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Sunday 31 May 2015

  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...

Saturday 30 May 2015

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...

Friday 29 May 2015

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...

Thursday 28 May 2015

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...

Wednesday 27 May 2015

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...

Tuesday 26 May 2015

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...

Monday 25 May 2015

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...

Sunday 24 May 2015

Picture, left:  Potosí is a city and the capital of the department of Potosí in Bolivia. It's one of the highest cities in the world by elevation at a nominal 4,090 metres (13,420 ft). For centuries, it was the location of the Spanish colonial mint. Potosí lies at the foot of the Cerro de Potosí—...

Saturday 23 May 2015

Drawing, left: On 23 May in the year 635 was born K'inich Kan B'alam II (Classic Mayan: K'ihnich K'an B'ahlam), also known as Serpent Jaguar.  He was king of the pre-Columbian Mayan polity of Baakal in the Classic period of Mesoamerican chronology. His capital was the ceremonial center and city now...

Friday 22 May 2015

Photo, left: Monoprix above a Medieval cemetery (see Hour 4. Block D).  Paris: Past the racks of hair accessories on the ground floor of the Monoprix supermarket on the corner of the Rue Réaumur and the Boulevard de Sébastopol in the Second Arrondissement, there is a door marked "staff only".  Slip...

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