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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,400 # Terrible Tudors, Gorgeous Georgians 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:04,600 # Slimy Stuarts, vile Victorians 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:07,000 # Woeful wars, ferocious fights Dingy castles, daring knights 4 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,800 # Horrors that defy description Cut-throat Celts, awful Egyptians 5 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,200 # Vicious Vikings, cruel crimes Punishment from ancient times 6 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,040 # Romans rotten, rank and ruthless Cavemen savage, fierce and toothless 7 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,040 # Groovy Greeks, brainy sages Mean and measly Middle Ages 8 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,760 # Gory stories, we do that 9 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:23,280 # And your host, a talking rat 10 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,240 # The past is no longer a mystery 11 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:27,520 # Welcome to... 12 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:31,880 # Horrible Histories. # 13 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:34,440 Horrible Histories presents... 14 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:40,400 History is filled with brilliant brains 15 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,520 who've changed our lives with their amazing ideas, 16 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:45,040 theories and inventions. 17 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:47,840 And my Victorian age was stuffed with them! 18 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,640 Charles Dickens transformed writing - I love his stuff. 19 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,320 Florence Nightingale basically created modern nursing. 20 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:55,560 You're welcome! 21 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,000 And Charles Darwin revolutionised scientific theory - 22 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,680 two of them also had great facial hair. 23 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,800 Not all of our Victorian brainboxes' ideas were winners, though. 24 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,720 Polish eye doctor LL Zamenhof, for example, 25 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:12,240 thought he'd invented a way of bringing about world peace. 26 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,000 Spoiler alert - he hadn't. 27 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,360 - Ahem. Friends, you represent the great 28 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:19,640 countries of the world. 29 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:24,120 And I believe that I have the answer for creating world peace. 30 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,280 - Really, Dr Zamenhof? 31 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:30,280 Ha! How is an unknown Polish eye doctor going to come up 32 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:32,400 with a plan for world peace? 33 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,520 We all speak different languages. 34 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,680 Half of the group can't understand what you're saying! 35 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:39,800 - IN FRENCH: 36 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:40,880 - See? 37 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:42,360 - There's the answer! 38 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,480 I believe that the world's problems are down to poor communication. 39 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:46,920 So I've come up with a new language. 40 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,000 It's simple and easy to learn 41 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,640 and will become the language of international communication. 42 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:55,480 Let me tell you a little bit about it. 43 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:57,120 - MUSIC: IN THE STYLE OF DESPACITO 44 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:59,520 - # Any sort of fighting, I abhor 45 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:01,840 # We need to find a way to prevent war 46 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:06,280 # And I think that language is the solution 47 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:07,760 - ALL: - # Ah-ah-ah 48 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,440 - # A peaceful way of resolving things 49 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:12,760 # There's no need for more battling 50 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,400 # Here's a way to stop this confusion 51 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,000 # Esperanto 52 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,320 # It's a language that I created in Poland 53 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,040 # A way that we can keep the conversation flowing 54 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,320 # A way of talking that will only keep on growing 55 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,200 # Esperanto 56 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,440 # It's a simple language to unite the people 57 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,080 # It's a way of speaking that'll make us equal 58 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,640 # We can sort out problems in a way that's peaceful 59 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:40,160 # It's easy to learn 60 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:41,520 # There's no crazy grammar 61 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,160 # It follows simple rules everyone can understand, yeah 62 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,160 # A mixture of languages, but here's the surprise 63 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:49,480 # There are some words you might recognise 64 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:50,920 # A bird is birdo 65 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:52,240 # Cat is kato 66 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:53,440 # A cake is kuko 67 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:54,920 # Baby is bebo 68 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:56,320 # Club is klubo 69 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:57,560 # River, rivero 70 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:58,960 # Music, muziko 71 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:00,280 # Problem, problemo 72 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:01,520 - # Stop me if I'm wrong 73 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:03,120 # I wouldn't want to offend 74 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:04,240 # You're just taking a word 75 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:05,760 # And sticking an O on the end 76 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:07,080 - # I see why you've said that 77 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:08,360 # There's really more to it 78 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:09,600 # Don't be put off 79 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:11,400 # Everyone here can do it 80 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,600 - # Esperanto 81 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,280 # It's a language that I created in Poland 82 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,960 # A way that we can keep the conversation flowing 83 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,120 # A way of talking that will only keep on growing 84 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,480 # Esperanto 85 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,200 # It's a simple language to unite the people 86 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:32,880 # It's a way of speaking that'll make us equal 87 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:35,640 # We can sort out problems in a way that's peaceful 88 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:38,120 - # Esperanto! # 89 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:41,800 Any questions? 