Amanda Holmes reads C. D. Wright’s poem “Lake Echo, Dear.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
When the Austro-Hungarian Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated it set off a chain reaction resulting in the First World War.
That chain reaction, however, was fully anticipated and one of the belligerent countries, Germany, had a plan in their back pocket ready to go.
It was a highly detailed plan, nine years in the marking, which was designed to give them a swift victory.
Learn more about the Schlieffen Plan, and why it didn’t work, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
Divided between Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian West Bank lies the lowest point on the surface of the Earth: The Dead Sea.
Not only is it the lowest point on Earth, but the sea is one of the saltiest bodies of water on the planet.
But how did this place come to exist, and is it true that it will completely disappear at some point?
Learn more about the Dead Sea and how it came to be, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
S2 Ep9. Ever heard of Venus’s Flower Basket? It’s the marine sponge inspiring bridges and skyscrapers! Its delicate and resistant structure is both lightweight and very resistant to buckling - it may provide the blueprint for the next generation of big builds.
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For several hundred years, the British navy was the most powerful in the world. One of the things which the British navy ran on was rum.
Every sailor on a British ship for hundreds of years was given a daily ration of rum.
However, on one dark day, the tradition of the daily rum allotment came to an end.
Learn more about Black Tot Day and why it saddened a generation of British sailors, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
If you’ve ever seen a sculpture or an ancient coin of a Roman Emperor, you probably have noticed that they were wearing a wreath on their head.
That wreath, however, doesn’t mean what you probably think it means. It actually had a specific meaning which predated the imperial age, and the reason why emperors wore it all has to do with a single person.
Learn more about the Civic Crown, also known as the Corona Civica, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
