Deep Dive: Founding Moments, Fiery Reformers, and the Pentagon’s Hidden Footprints - November 10, 2025
Hosts Lydia Holmes and Jessica Palmer explore the 1775 founding of the U.S. Marine Corps in Philadelphia, celebrate the birthdays of Martin Luther, Friedrich Schiller, and Ennio Morricone, and reveal a surprising segregation-era detail built into the Pentagon’s design.
In this Deep Dive episode, our hosts discuss the founding of the U.S. Marine Corps, influential historical birthdays, and an architectural echo of segregation in the Pentagon.
- 📜 On this day in 1775 the Continental Congress established the United States Marine Corps in Philadelphia—an urgent, practical wartime decision that helped bolster colonial defenses and seeded an institution central to American military identity and storytelling.
- 🎂 Today’s birthday reflections cover Martin Luther (1483)—the reformer whose 95 Theses and use of the printing press reshaped religion, politics, and civic life—plus mentions of Friedrich Schiller (1759) and Ennio Morricone (1928), highlighting how influential figures create cultural and travel-worthy landscapes.
- 💡 Fact of the day: The Pentagon was built with twice as many bathrooms as needed because 1940s Virginia segregation laws required separate facilities for Black and white people—an architectural imprint of discriminatory policy that reframes how we read public spaces.
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