Photo, left: Soldiers of Vietnam's People's Army. tweet: Aaron Mehta @AaronMehta Vietnamese military plays the US anthem for [SecDef Ash] Carter. Kind of amazing to think about. https://vine.co/v/eh5QBZbZdYM JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com. Dr. David M. Livingston, The...
Photo, left: Noctilucent clouds (blue) observed in front of the moon, taken from the International Space Station. also: The full Strawberry Moon and noctilucent clouds. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Tuesday 2 June 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: John Batchelor, in re: Operation Overlord, 6 June 1945...
Photo, left: Two Christian pastors from South Sudan who traveled north to Sudan and were arrested on charges of spying could face the death penalty, according to their attorneys. Yat Michael Ruot and Peter Yein Reith, both Presbyterian pastors from the breakaway Christian nation of South Sudan, are...
Painting, left: The Mississippian culture was a mound building Native American urban culture that flourished in Southern and Eastern North America before the arrival of Europeans. The Five Tribes – Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek and Seminole - were indigenous peoples of the Americas who...
Photo, left: Pointe du Hoc is a promontory with a 100 ft (30 m) cliff overlooking the English Channel on the coast of Normandy in northern France. During World War II it was the highest point between Utah Beach to the west and Omaha Beach to the east. The German army fortified the area with...
Miniature, left: The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds (Persian: منطق الطیر, Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr, also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr; 1177), is a long poem of approximately 4500 lines written in Persian by the poet Farid ud-Din Attar, who's commonly known as Attar of Nishapur. In...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board & host of OpinionJournal.com. Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. Hour One Thursday 28 May 2015/ Hour 1, Block A: Tunku Varadarajan on FIFA. Collin Levy on Kasich for POTUS as a supplysider...
Photo, left: Iraqi Army Loses Ramadi to ISIS Militants after Heavy Fighting (Iraqi army bugs out; SecDef Ash Carter mentions this; Pres Obama's spokespersons vigorously disagree). JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com. Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show. Hour One Wednesday...
Photo, left: 1956 Chevrolet Pickup 1/4 Mile Drag Racing Timeslip Specs 0-60. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, CNBC senior advisor; & Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday 26 May 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: James Pethokoukis, AEI, in re: LK: Yellin has the right procedure for the...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 25 May 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: You Are Not Forgotten: The Story of a Lost World War II Pilot and a Twenty-First-Century Soldier's Mission to..., by Bryan Bender (1 of 4) Monday 25 May 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: You Are Not Forgotten: The Story of...