The John Batchelor Show

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• "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Jerusalem Moat against the 1099 Crusaders. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  Jul 16 2019

  Photo: Miniature of Peter the Hermit leading the People's Crusade (Egerton 1500, Avignon, 14th century)Unknown - Egerton ms. 1500[1], fol. 45v Peter the Hermit, miniature from Egerton Manuscript 1500, folio 45 verso, France, 14th c. Public Domain File:Peter the Hermit.jpg Created: c. 1325-1350 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Jerusalem Moat against the 1099 Crusaders. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotterhttps://www.timesofisrael.com/first-evidence-of-crusader-siege-from-july-15-1099-uncovered-at-old-city-walls/ ...more

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• China's worst economy in 27 years & What is to be done? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  Jul 16 2019

  Photo: a river scene in Zikawei (Xujiahui), in Shanghai, in the 1920s, with the Jesuit mission and observatory in the background中文: 上海郊区古镇（徐家汇）风景(1920年代)Dátum | 1920-as évek Forrás | http://opinion.huanqiu.com/bbs/2010-01/685456_9.htmlSzerző | Ismeretlenhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowChina's worst economy in 27 years & What is to be done? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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• A funny thing happened on China's way to world hegemony: Hong Kong and Taiwan. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  Jul 16 2019

  Photo: : Old China street in Canton, 1856.Date | 1856Peter Bernhard Wilhelm Heine, better known as Wilhelm (or William) Heine (January 30, 1827 in Dresden – October 5, 1885http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowA funny thing happened on China's way to world hegemony: Hong Kong and Taiwan. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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• Does the Royal Navy have enough ships to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  Jul 16 2019

  Photo: Strait of hormuz full.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDoes the Royal Navy have enough ships to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotterhttps://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/iran-loves-royal-navy-doesn’t-have-enough-ships-patrol-persian-gulf-67232

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• Biden promises you can keep your doctor for $750 Billion in new taxes. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Jul 16 2019

  Photo: A ward of the hospital at Scutari where Florence Nightingale worked and helped to restructure the modern hospital. William Simpson (artist, 1823–1899) E. Walker (lithographer, lifespan unknown, working for Day & Son) Publishers: Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, London; Goupil & Cie, Paris; Otto Wiegel, Leipzig. Restoration by Adam Cuerden - https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/a3/ac/734d0b4d5c31bb4ed35072db6b23.jpg Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/M0007724.html Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-21): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ssfhw5uq CC-BY-4.0 Iconographic Collections. Keywords: E. Walker; Florence Nightingale; W.J. Simpson CC BY 4.0 File:'One of the wards in the hospital at Scutari'. Wellcome M0007724 - restoration, cropped.jpg Created: "Published April 21st 1856" http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBiden promises you can keep your doctor for $750 Billion in new taxes. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotterhttps://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/politics/joe-biden-health-care-plan-obamacare-public-option/index.html ...more

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• Congress much prefers name-calling to immigration-fixing. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Jul 16 2019

  Photo: 8th Machine Gun Cavalry in action on Mexican border--Mexican-U.S. campaign after Villa, 1916 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCongress much prefers name-calling to immigration-fixing. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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• After victory in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda plans to make war on the Subcontinent as well as Central Asia. @ThomasJoscelyn @FDD

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  Jul 16 2019

  Photo: Madras, India, c. 1900Hand captioned "Madras", there are some lovely details, particularly the figures and bike bottom-right. This is one of a selection of lantern slides dating I estimate to c. 1900. The set appears to be a personal collection, with items connected to Northern Ireland, missionary work, the YMCA, and India http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAfter victory in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda plans to make war on the Subcontinent as well as Central Asia. @ThomasJoscelyn @FDDhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/07/al-qaeda-leader-threatens-india-criticizes-pakistan-in-message-on-kashmir.php ...more

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• Al Qaeda in Syria threatens Europe. @ThomasJoscelyn @FDD

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  Jul 16 2019

  Photo: The Holy Land and Syria Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors:  Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924 Subjects:  Palestine -- Description and travel Syria -- Description and travel Publisher:  Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page & company Contributing Library:  University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor:  MSN   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAl Qaeda in Syria threatens Europe. @ThomasJoscelyn @FDDhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/mideast/u-s-hits-al-qaeda-training-camp-syria-n1025401 ...more

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• The Last Greatest Magician in the World: 1 of 2: Howard Thurston Versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards. by Jim Steinmeyer (Author)

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  Jul 16 2019

  Photo:  Main Reading Room of the New York City Public Library on 5th Avenue ca, 1910-1920Date | 1 January 1920Source | https://www.loc.gov/item/2016812243/Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Last Greatest Magician in the World: 1 of 2: Howard Thurston Versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards. by Jim Steinmeyer  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Last-Greatest-Magician-World-Thurston/dp/0399160035Here is the seminal biography of the magician's magician, Howard Thurston, a man who surpassed Houdini in the eyes of showmen and fans and set the standard fro how stage magic is performed today. Everyone knows Houdini-but who was Thurston? In this rich, vivid biography of the "greatest magician in the world," celebrated historian of stage magic Jim Steinmeyer captures the career and controversies of the wonder-worker extraordinaire, Howard Thurston. The public's fickleness over magicians has left Thurston all but forgotten today. Yet Steinmeyer shows how his story is one of the most remarkable in show business. During his life, from 1869 to 1936, Thurston successfully navigated the most dramatic changes in entertainment-from street performances to sideshows to wagon tours through America's still-Wild West to stage magic amid the glitter of grand theaters. Thurston became one of America's most renowned vaudeville stars, boldly performing an act with just a handful of playing cards, and then had the foresight to leave vaudeville, expanding his show into an extravaganza with more than forty tons of apparatus and costumes. His touring production was an American institution for nearly thirty years, and Thurston earned a brand name equal to Ziegfeld or Ringling Brothers. Steinmeyer explores the stage and psychological rivalry between Thurston and Houdini during the first decades of the twentieth century-a contest that Thurston won. He won with a bigger show, a more successful reputation, and the title of America's greatest magician. In The Last Greatest Magician in the World, Thurston's magic show is revealed as the one that animates our collective memories....more

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• The Last Greatest Magician in the World: 2 of 2: Howard Thurston Versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards. by Jim Steinmeyer (Author)

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  Jul 16 2019

  Photo:  Пятая авеню Нью-Йорка. Слева колоннада Собора святого Патрика.Date | 1913Source | Scan of Library of CongressAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Last Greatest Magician in the World: 2 of 2: Howard Thurston Versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards. by Jim Steinmeyer  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Last-Greatest-Magician-World-Thurston/dp/0399160035Here is the seminal biography of the magician's magician, Howard Thurston, a man who surpassed Houdini in the eyes of showmen and fans and set the standard fro how stage magic is performed today. Everyone knows Houdini-but who was Thurston? In this rich, vivid biography of the "greatest magician in the world," celebrated historian of stage magic Jim Steinmeyer captures the career and controversies of the wonder-worker extraordinaire, Howard Thurston. The public's fickleness over magicians has left Thurston all but forgotten today. Yet Steinmeyer shows how his story is one of the most remarkable in show business. During his life, from 1869 to 1936, Thurston successfully navigated the most dramatic changes in entertainment-from street performances to sideshows to wagon tours through America's still-Wild West to stage magic amid the glitter of grand theaters. Thurston became one of America's most renowned vaudeville stars, boldly performing an act with just a handful of playing cards, and then had the foresight to leave vaudeville, expanding his show into an extravaganza with more than forty tons of apparatus and costumes. His touring production was an American institution for nearly thirty years, and Thurston earned a brand name equal to Ziegfeld or Ringling Brothers. Steinmeyer explores the stage and psychological rivalry between Thurston and Houdini during the first decades of the twentieth century-a contest that Thurston won. He won with a bigger show, a more successful reputation, and the title of America's greatest magician. In The Last Greatest Magician in the World, Thurston's magic show is revealed as the one that animates our collective memories....more

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• Conservative Internationalism: 1 of 4: Armed Diplomacy Under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Henry R. Nau (Author), Jones Allen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jul 15 2019

  Photo: A Barbary pirate, Pier Francesco Mola 1650 Pier Francesco Mola - http://pintura.aut.org/BU04?Autnum=12.277 o/tl, 172 x 123 cm, Louvre, Paris Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Conservative Internationalism: 1 of 4: Armed Diplomacy Under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Henry R. Nau (Author), Jones Allen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Conservative-Internationalism-Diplomacy-Jefferson-Truman/dp/B00F7DQ3LA/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Debates about U.S. foreign policy have revolved around three main traditions - liberal internationalism, realism, and nationalism. In this audiobook, distinguished political scientist, Henry Nau, delves deeply into a fourth, overlooked foreign policy tradition that he calls "conservative internationalism." This approach spreads freedom, like liberal internationalism; arms diplomacy, like realism; and preserves national sovereignty, like nationalism. It targets a world of limited government or independent "sister republics," not a world of great power concerts or centralized international institutions.  Nau explores conservative internationalism in the foreign policies of Thomas Jefferson, James Polk, Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan. These presidents did more than any others to expand the arc of freedom using a deft combination of force, diplomacy, and compromise. Since Reagan, presidents have swung back and forth among the main traditions, overreaching under Bush and now retrenching under Obama. Nau demonstrates that conservative internationalism offers an alternative way. It pursues freedom but not everywhere, prioritizing situations that border on existing free countries - Turkey, for example, rather than Iraq. It uses lesser force early to influence negotiations rather than greater force later, after negotiations fail. And it reaches timely compromises to cash in military leverage and sustain public support. A groundbreaking revival of a neglected foreign policy tradition, Conservative Internationalism shows how the United States can effectively sustain global leadership while respecting the constraints of public will and material resources...more

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• Conservative Internationalism: 3 of 4: Armed Diplomacy Under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Henry R. Nau (Author), Jones Allen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jul 15 2019

  Photo: A man from the Barbary states Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810), Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century) - Image: http://collections.lacma.org/sites/default/files/remote_images/piction/ma-31860032-O3.jpg Gallery: http://collections.lacma.org/node/208461 archive copy at the Wayback Machine (archived on 22 January 2019) France, circa 1797 Prints; engravings Hand-tinted engraving on paper Sheet: 10 3/8 x 7 7/8 in. (26.35 x 20.01 cm); Composition: 7 7/8 x 5 5/8 in. (20.01 x 14.29 cm) Costume Council Fund (M.83.190.274) Costume and Textiles Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Conservative Internationalism: 3 of 4: Armed Diplomacy Under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Henry R. Nau (Author), Jones Allen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Conservative-Internationalism-Diplomacy-Jefferson-Truman/dp/B00F7DQ3LA/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Debates about U.S. foreign policy have revolved around three main traditions - liberal internationalism, realism, and nationalism. In this audiobook, distinguished political scientist, Henry Nau, delves deeply into a fourth, overlooked foreign policy tradition that he calls "conservative internationalism." This approach spreads freedom, like liberal internationalism; arms diplomacy, like realism; and preserves national sovereignty, like nationalism. It targets a world of limited government or independent "sister republics," not a world of great power concerts or centralized international institutions.  Nau explores conservative internationalism in the foreign policies of Thomas Jefferson, James Polk, Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan. These presidents did more than any others to expand the arc of freedom using a deft combination of force, diplomacy, and compromise. Since Reagan, presidents have swung back and forth among the main traditions, overreaching under Bush and now retrenching under Obama. Nau demonstrates that conservative internationalism offers an alternative way. It pursues freedom but not everywhere, prioritizing situations that border on existing free countries - Turkey, for example, rather than Iraq. It uses lesser force early to influence negotiations rather than greater force later, after negotiations fail. And it reaches timely compromises to cash in military leverage and sustain public support. A groundbreaking revival of a neglected foreign policy tradition, Conservative Internationalism shows how the United States can effectively sustain global leadership while respecting the constraints of public will and material resources...more

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• Conservative Internationalism: 4 of 4: Armed Diplomacy Under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Henry R. Nau (Author), Jones Allen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jul 15 2019

  Photo: British sailors boarding an Algerine pirate ship John Fairburn (1793–1832) - Royal Museums Greenwich Hand to hand fighting between British sailors and Algerian pirates Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domainin its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.View more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Conservative Internationalism: 4 of 4: Armed Diplomacy Under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Henry R. Nau (Author), Jones Allen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Conservative-Internationalism-Diplomacy-Jefferson-Truman/dp/B00F7DQ3LA/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Debates about U.S. foreign policy have revolved around three main traditions - liberal internationalism, realism, and nationalism. In this audiobook, distinguished political scientist, Henry Nau, delves deeply into a fourth, overlooked foreign policy tradition that he calls "conservative internationalism." This approach spreads freedom, like liberal internationalism; arms diplomacy, like realism; and preserves national sovereignty, like nationalism. It targets a world of limited government or independent "sister republics," not a world of great power concerts or centralized international institutions.  Nau explores conservative internationalism in the foreign policies of Thomas Jefferson, James Polk, Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan. These presidents did more than any others to expand the arc of freedom using a deft combination of force, diplomacy, and compromise. Since Reagan, presidents have swung back and forth among the main traditions, overreaching under Bush and now retrenching under Obama. Nau demonstrates that conservative internationalism offers an alternative way. It pursues freedom but not everywhere, prioritizing situations that border on existing free countries - Turkey, for example, rather than Iraq. It uses lesser force early to influence negotiations rather than greater force later, after negotiations fail. And it reaches timely compromises to cash in military leverage and sustain public support. A groundbreaking revival of a neglected foreign policy tradition, Conservative Internationalism shows how the United States can effectively sustain global leadership while respecting the constraints of public will and material resources...more

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• Conservative Internationalism: 2 of 4: Armed Diplomacy Under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Henry R. Nau (Author), Jones Allen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jul 15 2019

  Photo: A Sea Fight with Barbary Corsairs by Laureys a Castro, c. 1681 Lorenzo A. Castro - Art UK Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Conservative Internationalism: 2 of 4: Armed Diplomacy Under Jefferson, Polk, Truman, and Reagan  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Henry R. Nau (Author), Jones Allen (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Conservative-Internationalism-Diplomacy-Jefferson-Truman/dp/B00F7DQ3LA/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Debates about U.S. foreign policy have revolved around three main traditions - liberal internationalism, realism, and nationalism. In this audiobook, distinguished political scientist, Henry Nau, delves deeply into a fourth, overlooked foreign policy tradition that he calls "conservative internationalism." This approach spreads freedom, like liberal internationalism; arms diplomacy, like realism; and preserves national sovereignty, like nationalism. It targets a world of limited government or independent "sister republics," not a world of great power concerts or centralized international institutions.  Nau explores conservative internationalism in the foreign policies of Thomas Jefferson, James Polk, Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan. These presidents did more than any others to expand the arc of freedom using a deft combination of force, diplomacy, and compromise. Since Reagan, presidents have swung back and forth among the main traditions, overreaching under Bush and now retrenching under Obama. Nau demonstrates that conservative internationalism offers an alternative way. It pursues freedom but not everywhere, prioritizing situations that border on existing free countries - Turkey, for example, rather than Iraq. It uses lesser force early to influence negotiations rather than greater force later, after negotiations fail. And it reaches timely compromises to cash in military leverage and sustain public support. A groundbreaking revival of a neglected foreign policy tradition, Conservative Internationalism shows how the United States can effectively sustain global leadership while respecting the constraints of public will and material resources...more

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• Colossus: 1 of 4: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Hiltzik (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 15 2019

  Photo: The rarely-seen upstream face of Hoover Dam, May 1935Date | 22 May 1935Source | http://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g5000/photolab/gallery_detail.cfm?PICIDTYPE=7926Author | Bureau of Reclamation photographerhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Colossus: 1 of 4: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Hiltzik (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Colossus-Hoover-Making-American-Century/dp/B003OXTOTS/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=hiltzik+hoover+dam&qid=1563154097&s=audible&sr=1-1As breathtaking today as when it was completed, Hoover Dam ranks among America's greatest achievements. The story of its conception, design, and construction is the story of the United States at a unique moment in history: when facing both a global economic crisis and the implacable elements of nature, we prevailed. The United States after Hoover Dam was a different country from the one that began to build it, going from the glorification of individual effort to the value of shared enterprise and communal support. The dam became the physical embodiment of this change. A remote regional construction project was transformed from a Republican afterthought into a New Deal symbol of national pride. Hoover Dam went on to shape not only the American West but the American century. Michael Hiltzik populates the epic tale of the dam's construction with larger-than-life characters, such as Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, William Mulholland, and the dam's egomaniacal architect, Frank Crowe. Shedding real light on a one-of-a-kind moment in 20th-century American history, Hiltzik combines exhaustive research, trenchant observation, and a gift for unforgettable storytelling in a book that is bound to become a classic in its genre....more

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• Colossus: 2 of 4: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Hiltzik (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 15 2019

  Photo: Bureau of Reclamation FollowThe first electric generator at Hoover Dam went into full operation on October 26, 1936. #TodayInHistory  Mijan Rashid faved this656views1fave0commentsUploaded on October 26, 2015 Some rights reserved Hide EXIF JFIFVersion - 1.02X-Resolution - 300 dpiY-Resolution - 300 dpiPhotometric Interpretation - BlackIsZeroOrientation - Horizontal (normal)Software - Adobe Photoshop CS WindowsDate and Time (Modified) - 2009:09:16 07:43:26YCbCr Positioning - CenteredExif Version - 0221Date and Time (Digitized) - 2009:09:16 07:43:26Components Configuration - Y, Cb, Cr, -Flashpix Version - 0100Color Space - Unknown (0)Scene Capture Type - StandardIPTCDigest - d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427eXMPToolkit - XMP Core 5.4.0Creator Tool - Adobe Photoshop CS Windows http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Colossus: 2 of 4: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Hiltzik (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Colossus-Hoover-Making-American-Century/dp/B003OXTOTS/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=hiltzik+hoover+dam&qid=1563154097&s=audible&sr=1-1As breathtaking today as when it was completed, Hoover Dam ranks among America's greatest achievements. The story of its conception, design, and construction is the story of the United States at a unique moment in history: when facing both a global economic crisis and the implacable elements of nature, we prevailed. The United States after Hoover Dam was a different country from the one that began to build it, going from the glorification of individual effort to the value of shared enterprise and communal support. The dam became the physical embodiment of this change. A remote regional construction project was transformed from a Republican afterthought into a New Deal symbol of national pride. Hoover Dam went on to shape not only the American West but the American century. Michael Hiltzik populates the epic tale of the dam's construction with larger-than-life characters, such as Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, William Mulholland, and the dam's egomaniacal architect, Frank Crowe. Shedding real light on a one-of-a-kind moment in 20th-century American history, Hiltzik combines exhaustive research, trenchant observation, and a gift for unforgettable storytelling in a book that is bound to become a classic in its genre....more

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• Colossus: 3 of 4: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Hiltzik (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 15 2019

  Photo: Tourists gather around one of the generators in the Nevada wing of the powerhouse of Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) to hear its operation explained.Date | 28 September 1940Source | http://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g5000/photolab/gallery_detail.cfm?PICIDTYPE=16172Author | Bureau of Reclamation photographerhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Colossus: 3 of 4: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Hiltzik (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Colossus-Hoover-Making-American-Century/dp/B003OXTOTS/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=hiltzik+hoover+dam&qid=1563154097&s=audible&sr=1-1As breathtaking today as when it was completed, Hoover Dam ranks among America's greatest achievements. The story of its conception, design, and construction is the story of the United States at a unique moment in history: when facing both a global economic crisis and the implacable elements of nature, we prevailed. The United States after Hoover Dam was a different country from the one that began to build it, going from the glorification of individual effort to the value of shared enterprise and communal support. The dam became the physical embodiment of this change. A remote regional construction project was transformed from a Republican afterthought into a New Deal symbol of national pride. Hoover Dam went on to shape not only the American West but the American century. Michael Hiltzik populates the epic tale of the dam's construction with larger-than-life characters, such as Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, William Mulholland, and the dam's egomaniacal architect, Frank Crowe. Shedding real light on a one-of-a-kind moment in 20th-century American history, Hiltzik combines exhaustive research, trenchant observation, and a gift for unforgettable storytelling in a book that is bound to become a classic in its genre....more

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• Colossus: 4 of 4: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Hiltzik (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 15 2019

  Photo: Represa Hoover em 1943. Ansel Adams - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Escopo e conteúdo: Original Caption: Boulder Dam, 1941. Domínio público http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Colossus: 4 of 4: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Hiltzik (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Colossus-Hoover-Making-American-Century/dp/B003OXTOTS/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=hiltzik+hoover+dam&qid=1563154097&s=audible&sr=1-1As breathtaking today as when it was completed, Hoover Dam ranks among America's greatest achievements. The story of its conception, design, and construction is the story of the United States at a unique moment in history: when facing both a global economic crisis and the implacable elements of nature, we prevailed. The United States after Hoover Dam was a different country from the one that began to build it, going from the glorification of individual effort to the value of shared enterprise and communal support. The dam became the physical embodiment of this change. A remote regional construction project was transformed from a Republican afterthought into a New Deal symbol of national pride. Hoover Dam went on to shape not only the American West but the American century. Michael Hiltzik populates the epic tale of the dam's construction with larger-than-life characters, such as Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, William Mulholland, and the dam's egomaniacal architect, Frank Crowe. Shedding real light on a one-of-a-kind moment in 20th-century American history, Hiltzik combines exhaustive research, trenchant observation, and a gift for unforgettable storytelling in a book that is bound to become a classic in its genre....more

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• Guest Podcast: "A piece of paper is going to erase me?" @RichValdes #ThisIsAmerica

