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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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17:11

444 Days: The Iran Hostage Crisis

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/01/28

On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian Revolutionaries stormed the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran, and took 66 American diplomats and citizens hostage. Over the next 444 days, the hostage crisis dominated the news and became the single biggest foreign policy issue for both the United States and Iran. Even after the hostages were released, it has affected US/Iranian relations for the last four decades. Learn more about the Iranian Hostage Crisis, its causes and how it was resolved on this

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The Acoustic Kitty and Other Crazy CIA Plots

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2025/01/27

Since its creation, the Central Intelligence Agency has been tasked with gathering intelligence on foreign adversarial governments. Exactly how they were to go about doing this was not exactly spelled out in advance. This gave them an enormous amount of leeway and creativity in how to go about their mission. Some of their ideas were truly inspired, and others were, how shall we say, odd. Learn more about the Acoustic Kitty and other crazy CIA plots on this episode of Everything Everywhere

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13:42

Warrior Monks: The Story of the Knights Templar (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/01/26

In the early 12th century, a military monastic order developed in the Middle East with the express intent of protecting Christian pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land. Despite its rather modest mission statement, over the next 200 years, this organization became one of the most powerful entities throughout the Middle East and Europe. However, its success and power eventually planted the seeds of its own destruction. Learn more about the Knights Templar, their rise and spectacular fall, on this

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16:45

VTOL: Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft

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2025/01/25

Airplanes are wonderful things. They fly through the air and move people and goods at rapid speeds around the world. However, they have some downsides. In order to take off and land, an airplane requires an enormous amount of land for runways. So, for over a century, aeronautical engineers have been trying to create a vehicle that has all the strengths of an airplane but could take off and land like a helicopter. ….and they’ve kind of done it. Learn more about vertical take-off and landing

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17:22

Malaria: The Disease That Shaped History

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2025/01/24

Malaria is one of the oldest known infectious diseases, with a history spanning thousands of years. It has shaped human civilization, influenced wars, and driven scientific advancements in medicine and public health.However, humanity has been making strides against this ancient disease over the last 250 years. We have learned what causes it and how it is transmitted, and we might be close to eradicating it completely. Learn more about malaria, how it has impacted humanity, and the quest to

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13:38

The Maha Kumbh Mela Pilgrimage: The World's Largest...

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2025/01/23

Every twelve years, one of the greatest gatherings of people on Earth takes place in India. As many as a hundred million people will converge on four different locations on sacred rivers to engage in one of the most important rites in the Hindu Religion. But what are the reasons so many people undertake the pilgrimage, and how exactly do you handle the logistics of so many people going to the same place? Learn more about the Maha Kumbh Mela, its history and how it works on this episode of

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17:30

Performance Enhancing Drugs and Substances

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/01/22

One of the biggest controversies in the world of sports over the last several decades has been the use of performance-enhancing drugs and substances, or PEDs. It seems as if there hasn’t been a single sport that hasn’t been touched in some way by the use of PEDs. But what exactly are PEDs, and how do they give athletes an advantage? Do they really work, and if they do, just how big of an advantage do they give? Learn more about performance-enhancing drugs and how they have impacted the world of

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16:48

The Worst Day in Human History: January 23, 1556

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/01/21

Humanity has seen a lot of bad things throughout history. There have been horrific wars, natural disasters, and pandemics that have killed millions of people. Many of these awful events were awful over a period of weeks, months, or years. It raises the question, what was the worst single day in history? What day was the absolute worst when all the horrible things were punctuated in one twenty-four-hour period? Learn more about the worst days in history and arguably the one that was the very worst

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16:20

Beijing Through the Ages: Exploring 3,000 Years of...

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2025/01/20

Located in Northern China is not only one of the largest cities in the world but also the capital of the largest country in the world, Beijing. Like many great cities, Beijing has had its ups and downs. It has gone from a sleepy village to a global city. It has seen its share of wars, revolutions, and historical events. Not only has it had a front-row seat to history, but it has also changed its name multiple times in multiple languages. Learn more about Beijing and how it has evolved over the

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Presidential Inaugurations: The Peaceful Transition...

