→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut A Violinist and the Devil https://youtu.be/2bJkh_h28xU?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR The King of the Dudes https://youtu.be/ti80ErqohXM?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR In this video: They do not have a shared homeland or national identity. They are a people who are scattered across the globe and whose origins have always been shrouded in myth and mystery (among other reasons because they have kept no written records of their early history). Many saw them (and continue to do so in many cases) as dirty, thieving and undesirable, others as artistic, romantic and carefree. In France, they are referred to as gitanes, in Spain they are called gitanos, and in Germany, zigeuner. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/06/history-gypsies/ Sources: http://www.scottishgypsies.co.uk/early.html http://news.softpedia.com/news/Where-Do-Gypsies-Come-From-72231.shtml http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/07/gypsies-arrived-europe-1500-genetic http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/american-gypsies/articles/a-history-of-the-romani-people/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_society_and_culture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Romani_people http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gypsy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=gypsy Image Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gipsy_Essex_QE1_142.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Dehodencq_A_Gypsy_Dance_in_the_Gardens_of_the_Alc%C3%A1zar.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hendrick_Avercamp_-_Landscape_with_Gypsy_Fortun