Greetings, folks! My name is Daniel Thurber, I am a New York City-based history writer and video-maker. I started Bookworm History in 2013 as a KZread channel to have an outlet for my ramblings about the fascinating stories behind great works of literature. Since then it evolved into what you see here, a celebration of all the weird, wild, and wonderful that history has to offer!
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We have a plaster cast of the life mask at Saint Gaudens National Historical Park where I work as a ranger. I use the life mask regularly in my programs. Thanks for filling in a couple of small gaps in my research of the Volk story. Unfortunately, the Google scan is missing 2 pages of the story and some of what is there is fuzzy and hard to read. Come visit us in New Hampshire!
Found out from a black history a black man wrote this masterpiece
If I didn’t already know this story and I saw your presentation first, I’d say yes this was a very silly story. But knowing the background, knowing the man’s history, it was a brave thing to do even if it didn’t work out.
They did it without any modern technology or sleeping quarters. Brave souls
I'm interested in knowing what parts of the King George statue are stored with the NY Historical Society
We in Iraq study it in our curriculum in poetry 🤍✨
People who dwell on the past don't have a present for a future of their own.. lose er
The film is one of my favourite movies. Found the book in a second hand store and about to give it a read! Your outfit reminds me of the movie Only Angels Have Wings
Excellent detailed and accessible presentation.
Buncombe! An _anodyne,_ say ye? He was a-trippin' on the _papaver soniferum poppy,_ he was! Shan't follow we his fine example?
Excellent video!
I have an opportunity to buy a vintage copy of this book. Yes I'm aware of the fact that it's unfinished. I was wondering if it was a good story If anybody knows please let me know and thank you for your time
Seems bout right, anything that's anywhere close to King seems to be ridiculously complicated.
There is so much history here!
The death was fake.
Shire, as in shear, pier, steer
Great. Thank foe this 💙💙💙
Thanks for the help with Ambleside Online Year 10 poetry :-)
There are those who think the cavern measureless to man may be a woman's body!
If you're talking about illustrators, then show the illustrations. Check out Pete Beard's Unsung Heroes of Illustration to learn how it should be done.
Find a painting of edward de vere. There u go
I am an Indian sir ....Thanks for such a nice explanation ❤❤❤
I think any writer can understand the feeling of being interrupted while holding desperately onto a thought or idea they are attempting to write down before it fades, only to have it snatched away during or after the interruption. I don't know if Coleridge's account is true. But it is quite realistic.
This is one of the old stories that may be true, but is hard to believe really happened...
Great info
Currently reading the book right now. And I love the movie. I do think the movie made the right call to streamline the narrative because it does read like a very episodic story almost like you could remake it into an HBO Mini series with each story it's own episode. But can I just say how much it sucks trying to find adult pirate fiction still in print that aren't terrible romance novels?
This is a story to hide its true history.
This was excellent- thank you ❤
Just finished reading The Three Musketeers. This was a cool way to find out more about the book!
Two years later, a second Thank You. It's been my custom to read a Charles Dickens book every Christmastide, and this year it's to be Hard Times. Dombey and Son was kind of a slog.
A few years after going on display in Grand Central Terminal, the Bremen airplane was transferred to the Smithsonian, where it was displayed in a former WWI army building on the south lawn of the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C., but a few years later, the Bremen was transferred out of the Smithsonian so that they could get more airplanes inside. It’s next destination was the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, where it stayed for another 60 years. In the 1990s, however, an association of aviation enthusiasts from the plane’s namesake of Bremen, Germany, reached an agreement for the Henry Ford Museum to loan them the Bremen on a long-term basis. Today, the Bremen is on display inside the terminal at Bremen Airport, but on its journey back to Bremen inside two German cargo planes, they made a diversion to dip their wings over Greenly Island before heading on their way.
My money is on the Chandos portrait, it looks quite a lot like the Droeshot engraving and there's a certain look in his eyes 😅
quote at the end by David Sutter? I don't find anything on him on the web
That gets a like and subscribe!
Lost are ye in nerding rounds of annalical mind. Sam said spark up a spilff and I'll tell you a far out story.
Great video, thanks for this. I loved Captain Blood when I was a child and then a teenager. There's an excellent translation in Russian, and we have the Odyssey and Chronicles in one book. Now I'm reading them in English and I just learned that there's a third book - Fortunes of Captain Blood - that I didn't even know existed! So excited to read it!
Very in-depth explanation.
I check back here once in a while and keep my fingers crossed for a miracle. 🙁
Aw man, I just discovered this incredible (and hilarious) video, eagerly subbed, and then noticed your last upload was 3 years ago. ;_;
I’ve never heard of that marker in Woodside. Interesting. Since more than one source chose a location in Bushwick, I’m fine saying it’s somewhere between each of those points.
Gustave dore fantástico...gostaria que ele vivesse hoje em dia e ilustrasse obras de hoje em dia
El Dorado was a PERSON. Atlantis IS the Americas. KING DAVID
Is this all connected to The Song Of Roland? The story about Charlemagne in Spain.Doesn’t that have Roland blowing a horn then dying? That’s the same as the poem. Or similar at least.
There was writing well before the Trojan war - Linear B and Linear A before that. You don'r sudenly develop the jewel that is Homeric Greek. Homer left his rapsodies in the cities he visited, surely written. on paper made from palm leaves (phenix) hence Phenician. Not letters by the Phoenitians whom didn't have vowels, hence no alphabet.
Homer wasn't bind (as some people claim that the name implies). Omiros Όμηρος) means held captive i.e., held as security that a certain treaty will be adhered to, a practice exercised as late as the 1800's between waring parties. Aparently, he was held captive as security in Smyrna (present day Izmir).
As per the Oracle of Delphi - the most authoritative information center of the ancient Greek world: "Ἕδος δ' Ἰθακησίος ἐστίν, Τηλέμαχος δὲ πατὴρ καὶ Νεστορέη Ἐπικάστη μήτηρ, ἥ μιν ἔτικτε βροτῶν πολὺ πάνσοφον ἄνδρα. Οὗτος ἐγεννήθη φάος τ' ἐς ἀνθρώπους ἤγειρε." Meaning: “He is from Ithaca, Telemachus is his father and Epikaste (Polykaste in the Odyssey) is his mother, of all the mortals they bore the most wise man. He was born enlightened and will bring knowledge to mortals." Telemachus: The son of Odysseus Epikaste: The youngest daughter of Nestor There are at least 15 to 20 mentions by Greek and Roman authors that tell a different story. If you can read the book at the provided link you will know all these references: www.stipsi.gr/alphabet/pdf/ana-tziropulu.pdf
Your awesome. It's taken me awhile to be able to say this books name.
Don Quixote was nothing more than mental health blackface; used as a tool to promote condescending views of dementia or counter-culture lifestyles by caricaturing them in a cartoonish, unrealistic and absurd way to further the idea that those whom do not conform are clueless, feeble and lesser-than. Only pseudo-intellectuals praise that dribble. The current "reinterpretations" of the novel are entirely dishonest and filled with projectionary fluff and invisible faux insights into the human condition.
I fyou guys want to know more about this in depth check out 432 the drop or Kurimeo Channel. 432 the drop has an entire series on Prester John. If you heard the term " 3 indias" and don't where that is that type of information with sources can be found on the pages I mentioned. Atlantis, El Dorado and Prester John are all connected. They are all ancient accounts about Ameircan rulers. Not only were they called the three indias they were also called the three Ethiopia's. Ethiopia being the term for dark skinned people