Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Almost every single person listening to this podcast right now is doing so on some sort of personal computing device.  Many of the things that we consider part of a modern personal computer, windows, hyperlinks, a mouse, and a text editor, all were released upon the world in a single 90-minute demo in 1968.  The ideas were so a...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ On January 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo, a US Navy intelligence-gathering ship was on a routine surveillance mission in international waters off of the coast of North Korea.  While on surveillance duty, it was intercepted by North Korean patrol boats. Shots were fired, the crew was captured, and it set off one of the biggest intern...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In 1788, the son of the leader of the Confederation of Futa Jallon in West Africa was commanding his 2,000 troops against a neighboring military force and was captured.  He was sold into slavery and spent the next 40 years of his living as a slave in Mississippi. That was until a chance meeting discovered his true identity, whi...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ History is full of battles and conflicts. Most of them are forgotten over time as they don’t really impact history. Whether one king or another wins a battle usually doesn’t matter in the big scheme of things. However, there are moments that truly change world history. When civilizations clash and the outcome can affect the wor...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ 2,046 years ago one of the most notorious political assassinations in world history took place.  Julius Caesar, the dictator for life of the Roman Republic, was killed by a group of Senators just before a session of the senate was to start. The murder famously took place on the Ides of March. Learn more about the assassination...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Every year on March 14, the world celebrates one of the most important mathematical constants: pi.  It is a number which appears all over nature, even in places you wouldn’t expect it. It is also a number that has been known, or at least had been approximated, by civilizations for thousands of years.  Today there are still more...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Scientists love to classify things. Archeologists are no exception. One of the very first classifications systems that were developed, classified ancient history into three broad eras.  This system was crude and it isn't really used among professionals anymore, but its simplicity has ensured that it still survives in casual use...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In the Indiana Jones movies, Indiana is usually searching for a rare artifact with mystical powers while some other nefarious archeologist, usually a Nazi, is trying to find the artifact before Indy. Believe it or not, that trope of a Nazi archeologist looking for an item of incredible power actually has a kernel of truth to it...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ The term Dark Ages has been used to refer to a period in European history when culture supposedly regressed and civilization was in decline. The idea of a Dark Ages is one that was prevalent amongst historians for centuries. But lately, historians have been reconsidering the idea of a Dark Age and questioning if there really wa...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In the winter of 1932 and 1933, one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in human history occurred in what was then the province of Ukraine in the Soviet Union.  Millions of people died, yet the event was ignored in most of the western press and wasn’t even officially acknowledged by the Soviet government until the 1980s.  To...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Thousands of years ago, humans discovered a black-yellowish liquid that come out from the ground and could burn when it was set on fire.  Today, the fluid that seeped from the rocks is responsible for much of our modern world. But how does that fluid become usable fuel, and how exactly do you get it out of the rocks?  Learn mor...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Throughout history, there have been riots over many different things.  Sports teams winning, sports teams losing, high prices, war protests, and police brutality, have all been a cause of riots at some point.  However, in 1766, one town in England had perhaps one of the oddest riots of all time.  Learn more about the Great Nott...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ If you were to ask most people what the very first invention that humans came up with is, many of them might say the wheel.  It isn’t a bad guess, but believe it not, the wheel was nowhere close to being the first invention.  In fact, as far as we know, there were a whole bunch of things that were invented before the wheel, and...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is one of the smallest countries in the world. The country has only one proper hotel and that has just 9 rooms.  Once you visit the country, there is no car rental service, there isn’t an ATM machine anywhere in the country, and the entire country doesn’t take credit cards.  Oh, and go...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In 1940, the world was at war, but the United States wasn’t A strong isolationist sentiment kept the US on the sidelines while Germany and Japan ran roughshod over their neighbors.  While the US wasn’t in the war, many people in the US military knew that it was only a matter of time before we got sucked in.  Over a year before...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Countries, like people, have names. Sometimes those names are long and they have a shorter version of it for common use.  There are some countries, however, that often have multiple names, and the names can be radically different from each other. They might want everyone to call it by one name, or by a certain name in a certain...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ You are probably well aware that Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth.  Because of its status as the highest point on Earth, it has attracted thousands of people who have climbed to the summit. In the process, it has also killed hundreds of people who died in the attempt. Learn more about the history of trying to clim...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ On November 30, 1939, as part of their secret agreement with Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union invaded the nation of Finland.  Despite the overwhelming numerical and military advantage, the Soviets were unable to advance very far and suffered heavy losses. One man, in particular, was responsible for many of those losses and single...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Every year, before the start of Lent, in hundreds of cities around the world, there is a massive celebration. While the celebrations differ, sometimes dramatically, there are certain elements they all share. Modern celebrations can often get quite racy, and if you didn’t know it, you’d probably never guess that the origins of t...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In 1648, Europe saw the end of two of the most horrific wars that had ever been seen on the continent up until that point.  The treaties which ended these conflicts established an international order which overturned the system which had existed for centuries, and established a new order which in many respects, still exists tod...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In the early 15th century, just before Europe began its Age of Exploration, China was embarking on a series of voyages that put to shame anything anyone in Europe would do for centuries.  These voyages were led by a man who was the greatest admiral in history up to that point and the ships in his fleet were the largest wooden s...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ When Napoleon Bonaparte conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century, he didn’t create a monolithic empire that was centrally run out of Paris. Well, he sort of did, but at least on paper, he didn’t. Rather, what he did was set up his family members as monarchs to rule in his place.  One of those family members who was se...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Every culture has a different way of assigning names to people. Sometimes they use different words as names, sometimes names are in a different order, and sometimes they have completely different systems altogether.  One of the most complicated naming systems in history had to be that used by the ancient Romans. They had a very...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 am, 35 miles southwest of Socorro, New Mexico, the world’s first nuclear bomb was detonated.  This was the culmination of the Manhattan Project, one of the largest, and most expensive programs in world history.  Yet, just before the event, the scientists and engineers who worked on the project weren’t...

Subscribe to the podcast!  https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ On March 1, 1932, one of the most famous men in the world, Charles Lindbergh, woke up to find that his 20-month-old son had been taken from his crib.  It was the biggest news story of the era and it has been called the crime of the century.  90 years later, people are still enthralled with the crime and are searing for clues. L...