Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Marty Weems from American Rare Earths, an ASX listed company. Marty, how are you today? Hey, I'm doing great Tracy. Thank you for having me today. Now let's just hit the ground running. Latest news release starts with Outstanding, not minorly good or above average, Drill Assay results. That just seems super exciting based on the highlights I read. Let's start there please. Yeah, we're very excited about our project in Wyoming, the Hallett Creek Rare Earth project southeast Wyoming, Albany County, fantastic jurisdiction. This is a project we were introduced to maybe a little over a year ago and it was a tiny land package with a little bit of surface data and this is a maiden drilling. So we expanded the land package due to some exciting surface sampling over the past year. And then in March we were able to do this maiden drilling, XRF data in the field got us pretty excited to see these assay results come back and sure enough that was confirmed and just mineralization is consistent surface to depth and we had mineralization at depth. So we're really excited about what we see in both size and grade opportunity in Wyoming. High value magnet rare earth oxides comprise 26%. That sounds good. In fact, that sounds shockingly good. Yeah, we're really motivated by that. As you know and many of your listeners and readers will know, the magnet rare earths are the economics that really drive rare earths in the current market and we think well over the next decade. So that is the core focus or the magnet rare earths and having a resource where the distribution within the rare earths is greater than 20%. By our estimation that puts it in a fairly world-class distribution. So we're quite excited to see that number being as high as it is that gives us plenty to work with. Well I think your subheading says it very clearly. This will make this project to be one of the largest rare earth deposits in North America.  In fact I've been fighting with Jack Lipton about this. So let's start there. Who are you please? So American rare earths limited is an Australian mineral exploration company and we are focused on U.S. deposits of rare earths and we've taken a bit of a counter approach. Typically mining is exploration, it's size and it's grade, it's king and size. Well we believe that, we won't dispute that. So we certainly think size is of great importance, you know chasing little veins of high grade stuff doesn't really accomplish a lot in my opinion. But there's also the thorium problem in the United States, you know Jack will be quick to tell you that the NRC is not issued a new permit for handling radioactive material in a Greenfield mine in more than a couple of decades and there's probably no one at the NRC that even knows where the form is. So we've chosen to go after projects that are extraordinarily low in thorium content. Now those projects may be a bit lower in grade than some of our competitors but you know we think we've got a smoother path to permitting if we can maintain under that piercing the veil of 500 parts per million and we're well under that. So our Arizona project La Paz, uranium thorium combined is about six parts per million. Our project in Wyoming runs about 65 parts per million. So by staying under that piercing that veil of needing an NRC permit which is our goal ultimately we think we have a different approach here that has a tenable permitting path. And we're working closely with U.S. national labs and a number of major universities to be able to operationalize that and extraction, separation and purification so we can onshore the supply chain. And of course we were just discussing before we started this interview how the media is looking at Australia with regards to Alina's most recent announcement about getting 120 million from the Department of Defense for their heavy wear with processing facility. So they're looking at Australians talk to me about this. Yeah so you know I'm encouraged by that news you know the you and Jack have been saying for quite a long time to solve this problem especially the U.S. is going to require substantial U.S. government involvement and we need and if you look at every announcement that certainly this administration has made there's always that tag of you know we will use all of these resources and allies. Well those allies include Canada and Australia and they're looking not only for you know resource but also expertise you know and we've leaned on Canadian expertise we've leaned on Australian expertise at Niagara Labs you know this is an allied effort and it will take more than one or two companies to solve the problem. This industry you know depending on which calculus you use it has to double or more over the decades just to meet the electric vehicle demand that's projected so I'm excited to see substantive robust engagement by the U.S. government and putting budget dollars to support onshore in the supply chain and I think it bodes really well for us as well. And where we're playing in that space and really leaning in is with the U.S. National Laboratories we're a team member of the Critical Materials Institute relationships with major universities and just this morning and I suspect you haven't had the opportunity to see this because it literally broke as we came on today we have been we're a part of a consortium with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that was just awarded $13 million to research our feedstock with some new bio leaching bioengineering capabilities that are intended to go not only do extraction but also separation of rare earths that's a DARPA funded project the initial funding is $4 million of 13 it's partnering with the University of Kentucky with Penn State and we're really quite excited about that as well and that's that's brand new news out this morning. You're correct I'm like why didn't I start the interview with that so let's go there quick can you tell us about this news this is breaking congratulations Marty into your team I I warn people all the time be careful be careful of the stealth like players behind the scenes you may not know exist so tell me a little bit more about this announcement please. Yeah and I'm a little cautious to talk about it mainly because we don't want to detract from this really great news about our potential new resource in Wyoming we are really excited about the rocks in Wyoming that is a tremendous opportunity to establish a new maiden resource in Wyoming we think as we look to drill again later this year and we have more data coming off the our spring campaign from drilling in March we still don't have all the data from that so they'll there'll be some more news is that those assays come in so there's still plenty to talk about in Wyoming but yes you know to your actual question here very exciting in this work it's a project using a plant protein microbe called land modulin that was discovered by Penn professor Joey Catruvo at Penn State really remarkable we're amazed by the simplicity of it so as you know you've you know you've been at this a long time you've heard all all kinds of new technologies are gonna change the game and you know and then you know three years later you've heard nothing about it but from a you know from an engineering and scale background I see opportunity with this particular technology because of its simplicity and simplicity gives you the opportunity to scale when when you're dealing with engineering processes and that's a great thing we see and they're showing published success now with not only extraction from a pregnant leachate but also separation and if that continues progress and you're you're talking about the idea of skipping a billion-dollar mixer settler plant to get from source to high purity individual rare earth element oxide that that's literally game-changing opportunity effect if we can get this commercialized with DARPA well I'll tell you that's such big news that I will be speed dialing jack when I get off this phone and I'll be using something I never use in these processes which is simple the threat of simple I'll tell you Marty thank you so much for joining us today that's Marty weems from American rare earth and ASX listed company thank you thank you Tracy