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/01/19

Every four years on January 20th, the United States holds a ceremony for the inauguration of the President of the United States. There are traditions for the inauguration, some of which have been passed down since the very first. Why do we use January 20th as the date, and how did many of these traditions get started? Learn more about the history and traditions of the Presidential Inauguration on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Mint Mobile Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks

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14:39

Operation Market Garden (Encore)

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2025/01/18

After the Allied landing in Normandy in World War II, the Allies made progress pushing back the Germans.However, by September, things had slowed down. One allied commander devised a plan that he thought would end the war in one fell swoop. The plan was bold, audacious, and highly risky, and in the end, it was ultimately a failure. Learn more about Operation Market Garden and the attempt to quickly bring an end to the war on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Mint Mobile Cut

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14:34

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the 1812 Overture (Encore)

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2025/01/17

In 1880, the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was commissioned to compose a work in honor of the completion of a new cathedral. What he wrote became one of the best-known, over-the-top, and difficult-to-produce pieces of music in history. Despite its popularity almost 150 years later, the composer actually thought it was one of his worst works. Learn more about the 1812 Overture, how it was created, and just how crazy it actually is to properly perform, on this episode of Everything

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13:45

Caesar, Pompey, Crassus: The First Triumvirate (Encore)

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2025/01/16

In the year 60 BC, a very unlikely alliance was formed between three of Rome’s most powerful men. Gaius Julius Caesar, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, and Marcus Licinius Crassus agreed to put aside their differences for mutual gain. For many years the alliance worked, and the three men were able to run the Roman Republic….until it eventually fell apart. Learn more about the First Triumvirate on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Mint Mobile Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month

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Chasing the Impossible: The Enigma of Perpetual...

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2025/01/15

Imagine a device that could supply an unlimited amount of energy. It would solve many of the world’s problems in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, such a device is impossible to build, but that hasn’t stopped people throughout history from trying. In fact, to this very day, people still claim that they have created perpetual motion machines, and they keep getting proven wrong. Learn more about perpetual motion machines, or the lack thereof, on this episode of Everything Everywhere

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16:33

Famine

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2025/01/14

One of the most devastating disasters that has afflicted humanity are famines. Unlike other natural disasters, famines do not have a single cause. They have happened all over the world for a wide variety of reasons; some of them have natural causes, and others are man-made. Famines are typically much worse than natural disasters and are rivaled only by pandemics and wars. Learn more about famines, their causes, and how they devastated humanity throughout history on this episode of Everything

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15:55

The Schlitz Mistake

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2025/01/13

In the early 20th century, the Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was the largest brewery in the world. However, by 1980, the company had fallen on hard times and was purchased by a competitor in a hostile takeover. The company was so bad that it eventually killed the company that bought them. However, the demise of Schlitz wasn’t one of changing tastes or bad luck. It was a series of self-inflicted wounds. Learn more about the Schlitz Mistake and how a series of bad decisions killed

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13:20

The History of the Tomato (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/01/12

One of the most popular foods in the world is tomatoes. Tomatoes are grown almost everywhere in the world today, and they have become the basis of several international cuisines. However, just a few hundred years ago, very few people were eating tomatoes as we know them today. In fact, even after they were cultivated, there were people terrified to actually eat them. Learn more about tomatoes and tomatoes and their history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Mint Mobile Cut

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16:39

Gnosticism

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2025/01/11

In the first and second centuries, a Christian sect found a wide following throughout the Roman world. They weren’t your normal run-of-the-mill Christians. They had beliefs that were nothing like those of any Christian sect today, and they drew the ire of many Christian leaders at the time. What we knew about them was limited to the writings of their critics until a stunning find in the mid-20th century shed new light on them. Learn more about Gnosticism and the Gnostics, their beliefs, and the

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The Ultraviolet Catastrophe and the Creation of...

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2025/01/10

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a problem that stumped even the best minds in physics.Eventually, one man, Max Planck, solved the problem, but his solution was one that was out of left field. While the math worked, he didn’t actually believe that the mathematics explained reality. It turned out his discovery was more true than he realized and it ushed in a revolution in the world of physics that completely changed our view of nature and reality. Learn more about the

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Fractals

Everything Everywhere Daily ·

2025/01/09

Some of the most beautiful things in the world of mathematics are fractals. Fractals are unique geometric objects that are both easy to comprehend and have complicated mathematics. Moreover, fractals are not just a theoretical mathematical construction. Fractals can be found everywhere in nature, including trees, beaches, and even your own body. Learn more about fractals, what they are, and how they work in this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Mint Mobile Cut your wireless

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