Photo, above: Chinese ethnoburbs in the San Gabriel Valley are a vital demographic component of the region and the San Gabriel Valley has achieved international prominence as a hub of overseas Chinese or hua qiao. Although Chinese immigrants were a noteworthy presence in the establishment of...
Photo, above: Daghestani women. See:Hour 3, Block C, Anna Nemtsova, Foreign Policy, on Zubeidat Tsarnaeva and Daghestani mothers of disappeared sons, kidnapped by Russian security forces. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 29 April 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and...
Photo, above: Prof Cheng Man-ching, Master of Five Excellences [and exceptional polymath]. "In past history, if a scholar mastered a single subject, then others could study it from him. That scholar could then, as a teacher, connect the students with the sages of the past many years ago . . . ...
Photo, above: A bushmeat hunter in the jungle on the way to hunt and to check traps. See below, Hour Three: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen; discussion of Cut Hunter, 1908. Eighty per cent of the meat eaten in Cameroon is killed in the wild and is known...
Photo above: Industrial farming, Almería Province, Spain – On the arid plains of southern Spain, produce is grown under the world’s largest array of greenhouses and trucked north. Greenhouses use water and nutrients efficiently and produce all year—tomatoes in winter, for instance. But globally...
Photo, above: The celebration of the ten-year reign of King Abdullah II of Jordan at the International Stadium of Amman. Queen Rania, Abdullah II of Jordan, Richard Attias, Princess Salma, Prince Hashem JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board; Andrew Leigh...
Photo, above: A police officer sets fire to boxes of confiscated counterfeit alcohol in Guiyang, capital of southwest China’s Guizhou Province. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Wednesday 24 April 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Fraser Howie, co-author of Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of...
Photo, above: Woodstock, 19 August 1969: 500,000 people cheek by jowl for three days with nary an argument. Tsarnaev brothers and their ilk: health, joy, amity, cooperation are all haram. In memoriam, Richie Havens, January 21, 1941 – April 22, 2013. Becky. Richie Havens, a Brooklyn-born singer...
Photo, above: Traditional couple, Daghestan. Makhachkala Махачкала has opened an exhibition "Northern Caucasus - on Road of Changes" showing works of photographers from Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Chechnya and other regions. After Makhachkala, the exhibition will go to Nazran, Grozny and...
Photo, above: Two fourth-graders expressing their views. World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements interweaves the story of John Hunter (see: Hour 1, Block B: John Hunter), a teacher in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his students' participation in an exercise called the World Peace Game. The...