Photo, left: An F-35B Lightning II makes the first vertical landing on a flight deck at sea aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1). The F-35B is the Marine Corps Joint Strike Force variant of the Joint Strike Fighter and is designed for short takeoff and vertical landing on Navy...
Engraving, left: Restrained Enthusiasm. Mr MacDonald, Mr Hoover} "Loud cheers for disarmament! Now then, all together - Hip! Hip!..." M Briand. "Tres bien." Signor Mussolini. "Bravo!" [Britain and USA try to sell disarmament at the London Naval Conference as they stand in front of 'Come to London...
Photo, left: Times Square, NYC. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 5 June 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Jim McTague, Barron's Washington, in re: Strong Job Growth Puts Eyes on Fed U.S. employers ramped up hiring last month, signaling a rebound in overall growth after a bumpy start to the second...
Photo, left: National Security Threat. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board & host of OpinionJournal.com. Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. Hour One Thursday 4 June 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: William Whalen, research Fellow at the Hoover...
Photo, left: Soldiers of Vietnam's People's Army. tweet: Aaron Mehta @AaronMehta Vietnamese military plays the US anthem for [SecDef Ash] Carter. Kind of amazing to think about. https://vine.co/v/eh5QBZbZdYM JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com. Dr. David M. Livingston, The...
Photo, left: Noctilucent clouds (blue) observed in front of the moon, taken from the International Space Station. also: The full Strawberry Moon and noctilucent clouds. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Tuesday 2 June 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: John Batchelor, in re: Operation Overlord, 6 June 1945...
Photo, left: Two Christian pastors from South Sudan who traveled north to Sudan and were arrested on charges of spying could face the death penalty, according to their attorneys. Yat Michael Ruot and Peter Yein Reith, both Presbyterian pastors from the breakaway Christian nation of South Sudan, are...
Painting, left: The Mississippian culture was a mound building Native American urban culture that flourished in Southern and Eastern North America before the arrival of Europeans. The Five Tribes – Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek and Seminole - were indigenous peoples of the Americas who...
Photo, left: Pointe du Hoc is a promontory with a 100 ft (30 m) cliff overlooking the English Channel on the coast of Normandy in northern France. During World War II it was the highest point between Utah Beach to the west and Omaha Beach to the east. The German army fortified the area with...
Miniature, left: The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds (Persian: منطق الطیر, Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr, also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr; 1177), is a long poem of approximately 4500 lines written in Persian by the poet Farid ud-Din Attar, who's commonly known as Attar of Nishapur. In...