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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 polymath. Topics covered include history, science, mathematics, anthropology, archeology, geography, and culture. Past history episodes have dealt with ancient Rome, Phoenicia, Persia, Greece, China,

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17:29

Mass Extinction Events

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/04/03

We like to think of the Earth as a very stable place. While there might be seasonal variation in the weather, things don’t really change that much within our lifetimes. However, if you take a longer perspective, a much longer perspective, things can change a lot. In fact, there have been five times in the history of the Earth when life on Eath completely changed. When over half of the species on the planet completely disappeared. Learn more about the Earth’s mass extinction events and what

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16:24

Questions and Answers: Volume 29

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/04/02

If you happen to live in the Northern Hemisphere, April is a time when days get longer, the temperature gets warmer, and things start to become green again.It is also the month of National Unicorn Day, National Superhero Day, National Take A Wild Guess Day, and, of course, National Hairball Awareness Day. More important than any of these august holidays, it is the month where I answer your question. Stay tuned for another episode of Questions and Answers on this episode of Everything Everywhere

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The Crimean War

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2025/04/01

In the mid-19th century, Europe saw what was perhaps its largest war since the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The war was ultimately fought over who would pick up the pieces of the failing Ottoman Empire. However, every country that fought in the conflict had its own unique reasons for doing so. What no one could know at the time is that the war would usher in changes that would affect the future of warfare forever. Learn more about the Crimean War, its causes, and its legacy on this episode of

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14:08

Attila the Hun (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/03/31

During the 5th century, one name struck fear into the hearts of almost every European: Attila, leader of the Huns. For a period of almost 20 years, Attila ravaged Europe, conquering various tribes and causing one of the largest migrations ever seen on the continent. Then, quite suddenly and unexpectedly, the conquests of Attila stopped, and the Huns were no longer a major power. Learn more about Attila the Hun and how he changed the course of European history on this episode of Everything

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16:23

The Knuckleball

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/03/30

In the game of baseball, it might not seem at first glance that there is much strategy involved in the game. However, there is an enormous amount of strategy that goes into every pitch in the game. Pitchers have different pitches in their repertoire, which can rise, fall, and curve on their way to the batter in an attempt to fool the batter. However, there is one pitch which is unlike any other. It is so challenging that only a tiny percentage of pitchers in history have ever thrown it. Learn

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16:42

The Scientific Method

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/03/29

The modern world is built on science. Today, millions of scientists all over the world are doing research in thousands of different fields and specializations. All of these researchers are, to some degree, using a system that was developed over the course of centuries. A methodology that allows for the discovery of scientific truth. It isn’t perfect, but it ushered in a scientific revolution and helped create the modern world we live in. Learn more about the scientific method, what it is, and

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16:54

The Many, Many Invasions of Sicily

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/03/28

Located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea is its largest island: Sicily. Given its size and location, Sicily has been the key for any empire, kingdom, or civilization that wanted to control the Mediterranean. As a result, Sicily has been one of the most contested pieces of land in the history of the world. For over three thousand years, one army after another invaded and occupied the island before getting kicked out by the next one. Learn more about Sicily and its long history of invasion

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16:19

The History of Military Ranks (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/03/27

Every military in the world is a hierarchical organization. There are people at the top who make decisions, people down below who follow those orders, and people in between who make it happen. Today, most militaries have an elaborate rank structure with multiple ranks in the chain of command. However, it wasn’t always like that. The modern system of ranks evolved over time, and the ranks that exist today have origins that go back centuries. Learn more about military ranks, where they came

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15:37

Ramage’s Rampage

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/03/26

On July 31, 1944, one of the greatest naval exploits in history took place in the Western Pacific Ocean. Two American submarines led by Commander Lawson "Red" Ramage found themselves in the middle of a Japanese merchant fleet. Over the course of 46 minutes, they managed to achieve something that had never been done by so few submarines in so short of time. Learn more about Ramage’s Rampage and one of the most incredible exploits of the Second World War on this episode of Everything Everywhere

