Welcome to 80 Days: an exploration podcast, brought to you by three history and geography nerds in an internet-powered balloon. Every episode we take you to a little-known country, territory, settlement or city and explore the history, culture and people of each place over approximately an hour and a half. Click on the links below to find an episode you like, scroll down to see episode show notes, news and announcements and if you like what you hear, or sign up to support us on!Season 4 (2019-20, monthly) Season 3 (2018-19) Season 2 (2017);Season 1 (2016-17). In this episode of 80 Days: An Exploration Podcast, we’ll be talking about Utah, the Beehive State.

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Named for the Ute people, a Native American tribe that has occupied for area for hundreds of years, Utah became the 45th state admitted to the U.S. On January 4, 1896, after the territory was won in the Mexican-American War in 1848.With a total land area of 82,144 sq mi (212,761 km), Utah is a shade larger than Uganda, and just smaller than Romania. The state is bordered by Colorado to the east, Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the north, Arizona to the south, and Nevada to the west. It also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast, where the famous ‘four corners’ monument can be found.

The state is currently home to around 3.2 million people, 62% of whom are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or LDS, known to most people as Mormons. The LDS church migrated there in 1847, while it was still Mexican territory, to escape persecution, but it soon became part of the United States. Utah has the second highest birth rate of any US state, and it is the only state to have a majority of its population belonging to a single church.This episode, just like all of our recent ones, is supported by our Patreon backers. If you want to help out the show, you can help out by joining us over on to give us whatever you can in terms of financial support and avail of all the lovely awards and extras that entitles you to. If you’re unable to support us financially, you can always or wherever you get your podcasts from. Salt Lake City, UtahYour hosts, as always, are in Hong Kong, in the UK, and in Ireland.

In, Mark takes us further than we’ve ever been before, in a story that’s out of this world! From Houston, Texas, in 1968, we tell the story of the USA’s space programme and how Christmas came to be the backdrop to the first voyage by humans around the moon. Often overshadowed by Apollo 11’s Moon Landing a few months later, Apollo 8 laid vital foundations, and took place during the festive season, watched by millions of families around the world.The most significant source for Mark’s script was Jeffrey Kluger’s book ““. You will hear the voices of Joe , and Luke as well.In addition to our theme music by the talented, this episode featured a lot of music and sound effects, graciously made available for free by contributors at, and for use under a Creative Commons license, by attribution.The pieces of music you heard under the text were “” and “” by, ‘s ““, “Holiday Gift” and “Brand New World” (the latter two from his Christmas album ), and “” by, all available under Licence.

Tristan Longherin’s ambient sound “” and helloflowers’ “” were also used in this piece under Creative Commons Licenses. Thanks to those artists who make their work available for podcasters like us. The version of “” that is heard in the minisode was uploaded by Mystery Mammal and is in the public domain.If you want to hear more archive audio from the mission, highlights have been made available on the Internet Archive.The famous photo “Earthrise” taken by Anders duirng Apollo 8. In this episode of 80 Days: An Exploration Podcast, we’ll be talking about Trinidad & Tobago, a twin island nation, located just off the northern coast of the South American mainland, around 11 kilometres or 7 miles from Venezuela. It is the southernmost of the West Indies island group, and today is home to around 1.3 million people.Trinidad, the southernmost and larger of the two islands, has a landmass of around 4,760 km2 (1,840 sq miles), comprising 93% of the country’s territory.

Tobago, around 40km or 25 miles to the northeast, is around 300 km2 (120 sq mi) in total. The islands enjoy a warm, tropical climate, and only have two seasons – a dry season for the first five months of the year, and a wet season for the remaining seven. Occupied by Amerindian tribes up to 1498, the islands were then discovered by Christopher Columbus and later became a Spanish colony.

Yes, video gamers know that golf comes in a lot of flavors, but most of them have just been variations on vanilla. By comparison, Simon and Schuster's new Outlaw Golf is a dark chocolate ripple with butterscotch, nuts and some sort of unidentifiable crunchy candy mixed into the works. The premise behind Outlaw Golf is simple. Download Video. How was your video watching experience? Outlaw Golf 2 Xbox Trailer. Crusty Leaf course. Outlaw Golf 2 Sports Gameplay. El Suave, A Mans man with great hair. Donna, NJ disco clubber. Clem, Inbred Redneck. Trixie, Pampered Socialite. Harvest, Violent Hippie. Killer Miller, Inmate with a hobby. Suki, Dominatrix. Veteran entertainer Steve Carell provides the commentator track in the original Outlaw Golf, and comedian Dave Attell provides the announcer's voice in Outlaw Golf 2. While both men's styles work within the confines of their respective games, the differences are quite notable between the two. The premise behind Outlaw Golf is similar to that which made the Hot Shots series so popular: Combine wacky, tongue-in-cheek character designs and personalities with a solid golfing simulation. Outlaw golf el suave letra. El Suave / El Suave is a smooth talker, that loves himself a little too much, He travels with El Ramon, a umm wierd man loving man. In other words gay, he loves El Suave and fantazises with him a lot, just watch him work the hand puppets.

