Best Eric Jefferson Podcasts (2025)

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Moltke-class battlecruiser 3:05

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fWotD Episode 3159: Moltke-class battlecruiser Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Sunday, 28 December 2025, is Moltke-class battlecruiser. The Moltke class was a class of two "all-big-gun" battlecruisers of the German Imperial Navy built between 1909–1911. Nam…

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Trichogenes claviger 2:46

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fWotD Episode 3158: Trichogenes claviger Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Saturday, 27 December 2025, is Trichogenes claviger. Trichogenes claviger, the Caetés catfish, is a critically endangered species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family …

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1937–38 Gillingham F.C. season 2:26

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fWotD Episode 3157: 1937–38 Gillingham F.C. season Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Friday, 26 December 2025, is 1937–38 Gillingham F.C. season. During the 1937–38 English football season, Gillingham F. C. competed in the Football League Third Division South…

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A Christmas Carol 3:20

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fWotD Episode 3156: A Christmas Carol Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Thursday, 25 December 2025, is A Christmas Carol. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, firs…

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S4E19 – Compulsory Voting, Democracy Sausages and More: Learning about Elections Down Under with Former Australian Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers 27:31

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In this episode, hosts Eric Fey and Brianna Lennon speak with Tom Rogers, who was the Australian Electoral Commissioner from 2014 to 2024. They spoke about the structure of Australian elections, how the country counts its ballots, and the importance of democracy sausages.

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Tufted jay 3:11

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fWotD Episode 3155: Tufted jay Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Wednesday, 24 December 2025, is Tufted jay. The tufted jay (Cyanocorax dickeyi), also known as the painted jay and Dickey's jay, is a species of bird in the crow family Corvidae. It is endemic t…

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Feeling safe, sound, and at peace while you travel, by Rohan Gunatillake 12:49

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Whether it’s by train, plane, or automobile, travel can produce a lot of stress in both the body and mind. Luckily, there are some simple things we can do to provide ourselves with relief. This week, Rohan shares a meditation designed for the busy travel season, aimed at grounding your body in the present moment no matter where you’re coming from o…

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Lady Frances Berkeley/Amy Stallings: Bacon’s Rebellion, Colonial Virginia, and First-person Historical Interpretation 31:18

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In this episode of Historically Thinking, we begin not with a historian’s voice, but with the voice of a seventeenth-century woman. Lady Frances Culpeper Berkeley—born in England, twice widowed, and married in 1670 to Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia—speaks from the midst of crisis. Jamestown has burned. Nathaniel Bacon’s rebellion has fr…

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Melaka Fray 3:03

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fWotD Episode 3154: Melaka Fray Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Tuesday, 23 December 2025, is Melaka Fray. Melaka Fray is a fictional character in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics published by Dark Horse Comics. She debuts in the first issue of Fray (200…

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Algemeyne Entsiklopedye 3:09

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fWotD Episode 3153: Algemeyne Entsiklopedye Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Monday, 22 December 2025, is Algemeyne Entsiklopedye. The Algemeyne Entsiklopedye (Yiddish: אלגעמיינע ענציקלאפעדיע, lit. 'General Encyclopedia') is a Yiddish-language encyclopedia p…

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Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces 3:03

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fWotD Episode 3152: Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Sunday, 21 December 2025, is Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces. The Rhodesian government actively recruited white personnel from other …

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Battle of Bronkhorstspruit 2:23

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fWotD Episode 3151: Battle of Bronkhorstspruit Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Saturday, 20 December 2025, is Battle of Bronkhorstspruit. The battle of Bronkhorstspruit was the first major engagement of the First Boer War. It took place by the Bronkhorstspr…

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The Getaway (1972 film) 2:15

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fWotD Episode 3150: The Getaway (1972 film) Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Friday, 19 December 2025, is The Getaway (1972 film). The Getaway is a 1972 American action thriller film based on the 1958 novel by Jim Thompson. The film was directed by Sam Pecki…

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Caesar cipher 1:45

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fWotD Episode 3149: Caesar cipher Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Thursday, 18 December 2025, is Caesar cipher. In cryptography, a Caesar cipher is one of the simplest and most widely known encryption techniques. It is a type of substitution cipher in which…

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The Party's Interests Come First: Joseph Torigian on the Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping 29:42

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According to Chinese Communist official Xi Zhongxun, his first revolutionary act was an attempt to poison one of his school’s administrators when he was 14. He was faithful to the revolution, and the Chinese Communist Party, until his death at age 88 in 2002. In between those ages was a remarkable life. He fought Nationalists and Japanese. He was a…

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Poisoning of Abbot Greenwell 1:58

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fWotD Episode 3148: Poisoning of Abbot Greenwell Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Wednesday, 17 December 2025, is Poisoning of Abbot Greenwell. Around June 1447, the abbot of Fountains Abbey, in Yorkshire, Northern England, John Greenwell, was poisoned by a …

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Who is leading who? by Beth Lisick 33:00

