бұрын

You must admit the Dutch were totally bonkers back then

The Pella, Iowa Tulip Festival is really astounding.

I swear History Guy, you can make subjects I’ve never cared about into gripping episodes. I’m very much a “function over form” guy, but I’ve never been so interested in flowers. Keep up the GREAT work.

You forgot Canada's tulip festival! Those Dutch still give us 10000 tulips every year for providing room and board to members of their royal family (including future queen) during WW2. That, and we also liberated most of their country. Cheers

We used to have the most beautiful purple and white broken tulips in the house where I grew up. When they fully bloomed, the petals made a perfect half-sphere.

Good presentation! I had to chuckle this time when I heard you say "short snippets" of forgotten history with this particular presentation!!!! 😎.....

The whole 'tulipmania' thing was blown out of proportion, largely by 19th century Scottish author Mackay's book 'Extremely Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds'. For a better understanding read historian Anne Goldgar's excellent book 'Tulipmania'. To quote: "The bulb buyers and sellers were good middle-class merchants, not so far removed from knowledgeable connoisseurs and art-lovers. The crash in prices undermined not the economy, but people''s confidence in honor and good judgment."

@elizakelly1465

4 жыл бұрын

It wasn't a story that was blown out of proportion, the Dutch government had to set up special courts to determine who (buyers or sellers) would have to absorb the losses, after the Tulip Markets failed.

@Smallpotato1965

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, because deals that were made were not honored. The problem with the tulips was that it was the first time that people would buy and sell 'futures'. To propagate a tulip could take years. Even so, when you planted it in the Fall, you'd have to wait for Spring to see what color (and therefore what value) it had. So tulips 'futures' were sold - people would deal in a future product, wagering on the hope that it would increase in value. Now, in 17th century, people would wager on just about everything, so why not on tulips, right? And the people who were selling them were people who had this business as a side income, because there wasn't a regular 'tulips growing business' at that time. A tulip that was planted in the Fall could be bought and sold a dozen times before it bloomed in Spring. Now, tulips were the 'bling' of 17th century Holland. It was a way to portraying your wealth and erudition (an interest in the Natural World was considered very High Brow) AND you could get away with this blatant consumerism by disguising it as 'an interest in God's Creation'. And THIS is why 'tulipmania' got such a bad name. It wasn't because so many people lost so much money; there weren't a lot of people involved, and those who were involved were certainly not impoverished by the loss. No, it was the combination of conspicious consumption AND, more importantly, because nobody had ever speculated in a 'future's market' before, nobody knew how to handle the fall out. THIS is why people eventally asked the government to determine who would have to absorb the losses; NOT because the losses were so great or because the economy had taken a blow, but because nobody knew what laws applied to a future's market. The haggling and welching of deals were kinda shocking to the strict Calvinists as well. Also, if a gentlemen or an established member of the middle class would welch on a deal, how could you trust anybody? THIS is what was shocking. THIS is why people asked the government to step in. Because the speculation in 'tulip futures' were a new thing.

What an interesting video. I have always favored tulips over roses, though I do fancy the fragrance of the rose, but the rose bush at home was an old variety that started wilting, the rose not the bush, as soon as it was cut and there was hardly any stem. Tulips could be cut to make a boutique and offered a variety of colors. I suppose that's why I liked them best. When my wife and I lived in town a tulip came up in our backyard. It was the most beautiful one I think I've ever seen. It was a soft pink with fingers of yellow up the center of each petal. I wish I had taken it with us when we moved here to the family homestead. I've looked, but I've never found another one like it. And that was a tulip worth remembering.

Colonial Williamsburg had a scene in their Welcome Center movie where American colonists in the late 1770s were eagerly unpacking barrels of goods from England including imported Dutch grown tulips that cost a fortune.!

It's funny how history repeats itself. In my lifetime so far there was the Beeni Baby... Cabbage Patch doll etc. Plus I would have never thought that the commercial with the tulips was actually real. Lol

@SilverSunPublishing

4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget pet rocks.

