Photo, above: The Passenger Pigeon or Wild Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) is an extinct North American bird. The species lived in enormous migratory flocks until the early 20th century, when hunting and habitat destruction led to its demise. One flock in 1866 in southern Ontario was described as...
Photo, above: Danny Lewin with Akamai co-founder Tom Leighton in 1999. Just before 8 AM. on Sept. 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 took off from Boston’s Logan Airport. Bound nonstop for Los Angeles, the flight was just one of more than 40,000 scheduled to crisscross the country that day. The...
Above: The Vostochny Cosmodrome (Russian: Космодром Восточный Kosmodrom Vostochny "Eastern Spaceport") is a planned Russian spaceport, to be located at 51 degrees north in the Amur Oblast, in the Russian Far East and Outer Manchuria. It is intended to reduce Russia's dependency on the Baikonur...
Map, above: Mexican drug cartels operating in the United States. The U.S. and Mexican Narcos Are Smoking the Peace Pipe -- or so purports a cache of leaked emails from the private U.S. security firm Stratfor. The correspondences cite a Mexican diplomat who claims that not only is the U.S....
Photo, above: Russia's President Vladimir Putin (C), Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (L) and head of the Russian army's main department of combat preparation Ivan Buvaltsev watch military exercises at the Kirillovsky firing ground in the Leningrad region, March 3, 2014. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host...
Photo, above: Sites where typical Neanderthal fossils have been found JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 2 March 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Andrew Lawler, in re: Mesopotamian cities Sunday 2 March 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Sid Perkins, Science magazine, in re: geoengineering. Sunday 2 March 2014 /...
Photo, above: Papua New Guinea, World War II cemetery at Bomana, Port Moresby (Photo: B. Ludin, courtesy of Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 1 March 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: You Are Not Forgotten: The Story of a Lost World War II Pilot and a...
Photo, above: Barricades, rue Soufflot, Paris, 1789, by Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (30 June 1789 – 17 January 1863) a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects. He was born in the Paris Louvre while his parents were staying there during the French Revolution. JOHN BATCHELOR...
Photo, above: Ariel Sharon at his beloved Sycamore Ranch in the Negev (Photo: Yossi Rot) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board. Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. Hour One Thursday 27 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Susanne Craig, NYT, in re...
Photo, above: Aberdeen, Kings College. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com. Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show. Hour One Wednesday 26 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Scott Harold, Associate Political Scientist at RAND, in re: Virgin and the latest round of Branson...