What's up guys take down here today. I'm gonna be talking about who I want to see KSI fight next so we're just gonna get right into it and starting with some facts Before I start that actually if you guys might have seen it was Joe Weller versus KSI for the YouTube Boxing championship something like that, which I think is a great idea for YouTube to be doing going forward I hope they really support it We'll see by the next fight But KSI won won the championship and at the end of the fight He called out any youtuber to challenge him and then more specifically he called out Logan Paul and Jake Paul So they pretty much turned it into a joke. So KSI Kind of took away that call out and created a poll Where we can vote and vote for who we want to see him fight next and that's what I'm gonna be talking about a little bit But to start off some of the facts that KSI recently announced is by March 18th We're gonna we're gonna know exactly who he will be fighting next that will be termined We're also gonna know August 2018 that's when the fight is going to be taking place. So it's approaching.  So it's gonna be interesting who his opponent is To prepare us for August for the fight and then the last fact he announced is the fight will be in England Depends on his opponent as to what venue if it's a big opponent like Logan Paul because of how big his Audiences he's gonna he said he's probably gonna buck a big venue There's one of the guys that are on the pole He's gonna buck a smaller venue just like the Weller fight and it's gonna be interesting to see so now We're just gonna get into the opponents So on the pole that you can vote. There's only two real opponents on it that I would actually like to see him fight The one that's winning Everybody else is really taking a joke the one that's that's winning the pole right now Honestly, I don't really care. He's the only one that has boxing experience But to me, I don't think it'd be an interesting fight I think KSI will win but the two on the pole that I think would be really interesting are furious Pete and Just Dustin which just Dustin KSI keeps undergrading him and to me It's it's it's a little bit at first. I thought okay. It's a joke now. It's just like that's just mad disrespect to just Dustin but Number one, they are both Canadian as am I that's not really why I choose them But I've watched their content their content is really good both have athletic backgrounds Fierce Pete does the food competitions and that's kind of where I started to watch him He does do training. He does all kinds of things, but that's where I kind of started Watching him. It was like food challenges and stuff So he knows how to gain weight really quick and he's he's already a big guy And then just Dustin has been playing football for years and he's really athletic Just Dustin films with you know, David parody and team Albo here in Ottawa So it's it's really interesting that he was even mentioned by KSI because KSI pretty much announced all these people made call-out videos and he announced these ones and You know, they're the only two on the list that I could actually see actually happening KSI said that if it is furious Pete furious Pete's gonna come to have to have to come down to his weight class Furious Pete said no KSI is gonna have to come up to his weight class That's gonna be a little bit of tension there. Just Dustin is on the bottom of the totem pole right now Barely getting any votes. I've been voting for him though That would be an interesting fight. I honestly think it would be really good fight I think just Dustin actually it'd be even match, but I think just Dustin would come out on top fear is Pete if he won He would likely come out on top because he's a big guy neither of them Have fighting experience, but I think it'd be really interesting to see them in the ring But then kind of like breaking news Logan Paul's people and KSI's people like their legal teams in that they're in the works of talking So it is potentially going to be Logan Paul fighting him, which I think would be really great In a way, I hope KSI were to win I don't really watch Logan Paul a lot much these days, but Logan Paul I think it'd be really interesting and I think Something in the works. I think it actually will take place and I think it might be Logan Paul and After the suicide thing earlier this year with Logan Paul I think that would be something to bounce back from if he were to take on this fight So I think that's that's a potential thing and a potential reason why You know, he might be the opponent But it's gonna be really interesting and KSI announced to his in the same video where he talked about Logan Paul or who it might be That at the end of the day, it's his decision even though he made the poll Have people vote to see who he wants to fight next at the end of the day He's the champion. He can decide whoever he wants. So those are my three picks of who I think will be it'll either be Furious Pete It'll either be just Dustin or it will be Logan Paul Honestly, I'd be excited for either one anybody else that is on the poll list Never watched their videos don't know anything about them But I watched their reaction to KSI calling them outs one of them didn't make a video So KSI says it's he doubts. It's gonna be him because if you're not gonna make a video You're not gonna get many votes and he hasn't got many votes The other one was pretty much praising KSI in the video. It's pretty much like saying he was great and all this crap and KSI's like that's I Called you out or he called him out So he made a video and that's he could be somebody and then he's just praising the guy like to me That made no sense and then the other guy brought his dad in and his dad Just looked so disappointed in the whole situation. It was hilarious.  It's pretty interesting, but those are my picks Let me know down in the comments who you think KSI will fight We will know by March 18th. It's gonna be pretty interesting. It's gonna be a wild card in my opinion It's probably gonna be something we didn't expect But I think Adam Who is the only one on the list that has actual boxing experience if he goes with? Somebody from the pole.  That's gonna be interesting fight. I Still think KSI would win that fight, but I'll just leave this video here. Hope you guys did enjoy. Let me know down in the comments who you think will win Depending on who his opponent will be who will win. I think KSI has it KSI's did pretty good the first round I think he might do good the second round depending on his opponents, but as always I will leave this here Like this video if you did enjoy it, and I will see you guys in the next one. Take care. Peace


Just yesterday, our government shared with Canadians our plan to protect one of our most valuable natural resources, our oceans. It's a plan that will ensure the health of our oceans for generations to come. And today, I'm very happy to announce that our government is making another investment in British Columbia's future. We will invest $45 million in a new research and learning center here at Simon Fraser University. In this incredible campus, with adding another $45 million from our provincial government to total about $120 million investment to grow the Megatronics program, to grow engineering and energy all across this economy. I firmly believe this, that every great city is anchored by a great university. SFU is a great university. It's a great world city, together, Surrey, SFU, and most of all all the students and faculty who work so hard every day, are going to change Canada, you're going to change the world, and Canada will be a part of changing our future forever. Thank you very, very much.