The written copy of a History Guy episode is remarkable for its grasp of human nature & our innate interest aroused by stories of violence. " He walked along & smashed the flowers with his cane." Then the story as told so well with illustrations, painted visages from artists commissioned to work & provide forever with canvas & paint passed down as part of all stories. Then, Then as all great blues he returns to the original lick. Cynicism is defeated. The History Guy triumphs.

Yay History Guy. I’ve requested this subject from you twice in your comments section. It may be a coincidence but I prefer to think you answered my requests. Thanks very much for the great narrative you wrote and the profuse illustrations. Keep up the good work!

I took a class on options valuation at UC Berkeley by a professor who consults the IRS among others, and the first market we studied, yep, just what you delivered! Nice work as always...

And at 9:20 I realized I was drinking from a replica of the same glass as depicted on the painting. Neat.

MagellanTV sounds a thousand times better than the Magellan GPS I had the misfortune of owning several years ago.

Wow!!! What a lesson!! Who would have known that something simple like a Tulip would cause a mania!!!

I first read about this in the book, "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds" by Charles McKay. Such a fascinating story about how a financial fad can get out of hand.

@davebell4917

4 жыл бұрын

That's an old account of the Tulip Mania, and the details are questionable. People certainly paid some stunningly high prices, but this may have been more like rich people boasting about a new painting. How many people were buying?

This is awesome. It's also a great illustration of how fickle people can be regarding what they ascribe value to. Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire was the first time I heard about this. He also went in depth on apples and potatoes, but the Tulip story.... Wow.

Holland, Michigan has a huge festival in May of each year for the Tulip!

Please make a video on Sir Francis Drake. Your videos about pirates and privateers are my favorite. You bring history to life!

Like Buffett's story about the cat who jumped up on the hot stove. He never jumped up on a hot stove again, but he never jumped up on a cold one, either. Fear of getting burned keeps people from making beneficial decisions.

Wow! All over a tulip. Thank you!

The Black Tulip is a great read.

Another great documentary. I was especially interested in this topic because I've read McGuire's "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" a few times, and it is a story historically set during this mania. I really believe there are no "trivial" topics. Everything that happens is interesting.

The beauty and love of a tulip . Thanks to THG for planting a rich and beautiful episode around a Tulip.

As a graduate student I got to work with some of the Moon Rocks. I may have been the first to observe the globules from the cooling and separation of magma, which I reported to my professor who in turn called attention to it to others working on the rocks.

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I believe they talked about that in the Magellan documentary.

I did get Magellan TV and I love it, (I’m crazy for documentaries from the 19th century and older). Thanks, History Guy! If you have any other app/FireTV channel suggestions that compliment my favorites, please let me know, (anyone else too!)!

Once again you have given us a fascinating bit of history to increase our knowledge and entertain us at the same time. Well done! Most enjoyable.

A fun nuance that could make another episode: Ottawa has an annual tulip festival dating back to WW2. There is a room in the children’s hospital that is formally Dutch territory. It was done so the child born there could inherit the crown. To this day, there is a plaque outside the room.

Ottawa the Capital City of Canada hosts one of the world's largest tulip festivals every spring. During WWII the Dutch Royal Family lived in Ottawa and gave birth to a Princess there. The delivery room was officially declared Dutch territory for the birth. The First Canadian Army was instrumental in the Liberation of the Netherlands from the Axis. A gift of tulip bulbs after the war from the Dutch Royal family eventually lead to the festival. When I lived in Ottawa it was a delight to see such beauty in a modern city. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival

@andrewlowry9294

4 жыл бұрын

tulipfestival.ca/about-the-festival/

A black tulip, and a blue rose. Surely we would not be so foolish as to have another tulip mania. The Roaring Twenties, and the Crash of 1929. The late 90s and 2000s, and the Crash of 2008. Watching the American Experience "The Crash of 1929", I was astonished just how history repeats itself in strong parallels. Greed, and fear are a powerful instinctive pair.

This came up quite a lot during the onset of the great recession as perhaps the best example of market bubbles. But this was the most comprehensive and succinct presentation of the story I've come across. Outstanding!

