The John Batchelor Show

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Friday 9 May 2014

Photo, above: 1893-7: Herbert Hoover (seated, left) and other members of the Stanford surveying squad, 1893. (unknown copyright) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board; host of OpinionJournal.com Hour One Friday  10 May 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Panel of...

Thursday 8 May 2014

Photo, above:  JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board. Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. Hour One Thursday   8 May   2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Josh Rauh, author, Advancing a Free Society ; Stephen Haber, Hoover: Fragile by Design, with Charles...

Wednesday 7 May 2014

Photo, above:  JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board & OpinionJournal.com. Hour One Wednesday   7 May   2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Lanhee Chen; Hoover; Doug Rivers, Hoover; Bill Whalen, Hoover; in re: Lanhee Chen on Bloomberg Surveillance (Bloomberg...

Tuesday 6 May 2014

Photo, above: Gary Stanley Becker (December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) received the 1992 Nobel Prize in economic sciences. Becker is credited with pioneering the approach to economics as a study of human behavior.   JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media...

Monday 5 May 2014

Photo, above: ‪Latvian Lawmakers Reject Soviet Occupation Bill   ‪ RIGA, 2012 – A parliamentary commission in the Baltic nation of Latvia has supported proposed legislation criminalizing the denial of Soviet and Nazi occupation. The bill presented by former Justice Minister Janis Bordans is likely...

Sunday 4 May 2014

Photo, above: The Chinese Educational Mission Building in Hartford, 1887. This photograph shows the building at 352 Collins Street, Hartford, after it had become Bowen’s School for Boys    --Connecticut Historical Society. Yung Wing was the first Chinese student to be graduated from a university in...

Saturday 3 May 2014

Photo, above: Japan Mail Steamship Co. (NYK), 1940. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 3 May   2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta (1 of 4) Saturday 3 May   2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy by Eri Hotta (2 of 4) Saturday 3 May   2014 /...

Friday 2 May 2014

  Photo, above: Chncellor Angela Merkel, President Barrack Obama, comment about Ukraine crisis in the Rose Garden Press Conference, Friday May 2, 2014.  See Michael Vlahos, Naval War College, Hour 1.   JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday  31 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block A:  Michael Vlahos, Naval...

Thursday 1 May 2014

Photo, above: First were floods, now a colossal fire threatens the construction of the new Russian space port, Vostochny. Multiple sources of forest fires in the Amur Region (known in Russian as Amurskaya Oblast) were first reported on April 28 by the web site of the independent environmental...

Wednesday 30 April 2014

Painting, above: Ancient Chinese Rockets  Around 1500, a Ming Dynasty official named Wan Hu decided to use his nation's advanced rocket technology to become the first man in space. He attached 47 small rockets to a chair. Dressed in his finest clothing, Wan sat down holding the strings of two kites...

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