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WTF Is This? History Channel Warning?

 
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WTF Is This? History Channel Warning?
Below is a commercial from the History Channel. It shows three dates followed by rapidly showing 16 other dates, then ending with May 25, 2009. Ten days from now. Below May 25, 2009 it says "A global event. This changes everything."

Initially I thought this a promo for a special they'll be airing, but it doesn't plug anything. It says nothing about a coming show, nor anything else. Just ends where you see in that link I found.

It gets weirder: I took the liberty of slowing the video and writing down all the dates which are rapidly flashed across the screen. That's 16 dates in 4 or 5 seconds mind you. I looked each of them up - they appear to link to nothing, except in 4 questionable instances, and one that sticks out: September 11, 2001.

Here's the dates, in order, with my findings after looking into each (first 3 and last 1 are slow enough to read normally):
July 20 1969: 1st Moon Landing
November 4, 2008: US Election, Obama
December 7, 1941: Pearl Harbor Attack
June 20, 1647: Birth, John George III (?)
March 15, 1246: (?)
October 10, 1958 Death, Pope Pius (?)
1028 AD: (?)
August 27, 1985: Coup De'tat: Nigeria (?)
September 20, 1987 (?)
January 10, 1347: (?)
February 26, 1980: (?)
845 BC: (?)
September 11, 2001: Terror Attack, US
January 13, 2004: (?)
October 1, 1781: (?)
December 26, 1919: Babe Ruth sold to Yankees (?)
1 Million BC: (?)
0 AD: (?)
July 12, 1984: (?)
May 25, 2009: (?)

What is this?
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Interesting, it remids me of the Nicolas Cage movie where the girl wrote down all the dates of tragedies past and future.
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Re: WTF Is This? History Channel Warning?
[link to www.history.com]
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Interesting, it remids me of the Nicolas Cage movie where the girl wrote down all the dates of tragedies past and future.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 680073


Yeah ... Predictions ... That movie sucked real hard ... would have better spent a night at reading GLP instead of going see that crap
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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 454845

So a promo which doesn't tell you the name of the show being plugged, what time it'll be airing nor at least that it's a show they're talking about. Annoying.
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Below is a commercial from the History Channel. It shows three dates followed by rapidly showing 16 other dates, then ending with May 25, 2009. Ten days from now. Below May 25, 2009 it says "A global event. This changes everything."

Initially I thought this a promo for a special they'll be airing, but it doesn't plug anything. It says nothing about a coming show, nor anything else. Just ends where you see in that link I found.

It gets weirder: I took the liberty of slowing the video and writing down all the dates which are rapidly flashed across the screen. That's 16 dates in 4 or 5 seconds mind you. I looked each of them up - they appear to link to nothing, except in 4 questionable instances, and one that sticks out: September 11, 2001.

Here's the dates, in order, with my findings after looking into each (first 3 and last 1 are slow enough to read normally):
July 20 1969: 1st Moon Landing
November 4, 2008: US Election, Obama
December 7, 1941: Pearl Harbor Attack
June 20, 1647: Birth, John George III (?)
March 15, 1246: (?)
October 10, 1958 Death, Pope Pius (?)
1028 AD: (?)
August 27, 1985: Coup De'tat: Nigeria (?)
September 20, 1987 (?)
January 10, 1347: (?)
February 26, 1980: (?)
845 BC: (?)
September 11, 2001: Terror Attack, US
January 13, 2004: (?)
October 1, 1781: (?)
December 26, 1919: Babe Ruth sold to Yankees (?)
1 Million BC: (?)
0 AD: (?)
July 12, 1984: (?)
May 25, 2009: (?)