90 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,840 - I wonder if rat is rato in Esperanto. 91 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,400 I guess we'll never know-o. 92 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:55,600 Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha! 93 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:56,720 Welcome to our look at 94 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:58,520 some brilliant historical brains. 95 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,640 And here to help us out is someone who seems to know everything. 96 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:06,760 It's actual Chaser, The Beast Mark Labbett. 97 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:08,800 Hello, Mark. - Hello, Rattus. 98 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,320 - Let's test your brainiac credentials, then. 99 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:12,840 When was the Battle of Hastings? 100 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:14,000 - 1066. 101 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,800 - Oh! You are good. 102 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,280 What's the biggest organ in the human body? 103 00:04:18,280 --> 00:04:19,320 - The skin. 104 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:20,400 - Speedy! 105 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:22,480 Who is the next sketch about? 106 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,080 - What? How am I supposed to know that?! 107 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:25,080 - BUZZER 108 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,680 Oh, bad luck, Mark! 109 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:30,040 - No, hang on, how was I supposed to know that? 110 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:31,840 You never told me! - All right, mate! 111 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:33,200 Don't go on about it. 112 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,640 No-one likes a sore loser. 113 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:37,720 The answer is John Wilkins. 114 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,240 In the 17th century, he was a member of The Royal Society, 115 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,960 a place where the brainboxes of the time went to swap ideas. 116 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,920 And it was there that Wilkins presented an amazing idea 117 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:49,880 that we still use today, 118 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:51,480 just not quite in the same way 119 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:51,480 he thought we would. 120 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:52,640 FLUSHING 121 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:53,960 What's the capital of Ecuador? 122 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:55,480 - I'm not playing any more! 123 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:55,480 - RATTUS SIGHS 124 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,400 - But it's Quito. 125 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:57,400 - RATTUS GASPS 126 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:58,800 Nice! 127 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,960 - And so I am delighted to present to you, 128 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,200 fellow members of the Royal Society, 129 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,480 my design for a submarine ark. 130 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:08,760 - Ooh! 131 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:11,280 - A boat that travels under the water. 132 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:12,520 - Oh! - Ha! 133 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:14,600 - Now, this ark, or submarine boat, 134 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:15,960 could change everything. 135 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,560 Imagine a vessel that could travel to any coast in the world 136 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,320 completely undetected. - Ooh. 137 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:23,000 - It won't be affected by the tides 138 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,640 or threatened by the ice when crossing under the Poles. 139 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:27,120 - Cool. 140 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,960 - There's just one problem which may mean this boat 141 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:32,480 can never be built. 142 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:35,000 I refer, of course, to how you deal with... 143 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:37,880 ..when you need to go. 144 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:40,160 - Go where? 145 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:41,960 - I know - on a voyage. 146 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:43,120 - No, no, no. - Oh! - No, no, no, no. 147 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:44,560 I'm talking about the toilet. 148 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,040 The little dolphin's room. 149 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,920 What do you do with the doodoo? 150 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,200 - Oh. The poo. 151 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:52,880 - I'm not sure we need the diagram. 152 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:54,080 - I disagree! 153 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:57,160 Imagine you're in a submarine and you're having a poo. 154 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:58,360 Are you imagining it? 155 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:00,160 - Yes, I think I've got it. 156 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,760 - Good, now, what do you do with the poo? 157 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:05,040 - Throw it out the window? 158 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:06,840 - No, well, you'll be under the sea, 159 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:08,400 so water would flood in and sink the boat. 160 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,800 - True, but I have the answer. 161 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:15,360 - What is it? 162 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,360 - It's a poo collecting bag. 163 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,600 It would be attached to a hole in the submarine. 164 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:22,600 You simply pop your poop inside, 165 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,160 close it up at one end, release the other and, hey, presto! 166 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:26,480 Away goes the poo. 167 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:28,040 - Poo aside, Wilkins, 168 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,920 I believe you've actually invented some kind of air lock. 169 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:32,120 This could be revolutionary. 170 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:33,160 - I know, right. 171 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:34,480 Super pooper. 172 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:36,680 - No, no, no, but you could use the same system to stock up 173 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,040 with food and fuel without ever having to come to the surface. 174 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,080 - Yes! A boat could lower them in from above 175 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,120 and you could take them in through the hole! 176 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:44,320 - This isn't just for poos, 177 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:45,640 this could be used for everything. 178 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:47,880 - No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Right?! 179 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,560 It's just a poo bag - for getting rid of poo! 180 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:52,240 Do you want a demonstration? It's really simple. 