Photo, above: The famous Harvey Girls; here, in Somerville, Texas. The Fred Harvey Company was the owner of the Harvey House chain of restaurants, hotels, and other hospitality industry businesses alongside railroads in the western United States. The company traces its origins to the 1875 opening...
Photo, above: Detainee escorted by guards at US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Photo By: Getty Images JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 15 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay by Jess Bravin (1 of 4) Saturday 15 June 2013 / Hour 1,...
Photo, above: Participants at the Festival Ergav celebration in Chukotka, Russia. See: Hour 1, Block C: . Adm Gary Roughead, World Affairs Council of Northern California, in re: The Opening Arctic - Challenges and Opportunities JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 14 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A...
Photo, above: How to make sarin gas at home. It looks as though any sarin gas in Syria was brought in by the al Nusrah Front (= al Qaeda) "rebels" – i.e., Islamist anti-Assad forces. See: Hour 2, Block A, Danielle Pletka, AEI. "I was reading up on nuclear proliferation when our editorial...
Photo, above: In Trabzon, in Turkey on the Black Sea - a small global crossroads - people demostrate against the authoritarian, Islamist regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts; Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, and Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show Hour One Wednesday 12 June...
Photo, above: Jabbar Collins, with family, has now filed a $150 million lawsuit for wrongful conviction. The long-time Brooklyn, New York, District Attorney Charles Hynes is accused of running a private jail system where witnesses were illegally interrogated and forcibly detained indefinitely. The...
Photo, above: Portfolio » Trade Show and Exhibit Photography » I ITSEC 2009 - Booz Allen Hamilton - Rear JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 10 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor; Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: gang warfare in Kabul;...
Photo, above: Scythian gold belt plaque, 5th-4th century BCE; Western Siberia. See: Hour 3, Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith. Note a theory that Gautama Buddha was Scythian; this derives from a Sanskrit text. JOHN...
Painting, above: The Victory of Alexander the Great, 1529, by Albrecht Altdorfer. See: Hour 4, Block D: Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire by James Romm JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 8 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Between Man and...
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 7 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Jim McTague, Barron's Washington, in re: U.S. Payrolls Rise 175,000; Jobless Rate Climbs to 7.6% Employers added 175,000 jobs in May, in a sign that the economy continues to grow at a moderate pace despite higher taxes, federal...