Hello everybody, here's a very quick look at the 1986 Cobra Viper. This is the Cobra infantryman. He was a replacement for the old blue shirts, the basic Cobra soldier that we got in 1982. And you can decide whether or not you prefer this guy over the old Cobra soldier. I tend to prefer those old blue shirts. I really liked that clean, simple design, but this is a nice update. This is really not bad. Got some color, got some detail. He has a really large assault rifle with a foregrip here. And he has a faceplate that really looks a lot like Cobra Commander. Now there's some debate as to whether or not those old blue shirts are a part of the same unit as Viper's, really. Because sometimes in GI Joe Media, we saw the Viper's alongside the old blue shirts. So, you know, are they really the same unit just with an updated uniform? Or is it a separate unit? Now that's something that I will address when I do the full review on this action figure. And we will also look at a couple of different file cards. We have a file card variant that we will also look at. And I will get to doing a full review on this guy. I'm thinking of saving this figure for Cobra Month in 2016. We had Cobra Month in 2015. That was a lot of fun. I think I'll do it again this year. And this is a candidate for that special month dedicated to Cobra. But that's just a quick look at him for now. I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and keep checking back with this channel for more full vintage GI Joe toy reviews.


Hi there! I'm Andrea. I'm a youth services librarian from the Portola branch of the San Francisco Public Library and I'm here today to share my favorite song about opposites with you. It's called Rolly Polly. Ready? Let's go!


On Saturday the 4th of December 1926 a Morris Cowley car was found halfway down a grassy slope with its engine still running and headlights still on. It was waged in the bushes well off of the main road and then the car was found a fur coat, a suitcase with women's clothing and a driving license for Mrs Agatha Christie. Thus began one of the largest manhunts ever recorded. Hello friends! Today we're here to discuss one of the biggest unsolved mysteries to surround the Queen of Crime herself, Agatha Christie, when she disappeared for 11 days in 1926. By this stage Agatha was already a celebrity. The murder of Rojakroyd had just come out to roaring success and she'd just been given a 500 pound advance for her next book. You might be thinking 500 pounds, not a lot. That's about 25,000 pounds today. So that's quite a large advance. So obviously her disappearance was immediately news. It was immediately a big deal. So in order to take you through it let's go through this chronologically from that moment on the morning of Saturday 4th of December when the car was first discovered. Kind of chronologically, you'll see. After discovering the car the police promptly called Agatha's home. They found out from servants that about 9 30 p.m. the previous night Agatha got off from her chair, climbed the stairs, kissed goodnight to her daughter Rosalind and left in her Morris Cowley car. She would not be seen again for 11 days. At this point police are speaking to Carlotta. So Carlotta was Agatha's closest friend, her secretary, her live-in governess to Rosalind. Carlotta was all the things at once. And she told police that when she got home she'd been out the previous night and when she got home there was a letter to her from Agatha and most of it was just scheduling stuff, but it is reported to also have lines in it like my head is bursting. There was also a letter for Archie, Agatha's husband of 12 years. He had been away the weekend, he rushes home, he reads his letter and then promptly destroys it. Okay, it's true. All right, that's a great thing. Your wife's missing, let's destroy the one thing that could help find her. Great idea Archie. We'll come back to that letter and Archie a whole lot later. I'll tell you now. Meanwhile, Superintendent William Kenwood is mounting the search nearby where Agatha's car is found. Now Kenwood is reportedly a very kind and caring police officer. He'd like to feed the ducks, you know what I mean? But he also loves drama. He lives for the drama. Kenwood loves drama and of course this case is dramatic. It's the queen of mystery surrounding a mystery, which I'm going to help you solve anyways. So he's immediately like, oh girl, I love the drama. You know, that's going to come into play throughout this as well. He spent the weekend with about seven or eight police officers, as well as some civilians searching the countryside immediately around where Agatha's car was discovered. There's a lot of kind of quarries and like chalk pits and just like, it's a very bumpy area. Um, so they were searching the area but found nothing. The next day by Sunday, police and people close to Agatha were growing increasingly frustrated that Archie had destroyed his letter.  Like, why would you destroy it?  But Archie destroyed his immediately. So a little bit suspect. I wonder what he's trying to protect. By Tuesday, the stakes were rising in the hunt for Agatha. The Daily Mail published our 100 pound award, which was a lot, for anyone with information that led to finding Agatha Christie. By now, the disappearance was big in the press. It was everywhere. Everyone was talking about it and everyone had theories as to what was happening. One of the big theories was that it was a publicity stunt. This didn't make people happy and it also wasn't helped by the fact that her publisher started using the publicity of the disappearance to promote her books. It would be like in newspapers, like featuring the disappearing author or whatever. Like, okay, great idea. So people were angry, people thought it was a publicity stunt and they thought that, you know, she was wasting police resources and time. Other theories were that she was just a petty, vindictive woman punishing her husband for something that he did wrong that she didn't like. Like, you know, he didn't wash the dishes up or whatever. Not that he would be expected to, but... Or there were also rumors because of his kind of, you know, skirting around what happened. People suspected Archie. When he was asked about what the letter had said, he was very cagey and he said it referred to a purely personal matter. I cannot discuss what it was. Okay, Archie. On Wednesday we get our first kind of breakthrough piece of information. Up till now there hasn't really been much information. Agatha's brother-in-law is like, I got a letter from her sent from London saying she's going to a spa in Yorkshire, guys. That's what she told me. Now, you would expect this would mean the police would go and start searching in Yorkshire, wouldn't you? You know, that's the general