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  Jul 15 2019

  Photo: 1930 US Census, New Jersey: Enumeration District 115, Sheet 10B, Line 61-64, Image 20/55 61 Clendenny Avenue, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, USA Contents  1Household 2Household Interpreted 3Source 4Licensing 5Original upload log Household Sarah Norton, head, age 55 Catherine Norton, daughter, age 30 [sic] James Norton, head, age 34, m. age 34, jeweler Helen Norton, wife, age 30, m. age 30 Household Interpreted Sarah Jane Carr Katherine Mary Norton James Joseph Norton I Helen Marie Maher Source US Census, New Jersey, 19301930 censusPublic Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGuest Podcast: "A piece of paper is going to erase me?" @RichValdes #ThisIsAmericahttps://www.ogpodcastnetwork.com/this-is-america-with-rich-valdes/ ...more

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• Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: 1 of 2: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Annalee Newitz (Author), Kimberly Farr (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Jan Brueghel the Elder (/ˈbruːɡəl/; also Breughel; Dutch: [ˈjɑn ˈbrøːɣəl]; 1568 – 13 January 1625) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman. He was the son of the eminent Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder. A close friend and frequent collaborator with Peter Paul Rubens, the two artists were the leading Flemish painters in the first three decades of the 17th century. The Garden of EdenDate | 1612 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: 1 of 2: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Annalee Newitz (Author), Kimberly Farr (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Scatter-Adapt-Remember-Survive-Extinction/dp/B00CRMP0J0/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Scatter+Newlitz&qid=1563068586&s=audible&sr=1-1-spell In its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How? As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet's turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference. It's a frightening prospect, as each of the Earth's past major disasters-from meteor strikes to bombardment by cosmic radiation-resulted in a mass extinction, where more than 75 percent of the planet's species died out. But in Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Annalee Newitz, science journalist and editor of the science Web site io9.com explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Life on Earth has come close to annihilation-humans have, more than once, narrowly avoided extinction just  during the last million years-but every single time a few creatures survived, evolving to adapt to the harshest of conditions.  This brilliantly speculative work of popular science focuses on humanity's long history of dodging the bullet, as well as on new threats that we may face in years to come. Most important, it explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow. From simulating tsunamis to studying central Turkey's ancient underground cities; from cultivating cyanobacteria for "living cities" to designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective; from using math to stop pandemics to studying the remarkable survival strategies of gray whales, scientists and researchers the world over are discovering the keys to long-term resilience and learning how humans can choose life over death. Newitz's remarkable and fascinating journey through the science of mass extinctions is a powerful argument about human ingenuity and our ability to change. In a world populated by doomsday preppers and media commentators obsessively forecasting our demise, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember is a compelling voice of hope. It leads us away from apocalyptic thinking into a future where we live to build a better world-on this planet and perhaps on others. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever the future holds....more

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• Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: 2 of 2: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Annalee Newitz (Author), Kimberly Farr (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Maerten de Vos, Maerten de Vos the Elder or Marten de Vos (1532 – 4 December 1603[1]) was a Flemish painter mainly of history paintings and portraits. He became, together with the brothers Ambrosius Francken I and Frans Francken I, one of the leading history painters in the Spanish Netherlands after Frans Floris’ career slumped in the second half of the sixteenth century as a result of the Iconoclastic fury of the Beeldenstorm.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Garden of Eden, with the Fall of Man, the Creation of Eve, and the Expulsion from the GardenDate | 16th century  Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: 2 of 2: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Annalee Newitz (Author), Kimberly Farr (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Scatter-Adapt-Remember-Survive-Extinction/dp/B00CRMP0J0/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Scatter+Newlitz&qid=1563068586&s=audible&sr=1-1-spell In its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How? As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet's turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference. It's a frightening prospect, as each of the Earth's past major disasters-from meteor strikes to bombardment by cosmic radiation-resulted in a mass extinction, where more than 75 percent of the planet's species died out. But in Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Annalee Newitz, science journalist and editor of the science Web site io9.com explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Life on Earth has come close to annihilation-humans have, more than once, narrowly avoided extinction just  during the last million years-but every single time a few creatures survived, evolving to adapt to the harshest of conditions.  This brilliantly speculative work of popular science focuses on humanity's long history of dodging the bullet, as well as on new threats that we may face in years to come. Most important, it explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow. From simulating tsunamis to studying central Turkey's ancient underground cities; from cultivating cyanobacteria for "living cities" to designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective; from using math to stop pandemics to studying the remarkable survival strategies of gray whales, scientists and researchers the world over are discovering the keys to long-term resilience and learning how humans can choose life over death. Newitz's remarkable and fascinating journey through the science of mass extinctions is a powerful argument about human ingenuity and our ability to change. In a world populated by doomsday preppers and media commentators obsessively forecasting our demise, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember is a compelling voice of hope. It leads us away from apocalyptic thinking into a future where we live to build a better world-on this planet and perhaps on others. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever the future holds....more

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• Turkey goes over to Moscow's S-400 & What is to be done? @JpshROgin @WashingtonPost

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  Jul 14 2019

  Photo: Tophane Fountain, Istanbul, TurkeyDate | between 1890 and 1900 Source | From Library of Congress.TITLE: [Tophane Fountain, Istanbul, Turkey]CALL NUMBER: FOREIGN GEOG FILE - Turkey [item] [P&P]REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-03042 (digital file from original) No known restrictions on publication.MEDIUM: 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]NOTES: Title devised by Library staff. Caption on item: "Fontaine de Tophane." Print no. "18463." SUBJECTS: Fountains--Turkey--Istanbul--1890-1900.FORMAT: Photochrom prints Color 1890-1900.REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (original) ppmsca 03042 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.03042CARD #: 2003653115Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by User:Stegop using CommonsHelper.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTurkey goes over to Moscow's S-400 & What is to be done? @JpshROgin @WashingtonPosthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-moment-of-truth-has-come-for-us-turkey-relations/2019/07/11/ba81e774-a414-11e9-b732-41a79c2551bf_story.html?utm_term=.187f846e43fe ...more

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• New American Civil War: 1 of 2: The Democratic Party break-up just like 1860. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Jul 14 2019

  Photo: This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Scratches removed, cropped, brightness/contrast. The original can be viewed here: John C. Breckinridge - Brady-Handy.jpg. Modifications made by AJCham. Mathew Brady - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.04775. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH832- 1676 Permission details This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.View more Public Domainview terms File:John C Breckinridge-04775-restored.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNew American Civil War: 1 of 2: The Democratic Party break-up just like 1860. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisishttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_United_States_presidential_election ...more

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• New American Civil War: 2 of 2: The Democratic Party break-up just like 1860. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Jul 14 2019

  Photo: Photograph of Stephen A. Douglas taken between 1855 and 1861Image is part of Brady-Handy Photograph Collection - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpbh.00882. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Public Domain File:BradyHandy-StephenADouglas restored.jpg Created: 2 September 2005 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNew American Civil War: 2 of 2: The Democratic Party break-up just like 1860. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisishttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_United_States_presidential_election ...more

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• Small Business America: Driving customers away in tears and Best Books for Small Business. @GeneMarks

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  Jul 14 2019

  Photo: Dunedin City Council Archives Taken in October 1900 Public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSmall Business America: Driving customers away in tears and Best Books for Small Business. @GeneMarksCould this be the worst cafe in the world?https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/05/could-this-be-the-worst-cafe-in-the-worldBest Books for Entrepreneurs And Business Owners https://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2019/06/28/best-books-for-entrepreneurs-and-business-owners/#2279f6845156...more

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• The longest expansion (for Small Business, too) in the history of the Solar System. @GeneMarks

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  Jul 14 2019

  Photo: The Barrow Hematite Steel Company operated 18 Bessemer converters and owned the largest steelworks in the world at the turn of the 20th century.unknown - 1877 or earlier, republished by University of Strathclyde project - http://victoria.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/browseTimeline.php?group=&year1=&year2= Steelworks at Barrow-in-Furness, 1877 Permission details This UK artistic work, of which the author is unknown and cannot be ascertained by reasonable enquiry, is in the public domain because it is one of the following: A photograph, which has never previously been made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) and which was taken more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1949); or A photograph, which was made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1949); or An artistic work other than a photograph (e.g. a painting), which was made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1949).  This tag can be used only when the author cannot be ascertained by reasonable enquiry. If you wish to rely on it, please specify in the image description the research you have carried out to find who the author was.  The above is all subject to any overriding Publication right which may exist. In practice, Publication right will often override the first of the bullet points listed. Unpublished anonymous paintings remain in copyright until at least 1 January 2040. This tag does not apply to engravings or musical works. More information. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.View more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe longest expansion (for Small Business, too) in the history of the Solar System. @GeneMarks65% of Small Businesses Got a Tax Refund for 2018 – and Most Were Happyhttps://smallbiztrends.com/2019/07/2018-small-business-tax-refunds.html$15 minimum wage would boost pay for 17 million but 1.3 million would lose their jobs, CBO sayshttps://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/07/08/cbo-estimates-effects-of-house-democrats-15-minimum-wage-plan.html?amp_js_v=0.1#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2019%2F07%2F08%2Fcbo-estimates-effects-of-house-democrats-15-minimum-wage-plan.htmlSmall Business Tax Credit Floated for $15 Minimum Wage Bill (2) https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/small-business-tax-credit-floated-to-boost-15-minimum-wage-bill US core inflation posts biggest gain in nearly 1 1/2 yearshttps://cnb.cx/2XQEcNtNew Survey Shows Both Employers and Employees Benefit from Flexible Workplaceshttps://ohsonline.com/articles/2019/07/11/new-survey-shows-both-employers-and-employees-benefit-from-flexible-workplaces.aspx?admgarea=news&m=1Why Texas is the No. 1 state for business startups for second year in a rowhttps://www.dallasnews.com/business/business/2019/07/08/texas-no-1state-forstartup-businesses-second-year-row...more

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• Long overdue shake-up at SLS. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo: Image above: In 1965, this trailer was used as the Tourist Information Center while the permanent buildings were being constructed. The trailer was located at the west end of the Indian River Causeway. Image credit: NASAhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLong overdue shake-up at SLS. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/major-management-shake-up-at-nasas-manned-program/ ...more

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• Do you believe they will build the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 14 2019

  Photo:The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands (electronic resource)Year: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  Browne, George Waldo, 1851-1930Subjects: Publisher:  Boston, D. Estes & CoContributing Library:  Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  Consortium of Church Libraries and ArchivesView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:here^ even to its most rugged battlements^ aredraperies of clinging foliage and festoons of grace-ful creepers^ while miniature forests of guavas^overtopped by breadfruit-trees^ and bordered byrose fringes^ meet the eye. If there is one thingabove all else in which it excels^ it is in its dis-play of ferns^ no kind or species of which seemto be wanting in this gorgeous wealth of flowersand foliage. In no part of the Hawaiian Islands,famous for their ferns, are so many kinds foundas are growing here. Who enters here becomesfern-wild. In the words of one of these admirers : The tourist is pretty sure to forget everythingelse in Hawaii. In vain the great Pacific rollsbefore him from pole to pole; he spies a fernin the cranny of the rock, and have it he must.Is he walking the high bridge which spans thedeep-flowing Wailuku at Hilo (another river onthe larger island by this same name), and are thedeepening shades of evening lighting up the sum-mit fires of Mauna Loa, he is lost to the rareText Appearing After Image:PICTURESQ UE MA UI. 217 scene if he but thinks he sees a new fern grow-ing out of the trunk of the old breadfruit-tree.All through the lively woods of Puna, or alongthe forest path to Kilauea, his eyes are searchingthe undergrowth for his peculiar prey. And evenas he conies home from lao the terrible, the beau-tiful, the only^ for surely the world has no othervalley like it, his thoughts are busier with thepressed volume of leaves which he hugs to hisside, than with the majesty and wonder of thescenery he has been contemplating. Still, whenthis innocent bewitchery has flown, when the fernshave crumbled to dust, the mind will cherish thememory of that great natural wonder of Maui,its legends and associations of another day andanother people. CHAPTER XVII. THE ISLAND BUILDER. \\ 7TNDWARD Hawaii has less of historicinterest than the lee side of the island;but it is far richer in its great abundance of natu-ral wealthy which is accounted for by the fact thathere there is plenty of rain, wNote About ImagesPlease note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.Date | 1900Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14576792710/Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/paradiseofpacifi00brow/paradiseofpacifi00brow#page/n384/mode/1upAuthor | Browne, George Waldo, 1851-1930Permission(Reusing this file) | At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.Flickr tags | bookid:paradiseofpacifi00browbookyear:1900bookdecade:1900bookcentury:1900bookauthor:Browne__George_Waldo__1851_1930bookpublisher:Boston__D__Estes___Cobookcontributor:Brigham_Young_University_Hawaii__Joseph_F__Smith_Librarybooksponsor:Consortium_of_Church_Libraries_and_Archivesbookleafnumber:384bookcollection:brighamyounguniversityhawaiibookcollection:americanaFlickr posted date | 28 July 2014http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDo you believe they will build the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/tmt-construction-begins-july-15/ ...more

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• "What you're seeing, here, is you're seeing the collapse of the Democratic Party." @DevinNunes

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  Jul 13 2019

  Photo:  Tammany Hall & 14th St. West, New York City, 1914.Date | copyrighted 1914http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"What you're seeing here is, you're seeing the collapse of the Democratic Party..." @DevinNunes Podcast: Devin Nunes on Itunes.https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/12/house-democrats-pass-defense-bill-1588850Still, the defense bill breaks with the bipartisan tradition of most years. Republicans, who've boosted military spending with Trump in the White House, slammed the measure for cutting the Pentagon's spending request, arguing it would gut military readiness. And they argued provisions like the bill's ban on fielding new low-yield nuclear warheads would hurt U.S. nuclear deterrence....more

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• Dr. Strangelove updated in the Rose Garden: "Gentlemen, please!" @SebGorka

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  Jul 13 2019

  Photo: President Merkin MuffleyDirected by Stanley Kubrick, distributed by Columbia Pictures - Dr. Strangelove trailer from 40th Anniversary Special Edition DVD, 2004 Peter Sellers as President Merkin Muffley in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove. Public Domain File:Dr. Strangelove - President Merkin Muffley.png Created: 28 January 1964 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDr. Strangelove updated in the Rose Garden: "Gentlemen, please!" @SebGorkahttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-backs-gorka-in-fiery-rose-garden-dustup-with-playboy-reporter ...more

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• Choosing a new Chief of Naval Operations for the challenges of the PRC in the South China Sea. Under Sec of US Navy Thomas B. Modly @USNavyUnderSec

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  Jul 13 2019

  Photo: An 1801 map of the East Indies Isles which shows the placement of the Spratly islands. Most of the names have changed since then.This file is lacking author information. - This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, a specialist dealer in rare maps and other cartography of the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, as part of a cooperation project. An exceptionally beautiful example of John Cary’s important 1801 Map of the East Indies. Covers all of Southeast Asia and the Malay Peninsula, including Singapore, as well as the Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, java, the Celebes, and parts of Papua New Guinea. One of the few maps of this region to label the volcanic island of Krakatoa between Java and Sumatra, which famously erupted, obliterating the entire island in 1883. Notes the Straits of Singapore at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. Offers wonderful detail regarding the mountain ranges of the region. Also shows some off shore details, especially the shoals near Borneo and the Philippines. In Southeast Asia this map notes the kingdoms of Siam (Thailand), Tonkin (North Vietnam), Cochin (South Vietnam), Cambodia, and Pegu (Burma). Includes part of the Island of Formosa. All in all, one of the most interesting and attractive atlas maps of the East Indies to appear in first years of the 19th century. Prepared in 1801 by John Cary for issue in his magnificent 1808 New Universal Atlas . Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domainin its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.View more Public Domainview terms File:1801 Cary Map of the East Indies and Southeast Asia ( Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Philippines) - Geographicus - EastIndies-cary-1801.jpg Created: 31 December 1800 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowChoosing a new Chief of Naval Operations for the challenges of the PRC in the South China Sea. Under Sec of US Navy Thomas B. Modly @USNavyUnderSec https://twitter.com/usnavyundersec?lang=enhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-11/china-poses-top-threat-for-decades-ahead-top-u-s-general-says ....more

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• USN and RN working together to maintain the peace in the Strait of Hormuz. Under Sec of US Navy Thomas B. Modly @USNavyUnderSec

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  Jul 13 2019

  Photo: The Royal Navy during the Second World WarAn assault ship, followed by her assault craft steams toward the beaches and passes the battleship USS TEXAS (right), as she bombards enemy batteries during the invasion of Southern France.Date | between 1939 and 1945 Source | http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//30/media-30864/large.jpghttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowUSN and RN working together to maintain the peace in the Strait of Hormuz.  Under Sec of US Navy Thomas B. Modly @USNavyUnderSec https://twitter.com/usnavyundersec?lang=en ...more

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• Pacific Watch: Is California Burning? Jeff Bliss.

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  Jul 13 2019

  Photo: [Crowd on Grant Ave., San Francisco, California, watching building burn(?) during the earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906] http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPacific Watch: Is California Burning?  Jeff Bliss.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/business/pge-fire.html

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• Gazans fleeing to Europe as Hamas loses credibility. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jul 12 2019

  Photo: Peasant life in the Holy Land Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors:  Wilson, C. T. (Charles Thomas), b. 1851 or 2 Subjects:  Peasantry -- Palestine Palestine -- Social life and customs Publisher:  New York : Dutton Contributing Library:  Robarts - University of Toronto http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGazans fleeing to Europe as Hamas loses credibility. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_preshttps://mondoweiss.net/2019/07/crumbling-economy-homelessness/ ...more

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• Why can't America hold onto manufacturing at scale? 1 of 2: David Adler

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  Jul 12 2019

  Photo: Bethlehem steel works in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1881 Joseph Pennell - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g05734. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Bethlehem Steel works, "Watercolor in sepia brown, white and gray, on buff paper. Signed May '81." Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhy can't America hold onto manufacturing at scale? 1 of 2:  David Adler  https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/financing-advanced-manufacturing-why-vcs-arent-the-answer/ ...more

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• Why can't America hold onto manufacturing at scale? 2 of 2: David Adler

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  Jul 12 2019

  Photo: Caption: Brooklyn is launched at the New York Navy Yard, 30 November 1936. (U.S. Navy Photograph 80-G-1025118, National Archives and Records Administration, Still Pictures Division, College Park, Md.)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhy can't America hold onto manufacturing at scale? 2 of 2:  David Adler  https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/financing-advanced-manufacturing-why-vcs-arent-the-answer/

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• Finding 5000 coins of the Jewish revolt in the Pilgrimage Road of the City of David. @DoronSpielman, Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jul 12 2019

  Photo: Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans (1850 painting by David Roberts) David Roberts - http://www.preteristarchive.com/ARTchive/1850_roberts_destruction-jerusalem.html Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1924. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.View more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFinding 5000 coins of the Jewish revolt in the Pilgrimage Road of the City of David. @DoronSpielman, Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presDoron Spielman is the vice president of the City of David, the ancient Jerusalem tourist and archaeological site, where he has worked since 2002. As vice president of the City of David, Spielman has been featured on international media sites and appeared on news programs such as NBC’s 60 Minutes. In connection to his role at the City of David, he has met with several senior US officials. Since 2000, Spielman has served as a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the IDF’s Spokesperson’s Unit and continues to serve in this unit for frequent reserve duty. In his capacity as an IDF spokesperson, Spielman has appeared in many interviews in the international media, such as on CNN, Fox News, BBC, Al Jazeera, The New York Times and others. Related articles: ●     https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/07/05/2000-years-one-path/ ●     https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israeli-and-american-dignitaries-unveil-pilgrimage-road/ https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2019/july/lsquo-the-beating-heart-of-jerusalem-rsquo-newly-discovered-pilgrimage-road-gives-glimpse-into-life-during-jesus-rsquo-time...more

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• Dancing in the Bahrain synagogue with blessings during the Palestinian economic workshop .: @arik3000, Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDancing in the Bahrain synagogue with blessings during the Palestinian economic workshop .: @arik3000, Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presAriel Kahana is a diplomatic correspondent for Israel Hayom. Since 2009 he has following the Prime Minister and his actions, accompanying his travels around the world, covering the Foreign Ministry and the embassies, meeting Israeli and foreign public figures, and interviewing senior Israeli and international officials. His focus is on Israel's effort to survive in the international diplomatic jungle. Most recently, he was sent as Israel Hayom’s emissary to the Bahrain Summit.v   Related articles ·      https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/22/middle-east-palestine-peace-plan-1376708 ·      https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-economic-peace-summit-being-an-israeli-in-bahrain-feels-almost-normal/ ·       https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-in-bahrain-air-of-israeli-arab-normalization-and-a-message-to-iran-1.7410754 ·       https://www.conferenceofpresidents.org/news/press/2019/jul8/jewish-leaders-condemn-increase-%E2%80%9Cpay-slay%E2%80%9D-salaries-palestinian-authority ·      https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Hebron-businessman-who-attended-Bahrain-tells-Post-Im-afraid-for-my-life-594257 ·      https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/07/09/pa-setting-new-course-with-the-us-in-effort-to-make-amends/ ...more

