Everything Everywhere Daily - Olga of Kiev: The Patron Saint of Vengeance

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Princess Olga of Kiev was a 10th-century woman who was born to a royal family and married to Igor, Prince of Kiev. 


She led a fairly unnoteworthy life until her husband was murdered by a neighboring tribe. After that, her life took a turn and she became the patron saint……of vengeance.


Learn more about Olga of Kiev, how she brought Christianity to Russia, and how she wreaked vengeance upon her enemies, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Ark of the Covenant

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It was the single most sacred object in the Jewish faith. According to the bible, it was an object of incredible power that could win battles. It was the entire reason why the temple in Jerusalem was built. 


Then…it just disappeared and it was never mentioned again. 


Since then it has become an object of mystery capturing the attention of explorers, adventurers, and even Indiana Jones. 


Learn more about the Ark of the Covenant on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Meiji Restoration

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In the mid 19th century while the industrial revolution was in full swing, Japan was still an agrarian, feudal society. 


By the end of the 19th century, Japan had become one of the leading industrialized countries in the world.


What happened between those two points was one of the most radical social and economic transformations that any country had ever gone through. 


Learn more about the Meiji Restoration and the creation of modern Japan, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily



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NPR's Book of the Day - Tricia Elam Walker, Ekua Holmes, and Clint Smith take us across the country

Today's interviews are about transporting you to different places. The first is with cousins Tricia Elam Walker and Ekua Holmes who wrote a children's book, Dream Street, about the neighborhood where they grew up in Roxbury, Mass. They told NPR's Scott Simon and producer Samantha Balaban that the characters in the book were inspired by people in their lives. Our next interview is with writer Clint Smith, who traveled to different locations across the country for his book on slavery, How the Word is Passed. He told NPR's Mary Louise Kelly he wanted to talk about places that still exist because slavery wasn't that long ago.

Everything Everywhere Daily - The History of the Piano

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It is an instrument that we are all familiar with, even if we don’t know how to play it. It is one of the most commonly played instruments in the world, yet its origins are rather recent. 


Its origins come from an instrument that most people don’t realize and it has significant differences from other instruments which look very similar. 


Learn more about the piano, also known as the pianoforte. How it works and how it was invented, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.





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NPR's Book of the Day - Actress Sharon Gless on life’s ups and downs in ‘Apparently There Were Complaints’

Actress Sharon Gless, who starred in the 80s cop procedural, Cagney and Lacey, is out with a new memoir: Apparently There Were Complaints. The book looks back at her life and career, both the good and the not-so-great moments, like her struggles with alcoholism while filming the show. Gless told NPR's Rachel Martin that she is very strong despite it all: "I have good stuff in here. And I can survive it all."