Esperanto and the Search for a Global Language
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Around 1887, a Polish ophthalmologist set out to create a universal language. A language that could be a second language for eve...
8 Apr 202210min
The Catiline Conspiracy
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ We like to think of terrorist plots as being a condition of the modern world. However, there were such plots were around over tw...
7 Apr 202210min
The Battle of Yarmouk
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ From August 15 to August 20, in the year 636, one of the most important battles in history took place. The participants in the...
6 Apr 202211min
Philippe Petit and the Artistic Crime of the Century
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ On the morning of August 7, 1974, the people of New York City woke up to witness one of the most incredible sights that the city...
5 Apr 202210min
Pedestrianism
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In the United States and Britain in the 19th century, there was a competitive activity that might have been the most popular spo...
4 Apr 202212min
Behold! The Potato (Encore)
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ What did the first Chinese Emperor Qin, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Gengis Kahn, the Queen of Sheba, and all their conte...
3 Apr 202210min
White Elephants
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ If you’ve been around long enough, you might have heard something being described as a white elephant. A white elephant is som...
2 Apr 20229min
The Brachistochrone Problem
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In 1696, the mathematician Johann Bernoulli posited a very simple question. Assuming no friction, what was the fastest shape for...
1 Apr 20229min
