Photo, above: War of 1812: British attack Washington: The Burning of Washington in 1814 was an armed conflict during the War of 1812 between the forces of the British Empire and those of the United States of America. On August 24, 1814, after defeating the Americans at the Battle of Bladensburg, a...
Photo, above: The Battle of the Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of the Virginia Capes or simply the Battle of the Capes, was a crucial naval battle in the American War of Independence that took place near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on 5 September 1781, between a British fleet led by Rear...
Photo, above: The fins on the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado were the largest and most outrageous ever fitted on a production car. Those fins were too much for many customers, however, and the tailfins shrank after that point. Within a couple of years, tailfins had become much less prominent, and by the...
Photo above: Flag of Club 88, where "h" is the eighth letter in the alphabet and HH stands for Heil Hitler. The many Club 88s currently all around Germany are a visible manifestation both of the resurgence of neo-Nazism and of a wash of specifically anti-Jewish sentiment. German politicians,...
Gu confessed during her trial this month in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei to killing 41-year-old Neil Heywood by pouring poison down his throat, saying he had threatened her son after a business deal went sour. 905 PM ET: With Gordon Chang, Forbes. com, and Peter Navarro, University of...
905 PM ET: Imperfect: An Improbable Life by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown (Apr 3, 2012) 920 PM ET: Imperfect: An Improbable Life by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown (Apr 3, 2012) 935 PM ET: Soccer Men: Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses, and Neurotics Who Dominate the World's Most Popular Sport ...
Photo, above: Syrian boys look at a destroyed tank near a damaged mosque in the city of Azaz. (Ben Hubbard, Associated Press /August 20, 2012) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Monday 905P Eastern Time: Devin Nunes (CA-21), in re: his recent trip to the Mideast, comments about the deterioration of the...
Photo, above: JOHN BROWN-- MURAL IN THE KANSAS STATE CAPITAL JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW London, 1864. Marx and Engels with Marx's daughters Laura, Eleanor, and Jenny. This picture was only found in 1948, when Marx's grandson Edgar Longuet donated it to the Institute for Marxism-Leninism in Moscow....
Photo, above: Vice-president Joseph Biden. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Guest-host: Francis Rose. Co-Host: Gordon Chang Saturday 905P Eastern Time: Francis Rose and Gordon Chang, in re: Gu Kai Lai, Bo Xilai: what to make of it all, and how much of the trial and sentencing is real, and how much is a...
Above: In 1006, observers watched a star explode in the constellation Lupus that shone about a dozen times more brilliantly than Venus ever does. The explosion was a Type Ia supernova, the most luminous variety, which occurred when a small, dense star known as a white dwarf blew up about 7000 light...