The John Batchelor Show

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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...

Tuesday 29 April 2014.

Painting, above: Russian occupation of Crimea JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Tuesday  28 April  2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Eli Lake, senior national security correspondent, Newsweek/Daily Beast, in re:  Jumbo set with a huge intercept platform, can vacuum up the entire electromagnetic spectrum.  "Open...

Monday 28 April 2014

Photo, above: A monument of defensive architecture of Kievan Rus, the progenitor of Russia.  The Golden Gate. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR.  Francis Rose, Federal News Radio. Hour One Monday  28 April  2014  / Hour 1, Block A: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR.  Francis Rose, Federal...

Sunday 27 April 2014

Photo, above:  Hour 2, Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars by Sonia Faleiro    The tone of Rashmi’s voice on the other side of the phone was one of happiness. She sounded really excited and engaged me in an animated conversation for a few minutes. “I have gotten a new...

Saturday 26 April 2014

The Ancient Technology Centre (ATC) began over 25 years ago as a school project.  Jake Keen, a teacher working at Cranborne Middle School, designed and led the building of an Iron Age roundhouse based on archaeological evidence. Uniquely, Jake’s ethos demanded the construction and material...

Friday 25 April 2014

Photo, above:  Killer thug takes control of Slavyansk.   "For anyone interested to know more about the views and ideas of the current self-proclaimed mayor of Slavyansk, Vyacheslav Ponomarev (the one which supposedly holds the VICE correspondent).  He gave an interview to a Russian Gazeta.ru...

Thursday 24 April 2014

Photo, above: Thirty baleen whales found in the Chile Desert, after a mass dying 9 million years ago. Why.  See Sid Parkins, Hour 4, Block D. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Thursday  24 April  2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Amity Shlaes, chairman, Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, in re: the New...

Wednesday 23 April 2014

Photo, above: Stephen Yates, chief executive officer of D.C. International Advisory and former advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, on Taiwanese TV.  He's running for the Republican nomination for District 30A of the Idaho House of Representatives; see Hour 2, Block C. 朋友: Steve Yates, 漢文名叫葉望輝,...

Tuesday 22 April 2014

Photo, above: Ukraine's police and intelligence service accused Russia of staging a fatal shooting incident on Sunday in which pro-Moscow separatists were killed in the east of the country. "Armed lawbreakers and saboteurs who are terrorising the local population around Slaviansk ... have turned to...

Monday 21 April 2014

Graphic, above: Events Pertaining to the Cuban Missile Crisis 1950s - American-owned businesses controlled all of Cuba's oil production, 90% of its mines, and roughly half of all its railroad, sugar, and cattle industries. Havana had become an attractive tourist destination for Americans and US...

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