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• The Iran military sites are the proof of nuke predation @OlliHeinonen Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Photo: Isfahan from "[Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, etc.]"http://europeana.eu/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Iran military sites are the proof of nuke predation @OlliHeinonen Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presDr. Olli Heinonen is a senior advisor on science and nonproliferation at FDD. He is the former deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and head of its Department of Safeguards. Olli is also a member of the non-partisan Iran Task Force. Related articles ·      https://en.radiofarda.com/a/u-s-calls-iran-s-breach-of-jcpoa-extortion-as-iaea-holds-emergency-meeting-/30048006.html ·      https://thehill.com/policy/defense/452009-nuclear-monitor-confirms-iran-exceeding-uranium-enrichment-cap ·      http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265850 ·      https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/06/25/if-iran-breaks-the-nuclear-deal-it-could-be-very-close-to-the-nuclear-threshold/ ·      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-news-iaea-nuclear-agency-us-iranian-breaches-nuke-deal-today-russia-un-2019-07-10/ ...more

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• Treasury sanctions Hizballah outlaws. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @PhillipSmyth. @WashInstitute

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  Photo: General view, Tyre, Holy Land, (i.e., Lebanon)Date | between 1890 and 1900 Dimensions | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.Accession number | LCCN2002725061http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTreasury sanctions Hizballah outlaws. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres  @PhillipSmyth.  @WashInstitutePhillip Smyth is a 2018-2019 Soref Fellow at The Washington Institute. He has studied Shia Islamist militarism in the Middle East as a researcher at the University of Maryland, and created the blog Hizballah Cavalcade. He is the author of the 2015 Institute monograph The Shiite Jihad in Syria and Its Regional Effects. Related articles:  ·      https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm724 ·      https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm706 ·      https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-shia-militia-mapping-project ·      https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/us-pushing-contrasting-assessments-iran-threat ·      https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/452216-trump-administration-sanctions-lebanese-parliament-members-over ...more

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• BDS is anti-Israel and anti-semitism. Rep. Ted Deutch @RepTedDeutch @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Photo: Progressive boarding school Schule am Meer (= School by the Sea), Juist Island, East Frisia, Prussia: Using a cart teachers and pupils are pulling one of the school's dinghys back home across the beach.Deutsch: Schüler und Lehrer der reformpädagogischen Schule am Meer auf der Nordseeinsel Juist in Ostfriesland ziehen ein Beiboot auf einer Karre über den Strand. Bei der weiblichen Person links könnte es sich um die Lehrerin Erne Wehnert (1900–1985) handeln.Date | circa 1925 Source | Schule am Meer, founded 1925, seized 1934 due to Antisemitism and Nazification (Gleichschaltung)Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBDS is anti-Israel and anti-semitism.  Rep. Ted Deutch @RepTedDeutch @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast Congressman Ted Deutch represents Florida's 22nd district, home to communities in northern Broward County and southeastern Palm Beach County in sunny South Florida. Now serving his sixth term in the 116th Congress, he is the Chairman of the House Ethics Committee and a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where he serves as the Chairman of the Middle East, North Africa, and International Terrorism Subcommittee. ·      https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000169-a1b8-dce8-a5e9-a1beb5590000 ·      https://lowey.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/members-relaunch-bipartisan-task-force-combating-anti-semitism ·      https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/183/text ·      https://twitter.com/RepTedDeutch/status/1147211385836920833 ·      https://teddeutch.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=402637 ·      https://teddeutch.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=402636 ...more

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• The solution for Facebook is more Facebooks (the market). christopherkoopman.com Christopher Koopman @ckoopman

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  Photo: Copper Bazar IsfahanDate | 1800s Source | http://fararu.com/fa/news/219721Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe solution for Facebook is more Facebooks (the market). christopherkoopman.com  Christopher Koopman @ckoopman https://medium.com/@ckoopman

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• A good day for the Royal Navy in the Strait of Hormuz. @SebGorka

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  Photo: Capture of Immortalité by HMS Fisgard, 20 October 1798Date | Source | Bridgeman ArtAuthor | Thomas Whitcombe (British, born circa 1760-died circa 1824)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowA good day for the Royal Navy in the Strait of Hormuz. @SebGorka

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• The melodramatic Left vs the Democrats. @SebGorka

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  Photo: "The War: Defence of Paris—Students Going to Man the Fortifications". From the Illustrated London News of 1 October 1870; perhaps one of the more iconic scenes from the Franco-Prussian War. Fred Barnard - Illustrated London News "The [Franco-Prussian] War: Defence of Paris-Students Going to Man the Fortifications" One of the iconic images of the Franco-Prussian War. After the surrender of Napoleon III, the French Republic refused the German settlement terms, and the war was forced to continue. Paris was besieged, and people of all walks of life entered into its defence. Permission details This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1924. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.View more Public Domainview terms File:Franco-Prussian War - Students Going to Man the Barricades - Illustrated London News Oct 1 1870.jpg Created: 30 September 1870 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe melodramatic Left vs the Democrats. @SebGorka ...more

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• What is the meaning of your American citizenship? @VDHanson @Hooverinst

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  Photo: A woman with a Hollerith pantograph punch, the keyboard is for the 1920 US Census population card Unknown or not provided - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat is the meaning of your American citizenship? @VDHanson @Hooverinsthttps://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/07/10/victor_davis_hanson_democrats_are_terrified_that_actual_number_of_illegal_immigrants_will_get_out.html ...more

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• Nationalism is the new new argument. @CliffordDMay @FDD

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  Photo: City of Frankfurt, Germany in 1872http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNationalism is the new new argument.@CliffordDMay @FDD https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/9/whos-afraid-of-nationalism/

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• Armenian anti-semitism aimed at Israel and Azerbaijan & What is to be done? Adelle Malka Nazarian @AdelleNaz

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  Photo: Title: Jerusalem Juifs Se Rendant au Mur des Lamentations  Date: ca. 1900-1919  Medium: negative, gelatin on glass  Dimensions: 9 x 12 cm.  George Eastman House CollectionUploaded on July 17, 2008 No known copyright restrictions http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowArmenian anti-semitism aimed at Israel and Azerbaijan & What is to be done? Adelle Malka Nazarian @AdelleNazhttps://www.algemeiner.com/2019/07/09/an-open-letter-to-special-envoy-elan-carr-time-to-counter-armenian-antisemitism/ ...more

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• Can anyone other than Joe Biden or Donald Trump win the Keystone State? @salenaZito @LaraMBrownPHD

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  Photo: "Destruction of the Union Depot," Shows burning of Union Depot, Pittsburgh, PA during Great railroad strike of 1877.M.B. Leiser, engraver - from pgs. 624, 625 of "Harper's Weekly, Journal of Civilization," Vol XXL, No. 1076, New York, Saturday, August 11, 1877. Public Domain File:Harpers 8 11 1877 Destruction of the Union Depot.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCan anyone other than Joe Biden or Donald Trump win the Keystone State? @salenaZito @LaraMBrownPHD https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/451188-reading-the-tea-leaves-on-the-democratic-nomination-contest...more

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• What did we know about the Russian lawyer Natalia Vladimirovna Veselnitskaya in 2016? @LucyKomisar thekomisarscoop.com

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  Photo: MoscowRed Square in Moscow (1801) by Fedor Alekseev.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat did we know about the Russian lawyer Natalia Vladimirovna Veselnitskaya in 2016? @LucyKomisar thekomisarscoop.com > https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2018/05/what-paul-manaforts-trump-tower-notes-mean/ 

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• Prepping Entry, Descent and Landing for Mars 2020 lander. Allen Chen, Lead on EDL Mars 2020, JPL.

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  Photo: A full-size model of the rover wheels X-Javier - Own work Maquette du rover de Mars 2020 exposé dans le hall du Latmos à Guyancourt en décembre 2017. CC BY-SA 4.0 File:LATMOS LHASTEC - 005.jpg Created: 2017-12-21 11:24:31 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPrepping Entry, Descent and Landing for Mars 2020 lander. Allen Chen, Lead on EDL Mars 2020, JPL.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_2020

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• Small-cap gold stocks looking good for acquisition by Big Gold. @TheRealConstable

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  Photo:  Glass plate negative. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Tyrrell Photographic Collection, Powerhouse Museum www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/collection=The_Tyrrell_Photographic Part Of: Powerhouse Museum Collection General information about the Powerhouse Museum Collection is available at www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database Persistent URL: [1] Acquisition credit line: Gift of Australian Consolidated Press under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme, 1985 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSmall-cap gold stocks looking good for acquisition by Big Gold. @TheRealConstablehttps://www.thestreet.com/investing/buy-small-cap-gold-stocks-now-14997280 ...more

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• Red China buys the Pacific Vanuatu's soul cheaply. @CleaoPaskal @ChathamHouse @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Photo: The Beiyang Army in conducting military exercises, 1910The Library of Congress - https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163755502/ 清末陸軍演習 No restrictions http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRed China buys the Pacific Vanuatu's soul cheaply. @CleaoPaskal @ChathamHouse @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.france24.com/en/20190710-vanuatu-defends-speedy-china-extraditions

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• The PRC leadership abandons widowed mothers & What is to be done? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast Reggie Littlejohn @reggielittlejhn

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  Photo: Text Appearing After Image: Habitations of Poor Fishermen at Hongkong. materials; still poorer individuals follow, who, having neither boat nor ma-terials to form a flooring, nestle themselves in the intervals between the otherhabitations. Hong-kong is not more than nine miles in length and eight in breadth;exhibiting to the eye, on the first approach, a mass of steep, rugged rocks,among which, however, are found many fertile spots, where rice is cultiva-ted, and the inhabitants enjoy the luxury of plenty of good water, which inChusan and many other islands is very scarce. The little town of Chuck-chuen, situated in the most picturesque part of the island, is an assemblageof white houses with blue-tiled roofs, and, when the English first arrivedthere, was the residence of the mandarin governor of the island, and hissubordinate officers. Hong-kong abounds in granite, which many of theinhabitants are employed in hewing for exportation. (See engraving, p. 133.) In November, 1839, the British fleet in the harbor was http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe PRC leadership abandons widowed mothers & What is to be done?  @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast  Reggie Littlejohn @reggielittlejhn https://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/blog/author/admin/Save a Widow” in China (7 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5ZDIFFur9AGENEVA, SWITZERLAND, JUNE 27, 2019.   Women’s Rights Without Frontiersco-hosted a Panel at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, together with the Women’s United Nations Reporting Network.  WRWF President, Reggie Littlejohn, stated, “It was a great honor, and indeed a minor miracle, to co-host this landmark Panel, highly critical of the Chinese government’s record on women’s rights.  China sits on the Human Rights Council in Geneva and has veto power.  I don’t know how our Panel seemed to slip through the cracks!”  The venue was packed, indicating the high level of interest in hearing the truth regarding the abuses against the rights of women and girls perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party.  Littlejohn’s remarks focused on several ways in which the Chinese government has violated the Beijing Platform for Action, whose 25thanniversary will arrive in 2020.  Specifically, Littlejohn focuses on the continuation of the sex-selective abortion of baby girls and forced abortion under the Two-Child Policy, as well as the unimaginable suffering of abandoned, elderly widows in the Chinese countryside.  Her full Address can be found below....more

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• The Blue Butterfly pin in South Korea is an anti-American symbol. Tara O, of the East Asia Reasearch Center (https://eastasiaresearch.org/) and fellow at the Institute for Corean-American Studies.

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  Photo: An example of a Goguryeo tomb mural Unknown - http://www.marymount.k12.ny.us/marynet/TeacherResources/SILK%20ROAD/html/korea.htm Tomb of the Hunters, Goguryeo mural Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Blue Butterfly pin in South Korea is an anti-American symbol. Tara O, of the East Asia Reasearch Center (https://eastasiaresearch.org/) and fellow at the Institute for Corean-American Studies.http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/04/c_138198322.htm ...more

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• Chin's consumers cut back on auto purchases & What is to be done? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Photo: Photograph of the Great Wall of China near Beijing, taken by Thomas Child (1841-1898). Picture taken at Badaling in 1877. CAPTION ON MOUNT The Great Wall at Pa Ta ling.Date | 1877Source | Rare early photographs of PekingAuthor | Thomas Child (1841-1898)Permission(Reusing this file) | Historical Photographs of China reference number: NA01-88. From an album in The National Archives entitled: ‘The Chinese Customs in Peking 1889-1891’. (CO 1069/421. CHINA 1. Social life of Chinese Customs Service in Peking, 1889-1891).http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowChin's consumers cut back on auto purchases & What is to be done? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast http://upnorthlive.com/news/auto-matters/chinas-june-auto-sales-fall-extending-year-old-decline ...more

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• Carrie Lam in retreat from the people of Hong Kong. Mark Clifford, former editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post and a Hong Kong resident since 1992.

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  Photo: Foot-prints of travel; or, Journeyings in many landsYear: 1889 (1880s)Authors:  Ballou, Maturin M(urray) 1820-1895Subjects:  Voyages around the worldPublisher:  Boston, Ginn & companyContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  The Library of Congresshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCarrie Lam in retreat from the people of Hong Kong.Mark Clifford, former editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post and a Hong Kong resident since 1992.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-extradition-lam-analysis/from-iron-lady-to-lame-duck-hong-kong-leaders-departure-seen-as-mere-matter-of-time-idUSKCN1U50IV...more

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• Kicking the unresolved China-Trade-Can down the road. RealityChek @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Photo: "China -- the cake of kings and... of emperors" (a French pun on king cake and kings and emperors wishing to "consume" China). French political cartoon from 1898. A pastry represents "Chine" (French for China) and is being divided between caricatures of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, William II of Germany (who is squabbling with Queen Victoria over a borderland piece, whilst thrusting a knife into the pie to signify aggressive German intentions), Nicholas II of Russia, who is eyeing a particular piece, the French Marianne (who is diplomatically shown as not participating in the carving, and is depicted as close to Nicholas II, as a reminder of the Franco-Russian Alliance), and a samurai representing Japan, carefully contemplating which pieces to take. A stereotypical Qing official throws up his hands to try and stop them, but is powerless. It is meant to be a figurative representation of the Imperialist tendencies of these nations towards China during the decade.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowKicking the unresolved China-Trade-Can down the road. RealityChek @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast  https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-xi-jinping-soften-hong-kong-criticism-trade-talks-report-2019-7...more

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• The denunciation of Betsy Ross & What is to be done? 1 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Photo: Philadelphia in 1796 John Hills - http://www.phillyh2o.org/backpages/Maps/HillsMap1796.jpg "Plan of the City of Philadelphia" Permission details This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.View more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe denunciation of Betsy Ross & What is to be done? 1 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/nike-and-kaepernick ...more

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• Developing a 2 billion year-old ridge of gold in Southern Ghana. James Longshore Co-Founder, Chairman, President Xtra-Gold Resources, CEO & MD of Ghana Operations

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  Photo: Map of GhanaCIA - University of Texas Libraries, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: Ghana maps This image is a copy or a derivative work of ghana_rel96.jpg, from the map collection of the Perry–Castañeda Library (PCL) of the University of Texas at Austin. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Shaded relief map of Ghana, 1996, produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Public Domain File:Ghana Map.jpg Created: 31 December 1995 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDeveloping a 2 billion year-old ridge of gold in Southern Ghana. James Longshore Co-Founder, Chairman, President Xtra-Gold Resources, CEO & MD of Ghana Operationshttp://www.xtragold.com Xtra-Gold Resources Corp. engages in the exploration and development of gold properties in Ghana, West Africa. Its mining portfolio consists of 225.87 square kilometers, including 33.65 square kilometers of the Kibi project; 51.67 square kilometers of the Banso project; 55.28 square kilometers of the Muoso project; 44.76 square kilometers of the Kwabeng project; and 40.51 square kilometers of the Pameng project. The company was formerly known as RetinaPharma International, Inc. and changed its name to Xtra-Gold Resources Corp. in December 2003. Xtra-Gold Resources Corp. was incorporated in 1998 and is based in Nassau, BahamasKibi Gold Discovery - Summary Maiden mineral resource discovered (“Maiden Discovery”) indicated mineral resource of 278,000 oz of gold (grading 2.56 g/t) and additional inferred mineral resource of 147,000 oz of gold (grading 1.94 g/t).Maiden Discovery is open ended in several direction to potentially increases the mineral resource by completing further drillingExploration team has defined multiple new potential gold shoots through grassroots explorationAll of these potential gold shoots are being drilled with our newly purchased diamond drill rigThe Kibi Gold Discovery continues to exhibit the potential to be a world class deposit ...more

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• Fire at SpaceX, no delays expected. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo: Image above: In the shadow of the massive Vehicle Assembly Building (under construction at right) the Launch Control Center nears completion in February 1965. Image credit: NASA http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFire at SpaceX, no delays expected. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/fire-at-spacex-starhopper-facility-in-florida/

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• The denunciation of Betsy Ross & What is to be done? 2 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Photo: Eighth and Market Streets, 1840 Robert Cornelius - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3d02172. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Daguerreotype of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the corner of 8th and Market Streets Permission details This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.View more Public Domainview terms File:Philadelphia 8th & Market 1840.jpg Created: 31 December 1839 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe denunciation of Betsy Ross & What is to be done? 2 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/nike-and-kaepernick ...more

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• Solar activity points to a new Solar Maximum. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo: A group of sunspots, labeled as Active Region 1520 rotated into view over the left side of the sun on July 7, 2012. The large spot on the bottom left stretches more than 11 Earths, or 87,000 miles across. The full chain of spots is closer to 200,000 miles across. This image was captured by amateur astronomer Alan Friedman on July 10. Image courtesy of Alan FriedmanNASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on TwitterLike us on Facebook Find us on Instagram NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA - Solar Archipelago Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSolar activity points to a new Solar Maximum. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com ...more

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• Ike and the very first On-The-Roadtrip in America, 1919. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst

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  Photo: 1903: C.B. Blois and family in front of farm home, Amherst, Nebraska. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIke and the very first On-The-Roadtrip in America, 1919. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/commemorating-the-centennial-of-the-first-transcontinental-motor-convoy/

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• Oberlin College should pay the penalty for its misconduct. Fred Starr. Central Asia and Caucasus Institute

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  Photo: First Church in Oberlin (Congregational), North Main & West Lorain Streets, Oberlin, Lorain County, OH http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOberlin College should pay the penalty for its misconduct.  Fred Starr. Central Asia and Caucasus Institutehttps://www.wsj.com/articles/oberlin-colleges-legacy-and-the-need-to-have-enemies-11562360792?emailToken=3a578ade88ade690689d30add160b589oPIqaiaBlkklGwKn8ijXwK3RHT0nyVZIAPBxAbaBn2UpESCRL2GngcEft+nz2jHhp41BYOCxDUYay7m7wzeeoCqfpZfFom/9uWxkpx0d6Y73V2lJLF+bpIpY3zttcfVN&reflink=article_email_share ...more

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• Waiting again on the Federal Reserve. @LizPeek @TheHill

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  Jul 10 2019

  Photo: Twelve Reserve Banks buildings from 1936Date | 4 December 2013, 12:02Source | 00659Author | Federalreservehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWaiting again on the Federal Reserve.  @LizPeek @TheHill

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• The passion of Warren and Harris vs the dispassion of Biden and Sanders. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Photo: Saturn's peaceful beauty invites the Cassini spacecraft for a closer look in this natural color view, taken during the spacecraft's approach to the planet. By this point in the approach sequence, Saturn was large enough that two narrow angle camera images were required to capture an end-to-end view of the planet, its delicate rings and several of its icy moons. The composite is made entire from these two images. The images were taken on May 7, 2004 from a distance of 28.2 million kilometers (17.6 million miles) from Saturn. The image scale is 169 kilometers (105 miles) per pixel.NASA - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06077 Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe passion of Warren and Harris vs the dispassion of Biden and Sanders. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst...more

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• New Presidential Candidate Tom Steyer doesn't mention impeachment. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Jul 10 2019

  Photo: Photograph of Mars taken by the Hubble Space Telescope during opposition in 2003.NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) - http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/34/image/j/ (image link)Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNew Presidential Candidate Tom Steyer doesn't mention impeachment. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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• Joe Biden is rich. @LizPeek @TheHill

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  Jul 10 2019

  Photo: "The Blue Marble" is a famous photograph of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, and the Arabian Peninsula. NASA/Apollo 17 crew; taken by either Harrison Schmitt or Ron Evans - http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/115334main_image_feature_329_ys_full.jpg Alt: http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001138.html (direct link)Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowJoe Biden is rich. @LizPeek @TheHill...more

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• The longest expansion in the history of the Solar System on Trump's Watch & What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill

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  Jul 10 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe longest expansion in the history of the Solar System on Trump's Watch & What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill

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• Pete and Lisa and the mysteries of August 1, 2016 Crossfire Hurricane. Larry Johnson Sic Semper Tyrannis.

