Photo, left: Columbus Circle, Monday 26 January, waiting for the blizzard June that did not arrive. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 26 January 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: John Fund, National Review Online, & David M Drucker, Washington Examiner Senior Congressional correspondent, in re: In...
Photo, left: Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie (also known as Alexandre Dumas (25 March 1762 – 26 February 1806) was a general in Revolutionary France and the highest-ranking person of color of all time in a European army. He was the first person of color in the French military to become brigadier...
Photo, left: Yemeni little girl in an ancient doorway JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 24 January 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen, by Laura Kasinof (1 of 4) Saturday 24 January 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Don't Be Afraid of the...
Photo, left: In April 2009, at a summit for world leaders U.S. President Barack Obama met him. In June 2009, King Abdullah hosted President Obama in Saudi Arabia. In turn, Obama hosted King Abdullah at the White House in the same month. King Abdullah passed from this world on 22 January at the age...
left: American Sniper, not the movie. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts; Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board & host of OpinionJournal.com; Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. Hour One Thursday 22 January 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Mary Kissel, in re: Pres Obama's impending visit...
Photo, left: Curiosity Lands on Mars: Know What You're Watching When You're Watching '7 Minutes of Terror' See Hour 1, Blocks C & D, Hotel Mars, episode n. Dr. Ashwin R. Vasavada, MSL-Curiosity Project Scientist. Photo by courtesy of and with thanks to The Atlantic. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW ...
Photo, left: The Medal "for Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (Медаль «За доблестный труд в Великой Отечественной войне 1941–1945 гг.») was a World War II civilian labour award of the Soviet Union established on June 6, 1945 by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the...
Photo, left: WORLD HERO GUNNED DOWN BY IRANIAN THUGS. Alberto Nisman gives a news conference in Buenos Aires on 20 May 2009. See Hour 3, Block A, Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents, on, Evil in Buenos Aires: Investigator of 1994 AMIA bombing found dead. Photo by courtesy of and with...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 18 January 2015/ Hour 1, Block A: Conquistadora, by Esmeralda Santiago (1 of 2) Sunday 18 January 2015/ Hour 1, Block B: Conquistadora, by Esmeralda Santiago (2 of 2) Sunday 18 January 2015/ Hour 1, Block C: Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, by Mason...
Photo, left: Trace fossils, also called ichnofossils (Greek: ιχνος ikhnos "trace, track"), are geological records of biological activity. Trace fossils may be impressions made on the substrate by an organism: for example, burrows, borings (bioerosion), urolites (erosion caused by evacuation of...