line of inquiry you think we take. Wrong! By this time, Kenwood was convinced he was searching for a body. He was like, that's what I'm doing here. We're searching for a body. She's dead. We're trying to find her. And this new piece of the puzzle didn't fit where the jigsaw that he had been building, and so he kind of just discarded it. He couldn't make it fit in his mind with what the picture that he'd been building up. He thought maybe Agatha didn't post the letter herself. She didn't have to be alive for the letter to be posted from London on Saturday. So it was posted the day that her call was found. He thought maybe she'd ask someone to post it for her. So they sent a few police to look around some spas in Yorkshire, but they didn't really properly look. They were much more focused on Kenwood's line of inquiry, which was finding a body. Kenwood had the silent pool, which was a natural spring right near the accident dredged in case Agatha had fallen in. It was kind of like a local haunted spot. Like I said, he lives in a drama. It was reportedly the death site of a young girl and her brother. So he thought, oh, she's falling into the silent pool. You know, I think the silent pool actually inspired one of Agatha's short stories or something similar. So it definitely had an invocative air about it, but no Agatha there. By now, the Westminster Gazette reported that over 300 police officers had been involved in the search. On Thursday the 9th, a few more developments start to come to light. We are now up to reportedly 900 police officers involved in the search, aided by even civilian airplanes. We don't need to get into this, but around the time, there was this whole thing after the disappearance, spoiler alert, where MPs in parliament were complaining, like saying questions in parliament about the cost that had been incurred from this on the police force. People were asking the home office about it. And there was a big rumour at the time that the airplanes had been like police ordered airplanes, but that's not the truth. It was like civilian airplanes from what I can tell. Archie bought Agatha's beloved deterrior to the site and gave it one of her gloves to try and find the scent, but reportedly the dog just wind pitifully. He's like, I miss my mum. By the way, if you're wondering about Rosalind, because she misses her mum as well, she's just been told, I believe, at this time that Agatha had just gone away to write one of her books, which was a fairly common thing to happen. Police were so desperate they began to search the Agatha's manuscripts, particularly her current work in progress, which was the blue train. By the way, side note, the mystery of the blue train, Agatha said it's easily the worst book I've ever written. That was her opinion, but as you will see, it is perhaps more to do with what she associates that book with and the time in which she wrote it. Something Agatha recently said to a friend comes to light. So her and Archie had recently moved into this house. It was called Sunnydale or The Styles, named after her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. By the way, ballsy to name your book after this fictitious house that you have created where murder happens. That's the best luck, but okay. About the house, Agatha said it stands in a lonely lane, unlit or night, which has a reputation of being haunted. The lane has been the scene of a murder of a woman and the suicide of a man. If I do not leave Sunnydale soon, Sunnydale will be the end of me. So this just fed into theories that Agatha had ended her own life, which was one of the most popular theories at the time, particularly amongst the police. But as well as the dog whining pitifully in the search and being accused of murder by strangers across England, Archie had something more to worry about. The names of the friends that he had been with the night of Agatha's disappearance was starting to be reported, including that of Nancy Neal. You see, Archie was having an affair with Nancy. Something that Agatha knew about and was kind of in denial about. Afterwards, certain journalists found out that that evening that he was out and Agatha disappeared was actually reportedly a celebratory engagement dinner between Archie and Nancy. So Archie was desperate that Nancy's name wouldn't get into the press. He saw Nancy as his future, so he didn't want her reputation to be tarnished and if it came out that he was having an affair and his wife had disappeared, he would look even worse. So Archie gives an interview to the press. The interview comes out the next day, Friday the 10th, and it was not a good idea. Well, it was maybe a good idea for Archie, because I think he got what he wanted out of it, like getting the heat off Nancy. But Agatha did not come out of it looking very good. My wife, he said to a reporter, has discussed the possibility of disappearing at will. Engineering at disappearance had been running through her mind, probably for the purpose of her work. Personally, I feel that is what happened. So people were already angry at her. Then her husband comes out like, yeah, she's just having a jolly. Yeah, she's just, you know, she's just seeing what it's like to disappear. Nothing to be worried about. Yeah, that didn't go down well. People were even angry at her. He also said that him and Agatha led their own lives. He's like, I do my thing.  It just painted her as cold, neglectful, emotionally distant from her husband and absorbed in her work. Instead, he spent more time defending himself against people saying he's a bad husband and what have you. He said it is absolutely untrue to suggest that there was anything in the nature of a route or a tiff between my wife and myself on Friday morning. I strongly depreciate introducing any tittle-tattle into the matter. By Saturday, it had now been over a week since Agatha disappeared and so two big searches are planned on each day of the weekend to try and find out more. Saturday saw thousands of motorists and civilian amateur detectives turn up to help. Police appealed for help and asked owners of bloodhounds to bring them to come and join in the search. The main thing found in this day was a handbag with men's clothes and documents in it. So this began the theory that Agatha had disguised herself in men's apparel as a man and was off somewhere disguised as a man. Archie also said that he conducted a thorough search of his own wardrobe to see if anything was missing. Newspapers began showing pictures of Agatha in disguises that were pretty ridiculous. Like, it was like, this is what you're looking glasses and a wig if she's disguised like, I don't know, a cook, I don't know, which was fairly ridiculous and there was a séance at the crash site. The newspaper at the time reported, a party