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  Jul 10 2019

  Photo: A platform of Queens Road London Underground station of the Central London Railway shortly after it opened around 1900.Час створення | близько 1900 Джерело | http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BA9wuonCcAACdKM.jpgАвтор | Анонімhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPete and Lisa and the mysteries of August 1, 2016 Crossfire Hurricane. Larry Johnson Sic Semper Tyrannis.https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/07/interesting-developments-in-the-russiagate-saga-by-larry-c-johnson.html ...more

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• The Democratic candidates foreign policy begins with open borders. @JedBabbin @WashingtonTimes

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  Jul 10 2019

  Photo: An American and Mexican soldiers guarding the border in Ambos Nogales during the Mexican Revolution. The city was the site of two separate engagements in the Border War, a series of military engagements along the border during the Revolution.United States Army - https://www.flickr.com/photos/borderecho/6009815853/sizes/o/in/photostream/ Photo of United States Army soldiers and Mexican soldiers guarding the international border (International Street) at Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). The metal obelisk at the center is a border marker and still stands today. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Democratic candidates foreign policy begins with open borders. @JedBabbin @WashingtonTimes https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/7/democrats-reveal-their-radicalism-on-matters-of-na/ ...more

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• Who is Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska and why did he employ Christopher Steele? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Jul 10 2019

  Photo: Varvarka Street, around 1900, view west towards the Kremlin (here obstructed by the buildings and the bend of the street). All building visible here, excluding the churches on the left side, have been demolished.Date | circa 1900 Source | Pamyatniki arhitektury Moskvy. Kreml (Памятники архитектуры Москвы. Кремль, Китай-город и центральные площади). Iskusstvo. 1983. (no ISBN) p. 111Author | Photo: Unknown photographer.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWho is Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska and why did he employ Christopher Steele? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/oleg-deripaska-fbi-russia-collusion-theory/ ...more

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• Did Mueller deny Manafort exculpatory evidence about Ukraine? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Jul 10 2019

  Photo: Kuyalnyckyi (formerly Andrewski) Liman, the Kurhaus, Odessa, Russian EmpireУкраїнська: Курорт Куяльник (грязелікарня), вигляд з гори. Хромолітографія, 1895 рікDate | 1895http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDid Mueller deny Manafort exculpatory evidence about Ukraine? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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• Bill Clinton "knows nothing" about Jeffrey Epstein's criminal conduct. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Jul 09 2019

  Photo:  King George III at Windsor CastleFrançais : Portrait en pied du roi George III, en jaquette noire à revers rouges et culotte blanche, tourné vers la gauche, contemplant Londres depuis une terrasse du château de WindsorDate | 1807http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBill Clinton "knows nothing" about Jeffrey Epstein's criminal conduct. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotterhttps://nypost.com/2019/07/08/bill-clinton-claims-he-knows-nothing-about-jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-sex-crimes/ ...more

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• "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Philistine City of Ziklag. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  Jul 09 2019

  Photo: avid and Goliath, a colour lithograph by Osmar Schindler (c. 1888)Osmar Schindler (1869-1927) - http://www.schmidt-auktionen.de/ "David und Goliath", 1888. Colour lithograph; image: 78 x 58 cm Public Domain File:Osmar Schindler David und Goliath.jpg Created: 31 December 1887 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Philistine City of Ziklag. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotterhttps://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Biblical-city-of-Ziklag-where-King-David-took-refuge-found-594955 ...more

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• The Trump Administration suggests renaming Afghanistan into the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

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  Jul 09 2019

  Photo A map showing the major trade routes of Central Asia in the 13th century. William Robert Shepherd - From the "Historical Atlas" by William R. Shepherd, New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1923 (2nd edition) Retrieved from University of Texas Libraries, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1923. This image is a copy or a derivative work of asia_mediaeval_commerce.jpg, from the map collection of the Perry–Castañeda Library (PCL) of the University of Texas at Austin. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Mediaeval trade routes in central Asia. Modified map based on Sheherd Mediaeval Commerce (1923/first edition 1911) Public Domain File:Central Asian trade routes.jpg Uploaded: 2006-05-27 23:25:42 : http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Trump Administration suggests renaming Afghanistan into the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.https://twitter.com/billroggio/status/1148201058105249794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Eprofile%3ALongWarJournal%7Ctwcon%5Etimelinechrome&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.longwarjournal.org%2F  ...more

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• What can Biden do to defeat his rivals quickly? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Jul 09 2019

  Photo: Detail, Interior of Independence Hall, 1856 by Max Rosenthal  NPS photo http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat can Biden do to defeat his rivals quickly? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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• Iran boasts of its secret nuclear weapons program to Europe & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter

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  Jul 09 2019

  Photo: 1757-1771 Habit of the ambassador from Persia to the Port. Ambassadeur de perse. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIran boasts of its secret nuclear weapons program to Europe &  What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotterhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-limits-breach.html

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• Prepping for the rise of Boris Johnson in concert with Donald Trump. @JoshRogin

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  Jul 09 2019

  Photo: Sebastian Münster (1488-1552) was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and Hebrew scholar whose Cosmographia (1544; "Cosmography") was the earliest German description of the world and a major work in the revival of geographic thought in 16th-century Europe. Altogether, about 40 editions of the Cosmographia appeared between 1544 and 1628; Münster was a major influence on his subject for over 200 years. Münster acquired the material for his book in three ways. He used all available literary sources. He tried to obtain original manuscript material for description of the countryside and of villages and towns. Finally, he obtained further material on his travels (primarily in south-west Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace). Cosmographia not only contained the latest maps and views of many well-known cities, but also included an encyclopaedic amount of detail about the known -- and unknown -- world, and was undoubtedly one of the most widely read books of its time. Aside from the well-known maps present in the Cosmographia, the text is thickly sprinkled with vigorous views: portraits of kings and princes, costumes and occupations, habits and customs, flora and fauna, monsters, wonders, and horrors.Date | 1544 and 1628http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPrepping for the rise of Boris Johnson in concert with Donald Trump. @JoshRogin https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/08/british-ambassadors-leaked-cables-are-far-bombshells/?utm_term=.50bdc6cdf3dd ...more

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• Behzad's Advice of the Ascetic (c. 1500-1550). As in Western illuminated manuscripts, exquisitely decorated borders were an integral part of the work of art. Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād - Tehran Museum of contemporary art Advice of the Ascetic, Moraqqa’-e Golshan

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  Jul 09 2019

  Photo: Streets of Hong Kong, 1865See above (The photographer is believed to be deceased since image was taken in the 1800s, Image from Book old Hong Kong by Trea Wiltshire) Permission details PD-HK.View more Public Domainview terms File:HKStreets1865.jpg Created: 19th century date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHong Kong in a decline of freedom. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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• Abandoning a thousand year-old imperial city of science and poetry to the savage Taliban. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Jul 09 2019

  Photo: Behzad's Advice of the Ascetic (c. 1500-1550). As in Western illuminated manuscripts, exquisitely decorated borders were an integral part of the work of art. Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād - Tehran Museum of contemporary art Advice of the Ascetic, Moraqqa’-e Golshan, conserved in Golestan Palace, Tehran, Iran Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domainin its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.View more Public Domainview terms File:Behzad advice ascetic.jpg Created: First half of 16th century http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAbandoning a thousand year-old imperial city of science and poetry to the savage Taliban. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDDhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/07/taliban-suicide-bomber-strikes-intelligence-facility-in-ghazni.php ...more

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• Plain, Honest Men: 1 of 4: The Making of the American Constitution Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Beeman (Author), Michael Prichard (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 09 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Plain, Honest Men: 1 of 4: The Making of the American Constitution  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Richard Beeman (Author), Michael Prichard (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Plain-Honest-Men-American-Constitution/dp/0812976843/ref=sr16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541477542&sr=1-6&keywords=Beeman+constitution In May 1787, in an atmosphere of crisis, delegates met in Philadelphia to design a radically new form of government. Distinguished historian Richard Beeman captures as never before the dynamic of the debate and the characters of the men who labored that historic summer. Virtually all of the issues in dispute—the extent of presidential power, the nature of federalism, and, most explosive of all, the role of slavery—have continued to provoke conflict throughout our nation's history. This unprecedented book takes readers behind the scenes to show how the world's most enduring constitution was forged through conflict, compromise, and fragile consensus. As Gouverneur Morris, delegate of Pennsylvania, noted: "While some have boasted it as a work from Heaven, others have given it a less righteous origin. I have many reasons to believe that it is the work of plain, honest men."...more

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• Plain, Honest Men: 2 of 4: The Making of the American Constitution Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Beeman (Author), Michael Prichard (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 09 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Plain, Honest Men: 2 of 4: The Making of the American Constitution  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Richard Beeman (Author), Michael Prichard (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Plain-Honest-Men-American-Constitution/dp/0812976843/ref=sr16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541477542&sr=1-6&keywords=Beeman+constitution In May 1787, in an atmosphere of crisis, delegates met in Philadelphia to design a radically new form of government. Distinguished historian Richard Beeman captures as never before the dynamic of the debate and the characters of the men who labored that historic summer. Virtually all of the issues in dispute—the extent of presidential power, the nature of federalism, and, most explosive of all, the role of slavery—have continued to provoke conflict throughout our nation's history. This unprecedented book takes readers behind the scenes to show how the world's most enduring constitution was forged through conflict, compromise, and fragile consensus. As Gouverneur Morris, delegate of Pennsylvania, noted: "While some have boasted it as a work from Heaven, others have given it a less righteous origin. I have many reasons to believe that it is the work of plain, honest men."...more

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• Plain, Honest Men: 3 of 4: The Making of the American Constitution Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Beeman (Author), Michael Prichard (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 09 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Plain, Honest Men: 3 of 4: The Making of the American Constitution  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Richard Beeman (Author), Michael Prichard (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Plain-Honest-Men-American-Constitution/dp/0812976843/ref=sr16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541477542&sr=1-6&keywords=Beeman+constitution In May 1787, in an atmosphere of crisis, delegates met in Philadelphia to design a radically new form of government. Distinguished historian Richard Beeman captures as never before the dynamic of the debate and the characters of the men who labored that historic summer. Virtually all of the issues in dispute—the extent of presidential power, the nature of federalism, and, most explosive of all, the role of slavery—have continued to provoke conflict throughout our nation's history. This unprecedented book takes readers behind the scenes to show how the world's most enduring constitution was forged through conflict, compromise, and fragile consensus. As Gouverneur Morris, delegate of Pennsylvania, noted: "While some have boasted it as a work from Heaven, others have given it a less righteous origin. I have many reasons to believe that it is the work of plain, honest men."...more

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• Plain, Honest Men: 4 of 4: The Making of the American Constitution Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Beeman (Author), Michael Prichard (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 09 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Plain, Honest Men: 4 of 4: The Making of the American Constitution  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Richard Beeman (Author), Michael Prichard (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Plain-Honest-Men-American-Constitution/dp/0812976843/ref=sr16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1541477542&sr=1-6&keywords=Beeman+constitution In May 1787, in an atmosphere of crisis, delegates met in Philadelphia to design a radically new form of government. Distinguished historian Richard Beeman captures as never before the dynamic of the debate and the characters of the men who labored that historic summer. Virtually all of the issues in dispute—the extent of presidential power, the nature of federalism, and, most explosive of all, the role of slavery—have continued to provoke conflict throughout our nation's history. This unprecedented book takes readers behind the scenes to show how the world's most enduring constitution was forged through conflict, compromise, and fragile consensus. As Gouverneur Morris, delegate of Pennsylvania, noted: "While some have boasted it as a work from Heaven, others have given it a less righteous origin. I have many reasons to believe that it is the work of plain, honest men." ...more

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• The Return of George Washington: 1 of 8: 1783-1789 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Edward Larson (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Jul 08 2019

  Photo: The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 Year: 1894 (1890s) Authors:  Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 Subjects:  Publisher:  New York, C. Scribner's sons Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation    View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Return of George Washington: 1 of 8: 1783-1789  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Edward Larson (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=laB000APC5DK1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524702850&sr=1-7Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important - yet almost always overlooked - chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.  After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention.  Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from Pulitzer Prize winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington's vital role in shaping the Convention - and shows how it was only with Washington's support and his willingness to serve as President that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country....more

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• The Return of George Washington: 2 of 8: 1783-1789 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Edward Larson (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Jul 08 2019

  Photo: [A trader's map of the Ohio country before 1753.Shelf ID | G3707.O5 1753 .P3Date | 1753Source | https://www.loc.gov/item/gm71002324/Author | Patten, Johnhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Return of George Washington: 2 of 8: 1783-1789  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Edward Larson (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=laB000APC5DK1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524702850&sr=1-7Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important - yet almost always overlooked - chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.  After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention.  Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from Pulitzer Prize winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington's vital role in shaping the Convention - and shows how it was only with Washington's support and his willingness to serve as President that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country....more

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• The Return of George Washington: 3 of 8: 1783-1789 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Edward Larson (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Jul 08 2019

  Photo: The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 Year: 1894 (1890s) Authors:  Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 Subjects:  Publisher:  New York, C. Scribner's sons Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation    View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Return of George Washington: 3 of 8: 1783-1789  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Edward Larson (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=laB000APC5DK1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524702850&sr=1-7Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important - yet almost always overlooked - chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.  After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention.  Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from Pulitzer Prize winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington's vital role in shaping the Convention - and shows how it was only with Washington's support and his willingness to serve as President that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country....more

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• The Return of George Washington: 4 of 8: 1783-1789 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Edward Larson (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Asher Brown Durand, The Catskills, 1859, Walters Art Museum Asher Brown Durand - Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork This painting was commissioned by William T. Walters in 1858, when the 62-year-old Durand was at the height of his fame and technical skill. The vertical format of the composition was a trademark of the artist, allowing him to exploit the grandeur of the sycamore trees as a means of framing the expansive landscape beyond. Durand's approach to the "sublime landscape" was modeled on that of Thomas Cole (1801-48), founder of the Hudson River school of painting. The painters of this school explored the countryside of the eastern United States, particularly the Adirondack Mountains and the Catskills. Their paintings often reflect the Transcendental philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), who believed that all of nature bore testimony to a spiritual truth that could be understood through personal intuition. Permission details This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. Wikimedia has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2012021710000834. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard.View more Public Domainview terms File: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Return of George Washington: 4 of 8: 1783-1789  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Edward Larson (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=laB000APC5DK1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524702850&sr=1-7Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important - yet almost always overlooked - chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.  After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention.  Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from Pulitzer Prize winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington's vital role in shaping the Convention - and shows how it was only with Washington's support and his willingness to serve as President that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country....more

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• The Return of George Washington: 5 of 8: 1783-1789 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Edward Larson (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Photo: John Frederick Kensett, Mount Washington, 1869, Wellesley College Museum John Frederick Kensett - http://whitemountainart.com/OnePageImages/washington_jfk_001.htm. Public Domain File:JKensett Mount Wash http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Return of George Washington: 5 of 8: 1783-1789  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Edward Larson (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=laB000APC5DK1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524702850&sr=1-7Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important - yet almost always overlooked - chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.  After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention.  Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from Pulitzer Prize winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington's vital role in shaping the Convention - and shows how it was only with Washington's support and his willingness to serve as President that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country....more

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• The Return of George Washington: 6 of 8: 1783-1789 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Edward Larson (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Frederic Edwin Church, Niagara Falls, 1857, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Frederic Edwin Church - Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork The Bridgeman Art Library, Object 445386 #National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., online collection Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domainin its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1924. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.View more Public Domainview terms File:Frederic Edwin Church - Niagara Falls - WGA04867.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Return of George Washington: 6 of 8: 1783-1789  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Edward Larson (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=laB000APC5DK1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524702850&sr=1-7Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important - yet almost always overlooked - chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.  After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention.  Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from Pulitzer Prize winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington's vital role in shaping the Convention - and shows how it was only with Washington's support and his willingness to serve as President that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country....more

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• The Return of George Washington: 7 of 8: 1783-1789 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Edward Larson (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Thomas Cole, A View of the Two Lakes and Mountain House, Catskill Mountains, Morning, 1844, Brooklyn Museum of Art Thomas Cole - EwEdL_BjaJ-KYg at Google Cultural Institute, zoom level maximum Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domainin its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.View more Public Domainview terms File:Thomas Cole - A View of the Two Lakes and Mountain House, Catskill Mountains, Morning (1844) - Google Art Project.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Return of George Washington: 7 of 8: 1783-1789  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Edward Larson (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=laB000APC5DK1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524702850&sr=1-7Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important - yet almost always overlooked - chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.  After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention.  Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from Pulitzer Prize winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington's vital role in shaping the Convention - and shows how it was only with Washington's support and his willingness to serve as President that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country....more

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• The Return of George Washington: 8 of 8: 1783-1789 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Edward Larson (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Thomas Cole (1801–1848), The Oxbow, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm(1836), Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas Cole - Metropolitan Museum of Art Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Return of George Washington: 8 of 8: 1783-1789  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Edward Larson (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Return-George-Washington-Uniting-1783-1789-ebook/dp/B00I2PD9GW/ref=laB000APC5DK1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524702850&sr=1-7Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important - yet almost always overlooked - chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.  After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon. Yet as Washington contentedly grew his estate, the fledgling American experiment floundered. Under the Articles of Confederation, the weak central government was unable to raise revenue to pay its debts or reach a consensus on national policy. The states bickered and grew apart. When a Constitutional Convention was established to address these problems, its chances of success were slim. Jefferson, Madison, and the other Founding Fathers realized that only one man could unite the fractious states: George Washington. Reluctant, but duty-bound, Washington rode to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to preside over the Convention.  Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from Pulitzer Prize winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington's vital role in shaping the Convention - and shows how it was only with Washington's support and his willingness to serve as President that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country. ...more

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• Reminder that Yellowstone is a Super Caldera. @SidPerkins @ScienceMagazine

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  Photo: Yellowstone National Park Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors:  Northern Pacific Railway Company Subjects:  Northern Pacific Railway Company Railroad travel Publisher:  [St. Paul, Minn.] : Northern Pacific Railway Company, Dc 1906 Contributing Library:  Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor:  Brigham Young University    View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowReminder that Yellowstone is a Super Caldera. @SidPerkins @ScienceMagazineTemblors Reminding of the Super Caldera that Lies Beneath: Goodbye North America. Sid Perkins, Science Magazine.  http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/03/explainer-strong-quakes-rock-yellowstone https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/04/scienceshot-yellowstone-gets-ct-scan ...more

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• Guest Podcast: "When I was a kid, nobody sat for the Pledge of Allegiance." @RichValdes #ThisIsAmerica

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  Photo:  No Known Restrictions: Pledge of Allegiance by Dorothea Lange, 1942 (LOC) Believed to be in Public Domain From Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Collections. More on copyright: What does "no known restrictions" mean? ______________________ For information from Creative Commons on proper licensing for images believed to already be in the public domain please-- click here. By using this image from this site, you are acknowledging that you have read all the information in this description and accept responsibility for any use by you or your representatives. You are accepting responsibility for conducting any additional due diligence that may be necessary to ensure your proper use of this image. ________________ Public Domain. Suggested credit: Dorothea Lange/Library of Congress via pingnews. Additional information from source: TITLE: [Children pledging allegiance to U.S. flag at Weill public school, San Fran., prior to relocation]  CALL NUMBER: LOT 1801 [item] [P&P]Check for an online group record (may link to related items)  REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42810 (b&w film copy neg.)No known restrictions on publication.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGuest Podcast: "When I was a kid, nobody sat for the Pledge of Allegiance." @RichValdes #ThisIsAmerica...more

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• The Liberator: 1 of 4: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Alex Kershaw (Author), Fred Sanders (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: British infantry marching through the town of Noto, Sicily, 11 July 1943No 2 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Wackett, Frederick (Sergeant) - http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//47/media-47204/large.jpg This is photograph NA 4561 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. The British Army in Sicily 1943 Infantry marching through the town of Noto, 11 July 1943. Permission details This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation.View more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Liberator: 1 of 4: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Alex Kershaw (Author), Fred Sanders (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Liberator-Soldiers-500-Day-Odyssey-Beaches/dp/B009WTTGOG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1562461347&sr=1-1 The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe - from the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau.  From July 10, 1943, the date of the Allied landing in Sicily, to May 8, 1945, when victory in Europe was declared - the entire time it took to liberate Europe - no regiment saw more action, and no single platoon, company, or battalion endured worse, than the ones commanded by Felix Sparks, who had entered the war as a greenhorn second lieutenant of the 157th "Eager for Duty" Infantry Regiment of the 45th "Thunderbird" Division. Sparks and his fellow Thunderbirds fought longest and hardest to defeat Hitler, often against his most fanatical troops, when the odds on the battlefield were even and the fortunes of the Allies hung in the balance - and when the difference between defeat and victory was a matter of character, not tactics or armor. Drawing on extensive interviews with Sparks and dozens of his men, as well as over five years of research in Europe and in archives across the US, historian Alex Kershaw masterfully recounts one of the most inspiring and heroic journeys in military history. Over the course of four amphibious invasions, Sparks rose from captain to colonel as he battled from the beaches of Sicily through the mountains of Italy and France, ultimately enduring bitter and desperate winter combat against the diehard SS on the Fatherland's borders. Though he lost all of his company to save the Allied beach-head at Anzio and an entire battalion in the dark forests of the Vosges, Sparks miraculously survived the long bloody march across Europe and was selected to lead a final charge to Bavaria to hunt down Adolf Hitler.  In the dying days of the Third Reich, Sparks and his men crossed the last great barrier in the West, the Rhine, only to experience some of the most intense street fighting and close combat suffered by Americans in WWII. When they finally arrived at the gates of Dachau, Hitler's first and most notorious concentration camp, the Thunderbirds confronted scenes that robbed the mind of reason. With victory within grasp, Sparks confronted the ultimate test of his humanity: after all he had faced, could he resist the urge to wreak vengeance on the men who had caused untold suffering and misery? Written with the narrative drive and vivid immediacy of Kershaw's previous best-selling books about American infantrymen in WWII, The Liberator is a story for the ages, an intensely human and dramatic account of one of history's greatest warriors and his unheralded role in America's finest achievement - the defeat of Nazi Germany....more