181 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:54,040 Look, right, you hold the bag out, right? 182 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:55,240 - Oh, absolutely not! - Oh! 183 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:58,000 - Look, Wilkins, this submarine is a triumph, 184 00:06:58,000 --> 00:06:59,600 but your poo bags stink. 185 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,800 - All right, fine. But in the future, if you're ever in a submarine boat 186 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,600 and you feel a poo coming on, don't come crying to me! 187 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:07,600 - LOUD FART 188 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:09,240 - Ooh! Ooh. 189 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,080 I, erm, had a big lunch. 190 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,800 - Oh, it's...just reached me. - Oh! 191 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,600 Headteacher Ruth Thomas is looking for a new physics teacher 192 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:22,040 after Miss Evan's shoelaces got caught in Class 9F's rocket 193 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,400 and she suddenly relocated to Norfolk. 194 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,120 Welcome to Historical Educating. 195 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:31,720 - I'm quite excited about our new supply teacher. 196 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,760 He was such an important scientific figure 197 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:38,600 that he has more things named after him than almost anyone else. 198 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:40,080 Humboldt Mountains. 199 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:41,320 Humboldt Park. 200 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:42,800 Humboldt City. 201 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,640 Then there's even a part of the moon called Mare Humboldtianum. 202 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:47,680 Yeah. 203 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,840 - Class 7F's new teacher is Alexander Von Humboldt. 204 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:53,080 - Morgen! 205 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:56,160 - ALL: - Good morning, Mr Alexander Von Humboldt. 206 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:57,840 - Now, hands up, 207 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:01,080 who wants to help me with a scientific experiment? 208 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:02,240 - Me, me! 209 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:03,880 - Ja, Toby. 210 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:05,200 - Ow! - Very interesting. 211 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:06,960 Who else would like to help? 212 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:08,200 - DISSENTING MURMURS No. 213 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:09,400 - OK. 214 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,240 - Mr Von Humboldt experiments with animals and electricity, 215 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:14,560 which doesn't seem right, 216 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:18,160 because that's what Stephen Wilkins in 7P got excluded for. 217 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,320 - Here we have a beautiful dead bird. 218 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:21,320 Ja? 219 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:22,520 - KIDS GASP 220 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:24,440 - Well, who here wants to see if we can 221 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:27,000 bring this birdie back to life with some electricity? 222 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:30,320 Yeah! Let's do this! 223 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:31,640 - ELECRICITY CRACKLES, POPS 224 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:32,720 KIDS GASP 225 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:34,280 - Well, that didn't work. 226 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:35,840 - He's such a science legend. 227 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,160 In fact, there's over 100 animals named after him - 228 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:41,000 like the Humboldt squid. 229 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:42,920 - ELECTRICITY HUMS Sir, that doesn't look very safe. 230 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:45,520 - Ah, don't worry, I've done this test before. 231 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,080 Sticking a wire up your bottom 232 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,120 is a perfectly valid scientific test. 233 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:52,720 Nothing can happen to me, 234 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:54,720 unless someone switches on the light. 235 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:55,960 - Mr Von Humboldt, 236 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:57,200 what do you think you're doing?! 237 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:59,320 - ALL: - No! 238 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,560 - ELECTRICITY POPS, HE SCREAMS 239 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:02,600 - Wow! 240 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:04,040 - How would you say that went? 241 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:05,440 - Pretty good. 242 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:07,720 Look, I don't know what the fuss is about. 243 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:09,240 Thanks to my experiment, 244 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,760 we now know that electrocuting yourself through the bottom 245 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:14,840 leads to nausea, cramps, 246 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,680 and it makes you do a little bit of wee. 247 00:09:16,680 --> 00:09:18,760 - You're fired, Mr Von Humboldt. 248 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:20,520 You know the way out. 249 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:22,240 - I actually don't know the way out. 250 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:23,240 - HE FARTS 251 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:24,680 - Oh! 252 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:27,280 Excuse me. 253 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,120 I seem to have retained a little charge in my buttocks. 254 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:30,640 Fascinating! 255 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:30,640 - HE FARTS 256 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:32,160 - Ah! 257 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:35,440 - Ever been tempted to see what happens if you attach 258 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,520 electrodes to your bum, Mark? 259 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:39,600 - What? No, of course not. 260 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,120 - ELECTRICITY CRACKLES RATTUS YELLS 261 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:42,520 RATTUS COUGHS 262 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:44,400 No, me neither. 263 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:46,480 - And I can smell burning fur. 264 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:48,840 - At least you can't FEEL it. 265 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:50,400 Anyways, it's no surprise 266 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,320 that some of history's biggest brains have tried to tackle 267 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:54,880 history's biggest challenges - 268 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,160 like how to help win wars and how to save lives. 269 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:00,360 Marie Curie tried to do both. 270 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:02,160 What do you know about her, Mark? 271 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,560 - She was a brilliant Polish-French physicist 272 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:07,040 who did pioneering work with radioactivity. 