of spiritists visited Newland Corner Saturday evening and held a séance by the bushes where the novelist abandoned Carl was found. It is understood that the medium expressed the opinion that Mrs. Christie has met with foul play. But people were despondent. People were starting to lose hope. The Times reported that no reliable witness has seen her since a week ago when she left Sunningdale. No one knows where she is. And not to help with this negativity, rumors began flying that she'd left another letter, another envelope that should only be opened in case her body was found. On the next day, Sunday the 12th of December, Surrey Police organised the great search, the big search. Apparently over 2,000 people came to help in the search on this day, scouring the countryside, the miles and miles of countryside surrounding where her car was found. Apparently the roads were blocked with traffic, cars aligned every area around the car where it was found. On this day, we had two special guests. We had two celebrity guests and Arthur Conan Doyle.  And the medium, not knowing whose gloves they were reportedly, said she is not as dead as everyone thinks. She is alive. I'll think you hear from her about Wednesday. About Wednesday. Don't worry, don't sweat it. And Dorothy Elsay is the famous mystery author turned up. I don't know if at this time her and Agatha had already collaborated, but I know they collaborated on some detective club works together. But yeah, she turned up and used the location actually in her book Unnatural Death, but neither of them found anything other than that. On Tuesday, Agatha had now been missing for 11 days and hope was beginning to dwindle. On Tuesday morning, the Daily Mail ran an editorial saying if Agatha was alive, she must be ready to inflict intense anxiety on her relatives and heavy expenditure on the public in a heartless practical joke. The girls were mad. They were mad. The paper also reported that on the day previous on one of the big searches, some important items have been found nearby. Reportedly, a bottle labelled poison led an opium, fragments of a torn up postcard, a woman's fair lined coat, a box of face powder, the end of a loaf of bread, a cardboard box, and two children's books. Great searching everyone. The end of a loaf of bread. Perhaps more ominous was the detective's new theory that they gave to the press. They said when Mrs. Christie left home, we believe she had no intention of ever returning. Not great. Not great. Everyone's losing hope. But whilst searches and police were giving up hope, unlikely help arrived in the form of two banjo players. They were members of the group, the Happy Hydro Boys, who played at the Harrogate, Spartan Hotel, the Hydro- does it call it the hydropathic? Everyone just called it the hydro. Okay, the hydropathic was what it was called. Everyone just- we'll just call it the hydro, that's why everyone called it. They told, like, police, that Mrs. Christie was not dead. She was very much alive. She's probably doing the Charleston, as we're talking, because she's been living it up in our hotel for the past 11 days. Police rushed up to Harrogate. This is a town not far from Leeds in Yorkshire and descended upon the hotel. Police reporters and Archie, they brought Archie with them, sat down in the dining room of the hydropathic to wait for Agatha. In walked a woman wearing a handsome mauve gown, the pearl necklace, and reporters were struck by her beautiful, fair hair, and Archie gave the nod that this was, in fact, his wife. Reports on how Agatha and Archie greeted each other differ wildly. Differ wildly. Some say they had an affectionate greeting. Some say Agatha appeared puzzled and had really no recognition of who this man was. Others say that she told him he looked nervous. She was like, you look nervous, babes. What's up? So, I mean, we don't really know how they reacted to each other. They vary wildly. All's well that ends well, huh? We found her. The applause, everyone. It's all good. So, it's all good back to our own lives. Not entirely, everyone. When she meets Archie and she's showing them off to her new friends who came to the hotel, she introduces him as her brother, not her husband. One of them recalls her saying, this is my brother, everyone, who's turned up unexpectedly. Say hello. So it becomes clear something's not immediately right. What's going on with her? Is she introducing him as her brother to save face? Is she embarrassed? Does she truly not remember who he is? In order to find out, we need to go back 14 years in time. But quickly before we do, are you pleased to know Arthur Conan Doyle's really happy because his medium turned out to be basically correct? And he said this is an excellent example of the use of psychometry as an age through detective. So, Arthur Conan Doyle's like, pat on the back. Pat on the back, everyone. I know. Anyways, going back 14 years on time to tell the true story of what happened. In 1912, 22-year-old Agatha met Archibald Archal Christie at a local dance and fell in love very quickly. Now, he was caught up to fight in the First World War in 1914 as a pilot, I believe, but they married on Christmas Eve when he returned home from leave in 1914. Whilst he is off fighting, yes, go back to war, Agatha worked as a voluntary nurse at her local Red Cross Hospital. Fun fact, that's how she picked up a lot of her knowledge about poisons that she ends up using in her books and also reportedly there was a lot of Belgian refugees near at the time, and that's how she got the idea for a coup d'oeuvre. Fast forward to 1924, so a couple of years before the disappearance. Archie and Agatha had been married for 10 years and had a daughter Rosalind, but it was not all happy families. In some of her plays, she wrote the time, we have Ten Years and La Lye. She writes of women in unpassionate marriages, feeling despondent, feeling alone, feeling estranged from their husband, feeling like they've lost the passion in the relationship, and obviously this is not, you know, she's not saying oh I felt like this, but it was a theme running through some of her plays at the time. Then in April 1926, so what happened, what we were talking about, this appearance happens in December 1926, but in April 1926 is when it all starts to fall apart. Agatha's beloved mother passes away. Agatha wasn't able to make it to her bedside in time before she passed and she is despondent. Archie is abroad on work at the time and he doesn't even return for the funeral. Agatha talks about how she's always known about his violent dislike of illness, death, and trouble. He was a survivor of war and he says that he could not stand tears and depression and so he emotionally withdraws from his wife at the time that she needs him most. She is despondent, she