Of the many traditions associated with the Christmas season, one of the biggest is food. Foods that are often eaten only at this time of the year and seldom outside of the season. Unlike other Christmas traditions, food can vary greatly in different places, as well as through time. Many Christmas foods eaten in the past can’t even be found today. Learn more about Christmas food and how these traditions differ around the world and throughout history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily....
Dec 24, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Every year, sometime around the end of summer, it seems, you start hearing the very familiar songs of Christmas. Every year, we hear the exact same songs, many of which have been passed down for centuries. Where did these songs come from, and why do we call Christmas songs “carols”? Learn more about Christmas carols and Christmas music and the origin of these songs on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes ...
Dec 23, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Twice a year, the sun reaches an extreme point in the sky. It is the day with the least amount of sunlight or the most amount of sunlight, depending on where in the world you happen to be. It is a day that almost every early culture around the world recognized because it was the one day a year they could document by following the path of the sun. Learn more about the solstice, how it works and how it has been celebrated on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! ht...
Dec 22, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast In northern Greece, lying off the larger Chalkidiki peninsula is a place that is unique on planet Earth. It only has a population of about 2,400 people scattered across 20 settlements and some random people living by themselves. What makes this area unique is that all 2,400 of its citizens are monks and all are men….and women are not allowed to even enter. Learn more about the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link....
Dec 21, 2022•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today computers are ubiquitous. You are listening to this podcast right now on some sort of computing device. However, before computers were machines, the name computer was given to people. Computers were people who computed. In fact, the early days of NASA and the space program relied upon these human computers, most of whom were women. Learn more about NASA’s human computers and the role they played in the development of spaceflight on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Previous Epis...
Dec 20, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast After the horrors of the first world war, many of the nations in the conflict sought to build memorials to honor their dead. While there were many memorials built, often large and grandiose, the most important memorial in many countries is that of a tomb, oftentimes simple, dedicated to a soldier whose remains could not be identified. These tombs are often guarded with great pomp and ceremony and have been for over 100 years. Learn more about the tombs of the unknown soldiers on this episode of ...
Dec 19, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Most people know of Isaac Newton as one of the world’s foremost mathematicians and physicists. Listeners of this podcast might also know that he was inadvertently responsible for the creation of the gold standard. Yet there is another part of Isaac Newton that most people aren’t aware of. A part of him that was very much not a scientist. Learn more about Isaac Newton and his fascination with alchemy on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/...
Dec 18, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast After the rise of Islam in the 7th century, it spread rapidly, establishing a foothold in Asia, Africa, and in Europe. In Europe, it established a foothold on the Iberian Peninsula. For almost 800 years, the Europeans who lived in Peninsula sought to expel them. It took the better part of a millennium, but they finally achieved their goal. Learn more about the Spanish Reconquista and the high point of the Islamic Caliphate in Europe on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Picasso 2023 In...
Dec 17, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 2005, a small auction house in New Orleans sold a painting at auction labeled at Lot 664. The description of the item was simply, “Christ Salvator Mundi. Oil on cradled panel.” The painting was sold for $1,000. Twelve years later, the same painting was sold at Christie’s in New York for a record $450 million dollars. Learn more about Salvator Mundi, the world’s most expensive painting, and the controversy surrounding it, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast...
Dec 16, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Adolf Hitler single-handedly started the Second World War in Europe. While the allies were desperately trying to end the Third Reich and Hitler personally, they weren’t the only ones trying to bring Hilter’s reign to an end. Inside Nazi Germany, a small but committed group sought to remove Hitler from power, and they took action in July 1944. Learn more about Operation Valkyrie and the plot to assassinate Hitler on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://li...
Dec 15, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as the third mission to land on the moon. It never achieved its mission objective. Despite having failed in its goal, it still managed to return to Earth and, in its own way, achieved a type of success it could never have planned for. Learn more about Apollo 13, the most successful failure in the history of space flight, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/Everythi...
Dec 14, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Formerly located in the territory of Hong Kong was arguably the most densely populated place on Earth. In fact, it might have been the most densely populated place in human history. Not only was it packed with people, but it also had a unique political status. No government controlled it, which made it lawless, which in turn made it a magnet for organized crime. Learn more about the Walled City of Kowloon, one of the most dangerous and densely populated places in history, on this episode of Ever...
Dec 13, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast There are estimated to be over 1,300 active volcanoes in the world today. Almost all of them have one thing in common, they were around well before there were humans to record their creation. In fact, their creation might have taken many thousands of years. However, there is one volcano were know quite a bit about because we were around when it was born, and we have everything on film. Learn more about Paricutin, the volcano that we witnessed being born, on this episode of Everything Everywhere ...
Dec 12, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast There are a host of different musical instruments. There are woodwinds, strings, brass, and percussion instruments. These are the instruments that make up the backbone of orchestras and bands. However, there is one instrument that is unlike any other. Almost no one who plays the instrument actually owns one, and if you want to play it, you probably have to schedule a time to play when no one is around. Learn more about the pipe organ, the world’s largest instrument, on this episode of Everything...
