Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ As an outsider, the British peerage system is really confusing. There are princes, dukes, earls, and barons. Some of the titles are hereditary, and some of them are not. The titles have a hierarchy, but is a viscount higher or lower in status than a marquess, and is a baron higher or lower than an earl? Learn more about the British peerage system, how it works, and the structure of it all, on this episode of Everything Everywh...
Mar 29, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ For centuries, humans have built canals to facilitate the transportation of people and goods. Usually, they are built to dramatically save time, like how the Panama and Suez canals can help avoid a trip around an entire continent. However, there is currently a canal being built that is designed to replicate a natural feature that already exists. ..and it might actually make sense. Learn more about the Istanbul Canal and why it...
Mar 28, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Ancient Rome had an enormous number of customs and traditions. Some of them have been passed down to us in the names of our months, or the letters in the Latin alphabet. However, they also had a lot of very customs which to us seem very strange. One of the strangest, and most powerful to the Romans, were the traditions surrounding the Roman city limits, aka the pomerium. Learn more about the Roman pomerium, and how seriously t...
Mar 27, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ The 1920s and 1930s were the heydays of organized crime in New York City. There were several mobsters from that period such as Dutch Schultz and Lucky Luciano who terrorized the city and made a fortune. Amongst all of the organized crime figures in New York, there was one who was different from all the rest. She was a woman. Learn more about Stephanie St. Claire, the Harlem Queen of the Numbers Racket, on this episode of Every...
Mar 26, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ On November 20, 1917, German soldiers on the Western Front saw something that had never been seen in the history of warfare. They witnessed over 400 lumbering metal beasts heading their way. If they tried to shoot them, the bullets would just bounce off. They were some of the first people to be introduced to tank warfare. Learn more about the history of the tank, how they were developed and how they changed warfare, on this ep...
Mar 25, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ The largest single killer of human beings throughout history has been disease. With the advent of modern medicine and the understanding of how bacteria, viruses, and parasites work, we’ve made enormous strides in reducing incidents of disease. In a few cases, we have completely or almost completely eradicated diseases from the Earth. Learn more about humanity’s attempt to eradicate diseases on this episode of Everything Everyw...
Mar 24, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ 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. ------------------------...
Mar 23, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ There is one substance that makes up 98% of the observable matter in the universe, yet you will almost never encounter it in its native form. It is inside your body right now and life wouldn’t be possible without it, yet it is an extremely dangerous substance that could kill you if handled improperly. I am of course talking about hydrogen. Learn more about hydrogen, the lightest and most fundamental of all the elements, on thi...
Mar 22, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Classical music is not usually associated with rowdiness and mayhem. They tend to be rather well-behaved and if anything, they might express their disapproval by simplifying not clapping loudly enough. However, there was one major exception to this. On a single night in Paris about 110 years ago, a crowd erupted into a riot over the premiere of a ballet. Learn more about classical music’s most notorious evening, the premiere o...
Mar 21, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the Great War, the war to end all wars, came to an end. In the preceding four years and four months, the world saw the greatest bloodletting history up until that point. Even after the announcement of the armistice, the war continued for several hours. During that brief window, thousands of soldiers died. One, in particular, died at the very last minute of...
Mar 20, 2022•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Almost every single person listening to this podcast right now is doing so on some sort of personal computing device. Many of the things that we consider part of a modern personal computer, windows, hyperlinks, a mouse, and a text editor, all were released upon the world in a single 90-minute demo in 1968. The ideas were so advanced it would take over two decades before most of them found themselves in everyone’s homes. Learn ...
Mar 19, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ On January 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo, a US Navy intelligence-gathering ship was on a routine surveillance mission in international waters off of the coast of North Korea. While on surveillance duty, it was intercepted by North Korean patrol boats. Shots were fired, the crew was captured, and it set off one of the biggest international incidents of the Cold War. Learn more about the Pueblo incident, how and why it happened, on t...
Mar 18, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In 1788, the son of the leader of the Confederation of Futa Jallon in West Africa was commanding his 2,000 troops against a neighboring military force and was captured. He was sold into slavery and spent the next 40 years of his living as a slave in Mississippi. That was until a chance meeting discovered his true identity, which eventually lead to his freedom and the involvement of the President of the United States. Learn mor...
Mar 17, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ History is full of battles and conflicts. Most of them are forgotten over time as they don’t really impact history. Whether one king or another wins a battle usually doesn’t matter in the big scheme of things. However, there are moments that truly change world history. When civilizations clash and the outcome can affect the world for centuries. Such a moment occurred on May 29, 1453. Learn more about the Fall of Constantinople...
Mar 16, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ 2,046 years ago one of the most notorious political assassinations in world history took place. Julius Caesar, the dictator for life of the Roman Republic, was killed by a group of Senators just before a session of the senate was to start. The murder famously took place on the Ides of March. Learn more about the assassination of Julius Caesar, why it happened, and what exactly is the Ides of March, on this episode of Everythin...
