(Photo: The Battle of Cannae (/ˈkæni/ or /ˈkæneɪ/) was a major battle of the Second Punic War, which took place on August 2, 216 BC near the town of Cannaein Apulia in southeast Italy. The army of Carthage under Hannibal decisively defeated a numerically superior army of the Roman Republic under...
Photo, above: Tennessee - a profusion of ferns, shrubs, lichens, and mosses covers the forest floor. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Friday 905P Eastern Time: . Paul Vigna, WSJ, in re: the October Jobs report plus 171, and the rate at 7.9%; neither this nor that, and no certainty that it will strengthen...
.Photo above: crater in Khartoum after containers next to an Iranian-owned munitions factory were bombed, perhaps by Israel. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal; Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Thursday 905P Eastern Time: Bill Whalen, Hoover, in re: magic...
(Photo, above: This pair of images from NASA's Curiosity rover show part of a wind-blown deposit dubbed "Rocknest." At left is an unmodified shot, showing how the scene appears on Mars; the image at right has been white-balanced to show how it would look under Earth's lighting conditions.) JOHN...
Photo, above: 24 October air strike against a Khartoum munitions factory, thought to have been carried out by Israel. In the event, it took out a group of containers that had been there since 2005, just sitting in a mass of clutter. What was in them? "Sudan has complained to the UN security...
Photo, above: The Government has already adopted a number of supporting measures for the companies engaged into the gas sector. In particular, the Directive on Basic Measures Aimed at Reinforcing Russia's Stance in the Global Energy Industry until January 1, 2016 issued by the Russian Federation...
Picture, above: Two hundred years ago during the presidential election, the War of 1812 began. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Saturday 905P Eastern Time: Ben Smith, Editor of BuzzFeed, in re: Saturday 920P Eastern Time: Tom Jensen, Director of Public Policy Polling, in re: the latest election polling...
Photo, above: Residents of Timbuktu encourage workers restoring the City of 333 Saints' Great Mosque prior to the Maouloud festival, marking the birth of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. Reports of jihadist fighters from Sudan and Western Sahara arriving to reinforce the radical Islamist rebels...
Photo, above: Medics carry a man wounded by a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip, for treatment in Soroka hospital in Beersheba, southern Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Rockets and mortars from Gaza have pummeled southern Israel, drawing Israeli airstrikes that killed a Palestinian...
Photo, above: Iranian-owned arms factory in Khartoum is bombed, apparently by Israel Wednesday 905P Eastern Time (605P Pacific Time): Toshi Yoshihara, Naval War College, and co-author of Red Star over the Pacific: China's Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy, in re: US and Japan...