Photo, above: The Green Cathedral is in Italy on the slopes of the Arera mountain near the northern city of Bergamo. It was designed by Giuliano Mauri, a natural architect who died in May 2009. It stands 21 metres tall, with five aisles and 42 columns. It's 28.5 metres long and 24 metres wide,...
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Photo, above In 1910, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a small crew of men embarked upon the infamous Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole, only to arrive there on January 17, 1912, and discover that a Norwegian expedition had beaten them to the feat. To add tragedy to letdown, the crew never...
Photo, above: Khrushchev and Castro JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 22 June / Hour 1, Block A: The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Secret White House Tapes by David G. Coleman (1 of 4) John F. Kennedy’s handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis has been...
Photo, above: Medieval Irish illumination; see: Hour 3, Block C, Sid Perkins, Science magazine, on Science, snails, and climate. Of Monks, Volcanoes, and Very Cold Weather JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 21 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, in re: U.S. charges Edward...
Photo, above: Ethiopia’s Contested Dam Project on the Nile River: in March 2011, when Egypt was consumed by domestic unrest, Ethiopia announced it would soon begin construction on a hydroelectric dam along the Blue Nile River, one of two main tributaries for the Nile. The Grand Ethiopian...