Sovereignty over the islands was disputed throughout the 19th century, before the two were unified as one British colony in 1888. Independent since 1962, the country has benefited greatly from the discovery of oil in 1857, and is today one of the richest and most ethnically diverse countries in the region. Trinidad and Tobago is also famous for its extravagant carnival celebrations, and is known as the birthplace of limbo dancing.This episode, just like all of our recent ones, is supported by our Patreon backers. If you want to help out the show, you can help out by joining us over on to give us whatever you can in terms of financial support and avail of all the lovely awards and extras that entitles you to. If you’re unable to support us financially, you can always or wherever you get your podcasts from.This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Your hosts, as always, are in Hong Kong, in the UK, and in Ireland. (Theme music by )Some further reading:. Arie Boomert’s book on the indigenous people of these islands can be found. by Bridget Brereton. The Collared Peccary, which was obviously delicious to early peoples, can be researched on Wikipedia.

As discussed in this episode, the n ative name for Trinidad was Caeri or Iere. In this episode of 80 Days: An Exploration Podcast, we’ll be talking about Luxembourg, a small, landlocked European country at one of the central crossroads of Europe, bordered by Belgium, France and Germany. Officially known as the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the country has around 600,000 inhabitants and spans a total area of around 2,500 square kilometres or 1,000 square miles, making it roughly the same size as Hong Kong and about two thirds the size of the smallest US state – Rhode Island. The world’s only remaining Grand Duchy, it has been referred to throughout history as the ‘ Gibraltar of the North’ for its strong fortifications and although that fortress has been occupied many times throughout its long history, since the 10th century it has always been a separate, if not autonomous, political entity.

Today, the capital city of Luxembourg is one of three capitals of the European Union and is much better known for its financial prowess rather than its military fortifications. Most citizens here are at least trilingual, speaking French, German and, and although it has one of the EU’s smallest populations, Luxembourg also has the fastest-growing population in Europe.This episode, just like all of our recent ones, is supported by our Patreon backers. If you want to help out the show, you can help out by joining us over on to give us whatever you can in terms of financial support and avail of all the lovely awards and extras that entitles you to. If you’re unable to support us financially, you can always or wherever you get your podcasts from.Joe visited Luxembourg for us to do some research. Here are some photos from around the city and its fortifications:This slideshow requires JavaScript. Your hosts, as always, are in Hong Kong, in the UK, and in Ireland. (Theme music by )Some further reading:.

Book: “” (Britannica Educational Publishing). is the name of the opera that played an iconic role in the, which also threw much of Luxembourg into turmoil. and their history, enrolling them as a world heritage site – dismantled as the price for neutrality. All that remains are the underground, an important tourist attraction., quite near to the new district of Luxembourg city where a number of EU institutions are now based. Joe visited during the. Here are a selection of photos he took at the celebrations:This slideshow requires JavaScript. In this episode of 80 Days: An Exploration Podcast, we’ll be talking about Djibouti, a small nation located on the Northeast Coast of the Horn of Africa.

Bordered by Eritrea to the North, Ethiopia to the West and Somalia to the south, Djibouti lies on the west side of the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, the narrowest point of Gulf of Aden.Around 30km across the strait lies Yemen. This chokepoint into the Red Sea, which overlooks the approaches to the Suez Canal, has long made Djibouti a desirable location for naval bases. Dominated by two main groups – the Afar and Issa Somali people, Djibouti today is balanced between these two factions, having endured a protracted civil war in the wake of winning its independence from France in 1977.

Occupying a total area of around 23,000 km2 (9,000 sq mi), Djibouti is the third smallest country in continental Africa, and today has a population of around 880,000, the vast majority of whom live in the captial city of Djibouti City. Nearly 94% of the population is Muslim while the remaining 6% are Christian, and official languages are French and Arabic.

