History fans

Beer & Queso
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If anyone is interested in history I stumbled upon a couple of Youtube channels that I love

The Fat Electrician has very entertaining videos about historical events and people with a focus on the military.

The Fat Files is same guy who looks at the history of businesses and other things such as specific government programs.

Highly recommended.

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Thank you.

I love history and will check these out.

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I have really enjoyed the podcast History That Doesn’t Suck

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A YT channel that combines history and movies is History Buffs. He takes an historical event from a movie, details the actual history and then shows how true to history the movie is.

His Braveheart meltdown is epic.

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Can’t beat The Operations Room for notable battles.

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I thought it was a terrible movie when it came out.

Like an adolescent kid’s hero fantasy put to the screen.

Similar to most Adam Sandler movies in that respect.

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It has not aged well. Like Mel Gibson.

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Love this channel.

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Someone (cough, Spielberg, cough) should make a miniseries about the naval war in the Pacific. The Battle of the Leyte Gulf and the story of ‘Taffy 3’ is more than enough to get it started

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The “Oversimplified” videos on YouTube are a lot of fun. The history is pretty good too, although oversimplified.

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I’m reading the first volume of Ian Toll’s Pacific War trilogy right now and loving it. I had forgotten about Chester Nimitz’s Central Texas roots. Does anyone know if the Nimitz Hotel is still in Fredericksburg?

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The building is still there. It’s now the Nimitz Gallery of the National Museum of the Pacific War.

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