The Ancient Technology Centre (ATC) began over 25 years ago as a school project. Jake Keen, a teacher working at Cranborne Middle School, designed and led the building of an Iron Age roundhouse based on archaeological evidence. Uniquely, Jake’s ethos demanded the construction and material...
Photo, above: Killer thug takes control of Slavyansk. "For anyone interested to know more about the views and ideas of the current self-proclaimed mayor of Slavyansk, Vyacheslav Ponomarev (the one which supposedly holds the VICE correspondent). He gave an interview to a Russian Gazeta.ru...
Photo, above: Thirty baleen whales found in the Chile Desert, after a mass dying 9 million years ago. Why. See Sid Parkins, Hour 4, Block D. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Thursday 24 April 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Amity Shlaes, chairman, Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, in re: the New...
Photo, above: Stephen Yates, chief executive officer of D.C. International Advisory and former advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, on Taiwanese TV. He's running for the Republican nomination for District 30A of the Idaho House of Representatives; see Hour 2, Block C. 朋友: Steve Yates, 漢文名叫葉望輝,...
Photo, above: Ukraine's police and intelligence service accused Russia of staging a fatal shooting incident on Sunday in which pro-Moscow separatists were killed in the east of the country. "Armed lawbreakers and saboteurs who are terrorising the local population around Slaviansk ... have turned to...
Graphic, above: Events Pertaining to the Cuban Missile Crisis 1950s - American-owned businesses controlled all of Cuba's oil production, 90% of its mines, and roughly half of all its railroad, sugar, and cattle industries. Havana had become an attractive tourist destination for Americans and US...
Picture, above: In the Orthodox midnight Easter liturgy, the service continues till midnight, when the church is kept dark and it's held that Jesus arises from death. A flame from the altar is used to light candles held by parishioners, who pass the light on throughout the church. Then begins a...
Photo, above: A Klebs Incunabula Herbal, 1492. This book is a translation into Low German and enlargement of the Gart der Gesundheit of 1485, the first illustrated herbal to be printed. (Klebs helped Cushing to obtain the Library’s copy of this 1485 incunabule). The text includes 519 hand-colored...
Photo, above: In New York City, Brooklyn Bridge Park is now home to an historic and beautifully restored carousel, a gift of Jane and David Walentas. Built in 1922 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, the carousel was purchased in 1984 and painstakingly restored to its original condition. The...
Photo, above: Rohingya children, Rakhine State. See Hour 1, Block C: Steven L Herman, VOA, Southeast Asia Bureau Chief/Correspondent. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Thursday 17 April 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Eli Lake, senior national security correspondent, Newsweek/Daily Beast, in re: "Ask Valodya...