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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
Photo, left: Yazidi child refugee. See Hour 2, Block C, Murad Ismael, Sinjar Crisis & Yazda.org, anent: In August 2014, ISIS invaded Yazidi territory in Western Iraq, especially Mosul; massacred maybe 5,000 Yazidis. As many as could fled north and eastward. Now, a year later, . . . JOHN...
Photo, left: Puerta de Viru, Tallinn, Estonia JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, CNBC senior advisor; & Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday 30 June 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: James Pethokoukis, columnist & AEI, in re: . . . Plenty of mainstream Dem economists are talking about...
Photo, left: A ballot voting against Themistocles, son of Neocles, under the Athenian Democracy (see ostracism). This text is an example of the epichoric alphabet. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes; and author, Liberty Risen. Hour One Monday...
Photo, left: Ferguson Rifle; see Hour 4, Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America, by Adam Winkler JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 28 June 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion, by Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel (1 of 2) Sunday 28 June 2015 / Hour 1,...