needs his comfort, whereas he's only able to act with kind of jovility, I don't know if that's the right word. Like oh everything's fine, what do you do when he returns home? Agatha begins to suffer from insomnia, she goes to a chemist to ask for a sleeping draught and he recalls that it top it onto a certain morbid kind of conversation. She said I would not commit suicide by any violent method while poison exists to him while she was getting the sleeping aid. By August, papers, edutism papers were openly starting to report that she was suffering a breakdown, saying it's not a surprise that a woman who writes about such terrible stuff or only a man should write about is suffering a breakdown. Agatha goes to her mother's house with Rosalind to try and sort through all her mother's belongings and just to feel closer to her mother and the plan is that after that her and Archie will go away on holiday to kind of like revitalize her, repair her mental state but when Archie turns up to the house after them being there for a couple weeks without him he hasn't bought the tickets for the holiday. And Agatha is very confused, she says he appears very emotionally distant. She said that it was like standing in front of the person that you loved most in the world and realized that they've become a stranger and when she asked him what was wrong he blindsides her saying I'm having an affair with Nancy Neal and I want a divorce. Agatha refused, she's like no, absolutely not. She didn't believe that this would last, she believed that she had the trump card which was Rosalind and that Archie loved Rosalind and Nancy couldn't expect him to leave her daughter. So in that autumn there was somewhat of a stalemate, they moved back to the styles, Archie spent a couple nights a week at his nearby club and Carlotta O'Carlo said that although he was physically present at the styles he was emotionally absent. So at this point Agatha is at a severe mental low, she has insomnia, she's depressed, her husband is having an affair, she's at a very difficult point in her life and we're up to the morning now of the disappearance, so the morning of the Friday the third. Morning of the disappearance she goes to tea with her mother-in-law Peg. At first Peg says she's in a good mood, she's lively, she's like you know seems really happy, talks about going to a spa in Yorkshire but then Peg notices that Agatha is not wearing her wedding ring and when she's asked about it she sat perfectly still for some time gazing into space and giving a hysterical laugh turned away. Now her route to Peg's house that day took her over the hills and past Newlands Corner, that place that her car was eventually found. A lot of quotes I'm about to share with you for the rest of this from Agatha herself, just take place in this one interview that she does with a Daily Mail in February of 1927. This was the only time that she really ever again spoke about the events that happened. She says at this time I was in a very despondent state of mind, I wanted my life to end. Passing by Newlands Corner she saw the quarry and she says that at the sight of it there came into my mind the thought of driving into it, however as my daughter was with me in the car I dismissed the idea at once. So Agatha returns home after the tea and it's on this lonely dark night that she finds out where Archie is. We don't really know how whether it's through post or a note but she finds out that Archie's with friends for the weekend and she figures out who those friends are, aka Nancy. So as we know Agatha went and kissed Rosalind good night, left the letters for Carlo and Archie and got in her car and drove away. So we're now at the night before her disappearance and she was driving around aimlessly. This is a habit that she'd picked up that year. The cars at the time required quite a lot of, a lot of gears and shifts and buttons and what have you to make it drive. So I think it required quite a lot of mental energy to just drive and so you're not allowed, you can't really think about other stuff. So this was a habit she'd picked up throughout the year and she says all that night I drove aimlessly about. In my mind there was the vague idea of ending everything. I drove automatically down roads I knew to Maidenhead where I looked at the river. I thought about jumping in but I realised that I could swim too well to drown. Then back to London again and then on to Sunnydale. From there I went to Newlands Corner. When I reached a point in the road where I thought was near the quarry I had seen in the afternoon I turned the car off the road down the hill towards it. I left the wheel and let the car run.  I was flung against a steering wheel and my head hit something. So when the car was found the wheels were stuck in a hedge and if the car had not hit that hedge the car would have fallen down into the quarry and smashed into a million pieces and so in this moment when Agatha was so close to ending everything she's suddenly shocked back into life. She's got injuries to her head and chest but she walks out of her car walks away from it and also walks away from being Mrs. Christy. She becomes Mrs. Theresa Neal. She does what she does best and she creates a character not just one in a book but one to help her escape her reality. Her reality is no longer liveable for her so she creates a character to live through. So at the time when we find Agatha at the hotel she doesn't really remember a lot of this but through later help with a psychotherapist she comes up with a lot of this information. So she says that she finds herself at a big station and is surprised to find out that it's Waterloo. So Janlis Medeniema at the time found out that there's a station about three miles away from Newdon's Corner which had trains that morning to Waterloo about every twice every hour right? So Agatha probably hadn't long left her car when it was discovered at 8 a.m. I think trains only began about 6.52 so she could have left her car not long before it is found. Now before I tell you, give you this feel about what happened, I will tell you that is an alternative claim. Now I don't think as we'll talk about the claim makes much sense but I will tell you that it is this alternative claim. So the daughter of Nan Watts. Nan Watts was a very close friend of Agatha. She was her sister-in-law because she was Agatha's sister's husband's sister. So not her sister-in-law through her husband, her sister-in-law through her sister. But Nan's also Water claims that Agatha actually held up in their Chelsea apartment that night and then the next morning was put on a train to Harrogate. She said she wanted to give Archie a shock. If she had had amnesia she would not have signed the register in the other woman's name. My mother helped her because