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Bay Curious - The East Bay Mystery Walls

For more than a century, people in the Bay Area — and especially the East Bay — have puzzled over the existence of stone walls scattered on ridges from near San Jose north through the Berkeley Hills. Sometimes the walls are built in long straight lines. Sometimes they form angles. Occasionally you’ll find rectangular or circular constructions. "Who built these things? How long ago? And why?" asked listener Eric Haven. It's a tougher question to answer than you might imagine, but reporter Dan Brekke does his best.

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This story was reported by Dan Brekke. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Amanda Font and Brendan Willard. Additional support from Paul Lancour, Christopher Beale, Cesar Saldana, Jen Chien, Jasmine Garnett, Carly Severn, Jenny Pritchett and Holly Kernan.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - What Were The First and Second Reichs?

When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, he declared his new regime to be The Third Reich and that it would last 1,000 years.

It turned out he was off by 988 years. 

The big question for many people outside of Germany was and still is, if that was the third Reich, what were the first two Reichs? 

..and for non-German speakers, what exactly is a Reich?

Learn more about the first and second Reichs and what exactly they were on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Winterland,’ a Soviet Union gymnast navigates a grueling responsibility

Anya is only 8 years old, but she's already got the weight of a nation on her shoulders. The protagonist of Winterland lives in an isolated Arctic town, where she's immersed in the world of 1970s Soviet gymnastics. In today's episode, author Rae Meadows tells NPR's David Folkenflik about her long-lasting fascination with that era of competitive sports, and how it shapes her main character's journey into womanhood.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Destruction and Rediscovery of Pompeii

In the year 79, Mount Vesuvius, a volcano located east of the modern-day city of Naples, erupted. 

Vesuvius had erupted before, but this eruption was different. It ejected an enormous amount of ash which completely buried several towns and cities below the mountain.

Almost 2,000 years later, the largest of those cities, Pompeii, was rediscovered, and what archeologists found revolutionized our understanding of the ancient world. 

Learn more about the destruction and rediscovery of Pompeii on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.



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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Song of Silver, Flame Like Night,’ Chinese mythology teaches lessons about power

Amélie Wen Zhao's fantasy novel, Song of Silver, Flame Like Night, is rooted in the Chinese genres of xianxia and wuxia. It follows a young girl uncovering the secrets of her tumultuous kingdom with the help of a magician. In today's episode, the author talks to Here & Now's Kalyani Saxena about how her imperfect characters make difficult choices in their search for power. Zhao draws clear comparisons between the themes of anti-imperialism and history depicted in the book to real world battles being fought today, including anti-Asian racism.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Limnic Eruptions: The Rarest Natural Disaster

Early in the morning of August 21, 1986, in a valley near Lake Nyos, Cameroon, something horrible happened. 

1,746 people were killed, as were over 3,500 cattle and almost every other animal that breathed air. 

There were no signs of violence or destruction. Everyone and everything seemed to have simply died.  

They were the victims of one of Earth's rarest and most frightening disasters. 

Learn more about limnic eruptions, what they are, and how they can be prevented on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Meredith, Alone’ explores mental health, isolation and friendship

The titular protagonist of Meredith, Alone has not left her home in three years. In today's episode, author Claire Alexander tells NPR's Scott Simon about the character's self-imposed isolation, and how trauma from earlier in life can leave long-lasting impacts on a person's mental health. And yet Meredith's trauma doesn't define her – so Alexander explains why she wanted to write a story that provided a full scope of what it means to overcome mental and emotional wounds.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Morgenthau Plan

In September 1944, despite over half a year remaining in World War II, the Allies began preparing for an eventual post-war world.

One of the biggest questions being discussed was what to do with Germany. After two world wars with Germany in just a quarter century, no one wanted a third.

One American official developed a plan which would basically destroy Germany as a modern country to prevent them from ever making war again.

Learn more about the Morgenthau Plan and the attempt to destroy Germany on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - A new biography of Janet Yellen offers a personal look at the trailblazing economist

Janet Yellen's career has shattered several glass ceilings; she was the first female head of the Federal Reserve, and she's now the first woman serving as Secretary of Treasury. In this episode, author and journalist Jon Hilsenrath discusses his new biography of her, Yellen, and how her upbringing and marriage reveal a lot about her professional path. Hilsenrath explains to Here & Now's Scott Tong that the love story of Yellen and her husband actually offers insight into the delicate line between democracy and capitalism, and how in a time of economic upheaval, policymakers are bound to make mistakes.