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As an artist and writer, Beth Lisick has had her share of freelance side gigs. But nothing can prepare her for this latest assignment: tending to the unforgettable Bill, who leads Beth on an epic journey through New York City. What she learns along the way: Everyone’s struggles are not immediately visible. And neither are the gifts they have to off…

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Littlehampton libels 3:11

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fWotD Episode 3147: Littlehampton libels Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Tuesday, 16 December 2025, is Littlehampton libels. The Littlehampton libels were a series of letters sent to numerous residents of Littlehampton, in southern England, over a three-yea…

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Simon Cameron 2:33

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fWotD Episode 3146: Simon Cameron Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Monday, 15 December 2025, is Simon Cameron. Simon Cameron (March 8, 1799 – June 26, 1889) was an American businessman and politician who was four times elected senator from Pennsylvania, and …

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Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons 3:36

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fWotD Episode 3145: Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Sunday, 14 December 2025, is Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons. Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons is a three-part episodic side-scrolling pla…

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Scott Zolak 2:10

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fWotD Episode 3144: Scott Zolak Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Saturday, 13 December 2025, is Scott Zolak. Scott David Zolak (born December 13, 1967) is an American broadcaster and former professional football player. He played quarterback in the National …

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Theodosius III 2:56

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fWotD Episode 3143: Theodosius III Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Friday, 12 December 2025, is Theodosius III. Theodosius III (Greek: Θεοδόσιος, romanized: Theodósios) was Byzantine emperor from c. May 715 to 25 March 717. Before rising to power and seizin…

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George Mason 4:32

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fWotD Episode 3142: George Mason Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Thursday, 11 December 2025, is George Mason. George Mason (December 11, 1725 [O. S. November 30, 1725] – October 7, 1792) was an American planter, politician, Founding Father, and delegate to …

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Poinsettia Man: Lindsay Schakenbach Regele on Joel Roberts Poinsett, Adventures, Diplomacy, Espionage, Trade, Self-Dealing, South Carolina, and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism 31:33

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The red flowered plant that shows up everywhere at this time of year–I saw a forest of them in Wegman’s this morning– is called in Mexico the cuetlaxochitl, or the noche buena; but Americans know it by as the namesake of man who introduced it to the United States: poinsettia. Yet Joel Roberts Poinsett was a more interesting organism than that plant…

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S4E18 – Protecting Latin American Democracy Through Observation with Transparencia Electoral’s Eduardo Repilloza Fernández 25:28

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High Turnout Wide Margins recently traveled to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the 2025 summer convening of the Partnership for Large Election Jurisdictions [PLEJ], and spoke with election officials from across the county — and world — about the elections work they are doing in their communities. In this episode, hosts Eric Fey and Brianna Lennon spe…

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Edmund Ætheling 1:39

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fWotD Episode 3141: Edmund Ætheling Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Wednesday, 10 December 2025, is Edmund Ætheling. Edmund Ætheling (born 1016 or 1017, died before 1057) was a son of Edmund Ironside and his wife Ealdgyth. Edmund Ironside briefly ruled as k…

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Let the symphony of life unfold all around you, by Matthieu Ricard 37:47

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Matthieu Ricard, photographer, humanitarian, and author of Notebooks Of A Wandering Monk, has spent years of his life in the presence of some of the world’s greatest mindfulness practitioners and felt the weight of their powerful compassion. In this episode, Matthieu shares how he learned to stop trying to analyze or understand this power, and inst…

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Macrobdella decora 2:46

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fWotD Episode 3140: Macrobdella decora Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Tuesday, 9 December 2025, is Macrobdella decora. Macrobdella decora, also known as the North American medicinal leech, is a species of leech found in much of eastern North America in fre…

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Coventry ring road 2:59

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fWotD Episode 3139: Coventry ring road Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Monday, 8 December 2025, is Coventry ring road. The Coventry ring road, designated as the A4053, is a 2.25-mile (3.62 km) ring road in Coventry, England, which forms a complete dual-carr…

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2015 Trophée Éric Bompard 2:16

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fWotD Episode 3138: 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Sunday, 7 December 2025, is 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard. The 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard was a figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU), organize…

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Jefferson Davis 3:31

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fWotD Episode 3137: Jefferson Davis Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Saturday, 6 December 2025, is Jefferson Davis. Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the only president of the Confederate States fro…

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Raichu 3:13

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fWotD Episode 3136: Raichu Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Friday, 5 December 2025, is Raichu. Raichu ( ; Japanese: ライチュウ, Hepburn: Raichū) is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon media franchise, and the evolved form of series mascot Pika…

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Flag of Hong Kong 2:05

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fWotD Episode 3135: Flag of Hong Kong Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Thursday, 4 December 2025, is Flag of Hong Kong. The Regional Flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China depicts a white stylised five-petal Hon…

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Plato's Letters: Ariel Helfer on the Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life 34:27

