Photo, left: Window on Pluto's Rocky Mountains of water ice. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com. Hour One Wednesday 15 July 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Fraser Howie, co-author of Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise, in re: Q2 numbers...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Tuesday 14 July 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution, A Day at the Races, in re: Mrs Clinton began backchannel for Iran talks through Sultan of Oman [Sultan Qaboos, currently unwell], She authorized the war in Iraq in 2003 – as a...
\Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW C0-host: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes; and author, Liberty Risen. Hour One Monday 13 July 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, & Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: Emir was said by...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 12 July 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century, by Paul Collins (1 of 12) Sunday 12 July 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the...
Photo, left: Made by Thracian craftsmen for the Celtic Scordisci, the Gundestrup cauldron is the most spectacular of Celto-Thracian artifacts, and the finest example of late Iron Age European silverwork. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 11 July 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: The Discovery of Middle...
Photo, left: The testudo formation in a Roman military reenactment. See Hour 1, Block c, and Hour 2, Blocks A & B. In Ancient Roman warfare, the testudo or tortoise formation was a formation used commonly by the Roman Legions during battles, particularly sieges. Testudo is the Latin word for "...
Image, left: The Druze faith began as a movement in Ismailism that was heavily influenced by Greek philosophy and Gnosticism and opposed certain religious and philosophical ideologies that were present during that epoch. The faith was preached by Hamza ibn 'Alī ibn Ahmad, an Ismaili mystic and...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com. Hour One Wednesday 8 July 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Charles Burton, professor at Brock University, in re: US and China have a fundamental difference over China's role in Asia. Seventieth anniversary of the end of WWII –...
Photo, left: The Kerch Strait from Landsat. Tuzla Island (Ukrainian: Тузла; Russian: Тузла; Crimean Tatar: Tuzla) (from Turkish "tuzluk" - saturated solution of salt in water for salting fish) - is a sandy islet in the form of a spit located in the middle of the Strait of Kerch between the Kerch...
Photo, left: Magna Carta (Latin for "the Great Charter"), also called Magna Carta Libertatum ("the Great Charter of the Liberties"), is a charter agreed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to make peace between the...