Vote Results: Catherine the Great!

Hold on, hold on, hasn't Catherine already been done? I'm confused; why is this back up?

Martin Verran

I have few suggestions: The Chu-Han Contention, Three Kingdoms Era, The War of the Golden Stool, Menelik II, Haile Selassie, the DeWitt Brothers of the Netherlands, Caravaggio, Artemisia Ghentileschi.

CGMFA

YES! Finally we get to learn about one badass Russian empress! Can't wait to see that series going up

Naomi Skilling

Something I tend to take into account with my monthly suggestions, though I'm yet to come out of the hat (...Not that that stopped you doing Mary Seacole as a two parter :))

Stephen

If you mean, "There's always a next Time we hold a Special Vote on Topics that didn;t Win First Time around" then yes. I am about to carry on with a Saved Game of Civilization V as England Ruled by Elizabeth I later this Afternoon, actually.

Martin Verran

This is rather off-topic but I just had to share since you aren't doing this period of history anytime soon. I'm doing a crowdsourced-research project involving transcribing US Civil War telegrams and one of the arbitraries (codewords) in this codebook is...wait for it...Walpole. In this codebook it means "Richmond".

Lou Hartman

Just a weird sorting issue with that voting site. :\

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We're trying to cover a lot of topics that are often ignored, including non-war figures (John Snow, e.g.) and non-Western history, while balancing that with a desire to make videos that will be useful to students who are still studying "standard" Western history curriculums. It's a bit of a balancing act, but I'm happy so far, and very excited to have a woman headlining her own series (in a way that Theodora never really got to)!

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There's always a next time, though!

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Catherine is used as the English equivalent of Ekaterina, not a nickname in the same way that say, Katya would be. To be honest with you, we'll almost certainly use the name Catherine to refer to her in the series since that is the name most English-speakers would know her by, and we'd like to make sure the series is easy to find for people who want to learn more about her history.

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I normally do, but man, was I off my game for this one. Picked the wrong end date AND wrote it down wrong, so it wasn't clear anyway. Yeesh.

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Pretty soon we're going to need an internet corollary to the Simpsons Law: if it's history, Epic Rap Battles already did it.

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Hopefully you'll like the series! And who knows, War of the Roses could come back some day. It certainly seems popular enough!

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You know... I actually don't know. But now it's going to bother me, too.

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Seems you're rather short on luck!

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Curses! My inability to vote for a winner continues!

Sean Sarff

Am I the only one bothered by their sorting? How does War of The Roses end up above Seven Years' War?

Mikkel Kaas

Gotta wonder how many people voted for it just because of that. Still, awesome topic!

Nessf

I really wanted war of the roses, but I'm happy with this result

Vika

I’m happy that one of the greatest woman in history will get a series. And so the 15th Extra Credits History Topic Battle Royale comes to an end with Catherine the Great rallying her supporters for a stunning coup d'etat, seizing victory in a highly contested race. It’s good that you made a last day reminder and extended the voting period, since it seems quite a few people forgot about the vote and cast their ballot yesterday. Catherine won by a significantly bigger margin than when I thought i cast the last vote and you realized you miscalculated the end time. She had about 680 votes with a single vote lead. A lot of us thought midnight meant Tuesday 12:00 AM instead of 11:59:59 PM, which is an extra 24 hours. I volunteer as an election judge every general election, so I know how ambiguous language can affect voting. For future votes, I suggest writing the cut off time as 11:59:59 PM PST so there is no ambiguity on the deadline.

Marco Honrade

I hear she brought sexy back to house Romanov. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVbH1BVXywY" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVbH1BVXywY</a>

Kevin Schultz

BTW, her name in Russian is Ekatherine (or Ecatherine, not sure how to translate it o English). Catherine - is a shortened form, which will be considered rather rude.

I guess Catherine the Great is the russian empress. As russian, i'm excited to hear her story from foreigner's perspective.

So the One I Voted for didn't Win this Time? Bother.

Martin Verran

I'm so ecstatic to hear more great women history. There is a lack of quality information in an easy to access and digest layout like the one you offer and I'm beyond excited to see this and that you guys are, seemingly, making an effort to include women who are often left out of history.

Zoe Alleyne

Yes! Finally. Funny that seven years was third with more votes than war of the roses (same percentage though)...

Andre Laferriere

And let me just add... I could not be happier with the topics on our docket. We've got a classic (but timely) subject about political demagoguery, an esoteric topic on the history of a concept, we're FINALLY getting to do Latin American history, and last but not least we get to talk about the history of an amazing woman. I'd have been happy with any result from this set, but looking at the variety of topics you've all voted on reminds me how lucky we are to have the amazing community we do for this series. Thank you all for joining us in this process! -Soraya

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Now we just need a mini series about olga of kiev and we can round up a month of badass Slav women

Michael Waisfeld