Everything Everywhere Daily - Questions and Answers: Volume 33

The month of August was named in honor of the emperor Augustus Caesar by the Roman Senate.

Originally called Sextilis, the sixth month in the early Roman calendar, it was renamed in 8 BC to recognize Augustus’s achievements, particularly his victories and consolidation of power. 

According to Roman tradition, the month was chosen because several of his significant accomplishments occurred during Sextilis.

In reality, the Senate was really just trying to suck up to Augustus. Instead, they should have asked him some questions 

Stay tuned for the 33rd installment of questions and answers on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Witness Protection Program

In 1970, the United States passed the Organized Crime Control Act, which established the Witness Security Program or WITSEC. 

Since being enacted, WITSEC has had thousands of witnesses and family members enter the program, none of whom, to date, have been killed under their protection.

The program is a key weapon in the fight against organized crime and has been a subject of public fascination.

Learn about the Witness Security Program, why it exists, and its impact on the American justice system on this Episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Canned Food

For centuries, food preservation was a significant challenge for humanity. 

Even if you were successful in hunting or gathering food, if you could not preserve it, it would be difficult to keep enough for survival. 

One of the most important advancements in human history was the development of canning, allowing for food to be preserved for significantly longer periods of time. 

Sometimes, very long periods of time.

Find out about the history of canning and its impact on humanity on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. 


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Winter Solstice

Twice a year, the sun reaches an extreme point in the sky. It is the day with the least amount of sunlight or the most amount of sunlight, depending on where in the world you happen to be. 

It is a day that almost every early culture around the world recognized because it was the one day a year they could document by following the path of the sun. 

Learn more about the solstice, how it works and how it has been celebrated on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Mount Athos (Encore)

In northern Greece, lying off the larger Chalkidiki peninsula is a place that is unique on planet Earth. 

It only has a population of about 2,400 people scattered across 20 settlements and some random people living by themselves.  

What makes this area unique is that all 2,400 of its citizens are monks and all are men….and women are not allowed to even enter. 

Learn more about the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. 


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Everything Everywhere Daily - NASA’s Human Computers

Today computers are ubiquitous. You are listening to this podcast right now on some sort of computing device. 

However, before computers were machines, the name computer was given to people. Computers were people who computed. 

In fact, the early days of NASA and the space program relied upon these human computers, most of whom were women. 

Learn more about NASA’s human computers and the role they played in the development of spaceflight on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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https://everything-everywhere.com/the-history-of-nasa/


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Tombs of the Unknown Soldiers

After the horrors of the first world war, many of the nations in the conflict sought to build memorials to honor their dead. 

While there were many memorials built, often large and grandiose, the most important memorial in many countries is that of a tomb, oftentimes simple, dedicated to a soldier whose remains could not be identified. 

These tombs are often guarded with great pomp and ceremony and have been for over 100 years.

Learn more about the tombs of the unknown soldiers on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Isaac Newton: The World’s Most Famous Alchemist

Most people know of Isaac Newton as one of the world’s foremost mathematicians and physicists. 

Listeners of this podcast might also know that he was inadvertently responsible for the creation of the gold standard.

Yet there is another part of Isaac Newton that most people aren’t aware of. A part of him that was very much not a scientist.

Learn more about Isaac Newton and his fascination with alchemy on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Spanish Reconquista

After the rise of Islam in the 7th century, it spread rapidly, establishing a foothold in Asia, Africa, and in Europe.

In Europe, it established a foothold on the Iberian Peninsula. 

For almost 800 years, the Europeans who lived in Peninsula sought to expel them. It took the better part of a millennium, but they finally achieved their goal.

Learn more about the Spanish Reconquista and the high point of the Islamic Caliphate in Europe on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Salvator Mundi (Encore)

In 2005, a small auction house in New Orleans sold a painting at auction labeled at Lot 664. The description of the item was simply, “Christ Salvator Mundi. Oil on cradled panel.”

The painting was sold for $1,000. 

Twelve years later, the same painting was sold at Christie’s in New York for a record $450 million dollars. 

Learn more about Salvator Mundi, the world’s most expensive painting, and the controversy surrounding it, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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