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 Ottoman Empire

November 23, 2025 • 16 mins
One of the most important empires in history was the Ottoman Empire.  It wasn’t the biggest empire, but it had an outsized impact on the world due to its strategic location and its moment in history.  The Ottomans shocked the world by capturing the city of Constantinople and later almost conquering much of Central Europe. Despite having a six-hundred-year run, as with all empires, it eventually weakened and collapsed. Learn mor...
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The Kokoda Track

November 22, 2025 • 14 mins
In July 1942, Japanese forces landed on the north shore of the island of New Guinea  Their goal was to cross the island by land and take the strategic city of Port Moresby.  If they had been successful, the entire fate of the war in the Pacific would have altered.  They didn’t take it, thanks to the tenacious resistance put up by Australian forces.  Learn more about the Kokoda Track and how it turned the war in the Pacific on t...
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The Phoebus Cartel

November 21, 2025 • 15 mins
Companies that sell products to the public have to follow a fine line.  On the one hand, they need to sell stuff to make money, and the way they do that is by making a good product.  However, if their product is too good, then people might not need to buy it again, or at least not for a long time.  Almost 100 years ago, a consortium of industrialists plotted to make their products worse just so people would buy more of them. Le...
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The Marshall Plan (Encore)

November 20, 2025 • 15 mins
At the end of the Second World War, Europe was a mess. The economies of most countries were in shambles and the threat of communism loomed over the continent.  In a speech at Harvard University on June 5, 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposed a plan which could help get Europe back on its feet.The plan is widely considered one of the most successful foreign aid programs in history. Learn more about the Marshal...
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Swiss Neutrality

November 19, 2025 • 15 mins
There are several rules that should be followed when going to war: Germany should never fight wars against the entire world Don’t invade Russia in the Winter.  Never fight a land war in Asia. There is also one other rule that should be added to that list: Don’t count on Switzerland as an ally. For over two centuries, Switzerland has remained staunchly neutral, even when wars were being fought just over its borders.  L...
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Hollow Nickel Case

November 18, 2025 • 14 mins
In 1953, a newspaper delivery boy in Brooklyn, New York, made an odd discovery. One of his customers gave him a nickel that seemed lighter than the others.  When he dropped it, it popped open, exposing a small piece of microfilm. It was the bizarre beginning of the exposure and discovery of a spy ring in the United States that ultimately contributed to one of the most notable events in the entire Cold War.  Learn more about the H...
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The V2 Rocket

November 17, 2025 • 14 mins
The Second World War saw the development of many new weapons. Perhaps none was more terrifying than the development of long-range strategic rockets.  Rockets had been used in combat for centuries, dating back to their development in ancient China; however, the rockets developed by Germany were a different matter altogether.  They terrorized civilians in England and actually served as the starting point of the space race.  Learn ...
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Alexander Hamilton

November 16, 2025 • 15 mins
Alexander Hamilton was a U.S founding father who has been growing in popularity due to the popular musical Hamilton, by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Hamilton was the first U.S Secretary of the Treasury and was foundational in the formation of American finance and government policies that remain in place to this day.  He is featured on the US Ten Dollar Bill and is one of the most famous Founding Fathers who never held elected office. Lea...
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The Fra Mauro Medieval World Map

November 15, 2025 • 14 mins
Sometime around the year 1450, a monk living just outside of Venice created one of the greatest maps of the medieval world.  It was an enormous map, even by modern standards, and it had a level of detail that had never been seen before.  It took years to make and was a major advancement in cartography.  Perhaps most importantly, it contained many details that no one had yet verified firsthand.  Learn more about the Fra Mauro ma...
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Borobudur

November 14, 2025 • 15 mins
Located in Central Java, outside of the modern city of Yogyakarta, lies the world’s largest Buddhist temple, Borobudur.  Borobudur doesn’t get as much attention as other great monuments in the world, but it should certainly be included among them.  Unlike other great monuments, Borobudur has a distinction that no other monument has. It disappeared, quite literally, for several centuries.  Learn more about Borobudur, its history,...
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LEGO