she was distraught. So she's saying that she was completely aware of what was happening this whole time. She did it to punish Archie. There's multiple reasons I don't think this was the case. We'll get into more later but number one is that Archie Carlotta, everyone around her said that she would not like this fuss. She didn't really like fame, uh Agatha. Even later in life when she was married to her second husband and she'd have to give her occupation. She would say housewife. She wouldn't say author. She didn't want to be known herself. She just wanted to write. And so the idea of her cooking all this up for publicity or knowing that it would get this publicity doesn't really make sense to me. So Agatha had now become Mrs. Theresa Neill. She's taken the last name of Archie's mistress and she says that Mrs. Theresa Neill is from South Africa and South Africa was a place that her and Archie were really happy. They had some of their most happy holidays there. So it's kind of a combination of those. Teresa, we don't really know. Some people think St. Theresa. Some people think Teaser as a mystery, Teaser. But that was the name she gave Mrs. Theresa Neill. And when she got tortuous she went to a local shop for ladies. She cleaned herself up. Apparently she bought a new hot water bottle. And then she went to King's Cross where she got a train to Harrogate. She arrived at the hydro with no suitcase but she claimed, I've just come from South Africa. I've left it with my friends and she ordered a room. She had those 60 pounds which is a lot of money. One guest at the hotel said, I danced with Miss Christie that evening. She arrived. She does the Charleston, but not very well. Leave Agatha alone. She's going through it. On Monday morning, Agatha's made notice that she had the London newspaper taken up with breakfast in bed. By this time, it was international news. Agatha Christie Disappearance would be reported out of these papers. She had read it. She would have read about her disappearance. But either she didn't read it or she was just able to put it out of her mind and go shopping. She was like, I got money myself. I'll spend it. So she went shopping in Leeds. When she came back that day, loads of packages were arriving. New hat, new coat, new clothes, apples. Not apples, fruit, books and magazines, everything. Guests at the hotel also noticed she often had a book in her hand. She'd been to a local library and the librarian said that she noticed she had a taste for novels of sensation and mystery. That evening, Agatha came down in a proper dress. She's like, right, I'm dressed, girlies. Let's do it. She danced. She played billiards. She sung aloud. She like chatted with everyone. She had a great time. She made friends. And one guest noticed she still had the price tag on her scarf for 75 shillings. And they asked her, is that all you're worth? And she said, I think I'm worth more than that. By Tuesday, Agatha's picture had appeared on the front page of the Daily Express. This was everywhere. And people at the hotel were beginning to suspect what was going on. But this lasted so long, this like Agatha being, you know, hiding in plain sight, because workers at the hotel, staff at the hotel, were not about to like sell out on one of their clients. That would have been a big problem. So they were just like, okay, if she wants to be here, she's here. The hotel manager record when she'd been there for about four days, his wife said, I think that's Agatha Christie. He was like, no, but he was like, wait a second. But yeah, her maid said that she knew for a long time, but she wasn't about to tell no client like that. Rather than beginning to figure out her identity, on Thursday, Agatha began to even more fully embody her character. She actually placed an ad in The Times, which said, friends and relatives of Theresa Neill, late of South Africa, please communicate. This makes me think this wasn't something that she was conscious of. I really truly believe she had disassociated herself so much from her terrible reality that she was living in, that she believed that she was Theresa Neill. She's actually reported, a guest reported her saying to them, Ag, this, this Miss Christie is a very elusive woman. I cannot be bothered with her, you know, commenting and chatting about the case, having found out about it. And she was also at the time showing signs of mental distress.  I cannot remember saying a lot of similar stuff like that. So she was invisible, distressed to other guests as she was around at the time. And so that was how Agatha spent her days at the Hydro. We don't know a ton more than that. All the reports that she was dancing, singing, how in a world of a time making friends. She later said that she felt truly happy while she was there. People noticed that she seemed happy, seemed joyful. And so I truly believe that her situation in mental state had just got so bad that she had to defuse herself from that and become this new person who was happy. Although we don't know the full truth to what happened, and there are some discrepancies, in my opinion, and a lot of other people's opinions surrounding the case, she suffered a mental breakdown after a severe period of mental illness and mental distress. Her beloved mother had died. Her husband, emotionally reduced from her, began an affair. She felt alone, unmoored, under deep stress. Her workload was super high at the time as well, like ridiculously high, even for someone who wasn't stressed. And after brushing with death, like I said, it seemed like she did what she did best and created a character to live through. She wrote years later, you can't write your fate. You can do what you like with the characters you create. And so that's what she did. She did what she liked with the character that she created. Once she was found, news critically got out and press started to swarm on the Hydro. They sent like a decoy out of these two people out through the front where the majority of people were and her aunt actually snuck out through the back. But one of the photographers still managed to get a snapshot of her leaving, and they stole away to a local friend's nearby house and kind of holed up in it. I find it really hard to believe the argument that she knew what she was doing because Rosalind remembers being brought up by Carlo to visit her mum, and her mum didn't know who she was. She said that she didn't even remember the stories we used to tell, you know? And for a child to go through that, I don't believe a mother would. And she loved Rosalind. I don't think a mother would intentionally put her child through that. I guess I went to therapy in London where she kind of worked through what happened, and she divorced Archie about 15 months after the events. Archie, if you're