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Haunches-out

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Sep 29, 2026

Rupert IsaacsonGUEST
36:16
And then there's the final one, which is the most difficult one, which also has the most difficult name.
Rupert IsaacsonGUEST
36:21
It's called the renvers, R-E-N-V-E-R-S, and people might say, "Why have they got these weird names?" Well, this is a process of history, even though [laughs] this was actually worked out about 4,000 years ago in areas where Asia meets Europe, so ancient Indo-European languages, they would have had different names for these things.
Rupert IsaacsonGUEST
36:43
But in the 17th century, there was a cataclysmic...
Rupert IsaacsonGUEST
36:46
So thousands of years later, there was a cataclysmic war in Central Europe that wiped out most of the population of Germany, Protestant-Catholic War, but it affected every single European power, and it was the first effectively world conflict because all of those European powers were also fighting in their new colonies, right? Not just in Europe.

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