Podcast Transcript In June of 1314, Scottish forces under the command of Robert the Bruce squared off against an English army led by King Edward II. The battle was the culmination of years of English intervention in Scotland after a succession crisis. Despite being vastly outnumbered, the Scots won the day, earned their independence, and ... Read more The post The Battle of Bannockburn appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more

Podcast Transcript In 1903, the Ontario Rugby Football Union adopted a set of rules for their sport which were codified by Thrift Burnside, the captain of the University of Toronto football team. The rules were major changes to the game of rugby and were largely based on the rules created by Walter Camp for use ... Read more The post Canadian Football appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more

Podcast Transcript In 1912, a discovery was announced that shocked the world. A British paleontologist announced what was perhaps the most important find in the history of paleontology.  The announcement was about the discovery of a fossil, which was claimed to be the missing link between apes and humans.  It was a groundbreaking discovery that, ... Read more The post The Piltdown Man Hoax appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more

Podcast Transcript Our solar system is made up of a lot of things. The biggest thing is the sun, of course which makes up the vast majority of the solar system’s mass.  Then, of course, there are planets, which come in various sizes, and many of them have moons of various sizes.  However, that isn’t ... Read more The post All About Asteroids appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more

Podcast Transcript Starting in the year 1096, the Christian kingdoms of the Latin Church united to retake religious sites in the Holy Land. This war was known as a crusade. This was just the first in a series of nine official and several other unofficial crusades over a span of 200 years.  These crusades impacted ... Read more The post A History of the Crusades appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more

Podcast Transcript By the early 19th century, the United States and Great Britain had already fought two wars with each other.  Those two wars were not enough to resolve all of the territorial and border disputes between them.  There was one massive open question that remained between the two countries. A large swath of land ... Read more The post Fifty-four Forty or Fight!: A History of the Oregon Border Dispute appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more

Podcast Transcript In 259 BC, a boy named Ying Zheng was born in the state of Qin in modern-day China.  He was born into the royal family of the kingdom and ascended to the throne at the age of 13.  For most people, becoming king would be the pinnacle of their achievements. However, this was ... Read more The post Qin Shi Huang: The First Emperor of China appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more

Podcast Transcript In the 19th century, New York City was one of the fastest-growing cities in the world.  However, it was still a very young city, and as such, the city’s leaders were able to take a step back and plan what exactly they wanted to future of the city to be.  What they decided ... Read more The post Central Park appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more

Podcast Transcript The universe is big. Really, really big. So big that it is hard to intuitively grasp its size because we have nothing in our lives that we could compare it to.  Not only is the universe big, but within it are things that really big as well.  The discovery of these big things ... Read more The post The Largest Known Things in the Universe appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more

Podcast Transcript The English language has evolved organically, gathering words and phrases from different languages, countries, and communities.  It should come as no surprise that many of the words in English have come from the military. For centuries, soldiers have developed their own way of speaking and created words to describe their unique circumstances.  Some ... Read more The post The Origin of Words and Phrases: Military appeared first on Everything Everywhere ..read more