273 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:08,680 - Correct. 274 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:10,800 And during the First World War, 275 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:12,480 she used her knowledge about X-rays 276 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:14,680 to try and help soldiers on the front line. 277 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:14,680 RATTUS YELPS 278 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:16,280 - Whoa! 279 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:19,240 Do you need to sit down? 280 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:20,520 - I don't think I'll be sitting down 281 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:21,800 for some time Mark. 282 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:23,160 RATTUS SIGHS 283 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:25,400 - What's up! Marie Curie here - 284 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:28,720 scientist, brainbox and winner of two Nobel Prizes. 285 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:29,880 Count 'em! 286 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:32,920 The Science Institute where I teach has shut 287 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,320 because all the men have been called up into the French army 288 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:38,520 to fight against Germany in this Great War. 289 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:41,320 I really want to help them, 290 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:46,080 so I am sending X-ray machines to the battlefields, 291 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:49,840 where doctors can use them to check for broken bones... - Ahh! 292 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,200 - ..and bits of metal in the wounded soldiers. 293 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:52,200 - GROANING 294 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:54,400 - Let's go save some lives! 295 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,240 - SHE STRAINS 296 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:57,640 - Oh, that is very heavy. 297 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:01,200 - SHE HEAVES 298 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,040 SHE GROANS, FARTS 299 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:05,760 - OK, pas de probleme. That's French for... 300 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:10,040 I have simply adapted both the X-ray machines 301 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:13,720 and the ambulance to serve our purpose! 302 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:15,040 Woohoo! 303 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:15,040 - ENGINE IGNITES 304 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:16,720 - Let's go! 305 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:18,400 - HORN BLARES 306 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:19,800 CRASH! 307 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:26,360 - Whoops. 308 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:28,360 OK, problem solved. 309 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,520 My 17-year-old daughter Irene can do the driving 310 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:33,600 while I am learning. 311 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:36,320 Pedal to the metal, Irene! 312 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:36,320 - ENGINE IGNITES 313 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:37,760 - Come on! 314 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:38,960 - HORN BLARES 315 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:41,600 CRASH! 316 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,200 - OK, we have made it to the front line 317 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:52,840 and we are ready to go to work! 318 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,840 Er, lieutenant, if you can just... 319 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:55,840 - MACHINE CRACKLES 320 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:57,520 - Erm... 321 00:11:57,520 --> 00:11:59,080 No. OK. 322 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,000 If it's just, er... 323 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,640 OK, so I have only really taught about X-rays, 324 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,880 I haven't really used the machines before as such. 325 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:09,280 - SCREAMING 326 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,160 - Well, everything has settled down a bit. 327 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:23,040 And I have organised 200 battlefield X-ray units 328 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:27,160 and 20 of these mobile X-ray ambulances. 329 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,400 They've even called them Little Curies after me - 330 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:31,560 so cute! 331 00:12:31,560 --> 00:12:33,920 So I think I can say I have done my bit. 332 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:35,720 Au revoir! 333 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,120 Come on. Little Curie away! 334 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:39,680 - HORN BLARES 335 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:42,240 CRASH! 336 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:51,400 Well, Dr Skinner. 337 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,480 We're hoping you've come up with something that will help us 338 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:54,600 to defeat the Nazis. 339 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,520 - Gentlemen, I believe I have. 340 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:59,640 A massive advance in missile accuracy - 341 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:01,600 piloted missiles. 342 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:03,280 - Piloted? 343 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:05,200 But who would be stupid enough to pilot a missile 344 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:06,520 that was going to explode? 345 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:07,560 COOING 346 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:10,600 - Gentlemen, meet your new pilot. 347 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:14,760 - PIGEON COOS 348 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:20,160 You want a pigeon to fly the bomb? 349 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:21,320 - Of course not! 350 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:22,960 - THEY CHUCKLE 351 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,240 - I want three pigeons to fly the bomb. 352 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:28,680 Gentlemen, each pigeon harnessed inside the missile 353 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:31,000 has been trained to peck at the target 354 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,040 when they see it. 355 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,240 This pecking transmits a signal 356 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:36,240 via the bird's beak which controls 357 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,600 the bomb's tail fins and directs it towards the target! 358 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,880 "Oh, nein, you've destroyed my Nazi battleship! 359 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:46,960 "Who'd have suspected a pigeon?! 360 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:49,200 "Oh, somebody give Skinner a promotion." 361 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:50,640 - Are we being pranked? 362 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,920 Do you want us to entrust the war to...to birds?! 363 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,600 - These are no ordinary birds, sir. - PIGEON COOS 364 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,200 - My pigeons are graduates of the Skinner School of Aviation. 365 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,400 - You created a flying school for pigeons? 