In the early 1960s, the United States was always a step behind the Soviet Union in the space race.
By the mid-1960s, the Americans had caught up. They didn’t have many glamorous firsts, but they were doing increasingly difficult things in space.
All of that came crashing to a halt on January 27, 1967, when three astronauts died in what was a seemingly routine training exercise.
Learn more about the Apollo 1 Disaster, how it happened, and how it influenced the future of the Apollo program on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Imperial Units of Measure
Almost every country in the world uses the metric system…..almost.
There are still a few stragglers, like the United States, who use units handed down to them from the British. These are known as Imperial Units.
These units often confuse those living in countries that use the metric system….as well as those who live in countries that use Imperial Units.
They don’t often make sense. They don’t have any consistency between units, and their histories are quite murky.
Learn more about imperial units and how they were developed on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Roller Coasters
For over a century, people have enjoyed the thrill of visiting an amusement park and riding roller coasters.
The very first thing we can point to and call a proto-roller coaster had neither rollers nor did it coast. It was more of a slide.
Over time, Roller coasters have evolved into massive steel giants, testing the limits of physics and engineering to create thrilling, unique rides that thrill some and terrify others.
Learn more about the history and development of roller coasters on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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The Paraguayan War (Encore)
In the 1860s, one of the bloodiest wars in the Western Hemisphere took place….and it wasn’t the US Civil War.
It was a war between Paraguay and an alliance of Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil, and it was one of the bloodiest ever fought in Latin America.
It was a conventional war that resulted in a guerrilla war, which spawned famine and disease.
Learn more about the Paraguayan War or the War of the Triple Alliance on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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The Ottoman Empire
One of the most important empires in history was the Ottoman Empire.
It wasn’t the biggest empire, but it had an outsized impact on the world due to its strategic location and its moment in history.
The Ottomans shocked the world by capturing the city of Constantinople and later almost conquering much of Central Europe.
Despite having a six-hundred-year run, as with all empires, it eventually weakened and collapsed.
Learn more about the Ottoman Empire, its rise and its fall, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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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, Egypt, and India. as well as historical leaders such as Julius Caesar, Emperor Augustus, Sparticus, and the Carthaginian general Hannibal.
Geography episodes have covered Malta, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Monaco, Luxembourg, Vatican City, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, the Isle of Man, san marino, Namibia, the Golden Gate Bridge, Montenegro, and Greenland.
Technology episodes have covered nanotechnology, aluminum, fingerprints, longitude, qwerty keyboards, morse code, the telegraph, radio, television, computer gaming,
Episodes explaining the origin of holidays include Memorial Day, April Fool’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, May Day, Christmas, Ramadan, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Canada Day, the Fourth of July,
Famous people in history covered in the podcast include Salvador Dali, Jim Thorpe, Ada Lovelace, Jessie Owens, Robert Oppenheimer, Picasso, Isaac Newton, Attila the Hun, Lady Jane Grey, Cleopatra, Sun Yat Sen, Houdini, Tokyo Rose, William Shakespeare, Queen Boudica, Empress Livia, Marie Antoinette, the Queen of Sheba, Ramanujan, and Zheng He.