The Race to the North Pole
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The race to the North Pole took 300 years and ended in two men pitted against each other, in an attempt to convince the world who had got their first. But one of them was lying.
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I know the flamboyancy is timely. Don't call old world newspaper art "memes". Your work should survive tomorrow. "Number 2" folks on expeditions of any kind have never gotten credit. It isn't about race, gender, etc. It's about creating an image of strong leadership under the constant threat of the chaos of mutiny. There were bigger things at stake than our post-modern interpretation of "racism" as a symbol of designation.
@pappico Says:
your millennial/redditor style of speaking is cringe ngl, and the overuse of the word "like". unfortunate because the research and visual presentation are good.
@alexbryan-of9pb Says:
Cool❤🎉
@shark_house Says:
Could you please make a video over the ongoing exploration or Antarctica from the YT CHANNEL THE FINAL EXPERIMENT.
its about the shape of the earth
@kierantaylor1789 Says:
Short answer. Jeremy Clarkson
@AvengersEngaged Says:
Give me a map from india
@morpheus2072 Says:
What's Cooke cooking?
@martinkaclik Says:
19:10 gotta mix the race into it
@Masonjdjdjwkososlxloxo Says:
santa claus
@suburbanburrito210 Says:
there are no videos of someone going to the “North Pole” with a compass and walking across the ice sheet and watching the compass flip. We’re being lied to. 2 years ago I briefly traveled trough Greenland and I learned that whole area is off limits military watches for boats, drones, planes 24/7
@shah1668 Says:
BlackRock = Rupes Nigra = Mountain QAF
@MarissaRivera-eq2zz Says:
I saw this and was like “Santa claus, duh”
@shawnreynolds8619 Says:
There is a rupis negra
@thatcrazysaumya_ Says:
You bring revolution to journalism ❤
@stevewoodrow2011 Says:
Both never reached the North Pole and their story is merely propaganda, a story to fool the massive and to hide what is there. What you will find is a mountain that’s magnetic and is called……black rock. Black rock you will find on old maps from 1580!
@worshipbusineess Says:
where is the explanation of what the north pole explorers found?
@aputsiaqlynge7548 Says:
So us inuit and eskimoes didn’t get there first?
@trevorcoppola7360 Says:
Hyperborea may exist at the center of our Plane directly under Polaris at Magnetic North. We have nothing to lose. If we stay here we die.
@castrothelegend3272 Says:
SO MANY ADDSSSSSS 🤣😂 godddddammmmm man
@ejootgeorge2347 Says:
Just putting a comment out there for the alogarithm to show this to more people
@nicolaiblling2230 Says:
FYI John. Amundsen did not fly with an airship, but with a airship called Norge together with the Italian Ingeener Nobili. That’s who Amundsen tried to rescue when he disappeared and was never seen again
@luckycorner Says:
WHERE ARE THE GUYS FROM TOPGEAR??? Jeremy Clarkson drove there with a car XD
@chrispearson4982 Says:
Those meteorite fragments Peary brought back from Greenland were taken from an Inuit community for whom it was the sole source of iron for making tools, and was their entire reason for settling in that area in the first place. He then sold them off to the American Museum of Natural History for a huge cash payout. They're still there. Seems less than "awesome" to me.
@vanlampham2557 Says:
I thought the North Pole exploration with Roald Amundsen was reached with airship
@karpervisser2901 Says:
Hmmm i think this is fake look wikepedia
@QueFue_76 Says:
The Video cover Shows Rupes Nigra
@QuintinRodriguez0 Says:
There're also people from the rest of the world who got there first.
It wasn't a US citizen, by the way.
@jimcrain2647 Says:
Decent job and good visual depictions of your sources however you completely missed many previous poetic voyages and the map cover up. But more importantly what is actually the magnetic black rock northern most point surrounded by four islands. No mention of the pigmys or giants as well documented by the Smoky God,Admiral Byrds diary and dozens of other sailors prior to 1865. So do a part one then add yr soap opera and you will have a bigger more complete depiction of what is actually at the North Pole. Also you should be ashamed of having a sponcer that prescribes drugs that where given to hundreds of young kids many resulting in suicides and murders.
@tommymarco Says:
why would a black man setting foot on the north pool be cool ? such a weird american thing to say that stands out in this weird age as backwards instead of forward thinking
@jessediaz9259 Says:
I love it. All maps are wrongly drawn and fed to us as reality. If we are in outer space and there isn’t up and down then there should be tons of maps with that view? Upside down maps hmm… I wonder why they don’t show us that?
@Mimi-mm5hf Says:
Your not serious
@marcelodizon5109 Says:
It's really ridiculous to claim that these explorers actually came there first while the Inuits were already hunting,living there😂😂😂
@notacraftyusername Says:
How did you not bring up the airship?
@killdeerperiland3303 Says:
there is land there stooooge
@jacobgallant8902 Says:
Correction: at 14:40 that is far from a headline, in fact it is literally the last line in an article that yo refer to as a headline.
@davedoogan6650 Says:
The Yeti !
@rodrigoleon5863 Says:
The best map belongs to vibes of cosmos canal YouTube
@guarionex4672 Says:
🔥 I think you’re on to something with “all maps are wrong”… Hey bro you want to be a real explorer??? Prove to the world the earth is NOT FLAT… by discovering the mysteries of the “so not talked about”, “center” of the “SOUTH POLE”…
Because believe me, what you thought you knew of it, I would bet a pretty penny, is not as they say it is…
Just be careful to not be on a hit list. Seems too many secrets kept there… hmmmm I wonder why… 🤔 🧐
Perhaps because there is no center of the South Pole? Because it seems it may not exist… 👀
And maybe because crossing the edge of our flat map would expose new continents? There ya go! You can now be a Peary yourself. Prove to the world the earth IS NOT FLAT… if you can… too many powers that be now… good luck! 🍀👍 🤞 😉🔥😎
Oh and if you think I’m joking, try finding ONE GENUINE picture (NON ALTERED OR COLLAGED) of the earth… it doesn’t exist… so please be the first to explore this “mystery”…
@gabrielakolodko9188 Says:
The amount of work that goes into these videos is beyond. Thank You!
@jasonkrick1614 Says:
I think my childhood has been ruined. All along. I thought it was Santa Claus.
@Longbow. Says:
That’s pretty cool, I love maps👍!!!
@maximossoto6549 Says:
4:24 “The place that we just decided is the top of the earth”
this is factually incorrect. No one decided what the top of the world should or shouldn’t be😂. Earth’s magnetic poles have been in the same place for roughly 780,000 years, The compass was invented in 1190 (China). I’d like Johnny to stop supplementing the truth for juicy story details. He dilutes historical and factual accuracy, blurring the reality to obtain views. Good editing and story telling isn’t education. Please stop you’re a journalist
@stevebloomer7027 Says:
There's a very fine difference between a bad arse and an arse. It's the same difference between the bollocks and bollocks.
@californiagunreviewer Says:
Santa!!
@simonstewart5277 Says:
Let’s be real. It was likely explored for DECADES by the Inuits WAY before any of these ‘explorers’
@Globeishoax Says:
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@rubberspoon Says:
Camp of the saints.
@-wotiu_77 Says:
Who got to N.P. first Eskimos, then Vikings..
No problem
@AzovSS Says:
Where's the expedition of Admiral Byrd?
@centralbears3010 Says:
These are the best documentaries. I'm watching everyone of them.
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