(In creative mode, you can fly higher, and could potentially reach terminal velocity falling from 'above the sky'.)An exact function to calculate the speed of a (free)falling player is the following: v(t) = (392/5) ((98/100) floor(20t) - 1). The player can jump up a distance of 1 1⁄ 4 blocks. Pig simulator minecraft map. However, the sky isn't quite high enough for that: Falling from layer 256 to bedrock takes about 5.5 seconds, with impact at 3.5 blocks per tick (70 m/s). This would produce a terminal velocity of 3.92 blocks per tick or 78.4 m/s. With I, that increases to 1 15⁄ 16 blocks, and with Jump Boost II, that increases to 2 1⁄ 2 blocks.Falling speed is: Every tick ( 1⁄ 20 second), non-flying players and mobs have their vertical speed decremented (less upward motion, more downward motion) by 0.08 blocks per tick (1.6 m/s), then multiplied by 0.98.

Djibouti today attracts plenty of foreign investment, and aims to become “Africa’s Dubai.”This episode, just like all of our recent ones, is supported by our Patreon backers. If you want to help out the show, you can help out by joining us over on to give us whatever you can in terms of financial support and avail of all the lovely awards and extras that entitles you to. If you’re unable to support us financially, you can always or wherever you get your podcasts from.Your hosts, as always, are in Hong Kong, in the UK, and in Ireland. (Theme music by )Some further reading:. Peter Tyson, writing for PBS Nova, attempts to tackle the “Where Is Punt” question.

Brittanica has loads of additional info on, discussed by Joe in this episode. You can find additional info on the Ifat Sultanate which succeeded it at. The New World Encyclopedia has a wonderful, long form post on the, which Djibouti was caught up in. For more info on our old friend Ferdinand de Lesseps and his ill-fated other canal project, you can listen to our.

We also touch on old friend Vasco Da Gama in this episode. In this episode of 80 Days: an exploration podcast, we’ll be talking about Pitcairn Island, a tiny volcanic island in the South Pacific, most famous for its mutineer inhabitants, who fled there after the famous Mutiny on the Bounty in 1789.Pitcairn forms part of a four-island group known as the Pitcairn Islands, but is the only island in the group to be inhabited. Its nearest inhabited neighbours are to the East and French Polynesia to the West. Pitcairn is the least populous national jurisdiction in the world, and by far the smallest place we’ve ever talked about in terms of population, boasting only around 50 residents as of 2018, all descended from the 9 Bounty mutineers and the few Tahitians they brought with them to the island. The island itself is rocky, and experiences warm weather year-round thanks to its location just south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Today, Pitcairn is the only remaining British Overseas Territory in the South Pacific. Its economy relies heavily on tourism, as well as the highly-prized honey produced by the bees on the island.

While all islanders speak English, their first language is Pitkern, a creole language that has derived from 18-century English dialects and Tahitian.This episode, just like all of our recent ones, is supported by our Patreon backers. If you want to help out the show, you can help out by joining us over on to give us whatever you can in terms of financial support and avail of all the lovely awards and extras that entitles you to. If you’re unable to support us financially, you can always or wherever you get your podcasts from.Your hosts, as always, are in Hong Kong, in the UK, and in Ireland. (Theme music by )Some further reading:.

has more info on the early history of the island group. Joe speaks about his use of Librivox for this episode.

In this episode of 80 Days: an exploration podcast, we’ll be talking about Faroe Islands, an autonomous group of islands in the North East Atlantic. Home to almost 50,000 people and with historical links to Denmark, Faroe Islands is a country within the Kingdom of Denmark, but has a distinct culture all of its own, in part due to their isolation and remoteness from the Danish mainland (and pretty much everywhere else also.)The Faroe Islands have probably been inhabited since approximately 300 AD onwards according to archaeological evidence, but the first full settlement was established by legendary figure Grimur Kamban. The Faroe, may be the oldest parliament in the world if, as thought, it was established in approximately 900AD. Faroe Islands were occupied by the British during World War 2 in order to prevent invasion by Nazi Germany.

Fishing has always been a mainstay of the economy and advances in technology versus depleted fishing stocks have had opposing impacts on the fragile fortunes of the archipelago.We also had the pleasure of speaking to, a local Faroese who was able to give us plenty of interesting insights into the local culture and mindset. Big thanks to him for his time! (Listen to Arni on )This episode, is the first of Season 4, and while many things in life change, (Joe has just taken to wearing jaunty hats for example) our need for your support has not. If you like the show, and want to support, you can do us a major service by joining us over on to give us whatever you can in terms of financial support and avail of all the lovely awards and extras that entitles you to.If you do not have a ha’penny of course, firstly God bless you, but also you can help us for free by giving us an ole five star review on Apple Podcasts.