366 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:03,600 - Well, they're... 367 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:05,280 They're not going to train themselves, are they? 368 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:06,440 Who is this guy? 369 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:07,520 - SKINNER LAUGHS 370 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:08,800 - Let me show you something. 371 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:10,080 - GUNSHOTS 372 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:11,720 Whoa! What are you doing?! 373 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,120 - A demonstration, sir! 374 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,320 Each pigeon has been trained to ignore 375 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:16,640 the distractions of war. 376 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:16,640 Huh. 377 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:17,920 - SHUTTER CLICKS 378 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:20,720 Ah, my eyes! My eyes! 379 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:20,720 PIGEON COOS 380 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:23,200 - See, it didn't even flinch. 381 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:24,600 - Thank you, Dr Skinner. 382 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:25,920 We have heard enough. 383 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:27,400 I'm sorry to disappoint you, 384 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:28,960 but it's a terrible idea. 385 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:32,160 I'm sure implementing your pigeon plan would have been 386 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:35,400 a real coup and I don't want you to get in a flap... 387 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,840 PIGEON COOS, WINGS FLUTTER ..but it's time for you 388 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,360 and your pigeons to take off. 389 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,920 Hey, where did that pigeon go? 390 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:45,880 FARTING 391 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:47,200 PIGEON COOS 392 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,680 - I told you they were trained to hit enemy targets. 393 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:55,440 - OK, so not all wartime ideas were winners. 394 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:56,960 You know, Mark, some people say 395 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,760 pigeons are like rats with wings. 396 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:01,760 Talk about a compliment! 397 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:03,920 I'd make a great pigeon. 398 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:05,160 RATTUS CLEARS THROAT 399 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:07,840 RATTUS COOS 400 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,040 RATTUS SQUAWKS 401 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,320 - Let's move on to a brilliant wartime brain 402 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,320 who really did change all our lives. 403 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:15,480 Alan Turing. 404 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:16,960 - Oh, good call! 405 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,200 He helped crack an unbreakable Nazi code 406 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:22,360 in World War II and turned the tide of the war. 407 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:26,920 However, not everything this genius did was quite as clever. 408 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:29,280 RATTUS COOS 409 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,440 - You know, I didn't expect Alan Turing, 410 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,960 one of the geniuses who cracked the secret Nazi code, 411 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:40,760 a top computing wizard, to be quite so eccentric. 412 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:42,280 - What do you mean eccentric? 413 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:46,640 - Well, at work, you keep your mug chained to a radiator. 414 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:47,880 - That's not eccentric, 415 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:49,200 that's clever! 416 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,880 It means I know exactly where my mug is at all times. 417 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,800 - And you hold your trousers up with string. 418 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:56,360 - Of course I do! 419 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:57,880 They fall down without it. 420 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:01,360 - One time, I saw you cycle to work wearing a gas mask. 421 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:03,360 - Well, that's to stop me getting hay fever - 422 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:05,520 and it works. 423 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:07,000 - Then there's the fact you've got us 424 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,040 pushing an empty baby buggy around the woods. 425 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:12,600 - I've got to put the treasure in something when I find it, haven't I? 426 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:13,840 - Treasure? 427 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:15,840 - Yes. You see, back in 1940, 428 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:19,760 I discovered that silver would be worth more after the war. 429 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,040 - OK. - And so I took my life savings and converted them 430 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,160 into two heavy silver ingots. 431 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:26,680 - Now that IS clever. 432 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,640 - I then came into the woods, buried the silver, 433 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:32,400 and now we are going to dig it up again. 434 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:35,040 - And you remember where you buried it? 435 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:38,160 - That's the cleverest part, I don't need to. 436 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,600 I designed a code to tell me where the treasure is. 437 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,800 And it's so devilishly difficult 438 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:45,800 that only I can crack it. 439 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,960 All I need to do is solve the code 440 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,520 and we'll know where the silver's buried. 441 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,240 - Well, what does the code say? 442 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:57,720 - Erm, just a minute. 443 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,080 - You can't crack the code, can you? 444 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:02,400 - Of course I can! 445 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,680 I've cracked some of the most fiendish codes ever created! 446 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:06,680 What, you really think I can't crack my own code?! 447 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:08,800 All right, fine! 448 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:10,480 I haven't a clue! 449 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:14,200 Curse past me for being cleverer than future me! 450 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:15,680 - Let's hire a metal detector. 451 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:19,440 - No, I remember it was by a big tree. 452 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:25,120 BIRD CAWS 453 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:29,680 - Would you like me to get that metal detector? 