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Friday 28 November 2014

Photo, above: Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876), and sometimes called "the Napoleon of the West," was a Mexican politician and general who greatly influenced early Mexican politics and government. Santa Anna first opposed the...

Thursday 27 November 2014

Photo, above: Church Trustees room - Many of the Pilgrims who migrated to the Plymouth Plantation had resided in the city of Leiden, in Holland, from 1609–1620, and had recorded their births, marriages and deaths at the Gothic Pieterskerk. To commemorate this, a nondenominational Thanksgiving Day...

Wednesday 26 November 2014

Photo, above: The brick kiln in Kot Radha Kishan of Kasur district, 50 kilometres from Lahore. Pakistani Christian Couple burnt alive in Kasur Punjab / Posted by Christians in Pakistan on November 04, 2014     KASUR, PAKISTAN: A couple was burnt alive in a brick kiln in the outskirts of Kasure, Geo...

Tuesday 25 November 2014

Photo, above: Modern Russia exists as progeny of the ancient Kievan Rus. The history of Russia begins with that of the Eastern Slavs and the Finno-Ugric peoples. The state of Garðaríki ("the realm of towns"), which was centered in Novgorod and included the entire areas inhabited by Ilmen Slavs,...

Monday 24 November 2014

Photo, above: Persian warriors from the Berlin Museum.  In the matter of Defense Ministers:  Darius the Great advises his successor, "If thus thou shalt think, 'May I not feel fear of [any] other,' protect this Persian kara*; if the Persian kara shall be protected, thereafter by the will of...

Sunday 23 November 2014

Photo, above: Ukraine crisis, 2014. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 23 November  2014  / Hour 1, Block A: The Great Big Book of Horrible Things - Matthew White  Sunday 23 November  2014  / Hour 1, Block B:  The Great Big Book of Horrible Things - Matthew White    Sunday 23 November  2014  /...

Saturday 22 November 2014

Photo, above: Chelsea Hotel, 222 West 23 Street, New York City. See Cornell Ironworks, by Katherine Cornell Gorka, at midnight. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 22  November  2014 / Hour 1, Block A: The Crusade Years: 1933-1955 - George H. Nash Saturday 22  November  2014 / Hour 1, Block B:...

Friday 21 November 2014

  Photo, above: John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, was assassinated on November 22, 1963,  at 12:30 Central Standard Time in Dealey Square in Dallas, Texas.  JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday  21 November  2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Liz Peek, The Fiscal Times &...

Thursday 20 November 2014

Photo, above: US border with Mexico,  General Pershing's punitive expedition camp near the border, El Paso, Texas (postcard, circa 1916): Franklin Mountains, left to right (i.e., south to north) are: Ranger Peak, Sugarloaf Mountain, and part of South Franklin Mountain. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts...

Wednesday 19 November 2014

Photo, above:  Today is the 151st anniversary of the delivery of the Gettysburg Address, a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863.  He spoke at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg,...

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