ATXplained - What happened to the Zilker Park minitrain?
The Zilker Zephyr stopped running almost four years ago, and there’s still no miniature train in Zilker Park.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Did Ancient Rome and China Know About Each Other? (Encore)
2,000 years ago the Han Empire in China and the Roman Empire in Europe were the two greatest empires in the world. Between them, they covered an enormous amount of the Earth’s land and a large percentage of the world’s population.
But were these two great empires even aware of each other? If so, was there any contact between them?
Find out how these two great ancient empires interacted with each other on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Decent People’ is a murder mystery grappling with race in the segregated South
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Battle of Yorktown
In 1781, after six years of fighting, the American Revolution came to a dramatic conclusion.
One of the two major British armies in the conflict found themselves trapped on a peninsula near Yorktown, Virginia.
A combination of American and French forces laid siege to the British at Yorktown in what turned out to be the war's final battle.
Learn more about the Battle of Yorktown and how cliched American independence on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘You Just Need to Lose Weight’ aims to change your thinking about being ‘fat’
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Speed of Light
There is nothing faster in the entire universe than the speed of light. Not only is it the fastest thing, but nothing can be faster than light.
For the longest time, humans didn’t even know that light had a speed, and once they figured out that light wasn’t instantaneous, it took several centuries to figure out what that speed was.
Learn more about the speed of light and its implications for physics and engineering on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Passenger Pigeon
In the early 19th century, the most abundant bird in North America, and perhaps the entire world, was the passenger pigeon. An estimated three billion of them would fly in flocks so large that they could blot out the sun.
However, within a century, the entire species had gone extinct.
It was one of the fastest and most disastrous turnarounds for any species in recorded history.
Learn more about the passenger pigeon and how they went extinct on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Glorious Revolution
In 1688, a palace coup took place in England.
The King of England and Scotland was usurped and was replaced by his daughter and her husband from the Netherlands.
The act forever changed the British Monarchy and created an alternative line of succession to the throne, which still exists today.
Learn more bout the Glorious revolution, why it happened, and its ramifications on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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