By Fred D'Aguiar
Everything Everywhere Daily - Spartacus and the Third Servile War
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In the year 73 BC, Rome faced one of its greatest threats to its existence. An army of over 100,000 liberated slaves rose up in revolt and threatened the very fabric of the Roman Republic.
The revolt was led by a gladiator slave who lead his motley army and, to the astonishment of Rome, managed to defeat many Roman legions.
The end of this rebellion resulted in one of the most horrific displays in all ancient history.
Learn more about Spartacus and the Third Servile War, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Curious City - An Aldi closes and a Chicago neighborhood is reeling from the impact
Last year the Garfield Park Aldi closed after 30 years, leaving thousands of West Siders without a nearby grocery store where they can buy affordable, fresh produce or other staples. Now, the City of Chicago is considering purchasing the Aldi property to ensure it remains a grocery store. WBEZ reporter Linda Lutton and Curious City intern Asia Singleton head to the West Side neighborhood to find how the store’s closing is impacting residents — and what they’re doing about it.
NPR's Book of the Day - Author Maeve Higgins humorously reflects on her immigrant experience
Author Maeve Higgins starts her new book, Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them, by saying she hopes the pandemic doesn't impart any lessons. This kind of dark humor persists throughout Higgins' book, which is a reflection on America and its many flaws. But, as an immigrant, she can see this country in a way others cannot — with a fresh pair of perhaps more forgiving eyes. Higgins told NPR's Tamara Keith that because she loves this country she wants it to be the best it can be.
Audio Poem of the Day - “Majesty”
by Keith Waldrop
Everything Everywhere Daily - More Than You Ever Really Wanted to Know About Sewers
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Sometimes the most important things are things we don’t even want to think about let alone talk about.
The issue of handling and removing human waste and dirty water is one such problem that has confronted humans since the dawn of time.
The elimination of waste and excess water was one of the fundamental things which allowed cities to grow all over the world.
Learn more about sewers…..yep, I’m doing an episode on sewers, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NPR's Book of the Day - What does ‘The Family Chao’ have in common with Dostoyevsky? Murder and more.
Patriarch Leo Chao is murdered at his restaurant at the beginning of Lan Samantha Chang's new novel The Family Chao. Eventually family secrets and bitterness reveal themselves — much like a Dostoyevsky novel, from whom Chao took a lot of inspiration. But NPR's Scott Simon points out that even though this novel is about a murder, it's quite funny. Chang told Simon that she just enjoyed writing it so much that humor became part of it.
Audio Poem of the Day - American Poetry
by Louis Simpson
Ghost Train - The Mission
Sam Chesser loved the transit system when he visited New York City. So Sam, like many voters, supported a vision he thought would make his beloved hometown, Denver, just as accessible. That allowed transit planners to spend billions of dollars laying rail track. But almost two decades later, who actually uses it? Part 2 of 4.
Hosted and reported by Nathaniel Minor
Editors: Erin Jones, Joe Wertz
Production and mixing: Rebekah Romberg
Additional production: Luis Antonio Perez
Theme song by Daniel Mescher. Additional music via Universal Production Music.
Artwork: Mia Rincón
Executive producers: Kevin Dale, Brad Turner
Additional editorial support: Jo Erickson, Alison Borden, Rachel Estabrook, Ana Campbell, Sherkiya Wedgeworth-Hollowell, Andrew Villegas, Dave Burdick
Archival tape thanks: Heather Dalton and Dominic Dezzutti at CPT-12; Tim Wieland and Steve Vriesman at CBS4 Denver; Kevin Krug at KMGH Denver7.
Thanks also to Kim Nguyen, Jodi Gersh, Clara Shelton, Hart Van Denburg.
Ghost Train is a production of CPR News and Colorado Public Radio's Audio Innovations Studio.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Wonderful World of Stromatolites
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If you measure the success of a lifeform by how long they manage to exist on Earth, then by far the most successful forms of life have been stromatolites.
Stromatolites aren’t the sexiest form of life. They still exist on Earth today, but if you have seen them, you might never have known it.
In addition to having been around a long time, stromatolites are responsible for the entire world that we know today.
Learn more about stromatolites, the oldest form of life on Earth, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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