Photos, above: Cyanobacteria are a phylum of bacteria that obtain their energy through photosynthesis. Stromatolites of fossilized oxygen-producing cyanobacteria have been found from 2.8 billion years ago, possibly from 3.5 billion years ago. The biochemical capacity to use water as the source for...
Photo, above: Dozens killed in Cairo after gunmen open fire on pro-Morsi protesters At least 50 reported dead as military fires on group outside the military building where the ousted president is held. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 8 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn, Long...
Image, above: see, Hour 2, Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York by Richard Zacks JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 7 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: 1781: The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War by Robert Tonsetic; 1 of 2 Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess...
Photo, above: The journey along the Mississippi river from Napoleon, on the Arkansas shore, to Vicksburg, the largest town in the State of Mississippi, discloses naught save vast and gloomy stretches of forest and flat, of swamp and inlet, of broad current and green island, until Columbia, a pretty...
Photo, above: A young Jack London. See: Hour 4, Deadline Artists--Scandals, Tragedies and Triumphs: More of America's Greatest Newspaper Columns, by John Avlon, Jesse Angelo and Errol Louis JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 5 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses...
. Document: The Crown vs. Patrick Henry. See: Hour 4, Blocks A & B, Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots by Thomas S. Kidd. Thursday 4 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy by Thomas J. Schaeper (1 of 2) THE HISTORICAL LEDGER gives famous spies and traitors a...
Photo, above: Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is the new head of the Egyptian military and 44th defense minister in the history of the modern Egyptian army since its formation more than 200 years ago. In his mid-50s, he is one of the youngest members of the military council that was previously headed by...
Photo, above: Egypt's anti-government protesters celebrate army's ultimatum. See: Hour 1, Block A, Sam Tadros of the Hudson Institute and author of Motherland Lost: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity. Egypt teeters on brink of overthrow, seven reported killed in clashes JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW...
Image, above: The Geologic Time Scale was assembled by geologists to show the history of Earth. Fossil evidence in sedimentary rocks was the basis for understanding Earth's evolution from 4.5 bya to present. Another geologic time scale spiral. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 1 July 2013...
Photo, above: Red Cloud (Lakota: Maȟpíya Lúta), (1822 – December 10, 1909), war leader and a chief of the Oglala Lakota. One of the most capable Native American opponents the United States Army faced, he led a successful campaign in 1866–1868 known as Red Cloud's War over control of the Powder...