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• The Liberator: 2 of 4: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Alex Kershaw (Author), Fred Sanders (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: This African-American combat patrol advanced three miles north of Lucca (furthermost point occupied by American troops) to contact an enemy machine gun nest. Here a bazooka-man cuts loose at the target some 300 yards distantDepartment of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. - This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 531216. Permission details This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.View more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Liberator: 2 of 4: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Alex Kershaw (Author), Fred Sanders (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Liberator-Soldiers-500-Day-Odyssey-Beaches/dp/B009WTTGOG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1562461347&sr=1-1 The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe - from the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau.  From July 10, 1943, the date of the Allied landing in Sicily, to May 8, 1945, when victory in Europe was declared - the entire time it took to liberate Europe - no regiment saw more action, and no single platoon, company, or battalion endured worse, than the ones commanded by Felix Sparks, who had entered the war as a greenhorn second lieutenant of the 157th "Eager for Duty" Infantry Regiment of the 45th "Thunderbird" Division. Sparks and his fellow Thunderbirds fought longest and hardest to defeat Hitler, often against his most fanatical troops, when the odds on the battlefield were even and the fortunes of the Allies hung in the balance - and when the difference between defeat and victory was a matter of character, not tactics or armor. Drawing on extensive interviews with Sparks and dozens of his men, as well as over five years of research in Europe and in archives across the US, historian Alex Kershaw masterfully recounts one of the most inspiring and heroic journeys in military history. Over the course of four amphibious invasions, Sparks rose from captain to colonel as he battled from the beaches of Sicily through the mountains of Italy and France, ultimately enduring bitter and desperate winter combat against the diehard SS on the Fatherland's borders. Though he lost all of his company to save the Allied beach-head at Anzio and an entire battalion in the dark forests of the Vosges, Sparks miraculously survived the long bloody march across Europe and was selected to lead a final charge to Bavaria to hunt down Adolf Hitler.  In the dying days of the Third Reich, Sparks and his men crossed the last great barrier in the West, the Rhine, only to experience some of the most intense street fighting and close combat suffered by Americans in WWII. When they finally arrived at the gates of Dachau, Hitler's first and most notorious concentration camp, the Thunderbirds confronted scenes that robbed the mind of reason. With victory within grasp, Sparks confronted the ultimate test of his humanity: after all he had faced, could he resist the urge to wreak vengeance on the men who had caused untold suffering and misery? Written with the narrative drive and vivid immediacy of Kershaw's previous best-selling books about American infantrymen in WWII, The Liberator is a story for the ages, an intensely human and dramatic account of one of history's greatest warriors and his unheralded role in America's finest achievement - the defeat of Nazi Germany....more

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• The Liberator: 3 of 4: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Alex Kershaw (Author), Fred Sanders (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 07 2019

  Photo: Italy: handbook for travellers. Third Part, Southern Italy and SicilyYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  Karl Baedeker (Firm)Subjects: Publisher:  Leipsic : K. Baedeker London : Dulau and Co.Contributing Library:  Emory University, Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  Emory University, Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book LibraryView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Liberator: 3 of 4: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Alex Kershaw (Author), Fred Sanders (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Liberator-Soldiers-500-Day-Odyssey-Beaches/dp/B009WTTGOG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1562461347&sr=1-1 The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe - from the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau.  From July 10, 1943, the date of the Allied landing in Sicily, to May 8, 1945, when victory in Europe was declared - the entire time it took to liberate Europe - no regiment saw more action, and no single platoon, company, or battalion endured worse, than the ones commanded by Felix Sparks, who had entered the war as a greenhorn second lieutenant of the 157th "Eager for Duty" Infantry Regiment of the 45th "Thunderbird" Division. Sparks and his fellow Thunderbirds fought longest and hardest to defeat Hitler, often against his most fanatical troops, when the odds on the battlefield were even and the fortunes of the Allies hung in the balance - and when the difference between defeat and victory was a matter of character, not tactics or armor. Drawing on extensive interviews with Sparks and dozens of his men, as well as over five years of research in Europe and in archives across the US, historian Alex Kershaw masterfully recounts one of the most inspiring and heroic journeys in military history. Over the course of four amphibious invasions, Sparks rose from captain to colonel as he battled from the beaches of Sicily through the mountains of Italy and France, ultimately enduring bitter and desperate winter combat against the diehard SS on the Fatherland's borders. Though he lost all of his company to save the Allied beach-head at Anzio and an entire battalion in the dark forests of the Vosges, Sparks miraculously survived the long bloody march across Europe and was selected to lead a final charge to Bavaria to hunt down Adolf Hitler.  In the dying days of the Third Reich, Sparks and his men crossed the last great barrier in the West, the Rhine, only to experience some of the most intense street fighting and close combat suffered by Americans in WWII. When they finally arrived at the gates of Dachau, Hitler's first and most notorious concentration camp, the Thunderbirds confronted scenes that robbed the mind of reason. With victory within grasp, Sparks confronted the ultimate test of his humanity: after all he had faced, could he resist the urge to wreak vengeance on the men who had caused untold suffering and misery? Written with the narrative drive and vivid immediacy of Kershaw's previous best-selling books about American infantrymen in WWII, The Liberator is a story for the ages, an intensely human and dramatic account of one of history's greatest warriors and his unheralded role in America's finest achievement - the defeat of Nazi Germany....more

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• The Liberator: 4 of 4: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Alex Kershaw (Author), Fred Sanders (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: During the Allied invasion of Sicily the Liberty ship Robert Rowan (K-40) explodes after being hit by a German Ju 88 bomber off of Gela, Sicily (Italy), on (11 July 1943).Robert Rowan was built at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina (USA). She was laid down on 3 March 1943, launched 6 April, and delivered to the Isthmain Steamship Company on 13 April. Her maiden voyage started on 14 May 1943 at Hampton Roads, Virginia (USA) to Oran (Algeria) as part of convoy UGS-8A. She was sent on to Gela, Sicily (Italy) to support the invasion of Sicily ("Operation Husky"). She arrived at Gela 11 July 1943 with a cargo of ammunition and 334 soldiers of the 18th Infantry. She also carried 14 U.S. Navy personnel, 32 U.S. Navy armed guards, and 41 crewmen. Just before 14:00 hrs German Junkers Ju 88 bombers appeared overhead and attacked the ships in the bay. During the attack the Rowan was hit by three 500 kg bombs. One bomb passed through the ship, but the other two exploded in the holds. Because of the nature of the cargo the ship was abandoned without any attempt to put the fire out. All 421 men on board safely evacuated the ship and were picked up by PT boats and transferred to nearby destroyers. Within twenty minutes the fire reached her munitions with a tremendous explosion tearing the ship in half. The burning ship came to rest on an even keel and burned for two days. The destroyer USS McLanahan (DD-615) tried to sink the ship because the fires lit up the area during the night, but this failed as the water was too shallow. The hulk lay in the waters off Gela until 1948 when it was sold and scrapped.Date | 11 July 1943http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Liberator: 4 of 4: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Alex Kershaw (Author), Fred Sanders (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Liberator-Soldiers-500-Day-Odyssey-Beaches/dp/B009WTTGOG/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1562461347&sr=1-1 The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe - from the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau.  From July 10, 1943, the date of the Allied landing in Sicily, to May 8, 1945, when victory in Europe was declared - the entire time it took to liberate Europe - no regiment saw more action, and no single platoon, company, or battalion endured worse, than the ones commanded by Felix Sparks, who had entered the war as a greenhorn second lieutenant of the 157th "Eager for Duty" Infantry Regiment of the 45th "Thunderbird" Division. Sparks and his fellow Thunderbirds fought longest and hardest to defeat Hitler, often against his most fanatical troops, when the odds on the battlefield were even and the fortunes of the Allies hung in the balance - and when the difference between defeat and victory was a matter of character, not tactics or armor. Drawing on extensive interviews with Sparks and dozens of his men, as well as over five years of research in Europe and in archives across the US, historian Alex Kershaw masterfully recounts one of the most inspiring and heroic journeys in military history. Over the course of four amphibious invasions, Sparks rose from captain to colonel as he battled from the beaches of Sicily through the mountains of Italy and France, ultimately enduring bitter and desperate winter combat against the diehard SS on the Fatherland's borders. Though he lost all of his company to save the Allied beach-head at Anzio and an entire battalion in the dark forests of the Vosges, Sparks miraculously survived the long bloody march across Europe and was selected to lead a final charge to Bavaria to hunt down Adolf Hitler.  In the dying days of the Third Reich, Sparks and his men crossed the last great barrier in the West, the Rhine, only to experience some of the most intense street fighting and close combat suffered by Americans in WWII. When they finally arrived at the gates of Dachau, Hitler's first and most notorious concentration camp, the Thunderbirds confronted scenes that robbed the mind of reason. With victory within grasp, Sparks confronted the ultimate test of his humanity: after all he had faced, could he resist the urge to wreak vengeance on the men who had caused untold suffering and misery? Written with the narrative drive and vivid immediacy of Kershaw's previous best-selling books about American infantrymen in WWII, The Liberator is a story for the ages, an intensely human and dramatic account of one of history's greatest warriors and his unheralded role in America's finest achievement - the defeat of Nazi Germany....more

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• King John: 1 of 8: And the Road to Magna Carta Hardcover – International Edition, April 7, 2015. by Stephen Church (Author)

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  Photo: A medieval carving from Rievaulx Abbey showing one of the many new windmills established during the 13th centuryTony Grist - Photographer's own files Rievaulx Abbey: carving of windmill Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow King John: 1 of 8: And the Road to Magna Carta Hardcover – International Edition, April 7, 2015. by Stephen Church  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/King-John-Road-Magna-Carta/dp/0465092993From a renowned medieval historian comes a new biography of King John, the infamous English king whose reign led to the establishment of the Magna Carta and the birth of constitutional democracy King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the middle ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king, Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too.In King John, medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led to the king's excommunication.As king of England, John taxed his people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying this constitution--enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta--would go on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including our own.In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta, the blueprint for good governance....more

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• King John: 2 of 8: And the Road to Magna Carta Hardcover – International Edition, April 7, 2015. by Stephen Church (Author)

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  Photo: Early iron-smelting using a bloomery View author information Public Domain File:Bas fourneau.png http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow King John: 2 of 8: And the Road to Magna Carta Hardcover – International Edition, April 7, 2015. by Stephen Church  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/King-John-Road-Magna-Carta/dp/0465092993From a renowned medieval historian comes a new biography of King John, the infamous English king whose reign led to the establishment of the Magna Carta and the birth of constitutional democracy King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the middle ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king, Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too.In King John, medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led to the king's excommunication.As king of England, John taxed his people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying this constitution--enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta--would go on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including our own.In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta, the blueprint for good governance....more

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• King John: 3 of 8: And the Road to Magna Carta Hardcover – International Edition, April 7, 2015. by Stephen Church (Author)

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  Photo: Sheep, shown here c. 1250, became increasingly important to English agriculture.Anonymous - The Morgan Bible, Folio 25 David, as a young man, playing pipe and bell as he watches his sheep in the pasture. Permission details public domainView more Public Domainview terms File:Pipeandbelldavid.png Created: 1240's or 50's http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow King John: 3 of 8: And the Road to Magna Carta Hardcover – International Edition, April 7, 2015. by Stephen Church  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/King-John-Road-Magna-Carta/dp/0465092993From a renowned medieval historian comes a new biography of King John, the infamous English king whose reign led to the establishment of the Magna Carta and the birth of constitutional democracy King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the middle ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king, Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too.In King John, medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led to the king's excommunication.As king of England, John taxed his people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying this constitution--enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta--would go on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including our own.In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta, the blueprint for good governance....more

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• King John: 4 of 8: And the Road to Magna Carta Hardcover – International Edition, April 7, 2015. by Stephen Church (Author)

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  Photo: An English serf at work digging, c. 1170Anonymous - http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/psalter/psalterindex.html "Digging", detail from the Hunterian Psalter, Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 229 (U.3.2) Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow King John: 4 of 8: And the Road to Magna Carta Hardcover – International Edition, April 7, 2015. by Stephen Church  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/King-John-Road-Magna-Carta/dp/0465092993From a renowned medieval historian comes a new biography of King John, the infamous English king whose reign led to the establishment of the Magna Carta and the birth of constitutional democracy King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the middle ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king, Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too.In King John, medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led to the king's excommunication.As king of England, John taxed his people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying this constitution--enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta--would go on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including our own.In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta, the blueprint for good governance....more

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• King John: 5 of 8: And the Road to Magna Carta Hardcover – International Edition, April 7, 2015. by Stephen Church (Author)

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  Photo: A page of the Domesday Book, which captures the economic condition of England in 1086Unknown - Birmingham 1066-1625 Page from the Domesday Book for Warwickshire, including listing of Birmingham Public Domain File:Domesday Book - Warwickshire.png http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow King John: 5 of 8: And the Road to Magna Carta Hardcover – International Edition, April 7, 2015. by Stephen Church  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/King-John-Road-Magna-Carta/dp/0465092993From a renowned medieval historian comes a new biography of King John, the infamous English king whose reign led to the establishment of the Magna Carta and the birth of constitutional democracy King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the middle ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king, Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too.In King John, medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led to the king's excommunication.As king of England, John taxed his people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying this constitution--enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta--would go on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including our own.In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta, the blueprint for good governance....more

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• King John: 6 of 8: And the Road to Magna Carta Hardcover – International Edition, April 7, 2015. by Stephen Church (Author)

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  Photo: The open field system, central to many medieval English communities Plan_mediaeval_manor.jpg: William R. Shepherd, Historical Atlas, New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1923 derivative work: Hchc2009 (talk) - Plan_mediaeval_manor.jpg Plan of a fictional mediaeval manor showing the open field system. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow King John: 6 of 8: And the Road to Magna Carta Hardcover – International Edition, April 7, 2015. by Stephen Church  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/King-John-Road-Magna-Carta/dp/0465092993From a renowned medieval historian comes a new biography of King John, the infamous English king whose reign led to the establishment of the Magna Carta and the birth of constitutional democracy King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the middle ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king, Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too.In King John, medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led to the king's excommunication.As king of England, John taxed his people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying this constitution--enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta--would go on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including our own.In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta, the blueprint for good governance....more

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• King John: 7 of 8: And the Road to Magna Carta Hardcover – International Edition, April 7, 2015. by Stephen Church (Author)

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  Photo: Ploughmen at work with oxen Ploughmen_Fac_simile_of_a_Miniature_in_a_very_ancient_Anglo_Saxon_Manuscript_published_by_Shaw_with_legend_God_Spede_ye_Plough_and_send_us_Korne_enow.png: Paul Lacroix derivative work: — the Man in Question (in question) - Ploughmen_Fac_simile_of_a_Miniature_in_a_very_ancient_Anglo_Saxon_Manuscript_published_by_Shaw_with_legend_God_Spede_ye_Plough_and_send_us_Korne_enow.png Ploughmen.--Fac-simile of a Miniature in a mediaeval manuscript published by Shaw, with legend "God Spede þe plough, and send us korne enow." Note that "þe" should be transliterated "the". Project Gutenberg text 10940 Title: Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow King John: 7 of 8: And the Road to Magna Carta Hardcover – International Edition, April 7, 2015. by Stephen Church  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/King-John-Road-Magna-Carta/dp/0465092993From a renowned medieval historian comes a new biography of King John, the infamous English king whose reign led to the establishment of the Magna Carta and the birth of constitutional democracy King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the middle ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king, Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too.In King John, medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led to the king's excommunication.As king of England, John taxed his people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying this constitution--enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta--would go on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including our own.In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta, the blueprint for good governance....more

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• King John: 8 of 8: And the Road to Magna Carta Hardcover – International Edition, April 7, 2015. by Stephen Church (Author)

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  Photo: The medieval English saw their economy as comprising three groups – the clergy, who prayed; the knights, who fought; and the peasants, who worked the land.Unknown. - "Cleric, Knight and Workman representing the three classes", a French School illustration from Li Livres dou Santé (late 13th century, vellum), MS Sloane 2435, folio 85, British Library/Bridgeman Art Library; losslessly adapted from https://web.archive.org/web/20060115103059/http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/hss/medieval/. An inhabited initial from a 13th-century French text representing the tripartite social order of the Middle Ages: the ōrātōrēs (those who pray – clerics), bellātōrēs (those who fight – knights, that is, the nobility), and labōrātōrēs (those who work – peasants and members of the lower middle class). Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow King John: 8 of 8: And the Road to Magna Carta Hardcover – International Edition, April 7, 2015. by Stephen Church  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/King-John-Road-Magna-Carta/dp/0465092993From a renowned medieval historian comes a new biography of King John, the infamous English king whose reign led to the establishment of the Magna Carta and the birth of constitutional democracy King John (1166-1216) has long been seen as the epitome of bad kings. The son of the most charismatic couple of the middle ages, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and younger brother of the heroic crusader king, Richard the Lionheart, John lived much of his life in the shadow of his family. When in 1199 he became ruler of his family's lands in England and France, John proved unequal to the task of keeping them together. Early in his reign he lost much of his continental possessions, and over the next decade would come perilously close to losing his English kingdom, too.In King John, medieval historian Stephen Church argues that John's reign, for all its failings, would prove to be a crucial turning point in English history. Though he was a masterful political manipulator, John's traditional ideas of unchecked sovereign power were becoming increasingly unpopular among his subjects, resulting in frequent confrontations. Nor was he willing to tolerate any challenges to his authority. For six long years, John and the pope struggled over the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a clash that led to the king's excommunication.As king of England, John taxed his people heavily to fund his futile attempt to reconquer the lands lost to the king of France. The cost to his people of this failure was great, but it was greater still for John. In 1215, his subjects rose in rebellion against their king and forced upon him a new constitution by which he was to rule. The principles underlying this constitution--enshrined in the terms of Magna Carta--would go on to shape democratic constitutions across the globe, including our own.In this authoritative biography, Church describes how it was that a king famous for his misrule gave rise to Magna Carta, the blueprint for good governance....more

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• Gettysburg: 1 of 8: The Last Invasion Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Allen C. Guelzo (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 06 2019

  Photo:  View of Gettysburg, Pa., 1863  U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: NWDNS-111-B-192  From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)  Photographer: Brady, Mathew, 1823 (ca.) - 1896  Coverage Dates: ca. 1860 - ca. 1865 Subjects:American Civil War, 1861-1865Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington, D.C.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Gettysburg: 1 of 8: The Last Invasion  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Allen C. Guelzo (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Gettysburg-The-Last-Invasion/dp/B00CQAUZ7U/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Guelzo+Last+Invasion&qid=1562380710&s=audible&sr=1-1From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history-the most intimate and richly readable account we have had-of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced the greatest battle of the Civil War, and one of the greatest in human history. Of the half-dozen full-length histories of the battle of Gettysburg written over the last century, none dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights, and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the lay of the land, the fences and the stone walls, the gunpowder clouds that hampered movement and vision; the armies that caroused, foraged, kidnapped, sang, and were so filthy they could be smelled before they could be seen; the head-swimming difficulties of marshaling massive numbers of poorly trained soldiers, plus thousands of animals and wagons, with no better means of communication than those of Caesar and Alexander. What emerges is an untold story, from the trapped and terrified civilians in Gettysburg's cellars to the insolent attitude of artillerymen, from the taste of gunpowder cartridges torn with the teeth to the sounds of marching columns, their tin cups clanking like an anvil chorus. Guelzo depicts the battle with unprecedented clarity, evoking a world where disoriented soldiers and officers wheel nearly blindly through woods and fields toward their clash, even as poetry and hymns spring to their minds with ease in the midst of carnage. Rebel soldiers look to march on Philadelphia and even New York, while the Union struggles to repel what will be the final invasion of the North. One hundred and fifty years later, the cornerstone battle of the Civil War comes vividly to life as a national epic, inspiring both horror and admiration....more

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• Gettysburg: 2 of 8: The Last Invasion Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Allen C. Guelzo (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Gettysburg, the pivotal battle of the Civil WarYear: 1911 (1910s)Authors:  Beecham, R. K. (Robert K.), b. 1838Subjects:  Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863Publisher:  Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co.Contributing Library:  New York Public LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Gettysburg: 2 of 8: The Last Invasion  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Allen C. Guelzo (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Gettysburg-The-Last-Invasion/dp/B00CQAUZ7U/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Guelzo+Last+Invasion&qid=1562380710&s=audible&sr=1-1From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history-the most intimate and richly readable account we have had-of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced the greatest battle of the Civil War, and one of the greatest in human history. Of the half-dozen full-length histories of the battle of Gettysburg written over the last century, none dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights, and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the lay of the land, the fences and the stone walls, the gunpowder clouds that hampered movement and vision; the armies that caroused, foraged, kidnapped, sang, and were so filthy they could be smelled before they could be seen; the head-swimming difficulties of marshaling massive numbers of poorly trained soldiers, plus thousands of animals and wagons, with no better means of communication than those of Caesar and Alexander. What emerges is an untold story, from the trapped and terrified civilians in Gettysburg's cellars to the insolent attitude of artillerymen, from the taste of gunpowder cartridges torn with the teeth to the sounds of marching columns, their tin cups clanking like an anvil chorus. Guelzo depicts the battle with unprecedented clarity, evoking a world where disoriented soldiers and officers wheel nearly blindly through woods and fields toward their clash, even as poetry and hymns spring to their minds with ease in the midst of carnage. Rebel soldiers look to march on Philadelphia and even New York, while the Union struggles to repel what will be the final invasion of the North. One hundred and fifty years later, the cornerstone battle of the Civil War comes vividly to life as a national epic, inspiring both horror and admiration....more

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• Gettysburg: 3 of 8: The Last Invasion Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Allen C. Guelzo (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 06 2019

