A History of Railways and Railroads
Everything Everywhere | Around the World Travel Blog By Gary Arndt
by Gary Arndt
2d ago
Podcast Transcript Over the last 200 years, railroads have been one of the most important methods of transportation. Railroads helped make the modern world. They are capable of transporting people and goods quickly over long distances at a low cost.  However, most people would be shocked to learn that railways predate the development of locomotives. ... Read more The post A History of Railways and Railroads appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more
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The History of Hong Kong
Everything Everywhere | Around the World Travel Blog By Gary Arndt
by Gary Arndt
3d ago
Podcast Transcript Located on a peninsula and series of islands off the southeastern coast of China lies what is today called the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong.  Hong Kong didn’t play a central role in the thousands of years of Chinese history. However, it has played a pivotal role in the region for the ... Read more The post The History of Hong Kong appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more
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Michelin Star Restaurants
Everything Everywhere | Around the World Travel Blog By Gary Arndt
by Gary Arndt
1w ago
Podcast Transcript In 1889, two brothers, Andre and Edouard Michelin, started a company that made the world’s first removable pneumatic tires.  Today, their names are synonymous with fine dining around the world.  If you wonder what rubber tires have to do with the world’s greatest restaurants, I assure you it all makes perfect sense, even ... Read more The post Michelin Star Restaurants appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more
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The 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa
Everything Everywhere | Around the World Travel Blog By Gary Arndt
by Gary Arndt
1w ago
Podcast Transcript On the morning of August 27, 1883, one of the most destructive natural disasters of the 19th century occurred between the islands of Java and Sumatra, in what is today the nation of Indonesia.  After weeks of low-level rumblings, a volcanic eruption totally obliterated the mountain that it had formed.  The devastation wasn’t ... Read more The post The 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more
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The History of the Grand Canyon
Everything Everywhere | Around the World Travel Blog By Gary Arndt
by Gary Arndt
1w ago
Podcast Transcript Cutting across the state of Arizona is one of the wonders of the natural world: The Grand Canyon.  The Grand Canyon draws attention not only for its overwhelming size and intricate, colorful landscape but also for the deep and exposed layers of Earth’s history that are visible in its walls.  The history of ... Read more The post The History of the Grand Canyon appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more
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The History of Stocks and Stock Exchanges
Everything Everywhere | Around the World Travel Blog By Gary Arndt
by Gary Arndt
1w ago
Podcast Transcript A little over 400 years ago, a group of Dutch investors had a revolutionary idea.  They were embarking on an incredibly risky endeavor, and to spread the risk, they were going to share ownership of the new venture.  Even better, each part of the ownership in this venture could be bought and sold ... Read more The post The History of Stocks and Stock Exchanges appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more
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Young Julius Caesar
Everything Everywhere | Around the World Travel Blog By Gary Arndt
by Gary Arndt
1w ago
Podcast Transcript Before the Ideas of March, before he crossed the Rubicon, and before he became Rome’s dictator for life, Julius Caesar had led a very interesting existence.  We know more about his early life than most Romans simply because of his accomplishments later in life, but what he did and experienced clearly shaped the ... Read more The post Young Julius Caesar appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more
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The History of the CIA
Everything Everywhere | Around the World Travel Blog By Gary Arndt
by Gary Arndt
2w ago
Podcast Transcript The United States federal agency charged with gathering foreign intelligence is the Central Intelligence Agency or the CIA. The CIA is tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information as well as conducting covert action and clandestine operations.  It was created in the shadow of the Second World War and became one ... Read more The post The History of the CIA appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more
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The Domain Name System
Everything Everywhere | Around the World Travel Blog By Gary Arndt
by Gary Arndt
2w ago
Podcast Transcript Behind almost every web page, email address, and podcast is a system that translates addresses understandable by humans to something that can be understood by computers.  The system is one of the foundations of the Internet, yet its origin was in a handmade list that was placed on a single computer.  Unbeknownst to ... Read more The post The Domain Name System appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more
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The History of Military Ranks
Everything Everywhere | Around the World Travel Blog By Gary Arndt
by Gary Arndt
2w ago
Podcast Transcript Every military in the world is a hierarchal organization. There are people at the top who make decisions, people down below who follow those orders, and people in between who make it happen.  Today, most militaries have an elaborate rank structure with multiple ranks in the chain of command.  However, it wasn’t always ... Read more The post The History of Military Ranks appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more
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