Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 25 May 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: You Are Not Forgotten: The Story of a Lost World War II Pilot and a Twenty-First-Century Soldier's Mission to..., by Bryan Bender (1 of 4) Monday 25 May 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: You Are Not Forgotten: The Story of...
Picture, left: Potosí is a city and the capital of the department of Potosí in Bolivia. It's one of the highest cities in the world by elevation at a nominal 4,090 metres (13,420 ft). For centuries, it was the location of the Spanish colonial mint. Potosí lies at the foot of the Cerro de Potosí—...
Drawing, left: On 23 May in the year 635 was born K'inich Kan B'alam II (Classic Mayan: K'ihnich K'an B'ahlam), also known as Serpent Jaguar. He was king of the pre-Columbian Mayan polity of Baakal in the Classic period of Mesoamerican chronology. His capital was the ceremonial center and city now...
Photo, left: Monoprix above a Medieval cemetery (see Hour 4. Block D). Paris: Past the racks of hair accessories on the ground floor of the Monoprix supermarket on the corner of the Rue Réaumur and the Boulevard de Sébastopol in the Second Arrondissement, there is a door marked "staff only". Slip...
Photo, left - out of the aether: a US surveillance plane flying not too far from one of the false, just-glued-together islands that China is constructing in order to lay claim to huge swaths of ocean, received a broadcast: "This is the Chinese navy. This is the Chinese navy. Please go away to avoid...
Photo, left: SNP MPs take House of Commons oath 'Scottish style' (and John Nicolson does so in Gaelic) Scotland's new SNP MPs have sworn allegiance to the Queen during the traditional oath-taking ceremony at the House of Commons. There are 50 new nationalist members at Westminster, joining six SNP...
Painting, left: Les Articles de capitulation de Montréal, négociés entre le Gouverneur-Général de la Nouvelle-France, Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, et le Major-General Jeffrey Amherst au nom des couronnes française et britannique, consacrent la reddition de la ville de Montréal au cour de la...
Photo, left: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes; and author, Liberty Risen. Hour One Monday 18 May 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, & Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, in re: ISIS takes over...
Photo, left, anent irrational numbers: The symbol of the Ouroboros, the snake or dragon devouring its own tail, is the alchemical symbol par excellence of eternal recurrence. The alchemist-physicians of the Renaissance and Reformation were aware of the idea of eternal recurrence; the physician-...
Photo, left: Captain Joseph John Rochefort was a major figure in the U.S. Navy's cryptologic and intelligence developments from 1925 to 1947. He headed the Navy's fledgling cryptanalytic organization in the 1920s and provided singularly superb cryptologic support to the U.S. fleet during World War...