In 1781, after six years of fighting, the American Revolution came to a dramatic conclusion. One of the two major British armies in the conflict found themselves trapped on a peninsula near Yorktown, Virginia. A combination of American and French forces laid siege to the British at Yorktown in what turned out to be the war's final battle. Learn more about the Battle of Yorktown and how cliched American independence on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https:/...
Jan 23, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast There is nothing faster in the entire universe than the speed of light. Not only is it the fastest thing, but nothing can be faster than light. For the longest time, humans didn’t even know that light had a speed, and once they figured out that light wasn’t instantaneous, it took several centuries to figure out what that speed was. Learn more about the speed of light and its implications for physics and engineering on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https:/...
Jan 22, 2023•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the early 19th century, the most abundant bird in North America, and perhaps the entire world, was the passenger pigeon. An estimated three billion of them would fly in flocks so large that they could blot out the sun. However, within a century, the entire species had gone extinct. It was one of the fastest and most disastrous turnarounds for any species in recorded history. Learn more about the passenger pigeon and how they went extinct on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscri...
Jan 21, 2023•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 1688, a palace coup took place in England. The King of England and Scotland was usurped and was replaced by his daughter and her husband from the Netherlands. The act forever changed the British Monarchy and created an alternative line of succession to the throne, which still exists today. Learn more bout the Glorious revolution, why it happened, and its ramifications on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=Show...
Jan 20, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast On July 17, 1944, one of the worst disasters to befall the American military during World War II occurred. It didn’t occur in Europe or the Pacific, however. It took place on US soil. The events leading up to this calamity and its aftermath permanently shaped the United States military. Learn more about the Port Chicago Disaster and the lasting changes it brought about on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNo...
Jan 19, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Just one week after President Abraham Lincoln was re-elected in November 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman set out to execute one of the most audacious plans of the US Civil War. His plan involved violating several central tenants of warfare which had been established for thousands of years, yet in the process, he helped bring the war to a swift conclusion. In hindsight, many people consider what he did to have been a war crime. Learn more about Sherman’s March to the Sea and how it a...
Jan 18, 2023•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast On December 21, 1891, a physical education teacher in Springfield, Massachusetts, looking to keep athletes occupied during the winter, hung some peach baskets on the balcony of the gymnasium. With these peach baskets and an old soccer ball, he created something that revolutionized sports and became one of the most popular games in the world. Learn more about the history of basketball and how it became a global phenomenon on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! h...
Jan 17, 2023•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast For thousands of years, one of the most terrifying and destructive diseases which afflicted humanity has been leprosy. Leprosy is a condition that affects the nerves and skin, and in extreme cases, it can result in the loss of limbs and other appendages. Those who were diagnosed with leprosy would often be consigned to a lifetime of social ostracism. Learn more about leprosy, aka Hansens Disease, its past and its future, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! h...
Jan 16, 2023•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast During World War II, allied soldiers would often spend their time listening to the radio. They could, at least for a little while, be transported back home by listening to popular music with the soothing sounds of a female radio host with a flawless American accent. Along with the music, the troops would also get a healthy dose of enemy propaganda. Learn more about Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally, how they got stuck doing radio, and what happened to them after the war, on this Episode of Everything Ev...
Jan 15, 2023•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast About 2,500 years ago, a Greek philosopher by the name of Zeno of Elea proposed several paradoxes about the natural word. His ideas were actually really simple, but they were incredibly difficult to explain away. For the last two millennia, philosophers have been trying to resolve his paradoxes, and they are still trying to explain them today. Learn more about the paradoxes of Zeon and how they can possibly be resolved on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! htt...
Jan 14, 2023•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Located in the South Atlantic Ocean, situated between South America and Africa, lies the most remote human settlement on Earth. There, a community of a little over 250 people eke out a living over 1,500 miles from the next closest humans. Getting there is difficult, and living there is probably even harder. Learn more about Tristian da Cuhna and how such an isolated community manages to survive on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/Every...
Jan 13, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, he declared his new regime to be The Third Reich and that it would last 1,000 years. It turned out he was off by 988 years. The big question for many people outside of Germany was and still is, if that was the third Reich, what were the first two Reichs? ..and for non-German speakers, what exactly is a Reich? Learn more about the first and second Reichs and what exactly they were on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! ht...
Jan 12, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the year 79, Mount Vesuvius, a volcano located east of the modern-day city of Naples, erupted. Vesuvius had erupted before, but this eruption was different. It ejected an enormous amount of ash which completely buried several towns and cities below the mountain. Almost 2,000 years later, the largest of those cities, Pompeii, was rediscovered, and what archeologists found revolutionized our understanding of the ancient world. Learn more about the destruction and rediscovery of Pompeii on this ...
Jan 11, 2023•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Early in the morning of August 21, 1986, in a valley near Lake Nyos, Cameroon, something horrible happened. 1,746 people were killed, as were over 3,500 cattle and almost every other animal that breathed air. There were no signs of violence or destruction. Everyone and everything seemed to have simply died. They were the victims of one of Earth's rarest and most frightening disasters. Learn more about limnic eruptions, what they are, and how they can be prevented on this episode of Everything Ev...
Jan 10, 2023•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast In September 1944, despite over half a year remaining in World War II, the Allies began preparing for an eventual post-war world. One of the biggest questions being discussed was what to do with Germany. After two world wars with Germany in just a quarter century, no one wanted a third. One American official developed a plan which would basically destroy Germany as a modern country to prevent them from ever making war again. Learn more about the Morgenthau Plan and the attempt to destroy Germany...
