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.
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April 26, 2024 • 12 mins
In 1854 an unusually severe outbreak of cholera occurred in London.
While cholera was not an uncommon disease, physicians at the time weren’t sure what caused it.
This time, one doctor took a completely different approach, stopping the epidemic and ushering in a new field of medicine.
Learn more about John Snow and the Broad Street cholera outbreak of 1854 on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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April 25, 2024 • 14 mins
In 259 BC, a boy named Ying Zheng was born in the state of Qin in modern-day China.
He was born into the royal family of the kingdom and ascended to the throne at the age of 13.
For most people, becoming king would be the pinnacle of their achievements. However, this was not to be the case with the King of Chin. He would go on to achieve a status that there wasn’t even a word for.
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April 24, 2024 • 14 mins
In the 19th century, New York City was one of the fastest-growing cities in the world.
However, it was still a very young city, and as such, the city’s leaders were able to take a step back and plan what exactly they wanted to future of the city to be.
What they decided was that the city needed a park. Not just any park, but a great park that took up an enormous part of Manhattan Island.
Learn more about Central Park and how it ...
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April 23, 2024 • 12 mins
Almost as soon as Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, people began thinking of ways to transport passengers at supersonic speeds.
However, the challenges in creating a passenger aircraft that could travel at supersonic speeds were much greater than making a fighter aircraft that could do the same.
In 1976, a British/French consortium launched the inaugural flight of the most successful supersonic passenger aircraft in h...
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April 22, 2024 • 12 mins
Today in Western Europe, there is a line that divides speakers of Germanic languages and speakers of Romance languages. While that line has shifted over time, its existence can be traced back to a battle that took place over 2000 years ago.
That battle rocked the Roman Empire to its core, and finally set limits for how big the empire could grow.
Learn more about the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest and how its impact can still be s...
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April 21, 2024 • 14 mins
The universe is big. Really, really big. So big that it is hard to intuitively grasp its size because we have nothing in our lives that we could compare it to.
Not only is the university big, but within it are things that really big as well.
The discovery of these big things have been some of the biggest discoveries in the history of science, and the discoveries will probably keep continuing into the future.
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April 20, 2024 • 13 mins
The English language has evolved organically, gathering words and phrases from different languages, countries, and communities.
It should come as no surprise that many of the words in English have come from the military. For centuries, soldiers have developed their own way of speaking and created words to describe their unique circumstances.
Some of those words and phrases have managed to make it into the wider language, even if ...
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April 19, 2024 • 15 mins
The odds are quite good that somewhere around you right now as you listen to me speak these words, is a battery.
Whether it is in your smartphone, earbuds, automobile, smoke detector, or laptop, batteries have become ubiquitous in the modern world.
The origins of chemical batteries go back thousands of years before people knew what electricity was or what they could do with it. The future of batteries looks even brighter as more ...
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April 18, 2024 • 15 mins
Located in Northern Europe, along the Atlantic coast, is the relatively small nation of Belgium.
Belgium is like other countries in most ways, but its history and founding are very different from those of its neighbors.
How it was founded had important implications for all over Europe and may still impact the country's future.
Learn more about the history of Belgium, how and why it was formed, and what its future may hold on thi...
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April 17, 2024 • 14 mins
Money is a very strange thing. All of us use it. We spend it, earn it, and save it. We know it when we see it.
Yet, even some of the world’s best economists have a very hard time defining it.
It has been around for thousands of years, yet there is still innovation being made with it today.
Learn more about the history of money, how it came about and how it developed over time, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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April 16, 2024 • 11 mins
It is one of the longest and largest structures ever built. It was designed to defend one of the oldest and greatest civilizations on the planet.
For centuries it did just that…..and for some centuries it didn’t do that at all.
Some people have claimed that you could see it from space, and it is one of the most visited tourist attractions on Earth.
Learn more about the Great Wall of China, one of the planet’s greatest man-made ...
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April 15, 2024 • 14 mins
Sandwiches are one of the most popular types of food in the world. They are incredibly easy to make, can be incredibly cheap, and they come in numerous varieties.
Yet, the humble sandwich is also the subject of a great deal of controversy. What type of sandwich is best? Where did sandwiches come from? …and perhaps the greatest question of all, is a hot dog a sandwich?
Learn more about sandwiches and their history on this episode o...
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April 14, 2024 • 14 mins
Aircraft carriers are some of the most fearsome weapons in the world. They are enormous platforms that can travel around the globe, projecting power over an enormous part of it.
However, aircraft carriers have a rather humble origin that actually predates the invention of the airplane. Throughout the 20th century, they saw many innovations and adaptations that turned them into the fearsome weapons they are today.
Yet, despite the...
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April 13, 2024 • 15 mins
In 1760, George III succeeded to the throne of the United Kingdom at the age of 22, becoming the third king in the House of Hannover.
His reign would become one of the longest in British history, and he was monarch during some of the most important events in history including the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars.
However, his reign was also marked by a serious illness that eventually rendere...
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April 12, 2024 • 15 mins
In October 1918, just weeks before the end of the First World War, one of the most incredible feats of military valor took place in the Meuse–Argonne offensive, one of the last great battles of the war.
This incredible feat of bravery and soldiering was done by a very unlikely soldier. One that didn’t even want to participate in the war on religious grounds.
His story has been the subject of books and movies and is still being to...
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April 11, 2024 • 14 mins
In 1914, the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition set out to become the first to cross the continent of Antarctica by land.
They did not achieve their goal.
However, their failure ended up becoming one of the greatest stories of perseverance and of the tenacity of the human spirit.
Learn more about Ernest Shackleton and the rescue of the Endurance on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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April 10, 2024 • 13 mins
Sometime in the 15th century, a drink became popularized in the Arabian peninsula. It was dark, bitter, and people couldn’t get enough of it.
From its simple origins, over the centuries, it has spread around the world to become one of the most popular beverages in history.
Today you can find it being served almost everywhere, including specialty stores built around its consumption.
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April 9, 2024 • 10 mins
Songkran is a traditional festival celebrated in Thailand that marks the start of the Thai New Year. It is also known as the Water Festival, as it involves splashing water on one another as a symbolic gesture of cleansing and washing away the sins and bad luck of the previous year.
However, it has since evolved into something much more than a religious observance. It has become the world’s biggest water fight.
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April 8, 2024 • 14 mins
During World War II, one of the biggest concerns of the Allies was the development of a German atomic bomb.
As such, the allies and various partisan groups in occupied countries made the destruction of anything related to the Nazi atomic program a high priority.
One place, in particular, was subject to allied bombing, commando missions, and partisan sabotage throughout the war.
Learn more about the Telemark Raids and how Norway b...
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April 7, 2024 • 12 mins
Most children growing up are admonished not to take candy from strangers.
It is good advice, but it isn’t advice that comes from nowhere. It comes from a particular incident 150 years ago that shocked the world and changed how we view children’s safety.
It was an event, the echos of which can be seen today in efforts to find abducted children.
Learn more about the kidnapping of Charley Ross on this episode of Everything Everywhere...
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