  Photo: View of Gettysburg  U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: NWDNS-111-B-17  From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)  Photographer: Brady, Mathew, 1823 (ca.) - 1896  Coverage Dates: ca. 1860 - ca. 1865 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Gettysburg: 3 of 8: The Last Invasion  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Allen C. Guelzo (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Gettysburg-The-Last-Invasion/dp/B00CQAUZ7U/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Guelzo+Last+Invasion&qid=1562380710&s=audible&sr=1-1From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history-the most intimate and richly readable account we have had-of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced the greatest battle of the Civil War, and one of the greatest in human history. Of the half-dozen full-length histories of the battle of Gettysburg written over the last century, none dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights, and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the lay of the land, the fences and the stone walls, the gunpowder clouds that hampered movement and vision; the armies that caroused, foraged, kidnapped, sang, and were so filthy they could be smelled before they could be seen; the head-swimming difficulties of marshaling massive numbers of poorly trained soldiers, plus thousands of animals and wagons, with no better means of communication than those of Caesar and Alexander. What emerges is an untold story, from the trapped and terrified civilians in Gettysburg's cellars to the insolent attitude of artillerymen, from the taste of gunpowder cartridges torn with the teeth to the sounds of marching columns, their tin cups clanking like an anvil chorus. Guelzo depicts the battle with unprecedented clarity, evoking a world where disoriented soldiers and officers wheel nearly blindly through woods and fields toward their clash, even as poetry and hymns spring to their minds with ease in the midst of carnage. Rebel soldiers look to march on Philadelphia and even New York, while the Union struggles to repel what will be the final invasion of the North. One hundred and fifty years later, the cornerstone battle of the Civil War comes vividly to life as a national epic, inspiring both horror and admiration....more

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• Gettysburg: 4 of 8: The Last Invasion Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Allen C. Guelzo (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 06 2019

  Photo: Woods in Which General John F. Reynolds Was Killed. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863. Original Caption: Woods in which Gen. J.F. Reynolds was killed. Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.  U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: NWDNS-111-B-111  From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)  Photographer: Brady, Mathew, 1823 (ca.) - 1896 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Gettysburg: 4 of 8: The Last Invasion  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Allen C. Guelzo (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Gettysburg-The-Last-Invasion/dp/B00CQAUZ7U/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Guelzo+Last+Invasion&qid=1562380710&s=audible&sr=1-1From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history-the most intimate and richly readable account we have had-of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced the greatest battle of the Civil War, and one of the greatest in human history. Of the half-dozen full-length histories of the battle of Gettysburg written over the last century, none dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights, and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the lay of the land, the fences and the stone walls, the gunpowder clouds that hampered movement and vision; the armies that caroused, foraged, kidnapped, sang, and were so filthy they could be smelled before they could be seen; the head-swimming difficulties of marshaling massive numbers of poorly trained soldiers, plus thousands of animals and wagons, with no better means of communication than those of Caesar and Alexander. What emerges is an untold story, from the trapped and terrified civilians in Gettysburg's cellars to the insolent attitude of artillerymen, from the taste of gunpowder cartridges torn with the teeth to the sounds of marching columns, their tin cups clanking like an anvil chorus. Guelzo depicts the battle with unprecedented clarity, evoking a world where disoriented soldiers and officers wheel nearly blindly through woods and fields toward their clash, even as poetry and hymns spring to their minds with ease in the midst of carnage. Rebel soldiers look to march on Philadelphia and even New York, while the Union struggles to repel what will be the final invasion of the North. One hundred and fifty years later, the cornerstone battle of the Civil War comes vividly to life as a national epic, inspiring both horror and admiration....more

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• Gettysburg: 5 of 8: The Last Invasion Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Allen C. Guelzo (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 06 2019

  Photo: John Burns and cottage, Gettysburg  U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: NWDNS-111-B-174  From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)  Photographer: Brady, Mathew, 1823 (ca.) - 1896  Coverage Dates: ca. 1860 - ca. 1865 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Gettysburg: 5 of 8: The Last Invasion  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Allen C. Guelzo (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Gettysburg-The-Last-Invasion/dp/B00CQAUZ7U/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Guelzo+Last+Invasion&qid=1562380710&s=audible&sr=1-1From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history-the most intimate and richly readable account we have had-of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced the greatest battle of the Civil War, and one of the greatest in human history. Of the half-dozen full-length histories of the battle of Gettysburg written over the last century, none dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights, and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the lay of the land, the fences and the stone walls, the gunpowder clouds that hampered movement and vision; the armies that caroused, foraged, kidnapped, sang, and were so filthy they could be smelled before they could be seen; the head-swimming difficulties of marshaling massive numbers of poorly trained soldiers, plus thousands of animals and wagons, with no better means of communication than those of Caesar and Alexander. What emerges is an untold story, from the trapped and terrified civilians in Gettysburg's cellars to the insolent attitude of artillerymen, from the taste of gunpowder cartridges torn with the teeth to the sounds of marching columns, their tin cups clanking like an anvil chorus. Guelzo depicts the battle with unprecedented clarity, evoking a world where disoriented soldiers and officers wheel nearly blindly through woods and fields toward their clash, even as poetry and hymns spring to their minds with ease in the midst of carnage. Rebel soldiers look to march on Philadelphia and even New York, while the Union struggles to repel what will be the final invasion of the North. One hundred and fifty years later, the cornerstone battle of the Civil War comes vividly to life as a national epic, inspiring both horror and admiration....more

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• Gettysburg: 6 of 8: The Last Invasion Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Allen C. Guelzo (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 06 2019

  Photo: Part of Gettysburg Battlefield.  U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: NWDNS-111-B-127  From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)  Photographer: Brady, Mathew, 1823 (ca.) - 1896  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Gettysburg: 6 of 8: The Last Invasion  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Allen C. Guelzo (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Gettysburg-The-Last-Invasion/dp/B00CQAUZ7U/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Guelzo+Last+Invasion&qid=1562380710&s=audible&sr=1-1From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history-the most intimate and richly readable account we have had-of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced the greatest battle of the Civil War, and one of the greatest in human history. Of the half-dozen full-length histories of the battle of Gettysburg written over the last century, none dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights, and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the lay of the land, the fences and the stone walls, the gunpowder clouds that hampered movement and vision; the armies that caroused, foraged, kidnapped, sang, and were so filthy they could be smelled before they could be seen; the head-swimming difficulties of marshaling massive numbers of poorly trained soldiers, plus thousands of animals and wagons, with no better means of communication than those of Caesar and Alexander. What emerges is an untold story, from the trapped and terrified civilians in Gettysburg's cellars to the insolent attitude of artillerymen, from the taste of gunpowder cartridges torn with the teeth to the sounds of marching columns, their tin cups clanking like an anvil chorus. Guelzo depicts the battle with unprecedented clarity, evoking a world where disoriented soldiers and officers wheel nearly blindly through woods and fields toward their clash, even as poetry and hymns spring to their minds with ease in the midst of carnage. Rebel soldiers look to march on Philadelphia and even New York, while the Union struggles to repel what will be the final invasion of the North. One hundred and fifty years later, the cornerstone battle of the Civil War comes vividly to life as a national epic, inspiring both horror and admiration....more

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• Gettysburg: 7 of 8: The Last Invasion Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Allen C. Guelzo (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 06 2019

  Photo: Regiment marching down a village street, Gettysburg, Pa  U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 111-B-357  From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)  Photographer: Brady, Mathew, 1823 (ca.) - 1896  Coverage Dates: ca. 1860 - ca. 1865 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Gettysburg: 7 of 8: The Last Invasion  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Allen C. Guelzo (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Gettysburg-The-Last-Invasion/dp/B00CQAUZ7U/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Guelzo+Last+Invasion&qid=1562380710&s=audible&sr=1-1From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history-the most intimate and richly readable account we have had-of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced the greatest battle of the Civil War, and one of the greatest in human history. Of the half-dozen full-length histories of the battle of Gettysburg written over the last century, none dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights, and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the lay of the land, the fences and the stone walls, the gunpowder clouds that hampered movement and vision; the armies that caroused, foraged, kidnapped, sang, and were so filthy they could be smelled before they could be seen; the head-swimming difficulties of marshaling massive numbers of poorly trained soldiers, plus thousands of animals and wagons, with no better means of communication than those of Caesar and Alexander. What emerges is an untold story, from the trapped and terrified civilians in Gettysburg's cellars to the insolent attitude of artillerymen, from the taste of gunpowder cartridges torn with the teeth to the sounds of marching columns, their tin cups clanking like an anvil chorus. Guelzo depicts the battle with unprecedented clarity, evoking a world where disoriented soldiers and officers wheel nearly blindly through woods and fields toward their clash, even as poetry and hymns spring to their minds with ease in the midst of carnage. Rebel soldiers look to march on Philadelphia and even New York, while the Union struggles to repel what will be the final invasion of the North. One hundred and fifty years later, the cornerstone battle of the Civil War comes vividly to life as a national epic, inspiring both horror and admiration....more

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• Gettysburg: 8 of 8: The Last Invasion Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Allen C. Guelzo (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 06 2019

  Photo: Three "Johnnie Reb" Prisoners. Photographed by Mathew Brady's team on Seminary Ridge in mid-July, 1863, after the Battle of Gettysburg (LOC)Brady, Mathew B.,, ca. 1823-1896,, photographer. Three "Johnnie Reb" Prisoners, captured at Gettysburg, 1863 1863. 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen ; 4 x 7 in. Notes:Photo shows three Confederate prisoners on Seminary Ridge, on or about July 15, 1863, with the town of Gettysburg, Pa., in the background. (Source: Frassanito, p. 71) Title from item.Part of series:The War for the Union. Photographic War History (no. 2288).Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).Published in: Gettysburg: A Journey in Time, by William A. Frassanito. NY: Charles Scribner''s Sons, 1975, p. 70-71.Published in: The Civil War in depth, by Bob Zeller. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997-2000, v. 1, p. 93. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Gettysburg: 8 of 8: The Last Invasion  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Allen C. Guelzo (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Gettysburg-The-Last-Invasion/dp/B00CQAUZ7U/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Guelzo+Last+Invasion&qid=1562380710&s=audible&sr=1-1From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history-the most intimate and richly readable account we have had-of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced the greatest battle of the Civil War, and one of the greatest in human history. Of the half-dozen full-length histories of the battle of Gettysburg written over the last century, none dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights, and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the lay of the land, the fences and the stone walls, the gunpowder clouds that hampered movement and vision; the armies that caroused, foraged, kidnapped, sang, and were so filthy they could be smelled before they could be seen; the head-swimming difficulties of marshaling massive numbers of poorly trained soldiers, plus thousands of animals and wagons, with no better means of communication than those of Caesar and Alexander. What emerges is an untold story, from the trapped and terrified civilians in Gettysburg's cellars to the insolent attitude of artillerymen, from the taste of gunpowder cartridges torn with the teeth to the sounds of marching columns, their tin cups clanking like an anvil chorus. Guelzo depicts the battle with unprecedented clarity, evoking a world where disoriented soldiers and officers wheel nearly blindly through woods and fields toward their clash, even as poetry and hymns spring to their minds with ease in the midst of carnage. Rebel soldiers look to march on Philadelphia and even New York, while the Union struggles to repel what will be the final invasion of the North. One hundred and fifty years later, the cornerstone battle of the Civil War comes vividly to life as a national epic, inspiring both horror and admiration....more

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• Hope and History: 1 of 4: A Memoir of Tumultuous Times Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. William J. vanden Heuvel (Author), Douglas Brinkley (Author), Donald Corren (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jul 06 2019

  Photo: The aircraft carrier HMS WARRIOR evacuates 1,455 refugees from Haiphong, North Vietnam to Saigon during Operation PASSAGE TO FREEDOM, 4 September 1954. Refugees transfer from a French LCT landing craft to HMS WARRIOR at the port of Haiphong.Date | 2 July 2014, 21:20:20Source | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205187797Author | Royal Navy official photographerhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Hope and History: 1 of 4: A Memoir of Tumultuous Times  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  William J. vanden Heuvel (Author), Douglas Brinkley (Author), Donald Corren (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Hope-History-Memoir-Tumultuous-Times/dp/B07R5BRJ4B/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Hope and History is both a memoir and a call to action for the renewal of faith in democracy and America. US Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel presents his most important public speeches and writings, compiled and presented over eight decades of adventure and public service, woven together with anecdotes of his colorful life as a second-generation American, a soldier, a lawyer, a political activist, and a diplomat. He touches upon themes that resonate as much today as they did when he first encountered them: the impact of heroes and mentors, the tragedy of the Vietnam War, the problems of racism and desegregation in America, tackling the crisis in America's prisons, America and the Holocaust, and the plight and promise of the United Nations. Along the way, he allows us to share his journey with some of the great characters of American history: Eleanor Roosevelt, William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan, President John F. Kennedy and RFK, Harry S. Truman, and Jimmy Carter. Throughout, vanden Heuvel persuades us that there is still room for optimism in public life. He shows how individuals, himself among them, have tackled some of America's most intractable domestic and foreign policy issues with ingenuity and goodwill, particularly under the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and those who sought and still seek to follow in his footsteps. He is not afraid to challenge the hatred and bigotry that are an unfortunate but undeniable part of the American fabric. He exhorts us to embrace all the challenges and opportunities that life in the United States can offer....more

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• Hope and History: 2 of 4: A Memoir of Tumultuous Times Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. William J. vanden Heuvel (Author), Douglas Brinkley (Author), Donald Corren (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jul 06 2019

  Photo: Skyline of Manhattan, New York City, 1960Date | July 1960Source | Flickr: New York 1.jpgAuthor | Harold Egeberg (photographer); family photo inherited by Alex Dawsonhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Hope and History: 2 of 4: A Memoir of Tumultuous Times  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  William J. vanden Heuvel (Author), Douglas Brinkley (Author), Donald Corren (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Hope-History-Memoir-Tumultuous-Times/dp/B07R5BRJ4B/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Hope and History is both a memoir and a call to action for the renewal of faith in democracy and America. US Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel presents his most important public speeches and writings, compiled and presented over eight decades of adventure and public service, woven together with anecdotes of his colorful life as a second-generation American, a soldier, a lawyer, a political activist, and a diplomat. He touches upon themes that resonate as much today as they did when he first encountered them: the impact of heroes and mentors, the tragedy of the Vietnam War, the problems of racism and desegregation in America, tackling the crisis in America's prisons, America and the Holocaust, and the plight and promise of the United Nations. Along the way, he allows us to share his journey with some of the great characters of American history: Eleanor Roosevelt, William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan, President John F. Kennedy and RFK, Harry S. Truman, and Jimmy Carter. Throughout, vanden Heuvel persuades us that there is still room for optimism in public life. He shows how individuals, himself among them, have tackled some of America's most intractable domestic and foreign policy issues with ingenuity and goodwill, particularly under the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and those who sought and still seek to follow in his footsteps. He is not afraid to challenge the hatred and bigotry that are an unfortunate but undeniable part of the American fabric. He exhorts us to embrace all the challenges and opportunities that life in the United States can offer....more

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• Hope and History: 3 of 4: A Memoir of Tumultuous Times Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. William J. vanden Heuvel (Author), Douglas Brinkley (Author), Donald Corren (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jul 06 2019

  Photo: Warren K. Leffler / Library of CongressTitle | D.C. riot. April '68. AftermathDescription | English: Photograph facing northeast showing a soldier standing guard on the corner of 7th & N Street NW in Washington D.C. with the ruins of buildings that were destroyed during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.Date | 8 April 1968Medium | 1 negative : film.Collection | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USAhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Hope and History: 3 of 4: A Memoir of Tumultuous Times  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  William J. vanden Heuvel (Author), Douglas Brinkley (Author), Donald Corren (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Hope-History-Memoir-Tumultuous-Times/dp/B07R5BRJ4B/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Hope and History is both a memoir and a call to action for the renewal of faith in democracy and America. US Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel presents his most important public speeches and writings, compiled and presented over eight decades of adventure and public service, woven together with anecdotes of his colorful life as a second-generation American, a soldier, a lawyer, a political activist, and a diplomat. He touches upon themes that resonate as much today as they did when he first encountered them: the impact of heroes and mentors, the tragedy of the Vietnam War, the problems of racism and desegregation in America, tackling the crisis in America's prisons, America and the Holocaust, and the plight and promise of the United Nations. Along the way, he allows us to share his journey with some of the great characters of American history: Eleanor Roosevelt, William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan, President John F. Kennedy and RFK, Harry S. Truman, and Jimmy Carter. Throughout, vanden Heuvel persuades us that there is still room for optimism in public life. He shows how individuals, himself among them, have tackled some of America's most intractable domestic and foreign policy issues with ingenuity and goodwill, particularly under the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and those who sought and still seek to follow in his footsteps. He is not afraid to challenge the hatred and bigotry that are an unfortunate but undeniable part of the American fabric. He exhorts us to embrace all the challenges and opportunities that life in the United States can offer....more

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• Hope and History: 4 of 4: A Memoir of Tumultuous Times Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. William J. vanden Heuvel (Author), Douglas Brinkley (Author), Donald Corren (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jul 06 2019

  Photo: Genève tram 715 + 306 southbound on Rue de Carouge just south of Rond Point de Plainpalais, on what was then the Genève tram system's only route (12). Car 715 was built in 1950 or 1951 by SWP, and trailer 306 was built in 1951 by FFA. No. 306 was sold to Sibiu, Romania, after being retired in Genève.Date | June 1978Source | Trams de Genève (Suisse)Author | Alain GAVILLET from Chêne-Bougeries, Suissehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Hope and History: 4 of 4: A Memoir of Tumultuous Times  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  William J. vanden Heuvel (Author), Douglas Brinkley (Author), Donald Corren (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Hope-History-Memoir-Tumultuous-Times/dp/B07R5BRJ4B/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Hope and History is both a memoir and a call to action for the renewal of faith in democracy and America. US Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel presents his most important public speeches and writings, compiled and presented over eight decades of adventure and public service, woven together with anecdotes of his colorful life as a second-generation American, a soldier, a lawyer, a political activist, and a diplomat. He touches upon themes that resonate as much today as they did when he first encountered them: the impact of heroes and mentors, the tragedy of the Vietnam War, the problems of racism and desegregation in America, tackling the crisis in America's prisons, America and the Holocaust, and the plight and promise of the United Nations. Along the way, he allows us to share his journey with some of the great characters of American history: Eleanor Roosevelt, William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan, President John F. Kennedy and RFK, Harry S. Truman, and Jimmy Carter. Throughout, vanden Heuvel persuades us that there is still room for optimism in public life. He shows how individuals, himself among them, have tackled some of America's most intractable domestic and foreign policy issues with ingenuity and goodwill, particularly under the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and those who sought and still seek to follow in his footsteps. He is not afraid to challenge the hatred and bigotry that are an unfortunate but undeniable part of the American fabric. He exhorts us to embrace all the challenges and opportunities that life in the United States can offer....more

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• Lincoln's Selected Writings: 1 of 8: (Norton Critical Editions) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Abraham Lincoln (Author), David S. Reynolds (Editor)

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  Jul 05 2019

  Photo: The City of Chicago, Illinois, where the Republican Nominating Convention will meet on May 16, 1860Date | May 1860Source | https://www.loc.gov/item/92522162/Author | Harper's Weeklyhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Lincoln's Selected Writings: 1 of 8: (Norton Critical Editions) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Abraham Lincoln (Author), David S. Reynolds (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Selected-Writings-Critical-Editions-dp-0393921794/dp/0393921794/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=Bancroft Prize–winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings―from his earliest days through his last. Lincoln’s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations.Lincoln’s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln―including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman.“Modern Views” presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincoln’s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton.A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included....more

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• Lincoln's Selected Writings: 2 of 8: (Norton Critical Editions) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Abraham Lincoln (Author), David S. Reynolds (Editor)

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  Jul 05 2019

  Photo: Abraham Lincoln resided in Springfield for 24 yearsOriginal work: Thomas Hicks (1823-1890, artist) Leopold Grozelier (1830-1865, lithographer) W. William Schaus (publisher) J.H. Bufford's Lith. (printer) Restoration:Adam Cuerden - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID pga.00380. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. "Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Republican candidate for the presidency, 1860" - Lithograph by Leopold Grozelier, et al, showing the young Abraham Lincoln, before he grew his iconic beard. According to the Library of Congress, "Thomas Hicks painted a portrait of Lincoln at his office in Springfield specifically for this lithograph." This painting is in the collections of the Chicago Historical Society. Permission details Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file must have an additional copyright tag indicating the copyright status in the source country.View more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Lincoln's Selected Writings: 2 of 8: (Norton Critical Editions) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Abraham Lincoln (Author), David S. Reynolds (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Selected-Writings-Critical-Editions-dp-0393921794/dp/0393921794/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=Bancroft Prize–winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings―from his earliest days through his last. Lincoln’s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations.Lincoln’s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln―including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman.“Modern Views” presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincoln’s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton.A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included....more

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• Lincoln's Selected Writings: 3 of 8: (Norton Critical Editions) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Abraham Lincoln (Author), David S. Reynolds (Editor)

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  Photo: April in Springfield. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Lincoln's Selected Writings: 3 of 8: (Norton Critical Editions) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Abraham Lincoln (Author), David S. Reynolds (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Selected-Writings-Critical-Editions-dp-0393921794/dp/0393921794/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=Bancroft Prize–winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings―from his earliest days through his last. Lincoln’s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations.Lincoln’s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln―including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman.“Modern Views” presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincoln’s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton.A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included....more

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• Lincoln's Selected Writings: 4 of 8: (Norton Critical Editions) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Abraham Lincoln (Author), David S. Reynolds (Editor)

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  Photo: FREEPORT ILLINOIS—THE BREWSTER HOUSE, 1860Date | 1858Source | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Lincolndouglas2184linc.djvu/245Author | Abraham Lincoln,Stephen Douglas,Edwin Erle Sparkshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Lincoln's Selected Writings: 4 of 8: (Norton Critical Editions) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Abraham Lincoln (Author), David S. Reynolds (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Selected-Writings-Critical-Editions-dp-0393921794/dp/0393921794/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=Bancroft Prize–winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings―from his earliest days through his last. Lincoln’s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations.Lincoln’s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln―including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman.“Modern Views” presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincoln’s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton.A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included....more

