Photo, above: A single Hubble Space Telescope image can capture scores of distant galaxies, but the one galaxy we'll never see from the outside is our own. As a result, no one knows the Milky Way's exact size and shape. It took more than a century after the discovery of the first spiral in space...
Photo, above: Iron Dome intercepting a rocket above a populated Israeli area during the fourth day of the operation JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Wednesday 9 July 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, in re: ...
Photo, above: Battle of Galicia 1915 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, CNBC senior advisor; & Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday 8 July 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: John B. Taylor, Hoover Institution, & via Economics One, in re: New Legislation Requires Fed to Adopt Policy Rule (1 of...
Photo, above: Outside of Gaza, the IDF gathers for Operation Protective Edge. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 7 July 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Thomas Joscelyn, FDD. Monday 7 July 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Bill Roggio, Thomas Joscelyn, FDD. Analysis: Islamic State's 'caliph' leads...
Photo, above: Assassination of President Lincoln - The murderer leaping upon the stage, and catching his spur in the flag which hung before the President's box. - From a sketch by our Special Artist, Albert Berghaus. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 6, 1865 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour...
Photo, above: La Amistad (Spanish for "friendship") was a Nineteenth-Century two-masted schooner built in Spain and owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba. While it was transporting Mende captives originally kidnapped in Sierra Leone from Havana, Cuba, in July 1839, the Africans took control of the...
Photo, above: Pennsylvania, Gettysburg Battlefield, Slaughter Pen. The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the...
Graphic, above: A world map released by the "Islamic State" on Twitter shows the jihadist organization's 5-year plan to establish the Caliphate across the entire Middle East including Israel, North Africa, Spain, Greece, Pakistan, Georgia, China and parts of Russia. "The legality of all emirates,...
Photo, above: Chinese-North Korean border. See Hour 2, Block B, Bruce Bechtol, professor at Angelo State University, in Texas, and author of North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Wednesday 2 July 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Scott Harold, associate...
Photo, above: Pillars of Qohaito, pre-Axumite monolithic columns in Qohaito, Eritrea; nominated for UNESCO World Heritage List. The Kingdom of Aksum, covering much of modern-day Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, rose somewhere around the first or second centuries and adopted Christianity by the time...