The 'on this day in history' podcast, with a new episode every single day. Featuring historical events that range from the Roman Empire to the World Wide Web, HistoryPod proves that there is always something to be remembered 'on this day'. Written and presented by Scott Allsop, creator of the award-winning www.mrallsophistory.com
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When it comes to running and scaling your online business, there’s so many pieces to juggle and new things to learn. But what if you could hear exactly what to do in order to continue growing your business, and what to avoid? That’s what you’ll learn on The Savvy Seller, the podcast that will show you how to take your digital product business to the next level through no-stress marketing, strategic planning, and more! Your host, Kristen Doyle, has over a decade of experience selling digital ...
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Chevy Volt (Photo: GM) New York will more than double its electric vehicle charging capacity, installing 325 new stations across the state in high-traffic locations like supermarket parking lots, hotels, train and bus stations, apartment buildings, hospitals, and parking garages. The state has awarded $4.4 million to ten companies and municipalities to install the stations. Currently the state has approximately 200 EV sites in that offer 400 electrified parking spaces. In a press release, NY ...
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Sean Blackburn, James Carbary: Content Marketing Experts | Startup Junkies | Sweet Fish Media Ambassadors
A podcast dedicated to sharing time-saving tools with busy entrepreneurs and marketers We get it. Whether you're a business owner or a marketing professional, you don't have time to research the myriad of apps, web tools, and software that can help save you time and money. Follow along with James and Sean as they bring you honest, unfiltered thoughts and reviews of the resources you should be using. Three episodes drop each week, and they're always super-quick...so you can learn what you nee ...
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MIT News is dedicated to bringing news from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to the world. We cover research, innovation, teaching, entrepreneurship, and the Institute’s distinctive and quirky culture. We find ourselves educated and amazed by our community of hands-on problem-solvers who are eager to know how things work — and inspired to make them work better. We hope you are amazed, too.
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27th August 1896: Shortest recorded war in history fought between Britain and the Sultanate of Zanzibar
The British bombardment was swift and devastating, setting Zanzibar's palace and its buildings ablaze and killing or wounding approximately 500 men and women. The war lasted for barely 40 ...By Scott Allsop
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These ants quietly took over Manhattan — and they're not stopping there
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New York: The city that never sleeps, the concrete jungle where dreams are made of and more recently ... home to a mysterious ant spreading across the city — before continuing across metropolitan and even state lines. Scientists first noticed this ant — now dubbed the ManhattAnt — in 2011. Nobody knew where it came from, and it was largely ignored …
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26th August 1895: The world’s first major AC power plant began producing electricity at Niagara Falls
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Forty-four years after the establishment of Yellowstone, the service was created when President Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act on 25 August, ...By Scott Allsop
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24th August 1938: The Kweilin incident sees the first ever civilian aircraft to be shot down when Japanese fighters attack
As the Kweilin Douglas DC-2 aircraft neared the city of Namyung in Guangdong province, it was intercepted by three Japanese Mitsubishi A5M fighters that opened fire on the unarmed civilian ...By Scott Allsop
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22nd August 1864: Adoption of the first Geneva Convention governing sick and wounded members of armed forces
The First Geneva Convention mandated protection and care for wounded and sick military personnel, regardless of nationality, as well as recognising the neutrality of medical personnel, field hospitals, and ...By Scott Allsop
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21st August 1957: USSR conducts first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
After flying 6,000 kilometres, the R-7 Semyorka rocket successfully hit its target in what is now the Kura Missile Test Range in the Russian Far ...By Scott Allsop
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109. 4 Signs It’s Time to Hire Help in Your Business [Hiring Series]
