The John Batchelor Show

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Saturday 30 December 2013

Photo above: Ca Tru singing - an Intangible Cultural Heritage Site of Vietnam  JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 30 November  2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Six Essential Elements of Leadership: Marine Corps Wisdom of a Medal of Honor Recipient... by Wesley L. Fox (1 of 4) Saturday 30 November  2013...

Friday 29 November 2013

Photo, above: War  of 1812 (cartoon from 1813) A BOXING MATCH, or Another Bloody Nose for JOHN BULL   Stop, stop brother Jonathan, or I shall fall with the loss of blood.  I thought to have been too heavy for you – But I must acknowledge your superior skill. – Two blows to my one! And so well...

Thursday 28 November 2013

Photo, above: Benjamin West's painting (in 1771) of William Penn's 1682 treaty with the Lenape. See Hour 2,  Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty by John M Barry JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Thursday  28 November  2013 / Hour 1, Block A:   A...

Wednesday 27 November 2013

Photo, above: Coolidge homestead in Plymouth Notch, Vermont.  See Hour 3, Block B,  Abigail Millard, Coolidge Foundation prizewinner JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Wednesday  27 November  2013  / Hour 1, Block A: Scott Harold, Associate Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation based in Hong Kong...

Tuesday 26 November 2013

Photo, above:  650 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan: seat of the criminal empire built by the Alavi Foundation, the Supreme Leader's money-laundering op in the US from which funds flowed into the Iranian nuclear program. The U.S. government is set to seize a Manhattan skyscraper that prosecutors say is...

Monday 25 November 2013

Iran declares victory.  Photo above: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech to members of the paramilitary Basij force in Tehran, Iran.  Office of the Supreme Leader/AP "This interim agreement is badly skewed from America’s perspective.  Iran retains its full capacity to...

Sunday 24 November 2013

Photo, above: Chevrolet 1957 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 24 November  2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Assassins of the Turquoise Palace by Roya Hakakian (1 of 2) Sunday 24 November  2013 / Hour 1, Block B: Assassins of the Turquoise Palace by Roya Hakakian (2 of 2) Sunday 24 November  2013 / Hour...

Saturday 23 November 2013

Photos, above:    The uniqueness of the ecosystem is the most interesting ecological aspect of the páramos in Ecuador. An estimated 60% of all flora is endemic to the biome (not to be found anywhere else in the world). Tall tussock grasslands in between which grow spectacular plant formations like...

Friday 22 November 2013

Photo, above:  ATV off track – gamer's image; see Hour 2, Block B, Sarah Maslin Nir, NYT, on For New York City’s Dirt Bikers, There's No Place to Ride  JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday  22 November  2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Ben Protess, NYT, in re: U.S. Investigates Currency Trades by Major Banks...

Thursday 21 November 2013

Photo, above:  Lake Baikal in Winter.  See Hour 4, Block C,  Nicholas Wade, on a 24,000-year-old skull with some mitochondrial DNA found also in today's Native Americans; suggests people with brown hair, brown eyes and freckles.   Baikal is considered sufficiently frozen by locals when the ice is...

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