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Everything Everywhere Daily
Everything Everywhere Daily is a daily podcast that explores a wide range of topics in history, science, geography, and culture, delivering concise, engaging explanations designed to make complex subjects accessible and interesting to a broad audience. Every day, Everything Everywhere Daily explore...
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The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
In August 1945, a single decision changed the course of history and introduced a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen.
The cho...
The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Victory That Saved Ancient Greece
In 480 BC, the most powerful empire on Earth set out to crush a collection of small, divided Greek city-states.
On land, defeat seemed i...
Satellite Internet: How It Works
When the Internet was first launched, it was only available on a few computers at a few research institutions.
Over the last 50 years, i...
Geronimo: The Last Great Native American Resistance Leader
Few figures in American history embody resistance and resilience quite like Geronimo.
A leader of the Apache who defied both Mexican and...
The Dark Origins of Fairy Tales, Part 2
Walt Disney Animation Studios has crafted dozens of the most popular children’s movies ever made.
These stories shimmer with whimsical ma...
The Great Stink: How a Horrific Smell Changed London Forever
In the summer of 1858, London was brought to a standstill by something you couldn’t see but definitely couldn’t ignore: the overwhelming stench of the...
Waco Siege Explained: What Happened in 1993
In 1993, a standoff between federal agents and a small religious sect outside Waco, Texas, ended in fire, death, and lasting controversy.
March Madness: The History of the NCAA Basketball Tournament
Every March, the United States experiences a period known as March Madness. It is the time when college basketball teams compete for a national champ...
Uninhabited US Territories: America's Crumbs
In 1856, the United States passed a law allowing American citizens to claim islands in the country’s name, provided that no other country claimed them...
Maori Settlement of New Zealand: How Polynesians Reached Aotearoa
For millions of years, the islands of New Zealand remained a pristine wilderness, untouched by human footsteps. That changed in the 13th century when...
The Chicxulub Impact
Sometime around 66 million years ago, a meteor smashed into what is today the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.
The impact of that event chan...
The Persian Gulf
For thousands of years, a narrow body of water between Arabia and Persia has shaped the fate of empires, economies, and the modern world.
Vincent Van Gogh
Few artists are as instantly recognizable as Vincent van Gogh.
In just a single decade of work, he created some of the most famous paint...
The Globalization of Baseball
Today, baseball is played at the highest levels on nearly every continent. Stars come from the United States, Japan, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela...
The Greatest Oscar Snubs
Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosts the biggest celebration of movies and moviemaking: The Oscars.
Thousand...
The North American Bison
For thousands of years, one animal shaped the ecology, culture, and history of an entire continent.
In vast herds that once numbered in...
North Sentinel Island
In the Indian Ocean lies an island notorious for its extreme isolation from the outside world: North Sentinel Island.
The Sentinelese, w...
The Purple Heart
Among all the decorations awarded by the United States military, one stands apart.
It is not given for bravery, leadership, or extraordi...
The Harlem Renaissance
In the early decades of the twentieth century, a neighborhood in New York City became the center of an extraordinary cultural explosion.
...
Skylab
In the early 1970s, after the triumph of landing on the Moon, NASA faced a question: what comes next?
The answer was Skylab, America’s f...
Ivan Pavlov and His Dogs
At the turn of the 20th century, a Russian physiologist made a discovery that would fundamentally change how we understand learning and behavior.
The Mexican Revolution
After Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, hopes for democracy gradually gave way to decades of instability and dictatorship.
...
Who is Alan Smithee
If you look at the Internet Movie Database, one of the most prolific directors over the last 70 years has been Alan Smithee.
He has been...
The East African Slave Trade
Most people are familiar with the transatlantic slave trade, which enslaved over ten million people over a period of centuries.
Fewer peo...
The Plot to Steal the Body of Abraham Lincoln
The 1876 plot to steal the body of Abraham Lincoln is one of the strangest and most audacious crimes in American history.
The scheme aime...
The Inca Empire
The Inca Empire was the largest and most sophisticated state ever created in the pre-Columbian Americas, stretching along the Andes from present-day s...
The History of Tobacco
When Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, members of his crew observed the Taíno people offering them dried leaves as gifts.
The...
The Young Turks
The 19th-century Ottoman Empire was in decline and was called the “sick man of Europe”.
The Ottoman Empire, like Qing China and Imperial...
Questions and Answers: Volume 40
March is upon us. Here in the northern hemisphere, the days are getting longer, temperatures are getting warmer, and people are about to go nuts over...
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most influential and haunting voices in American literature, a writer whose imagination reshaped horror, detective fict...
The American Basketball Association
One of the most compelling stories in American professional sports is the rise of the American Basketball Association or the ABA.
Founded...
Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics has been one of the most prolific comics publishers over the last century.
Not only have they been one of the biggest comic...
Did George Mallory Climb Mount Everest First?
Almost everyone knows that the first people to climb Mount Everest were Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, who reached the summit and returned in 1953...
The Danish Resistance
As Germany conquered countries in WWII, in many nations, they found willing volunteers to help them identify Jews to send to concentration camps.
The Ultraviolet Catastrophe (Encore)
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a problem that stumped even the best minds in physics.
Eventually, one man, Max...
Curling
Every four years, we are captivated by the remarkable athletes who compete at the Olympics.
But while most Olympic events inspire a sort...
Stateless People
Over 99.9% of the world’s population is a citizen of some country.However, approximately 0.06% lack citizenship in any country. The United Nations es...
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,...