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Send us a text! (Your number stays private) Today, we're tackling a topic that many business owners struggle with, and that's knowing when it's time to hire help. If you've ever felt overwhelmed by to-do lists, burnout, or missed deadlines, this episode is for you. We'll discuss key signs that indicate it's time to bring additional team members on …
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At around 11pm on the 20th August 1968, troops from the USSR, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary entered Czechoslovakia in an invasion that brought the Prague Spring to an ...By Scott Allsop
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On the 19th August 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev, the President of the Soviet Union, was placed under house arrest in what is known as the August ...By Scott Allsop
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The Volksempfänger was simple and utilitarian, but made radio technology accessible to the general population and enabled it to be used as a means of disseminating Nazi ...By Scott Allsop
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16th August 1793: National Convention of France agrees to the levée en masse, a policy of conscription during the Revolutionary Wars
The levée en masse affected the entire population and represented an unprecedented move by a government, as it extended the responsibility of national defence beyond professional soldiers to the general ...By Scott Allsop
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15th August 1941: Last execution at the Tower of London takes place when German spy Josef Jakobs is killed by firing squad
Josef Jakobs was found guilty of espionage by General Court Martial and taken to the miniature firing range at the Tower of London where he was strapped to a wooden Windsor chair and killed by firing squad at ...By Scott Allsop
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The announcement of the partition led to mass migrations, marred by violence, as Hindus and Sikhs moved to India while Muslims migrated to ...By Scott Allsop
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108. 7 Reasons Your Site Is Slow & How to Improve Website Speed
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Send us a text! (Your number stays private) Today, we are tackling a crucial topic that impacts your website's success: speed. If your site's loading time is dragging, it isn't just frustrating for visitors; it can hurt your Google rankings and sales. In this episode, I'll uncover the 7 most common culprits behind slow websites and share actionable…
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Johnson was 40 years old when she enlisted, and her extensive clerical and stenographical experience made her a perfect fit for the ...By Scott Allsop
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12th August 1990: Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, discovered by Susan Hendrickson
The most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever unearthed was discovered by palaeontologist Susan ...By Scott Allsop
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The conquest of Dacia was a strategic and economic victory for Rome, providing raw materials and a strong north-eastern ...By Scott Allsop
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10th August 1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation to establish the Smithsonian Institution
It had taken Congress eight years to agree on how to fulfil James Smithson’s desire to establish and institution ‘for the increase and diffusion of ...By Scott Allsop
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9th August 1942: Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, known as the “Leningrad” Symphony, received its premiere in the city under siege
The concert took place at the Philharmonic Hall, and was preceded by a Soviet artillery bombardment designed to silence the German lines during the ...By Scott Allsop
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Tens of thousands of Ku Klux Klan members took part in an organised march through Washington ...By Scott Allsop
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New research suggests that polymetallic nodules found 13,000 feet deep produce “dark oxygen” by electrolyzing water. Also, at higher altitudes, the air is less dense, which makes it harder for birds in flight to generate lift. The turkey vulture has a solution. Deep-Sea ‘Nodules’ May Produce Oxygen, Study Finds An international team of researchers …
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7th August 1947: Kon-Tiki expedition ends when the raft smashes into a reef at the Raroia atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago
The crew all survived, and their expedition provided evidence supporting Heyerdahl’s hypothesis that it was possible for ancient South Americans to have travelled across the Pacific Ocean to ...By Scott Allsop
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107. We’re Just Savvy: What to Know About Our Exciting Name Change!