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The Greek philosopher Plato is famous for writing his teachings in the form of dialogues. But there are additionally a series of seven letters attributed to Plato. Over the centuries much ink has been spilt in arguments over their authenticity. My guest today argues that these letters are actually epistolary philosophical novel which are if nothing…

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Ovalipes catharus 2:13

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fWotD Episode 3134: Ovalipes catharus Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Wednesday, 3 December 2025, is Ovalipes catharus. Ovalipes catharus, commonly known as the paddle crab, swimming crab, or, in Māori, pāpaka, is a species of crab in the family Ovalipidae.…

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The beetle and the whale, by Tom Mustill 38:56

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Nature filmmaker Tom Mustill travels the globe capturing breathtaking footage of animals while highlighting the work of the world’s leading conservationists. But one summer day, on a vacation kayak trip, he comes face to face with nature in a way he never expected. He shares the story of how this rare and terrifying encounter re-sparks his sense of…

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SMS Pommern 3:15

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fWotD Episode 3133: SMS Pommern Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Tuesday, 2 December 2025, is SMS Pommern. SMS Pommern was one of five Deutschland-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Kaiserliche Marine between 1904 and 1906. Named after the Pruss…

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Julio and Marisol 2:16

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fWotD Episode 3132: Julio and Marisol Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Monday, 1 December 2025, is Julio and Marisol. Julio and Marisol were the protagonists in a bilingual public-service advertising campaign (officially titled Decision in English or La Deci…

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Mechanical Turk 2:28

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fWotD Episode 3131: Mechanical Turk Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Sunday, 30 November 2025, is Mechanical Turk. The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'; Hungarian: A Török), or simply the Turk,…

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KEXP-FM 2:24

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fWotD Episode 3130: KEXP-FM Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Saturday, 29 November 2025, is KEXP-FM. KEXP-FM (90.3 FM) is a non-commercial radio station in Seattle, Washington, United States, specializing in indie music programmed by its disc jockeys. KEXP's…

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Appaloosa 3:09

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fWotD Episode 3129: Appaloosa Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Friday, 28 November 2025, is Appaloosa. The Appaloosa is an American horse breed best known for its colorful spotted coat pattern. There is a wide range of body types within the breed, stemming f…

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Freedom from Want 2:23

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fWotD Episode 3128: Freedom from Want Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Thursday, 27 November 2025, is Freedom from Want. Freedom from Want, also known as The Thanksgiving Picture or I'll Be Home for Christmas, is the third of the Four Freedoms, a series of f…

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S4E17 – Making A[n Election] List and Checking it Twice with Florida’s Paul Lux and Mark Earley 27:25

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High Turnout Wide Margins recently traveled to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the 2025 summer convening of the Partnership for Large Election Jurisdictions [PLEJ], and spoke with election officials from across the county — and world — about the elections work they are doing in their communities. In this episode, hosts Eric Fey and Brianna Lennon spe…

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Vector: Robyn Arianrohd on the Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation 33:06

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On October 16, 1843, William Rowan Hamilton was taking a walk with his wife Helen. He was on his way to preside over a meeting of the Royal Irish Academy. As Hamilton came to Broome Bridge, over the Royal Canal, the solution to a vexing problem finally emerged in front of him. He was so excited, and perhaps so afraid that he might forget, that he p…

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Terry Griffiths 2:36

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fWotD Episode 3127: Terry Griffiths Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Wednesday, 26 November 2025, is Terry Griffiths. Terence Martin Griffiths (16 October 1947 – 1 December 2024) was a Welsh professional snooker player, coach and pundit. After winning severa…

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Home will be with me wherever I go, by Nadia Owusu 30:31

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As the daughter of UN diplomat, Nadia Owusu grows up across several worlds. Trailing her father from Africa to Europe before moving to the United States for university, Nadia grapples with her fractured identity. But when Nadia returns to her father's village in Ghana, she finds an unexpected and affirming answer to who she is. See Privacy Policy a…

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Hedonism 3:46

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fWotD Episode 3126: Hedonism Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Tuesday, 25 November 2025, is Hedonism. Hedonism is a family of philosophical views that prioritize pleasure. Psychological hedonism is the theory that all human behavior is motivated by the desir…

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Chagatai Khan 2:02

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fWotD Episode 3125: Chagatai Khan Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Monday, 24 November 2025, is Chagatai Khan. Chagatai Khan (Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠲᠠᠶ; c. 1184 – 1242) was a son of Genghis Khan and a prominent figure in the early Mongol Empire. The second son of G…

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Yeti (Doctor Who) 2:51

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fWotD Episode 3124: Yeti (Doctor Who) Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Sunday, 23 November 2025, is Yeti (Doctor Who). The Yeti are fictional robots from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. They were originally created by w…

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Indigenous people of the Everglades region 3:19

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fWotD Episode 3123: Indigenous people of the Everglades region Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles. The featured article for Saturday, 22 November 2025, is Indigenous people of the Everglades region. The indigenous people of the Everglades region arrived in the Florida peninsula of what…