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• Lincoln's Selected Writings: 5 of 8: (Norton Critical Editions) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Abraham Lincoln (Author), David S. Reynolds (Editor)

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  Photo: llinois state business directory : 1860 ...Year: 1860 (1860s)Authors:  Smith & DuMoulin, compSubjects: Publisher:  Chicago (88 Dearborn Street) : J.C.W. Bailey & Co.Contributing Library:  Lincoln Financial Foundation CollectionDigitizing Sponsor:  The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Granthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Lincoln's Selected Writings: 5 of 8: (Norton Critical Editions) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Abraham Lincoln (Author), David S. Reynolds (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Selected-Writings-Critical-Editions-dp-0393921794/dp/0393921794/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=Bancroft Prize–winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings―from his earliest days through his last. Lincoln’s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations.Lincoln’s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln―including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman.“Modern Views” presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincoln’s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton.A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included....more

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• Lincoln's Selected Writings: 6 of 8: (Norton Critical Editions) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Abraham Lincoln (Author), David S. Reynolds (Editor)

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  Photo:  Illinois state business directory : 1860 ...Year: 1860 (1860s)Authors:  Smith & DuMoulin, compSubjects: Publisher:  Chicago (88 Dearborn Street) : J.C.W. Bailey & Co.Contributing Library:  Lincoln Financial Foundation CollectionDigitizing Sponsor:  The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Granthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Lincoln's Selected Writings: 6 of 8: (Norton Critical Editions) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Abraham Lincoln (Author), David S. Reynolds (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Selected-Writings-Critical-Editions-dp-0393921794/dp/0393921794/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=Bancroft Prize–winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings―from his earliest days through his last. Lincoln’s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations.Lincoln’s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln―including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman.“Modern Views” presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincoln’s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton.A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included....more

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• Lincoln's Selected Writings: 7 of 8: (Norton Critical Editions) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Abraham Lincoln (Author), David S. Reynolds (Editor)

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  Photo:  Smith & DuMoulin, comp Subjects:  Publisher:  Chicago (88 Dearborn Street) : J.C.W. Bailey & Co. Contributing Library:  Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection Digitizing Sponsor:  The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Lincoln's Selected Writings: 7 of 8: (Norton Critical Editions) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Abraham Lincoln (Author), David S. Reynolds (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Selected-Writings-Critical-Editions-dp-0393921794/dp/0393921794/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=Bancroft Prize–winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings―from his earliest days through his last. Lincoln’s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations.Lincoln’s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln―including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman.“Modern Views” presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincoln’s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton.A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included....more

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• Lincoln's Selected Writings: 8 of 8: (Norton Critical Editions) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Abraham Lincoln (Author), David S. Reynolds (Editor)

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  Photo: Chicago (88 Dearborn Street) : J.C.W. Bailey & Co. Contributing Library:  Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection Digitizing Sponsor:  The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Lincoln's Selected Writings: 8 of 8: (Norton Critical Editions) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. by Abraham Lincoln (Author), David S. Reynolds (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Selected-Writings-Critical-Editions-dp-0393921794/dp/0393921794/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=Bancroft Prize–winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings―from his earliest days through his last. Lincoln’s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations.Lincoln’s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln―including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman.“Modern Views” presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincoln’s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton.A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included....more

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• The knowns and unknowns of the Russian submarine tragedy. Tyler Rogoway @thewarzone

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  Jul 05 2019

  Photo: BelgorodDate | 7 May 2017, 17:29:48Source | Own workAuthor | Alexxx1979http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe knowns and unknowns of the Russian submarine tragedy. Tyler Rogoway @thewarzonehttps://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28814/new-details-on-russian-submarine-fire-emerge-along-with-an-intriguing-schematic

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• Little public interest in a New Moon Landing, 50 years after. Roger Launius, author. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  Jul 05 2019

  Photo: Aerial View of Missile Row - GPN-2000-000610.jpg (cropped version of this image); Originally uploaded to de.wiki by de:User:W.wolny on 17 November 2004. Cropped from photo KSC-64PC-82.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLittle public interest in a New Moon Landing, 50 years after.  Roger Launius, author. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com Apollo's Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings Hardcover – May 14, 2019 by Roger D. Launius  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Apollos-Legacy-Perspectives-Moon-Landings/dp/1588346498An all-encompassing look at the history and enduring impact of the Apollo space programIn Apollo's Legacy, space historian Roger D. Launius explores the many-faceted stories told about the meaning of the Apollo program and how it forever altered American society. The Apollo missions marked the first time human beings left Earth's orbit and visited another world, and thus they loom large in our collective memory. Many have detailed the exciting events of the Apollo program, but Launius offers unique insight into its legacy as seen through multiple perspectives. He surveys a wide range of viewpoints and narratives, both positive and negative, surrounding the program. These include the argument that Apollo epitomizes American technological--and political--progress; technological and scientific advances garnered from the program; critiques from both sides of the political spectrum about the program's expenses; and even conspiracy theories and denials of the program's very existence. Throughout the book, Launius weaves in stories from important moments in Apollo's history to draw readers into his analysis. Apollo's Legacy is a must-read for space buffs interested in new angles on a beloved cultural moment and those seeking a historic perspective on the Apollo program....more

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• New American Civil War: 1 of 2: Attacking Betsy Ross and E Pluribus Unum Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Jul 04 2019

  Photo: A depiction of the siege of Yorktown. Published in 1862.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNew American Civil War: 1 of 2: Attacking Betsy Ross and E Pluribus Unum Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisishttps://www.wsj.com/articles/arizona-governor-pulls-state-aid-for-nike-plant-over-betsy-ross-colin-kaepernick-controversy-11562072719?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1&mod=article_inline.

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• New American Civil War: 2 of 2: Attacking Betsy Ross and E Pluribus Unum Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Jul 04 2019

  Photo: This painting depicts the forces of British Major General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805) (who was not himself present at the surrender), surrendering to French and American forces after the Siege of Yorktown (September 28 – October 19, 1781) during the American Revolutionary War. The central figures depicted are Generals Charles O'Hara and Benjamin Lincoln. The United States government commissioned Trumbull to paint patriotic paintings, including this piece, for them in 1817, paying for the piece in 1820.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNew American Civil War: 2 of 2: Attacking Betsy Ross and E Pluribus Unum Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisishttps://www.wsj.com/articles/arizona-governor-pulls-state-aid-for-nike-plant-over-betsy-ross-colin-kaepernick-controversy-11562072719?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1&mod=article_inline. ...more

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• Plan B in Hong Kong. Andrew Collier, Orient Capital Research. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jul 04 2019

  Photo: Shanghai Shanghai Shi; China Subject (unesco): Transport; Urban areas Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPlan B in Hong Kong. Andrew Collier, Orient Capital Research. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast 

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• The peaceful, protected, prosperous Hong Kong is gone. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania

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  Jul 04 2019

  Photo: Shanghai boats Whangpoo River, above Shanghai. In the far distance may be seen a steamer."; Captions for this set of lantern slides from the papers of Oliver and Jennie Logan, American Presbyterian missionaries in Hunan, were provided by their daughter Elsa. Subject (aat): general views Photographer: Unidentified Filename: IMP-YDS-RG008-358-0008-0035 Geographic subject: Shanghai Shi; China Subject (unesco): Inland water transport; Rivers Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe peaceful, protected, prosperous Hong Kong is gone. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania...more

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• Huawei software is designed for piracy. @BillGertz @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jul 04 2019

  Photo:  Officials_of_the_Old_City_of_ShanghaiDate | circa 1880 Source | Photograph circa 1880, photogrpahed by me in 2009 at Dajing GeAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHuawei software is designed for piracy. @BillGertz @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/26/chinas-back-doors-in-huawei-devices/

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• North Korea, Iran and China work closely together mil-to-mil. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jul 04 2019

  Photo: Date Hong Kong | circa 1880 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNorth Korea, Iran and China work closely together mil-to-mil. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast 

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• NASA Insight fail & What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 04 2019

  Photo: Numa Desjardins (1826–?)Beskrywing | Champ de Mars, Port Louis 1880. Signiert. Datiert (18) 80. Öl auf Leinwand, 60 x 98 cmDatum | 1880Bron/Fotograaf | http://www.duesseldorfer-auktionshaus.de/ (2011/1)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNASA Insight fail & What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/insight-engineers-get-first-look-at-hole/

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• India chooses Roscosmos to train its astronauts. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 04 2019

  Photo: THE VICTORIA STATION AT BOMBAY. (From Indian Engineering.) The accompanying illustration shows the new VictoriaTerminal Station of the Great Indian Peninsula Railwayat Bombay, which is one of the finest railroad stations inthe world. It is the largest modern architectural work yet erectedin India, and is believed to be the most extensive of itskind in existence. The execution of this work extendedover a period of 10 years, and was completed in May last.The cost of the svhole scheme amounted to about 27 lakhsof rupees ($964,000). The total length of the fa(;ade fac-ing.Hornby Row is over 1,500 ft. The author of the de-sign is Mr. F. W. Stevens, late of the Public Works De-partment, who also supervised the construction of the build-ings from the commencement to the end. The site onwhich the buildings are erected faces that on which thenew Municipal Buildings are to be built, also from thedesigns and under the supervision of Mr. Stevens. Vol. LXIII, No. 8.) ENGINEERING JOURNAL. 3651887 (1880s)Authors: Subjects:  Railroad engineering Engineering RailroadsPublisher:  New York : M.N. ForneyContributing Library:  Carnegie Library of PittsburghDigitizing Sponsor:  Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundationhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIndia chooses Roscosmos to train its astronauts. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/india-hires-russia-to-train-its-astronauts/ ...more

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• After the Global Hawk fail, the DoD plans for drone surveillance. @DefTechPat @DefenseOne

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  Jul 04 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAfter the Global Hawk fail, the DoD plans for drone surveillance. @DefTechPat @DefenseOne https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/06/how-pentagon-nickel-and-dimed-its-way-losing-drone/157912/

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• The New Jerusalem and the Hebrew Bible, 1776. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion

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  Jul 04 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe New Jerusalem and the Hebrew Bible, 1776. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-kosher-fourth-of-july-11562020803?emailToken=fd4937b0297acc110bfd19a60a41b3a7gr6MGMk1C+dcgOAj2UpJft2ESrvKFaGhocBrcA1pWe0C0Wb0dVBioDrzqhsoae0DkGptno09VnK23lgAsEDrMw%3D%3D&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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• Billionaires giving all their money to Washington would guarantee hard times in America. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets

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  Jul 03 2019

  Photo: American homes and gardens Identifier: americanhomesgar51908newy Year: 1905 (1900s) Authors:  Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening Publisher: New York : Munn and Co Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBillionaires giving all their money to Washington would guarantee hard times in America. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarketshttps://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2019/07/02/a_tax_on_eli_broad_is_a_tax_on_every_american_103805.html ...more

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• Let Joe Biden be Joe Biden as in Let Ronald Reagan be Ronald Reagan. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Jul 03 2019

  Photo: "Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!" – Dorothea Lange's 1937 photo of a Missouri migrant family's jalopy stuck near Tracy, California.[32] Dorothea Lange - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID fsa.8b38633. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Tracy (vicinity), California. Missouri family of five who are seven months from the drought area on U.S. Highway 99. "Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!" (LOC description) N.B. The sign just visible in front of the truck confirms the other version on the LoC site is correct, not the mirror image version seen in the original scan this is based on. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLet Joe Biden be Joe Biden as if Let Rnal Reagan be Ronald Reagan. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst https://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2019/06/29/a-suggestion-for-the-next-time-he-debates-let-biden-be-biden--whatever-that-means/#20f83a40e5d2...more

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• Gavin Newsome for President, 2024. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Jul 03 2019

  Photo:  Enjoying an outing in California.Date | 1930s Source | family archiveAuthor | Anonymoushttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGavin Newsome for President, 2024. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/newsom-recall-lets-first-recall-how-it-happened-gray-davis

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• #TheScalaReport: China elbows out French retailer Carrefour and what this means for the future of retail in China. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE ⁦@ScalaInc⁩

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  Jul 03 2019

  Photo: Marshall Field & Co. Retail Store, ChicagoSubjects: Commercial facilitiesPlaces: Illinois > Cook (county) > ChicagoNotes: Title from item.Extent: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.Accession #: 06_10_013400Date | between circa 1930 and circa 1945 Source | Boston Public Library Tichnor Brothers collection #60793Author | Tichnor Brothers, Publisherhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: China elbows out French retailer Carrefour and what this means for the future of retail in China. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE ⁦@ScalaInc⁩https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/24/carrefour-china-suning-alibaba-tencent/ ...more

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• Looking to conversations with Mifsud and Steele. @DevinNunes

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  Jul 03 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLooking to conversations with Mifsud and Steele. @DevinNunes

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• The Trump Administration aims to force the Tehran regime to quit its nuclear weapons program. @DevinNunes The Devin Nunes Podcast on Itunes.

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  Jul 03 2019

  Photo: A young Mohammad Reza with Abdolhossein Teymourtash at Institut Le Rosey in Lausanne, Switzerland JoshJosh - Iran 1932, Royal Court Archives Public Domain Crown Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Minister Teymourtash Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Trump Administration aims to force the Tehran regime to quit its nuclear weapons program. @DevinNunes  The Devin Nunes Podcast on Itunes.

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• The Democrats debate Left of the Left, including free healthcare for Central America. @LizPeek

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  Jul 03 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Democrats debate Left of the Left, including free healthcare for Central America. @LizPeek

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• Looking for the scary recession everywhere but in the shops and markets. @LizPeek @TheHill

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  Jul 03 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLooking for the scary recession everywhere but in the shops and markets. @LizPeek @TheHill

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• Navy Aviators repeatedly spot UFOs in the Gulf of Mexico. Tyler Rogoway @thewarzone

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  Jul 03 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNavy Aviators repeatedly spot UFOs in the Gulf of Mexico. Tyler Rogoway @thewarzonehttps://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28640/could-some-of-the-ufos-navy-pilots-are-encountering-be-airborne-radar-reflectors

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• Shooting a Global Hawk in the barrel of the Gulf of Oman. @thewarzone Tyler Rogoway

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  Jul 03 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowShooting a Global Hawk in the barrel of the Gulf of Oman. @thewarzone Tyler Rogowayhttps://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28613/everything-we-know-about-irans-claim-that-it-shot-down-a-u-s-rq-4-global-hawk-drone

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• Regime Change Magazine: Iran Special Edition. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Jul 03 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRegime Change Magazine: Iran Special Edition. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/for-regime-change-in-iran/

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• Where in the world is Joseph Mifsud? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Jul 03 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhere in the world is Joseph Mifsud? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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• "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Jerusalem Road from the Shiloah Pool to the Second Temple Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  Jul 02 2019

  Photo: The Shiloah Poolעברית: בריכת השילוח ,Original Image Name: בריכת השילוח ,Location: ירושליםDate | משנת 1920 עד שנת 1925Source | The Israel Internet Association via the PikiWiki - Israel free image collection projectAuthor | Ludwig Preisshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Jerusalem Road from the Shiloah Pool to the Second Temple Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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• Suicide drones attack Russians in Syria -- who jam the GPS throughout the region, including Israel. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  Jul 02 2019

  Photo: The Holy Land and Syria Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors:  Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924 Subjects:  Palestine -- Description and travel Syria -- Description and travel Publisher:  Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page & company Contributing Library:  University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor:  MSN    View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSuicide drones attack Russians in Syria -- who jam the GPS throughout the region, including Israel. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter...more

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• Afghanistan broken in pieces can't be put together again. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @FDD

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  Jul 02 2019

  Photo: 9th Lancers on the march to Kandahar, water-colour by Orlando Norie. The troops would march in the early morning to avoid the full heat of the sun, halting a few minutes every hour. In this way, the column managed to cover up to 20 miles a day. Richard Caton Woodville, Jr. - General Robert’s March to Kandahar and the Battle of Baba Wali 9th Lancers on the Line of March from Kabul to Kandahar, by Caton Woodville (1856–1927) Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAfghanistan broken in pieces can't be put together again. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @FDDhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/07/taliban-launches-string-of-attacks-throughout-afghanistan.php ...more

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• Serial ISIS recruiting videos tributes to al-Baghdadi & What is to be done? @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn

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  Jul 02 2019

  Photo: The Buccaneer was a Picturesque Fellow: illustration of a pirate, dressed to the nines in piracy attire. The oil painting, which the illustration was of, was sold in 1905 under the title The Buccaneer, and is currently part of the Delaware Art Museum's collection.[1]Date | 1905Source | Pyle, Howard; Johnson, Merle De Vore (ed) (1921) "Captain Scarfield" in  Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main, New York, United States, and London, United Kingdom: Harper and Brothers, pp. Plate facing p. 196 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSerial ISIS recruiting videos tributes to al-Baghdadi & What is to be done? @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelynhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/06/fighters-throughout-the-khorasan-renew-allegiance-to-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi.php ...more

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• Joe Biden leads all Democrats in the presidential nomination polling & What is to be done? @ThadMcCotter

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  Jul 02 2019

  Photo: Wood engraving illustrating the Charleston conventionUnspecified - https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/00652812/ Wood engraving of the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Charleston "The Democratic convention at Charleston, South Carolina - Interior of the hall of the South Carolina Institute in Meeting Street the [...]" Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowJoe Biden leads all Democrats in the presidential nomination polling & What is to be done? @ThadMcCotter...more

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• Hong Kong, North Korea, Osaka: fog of war. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  Jul 02 2019

  Photo: Queen's Road Central, Duddell Street on the left, c1900Date | 1900Source | Hong Kong Library MMISAuthor | The original uploader was Ohconfucius at English Wikipedia.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHong Kong, North Korea, Osaka: fog of war. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast  @ThadMcCotter

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• How does Europe respond to Tehran breaking the JCPOA?

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  Jul 02 2019

  Photo: Public Domain. Suggested credit: Library of Congress via pingnews. Additional information from source: [Nova et accuratissima totius terrarum orbis tabula]. Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673.   CREATED/PUBLISHED[Amsterdam : J. Blaeu, 1664?] NOTESRelief shown pictorially.  Includes col. ill. in margins.  Scale [ca. 1:8,500,000]. At equator (W 1800--E 1800/N 900--S 900). http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShowHow does Europe respond to Tehran breaking the JCPOA? Michael Doran @Doranimated ●     https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/politics-current-affairs/2019/06/what-iran-is-really-up-to/ ●     https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/27/trump-iran-nuclear-deal-1385122 ●     https://www.jns.org/calls-grow-to-end-waivers-allowing-iran-to-conduct-civil-nuclear-activities/ ●     https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5537037,00.html ...more

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• Can the EV survive without Federal subsidies? Bernard L. Weinstein; Maguire Energy Institute; Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.

