Wednesday June 26, 2013
(Photo: St. Andrews Castle, North Sea.) John Batchelor is away for the week.
(Photo: St. Andrews Castle, North Sea.) John Batchelor is away for the week.
(Photo: Russian Proverb.) John Batchelor is away for the week.
(Photo: Super Moon over Manhattan.) John Batchelor is away for the week.
Photo, above In 1910, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a small crew of men embarked upon the infamous Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole, only to arrive there on January 17, 1912, and discover that a Norwegian expedition had beaten them to the feat. To add tragedy to letdown, the crew never...
Photo, above: Khrushchev and Castro JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 22 June / Hour 1, Block A: The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Secret White House Tapes by David G. Coleman (1 of 4) John F. Kennedy’s handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis has been...
Photo, above: Medieval Irish illumination; see: Hour 3, Block C, Sid Perkins, Science magazine, on Science, snails, and climate. Of Monks, Volcanoes, and Very Cold Weather JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 21 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, in re: U.S. charges Edward...
Photo, above: Ethiopia’s Contested Dam Project on the Nile River: in March 2011, when Egypt was consumed by domestic unrest, Ethiopia announced it would soon begin construction on a hydroelectric dam along the Blue Nile River, one of two main tributaries for the Nile. The Grand Ethiopian...
PRESIDENT OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SHOCKS ACADEME AND POLITICAL CIRCLES Photo, above: John Sexton, president of New York University - see: Hour 1, Block B, Bob Fu, president of China Aid, in re: Chen Guang-chen, a blind freedom-fighter who fled to the US, was received warmly by NYU, and now . . "...
Fifty-five million years ago, a fossil thought to be the earliest-discovered ancestor of small tree-dwelling primates called tarsiers; even at that early time, the tarsier and anthropoid [i.e., our human] groups had split apart. Picture above: how the ancient primate might have looked, in its...
Photo, above: In Ireland at G8 meeting, Presidents Obama and Putin share an icy encounter over Syria. See: Hour 3, Block A: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 17 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, and Thomas...