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Hi folks …

Well … I’m in YouTube prison and it was completely self inflicted. This week I randomly decided to change ALL 116 video descriptions and hashtags in one bulk change. Apparently everyone but me knows that doing this really angers and confuses the youtube algorithm unicorns.

My views are down 60 % ever since and this week's episode was almost invisible. So, I need your help to get back on track.

To appease the unicorns and free the channel, please watch, like, share, and comment on this weeks episode.

As always thank you for your support

PS .. I have promised the unicorns I will not to do this again.

https://youtu.be/BUFk7wlA7Zk

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In this week's episode PREMIERING SAT 26th April at 8am, you will meet Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. Quite a nerdy looking chap, he was a millionaire whose fortune allowed him to pursue theatricals, self-published writing, athletics, and Christianity on a full-time basis.

He trained men in hand-to-hand combat in both World Wars, was a fellow of the American Geographical Society and founded a movement called "Athletic Christianity" that eventually attracted 300,000 members around the world. Sports Illustrated called him "boxing's greatest amateur" in 1955, as well as a "major factor in the re-establishment of boxing as a legal and, at that time, estimable sport." Heres more from wikipedia: 

An officer in the United States Marine Corps, Biddle was an expert in close-quarters fighting and the author of Do or Die: A Supplementary Manual on Individual Combat, a book on combat methods, including knives and empty-hand skills, training both the United States Marine Corps in two world wars and special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He can be seen training Marines in the RKO short documentary Soldiers of the Sea. He was considered not just an expert in fighting, but also a pioneer of United States Marine Corps training in the bayonet and hand-to-hand combat. He based his style on fencing, though this approach was sometimes criticized as being unrealistic for military combat.

Having joined the Marines in 1917 at the age of 41, he also convinced his superiors to include boxing in Marine Corps recruit training. In 1919, he was promoted to the rank of major, and became a lieutenant colonel in 1934. In Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, right outside of Philadelphia, Biddle opened a military training facility, where he trained 4,000 men. His training included long hours of calisthenics and gymnastics, and taught skills such as machete, saber, dagger, and bayonet combat, as well as hand grenade use, boxing, wrestling, savate and jiujitsu. He also served two years in the National Guard.

A keen boxer, Biddle sparred with Jack Johnson and taught boxing to Gene Tunney. He even hosted "boxing teas" in his home, where other boxers would spar a couple of rounds with him and then join the family for dinner. A February 1909 match with Philadelphia Jack O'Brien was attended by society leaders including women in elegant evening gowns.

He served as a judge in the fight between Jack Dempsey and Jess Willard on 4 July 1919.

On February 5, 1920, Biddle, as chairman of the Army Navy and Civilian Board of Boxing Control of New York, became a member the International Boxing Union.

During World War II, Biddle returned to active duty with the Marine Corps with the rank of colonel and taught hand-to-hand combat to recruits.

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🎹 Dear Viewers. For those who like the background music on this channel, an all new solo piano album - IMPERIUM - is now available ! A couple of the tracks will appear in upcoming videos but most won't. So here's links and details for those interested.

🎧 Buy/Download IMPERIUM to support:
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Dear Viewers. I get many comments on the music. For those of you who do enjoy the music, could you please subscribe to my official artist channel. youtube.com/@markbulmer ... I need to reach 1,000 subscribers asap. Royalties from that channel will be going to someone who needs a bit of help. Please and thank you.

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This is how much English has changed over the past 1,000 years. It's in this week's collection but I wanted to post here so you could have more time to read.

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Hello everyone. I get quite a few questions and comments about the music on the channel. Yes, I do compose and perform everything you hear. That's my real day job ! For those interested, I finally caved and set up all new social pages (Links below). Feel free to follow and like those pages if you would like to see updates and get to know me and my music a bit more. I will try to interact as much as possible. I have also linked to many of the top streaming platforms below. Thank you for your support of both this channel and my music:

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Another Milestone Reached: 50,000 SUBSCRIBERS !

Thank you so much one and all. This channel is nothing without you !

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Amazing Historical photos is back with a bang ! Here's an all new video to get 2025 started. Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. I enjoyed taking a week off but I'm glad to be back to work bringing you the best rare vintage pictures on YouTube https://youtu.be/MMlKqqDRp40

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Merry Christmas Everyone. There will be no video this week as I'm taking a break for the first time in two years to be with my family. For those who need their fix, I have added a couple of playlists on the home page. "Your Top 10 Videos of 2024" and "Binge Watch The Entire Collection" There's 99 videos for you to watch :) youtube.com/@AmazingHistoricalPhotos. However you celebrate, please be safe, have fun and spend as much time with your loved ones as possible.

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NOTE: In the following video, the photograph at 1:42 - 1:57 is copyrighted material as follows - Max Scheler: Coal miner at coop, Gelsenkirchen 1958. © Max Scheler Estate / Hamburg.

The video was recently removed due to a copyright notice that I had omitted. But, due to the kind co-operation of the copyright owner, this video is viewable again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D89P0...

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