454 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:30,720 - Yes, please. Yeah. 455 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:34,240 And a belt. - Yeah. 456 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:40,160 - Ni hao. Confucius here. 457 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:41,920 Teacher, philosopher, 458 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,840 writer of nifty sayings such as, 459 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:46,760 "When the wind blows, the grass bends." 460 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:47,920 - HE FARTS 461 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,560 - But what you may not know is I also turned my mind 462 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:53,920 to the serious subject of food. 463 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:57,960 I had some very strong views - 464 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:03,040 such as you should always eat meat with its proper sauce. 465 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:09,120 And of course, I hate peaches! 466 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:10,200 No! 467 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:11,560 Seriously, ugh! 468 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:13,160 Say no to peaches! 469 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:15,280 Down with peaches! 470 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,240 Oh, no, wait, it's a plum. 471 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:20,280 Panic over. 472 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:22,680 - # Yeah! # 473 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:27,560 - Hi, I'm Buzz Aldrin, and I walked on the moon. 474 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:30,080 That wouldn't have been possible without brainboxes 475 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,560 studying the stars and working out how to get me there. 476 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:35,560 As far back as the Ancient Greek times, 477 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:37,600 people were staring up at the heavens 478 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:41,280 and trying to understand how space might work - 479 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:43,120 although the people around them at the time 480 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:46,560 weren't always ready to understand their genius. 481 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:46,560 HE FARTS 482 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:47,920 Ugh! 483 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:51,360 I wish they'd also thought of a way of letting THOSE out of a spacesuit. 484 00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:53,240 OWL HOOTS 485 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:55,120 - Attention, people of Thessaly. 486 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:56,440 I, Aglaonice, 487 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:57,840 have been studying the moon 488 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:00,760 as I help develop a science called astronomy. 489 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:01,960 - Astrona...what now? 490 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:03,480 - The science of the stars. 491 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,000 And today I'm able to give you 492 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,960 the perfect example of the uses of this science. 493 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:10,280 Yay! 494 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,400 - Can you juggle? There was a juggler last week. 495 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:13,560 - Oh, he was great. 496 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:14,760 - Top class entertainer. - Yeah. 497 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:18,480 - N-No. No. But this is much more exciting than juggling. 498 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:19,840 Using astronomy, 499 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,160 I can predict when there will be a full moon. 500 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,680 And I can predict a lunar eclipse. 501 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,720 - What, like when the moon disappears or changes colour? 502 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:29,360 Ha! Sure you can! 503 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:33,880 - I predict that there will be a lunar eclipse right now. 504 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:35,760 - TERRIFIED GASPS 505 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:37,400 - Ohh! 506 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:38,520 - SHE SQUEALS 507 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,000 - See? Astronomy is pretty cool, right? 508 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,520 - She's changed the moon! 509 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:45,920 - What? No. 510 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:47,800 I just told you when it would change, 511 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:49,440 it's going to be back to normal in a second. 512 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:50,560 - WOMAN GASPS 513 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:51,760 - See? 514 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:53,120 - ALL: - Ah! 515 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:54,200 - She's a moon witch! 516 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:55,440 - What? - Oh! 517 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:57,680 Oh, please, don't use your moon witch powers against us! 518 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,240 - I'm not a witch, I just love astronomy. 519 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:02,280 And I'm like really clever. 520 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:04,000 You wouldn't act like this if I was a man. 521 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,360 - That's exactly what a moon witch WOULD say! 522 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:07,640 CROWD WHIMPERS 523 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,800 - Please, do not hurt us, oh, moon witch! 524 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:11,440 - Look, let me explain. 525 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:12,560 - Ahh! Her face has gone! 526 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:13,960 PANICKED CRIES 527 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,240 - She's gone and vanished it with her moon witchy powers. 528 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:17,440 - W-What? 529 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:17,440 - THEY SCREAM 530 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:18,680 No! Her face is back! 531 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:19,840 It was gone, now it's back! 532 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,080 She can make her face go and come at will! 533 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,080 - Right, come on, guys, this is silly. 534 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:27,280 Stop worrying about moon powers. 535 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:28,520 - Thank you! 536 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:29,880 - If we worship her, 537 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:33,080 she may use her powers for good. 538 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:33,080 - I'm not a moon witch! 539 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:35,680 - CROWD WARBLE 540 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,600 - I'm just an astronomer who's devoted years to understanding the stars! 541 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:40,840 - We have angered her! 542 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:41,920 We wear her wrath! 543 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:43,640 - Tell us about your astronomy, 544 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,880 if it will so please you, oh, moon witch. 545 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,040 - Tell us your boring information! 546 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:50,400 - OK, it's quite simple, really. 547 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,920 The moon, it goes through several of what we call phases - 548 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,000 starting with the new moon 549 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,080 and then the first quarter. 