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16:37

Hildegard of Bingen

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2025/03/25

Over a thousand years ago, a wealthy family in Germany gave birth to their tenth child, a daughter. They gave their child to the church, as was the custom in those days. She grew to become the leader of her monastic community. More than that, she became one of the leading thinkers of her era. She composed music, wrote about medicine and theology, revolutionized brewing, and corresponded with kings and emperors. Learn more about Hildegard of Bingen, the most influential woman of the Middle Ages,

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15:58

The Columbian Exchange

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2025/03/24

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13:23

Cruciferous Vegetables (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/03/23

One of the most common food items consumed today are cruciferous vegetables. Even if you aren’t familiar with the term, you almost certainly have consumed some before, and there is a good chance you do so on a regular basis. What many people don’t know is that these vegetables are actually rather modern. Early neolithic humans never ate broccoli, cabbage, or Brussels sprouts because humans invented these foods. Learn more about cruciferous vegetables and where they came from on this episode of

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16:29

Marcus Aurelius: Emperor and Philosopher

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2025/03/22

Sponsors Mint Mobile Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/eed Quince Go to quince.com/daily for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order! Stitch Fix Go to stitchfix.com/everywhere to have a stylist help you look your best Tourist Office of Spain Plan your next adventure at Spain.info Stash Go to get.stash.com/EVERYTHING to see how you can receive $25 towards your first stock purchase and to view important disclosures. Subscribe to the

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17:08

The History of Whaling

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2025/03/21

Whaling is something that humans have engaged in for thousands of years.For most of that time, indigenous groups conducted it on a small scale for survival purposes. Over time, whaling became commercialized, the annual whale harvest exploded, and whaling became a cornerstone of the early industrial revolution. Alas, it couldn’t last forever. Learn more about whaling, its rise, and its fall, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Mint Mobile Cut your wireless bill to 15

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Earth’s Magnetic Pole Reversals (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/03/20

Once every 450,000 years or so, the Earth undergoes a radical transformation. The planet’s magnetic field will literally flip. The North Pole becomes the South Pole and vice versa. Despite the fact that we know this has happened many times in the Earth’s history, we really don’t know what would happen if the poles were to reverse today. Learn more about when the Earth’s magnetic poles reverse on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Mint Mobile Cut your wireless bill to 15

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16:35

March Madness

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/03/19

Every March, the United States experiences a period known as March Madness. It is the time when college basketball teams compete for a national championship. The process of crowning a national champion is a months-long process where teams vie for a chance to make the national tournament. From there, in theory, every team that makes the big dance has a shot at becoming a champion. All you have to do is win five, or maybe six, consecutive games. Learn more about March Madness and how the NCAA

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15:30

Why is the Alphabet in Alphabetical Order?

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/03/18

All of you are familiar with the ABCs. It is one of the very first things that children are taught. Not only are they taught the letters that comprise the alphabet, but they are also, usually at the same time, taught the order of the alphabet. The order of the alphabet is something that is so ingrained that most of us usually don’t even think about it. Yet, if you think about it, the order of the letters is completely arbitrary, but if we didn’t have an order, our world would be very

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14:59

The Battle of Gettysburg

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/03/17

In the summer of 1863, after two years of war, Confederate General Robert E. Lee felt it was possible to swiftly end the conflict by taking the fight to the Union. Up until this point, almost all of the fighting had taken place in Virginia. Lee felt that by moving to the north, he could achieve several objectives that would lead the Union to seek peace. His march to the north resulted in the largest battle of the war, which would ultimately be the turning point of the entire conflict. Learn more

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16:38

The Invention of the Telephone

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2025/03/16

The 19th century was one of rapid technological advancement. Of all of the innovations to come out of this century, and there were many, perhaps none was more important than that of the telephone. The telephone radically changed communications, allowing personal communications over long distances. Despite what many people are often told, this invention wasn’t simply the genius of one man, but was rather something developed over decades. Learn more about the invention of the telephone and the

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14:23

Betamax vs. VHS (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/03/15

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a war erupted in the world of video technology. Two competing video tape formats fought to gain supremacy in the market. In the end, one format crushed the other and was left as the victor. However, legend holds that the inferior format was actually the victorious one. Learn more about Betamax vs. VHS videotape wars and if the worse technology actually won on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Mint Mobile Cut your wireless bill to 15

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