In 1932, archaeologist Edgar B. Howard made a major discovery near the town of Clovis, New Mexico.
He found a stone spear point embedded in the rib of a woolly mammoth, which inspired what became known as the Clovis First Theory.
According to this theory, the creators of these spear points, known as the Clovis people, were the first to settle the Americas about 13,000 years ago.
Archaeologists accepted this for decades, but new discoveries have put the theory into question.
Learn more about the Clovis First hypothesis and how it is being challenged on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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The Mali Empire
2026/1/23 | 15 mins.
The Mali Empire was one of the largest and most influential states in African history, rising in West Africa during the thirteenth century and reaching its height in the fourteenth.
Known for its immense wealth, the empire became an economic powerhouse, famed for its vast gold reserves. But despite all its money, like all empires, it eventually fell.
Learn about the history, government, and economy of the Mali Empire on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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The May Fourth Movement
2026/1/22 | 14 mins.
Few dates in China are as significant as May Fourth, which marks two distinct revolutionary periods in modern Chinese history.
On May 4th, 1919, student protests erupted in China in response to the country’s outrage over being ignored at the Paris Peace Conference. This event became known as the May 4th Movement.
Seventy years later, in 1989, a resurgence of movement inspired the Tiananmen Square student protests.
Learn more about the May Fourth Movement and its lasting impact on Chinese society on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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The Year 2025
2026/1/21 | 15 mins.
525 days ago, I began looking at the state of the world every century, then every fifty years, and finally every twenty-five years as the pace of change accelerated.
After almost a year and a half, we have finally reached the present….or at least the world as it was three weeks ago.
The first quarter of the 21st century was a period of dramatic changes, and in some ways, very little change…..and most of you were there for the whole thing.
Learn more about the world in the year 2025 and how the world changed in the 21st century on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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The Julio-Claudian Dynasty (Encore)
2026/1/20 | 14 mins.
The Roman Empire was ruled by a single family for its first century. The family was actually a merger of two of the most distinguished clans in Roman history.
This family included some of the best and worst emperors in Rome’s history. It also included a host of potential emperors who showed great potential but were killed under mysterious circumstances.
Ultimately, paranoia and poor leadership caused the family to collapse.
Learn more about the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and how they came to rule Rome 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.