Mar 15, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Every year on March 14, the world celebrates one of the most important mathematical constants: pi. It is a number which appears all over nature, even in places you wouldn’t expect it. It is also a number that has been known, or at least had been approximated, by civilizations for thousands of years. Today there are still more we are discovering about this number with the help of supercomputers. Learn more about pi and how our ...
Mar 14, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Scientists love to classify things. Archeologists are no exception. One of the very first classifications systems that were developed, classified ancient history into three broad eras. This system was crude and it isn't really used among professionals anymore, but its simplicity has ensured that it still survives in casual use. Learn more about the three ages system: the stone age, the bronze age, and the iron age, on this epi...
Mar 13, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In the Indiana Jones movies, Indiana is usually searching for a rare artifact with mystical powers while some other nefarious archeologist, usually a Nazi, is trying to find the artifact before Indy. Believe it or not, that trope of a Nazi archeologist looking for an item of incredible power actually has a kernel of truth to it. Sort of. Learn more about Otto Rahn and the real-life Nazi search for the Holy Grail on this episod...
Mar 12, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ The term Dark Ages has been used to refer to a period in European history when culture supposedly regressed and civilization was in decline. The idea of a Dark Ages is one that was prevalent amongst historians for centuries. But lately, historians have been reconsidering the idea of a Dark Age and questioning if there really was a Dark Age. Learn more about the Dark Ages and if they were really that dark, on this episode of Ev...
Mar 11, 2022•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In the winter of 1932 and 1933, one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in human history occurred in what was then the province of Ukraine in the Soviet Union. Millions of people died, yet the event was ignored in most of the western press and wasn’t even officially acknowledged by the Soviet government until the 1980s. Today, most people in the world still aren’t aware of one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century. ...
Mar 10, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Thousands of years ago, humans discovered a black-yellowish liquid that come out from the ground and could burn when it was set on fire. Today, the fluid that seeped from the rocks is responsible for much of our modern world. But how does that fluid become usable fuel, and how exactly do you get it out of the rocks? Learn more about petroleum, aka crude oil, and how it gets from the ground to your vehicle, on this episode of E...
Mar 09, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Throughout history, there have been riots over many different things. Sports teams winning, sports teams losing, high prices, war protests, and police brutality, have all been a cause of riots at some point. However, in 1766, one town in England had perhaps one of the oddest riots of all time. Learn more about the Great Nottingham Cheese Riot on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. -------------------------------- Asso...
Mar 08, 2022•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ If you were to ask most people what the very first invention that humans came up with is, many of them might say the wheel. It isn’t a bad guess, but believe it not, the wheel was nowhere close to being the first invention. In fact, as far as we know, there were a whole bunch of things that were invented before the wheel, and in fact, probably had to have been invented before the wheel. Learn more about why the wheel wasn’t in...
Mar 07, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is one of the smallest countries in the world. The country has only one proper hotel and that has just 9 rooms. Once you visit the country, there is no car rental service, there isn’t an ATM machine anywhere in the country, and the entire country doesn’t take credit cards. Oh, and good luck trying to get online. Learn more about Tuvalu, the least visited country in the world, on this ...
Mar 06, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In 1940, the world was at war, but the United States wasn’t A strong isolationist sentiment kept the US on the sidelines while Germany and Japan ran roughshod over their neighbors. While the US wasn’t in the war, many people in the US military knew that it was only a matter of time before we got sucked in. Over a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a plan was developed for just that eventuality. Learn more about the Plan D...
Mar 05, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Countries, like people, have names. Sometimes those names are long and they have a shorter version of it for common use. There are some countries, however, that often have multiple names, and the names can be radically different from each other. They might want everyone to call it by one name, or by a certain name in a certain language, but no one does. Why do some countries have multiple names, and does it really make a diffe...
Mar 04, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ You are probably well aware that Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth. Because of its status as the highest point on Earth, it has attracted thousands of people who have climbed to the summit. In the process, it has also killed hundreds of people who died in the attempt. Learn more about the history of trying to climb Mount Everest on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. -------------------------------- Assoc...
Mar 03, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ On November 30, 1939, as part of their secret agreement with Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union invaded the nation of Finland. Despite the overwhelming numerical and military advantage, the Soviets were unable to advance very far and suffered heavy losses. One man, in particular, was responsible for many of those losses and single-handedly wreaked havoc on the invading forces. Learn more about Simo Häyhä, aka the White Death, on t...
Mar 02, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Every year, before the start of Lent, in hundreds of cities around the world, there is a massive celebration. While the celebrations differ, sometimes dramatically, there are certain elements they all share. Modern celebrations can often get quite racy, and if you didn’t know it, you’d probably never guess that the origins of the celebration actually have a religious origin. Learn more about Carnival and Mardi Gras, and how th...
Mar 01, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In 1648, Europe saw the end of two of the most horrific wars that had ever been seen on the continent up until that point. The treaties which ended these conflicts established an international order which overturned the system which had existed for centuries, and established a new order which in many respects, still exists today. Learn more about the Peace of Westphalia and how its legacy can still be felt 350 years later, on ...
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