Photo, above: The Shrine of Hussain ibn Ali (Arabic: مقام الامام الحسين) is one of the oldest mosques in the world and a holy site of Shia Islam in the city of Karbala, Iraq. It stands on the site of the grave of Hussain ibn Ali, the second grandson of Muhammad, near the place where he was...
Photo, above: The spiral minaret in Samarra, Iraq, now under siege by ISIS. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Wednesday 11 June 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Toshi Yoshihara, in re: Ten days ago, China _________. Can China as a great power conduct itself in a manner fitting its position and according...
Document, above: IRS Bill of Rights. You've had all these rights since the beginning; the IRS never found it convenient to publicize this till now. The Internal Revenue Code guarantees taxpayers certain rights. However, many taxpayers are unaware of them, and IRS employees do not always...
Photo, above: Qatari luxe, as enjoyed by the five "four-star generals" of the Taliban released in exchange for Bergdahl. If this is your aesthetic, you’re in (pardon) pig heaven. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes Hour One Monday 9 June 2014...
Photo, above: Голодомор 1932 года - плата за существование сегодняшней Украины The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор, "Extermination by hunger," derived from Морити голодом, "Killing by Starvation," was a man-made [intentionally by Stalin] famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in...
Photo, above: Carentan JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 7 June 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc--the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way... by Patrick K. O'Donnell (1 of 4) Saturday 7 June 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Dog Company:...
Photo, above: Allied preparations in England for D-Day, June 6, 1944. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 6 June 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Michael Vlahos, Naval War College, in re: What Happens When the Sacred War Departs? Friday 6 June 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Michael Vlahos, Naval War College...
Photo, above: Pointe du Hoc: a cliff scaled under almost impossible circumstances by some of the bravest young men in American history. Pointe du Hoc is on the coast of Normandy in the north of France. In 1944 it was part of the biggest sea invasion in history. During the World War 2 planning of...
Photo, above: The Tank Man, or the Unknown Protester, is the nickname of an anonymous man who stood in front of a column of tanks on June 5, 1989, the morning after the Chinese military had suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 by force. The man achieved widespread international...
Photo, above - evocativesynthesis: This is an abandoned railway station in Abkhazia, former Russian territory. It stays untouched since the collapse of USSR – the railway connection of Abkhazia and Russia stopped and railway station left out of demand so nature could take over the left-overs of...