Photo, above: Mauritius Island. " In the 2014 edition of the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom, the U.S. ranked 12th, behind Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Switzerland, New Zealand, Canada, Chile, Mauritius, Ireland, Denmark, and Estonia. One of the things that are remarkable...
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...