Tulipa Tarda comes from the desert in old Persia. Other varieties deserve more attention than they get. Some have attractive striped foliage that stays nice for a long time.

You are super awesome history guy!I watch your new episodes with my children every morning before school.Your channel is their favorite on my subscription list.Thank you very much for enriching our lives😃

@franktucker5802

4 жыл бұрын

I find it somewhat paradoxical that we can reply to our own comments...

You made even flowers fascinating.

Intriguing. We lived for a couple of years in Rotterdam. I can absolutely imagine how this would happen. Indeed, many Dutch people were forced to eat tulip bulbs during the Hard Winter during and after the Nazi occupation. They had some value after all.

Man, can you believe people would put all of their wealth into things that have no intrinsic value at all!? That's crazy. Anyway, anyone want some of these paper rectangles, government debt derivatives, or partial non-ownership of unprofitable businesses?

@highlypolishedturd7947

4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@the-chillian

4 жыл бұрын

@Jennifer Kucia Industrial diamonds are worth a tiny fraction of gemstone quality. The value of gem diamonds is purely artificial, maintained by an international cartel that restricts supply and fuels demand with advertising.

@richardc488

4 жыл бұрын

pufthedragonCCS have you ever heard of the great Enron stock that took off like a rocket!

@donmulrooney9847

4 жыл бұрын

How about Facebook, twiter, and Uber and the rest of that BS, they only exist on cell phones and the cloud no real value at all.

@mlc4495

4 жыл бұрын

Or crypto to sane people.

Thanks for making videos on subjects I never thought I would find myself watching, like the Petticoat Affair and the history of Helium, and now tulips! Thanks History Guy :)

I love tulips. Had them in WA state, hesitant to grow them in AZ.

@xthunderclesx

4 жыл бұрын

You probably can just not through summer. Pick up a book with thr charts for the growing seasons in southern Arizona, you would be surprised how much you can grow.

@xthunderclesx

4 жыл бұрын

Southern Arizona's climate actually resemble Iran and Afghanistan fairly closely and in the video he says tulips were popular in Persia...

@franktucker5802

4 жыл бұрын

Patricia Nelson Never hesitate when it comes to gardening.

@doogle-gf3fi

4 жыл бұрын

Patricia Nelson: My father-in-law had some success growing tulips in Scottsdale. One of many things I wish I could now discuss with him. I attended my first tulip festival earlier this year in WA: WOW!!

@jalapenochomper

4 жыл бұрын

Hybrid Iris grow quite well

Always a pleasure.

A fascinating story about a beautiful flower. Thanks for sharing this.

Great channel. I always learn so much.

Always knew about this but your video made it more understanding and enjoyable

I found your channel this morning & have spent a couple of hours now binge watching. Thank you.

Another aspect of history I never knew of until now.

Thank you for all that you do.

When I was stationed overseas, my family was able to visit the famous Keukenhof Gardens - the biggest tulip farm in the world. It is a tremendous tourist attraction. Even though it is illegal to transport a live plant from Europe to the US, the Keukenhof tulip bulbs are allowed to be bought and mailed to the US because they perform a special sterilization on the bulbs.

Another great video, thanks! I'm sharing it in my gardening group.

I’m from Holland Michigan and here we have a tulip time festival. Some of the tulips there are pretty rare I think!

Thank you sir.

The variety of your videos is outstanding. They are always a great to watch.

Hey History Guy..Love ur vids and presentation!! Thanks

Thank you

Maybe some day you'll tell of the fortune you made telling history stories....that, would not only be history worth remembering, but inspiring as well. Sorta reminds me of Aesops Fables on the Bullwinkle show....for real!

Another great history lesson! Cant say I loved history when I was young, but you sure have a knack for making very interesting now! Thanks!

As usual, very interesting and informative.

Very interesting episode 👏🏼

50,000 tulips sent to Ottawa, Canada each year (might have been discontinued). During the 2nd world war. the king and queen of the Netherlands escaped to Ottawa Canada, by law the monarch of the Netherlands must be born in that country, but due to the war, the hospital room was declared, by an act of parliament, being in the Netherlands for the birth of the future monarch, Beatrix. For this Ottawa has a tulip festival every spring, bulbs graciously offered by the Netherlands. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Margriet_of_the_Netherlands

Wow.. I didnt know... who would have thought. Thanks you! Love the Channel!

