Around the World with Mr. Clark

This week on the podcast we enter Scandinavia. In this episode we enter Denmark -- and this is a country Clark has been to. In 2017 Clark rode his bike solo and unassisted from Stockhom, Sweden to Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen is now on his list of most favorite cities in the world. The city is amazing. One word you have to know about Denmark: hygge.

The Land of Hans Christian Anderson, mermaids, and Danishes.

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Is it Ukraine or The Ukraine?

Lots of Soviet History. FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met here at the end of World War II. At war with Russia since February 2022, a war which is internationally deemed a war of agression by Russia but a war that is also, well, complicated.

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Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are three small countries on the Baltic Sea, often lumped together and referred to as the Baltic States. Combined, they are about equal in size to the US State of Wisconsin in terms of population. They stood up to the Soviet Empire by holding hands and singing.

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In this episode of the podcast Clark takes us to Poland. An epicenter of the collapse of the Soviet Empire thanks to John Paul II and Lech Walesa, Poland is a great nation built on wealth created by salt, but it's always getting picked on by its neighbors.

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We may not think of Austria as being a "big deal" on the world stage today, but when the archduke was assasinated in 1914, it sparked a world war. A mountainous, land-locked country in Central Europe, it's famous for skiing and Red Bull, and being the home of Arnold Schwarzenegger. There's also a town so beautiful that China spent $950 Million to build a replica.

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We are yet to experience a century in history with a unified Germany. For a country with such a long and rich history, that's kind of mind boggling. A complicated 20th Century, this is the land of Guttenberg and Luther, Mozart and Bethoven, castles and brats.

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Switzerland is The Land of Swiss Army Knives, Swiss Watches, Swiss Cheese, and Swiss Banking. There's no capital city, but there is a "federal city" and it got its name from a super important duke killing a bear. Also, Switzerland has the second highest life expectancy of any country in the world, even though only 0.1 percent of the country is Mormon. And, what does that have to do with anything? Those are the kind of rabbit holes you end up in on another episode of Around the World with Mr. Clark.

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The British Poet Samuel Johnson once said that a person who has not been to Italy will always feel inferior because they know they have not seen that which they are supposed to see. As a cradle of Western Civilization, there's a lot of history and culture to see in Italy. If Leonardo is the Michael Jordan of the Renaissance, then Michaelangelo is the LeBron James? Or is he the Kobe Bryant? Plus, the coffee and gelato in Italy are amazing.

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France is amazing. Of course it's amazing. Paris is the capital in just about everyway. Polticaly, financially, and culturally. Amazing history and culture. The French Revolution, The Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral. Was Coco Chanel a Nazi Sympathizer? Clark talks about all these things and more in the latest installment of Around the World with Mr. Clark.

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Portugal loves salted cod and Cristiano Ronaldo. Once a great empire, but not a great empire anymore. Home to maybe the oldest city in Europe. And, something that happened in 1755 sparked one of the biggest intellectual movements in Western History. On the Iberian Peninsula, this is a beautiful country influenced by Atlantic and Mediterranean culture.

You can find Clark's classes on outschool at https://bit.ly/clarkonoutschool and follow him on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/clarkvand/

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