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IMPERIAL
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Dissecting History and Politics - solo creator from Switzerland.
I will make mistakes in my videos, the hope is is that if I provide transparency to my research process and sources, people can make up their own minds after the fact.
I’m always trying to make my coverage more accurate, but due to the scope of some projects and my emphasis on densely packed scripts with lots of sources some corner cutting is sometimes inevitable to meet deadlines.
I hope once this channel grows to a sustainable point I can take more time with videos than the usual 45 days.
Btw, the name IMPERIAL just comes from when I used to play Skyrim - it definitely is not an endorsement of imperialism lmao.
I will make mistakes in my videos, the hope is is that if I provide transparency to my research process and sources, people can make up their own minds after the fact.
I’m always trying to make my coverage more accurate, but due to the scope of some projects and my emphasis on densely packed scripts with lots of sources some corner cutting is sometimes inevitable to meet deadlines.
I hope once this channel grows to a sustainable point I can take more time with videos than the usual 45 days.
Btw, the name IMPERIAL just comes from when I used to play Skyrim - it definitely is not an endorsement of imperialism lmao.
Why Swiss Money Looks Weird
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I've had so many of these comments guys - Wilhelm Tell is not on the 5 CHF coin, that's a popular myth en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces194.html.
Swiss cash is one of the few currencies designed in the vertical format, standing alongside the likes of Canada and Bolivia. But why did they opt for the vertical in lieu of the horizontal, and why does the general design of the Swiss Franc look so weird?
Credit to Hoog for the inspiration of this video: ua-cam.com/video/0jdL7R3BcnM/v-deo.htmlsi=cMjy2wfLSjfeaIi6
Script + Sources:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/duhjbfodv8uw852b7mogc/Why_Swiss_Money_Looks_Weird_Final_Aura.docx?rlkey=dr44v3mrnjyhqliie3ule1zt5&dl=0
Join the Members Area to get access to the IMPERIAL discord server: www.youtube.com/@IMPERIALYT/membership
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:24 Verticality
High-Tech Bills: 3:50
The Design: 6:29
Money Nationalism 14:49
I've had so many of these comments guys - Wilhelm Tell is not on the 5 CHF coin, that's a popular myth en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces194.html.
Swiss cash is one of the few currencies designed in the vertical format, standing alongside the likes of Canada and Bolivia. But why did they opt for the vertical in lieu of the horizontal, and why does the general design of the Swiss Franc look so weird?
Credit to Hoog for the inspiration of this video: ua-cam.com/video/0jdL7R3BcnM/v-deo.htmlsi=cMjy2wfLSjfeaIi6
Script + Sources:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/duhjbfodv8uw852b7mogc/Why_Swiss_Money_Looks_Weird_Final_Aura.docx?rlkey=dr44v3mrnjyhqliie3ule1zt5&dl=0
Join the Members Area to get access to the IMPERIAL discord server: www.youtube.com/@IMPERIALYT/membership
My Twitter: YT_IMPER1AL
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:24 Verticality
High-Tech Bills: 3:50
The Design: 6:29
Money Nationalism 14:49
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Great graphics and presentation.
Italy you fucked up really fuckin bad
Another country destroyed by RuZZia and it's sick ideology.
The real reason is that someone let a >woman design these and she had a bit of what we in the business call a "woman moment". That's why the bills look like shit.
Funny that the Communist Party felt the need to maintain religious balance, thus paving the way for this maniac. Shoulda listened to Marx!
RED AND BLACK I DRESS, EAGLE ON MY CHEST ITS GOOD TO BE AN ALBANIAN
I think Boeing used the same design practices
Thanks!
Komarov sacrificing himself to the mission for Gagarin's sake is just... man, that's painfully sad. Hat's off to ya, Komarov.
The pronunciation of german words by this british narrator are absolutely unreal - Hut ab 👏👏
Communism is tyranny.. Tyranny is rule by parasites who are supremely weak. Just like in the west 1st world countries bringing in tyranny.. They have political enemies arrested and spied upon. It's all the same..
