Cartoon, above: 1939 Chicago Tribune. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 3 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: American Phoenix: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, a Man Who Turned Disaster into Destiny by Sarah S. Kilborne (1 of 4) Monday 3 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: American...
Gouache, above: Rithika Merchant | Doctrine of Signatures, 2013 | 65 x 45 cms | Gouache and Ink on Paper. See: The elegant art of Rithika Merchant at rithikamerchant.com. For the late Medieval viewer, the natural world was vibrant with images of the Deity: 'as above, so below,' a Hermetic...
Map, above: 1493 atlas - Hartmann Schedels Worldchronic JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 30 August 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: 1493: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus, by Charles C Mann (1 of 4) Saturday 30 August 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: 1493: New Revelations of the Americas...
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: ...