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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 2025 Nobel Prizes
Every year, the Nobel Prize committee awards the Nobel Prize in accordance with the will of Alfred Nobel.
Save for the years where there...
The Year 1925
If you look at the grand sweep of human history, there are centuries where seemingly little happens, and there are decades where centuries take place....
Prohibition (Encore)
On January 16, 1919, the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution was passed. It banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit
The FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit is one of the best-known and most important units within the bureau.
The use of profiling and psychol...
The Wilhelm Scream
Many filmmakers are known for small signatures that they always put inside their films. Alfred Hitchcock always used himself in a cameo. George Lucas...
The History of Personal Computing
When computers were first created, they were enormous.They would often take up the better part of a building, and they consumed large amounts of energ...
The Gateway Arch
In the midst of the Great Depression, the City of St. Louis wanted to create a monument to the city’s role in the westward expansion of the United Sta...
Bhutan
Bhutan is a small country sitting in the heart of the Himalayas.
Best known for its stunning location and its connection to Buddhism, Bhu...
Top-Level Domain Names
Every day, everyone who uses the internet uses the Domain Name System.
The key to the domain name system lies in the highest level of the...
Gemstones (Encore)
For thousands of years, humans all around the world have coveted gemstones.
Gemstones have been used as symbols of authority by kings, q...
The Six Cradles of Civilization
The rise of civilization is one of the most remarkable and important moments in human history.
However, it didn’t happen one time in one...
The Louisiana Purchase
In 1803, one of the most significant real estate transactions in world history occurred.
France, under Napoleon Bonepart, sold approxima...
The Wannsee Conference
On January 20, 1942, one of the most infamous meetings in human history took place.
Fifteen of the top-ranking Nazi officials gathered in...
Questions and Answers: Volume 35
October is here. Up here in the northern hemisphere, the leaves are changing color, the air is cooler, and suddenly, pumpkin spice is appearing in eve...
Classical Music 101
Even if you are not a fan, you are likely familiar with classical music to some extent.
You’ve heard it in movies, television commercial...
Cannons and Artillery
Over the last several centuries, one of the weapons that has defined warfare has been artillery.
It was used in the conquest of Constant...
John Brown
In the decades prior to the outbreak of the US Civil War, abolitionists had been ratcheting up their efforts to end the institution of slavery.
...
The Law of the Sea (Encore)
The world as we know it is made up of 193 countries, Antarctica, and a host of territories.However, between all of those places are the high seas or i...
A History of Soap and Detergent
Sometime in the last 24 hours, most of you have used soap or detergent, either directly or indirectly.
Soap, like many other things, was...
King Leopold and the Congo Free State
In the late 19th century, during the scramble for Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized a large landmass in Central Africa.
By doing...
German POWs in America
Prisoners of war or POWs during the 20th century were a part of war.
Beligerant nations had to develop systems to guard, house, and feed...
The Washington Monument
Almost immediately after the death of George Washington in 1799, the United States began to think of ways to commemorate and honor the father of the c...
The Velvet Revolution and The Velvet Divorce
The country of Czechoslovakia was born and died in the 20th century.
It was created after a war, suffered through another war, was occup...
The 1970 Ancash Earthquake
On May 31, 1970, one of the most devastating disasters in Peruvian history occurred.
A magnitude 7.9 earthquake hit just off the coast o...
The Domestication of Sheep
Sometime around 11,000 years ago, somewhere in the Middle East or Central Asia, someone figured out how they could keep wild sheep and breed them.
The Origins of the Vietnam War (Encore)
The Vietnam War was perhaps the most significant event that took place in the last half of the 20th century.
It had profound impacts on...
The Year 1900
The year 1900 was a pivotal year in world history. It was the end of the 19th century and on the cusp of the 20th century.
Many of the t...
The Black Dahlia
On January 15, 1947, a young woman was found dead in Los Angeles, California.
She was found naked, cut in half, and drained of blood.
Dendrochronology
One of the most essential aspects of archeology is dating objects found in the past, and one of the most critical tools in dating historic objects is...
Star Wars
A long time ago in a city far, far away….
A young director with several films under his belt had an idea for a movie. His idea was to cre...
The Arctic and the North Pole
Located above 66°33? Latitude North is the region we call the Arctic.
The Arctic is unlike any other environment on Earth, even the Anta...
Hannibal Barca and the Second Punic War
In the third century BC, Rome faced its greatest enemy.
One man, a Carthaginian general named Hannibal Barca, led an army into the Italia...
The Never Ending Voyager Missions
In 1977, NASA took advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime alignment of the planets to send two probes to the outermost reaches of the solar system.
...
Leonardo da Vinci
On April 15, 1452, a child was born, the illegitimate son of a peasant woman and a local notary in the village of Vinci, which was then part of the Re...
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
On October 13, 1972, a fight transporting a Uruguayan rugby club crashed into the Andes Mountains.
For the following 72 days, survivors...
The Long Telegram
On February 22, 1946, George F. Kennan, a career diplomat working in the American embassy in Moscow, sent an 8,000-word cable to the State Department...
Six Degrees of Separation
You may have noticed, on occasion, that friends you have from totally different parts of your life sometimes know each other.
It often c...
The Germ Theory of Disease (Encore)
For thousands of years, many theories have been put forward as to the cause of communicable diseases.
These theories ranged from the rel...
Hitler's Family
Adolf Hitler was unquestionably one of the evil people, not just of the 20th century, but in all of history.
His very name has become a...
The Lost Colony of Roanoke (Encore)
In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh established an English colony on an island in what is today the state of North Carolina.
After a slow start,...