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Everything Everywhere Daily - Ninjas (Encore)

Ninjas are awesome. They’re silent, they can turn invisible, and they can totally flip out and kill people, especially their mortal enemies…pirates. 

…or at least that is what popular culture would like you to believe. 

Were ninjas really as powerful as they are made out to be? Were they the ultimate silent assassins?

Learn more about ninjas, real ninjas, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. 


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Five Good Emperors

Depending on how you define it, there were approximately 70 Roman Emperors. 

They were a mixed bag ranging from philosophers to the insane, from generals to children. 

Some were truly horrible, but some were actually pretty good at their job. In particular, there were five consecutive emperors who reigned during the peak of Pax Romana.

Learn more about the Five Good Emperors on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - Ada Limón talks forgiveness, ghosts and fertility on ‘Wild Card’

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón recently edited and introduced You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, a collection of poems by writers like Joy Harjo and Jericho Brown that pays homage to landscapes across the United States. In today's episode, Limón joins NPR's Rachel Martin to play a game for the new podcast Wild Card. They discuss some pivotal moments in Limón's life marked by natural scenery, like a creek she played in growing up and a big realization she had about her fertility while swimming in the Chesapeake Bay — and go beyond that into conversations about grandparents, memory and mortality.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - D-Day

On June 6, 1944, the largest amphibious landing in world history took place on the shore of Normandy, France. The allied forces called it D-Day.

The landing marked the commencement of Operation Overlord, a strategic move that heralded the long-awaited opening of the second front in the European war. 

D-Day was the start of the most meticulously planned events in history and one of the greatest logistical operations of all time.

It was also the day that saw some of the war's most horrific and heroic actions.

Learn more about D-Day and the start of the liberation of Western Europe on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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the memory palace - Episode 218: Olga

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.

A Note on Notes:

I always prefer that the listener goes into each episode cold, not knowing what it's going to be about. So, you might want to tread carefully, as there are spoilers in the notes below. 

Music

  • L'espagne pour memoire by Michel Portal
  • Find me Tomorrow from Christophe Beck's score to Charlie Countryman
  • The old Soviet philharmonic plays some Shostakovich.
  • The London Symphony Orchestra plays The Blue Danube Waltz.
  • We hear Walt by Mother Falcon.
  • Sombolero by Luiz Bonfa

Notes

  • Like a lot of people below, say, 55, I first heard about Olga Fikotova-Connolly when reading her obituary in the New York Times.
  • By far the best thing you can do if you want to know more about her is track down her out-of-print memoir, The Rings of Destiny, which, despite its rather puffed-up title, is so warm and detailed and intimate. It's a delight. 
  • You might also enjoy this late-in-life interview with Olga as well. 


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Malas’ is a novel about womanhood, curses and family history in a Texas border town

Marcela Fuentes' debut novel, Malas, is set in a small town nestled on the border between Texas and Mexico. There, two vastly different women begin to uncover decades of secrets, town gossip and broken family histories wrapped up in rodeos, Chicano politics and a hardcore punk band. In today's episode, NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento speaks with Fuentes about the complicated ideals of womanhood in Mexican-American culture and the way her protagonists struggle to live their truths.

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NPR's Book of the Day - R.O. Kwon’s novel ‘Exhibit’ grapples with sexual desire and Asian identity

Jin Han, the narrator of R.O. Kwon's Exhibit, is a photographer going through it – both with her work and her husband. When she meets ballerina Lidija Jung, her world is turned upside down. Exhibit becomes a story about "what you might give up for what you want most," as Kwon tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe. In today's episode, they discuss the nuances of wanting to give in to sexual desires even when they might be problematic for cultural perceptions and stereotypes of Asian women, and the way shame, religion and Korean womanhood function in both the book and Kwon's own life.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Apollo Lunar Module

When President John F. Kennedy set the objective of landing on the moon before the end of the 1960s, no one really knew what it entailed. 

The Apollo program involved many incredible feats of engineering, but perhaps the most impressive was the development of the Apollo Lunar Module. 

The Lunar Module was unlike any spacecraft before or since. It was the first spacecraft designed to fly only in the vacuum of space and the first to land on another celestial body. 

Learn more about the Apollo Lunar Module and the incredible design challenges it had to overcome on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - A Brief History of Central America

Located between Mexico and Columbia, in a strategic area connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific, is the region we call Central America. 

The countries that makeup Central America were mostly former Spanish colonies, but unlike other Spanish colonies to the north and south, Central America wound up as a series of small countries rather than one big one.

But why?

Learn more about the history of Central America and how the current borders came to be on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NPR's Book of the Day - Kathleen Hanna remembers her path to becoming the OG ‘Rebel Girl’

Before she founded the riot grrrl movement of the 1990s, Kathleen Hanna was a teenager volunteering at a rape and domestic violence shelter in Olympia, Washington. In today's episode, the Bikini Kill and Le Tigre frontwoman tells NPR's Kelly McEvers how the anger and grief she absorbed there manifested into lyrics and performances that would take the punk and music scenes by storm. That story is at the heart of Hanna's memoir, Rebel Girl, which also grapples with setting boundaries, carrying the feminist torch of a generation and lending a hand to younger bands.

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