Dec 11, 2022•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Located 1,500 miles south of the nation of Cote d’Ivoire and about 2,500 miles east of Rio de Janeiro, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, lies one of the most remote human settlements on Earth: The island of St Helena. Given its remote location, St. Helena has had a history unlike most other islands, and people who live there are unlike any others in the world. Learn more about the island of Saint Helena, its history, and life on the island, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subs...
Dec 10, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast The elite citizens of the Roman Republic were part of a system built to encourage ambition and competition. As the men of the republic competed for honors and political positions, the greatest honor Rome could bestow upon someone was a triumph. A triumph was much more than a parade. It was a mixture of political, civic, and religious ritual. Learn more about the Roman Triumph, its significance, and the rules surrounding it, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast...
Dec 09, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast For thousands of years, one of the most valuable elements which humanity has treasured is silver. Not only has silver been valued for its use in coins in jewelry, but it also has several unique properties which no other metal has. Today silver is still as treasured as it was thousands of years ago, but it is being used in ways that the ancients could never have imagined. Learn more about silver, its history, and its uses on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! h...
Dec 08, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast History is shaped by many things. Political and religious leaders, diseases, and technologies. But perhaps the thing which has resulted in the most poignant inflection points in history has been the results of great battles. Battles where if things had gone another way, the entire world we live in would look totally different. Learn more about the most important battles in world history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEve...
Dec 07, 2022•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Previous Episodes Referenced https://everything-everywhere.com/question-and-answers-volume-1/ Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Darcy Adams Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/every...
Dec 06, 2022•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast It has been said that a dog is a man’s best friend. This might be true, but…..why. How was it that this particular animal developed such a special relationship with humans? How did the domestication process take place, and where did it happen? …and how is it that there are so many different breeds of dogs that call came from the same original source? Learn more about the domestication of dogs and how it happened on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://li...
Dec 05, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast One of the most ubiquitous forms of payment today is credit cards. The odds are good that you have one, and most probably have one on your person right now. But how did it come about that you could pay for something by just giving someone a piece of plastic and who exactly came up with this idea? Learn more about credit cards, where they came from and how they work, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes...
Dec 04, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Almost thirty years ago, a rather unremarkable soccer match in an unremarkable tournament became the stuff of legend. Had it not been for a confluence of events and rules that all came together at one point in one game, it never would have happened. The result was something totally ridiculous that had never happened before or since. Learn more about the 1994 match between Grenada and Barbados, and the dumbest game in history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podca...
Dec 03, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast The First World War saw many innovations in warfare. Probably the most significant was the introduction of aircraft. The first military pilots didn’t really know what they were doing. There was no rulebook about how to fight with other aircraft. However, one pilot mastered the art of aerial and terrorized the allies over skies on the western front. Learn more about Manfred von Richthofen, aka the Red Barron, the greatest ace of World War I, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscri...
Dec 02, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Soon after the start of the space race, a major problem with space flight became obvious: it was really expensive. The high cost of space flight was in large part due to the fact that every rocket and spacecraft was expendable. Every trip meant a new rocket and a new vehicle. To solve this problem, in the early 1970s, the United States launched a new program to create a reusable spacecraft. Learn more about the rise and fall of the Space Transportation System, aka the Space Shuttle on this episo...
Dec 01, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Countries are kind of like people. Every one of them has a name. Just like people, sometimes they change their names. The are a host of reasons why countries change their names, and for every country that does change its name, there is a different story behind it. Learn more about the countries that were formerly known as other countries and why they did it on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes --------...
Nov 30, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Prime numbers are considered to be the building blocks of mathematics. Every natural number can be broken down into the constituent prime numbers that make it up. Prime numbers have been known since antiquity and they are one of the most simple aspects of mathematics to understand, yet they remain at the center of some of the most puzzling problems in mathematics. Learn more about prime numbers, what we know about them, and what we don’t know, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subs...
Nov 29, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Earth is highly imbalanced. Some countries have more resources than others. Some have natural harbors, and some are landlocked. Some consist primarily of deserts, and others have fertile farmland. Some countries are islands, and some border many other countries. These differences between countries result in each having a unique set of interests, desires, and abilities. This results in a system we know as geopolitics. Learn more about geopolitics and how geography has shaped the density of co...
Nov 28, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Almost every day, you might check the forecast to see what the temperature will be like in the near future or if it might rain. When you hear a forecast, how exactly do they know what the temperature will be or if it will rain? Also, just how accurate are weather forecasts, and how accurate could they possibly be? Learn more about weather forecasting, its history, and how it works on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywher...
Nov 27, 2022•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Located in northcentral Spain live, one of the most unique people in all of Europe. They have a language that is literally like no other, and even their genetics are unlike the people around them. In addition, they have a unique culture, and a mysterious history and just may have visited the Americas before Columbus. Learn more about the Basque people and the Basque Country and what makes them so unique on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl....
Nov 26, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast The United States has created many cultural institutions which have spread around the world. People all over the Earth have enjoyed and benefited from rock and roll, Hollywood films, and the Internet. However, we’ve also created some things that have spread to other countries which, to be totally honest, are probably not our best look. Learn more about Black Friday, the surprising history of the term, and how it manifests around the world today on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sub...
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