Everything Everywhere Daily
Kanaal Besonderhede
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...
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The Loomis Fargo Heist
In the evening of October 4, 1997, a large cash haul of about $17.3 million was stolen from the Loomis Fargo & Co. vault in Charlotte, North Carolina....
The Battle of Kasserine Pass
In February 1943, the United States Army saw its first major battle of World War II.They confronted the German Afrika Korps in the mountains of Tunisi...
The Darien Scheme
During the 17th century, European nations dominated the world by aggressively establishing colonies across the globe.
Late that century,...
Andersonville Prison
During the American Civil War, numerous camps were established to hold prisoners of war from both sides.
Of these, the most notorious wa...
Home Runs
One of the most dramatic events in sports is the home run. In a single instant, leads can change hands and games can be won or lost.
Yet...
The Rise and Fall of Lin Biao
From the outside, the Chinese Communist Party appears to be a unified entity, devoid of external dissent.
However, history suggests that...
Beavers
When you think of animals that have impacted history, your first thought may be of dogs, cows, pigs, or horses. Yet another animal has played an overs...
Emperor Caligula
was born.
By the time he was 25, he was the ruler of the Roman Empire and the most powerful man in the world.
As with other...
The Dust Bowl
The Great Depression inflicted an apocalyptic financial struggle on American cities, driving unemployment to a staggering 25%.
While urb...
The Song Dynasty
Chinese civilization has endured for more than 3,500 years, driven by a succession of kings, emperors, and sophisticated bureaucracies.
T...
Ice Cream
Ice cream is a delicious, popular treat served around the world. Yet it hasn’t been around forever.
The creation of ice cream can be tra...
The History of Science Fiction
One of the most popular genres of literature, film, and television is science fiction.
Science fiction is relatively new, and by its very...
The Late Bronze Age Collapse
Approximately 3,200 years ago, one of the most momentous events in human history took place.
Multiple major civilizations during the Bron...
Soccer in South America
Ranking the “greatest soccer players of all time” often leads to a top three dominated by South Americans: Lionel Messi, Pelé, and Diego Maradona.
The Revolutions of 1848
In 1848, a series of Revolutions occurred against European Monarchies across the continent.
The revolutions were not part of an organized...
The Indus Valley Civilization
In 1922, archeologist Howard Carter stunned the world by discovering King Tut’s tomb in Egypt.
Two years later, his contemporary John Mar...
The Science of Swimming
Swimming was one of only four sports to have appeared at every Summer Olympic Games, beginning in 1896.
The sport has been among the most...
The Iranian Revolution
The story of modern Iran is a collision between a monarchy with a history dating back to the Persian Empire and a frustrated nation with massive oil r...
Everything You Never Really Cared To Know About Groundhog Day
Every February 2nd, a small ceremony takes place in the town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
A crowd will gather to see if a rodent can s...
Questions and Answers: Volume 39
February is upon us. It is a time when we in the United States predict the weather on the basis of a rodent seeing its shadow, and we celebrate Americ...
The Battle of Trafalgar
In 1805, an epic confrontation occurred off the southwest coast of Spain, resulting in one of the greatest naval battles in history.
Thi...
Patrice Lumumba and Congolese Independence
After decades of Belgian rule, Congo gained independence in June 1960 under the leadership of the nation’s first Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba.
The Crisis of the Third Century (Encore)
The Roman Empire, at its height, was a juggernaut.
However, during the third century, almost everything fell apart. In fact, for a brief...
Disney Animation
Disney is one of the most popular and well-known brands in the world. They are a massive conglomerate of movie studios, television networks, cruise li...
Solidarity
In 1983, the Nobel Peace Prize honored Polish electrician Lech Walesa for leading the nonviolent revolution of "Solidarity."
The Nobel c...
The Baseball Hall of Fame
In the 1930s, the United States was in the grip of the Great Depression, and baseball was approaching its 100th anniversary.
One enterpr...
Sigmund Freud
If you know anything about the field of psychology, you’ve probably heard of Sigmund Freud.
Best known as the founder of psychoanalysis,...
The Clovis First Hypothesis
In 1932, archaeologist Edgar B. Howard made a major discovery near the town of Clovis, New Mexico.
He found a stone spear point embedded...
The Mali Empire
The Mali Empire was one of the largest and most influential states in African history, rising in West Africa during the thirteenth century and reachin...
The May Fourth Movement
Few dates in China are as significant as May Fourth, which marks two distinct revolutionary periods in modern Chinese history.
On May 4...
The Year 2025
525 days ago, I began looking at the state of the world every century, then every fifty years, and finally every twenty-five years as the pace of chan...
The Julio-Claudian Dynasty (Encore)
The Roman Empire was ruled by a single family for its first century. The family was actually a merger of two of the most distinguished clans in Roman...
The Great London Fire of 1666
From September 2 to September 5, 1666, one of the largest urban fires in history took place.
The Great Fire of London swept mercilessly...
The Grateful Dead
One of the most popular music groups over the last half-century is also one of the most unlikely.
They were seldom played on the radio, ...
The Tokyo Trials
Following the conclusion of World War II, decisions needed to be made about how to handle the defeated Axis Powers.
Due to the vast scale...
Insanely Ridiculously Absurdly Large Numbers
One of the first mathematical concepts that most of us grasp when we are children is that there is no such thing as the biggest number. No matter what...
The House of Wisdom
The Abbasid Caliphate stood as a vibrant center of commerce, technology, and learning from the 8th to the 13th centuries.
At the heart o...
Moldova
Sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine is the nation of Moldova.
As with many landlocked countries in Central and Eastern Europe, it has...
Leninism vs Maoism
Communism is an ideology that millions of people had to live under during the 20th century.
Despite the communist label many nations adh...
The Honey Hunters of the Sundarbans
The Sundarbans is the world’s largest mangrove forest and a UNESCO World Heritage site spanning the border of India and Bangladesh.
This...