Wars can start with a bang but end with a whimper. Often an attack or an invasion will begin a war, but even one when one side surrenders, it can take days, weeks, or months for word of the capitulation to get out to everyone.
While the European theater of World War II officially ended on May 8, 1945, the word didn’t reach everyone right away.
Learn more about the last Germans to surrender on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
Almost 2,800 years ago the Ancient Greeks held a sporting event every four years on Mount Olympus.
The festival was part competition, part religious celebration, and it was considered so important that wars would come to a halt in honor of the games.
Then in the 19th century, one man came up with the idea of bringing the games back to life.
Learn more about the Modern Olympic Movement on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
How animals make us smarter – we thought you might like to hear our brand new episode. It’s about a robotic arm inspired by an elephant’s trunk.
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It was only when the lights went out in Texas that many of us realized — electrically — we are all alone. Claire McInerny brings us that story. Plus, Jimmy Maas tells us how the electricity market in Texas used to work up until about 20 years ago.
During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union competed in almost every arena: space, sports, and of course the military. Everything they competed in was designed to show the superiority of their respective systems.
In 1972, one of the greatest cold war rivalries came to a head in Reykjavík, Iceland.
It didn’t take place at a sporting event or on a battlefield. Rather, it took place over a period of two months on a chessboard.