550 00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:58,080 - HE YAWNS 551 00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:59,760 - And then, erm... 552 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:02,120 - Shall we see if that juggler's on somewhere else? 553 00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:04,880 - All of which I control with my moony witchy powers. 554 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:04,880 - THEY SCREAM 555 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:06,640 - I knew it! 556 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,280 Oh, she's going to turn us all into moon frogs! - Oh! 557 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,240 - At least they're listening, I guess. 558 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:16,280 - COMPUTER GAME TRILLS 559 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:19,240 Hi, I'm Katherine Johnson, 560 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,000 and my marvellous mind helped me graduate from college 561 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,760 with degrees in Maths and French at just 18 years old. 562 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:27,440 Mm-hm, mm-hm! 563 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,280 I believe that Mathematics is out of this world, 564 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:33,480 which is why I joined the American Space Agency NASA. 565 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,520 I worked on the mathematics of space flight 566 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,640 and helped NASA to launch a rocket to orbit the Earth 567 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,000 and then land on the Moon. 568 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:45,760 I was so good at maths, 569 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:49,200 the astronaut John Glenn said my mind was smarter than a computer. 570 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,880 Before his 1962 mission to orbit the Earth, 571 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:55,000 he refused to fly until I had personally double checked 572 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,520 the computer's calculations. 573 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:01,200 Although if I am really smarter than a computer, 574 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,200 how come I can never win this game? 575 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:04,520 GAME TRILLS 576 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:06,280 Oh! 577 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:10,080 Just five more minutes, then I will definitely get back to work. 578 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:10,080 GAME TRILLS 579 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:11,200 Probably. 580 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:14,800 COMPUTER: - Game over. - Damn! 581 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:15,960 - # Yeah! # 582 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,000 - # Loo Man, Loo Man 583 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,640 # The living toilet poo man 584 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,240 # From the Middle Ages with a bucket so that you can 585 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,440 # Have a poo in a private place 586 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:29,400 # Sitting on my bucket with a cape to hide your face 587 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,400 # And bum, and when you're done 588 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,040 # I will charge depending if you did a two or one 589 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,000 # Loo Man! # 590 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,680 - Please welcome today's historical figure 591 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:43,040 who really needs the loo, Ada Lovelace! 592 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:44,200 - CHEERING 593 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:48,920 Greetings, friend. 594 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,200 - Ah... What is this? 595 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:51,840 - Are you Ada Lovelace? 596 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,200 The super brainy 19th century writer and mathematician? 597 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:56,360 - Well, yes, but... 598 00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:58,840 - Then I am Loo Man! 599 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,000 APPLAUSE, CHEERING 600 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:02,080 - I'm sorry, 601 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:03,200 I was under the impression 602 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:04,840 that this was the little mathematician's room. 603 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:04,840 - SHE FARTS 604 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:06,160 - I really, really need to... 605 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:06,160 - SHE FARTS 606 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,640 Ada Lovelace, you have - 607 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:10,760 via means we do not need to go into right now - 608 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,520 travelled through time from the 19th century, 609 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:17,240 to use my first-rate toilet facilities! 610 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:18,400 - Oh, marvellous. 611 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:19,720 Where are they? 612 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:19,720 - Well, that's them. 613 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,400 FLIES BUZZ 614 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,160 People are usually quite impressed by them. 615 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:24,320 - Really? 616 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:24,320 - LAUGHTER 617 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:25,800 Answer questions one and two 618 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,400 and I'll let you do a... 619 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:28,760 AUDIENCE: - Poo! 620 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:30,520 - It's Plop Quiz time! 621 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:30,520 FARTING 622 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:31,720 - What? 623 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:33,640 - Mathematician Ada Lovelace, 624 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,520 you must answer two questions about your life 625 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:37,680 before you may work out 626 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,480 your pressing logarithm. 627 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:39,480 LAUGHTER 628 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,160 - Fine, just get on with it! 629 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:42,240 - Question number one - 630 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,440 what is your weirdest secret? 631 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,440 - Well, when I was a teenager, 632 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,640 I developed an irrational fear of beds, 633 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:48,640 and so I slept on the floor. 634 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:50,600 - SHE FARTS 635 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:51,720 No, that is pretty weird. 636 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,400 Question number two. 637 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,000 Tell us a little-known fact about you, Ada Lovelace. 638 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,040 - Well, I... 639 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,760 I worked with my friend, the inventor Charles Babbage. 640 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,000 I described how he could programme his computational machine 641 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,920 to solve complex calculations. 