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a private person UNCOVERED!

2011-02-26 · Hank · watch on YouTube · History & curiosities · curiosity idea

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Hank tells the life story that Nerdfighters and John uncovered for a private person, the widow on the Knightstown tombstone, through her many marriages and name changes, with parody-song interludes, then plugs his Miami planetarium show.

What is said

00:00:00 — Nerdfighteria and John have tracked down a private person; there used to be many women named a private person

  • ★★★ Hank announces that with Nerdfighteria's hard work and John's detective work they have tracked down a private person. — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★ Hank says the research also showed that there used to be a lot of women named a private person. — 00:00:12

00:00:18 — a private person's life: Horsey, Gowen, Manlove, Brown - marriages, divorce, typesetting, widowhood, Indianapolis house

  • ★★ From the marriage record of the couple on the tombstone, Hank says, a private person was born a private person and was listed as a divorcée when she married a private person. — 00:00:18
  • ★★ Hank says a private person's family took in boarders, among them a 28-year-old man, a private person, when a private person was 16. — 00:00:32
  • ★★ a private person and a private person had a daughter, Mary, born in 1901 just after they married, when a private person was 17 or 18; they divorced soon after and Charles kept custody. — 00:00:43
  • ★★ Perhaps because of her divorce, Hank says, a private person figured she would never marry again and became a typesetter, which she did for much of her life. (hedged) — 00:01:08
  • ★★ In 1911, at 28, a private person married a private person; four years later he died of tuberculosis, which produced the tombstone that started the search. — 00:01:17
  • ★★ For ten years after Walter's death, Hank says, a private person lived in boarding houses with other single women, worked as a typesetter, once sued a mattress salesman, and went by a private person. — 00:01:35
  • ★★ In 1927 a private person married a private person, becoming a private person; they bought a house in a nice Indianapolis neighborhood and lived there the rest of their lives. — 00:02:02 · Indianapolis
  • ★★ Using the information gathered, Hank says, John found the obituary and final resting place of a private person. — 00:02:10 · John Green
  • ★ Their house is now for sale; Hank says viewers can look at the very strange interior photos online, or buy it and become part of the story. (playful) — 00:02:22 · Indianapolis

00:02:55 — Thanks to John and the Your Pants researchers: everything is more complicated than it first appears

  • ★★ Hank thanks John and the Your Pants Nerdfighters who spent hours tracking down her story, which proves again that everything is more complicated than it at first appears. — 00:02:55 · John Green, Your Pants, Nerdfighteria

00:03:05 — Hank's shows in Miami, Seattle and Portland: a planetarium show in Miami on the way to Haiti with Water.org

  • ★★ Hank tells viewers in Miami, Seattle or Portland to come see him play a show; there is a ticket link for South Florida. — 00:03:05 · Seattle, Portland, Oregon
  • ★★ Hank has scheduled a Miami show on the evening of Tuesday, March 8, in the Miami Science Museum's planetarium, since he will be in Miami on the way to Haiti with Water.org; tickets cost money. — 00:03:10
  • ★★ Hank says he is going to Haiti with Water.org. — 00:03:15 · Haiti

Humor (significant)

  • Hank reveals a private person's maiden name, a private person. — 00:00:20 > «being the worst possible name for a young lady.»
  • a private person was 16 when 28-year-old boarder a private person lived with her family. — 00:00:42 > «Don't stand so close to a private person...»
  • a private person keeps changing her name, now going by a private person: 'It's like she's messing with us!' — 00:01:55 > «They call me a private person, say I'm a Horsey, Manlove, or Gowen; always the same. That's not my name...»
  • Hank's closing ballad to a private person, whose real grave is not the Knightstown one. — 00:02:36 > «we found a grave that wasn't yours in Knightstown-town»

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