One the key causes for what occurred was a law change that turned tulips futures into tulip options. So buyers bid up the price knowing they didn't actually have to buy the tulips unless the price went up further. It meant few of those buyers actually lost money when the price crashed as they were not obliged to complete the deal. Can't remember my source for this but it was an undergrad text on economics.

Live near Holland MI, beautiful in spring. Also, thanks for throwing in these little gems of info. I need a break from wars and horror, and you manage it beautifully.

Thank you for the great content

I had understood the Tulip mania as more of a ponzi scheme than a bubble, thanks for clearing that up. Beanie babies and contrived collectibles are contemporary tulips. Holland Michigan is beautiful in the Spring. I am now sorry that I ripped up the black Tulip from my yard :-)

During the Second World War, the Dutch royal family took refuge in Ottawa, the capital of Canada; a hospital room was declared a Dutch territory for the birth of a princess. A large part of Holland was liberated by the Canadian Army and a major effort was launched to lift the famine caused by occupation. In gratitude, the Dutch made a huge and ongoing gift of tulips to Canada and specifically the capital. The National Capital Commission estimates that a million tulips in 100 varieties, occupy 30 locations around the city.

@blacksmith67

4 жыл бұрын

All good except that it's a myth that the hospital ceded the maternity room to the Netherlands. It was declared extraterritorial (much like international waters) so that Canada's law of _jus soli_ would not give the princess Canadian citizenship.

@blacksmith67

4 жыл бұрын

All good except that it's a myth that the hospital ceded the maternity room to the Netherlands. It was declared extraterritorial (much like international waters) so that Canada's law of _jus soli_ would not give the princess Canadian citizenship.

Hey History Guy! I’ve really been enjoying binge-watching your content since I just recently discovered your channel. I wanted to humbly request a video on a subject that I feel definitely falls in the category of history that deserves to be remembered. The Ashtabula Bridge Disaster. A passenger train traversing a rural Northeast Ohio landscape in 1876 during a blizzard fell through a failed experimental bridge to the ravine below. After the fall, a fire started by the oil burning lamps in the coach cars ravaged the wreckage and claimed 92 lives. At the time, it was the worst railroad disaster in US history. Unfortunately it is largely forgotten today. I think you would do a fantastic job of covering this event, and I think it would be great if more people were aware of such a significant event in the history and development of railroads in the US. Thanks for your consideration! Cheers!

Thank you, The History Guy! I loved this one. I'm Dutch, so I knew about the Tulpenmanie, but it didn't occur to me when I occasionally consider what Dutch subject would be a suitable one for your wonderful channel. Mebby the Raid on Chatham, or the North Sea flood of 1953 and what came of that, but Tulip mania is a brilliant choice, well executed. Cheers!

I love tulips, especially when I put them on my ......Piano. Ya thought I was gonna say organ....dirty boy.

Thank you so much for this video, sir! I was at least one of the persons who requested this video. I think it is really cool how you respond to requests. Keep up the great work.

I think tulips were replaced with beanie babies. Hahaha

@workhardism

3 жыл бұрын

...or bitcoin LoL

@10:45 How about "the Tulip bulb-ble burst!" LOL I remember hearing about this in college. And I'm thinking "They went nuts over a flower? It's a pretty flower, but nothing more than that!" This didn't happen with roses, did it?

Thank you for another fasinating episode, I will say it again and I know that there are an increasing number of older people who agree, your videos should be shown in schools, what's 10_15 mins out of the day that will have some more interested in finding out about more of history. Maybe even enough to get a few more in to the library or reading a book ( there's a thing). Anyway thanks for making another fasinating episode

You mention making documentaries, do you have any plans of doing longer-form videos covering topics in more detail? I imagine there are quite a few forgotten things in history you could do deep dives on. I would watch them if you did.

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Not currently. The channel keeps us plenty busy, and we enjoy the short history format. I can't speak for what may happen in the future.