Everything Everywhere Daily

Everything Everywhere Daily

Learn something new every day! Everything Everywhere Daily is a daily podcast for Intellectually Curious People. Host Gary Arndt tells the stories of interesting people, places, and things from around the world and throughout history. Gary is an accomplished world traveler, travel photographer, and polymath. Topics covered include history, science, mathematics, anthropology, archeology, geography, and culture. Past history episodes have dealt with ancient Rome, Phoenicia, Persia, Greece, China, Egypt, and India. as well as historical leaders such as Julius Caesar, Emperor Augustus, Sparticus, and the Carthaginian general Hannibal. Geography episodes have covered Malta, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Monaco, Luxembourg, Vatican City, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, the Isle of Man, san marino, Namibia, the Golden Gate Bridge, Montenegro, and Greenland. Technology episodes have covered nanotechnology, aluminum, fingerprints, longitude, qwerty keyboards, morse code, the telegraph, radio, television, computer gaming, Episodes explaining the origin of holidays include Memorial Day, April Fool’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, May Day, Christmas, Ramadan, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Canada Day, the Fourth of July, Famous people in history covered in the podcast include Salvador Dali, Jim Thorpe, Ada Lovelace, Jessie Owens, Robert Oppenheimer, Picasso, Isaac Newton, Attila the Hun, Lady Jane Grey, Cleopatra, Sun Yat Sen, Houdini, Tokyo Rose, William Shakespeare, Queen Boudica, Empress Livia, Marie Antoinette, the Queen of Sheba, Ramanujan, and Zheng He.

Episodes

The Germ Theory of Disease (Encore)

September 7, 2025 • 14 mins
For thousands of years, many theories have been put forward as to the cause of communicable diseases.  These theories ranged from the religious to the magical and sometimes quasiscientific, but what they all had in common was that there was no proof for anything.  Over the centuries, these theories became dogma and often prevented a better understanding of diseases. It wasn’t until the 19th century that we got a clear picture of ...
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Hitler's Family

September 6, 2025 • 16 mins
Adolf Hitler was unquestionably one of the evil people, not just of the 20th century, but in all of history.  His very name has become a metaphor for someone bad or someone you want to associate with someone horrible.  However, he was a person, and as such, he had parents, siblings, nieces, and nephews. How did they deal with being related to the most infamous person in the world, and what exactly do you do when you have the las...
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The Lost Colony of Roanoke (Encore)

September 5, 2025 • 13 mins
In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh established an English colony on an island in what is today the state of North Carolina. After a slow start, over 100 people moved to the island to start a new life and establish this English outpost at the edge of the new world.  When a ship returned to the colony in 1590, what they found shocked them and began a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Learn more about the Lost Colony of Roanoke a...
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Ivory Coast /Côte d'Ivoire

September 4, 2025 • 15 mins
The Ivory Coast, or as it is officially known, the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country located on West Africa’s southern coast. It is a small nation known for its agricultural production.  Despite its small size, the Ivory Coast is one of the most populous countries in West Africa, with a population of 31.5 million, and roughly 78 different languages are spoken. Despite recent political upheaval, it has become one of the econ...
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Names of Animal Groups

September 3, 2025 • 15 mins
The English language is weird.  We have words that are spelled the same but sound different. We have words that are spelled differently but sound the same.  We have words that sound nothing like how they are spelled, and a host of exceptions that you just have to know and remember. …and then for some reason, we have totally different arbitrary words for different groups of animals. In fact, we have a lot of those words. Learn m...
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Energy, Work, and Power

September 2, 2025 • 14 mins
Everything we know in the world is ultimately dependent on energy. Energy fuels our bodies as well as our civilization. Energy is literally everywhere and all around us. Yet for the longest time, we had no idea what energy really was. It wasn’t until relatively recently that scientists had a grasp on energy as a concept, and once they did, they unlocked the related concepts of work and power.  Learn more about energy, work, and p...
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Questions and Answers: Volume 34

September 1, 2025 • 17 mins
September is upon us. It means going back to school and the autumnal equinox.  The days get shorter in the north and longer in the south.The name September means sevenths, even though it is now the 9th month of the year.Most importantly, it is the time when you have questions and I have answers. Stay tuned for the 34th installment of questions and answers on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Newspapers.co...
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The Pseudo-Neros

August 31, 2025 • 13 mins
In the first century, Rome underwent a major political transition when the Emperor Nero died after being declared an enemy of Rome by the senate.  With his death, the Julio-Claudian dynasty came to an end, ushering in a period known as the Year of the Four Emperors. For the common people, many of them simply didn’t believe that Nero was dead. In fact, many thought that he would one day return.  Learn more about the Nero redivivu...
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The Republic of Pirates

