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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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15:06

Antimatter (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/02/17

It is the most expensive substance in the world by a wide margin. When it was first proposed, it was actually proposed in jest. However, decades later, the joke turned out to have been true. It is a fundamental part of the universe, and by all accounts, it should be everywhere, yet it can’t be found anywhere, and physicists aren’t really sure why. Learn more about antimatter, how it was discovered, and what it is on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Mint Mobile Cut your

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15:22

The History of Poker: From Ancient Games to Modern...

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/02/16

One of the most popular card games in the world is poker. The game was played in the old west among cowboys, by dogs on velvet paintings, and by the crew of the Star Ship Enterprise. Poker is played informally among friends and family, yet it is also a high-stakes competitive game where millions of dollars can be won or lost. It is a game that has origins that go back centuries, but in its modern manifestation, it is also very modern. Learn more about the game of Poker and how it became one of the

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16:53

Special Forces

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2025/02/15

Perhaps the most respected and feared soldiers in the world are those who belong to Special Forces. Special Forces are considered to be the elite of the elite. Most nations have some sort of Special Forces units in their military. Some of the best-known Special Forces units are household names and others are, how shall we say, more secret. While Special Forces seem rather modern, the tradition of creating units of elite soldiers actually goes back to antiquity. Learn more about Special Operations

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15:06

The St Valentines Day Massacre

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2025/02/14

On the morning of February 14, 1929, a horrific crime took place on the north side of Chicago.Seven men were lined up against the wall of an auto garage and gunned down in cold blood by machine gun fire. The event marked the low point of the violent mob wars that took place in the city of Chicago. It also marked a turning point in attitudes towards prohibition in the United States and the war on organized crime. Learn more about the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, why it happened, and its

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16:20

Spy Satellites

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/02/13

A reconnaissance satellite, otherwise known as a spy satellite, is somewhere above your head right now, collecting images and gathering intelligence on whatever it sees below it. Ten countries are currently believed to have at least one spy satellite. While these satellites can gather an enormous amount of data, they do not have the superpowers that they are often depicted as having in films and television. Learn more about spy satellites, how they work and how they have evolved over time on this

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14:29

Separated at Birth (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/02/12

In the 1960s, a New York clinical psychiatrist and an adoption agency conducted an experiment. They separated multiple sets of identical twins and one set of identical triplets into different families to test how much of personality is due to genetics or the environment. None of the children or families were ever told about this. The results of this experiment, and other cases like it, have proved to be fascinating. Learn more about identical twins and triples that were separated at birth on this

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17:29

The Falkland Islands

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/02/11

Located off the coast of South America and in the Southern Atlantic Ocean is the Falkland Islands. The Falklands are an almost treeless archipelago where sheep and penguins outnumber the people. It has little in the way of natural resources beyond fish and grass for grazing. Yet, these sparsely populated islands have been the subjects of international disputes and even war. Learn more about the Falkland Islands on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Mint Mobile Cut your

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13:23

The Trojan War (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/02/10

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. Sponsors Mint Mobile Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at

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16:07

Natural Gas Explained: Past, Present, and Future

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/02/09

One of the most common and versatile forms of energy in the world is natural gas. Natural gas is used for cooking, heating, electrical production, and powering vehicles. Entire economies are dependent on its consumption, and others are dependent on its production. As such, it has become one of the most important commodities in the world. Learn more about natural gas what it is, where it comes from, and how it's used on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Mint Mobile Cut your

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17:08

The World's Next Countries

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/02/08

Depending on how you define it, there are about 193 to 200 countries in the world today. Over the last 100 years, that number has been constantly increasing. Sometimes, the number goes up a lot in short periods of time, and other times, there might be decades between the creation of a new country. There hasn’t been a new country created since 2011, but it is entirely possible that we might make new additions to the list of nations before this decade is out. Learn more about the world’s next

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17:08

Kim Philby and the Cambridge Five

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2025/02/07

In the 1950s and 1960s, the British Intelligence community was shocked by a series of high-profile defections to the Soviet Union. These defections proved to be devastating to British intelligence during the Cold War and may have led to the death or imprisonment of hundreds of undercover British operatives. These defections changed Western intelligence gathering forever in ways that can still be felt today. Learn more about the Cambridge Five and how they influenced the Cold War on this episode of

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13:54

Route 66 (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/02/06

In the early 20th century, as automobiles became more and more popular, the need for a national system of roads in the United States became more evident. One of the suggested roads connected the city of Chicago, Illinois, on the Great Lakes, with the city of Los Angeles, California, on the Pacific Ocean. In 1926 the route was established, following paths and trails which had been used for centuries, and quickly found itself as a central object of popular culture. Learn more about Route 66, its

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16:39

The Prime Meridian

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/02/05

Located in East London is the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Passing directly through the observatory is an imaginary line that extends from the North Pole to the South Pole. This line is significant because it is the reference point for every other line of longitude in the world. What is even more remarkable is that there is no objective reason for this particular line to be so important. Learn more about the Prime Meridian and why it is where it is on this episode of Everything Everywhere

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17:03

The Battle of Stalingrad

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2025/02/04

From August 1942 to February 1943, the Germans and the Soviets engaged in what would become the most brutal and bloodiest battle in human history. The battle took place in a city that probably had greater psychological and propaganda value than it did actual strategic value. The battle, in many respects, was the high water mark of Nazi Germany and the turning point of the enter war in Europe. Learn more about the Battle of Stalingrad and how it changed the entire course of the Second World War on

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18:06

The Origins and History of the Abolitionist Movement

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2025/02/03

The most significant event in American history was undoubtedly the Civil War. The Civil War was, of course, the result of the institution of slavery, which had existed for generations by that time. By the same token, the opposition to slavery had existed for just as long. The opposition to slavery began amongst devoutly religious people but eventually spread into a mass social and political movement. Learn more about the abolitionist movement, its origin, and its growth on this episode of

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14:27

How Hawaii Became a State (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/02/02

The United States consists of 50 states, each of which is represented by a star on the American flag. Most of those states consist of some section of North America divided by lines on a map that separate them from other states, Canada, or Mexico. But there is one state that is not like the others. It isn’t located in North America. It doesn’t have a land border with anything, and its route to statehood was unlike that of any other state in the union. Learn more about the long and controversial way

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15:56

Questions and Answers: Volume 27

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2025/02/01

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17:16

The Five Families and How Organized Crime Became...

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2025/01/31

Organized crime wasn’t always so organized. In the early 20th century, in New York, what we would call the mafia was rather unorganized. There were competing groups, and while the individual groups had an organization, there was anarchy among them. There was a war between some of the crime organizations, and when the dust settled, all of the major mafia groups in New York City had found a way to work together, or at least not openly feud. Learn more about New York’s Five Families and the creation

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15:32

The OMG! Particle (Encore)

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2025/01/30

On October 15, 1991, a cosmic ray detector in Utah observed something that had never been seen before or since. It was a cosmic ray with more energy than anything ever observed and more energy than most scientists thought possible. When one of the first researchers saw the data, they responded simply, “Oh, my God!” Learn more about the OMG particle, what it was, and what it means on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Mint Mobile Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at

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17:00

The History of Soft Drinks

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/01/29

One of the most popular categories of beverage in the world today is soft drinks.Soft drinks can be found almost everywhere in every country, from corner stores to restaurants to vending machines. Unlike other popular beverages, soft drinks are a rather recent invention, despite there being early antecedents to soft drinks that go back to antiquity. Learn more about soft drinks, their origins and how they became so popular on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Mint

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