Everything Everywhere Daily - Queen Isabella I of Castile
She was never intended to be a queen. She wasn’t the firstborn and the rules of the time didn’t support her as a woman. Yet through cunning and guile, she managed to take power.
As a queen, she was at the center of many of the most significant and notorious events in European history, and she was largely responsible for the creation of the country which became Spain.
Learn more about Isabella I of Castille and how she influenced the history of Europe on this episode of Everything Everywhere Dail
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Audio Poem of the Day - CAMH (On Sight)
by Douglas Kearney
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Battle of Thermopylae
In the year 480 BC, one of the most famous battles in history took place on the shore of the Malian Gulf in the Aegean Sea.
Several thousand Greeks held back several hundred thousand Persians, in a battle which is still remembered 2,500 years later.
While the Greeks lost the battle, they did ultimately win the war.
Learn more about the Battle of Thermopylae and the 300 hundred Spartans, on the 300th episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - The Pain Reliever
By Carrie Olivia Adams
Everything Everywhere Daily - May Day
Every year of May 1st, people all around the northern hemisphere celebrate the arrival of spring. A day we call May Day.
But it is also the day that communist countries held military parades, and the Soviets would show off all of their military strength in public.
Mayday is also the international distress signal for radio.
How are these very different things all related? Learn more about May Day on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - What’s Written on the Body
By Peter Pereira
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Mount Tambora Eruption
In 1815, one of the most catastrophic and deadly events in recorded human history occurred in Indonesia.
A volcanic explosion took place which was larger than anything, any human had ever witnessed in over 10,000 years.
The total death toll from the event might have been as high as a quarter-million people.
Learn more about the Mount Tambora explosion on this Episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - My Mother’s God
by Geoff Page
Audio Poem of the Day - My Mother’s God
by Geoff Page