Painting, above: Hieronymus Bosch illustrates chaos. See Hour 1, Block A, Michael Vlahos, Naval War College. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 29 August 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Michael Vlahos, Naval War College (1 of 2), in re: • Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sworn in as Turkey's president on...
Photo, above: King Hussein of Jordan with troops. See Hour 3, Block B, Dr. Ronen Bergman, senior correspondent military & intell,, for Yedioth Ahronoth; . . . In Sept 1970, King Hussein of Jordan attacked Palestinian compounds as they were trying to overcome the kingdom, Hafez al Assad sent...
Photo, above: West Point, Monrovia, Liberia. See Hour 3, Block B, Clair MacDougall, Al Jazeera America: CDC Director on Ebola: 'We Are Definitely Not at the Peak' US health official says Ebola has 'upper hand' in W Africa but ... JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com. Dr....
Photo, above: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, CNBC senior advisor; & Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday 26 August 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Michael Boskin, Hoover, in re: Larry Kudlow, at that time a humble number-cruncher in Washington, drove up to Woodstock; was especially...
Photo, above: Times of Israel, August 25/26, 2014 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes. Hour One Monday 25 August 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: Islamic State fighters assault last Syrian stronghold in...
Engraving, above: The armonica is based on the idea of the singing wine glass—the ability of glass vessels to produce sound when rubbed with a wet finger along the top edge. This phenomenon was never more popular than in the mid-1700s, when Benjamin Franklin took it upon himself to make the singing...
Photo, above: Lexington Green, April 19, 1775. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 23 August 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Richard Beeman, Our Lives, Our Father's Lives & Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence 1774 – 1776 (1 of 4) Saturday 23 August 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: ...
Photo, above: Cliffs overlooking Jericho. Photo taken by Bantosh Jericho is a city located near the Jordan River in the West Bank. It's believed to be one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world. Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of more than 20 successive settlements in Jericho, the...
Map above: The illegal drug trade is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacturing, distribution and sale of drugs that are subject to drug prohibition laws. Most jurisdictions prohibit trade, except under license, of many types of drugs through the use of drug prohibition laws...
Photo, above: James Foley of Rochester, N.H., a freelance contributor for GlobalPost, in Benghazi, Libya; today, he was slowly beheaded by ISIS in Iraq. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com & Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show. Hour One Wednesday 20 August 2014 /...