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history of japan

bill wurtz
Comedy
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1 HN user recommended this comedy video1 month2016–2025 score 1
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN mentions it as an entertaining quick history, and as a stylistic reference or joke in threads about history and the creator's other videos.

Bill Wurtz's fast, comedic and musical run through the whole history of Japan in nine minutes.

“He also did a similar video for the history of Japan [0], quite entertaining.” (HN, 2017)

1 recommendations · 1 citations · 3 jokes · Comedy

5 Hacker News comments

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@klez Jun 2017 Recommends
on HN thread History of the entire world, i guess [video]
Those jingles are funny the first few times, but they get annoying pretty fast. Anyway, happy to see this linked here. He also did a similar video for the history of Japan [0], quite entertaining. [0] [this video]
Quick, entertaining history of Japan

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@po Feb 2016 Cites it
on HN thread Bot-controlled piano emulating spoken voice (2009) [video]
Not mechanical, so much lower resolution... but you might have recently seen the History of Japan video being linked around... the guy who did that, Bill Wurtz also did this: [link] There's an entire subreddit of this stuff as I guess it's really good practice for playing by ear: [link] It includes this awesome Palin one: [link] P.S. In case you missed it this is the History of Japan one again: [this video] If you watch it again, you can hear him using that technique of harmonizing with his own spoken voice in the background music of that video.
Same creator's History of Japan video, with harmonized spoken-voice music
@SimbaOnSteroids Nov 2017 Makes a joke
on HN thread American Equity
There is an option for enforcement you're not realizing here, called the Commodore Mathew Perry method, it goes like this. --Location: Tax Havens-- > Knock Knock Its the United States With huge boats, with guns, gunboats. >Open your banks' records, stop having them be closed and theres not much they can do about. So they sign a treaty making sure their banks' records are not closed. -------------------------------------------------------------- Inspired by this, both historically and in delivery [this video]

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