November 13, 2025 • 15 mins
Lego is one of the best-known toy brands in the world.  Known for its fun and complex building process, the small plastic bricks encourage creativity and playability, and have become a staple in most households with kids. However, they aren’t just free-form toys for children. They have also graduated into high-end items for adults. In fact, some sets of these simple toys can now cost thousands of dollars.  Learn more about Legos...
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Dubai

November 12, 2025 • 14 mins
Just 60 years ago, Dubai was a sandy, underpopulated port on a minor creek emptying into the Persian Gulf.  Today, it is one of the most important cities in the world. It is a global center for trade, finance, and transportation.  How did a random sandy outpost location in the Middle East end up becoming such an important global city in such a short period of time?  It didn’t happen by accident. Learn more about Dubi and how it...
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The World's Greatest Art Museums

November 11, 2025 • 14 mins
For thousands of years, human beings have created works of art. Many of these works are commissioned by rulers, merchants, or religious leaders.  Over time, many of these great works have found their way into the hands of art museums.  Museums allow everyone to enjoy and appreciate art that has been produced around the world over the course of centuries. However, not all museums are created equal. Learn more about the world's g...
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The Taiping Rebellion

November 10, 2025 • 15 mins
In the mid-19th century, China experienced its greatest civil war.  It was a conflict that set China on a course that eventually led to China’s Century of Humiliation and the fall of the Qing Dynasty. It wasn’t just a massive civil war; in terms of total lives lost, it was far and away the largest war in history up until that point, and by some estimates, it might even have been as or more devastating than the world wars of the 2...
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Cracking the Enigma Code (Encore)

November 9, 2025 • 13 mins
During the Second World War, the Germans used what they thought was an uncrackable encryption system.  It was a really good encryption system, and for the longest time, the Allies had a difficult time cracking the code.  However, thanks to brilliant code breakers, a powerful computing machine, and German mistakes, the Allies were finally able to break the code.  Learn more about the Enigma Code and how it was broken on this epis...
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Kaliningrad

November 8, 2025 • 14 mins
Located on the Baltic Sea, sandwiched between the nations of Lithuania and Poland, is the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Kaliningrad, as it is today, does not have a deep history. For most of its history, it was known as Königsberg. The reason it exists at all dates back to the Teutonic Knights in the Middle Ages and the aftermath of two world wars in the 20th century.  Today, its status is unique to say the least, and it has t...
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The Year 1950

November 7, 2025 • 14 mins
In the year 1950, the world was halfway through the 20th century.  In the 25 years prior, the world had seen the greatest economic downturn in modern history and the greatest war the world had ever known.  New technologies were being developed, and many previous technologies were making their way into the hands of regular people, radically transforming their lives.  On top of all of that, the entire world was about to embark on ...
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Compound Interest (Encore)

November 6, 2025 • 16 mins
One of the most powerful forces in economics and finance is compound interest.  Not everyone understands compound interest, even though they may reap its benefits or suffer its consequences.  Compounding has the potential to build fortunes and wreck empires. The effects of compounding are also not limited to interest payments. It can apply to a great many things in and out of the natural world. Learn more about compound interest...
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The Sinking of the Lusitania

November 5, 2025 • 13 mins
On May 7, 1915, nearly a year into the First World War, the British steamship RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland. Over 1,100 people were killed, many of whom were civilians from the United States who were not participants in the war. Although the loss of life in the attack was great, the sinking of the Lusitania stands out due to its indirect role in encouraging the United States to enter ...
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The 1969 Sino-Soviet Border Conflict

November 4, 2025 • 15 mins
Many people think that the closest the world ever came to nuclear war was during the Cuban Missile Crisis.  To be sure, that was a very tenuous point in history.  However, there is a good argument to be made that the closest the world has come to nuclear war actually took place in 1969. The reason most people are unaware of what happened is that it had nothing to do with the United States.  It was two other nuclear powers who al...
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