Author: Gary Arndt

If you have ever looked at a map of the Caribbean, you might have noticed that the tiny islands in the Lesser Antilles consist of a whole bunch of tiny, independent countries.

All of these countries became independent around the same time, got their independence from the same country: Great Britain.

Given their common history and location, why are they a bunch of separate tiny countries rather than one larger one?

Learn more about the West Indies and their modern history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

--------------------------------

Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen

Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/

Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

February 1, 2022

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Spice Trade

Subscribe to the podcast!

When you think of international trade and globalization, you probably think it is a relatively modern phenomenon.

However, the roots of globalization actually go back thousands of years.

While there were many products that were originally traded, there was one particular category of goods that drove trade like no other: spices.

Spices are common and ubiquitous today, but centuries ago they were extremely prized and valuable.

Learn more about the spice trade and how it shaped the world we live in today, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

--------------------------------

Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen

Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/

Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

January 31, 2022

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Mukden Incident

Subscribe to the podcast!

Most people think that the second world war started in September of 1939 when Germany invaded Poland.

However, that was only the beginning of the European war.

The conflict in Asia, however, actually began much earlier. What both the European and Asian theaters have in common is they started with an invasion by a belligerent power which was done under false pretenses.

Learn more about the Mukden Incident, and how it began the road to the second world war, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

--------------------------------

Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen

Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/

Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

January 30, 2022

Everything Everywhere Daily - A History of Utensils

Subscribe to the podcast!

They are so ubiquitous that most people don’t even realize that they have an origin. They are so commonly used that some of you might have them in your hands right now.

Yet, the objects we use to eat do have very definite histories.

Moreover, around the world, we often use very different objects to consume our food, and sometimes we use the exact same objects in very different ways.

Learn more about eating utensils, how they are developed and how they are used in different cultures, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

--------------------------------

Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen

Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/

Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

January 29, 2022

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Nile River

Subscribe to the podcast!

There is an old saying that da Nile isn’t just a river in Egypt. That is true. It is also a river in Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Uganda.

The Nile is the longest river in the world, yet it is one of the smallest major rivers in the world.

Historically, some of the world’s greatest civilizations have depended on it, and today it is still a source of conflict between countries that depend on it for water and power.

Learn more about the Nile River and how its geography has and continues to shape history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

--------------------------------

Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen

Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/

Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

January 28, 2022

Everything Everywhere Daily - Ramanujan (Encore)

Subscribe to the podcast!

In 1913, a young man from the city of Madras in British India sent a letter to one of the world’s preeminent mathematicians, G.H. Hardy, in Cambridge Univerisity in England.

The young man had no formal education in advanced mathematics, yet that letter would end up changing the landscape of mathematics for the rest of the 20th century.

Learn more about the legendary Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the world’s most gifted natural mathematicians, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

--------------------------------

Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen

Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/

Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

January 27, 2022

Everything Everywhere Daily - Genie the Feral Child (Encore)

Subscribe to the podcast!

In October 1970, a blind woman accidentally entered a Los Angeles County welfare office with a child in tow.

The staff in the office immediately noticed the odd girl with the woman. She walked funny, was emaciated, drooling, didn’t make a sound, and when asked, the woman mentioned that the girl was 13.

The staff thought she was seven.

This began one of the saddest cases of child welfare in history, and one which fascinated researchers for years.

Learn more about Genie, the feral child on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

--------------------------------

Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen

Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/

Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

January 26, 2022

Everything Everywhere Daily - The American Whig Party (Encore)

Subscribe to the podcast!

American politics has been called a two-party system. While there are two major parties today, and those two parties have been around a long time, they weren’t always the only two parties.

In fact, there was a political party in the US that, took its name from a British political party, had four US presidents, and even held control of Congress for several years.

Today, however, they are all but unknown to most people.

Learn more about the Whig party, their rise, and fall, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

--------------------------------

Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen

Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/

Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

January 25, 2022

Everything Everywhere Daily - Operation Long Jump

Subscribe to the podcast!

In November 1943, the Big Three leaders of the allied powers in world war II, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joesph Stalin, were scheduled to meet in person for the first time in Tehran, Iran.

When the Germans got wind of this, Hitler figured this would be a great opportunity to just kill all of his enemies at once.

Learn more about Operation Long Jump and Hitler’s plot to kill all of the allied leaders in one fell swoop, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

--------------------------------

Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen

Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/

Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

January 24, 2022

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Tomb of Alexander the Great

Subscribe to the podcast!

Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/EverythingEverywhere - Enter promo code EverythingEverywhere for 83% off and 3 extra months free!

By the age of 32, Alexander the Great had conquered most of the world which was known to him.

This episode is not about any of that. This is about what happened after his death.

After he died, his corpse became a political football, and his tomb became the centerpiece of the city in Egypt which bared his name, and within a century became the largest city on Earth.

…and then at some point, his body and his tomb just disappeared from history.

Learn more about the corpse and the tomb of Alexander the Great and what might have happened to it, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

--------------------------------

Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen

Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/