wondering, went on to marry Nancy Neal within like a week or something, like he married her straight away. Nancy had actually been sent off by her parents on a round the world cruise after this whole thing broke. Her dad was in the newspapers going, I couldn't possibly imagine why Agatha used our daughter's name. I couldn't tell you. I couldn't tell you. But yeah, they went on to get married and Agatha married an archaeologist many years later who she grew old with. So a lot of the information that we know is from that one statement that she made to the Daily Mail in February. Similar cases have been reported many times where an individual goes through something stressful and enters, I think, what is called like a fugue state where they don't know who they are. They don't know what's going on. They don't know that they are the person that everyone's looking for. And that seems to be what happened in this case. She said in that statement to the Daily Mail, many people still think I deliberately disappeared. What actually happened was this, I left home that night in a state of high nervous strain with the attention of doing something desperate. Agatha Christie, as we know her now, could have been a very different story if that bush hadn't been placed where it was on the quarry. At this point, the last book to be published was a Murderer's Act quote, which is only like the fourth or fifth, I think, prior novel. And at the time, there wasn't a lot of support or discourse around mental health and mental illness. At the time, I think Archie came out to press saying she was confused and she had a concussion, whereas talking about the deep layers of trauma and stress and disassociation wasn't really in the conversation then, especially not for a woman. And so it wasn't something that she spoke a ton about going forward. I think it's clear from all the statements that we have that this was incredibly painful for her to remember. She didn't write about it in her autobiography. She pretty much just left it behind. I think she only gave the statement because she felt like she had to explain herself, because so many people were angry at the waste of funds as they saw it. So although it is somewhat unsold, we will never know the absolute truth. We'll never know whether she did hold up in Nan What's home. I think we can assert that Agatha created a character, didn't know who she was, didn't know when she was chatting to guests at the hotel, that she was the Agatha Christie that everyone was looking for, and did this because her life had just got too painful. The man she loved loved someone else, the mum that she loved was no longer here, and she felt alone. So yes, that was the story of Agatha Christie's mysterious disappearance. I hope you enjoyed that. I had a lot of fun researching and making this video is incredibly time consuming. I really wanted to get to the depth of what happened. I will leave if you're interested on further reading all of the information, all of the websites that I used for research on this. I also really recommend Agatha Christie A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Wersley. I wonder who said that about her? I've only read the sections on The Disappearance is about 60 pages that I read, but this was incredibly helpful. Lucy Wersley is an incredible historian, and I haven't read the whole book but I'm really excited to after reading that section. So yeah, let me know what you thought of this style of video, whether you enjoyed it. I'd love to do something similar in the future, and thank you guys so much for watching. Make sure you subscribe if you haven't already, and I'll see you soon in another video. Bye!


Here we have a typical projectile motion problem. You have a projectile that is shot at a certain angle with some initial velocity, and then due to gravity follows a parabola and lands on a target sometime later. In this problem here, we're given that the initial velocity here had a magnitude of 40 meters per second, and we're given that the target lands four seconds later at exactly the same height from which it was shot from. What we're looking for is what is the angle, and what is the distance in X that the projectile traveled. Now, first of all, what we can do, we can split up that initial velocity in its X and Y component. So we have VX initial is V initial times the X side is coside of the angle. Here we have VY initial, V initial times sine of the angle. Also we have the X position as a function of time is the initial position, so in this case zero, plus VX initial times time, plus one-half exploration t-square, there is no exploration in X direction, the exploration is only Y direction, so that's it for this one here. So for S, Y as a function of time is zero, I'm starting at a height zero, plus VY initial times time, plus one-half exploration time script. Now in my problem here, I'm looking for the angle, and I'm looking for the delta X. The delta X, if I don't my X component here, I can easily find from this equation over here. The problem is for this equation to be solved, I need to know the alpha, that means for the moment I cannot solve from the X, so what I'm going to be doing, I'm solving from the Y equation, hoping that gives me the alpha and then plug it into the X equation. Let's start with the Y equation. The Y equation, I know that when it lands again, I have zero, must be equal to V initial times time, so V initial times time, so V initial times sine, alpha times time, plus one-half exploration time script. So in my case, V initial was 40 meters per second times sine of the unknown angle times four seconds, then for the exploration I'm going to be rounding minus tens, I'm going to use minus five meters per second square times four squared is sixteen, four squared seconds squared. Now all I have to do is solve this for alpha. So I have five times sixteen squared, that I take on the left, and I divide it by the forty times four, and then isolate for alpha. So if I look at the units, I have meters per second squared times second squared gives me meters, and down here I have meters per second and seconds also gives me meters, that cancels out, so I get zero unit. Sine of alpha is zero point five, therefore alpha is our all-time favorite angle of thirty degrees. So I figured out my first answer, which is thirty degrees. Now that I know my angle, I can solve for my exposition, so I'm just going to make some space. Okay, now that we know that alpha is thirty degrees, part B is quite simple, we simply plug it into the equation here. So we have S as a function of time at four seconds, will be my V nation X, so forty meters per second times cosine of thirty degrees times the time, which is the four seconds, meters, so if you round to one thick, or two thicks, 140 meters.