Photo, left: Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1856 to a Presbyterian reverend of Scots-Irish descent. He was graduated from Princeton, where his father was a professor, in 1879, then attended law school at the University of Virginia for a year. He did not graduate but easily passed...
Photo, above: The Ain Sakhri lovers. British Museum. Discovered in Ain Sakhri caves, Wadi Khareitoun near Bethlehem; 9000 BCE. See Hour 2, Block A, Michael Balter, Science magazine. What Happened in the Natufian? by EDWARD PEGLER on 11 JUNE, 2010 (text by courtesy of and with thanks to...
Photo, above: According to an article appearing Yeni Özgür Politika, women and girls from families living in refugee camps under KDP administration in Hewlêr [Kurmanji for Erbil] and Duhok are being sold to wealthy buyers from as far away as Mosul, Baghdad, Dubai, and Qatar. The refugees came to...
Photo, above: What is the future for Darfur? What are the possible military roles for a peacekeeping force in Darfur? And what are the lessons of the Darfur crisis thus far? As many of us gloss over the news stories, perhaps shaking our heads as we turn the page or change the channel, never...
Photo, above: Claudio Sant, West of the Revolution. See Hr 3. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Tuesday 30 December 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Elizabeth Rosenthal, NYT, in re: vaccines Tuesday 30 December 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Anatoly Zak, in re: Angara; Russian space. Tuesday 30 December 2014...
Photo, above: Mt. Sinjar, Iraq. See Third Hour, report by Murad Ismail from Kurdistan. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 29 December 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Richard A Epstein, Hoover Institution, Chicago Law, in re: the ISIS war (1 of 2) Monday 29 December 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: ...
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 28 December 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus CreatedCharles C. Mann Sunday 28 December2014 / Hour 1, Block B: continued Sunday 28 December2014 / Hour 1, Block C: continued. Sunday 28 December2014 / Hour 1, Block D: 1493: Uncovering...
Photo, above: Birth of the West by Paul Collins. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 27 December2014 / Hour 1, Block A: The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century by Paul Collins Part 1. Saturday 27 December2014 / Hour 1, Block B: continued....
Photo, above: Euromaidan protests, Winter 2014, see Hour 4, Mary Kissel and Stephen F. Cohen, from May, 2014. Co-hosts: Some of my favorite segments from 2014. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 26 December 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Steven Starr, GlobalSecurity.org re nuclear winter. Friday 26...
Photo, above: Bob and Tiny Tim Cratchit, from "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: some of my favorite reports from 2014. Hour One Thursday 30 January 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: T.S. Allen, New York Sun, re toy soldier collections. Thursday 30 January 2014...