The Robertson driver is way superior in many ways.

We named our first orange tabby cat (many years ago) Ambrose, because we knew of three different Ambroses that had disappeared....Ambrose Bierce is the only one I can remember now, and there's no use asking my wife, she's always had a poor memory. I would like to figure out who the other two were....

IATA does not mean INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSIT ASSOCIATION. That’s a glaring mistake on your part.

Direct line Grandfather

Thank you, THG, for reminding us about how staInless steel has become so important in our lives. Another fascinating fifteen minutes.

1974 at the FBI finger print warehouse I might sit there all day and microfilm files.

Thank you History Guy

Not too much conjecture as to what happened. Both Blenheim and Java were sighted with flags flying upside down after hitting an Indian Ocean cyclonic 'gale' near Madagascar. The fact that they were never seen again after that doesn't leave too many options as to their fate. One does wonder, however, why a 176 ft long gunboat would need a crew of 590.

Really looking forward to the full video. I spent countless hours at the microfilm reader when I got my BA In History during the ‘80s.

My birthday!

Thank you History Guy

Hindsight is 20~20~20.

Sir, please do not use a ready made bowtie. It is the behavior of a Cad. Gentlemen tie their own. Great channel, thank you.

Fear not: Due to Jupiter's giant mass, it attracts all "Earth-ending" meteors and comets. NASA said we are not due for a direct strike for hundreds of millions of years.

Gore Vidal's book 'Burr' is what made me like and admire Burr, and despise Hamilton.

The Knickerbockers were real? 🎼 Hey Mr Nickerbocker, bockitty bock. I likey the way that you bockitty bock… with your hands 💃🪩🕺

Guy.. Can Go On Do Your Thing..

The vid was very informative in uniform distinction. I was not an officer but was an enlisted, so I learned to distinguish from earlier on. My God I mis my years my mom even put together a scrapbook on my grad boot year

There was no treason to be forgiven by William the Dutch Usurper. Those who had fought for His Majesty James II&VII had supported their lawful King against an alien usurper.

We deserve to have our memory refreshed

We called it 'microfeshe', or something. They were very cool, but annoying as hell to search through.

Is it still too controversial to expect it to be pointed out what a genocidal, r*ping maniac Columbus was? Is that too much, when even his own peers called him a monster? History Guy so often toes the line so well on topics that others could exploit for clickbait, but I don’t know how it doesn’t deserve recognition, the untold numbers of innocent lives lost to his bloodthirst. Just because we never knew the names of those individual men, women and children, doesn’t mean that they don’t also “deserve to be remembered”. I mean. Do people still prefer to insist that their middle school teachers couldn’t have had it wrong decades ago, over spare a thought for the rivers of blood on the man’s hands? Are people that closed-off that the HG doesn’t want to even touch the possibility of mentioning this vast miseducation? An open mind is irrevocably tied to the intellectual curiosity that I would think would lead anyone to want to learn this history, especially if it had been attempted to be erased, and a little empathy for the innocents wouldn’t erase anyone’s modern cultural sense of identity. “Into God’s arms” indeed

Oh, I'll definitely need to watch this one! I used documents preserved as microfilm as recently as 2018, but hadn't thought to look into its own history.

May 20 21 Hirohito was in Scotland as a Royal pain in the Edinburgh.

Like Micro film Is Reducing Carelessness, Costs, While At Battlefield Earth..

my firearms instructor was a spy in the cold war going back and forth from east to west berlin. she had skills w microfilm hiding and the ability to kill with 1 finger... i enjoyed her stories

if anyone happens to be in peshtigo, this was one of the best museums i've ever been to. it was more then just remembering the fire and what everyone went through, but a snapshot of the time and an excellent place to visit

Legend has it that around midnight, at a 7 eleven in chihuahua, you can hear the ghost of ambrose bierce gagging on a microwave burrito.

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

My favorite bierceism is ----- TRIAL- A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. In order to effect this purpose it is necessary to supply a contrast in the person of one who is called the defendant, the prisoner, or the accused. If the contrast is made sufficiently clear this person is made to undergo such an affliction as will give the virtuous gentlemen a comfortable sense of their immunity, added to that of their worth.

Great content; we take so much for granted these days. I appreciate the reminders of how things have come to be as they are. One minor correction: Apollo 13 flew in April of 1970, not 1969.

Please do a video on Josehp Priestley and the 1791 UK riot

Excellent and interesting article. The transition to digital storage should concern all of us, as we are one EMP from having no documents at all.

And on this day in 2024, Donald J. Trump again missed being found guilty as charged.

I saw it. We had just come home from church and turned the TV o 3:41 n and right before our eyes, there Oswald-shot dead.

These were petty crimes compared to the entire program that bilked the US Tax Payer out of $Billions. 😔...

Yep

i'm just trying to imagine the kinda ahole you'd have to to ask someone to reenter slavery, multiple times with a straight face. i guess the kinda of ahole that would own slaves in the first place.

What a Narcissist Personality Disorder the Senator proved to be, he actually thought himself above commitment, above responsibility, and above jurisdiction. Maybe the ruling satisfied her, but, if she were my client, I would have had him back in court: he would pay the settlement to my client or the court system. If I had to do it probono One must "follow through" or it all was a waste of time, money, and efforts. Ethics are worth the actions. Be your positive self and let the Universe deliver your positive experiences. ✨

When my sister became County Clerk in 1978, she had all of the deeds, and other documents in county storage, photographed and placed on microfilm (the documents had been stored in cardboard boxes forever). I suppose that the medium changed sometime in the 1990's. Speaking of which, when another relative became Sheriff in 1990, he did the same thing with law enforcement records, which believe it or not, were still on paper, in cardboard boxes, in a shed, in a field ( the records partially chewed by rodents).

Anybody who has used microfilm produced at different times during the 20th century knows that the images are often inadequate for discerning details. I ran across this as a librarian while helping students do research on historical advertising in popular American magazines. digital images are greatly more useful, but not always available. Nicholson Baker's book Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper reveals the amount of destruction of original books, newspapers and other texts that was involved over the years in producing commercially exploitable microfilms. The value of micro-formats cannot be underestimated but we should keeo in mind that there are disadvantages ofmany kinds in depending on them.

We sailed those 82 footers from Subic Bay to Can Tho....then upriver to Sa Dec. 58 years and a thousand centuries ago.

I remember using microfiche to do research for school.

"You wouldn't like me when I'm angry... Because I always back up my rage with facts and well documented sources, " The Credible Hulk

I remember my university proudly announcing their campaign to transfer microfiche to digital. (CDs, then tape drives, …). I still worry about anti-historical groups who try to destroy the artifacts they don’t like, be it taliban shooting ancient buddhas, or modern politicians refusing to acknowledge repeated failures of bad policy.

I'm suddenly nostalgic for microfiche readers.

11:10 Notice the crotch rivet. Levi Strauss started getting complaints over the placement. Seems that cowboys crouching by the campfire were suddenly being overwarmed in a very delicate part of their anatomy. The crotch rivets were discontinued.

Some viewers have been confused by the conclusion. The meteor passed on May 20, but was not identified until after it passed, and not reported until a month later on June 20.

The giant asteroid that went by us in 1993 was only one of the many times that all life on the planet narrowly escaped annihilation duriing the 20th century and most of us were basically oblivious to our own possible doom.

All documents are historical, similar to pictures being of someone younger.