Photo, above: In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian victim who suffered an alleged chemical attack at Khan al-Assal village according to SANA, receives treatment by doctors, at a hospital in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday March 19 (photo credit: AP/SANA) There is no...
Photo, above: "The lights were dimmed and the doors were locked. But inside a branch of Laiki Bank, one of Cyprus’s two dominant banks, a few silhouettes glided about Monday, filling cash machines to calm a wave of anxiety that has washed over this tiny island since European leaders took the...
Photo: To promote the NRA, the government appealed to the nation's sense of patriotism. A blue eagle was designed as the symbol of the NRA, and the government used mass meetings and huge parades to promote the program. In San Francisco, 8,000 schoolchildren formed a giant representation of the...
Photo: Calvin Coolidge and Native Americans at the White House. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Coolidge by Amity Shlaes The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America by Scott Weidensaul Hour One Saturday 16 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block A Roger Williams...
Photo: Reading, Vermont: See Third Hour: Wall Street $100 Million Man Makes Vermont Downton Abbey By Max Abelson Andrew J. Hall, the former Citigroup (C) Inc. oil trader whose pay package of about $100 million ensnared him in the fight over compensation at bailed- out banks in 2009, is selling...
Photo, above: One vista of St Patrick's Day in New York City. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board; Edward Hayes, criminal defense attorney; Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Hour One Thursday 14 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: David M Drucker,...
Photo, above: Mathura, India, birthplace of Lord Krishna. See: Hour 2, Block C: . Hari Kumar, NYT, Massive March for Yamuna River Nears Delhi JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, and David Livingston, The Space Show Hour One Wednesday 13 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Scott...
Photo, above: Two Different Aqueous Environments This set of images compares rocks seen by NASA's Opportunity rover and Curiosity rover at two different parts of Mars. On the left is " Wopmay" rock, in Endurance Crater, Meridiani Planum, as studied by the Opportunity rover. On the right are the...
Photo, above: Rival football fans in Egypt have protested over sentences handed down over riots at a match in Port Said in February last year. The court upheld 21 death sentences and handed down prison terms to other defendants over the violence, which claimed 74 lives. Most victims were supporters...
Photo: San Francisco Opera dusted off its vivid 28-year-old sets for a new, hilarious production of Mozart’s comic opera The Marriage of Figaro led by acclaimed British stage director John Copley JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 10 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering...