Month: March 2022

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Countries, like people, have names. Sometimes those names are long and they have a shorter version of it for common use. 

There are some countries, however, that often have multiple names, and the names can be radically different from each other. They might want everyone to call it by one name, or by a certain name in a certain language, but no one does. 

Why do some countries have multiple names, and does it really make a difference? 

Learn more about countries with confusing or multiple names on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Today we look at the power of the Chinese government. The first book, How I Survived A Chinese Reeducation Camp, is by Gulbahar Haitiwaji, a Uyghur woman who spent years in a detention camp. It's a stark account of human rights atrocities. Haitiwaji told NPR's Scott Simon she feels lucky because millions of people are still suffering. Next is an interview with Chinese businessman Desmond Shum about his book Red Roulette. It's the story of his wife's disappearance and then reappearance. Shum told NPR's Steve Inskeep that when she resurfaced he felt like he was "negotiating with her kidnapper."

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You are probably well aware that Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth. 

Because of its status as the highest point on Earth, it has attracted thousands of people who have climbed to the summit.

In the process, it has also killed hundreds of people who died in the attempt.

Learn more about the history of trying to climb Mount Everest on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Novelist David Wright Falade learned about the life of Richard Etheridge in the 90s and has been enthralled by him ever since. Born into slavery in North Carolina, he became a sergeant of an all-Black brigade when the Civil War broke out. Black Cloud Rising is a fictionalized version of these events; Etheridge goes back down to North Carolina to free enslaved people and fight guerillas. Falade told NPR's Scott Simon that it was really important for him to try to get to know the human behind the extraordinary acts.

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On November 30, 1939, as part of their secret agreement with Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union invaded the nation of Finland. 

Despite the overwhelming numerical and military advantage, the Soviets were unable to advance very far and suffered heavy losses.

One man, in particular, was responsible for many of those losses and single-handedly wreaked havoc on the invading forces.  

Learn more about Simo Häyhä, aka the White Death, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has framed his recent invasion of Ukraine as a "de-nazification" of the country. This is not a new move by Putin. In fact, he used this same rhetoric to attack the Ukranian protesters during the 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. Back in 2014 historian Timothy Snyder talked to NPR's Robert Siegel about fascism in Ukraine and the rise of Stalinism in Russia. He told Siegel that calling Ukranians Nazis is both a way to confuse the European Union - because they know Nazis were bad - and a way to garner pro-Russian sentiment.