Photo, left: New Hampshire. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 20 April 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, in re: Benghazi suspect designated by UN, State Department Both the US State Department and the UN have designated Ali Ouni Harzi as a...
Photo, left: Wadi es-Sebua, or Valley of the Lions (so called because of the sphinx-lined approach to the temple forecourts) (Arabic: ادي السبوع), is the site of two New Kingdom Egyptian temples, including one speos temple built by Ramesses II, in Lower Nubia. The first temple was built by...
Photo, left: The Kurdish national flag waved from a most precarious position. In the midst of its other tribulations, Kurdistan endeavors to maintain the safety and rights of its religious and ethnic minorities. See Hour 1, Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of...
Photo, left: The Cumulus Radio Network host John Batchelor welcomes the Air Force Academy Superintendent, Lt-General Michelle Johnson, to his studio at WABC in New York. General Johnson was the Air Force Academy's first Rhodes scholar when she was graduated in 1981, going on to serve as an aide to...
Photo, left: Milky Way, Summit Lake, West Virginia; credit to: ForestWander.com. See Hour 2, Block D, Liner: Sid Perkins, Science Magazine – there are 219 million stars in the Milky Way – our home. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board & host of...
Photo, left: Chinese-made structures stand on the Johnson Reef, called mabini by the Philippines and chi-gua by China, in the Spratly Islands in South China Sea. China is creating a “great wall of sand” as it takes land in the disputed South China Sea, and could be preparing to launch further grabs...
Photo, left: Христос Воскресе! Наистина възкресе! Easter is the most important holiday in the Russian Orthodox tradition. For most Russians, Easter is more than a question of faith – it's a celebration of national identity. Laced with symbolic meanings of pagan ancestry, Russian Easter traditions...
Photo, left: Yearling Harlem Success Academy Charter School (www.harlemsuccess.org) extols the message "Every Child Can Succeed" across all aspects of the school. Founded in August 2006, Harlem Success Academy Charter School has 280 kindergartners, first and second graders on its roster, with an...
Maps, left: Germania. See Hour 4, A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, by Christopher B. Krebs JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 12 April 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: The Zimmermann Telegram: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America's Entry into World...
Image, left: Titanic JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 11 April 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Voyagers of the Titanic: Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came From, by Richard Davenport-Hines (1 of 4) Saturday 11 April 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Voyagers of the...