Photo, above: Rebecca West, H G Wells, and his feminine retinue JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One (left) BAIKAL vodka with the real Lake Baikal as backdrop Saturday 7 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation by Oliver Bullough (1 of 4) Saturday 7...
Photo, above: Woodrow Wilson Goes to Europe to Save Civilization for Democracy, 1919. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 6 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Amos Guiora, law professor; co-dir, Center for Global Justice, University of Utah, in re: Humanitarian Crisis, Geo-politics and the Dilemma...
Photo, above: Tonto and the Lone Ranger. Tonto was played by a Canadian Mohawk First Nations actor born on the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation, near Brantford, Ontario, Canada, one of eleven children of a Canadian Mohawk tribal chief and military officer, Major George Smith. He took...
Photo, above: Gordon Chang entertains the prospect of buying a new car, thinks of Volvo – now owned by Chinese Communist Party officials – and elects to buy a Chevy Cruze. " I've just bought a Chevy and am really happy with it." (Hour 2, Block A) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts; Gordon Chang,...
Photo, above: The Great Peterhof Palace - Peter the Great's Summer Palace (also called Petrodvorets) - which is situated 18 miles west of St Petersburg, is a series of palaces and gardens. The Great Cascade is composed of three waterfalls, 64 fountains, and 37 garden fountains; all are entirely...
Photo, above: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 2 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: How to Survive the Titanic by Frances Wilson (Kindle Edition - Oct 18, 2011) - Frances Wilson was educated at Oxford University and lectured on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature for...
Photo, above: Ford Model T Runabout (photo courtesy of Ford) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 1 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s--The Era that Created Modern Sports by Kevin Cook (1 of 2) Sunday 1 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block B:...
Photo, above: NASA's Kepler Mission has discovered the first super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a star similar to the Sun. A team of researchers, including Carnegie's Alan Boss, has discovered what could be a large, rocky planet with a surface temperature of about 22 degrees Celsius (72...
Photo, above: September 4, 1804 - Bomb ketch USS Intrepid, fitted out as a fireship to destroy a flotilla of Barbary corsairs, blew up in Tripoli harbor before reaching her target. Ten men, all volunteers and including her commander Lieutenant Richard Somers, were lost. Commodore Edward Preble...
Photo, above: In Uganda, a Karamojong man enters the shaft of an artisanal mine in Rupa, close to the town of Moroto. Gold mining became an alternative source of income for some members of the Karamojong community after their traditional way of life–cattle rustling–started to vanish. Image by Marc...