What is this?
 Quoting: Boomer


Sorry to burst ur DOOM Bubble

IT IS a special they'll be airing on MAY 25 2009.
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C'mon it's tv, it's a show.
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The part im confused is why have dates that have no meaning at all??
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wow really nice find!! i like it. and none of it makes sence! so you couldnt find any other info on the later dates during the 1900's? thats a shame.sometimes they have info on that on wika even though its not really a reliable source. anyways i hope you can find more info on these dates and hopefully we can figure out or guess what this even will be may 25.
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Re: WTF Is This? History Channel Warning?
Noo no no.. It's just a new show -_- that's all.
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Nice Heads up OP!
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Re: WTF Is This? History Channel Warning?
It's called marketing
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thanks, nice work
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Re: WTF Is This? History Channel Warning?
I don't have a clue, but this type of post is what I come to GLP for. I don't have a doubt at all that these bastards that run things have to brag about what they have coming for us. Might be something to this.
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Re: WTF Is This? History Channel Warning?
It's a promo for a show, nothing more.
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Re: WTF Is This? History Channel Warning?
[link to www.politico.com]

July 12, 1984
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0 AD: (?)

JESUS.
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Re: WTF Is This? History Channel Warning?
Here is some discussion we had earlier today on this...

Thread: History Channel: Global Event on May 25, 2009
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Re: WTF Is This? History Channel Warning?
It's a promo for a show, nothing more.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 678472


No shit??? I think we all know that....


BUT WHAT IS THE SHOW ABOUT!!!
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Re: WTF Is This? History Channel Warning?
there's other info on this somewhere on this board as well.
Probably a crappy marketing ploy for a new show but it seriously sucks of History Channel if that is the case!

ISBN:9780316070089 Library Bound #: 619216

Format: Hardcover

Price: $28.99 Pub Date: May 2009
Lying inside a high security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world’s leading museums, is a discovery that will change textbooks, change science, and change how we understand the human race. The author of Untitled has been given exclusive access to all of the research and the team of top scientists who have been validating the discovery, the announcement of which will send shock waves around the world. The discovery will be announced at a major press conference followed by a media blitz and a documentary that will air on the History Channel following the press conference.
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obviously an ad campaign, but for what
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[link to en.wikipedia.org]

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Re: WTF Is This? History Channel Warning?
wow really nice find!! i like it. and none of it makes sence! so you couldnt find any other info on the later dates during the 1900's? thats a shame.sometimes they have info on that on wika even though its not really a reliable source. anyways i hope you can find more info on these dates and hopefully we can figure out or guess what this even will be may 25.
 Quoting: kyle 675011

I used Wiki for that. For instance searched "January 13" then F3'd and had my computer highlight "2004." Each time, with each date, I either came across nothing or something insignificant such as some nobody's birth or death. Searched the full dates on Google, no better results. Even looked up newspaper archives, ended up with nothing still.

I'm wondering if it's that the only date which mattered was September 11 2001. So you end up with Moon Landing, Obama Elected, Pearl Harbor, 9/11. Also figured they could be important dates but which the significance of them isn't commonly known or easily determined. Or perhaps History Channel was just being lazy, filling those few seconds with a glob of irrelevant dates knowing that nobody could even read them fast enough anyway - but if so, why 9/11? Other than that, I figured there may be a pattern there but if there is, it isn't clear.

Last Edited by Fawkes on 05/15/2009 07:46 PM
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well from what the book info says, its a show about our earliest ancestors. and it also said something about someone finding some big secret in a vualt underneath the ground.
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Noo no no.. It's just a new show -_- that's all.
 Quoting: SiriusABC


I am jerking off right now to your aV
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Re: WTF Is This? History Channel Warning?
Noo no no.. It's just a new show -_- that's all.


I am jerking off right now to your aV
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5a tounge hf
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Re: WTF Is This? History Channel Warning?
nice marketing....it's got me intrigued..now I have to know!
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Re: WTF Is This? History Channel Warning?
this may be good... so what are they will show us? me thinking they getting kicked by internet users... TV ratings are down... they now have to come up with some better material or no pay

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Great find, Opie,

Thanks.
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Re: WTF Is This? History Channel Warning?
Probably plugging some huge "History of the world" thingy/event that will touch on all those dates on 5/25/09.





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