August 30, 2025 • 13 mins
Between 1706 and 1718, a group of pirates established a haven in the Bahamas.  Using a code and system of rules that they developed themselves, the pirates created their own forms of self-governance to maintain order within a society that was otherwise lawless.  This community grew into a community of thousands of pirates before the British put an end to it. Learn more about the Republic of Pirates and how it functioned on this ...
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The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre

August 29, 2025 • 15 mins
In 1972, the Olympics returned to Germany for the first time since being hosted in Berlin in 1936. The Games were intended to present a new image of West Germany, one that would reject the image portrayed at the previous Nazi-hosted Games and showcase a modern, peaceful nation. That didn’t happen. Instead, it became known for a terrorist attack on the Israeli Olympic team, which led to the death of eleven athletes and coaches, a...
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Starlite: The Miracle That Never Was

August 28, 2025 • 14 mins
In the 1980s, an Englishman by the name of Maurice Ward developed a  material which he claimed could withstand temperatures of thousands of degrees Celsius. Not only could the material withstand high temperatures, but it could also protect anything in proximity from high temperatures.  This product didn’t result in a revolution in material science. In fact, it was never produced at all, and in the end, the secret to its creation d...
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The Unabomber

August 27, 2025 • 16 mins
Starting in the late 1970s and lasting for seventeen years, a series of bombings terrorized the American public.  Primarily targeting technology companies and universities, these attacks befuddled law enforcement officials for almost two decades. The bomber became one of the most wanted criminals in the history of American law enforcement.  When he was finally caught, the perpetrator wasn’t quite who anyone expected.  Learn abou...
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Francisco Macías Nguema

August 26, 2025 • 15 mins
In 1968, the colony of Spanish Guinea was granted independence and became the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.  In its first open election, which turned out to be its last, it elected as president Francisco Macías Nguema. He very quickly turned out to be a dictator. However, he wasn’t just a dictator. He became one of the worst dictators of the 20th century.  Learn more about Francisco Macías Nguema, his reign of terror, and how h...
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Emperor Nero (Encore)

August 25, 2025 • 14 mins
In the year 54, the Roman Emperor Claudius died, and his adopted son Nero became the Emperor of Rome at the age of 16.  His reign was one of the most infamous in history, and over 2000 years after he came to power, his name is still used to invoke the image of a cruel ruler and a despot. But what exactly made him so bad, and was he really as bad as the legends say?Learn more about Emperor Nero and why his reign became so infamous...
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European Exclaves

August 24, 2025 • 15 mins
We have all looked at a map and seen all of the different countries represented by different colors. A country has some sort of border, and everything inside that border is what makes up the country.  However, there are some exceptions. There are exclaves, which are bits of a country that are separated from the main landmass, and enclaves, which are parts of a country totally surrounded by another country.  Why in the world would...
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The Spanish Inquisition

August 23, 2025 • 15 mins
At the end of the 15th century, Spain had almost completed the Reconquista and the removal of the Caliphate in the Iberian Peninsula, ending centuries of Islamic rule. One of the first things they did was usher in an attempt to unify and purify the country as a Catholic one, rather than a multi-religious one.  After receiving permission from the Pope, the Spanish monarchy persecuted hundreds of thousands of people for the crime o...
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Cyprus

August 22, 2025 • 17 mins
Strategically located in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, with access to Europe, Asia, and Africa, is the island of Cyprus.  Cyprus has a history that goes back as far as civilization itself, and it has had a history with almost every major civilization and empire around the Mediterranean..  Its history isn’t just a relic of the ancient world. It has remained strategically important and a source of conflict to the present day.  Le...
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The Invention of the Telephone (Encore)

August 21, 2025 • 15 mins
The 19th century was one of rapid technological advancement.  Of all of the innovations to come out of this century, and there were many, perhaps none was more important than that of the telephone.  The telephone radically changed communications, allowing personal communications over long distances.  Despite what many people are often told, this invention wasn’t simply the genius of one man, but was rather something developed ov...
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Rasputin

August 20, 2025 • 14 mins
In the early 20th century, the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, the Tsarina Alexandra, welcomed a homeless monk into their home.  As this scruff, unkempt-looking man became closer to the royal family, he seemingly performed miracles, predicted the future, and cured illnesses.  He starts to gain influence over the Imperial Family, too much influence for comfort.  So, a group of nobles decided that he needed to be eliminated...
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Nuclear Power

August 19, 2025 • 15 mins
One of the most important and least understood sources of energy in the world today is nuclear power.  Nuclear power has an energy density tens of millions of times greater than fossil fuels and has one of the most impressive safety records of any energy source.  Yet, for decades, controversy has surrounded it and has hindered its adoption. Learn more about nuclear power and how it works on this episode of Everything Everywhere ...
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