This is clearly Serbian propaganda
Boring.
Brave hearts Brave USSR pilots and engineers
A few things stays the same between USSR back then and nowaday Russia!
Erin Go Bragh. Save Ireland. IRA.
Incredible video and fantastic editing. Could you tell what software do you use to edit your videos?
I have to say you did a great job of being fair on a very difficult subject. I grew up with the troubles going on, i am 60 now, some of my earliest memories are of atrocities, form both 'sides', a few twisted people managed to destroy a lot of lives. The ongoing tradgedy is that the troubles drove each community further apart when it was showing signs of mixing in the 60s. That, partly, was the intention, making the terrorists and sectarian politicians more powerful. As I sit here nearly 30 years since the hopeful days of the good friday agreement and the communities are showing no sign of significant mixing, quite the reverse, but there is always hope.
Does this explain why Albanians are so nationalist even in such a shit country? I was in Albania like a week ago and shocked at how much they love and defend their poor country and the people getting mad in the comments prove my point
great video, fyi willhelm tell is depicted on the 5 franc coin which is a common coin!
The claim that Hungary defended Europe frm the Islamic invasions isn't even true at all... Serbs, Romanians and Greeks have fought more battles for the continent that Hungary did. Even Hungary's greatest King, Matthias Corvinus, fought no battle against the turks. He wanted the Holy Roman crown and attacked his christians brothers and took parts of their land. When the turks came in 1526 after just 2 months there was no more Hungary on the map until 1867 when they made Austria-Hungary
As a protestant Northern Ireland born person, growing up through the "Troubles", I can categorically say that this is the best and fairest assessment I have ever come across
😂😂😂you would say that wouldn’t you seen as it doesn’t go in to any of the loyalist death squads
seeing how Europe is the same physical continent it's not that surprising, they like to act different tho.
Good work Mr.... I worked with a dancer the following summer who was on that ship when it was hijacked....
all this time living in Europe I had no idea there was a state like this in the balkans.. holy shit- why don't they teach this at school??
What editing/ building software do you use , i was stunned looking at the visuals, great work man!
Hmm, what if these guys were wearing the keys to launch a missile to Russia, would have been quite a story, although it would have been years latter
Great summary. Thank you so much
Beautiful bills
Yes well besides the war effort. People also had lives, enemies, and friends.
nah ... it's still carried along vertically and used vertically so not much a difference there nor anything special just the design, i can say the latest hong kong 1k note of the vertical series the same too in fact better design than the franc ! if you want to nit pick, the swiss are just being an asshole just like how americans are asshole for still using the stupid imperial system. when you do not want to conform to the norm, you better make sure you do not be a hassle to others else you are just an asshole !
I'm not a nazi or anything but i think it looked cool with all the banners and stuff.
The cigar part was straight out of a movie. That pilot... what a legend.
thanks to macron, nazis are back
Listening to all these negatives of communism, I still do not understand how so many people who hold leftist political views are so pro-communism.
23:23 / 25:16
All very Peoples Front of Judea vs the Judean People's Front.
Albania had some rough time. Been in Albania 2 years ago and I loved it. Most people are super nice the views, sea sides are amazing. The only things I was disappointment with were rubbish dumbed everywhere and my phone was stolen. Albania is heading in the right direction, I'm sure it will be part of EU in the future.
turn off that dumbass music
The last chapter hasn't been written yet.
william tell lol
"bus stop related creativity"
Wow
Wow, I've visited and stayed in a Nazi resort IN Germany, but hadn't seen a video so in depth on Paris during Nazi occupation. Nice work!
I work with some Albanians in Ohio and let me tell you these guys truely love America
I thought that was Belarus
I like that swiss bank notes have an expiration date, but then I also like that switzerland's coins haven't changed in a century.
2:54 and 10:55 is Saint George a Christian Religious Figure.
Crazy to think even occupied Paris was better than modern Paris
suprise suprise of who the terrorists were