The John Batchelor Show

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Saturday 11 July 2015

Photo, left: Made by Thracian craftsmen for the Celtic Scordisci, the Gundestrup cauldron is the most spectacular of Celto-Thracian artifacts, and the finest example of late Iron Age European silverwork. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 11 July 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: The Discovery of Middle...

Friday 10 July 2015

Photo, left: The testudo formation in a Roman military reenactment. See Hour 1, Block c, and Hour 2, Blocks A & B. In Ancient Roman warfare, the testudo or tortoise formation was a formation used commonly by the Roman Legions during battles, particularly sieges. Testudo is the Latin word for "...

Thursday 9 July 2015

Image, left: The Druze faith began as a movement in Ismailism that was heavily influenced by Greek philosophy and Gnosticism and opposed certain religious and philosophical ideologies that were present during that epoch.  The faith was preached by Hamza ibn 'Alī ibn Ahmad, an Ismaili mystic and...

Wednesday 8 July 2015

Photo, left:  JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com.   Hour One Wednesday   8 July 2015  / Hour 1, Block A: Charles Burton, professor at Brock University, in re: US and China have a fundamental difference over China's role in Asia.  Seventieth anniversary of the end of WWII –...

Tuesday 7 July 2015

Photo, left: The Kerch Strait from Landsat. Tuzla Island (Ukrainian: Тузла; Russian: Тузла; Crimean Tatar: Tuzla) (from Turkish "tuzluk" - saturated solution of salt in water for salting fish) - is a sandy islet in the form of a spit located in the middle of the Strait of Kerch between the Kerch...

Monday 6 July

Photo, left: Magna Carta (Latin for "the Great Charter"), also called Magna Carta Libertatum ("the Great Charter of the Liberties"), is a charter agreed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to make peace between the...

Sunday 5 July 2015

Photo, left: Ruins of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (Αρχαία Ολυμπία) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 5 July 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776, by Richard R. Beeman (1 of 8) Sunday 5 July 2015 / Hour 1, Block B...

Saturday 4 July 2015

Photo, left:  JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 4 July 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War, by Thomas Fleming (1 of 4) Saturday 4 July 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We...

Friday 3 July 2015

Photo, left: THE FIRST DAY AT GETTYSBURG. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday  3 July 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Lincoln's Selected Writings (Norton Critical Editions), by Abraham Lincoln and David S. Reynolds (1 of 8) Friday  3 July 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Lincoln's Selected Writings (Norton...

Thursday 2 July 2015

Assad agrees to let ISIS slaughter Druze and Ismailis in exchange for allowing free passage of water and gasoline to Damascus. See Hour 3, Block B, Pinhas Inbari. Painting, left: Ismail I (July 17, 1487 – May 23, 1524), known in Persian as Shāh Ismāʿil, (Persian: شاه اسماعیل‎; full name: Abū l-...

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