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Saturday 21 May 2016

Photo, left:  Battle of Washita (from Harper's Weekly, December 19, 1868).  The Battle of Washita River (also called Battle of the Washita or the Washita Massacre) occurred on November 27, 1868, when Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer’s 7th U.S. Cavalry attacked Black Kettle’s Southern Cheyenne camp...

Friday 20 May 2016

Photo, left:  In the matter of Brexit, how long ago did Britain detach (physically) from the European mainland?  In the matter of nostalgia for yore, here’s a picture of remnants of an ancient woodland at Hightown. This ancient tree stump is part of a submerged forest and could be as much as 5,000...

Thursday 19 May 2016

Photo, left: Malcolm X in March 1964. Today would have been his ninety-first birthday. Malcolm Little was born May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska, the fourth of seven children of Grenada-born Louise Helen Little (née Norton) and Georgia-born Earl Little. Earl was an outspoken Baptist lay speaker,...

Wednesday 18 May 2016

Photo, left: Chinese Shenyang J-11B fighter intercepting an American P-8. The photo was taken by the crew of the P-8.   JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW   Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com & Daily Beast.    Hour One Wednesday   18 May 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Harry Kazianis, senior Fellow for Defense...

Tuesday 17 May 2016

Photo, left: St Herman's Cave in Belize.   JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, CNBC senior advisor; & Cumulus Media radio   Hour One Tuesday  17 May 2016   / Hour 1, Block A:  Sudeep Reddy, economics editor, Wall Street Journal Washington; in re:   U.S. Worse Off Now than in 1960s?...

Monday 16 May 2016

Photo, left:  The Sykes-Picot agreement was signed on 16 May 1916, and was exposed to the public in Izvestia and Pravda on 23 November 1917 and in the British Guardian on November 26, 1917.   "George Curzon said the Great Powers were still committed to the Reglement Organique Agreement, which...

Sunday 15 May 2016

Photo, left:  Daniel "Danny" Mark Lewin (Hebrew: ‫דניאל "דני" מארק לוין ; ;  May 14, 1970 – September 11, 2001) was an American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur who co-founded the internet company Akamai Technologies. He died in the September 11 attacks. A passenger on American Airlines...

Saturday 14 May 2016

Engraving, left:   Jefferson Davis—Benedict Arnold Treason Cartoon 1865 Texts:  REASON TODDY, 1869 on the cauldron              PROPER FAMILY RE-UNION “Welcome Davis.  Thou shalt be warmly received by thy father “I feel proud of my American sons—Benedict and Jeff”    [the Devil] “Well, Arnold, the...

Friday 13 May 2016

Photo, left:    JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW   Hour One Friday  13 May 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Liz Peek, Fiscal Time and Fox, in re: The push-back to Trump from the conservative wing of the GOP is part ideological, part snobbery and part plain old peeve. The National Review went all out last January,...

Thursday 12 May 2016

Map, left, in commemortion of the hundredth anniversary of the agreement that's largely generated today's Middle Eastern chaos: The Sykes-Picot Agreement, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French...

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