Jan 09, 2023•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the year 1900, a crew of sponge divers was looking for sponges off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera. While they were searching, they found the remains of an ancient shipwreck. The wreck contained over 30 marble statues, pieces of glasswork, and one corroded metal object that no one could identify. 75 years later, using new technology, they discovered what that hunk of metal was designed for. Learn more about the Antikythera Mechanism and how it forever changed our views of the ancien...
Jan 08, 2023•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Every form of life which has ever been discovered, regardless of its size or how it metabolizes energy, has one thing in common. They are based on the element carbon. Carbon is the most important building block for life. It holds a unique place on the periodic table, and it can combine with itself and other elements in so many different ways that there is an entire branch of chemistry devoted to it. Learn more about the element carbon, its importance, and its future on this episode of Everything...
Jan 07, 2023•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ladies and Gentlemen of the podcast audience, I would like you to consider Chewbacca. Chewbacca is an 8-foot-tall Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the moon of Endor. Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks? It makes no sense. Why am I talking about Chewbacca in the introduction of this podcast? It makes no sense. Soooo, let's do questions and answers volume 3 on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subsc...
Jan 06, 2023•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast The United States Congres is divided into two houses. The larger of the two houses, the House of Representatives, is led by a single representative known as the Speaker of the House. The duties and powers of the Speaker of the House have changed since the office was established in 1789 as they are entirely determined by the members of the House of Representatives itself. Learn more about the Speaker of the House, the duties of the position, and its history on this episode of Everything Everywher...
Jan 05, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sometime about 3,200 years ago, one of the most famous wars in ancient history took place. Maybe. It has been the subject of some of the greatest works of western literature, and it has given us some of the most enduring cultural references. It was also the subject of one of the greatest archeological finds of the 19th century. Learn more about the city of Troy and the Trojan War on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere...
Jan 04, 2023•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast What if I told you there is a place within the borders of the United States where, theoretically, you could get away with murder scot-free? No matter what you did, a jury of your peer wouldn’t convict you because you could never convene a jury. According to at least one legal scholar, such a place does exist, and it is due to a loophole in the US Constitution. Learn more about the zone of death and the theoretical place where you could get away with murder on this episode of Everything Everywher...
Jan 03, 2023•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast When airplanes were developed in the early 20th century, the technology developed rapidly. Within a matter of a couple of decades, aviation had become a norm for transporting people and delivering mail. As flight technology kept improving, people assumed that it would keep improving to the point where everyone would own their own personal airplanes. …except that never happened. Learn more about why we don’t have flying cars and how all the predictions were wrong on this episode of Everything Eve...
Jan 02, 2023•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Every year, people around the world ring in the New Year. How they do this, however, can differ radically from place to place. New Year’s traditions tend to be even more varied than Christmas celebrations. As with Christmas, traditions involve drinks, food, and rituals, but usually with a lot more noise and staying up later. Learn more about traditions surrounding how we ring in the New Year on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/Everythi...
Jan 01, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast New Year’s Day is not only the day we turn over a new year on the calendar, but also a day where people start resolutions, companies begin new budgets, and everyone screws up writing checks. While documenting our trips around the sun makes perfect sense, why do we use this day, January 1, as the starting point for our calendar years? Why not some other date? Learn more about how January 1st became the start of the new year on this Episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast!...
Dec 31, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast What is the greatest movie ever made? It seems like a highly subjective question that is impossible to answer. However, in 1952 the magazine of the British Film Institute took it upon itself to come up with an answer to the question. They surveyed an international group of film professionals to ask them what they thought the greatest films of all time were. They have conducted the survey every decade for the last 70 years. Learn more about the Sight and Sound Decadal Survey and the greatest movi...
Dec 30, 2022•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Divided between Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian West Bank lies the lowest point on the surface of the Earth: The Dead Sea. Not only is it the lowest point on Earth, but the sea is one of the saltiest bodies of water on the planet. But how did this place come to exist, and is it true that it will completely disappear at some point? Learn more about the Dead Sea and how it came to be, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEve...
Dec 29, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Abram Petrovich Gannibal was one of the most notable Russians of the 18th century. He was the godson of Peter the Great. He was among the most educated men and best engineers in the Russian Empire. He served as a general to Catherine the Great. ..and one of his great-grandsons was the greatest poet in the history of the Russian Language. There was, however, one thing that set him apart from all other Russians. He came from Africa. Learn more about Abram Petrovich Gannibal and his incredible stor...
Dec 28, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Approximately 700 years ago, something happened to the Earth’s climate. The world started to cool down. It wasn’t dramatic enough to cause another ice age and cause ice caps to cover the poles of the Earth, but it did result in significant changes. In fact, many historians think for a period of about 500 years, this shift in the climate dramatically influenced human history. Learn more about the Little Ice Age and how it changed humanity on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe ...
Dec 27, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Every year, primarily in Commonwealth countries, the day after Christmas is a legal holiday. It is a rather odd holiday in that it doesn’t celebrate anything or anyone in particular. Most people who celebrate the day have no clue what the origins of the holiday are, and many of the people who think they know the origins of the day are wrong. Learn more about Boxing Day and how the day after Christmas became a holiday on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Subscribe to the podcast! https...
Dec 26, 2022•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the very early morning of Christmas Day, 1914, something remarkable happened on the western front during the First World War. Soldiers in the trenches on both sides of no man’s land ceased fighting. Not only did they stop fighting, but they came out of their trenches to meet each other to celebrate Christmas. It has become one of the most mythologized events of the war and one of the oddest events in military history. Learn more about the Christmas Truce of 1914 and what really happened on th...
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