642 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,920 - Charles Babbage is remembered as 643 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,880 the inventor of something called a computer. 644 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,760 And you're remembered as one of the first computer programmers. 645 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:15,000 - Yes, that's right! I've... I've... 646 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,200 I've done your questions now. 647 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:17,520 Gangway! - You may pass. 648 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:18,600 LAUGHTER 649 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:21,360 Join us next time 650 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:23,680 when I'll be stopping more historical celebs... 651 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:23,680 FARTING 652 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,400 ..from doing a poo 653 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,400 to ask questions just for you. 654 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:28,520 CHEERING, APPLAUSE 655 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:29,720 FARTING 656 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,240 Now your ones and twos are really adding up there, Ada. 657 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:33,440 LAUGHTER 658 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,760 A strange guy, Loo Man. 659 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:38,240 We've got something in common, you know. 660 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,440 - Is it the smell? 661 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,040 - No! We both look good in a cape. 662 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:43,520 What do you mean the smell? 663 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:44,560 Charming! 664 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:45,920 - Well, you do live in the sewer. 665 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,120 - Hmm, that's fair. 666 00:24:47,120 --> 00:24:48,600 Well, we've come to the end 667 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,200 and I suppose the best advice 668 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,760 if you want to be a brilliant brain like that lot is 669 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:54,560 to try your best. 670 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,280 - Be creative, think outside the box. 671 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,720 - And be as unusual as you like. 672 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,480 This lady certainly did that. 673 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,760 12th century German nun Hildegard Von Bingen was 674 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,840 a brainy pioneer who did a bit of everything. 675 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:08,840 She's like NUN other, Mark. 676 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,800 CYMBAL CRASHES 677 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,720 Cos, you know, cos she... She's a nun. 678 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,360 - That's a terrible joke! 679 00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:15,360 Don't make a HABIT of it. 680 00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:18,360 - CYMBAL CRASHES 681 00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:19,800 RATTUS LAUGHS 682 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:22,880 MUSIC: IN THE STYLE OF BLINDING LIGHTS 683 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:25,480 - # Since the age of seven 684 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,600 # I've been living in the nunnery 685 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,960 # Hildegard Von Bingen, that is me 686 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,800 # I'm quite brainy 687 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,600 # Cos I feel inspired 688 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,680 # So many ideas bursting through 689 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,240 # My brain hums with things to do 690 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:45,440 # Every day... # 691 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:46,480 - HE COUGHS 692 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,720 - # I look around and the sick need meds to cure them 693 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,120 # I write mine down in book form 694 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:57,280 # Let's spread our knowledge round the V-H-world 695 00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:58,480 # And I say 696 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:03,320 # "Ooh, well, I'm guided by insights 697 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,320 # "My mind is firing, I've got to note this down" 698 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:09,800 # Und I say 699 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:13,800 # "Ooh, so many books to write 700 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,800 # "Got to share all of this knowledge that I've found" 701 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:21,640 # For a bit of fun 702 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,000 # I made up a secret language... # 703 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:28,560 - FARTING 704 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,320 - What dog? 705 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:32,760 # And music is my thing 706 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,440 # I write hymns and chants to sing 707 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,120 # The first musical morality play 708 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:41,280 # Ja, I say 709 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:46,160 # I look around and the natural world astounds me 710 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,000 # Note down all that surrounds me... # 711 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,160 Wrote nine volumes. 712 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,880 # I think I covered ev-ery-thing! 713 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,480 # Und I say 714 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,800 # "Ooh, my mind is feeling bright 715 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:03,720 # "Yes, I'm a woman, but I've got knowledge, too" 716 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,360 # I'm writing letters every day - Letters every day 717 00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:11,000 - # To popes and emperors to say - Emperors to say 718 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,400 - # "If you listen, I can show you a better way" 719 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:17,200 # Und I say 720 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,960 # "Ooh, I'm guided by insights 721 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,520 # "My mind is firing, hope I'm inspiring you" 722 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:28,200 # Und I say 723 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:32,520 # Ooh, the future's looking bright 724 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,920 # If we can think it, we could make it true. # 725 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,840 - I, Agalo... 726 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:45,840 I've forgotten my name. 727 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:47,400 - LAUGHTER 728 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:48,920 What you do with... 729 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:50,560 OK. That's more difficult than it looks. 730 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,800 - And helped NASA to launch a rocket to the orbid... 731 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,120 - LAUGHTER 732 00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:57,240 # The past is no longer a mystery 733 00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:58,680 # Hope you enjoyed 734 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,720 # Horrible Histories. # 52013

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