Photo, left: What is now coastal Libya was known under Roman rule as Tripolitania and Pentapolis, divided between the Africa province in the west and Creta et Cyrenaica in the east. In 296 AD, the Emperor Diocletian separated the administration of Crete from Cyrenaica and in the latter formed the...
Photo, left: Plus ça change. Turkish soldiers and local people of Dersim region. The women and children in this picture were executed shortly after the picture was taken. The Dersim massacre was a massacre of Zaza people by the Turkish government in the Dersim region of eastern Turkey, which...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-Host: Thaddeus McCooter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes Hour One Monday 2 November 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, LongWarJournal.org & FDD; Tom Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor; in re: The Egyptian-born al Zawahiri, now head of...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 1 November 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer, by Scott Andrew Selby (1 of 4) Sunday 1 November 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 31 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America to Victory in World War II, by Jonathan W. Jordan (1 of 12) Saturday 31 October 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High...
Photo, left: Kurdish refugees from Kobanî in a refugee camp, on the Turkish side of the Syria-Turkey border. This is what the camps actually look like. Usually some water available; irregular electricity, paucity of cooking faicities, and latrines sometimes a quarter-mile away (along a dirt path...
Photo, left: Justin Trudeau [Canada's just-elected, new prime minister] Visits Mosque with Al-Qaeda Ties (photo credit: Jonathan Halevi) Justin Trudeau, posing for another publicity shot. Justin is at it again. When he’s not courting the infant vote, he’s doing anything and everything to court...
Photo, left: The Principality of Sealand, which wonderfully clarifies the Law of the Sea convention as it pertains to the several manufactured military constructions in the South China Sea that Beijing has recently cobbled together, including air bases, ports, and provocative and menacing...
Artist's drawing, left: Neville Chamberlain circa 1938, in "peace for our time." Arthur Neville Chamberlain, FRS (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his...
Photo, left: Superb Afghan ruby mines are one main target of Taliban.* US bugs out on Afghans, leaves them to the mercy of the mass-slaughtering, gang-raping, Twelfth Century Deobandis: abandoned are Pashtun, Qizilbash, Hazara, Uzbek, Aimaq, Turkmen, Baloch, Pashayi, Nuristani, Arab, Brahui,...