The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ On February 25, 1959, a group of 10 hikers set out in the middle of the Russian Winter on what was to be a 10-day excursion into...
3 Feb 202210min
Why Isn't the West Indies a Single Country?
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ If you have ever looked at a map of the Caribbean, you might have noticed that the tiny islands in the Lesser Antilles consist o...
2 Feb 202211min
The Spice Trade
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ When you think of international trade and globalization, you probably think it is a relatively modern phenomenon. However, the ...
1 Feb 202210min
The Mukden Incident
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ Most people think that the second world war started in September of 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. However, that was only th...
31 Jan 202210min
A History of Utensils
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ They are so ubiquitous that most people don’t even realize that they have an origin. They are so commonly used that some of you ...
30 Jan 202210min
The Nile River
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ There is an old saying that da Nile isn’t just a river in Egypt. That is true. It is also a river in Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopi...
29 Jan 202212min
Ramanujan (Encore)
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In 1913, a young man from the city of Madras in British India sent a letter to one of the world’s preeminent mathematicians, G.H...
28 Jan 202210min
Genie the Feral Child (Encore)
Subscribe to the podcast! https://podfollow.com/everythingeverywhere/ In October 1970, a blind woman accidentally entered a Los Angeles County welfare office with a child in tow. The staff in the o...
27 Jan 202210min
