How Passports Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The concept of passports - that people should enjoy protected freedom of movement - is an ancient one. It wasn't until WWI that they became universal. Learn all about this overlooked, important document.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:32.0	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from Howstuffworks.com.
0:41.6	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.0	I'm Josh Clark.
0:43.8	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Noel.
0:48.1	This is the autumn of Noel continues.
0:52.8	Yeah, autumn of Noel.
0:53.8	That's a good album title.
0:54.8	Yeah, yes.
0:55.8	I get royalties from it if anyone uses it.
0:59.8	I think that we should entitle this.
1:04.4	Passports, colon, go to sleep now.
1:07.8	Man, I know.
1:10.5	This is one of the ones that gets chalked up in the column of, well, we've got to explain
1:14.0	everything.
1:15.0	Yeah.
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