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Send us a text! (Your number stays private) Hey, y'all! Today's episode is packed with exciting updates and practical insights. First off, you'll notice the podcast has a shiny new name—The Savvy Seller. I'll dive into the reasons behind this change and what it means for our community. I'm sharing my biggest takeaways from this year's TPT Forward C…
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In his proclamation he also released all the states and princes of the Empire from their oaths of loyalty to him but continued to rule as Francis I, Emperor of ...By Scott Allsop
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On the 5th August 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested near the South African town of Howick and imprisoned facing charges of inciting workers' strikes and leaving the country without a ...By Scott Allsop
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President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the neutrality of the United States in the First World ...By Scott Allsop
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3rd August 1798: Battle of the Nile ends with a decisive British victory over the French Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars
The turning point came when the French flagship, L'Orient, caught fire and exploded. The massive blast illuminated the night sky and demoralized the French ...By Scott Allsop
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The Clay Street Hill Railroad was successfully tested, becoming San Francisco’s first operational cable ...By Scott Allsop
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Originally broadcast from a studio in New Jersey, MTV launched at 12:01am with the words ‘Ladies and gentlemen, rock and ...By Scott Allsop
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31st July 1917: Battle of Passchendaele begins during the First World War, resulting in one of the muddiest battles of the conflict
The landscape was scarred by craters filled with water and, by the time the battle ended over three months later following the Canadian capture of the village of Passchendaele, there were approximately 500,000 casualties on both ...By Scott Allsop
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The city of Baghdad was founded by the Abbasid Caliph ...By Scott Allsop
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The Battle of Gravelines, the decisive battle of the Spanish Armada, took place off the coast of ...By Scott Allsop
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Bonus Marchers in Washington D.C. were forcibly removed by the U.S. Army under General Douglas ...By Scott Allsop
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In an attempt to evade capture Robespierre only succeeded in shattering his jaw when he reputedly attempted to shoot himself with a pistol, and spent the rest of the night on a table in the Committee of General Security before he was executed by ...By Scott Allsop
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President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981 that abolished racial segregation in the U.S. ...By Scott Allsop
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Radiolab for Kids is back! Is there such a thing as a good cage? Happy gorillas, deft landscape architects and neurologists show us that there just might be. We go back to the late 1970s to relive the moment when zoos began to change—literally the moment that the modern zoo was born, as embodied by a few tentative steps of a gorilla named Kiki. Tha…
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25th July 1934: Austrian Chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss, assassinated by members of the Austrian Nazi Party
Members of the Austrian Nazi Party, seeking to annex Austria into Nazi Germany, stormed the Chancellery building in Vienna where they shot and fatally wounded Dollfuss, who succumbed to his injuries later that ...By Scott Allsop
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Often referred to as the ‘lost city of the Incas’, Machu Picchu was constructed in the middle of the 15th century but was abandoned barely a century later in ...By Scott Allsop
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23rd July 1952: Egyptian Revolution begins, leading to the overthrow of King Farouk I and the end of British influence in Egypt
The Free Officers, led by Mohamed Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser, launched a coup that seized key military installations and government buildings in Cairo with minimal ...By Scott Allsop
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On the 22nd July 1706, the foundation for the establishment of the Kingdom of Great Britain was laid when commissioners from England and Scotland agreed the Acts of ...By Scott Allsop
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Construction of the Aswan High Dam took just over ten years and cost nearly $1 ...By Scott Allsop
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20th July 1801: The Cheshire Mammoth Cheese, is produced for President Thomas Jefferson, and weighs 1,235lbs
Weighing more than half a ton, the completed cheese was marked with the Jeffersonian motto ‘Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God’ and was presented to President Jefferson on January 1, ...By Scott Allsop
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The Franco-Prussian War began with a declaration of war by the French emperor, Napoleon ...By Scott Allsop
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Riots broke out in the in the predominantly African-American community of Hough in Cleveland, ...By Scott Allsop
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17th July 1917: King George V changes the name of the British royal family to the House of Windsor
Amidst enormous anti-German sentiment during the First World War, King George V made a historic proclamation that all descendants of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the male line, who were British subjects, would bear the surname ...By Scott Allsop
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The meters were installed along the southeast corner of First Street and Robinson Avenue in downtown Oklahoma City, and charged 5 cents per hour. They proved effective in regulating parking spaces and ensuring a higher turnover rate, which benefited local ...By Scott Allsop
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Napoleon Bonaparte voluntarily surrendered to British Captain Maitland on board the Royal Navy ship HMS ...By Scott Allsop
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