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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Premiered Mar 16, 2024 ^^
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When you mentioned about Castlereigh ending his own life I had to pause and read more into that. I knew nothing about him beyond what I'd learned in your excellent Congress of Vienna videos, and was surprised to learn that despite being one of the key figures behind the century of relative peace between 1815 and 1914, he was a deeply unpopular figure in his own lifetime. I think the best part was reading the epitaph that Lord Byron wrote for him, it's brutal.
Posterity will ne'er survey
A nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:
Stop, traveller, and piss.
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Frankenstein was written during this time. The volcano Mt. Tambora in Indonesia erupted in April 1815. It was the biggest eruption we've known in recorded history. It caused tremendous climate changes across the world which resulted in a lot of lost lives and other catastrophes. It enveloped much of the world in dark clouded skies. Hence 1816 was known as "the year without a summer". This was the same year when Mary Shelley, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, and others went to visit their mutual friend Lord Byron in Geneva, Switzerland in the summer of 1816. Since the skies were perpetually overcast, and the friends were mostly indoors in any case, Lord Byron challenged everyone to write the scariest story. Hence Frankenstein was born (along with other works including arguably the first vampire story, a precursor and an inspiration for Dracula).
Edit: Several people brought up the good point that there are older vampire stories. So, in all good will, perhaps I can amend "arguably the first vampire story" instead to say something else like "arguably the first popular modern vampire story in English literature". Hopefully that's a little bit better at least, even if still imperfect.
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@longislandlegoboy
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Iām so jealous of the people who will see these videos in 5 odd years when they donāt have to wait agonizingly for the next
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