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  Jul 02 2019

  Photo: Fifth Avenue, New York 1900Date | 21 January 2013, 05:41:56Source | http://www.pinterest.com/pin/399905641881859169/Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCan the EV survive without Federal subsidies? Bernard L. Weinstein;  Maguire Energy Institute; Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University.https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/450357-its-time-to-end-subsidies-and-put-electric-vehicles-to-the-market ...more

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• Knocking on Heaven's Door: 1 of 2: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Lisa Randall (Author), Carrington MacDuffie (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 02 2019

  Photo: Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the universe. Some of these galaxies formed just 600 million years after the big bang and are fainter than any other galaxy yet uncovered by Hubble. The team has determined for the first time with some confidence that these small galaxies were vital to creating the universe that we see today. An international team of astronomers, led by Hakim Atek of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, has discovered over 250 tiny galaxies that existed only 600-900 million years after the big bang— one of the largest samples of dwarf galaxies yet to be discovered at these epochs. The light from these galaxies took over 12 billion years to reach the telescope, allowing the astronomers to look back in time when the universe was still very young. Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/hubble-spies-big-bang-frontiers Credit: NASA/ESA http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Knocking on Heaven's Door: 1 of 2: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Lisa Randall (Author), Carrington MacDuffie (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Knocking-Heavens-Door-Scientific-Illuminate-dp-B005PTOMC8/dp/B005PTOMC8/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup, its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its operation. Knocking on Heaven's Door is an exhilarating and accessible overview of these developments and an impassioned argument for the significance of science.  There could be no better guide than Lisa Randall. The bestselling author of Warped Passages is an expert in both particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the study of the largest). In Knocking on Heaven's Door, she explores how we decide which scientific questions to study and how we go about answering them. She examines the role of risk, creativity, uncertainty, beauty, and truth in scientific thinking through provocative conversations with leading figures in other fields (such as the chef David Chang, the forecaster Nate Silver, and the screenwriter Scott Derrickson), and she explains with wit and clarity the latest ideas in physics and cosmology. Randall describes the nature and goals of the largest machine ever built: the Large Hadron Collider, the enormous particle accelerator below the border of France and Switzerland - as well as recent ideas underlying cosmology and current dark matter experiments.  The most sweeping and exciting science book in years, Knocking on Heaven's Door makes clear the biggest scientific questions we face and reveals how answering them could ultimately tell us who we are and where we came from....more

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• Knocking on Heaven's Door: 2 of 2: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Lisa Randall (Author), Carrington MacDuffie (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 02 2019

  Photo: Visiting the Cosmos pavilion at the VDNKh exhibition. With Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin (left), Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and Roscosmos Head Igor Komarov (right).http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Knocking on Heaven's Door: 2 of 2: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Lisa Randall (Author), Carrington MacDuffie (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Knocking-Heavens-Door-Scientific-Illuminate-dp-B005PTOMC8/dp/B005PTOMC8/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup, its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its operation. Knocking on Heaven's Door is an exhilarating and accessible overview of these developments and an impassioned argument for the significance of science.  There could be no better guide than Lisa Randall. The bestselling author of Warped Passages is an expert in both particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the study of the largest). In Knocking on Heaven's Door, she explores how we decide which scientific questions to study and how we go about answering them. She examines the role of risk, creativity, uncertainty, beauty, and truth in scientific thinking through provocative conversations with leading figures in other fields (such as the chef David Chang, the forecaster Nate Silver, and the screenwriter Scott Derrickson), and she explains with wit and clarity the latest ideas in physics and cosmology. Randall describes the nature and goals of the largest machine ever built: the Large Hadron Collider, the enormous particle accelerator below the border of France and Switzerland - as well as recent ideas underlying cosmology and current dark matter experiments.  The most sweeping and exciting science book in years, Knocking on Heaven's Door makes clear the biggest scientific questions we face and reveals how answering them could ultimately tell us who we are and where we came from....more

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• Engines of Change: 1 of 2: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Paul Ingrassia (Author), Sean Runnette (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 02 2019

  Photo: Lincoln Motor Company Plant, Detroit, Michigan, 1977.  NPS Photo / American Association for State and Local History http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Engines of Change: 1 of 2: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Paul Ingrassia (Author), Sean Runnette (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Engines-Change-History-American-Fifteen/dp/B007Z960R6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=America was made manifest by its cars. From the assembly lines of Henry Ford to the open roads of Route 66 and Jack Kerouac, America's history is a vehicular history-an idea brought brilliantly to life in this major work by the acclaimed author of Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster. One of the nation's most eloquent and impassioned car nuts, Paul Ingrassia offers a wondrous epic in fifteen automobiles, including the VW Beetle, the Chevy Corvair, Robert McNamara and Lee Iacocca's Mustang, the Pontiac GTO, Honda's Accord, the BMW 3 Series, and the Jeep, among others. Through them, the author shows us much more than the car's ability to exhibit the particularly American tension between the lure of freedom and the obligations of utility; he takes us through the rise of American manufacturing, the suburbanization of the country, the birth of the Hippy and the Yuppy, the emancipation of women, and so much more, including the car's unintended consequences: trial lawyers, energy crises, and pollution. Narrative history of the highest caliber, Engines of Change is an entirely edifying new way to look at the American story....more

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• Engines of Change: 2 of 2: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Paul Ingrassia (Author), Sean Runnette (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 02 2019

  Photo: Lincoln Motor Company Plant, southeast view of Building D rubble, Detroit, Michigan, March 2003.  NPS Photo / Susan Vincent, National Historic Landmarks Program http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Engines of Change: 2 of 2: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Paul Ingrassia (Author), Sean Runnette (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Engines-Change-History-American-Fifteen/dp/B007Z960R6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=America was made manifest by its cars. From the assembly lines of Henry Ford to the open roads of Route 66 and Jack Kerouac, America's history is a vehicular history-an idea brought brilliantly to life in this major work by the acclaimed author of Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster. One of the nation's most eloquent and impassioned car nuts, Paul Ingrassia offers a wondrous epic in fifteen automobiles, including the VW Beetle, the Chevy Corvair, Robert McNamara and Lee Iacocca's Mustang, the Pontiac GTO, Honda's Accord, the BMW 3 Series, and the Jeep, among others. Through them, the author shows us much more than the car's ability to exhibit the particularly American tension between the lure of freedom and the obligations of utility; he takes us through the rise of American manufacturing, the suburbanization of the country, the birth of the Hippy and the Yuppy, the emancipation of women, and so much more, including the car's unintended consequences: trial lawyers, energy crises, and pollution. Narrative history of the highest caliber, Engines of Change is an entirely edifying new way to look at the American story....more

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• Island on Fire: 1 of 4: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Alexandra Witze (Author), Jeff Kanipe (Author), John Lescault (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jul 01 2019

  Photo: An entertainment in Vauxhall Gardens in circa 1783 by Thomas Rowlandson. The two women in the centre are Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and her sister Lady Duncannon. The man seated at the table on the left is Samuel Johnson. Thomas Rowlandson - UnknownPublic Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Island on Fire: 1 of 4: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Alexandra Witze (Author), Jeff Kanipe (Author), John Lescault (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Island-Fire-Extraordinary-Forgotten-Volcano/dp/B07QZZS52V/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=island+of+fire&qid=1561948577&s=audible&sr=1-3Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, and even perhaps revolution.  Laki is Iceland's largest volcano - and its most fearsome. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history's great untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe. Island on Fire is the story not only of a single eruption but the people whose lives it changed, the dawn of modern volcanology, as well as the history - and potential - of other super-volcanoes like Laki around the world. And perhaps most pertinently, in the wake of the eruption of another Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, which closed European air space in 2010, acclaimed science writers Witze and Kanipe look at what might transpire should Laki erupt again in our lifetime....more

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• Island on Fire: 2 of 4: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Alexandra Witze (Author), Jeff Kanipe (Author), John Lescault (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jul 01 2019

  Photo: "St George's Hanover Square," aquatint, by T. Malton. Dated 1787. Courtesy of the British Library, London.T. Malton - British Library [1] Public Domain File:St George's Hanover Square by T Malton. 1787.jpg Created: 31 December 1786 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Island on Fire:  2of 4: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Alexandra Witze (Author), Jeff Kanipe (Author), John Lescault (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Island-Fire-Extraordinary-Forgotten-Volcano/dp/B07QZZS52V/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=island+of+fire&qid=1561948577&s=audible&sr=1-3Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, and even perhaps revolution.  Laki is Iceland's largest volcano - and its most fearsome. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history's great untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe. Island on Fire is the story not only of a single eruption but the people whose lives it changed, the dawn of modern volcanology, as well as the history - and potential - of other super-volcanoes like Laki around the world. And perhaps most pertinently, in the wake of the eruption of another Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, which closed European air space in 2010, acclaimed science writers Witze and Kanipe look at what might transpire should Laki erupt again in our lifetime....more

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• Island on Fire: 3 of 4: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Alexandra Witze (Author), Jeff Kanipe (Author), John Lescault (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jul 01 2019

  Photo: The Gordon Riots by John Seymour Lucas John Seymour Lucas - artgallery.nsw.gov.au Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Island on Fire: 3 of 4: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Alexandra Witze (Author), Jeff Kanipe (Author), John Lescault (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Island-Fire-Extraordinary-Forgotten-Volcano/dp/B07QZZS52V/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=island+of+fire&qid=1561948577&s=audible&sr=1-3Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, and even perhaps revolution.  Laki is Iceland's largest volcano - and its most fearsome. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history's great untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe. Island on Fire is the story not only of a single eruption but the people whose lives it changed, the dawn of modern volcanology, as well as the history - and potential - of other super-volcanoes like Laki around the world. And perhaps most pertinently, in the wake of the eruption of another Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, which closed European air space in 2010, acclaimed science writers Witze and Kanipe look at what might transpire should Laki erupt again in our lifetime....more

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• Island on Fire: 4 of 4: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Alexandra Witze (Author), Jeff Kanipe (Author), John Lescault (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jul 01 2019

  Photo: Custom House, Long RoomDate | 1808Source | Pyne, William Henry; Combe, William (1904) [1808] "The Customhouse, from the Thames" in  The Microcosm of London or London in Miniature, Volume I, London: Methuen and Company, pp. Plate 29 Retrieved on 13 July 2011. Author | Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827) and Augustus Charles Pugin (1762–1832) (after) John Bluck (fl. 1791–1819), Joseph Constantine Stadler (fl. 1780–1812), Thomas Sutherland (1785–1838), J. Hill, and Harraden (aquatint engravers)[1]http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Island on Fire: 4 of 4: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Alexandra Witze (Author), Jeff Kanipe (Author), John Lescault (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Island-Fire-Extraordinary-Forgotten-Volcano/dp/B07QZZS52V/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=island+of+fire&qid=1561948577&s=audible&sr=1-3Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, and even perhaps revolution.  Laki is Iceland's largest volcano - and its most fearsome. Its eruption in 1783 is one of history's great untold natural disasters. Spewing out sun-blocking ash and then a poisonous fog for eight long months, the effects of the eruption lingered across the world for years. It caused the deaths of people as far away as the Nile and created catastrophic conditions throughout Europe. Island on Fire is the story not only of a single eruption but the people whose lives it changed, the dawn of modern volcanology, as well as the history - and potential - of other super-volcanoes like Laki around the world. And perhaps most pertinently, in the wake of the eruption of another Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajokull, which closed European air space in 2010, acclaimed science writers Witze and Kanipe look at what might transpire should Laki erupt again in our lifetime....more

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• Edgar Allan Poe: 1 of 4: The Fever Called Living Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Paul Collins (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), Brilliance Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 01 2019

  Photo: This hand colored map of New York City is a lithograph engraving, dating to 1850 by the American mapmaker S.A. Mitchell Sr. The map epicts the island of Manhattan from 37th street (Kips Bay) south to Battery Park and Brooklyn from Williamsburg to Columbia St. The whole is shown in magnificent detail with many important buildings, ranging from the Brooklyn Naval Yard to important hotels and churches, depicted and labeled. One of the most visually appealing maps of New York City to emerge from the workshops of a mid-19th century American cartographer.Date | 1850 (undated)Dimensions | Height: 15.7 ″ (40 cm); Width: 12.5 ″ (31.7 cm) Accession number | Geographicus link:  NewYorkCity-mitchell-1850Source/Photographer | Mitchell Shttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Edgar Allan Poe: 1 of 4: The Fever Called Living  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Paul Collins (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), Brilliance Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe-Called-Living/dp/B00MFS6MLG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Collins+Poe&qid=1561947652&s=audible&sr=1-1A view into the tumultuous and creative life of Edgar Allan Poe.  Today the name Edgar Allan Poe invokes a tragic genius whose mastery of horror seems inexorably tied to his tormented life. But in his own time, Poe was above all a craftsman-an editor and reviewer desperately trying to earn a living by transmuting the wild ephemera of early Victorianism into innovations in science fiction, horror, and detective literature. Indeed, the crime thriller would not exist without Poe's sleuth Dupin, the deductive genius of "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter."  With brilliant scholarship and storytelling verve, Paul Collins delves into Poe's life and his professional world, from his stormy relationship with his rich adoptive father and interest in cryptograms to hits such as "The Raven" and flops like Eureka, his late-career crank literature outing. Edgar Allan Poe is an informative and supremely entertaining account of one of the most singular talents in American letters....more

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• Edgar Allan Poe: 2 of 4: The Fever Called Living Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Paul Collins (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), Brilliance Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 01 2019

  Photo: Metropolitan Hotel, New York City.Alternate Title: American views ; New York City.Date | Coverage: 1859?-1896.Digital item published 9-30-2005; updated 2-11-2009.Medium | albumen printhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Edgar Allan Poe: 2 of 4: The Fever Called Living  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Paul Collins (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), Brilliance Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe-Called-Living/dp/B00MFS6MLG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Collins+Poe&qid=1561947652&s=audible&sr=1-1A view into the tumultuous and creative life of Edgar Allan Poe.  Today the name Edgar Allan Poe invokes a tragic genius whose mastery of horror seems inexorably tied to his tormented life. But in his own time, Poe was above all a craftsman-an editor and reviewer desperately trying to earn a living by transmuting the wild ephemera of early Victorianism into innovations in science fiction, horror, and detective literature. Indeed, the crime thriller would not exist without Poe's sleuth Dupin, the deductive genius of "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter."  With brilliant scholarship and storytelling verve, Paul Collins delves into Poe's life and his professional world, from his stormy relationship with his rich adoptive father and interest in cryptograms to hits such as "The Raven" and flops like Eureka, his late-career crank literature outing. Edgar Allan Poe is an informative and supremely entertaining account of one of the most singular talents in American letters....more

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• Edgar Allan Poe: 3 of 4: The Fever Called Living Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Paul Collins (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), Brilliance Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 01 2019

  Photo: Wall Street in 1850. Uploaded 24 March 2010Author | UnknownPermission(Reusing this file) |   | This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Edgar Allan Poe: 3 of 4: The Fever Called Living  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Paul Collins (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), Brilliance Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe-Called-Living/dp/B00MFS6MLG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Collins+Poe&qid=1561947652&s=audible&sr=1-1A view into the tumultuous and creative life of Edgar Allan Poe.  Today the name Edgar Allan Poe invokes a tragic genius whose mastery of horror seems inexorably tied to his tormented life. But in his own time, Poe was above all a craftsman-an editor and reviewer desperately trying to earn a living by transmuting the wild ephemera of early Victorianism into innovations in science fiction, horror, and detective literature. Indeed, the crime thriller would not exist without Poe's sleuth Dupin, the deductive genius of "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter."  With brilliant scholarship and storytelling verve, Paul Collins delves into Poe's life and his professional world, from his stormy relationship with his rich adoptive father and interest in cryptograms to hits such as "The Raven" and flops like Eureka, his late-career crank literature outing. Edgar Allan Poe is an informative and supremely entertaining account of one of the most singular talents in American letters....more

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• Edgar Allan Poe: 4 of 4: The Fever Called Living Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Paul Collins (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), Brilliance Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 01 2019

  Photo: New York in 1850.Date | 1850Source | http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/essay/essay_burlingame_honestabe.htmlhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Edgar Allan Poe: 4 of 4: The Fever Called Living  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Paul Collins (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), Brilliance Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe-Called-Living/dp/B00MFS6MLG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Collins+Poe&qid=1561947652&s=audible&sr=1-1A view into the tumultuous and creative life of Edgar Allan Poe.  Today the name Edgar Allan Poe invokes a tragic genius whose mastery of horror seems inexorably tied to his tormented life. But in his own time, Poe was above all a craftsman-an editor and reviewer desperately trying to earn a living by transmuting the wild ephemera of early Victorianism into innovations in science fiction, horror, and detective literature. Indeed, the crime thriller would not exist without Poe's sleuth Dupin, the deductive genius of "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter."  With brilliant scholarship and storytelling verve, Paul Collins delves into Poe's life and his professional world, from his stormy relationship with his rich adoptive father and interest in cryptograms to hits such as "The Raven" and flops like Eureka, his late-career crank literature outing. Edgar Allan Poe is an informative and supremely entertaining account of one of the most singular talents in American letters. ...more

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• Keynes Hayek:1 of 2: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Nicholas Wapshott (Author), Gildart Jackson (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 01 2019

  Photo:  The book of the Cheese, being traits and stories of "Ye olde Cheshire Cheese", Wine office court, Fleet street, LondonYear: 1920 (1920s)Authors:  Reid, Thomas WilsonSubjects:  Cheshire Cheese (Inn)Publisher:  London : "Ye olde Cheshire Cheese"Contributing Library:  University of California LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Keynes Hayek:1 of 2:  The Clash That Defined Modern Economics  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Nicholas Wapshott (Author), Gildart Jackson (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Keynes-Hayek-Defined-Modern-Economics/dp/B0061HRVS0/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore the balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Friedrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous. The battle lines thus drawn, Keynesian economics would dominate for decades and coincide with an era of unprecedented prosperity, but conservative economists and political leaders would eventually embrace and execute Hayek's contrary vision.  From their first face-to-face encounter to the heated arguments between their ardent disciples, Nicholas Wapshott here unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes and Hayek, as present-day arguments over the virtues of the free market and government intervention rage with the same ferocity as they did in the 1930s....more

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• Keynes Hayek:2 of 2: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Nicholas Wapshott (Author), Gildart Jackson (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 01 2019

  Photo: hotograph of the unveiling of the Whitehall Cenotaph, 1920Date | 1920Source | The Graphic, 20 November 1920Author | Horace Nicholls (1867–1941)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Keynes Hayek:2 of 2:  The Clash That Defined Modern Economics  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Nicholas Wapshott (Author), Gildart Jackson (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Keynes-Hayek-Defined-Modern-Economics/dp/B0061HRVS0/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore the balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Friedrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous. The battle lines thus drawn, Keynesian economics would dominate for decades and coincide with an era of unprecedented prosperity, but conservative economists and political leaders would eventually embrace and execute Hayek's contrary vision.  From their first face-to-face encounter to the heated arguments between their ardent disciples, Nicholas Wapshott here unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes and Hayek, as present-day arguments over the virtues of the free market and government intervention rage with the same ferocity as they did in the 1930s....more

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• A Thousand Hills to Heaven: 1 of 2: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Josh Ruxin (Author), Will Collyer (Narrator), Hachette Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 30 2019

  Photo: Cattle of Rwanda, circa 1942Unknown - http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/Belgium/Congo/ - Belgian Congo at War, published in New York (1942) Prime cattle in the Ruanda League of Nations mandate Public Domain File:Cattle of the Ruanda.jpg Created: 31 December 1941 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow A Thousand Hills to Heaven: 1 of 2:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Josh Ruxin (Author), Will Collyer (Narrator), Hachette Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/A-Thousand-Hills-to-Heaven/dp/B00HTRAI4U/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=One couple's inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven.  Newlyweds Josh and Alissa were at a party and received a challenge that shook them to the core: Do you think you can really make a difference? Especially in a place like Rwanda, where the scars of genocide linger and poverty is rampant?  While Josh worked hard bringing food and health care to the country's rural villages, Alissa was determined to put their foodie expertise to work. The couple opened Heaven, a gourmet restaurant overlooking Kigali, which became an instant success. Remarkably, they found that between helping youth marry their own local ingredients with gourmet recipes (and mix up "the best guacamole in Africa") and teaching them how to help themselves, they created much-needed jobs while showing that genocide's survivors really could work together.  While first a memoir of love, adventure, and family, A Thousand Hills to Heaven also provides a remarkable view of how, through health, jobs, and economic growth, our foreign aid programs can be quickly remodeled and work to end poverty worldwide....more

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• A Thousand Hills to Heaven: 2 of 2: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Josh Ruxin (Author), Will Collyer (Narrator), Hachette Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 30 2019

  Photo: A Rwandan refugee camp in Zaire, 1994.CDC - https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ierh/Gallery/Zaire%201Lg.jpg Note: As of June 2011, the original URL above is no longer valid, but image was archived on 2009-01-16 by the Internet Archive and remains available at https://web.archive.org/web/20090116193006/http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ierh/Gallery/Zaire%201Lg.jpg. Refugee camp for Rwandans in Kimbumba, eastern Zaire (current Democratic Republic of the Congo), following the Rwandan genocide. Public Domain File:Rwandan refugee camp in east Zaire.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow A Thousand Hills to Heaven: 2 of 2:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Josh Ruxin (Author), Will Collyer (Narrator), Hachette Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/A-Thousand-Hills-to-Heaven/dp/B00HTRAI4U/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=One couple's inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven.  Newlyweds Josh and Alissa were at a party and received a challenge that shook them to the core: Do you think you can really make a difference? Especially in a place like Rwanda, where the scars of genocide linger and poverty is rampant?  While Josh worked hard bringing food and health care to the country's rural villages, Alissa was determined to put their foodie expertise to work. The couple opened Heaven, a gourmet restaurant overlooking Kigali, which became an instant success. Remarkably, they found that between helping youth marry their own local ingredients with gourmet recipes (and mix up "the best guacamole in Africa") and teaching them how to help themselves, they created much-needed jobs while showing that genocide's survivors really could work together.  While first a memoir of love, adventure, and family, A Thousand Hills to Heaven also provides a remarkable view of how, through health, jobs, and economic growth, our foreign aid programs can be quickly remodeled and work to end poverty worldwide....more

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• Mold in space is a major problem for planetary probes. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 30 2019

  Photo  Mission: Cassini-Huygens Target: Titan Spacecraft: Cassini Orbiter Instrument: Radar Mapper Views: 12,717 Full-Res TIFF: PIA17655.tif Full-Res JPG: PIA17655.jpg Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/USGS http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMold in space is a major problem for planetary probes.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/mold-in-space-can-tolerate-very-high-doses-of-radiation/ ...more

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• ESA competes with commercial space by imitating commercial space. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 30 2019

  Photo: The American navy in EuropeYear: 1920 (1920s)Authors:  Leighton, John Langdon. (from old catalog)Subjects:  United States. Navy World War, 1914-1918Publisher:  New York, H. Holt and companyContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundationhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowESA competes with commercial space by imitating commercial space. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/europe-finally-admits-it-must-build-reusable-rockets/ ...more

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• The New American Civil War: 1 of 2: Armed threats in Oregon, dumbfounding denunciations in New York. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Jun 30 2019

  Photo: Main Street, Gaston, Oregon.Original Collection: Gerald W. Williams Collection, 1855-2007Item Number: WilliamsG: WVgastonstreetYou can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here. Want more? You can find more digital resources online. We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons; however, certain restrictions on high quality reproductions of the original physical version may apply. To read more about what “no known restrictions” means, please visit the Special Collections & Archives website, or contact staff at the OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center for details.Date | 1910http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe New American Civil War: 1 of 2: Armed threats in Oregon, dumbfounding denunciations in New York. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisishttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/us/oregon-climate-fight.htmlOregon, like the rest of the nation, has long been divided along urban and rural lines. But those divisions have deepened significantly in recent decades. Portland and other metropolitan areas have expanded and their residents have become increasingly Democratic, while Oregon’s rural areas have struggled to retain residents and have become more Republican....more

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• The New American Civil War: 2 of 2: Armed threats in Oregon, dumbfounding denunciations in New York. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Jun 30 2019

  Photo: Main Street, Oregon City, 1910 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe New American Civil War: 2 of 2: Armed threats in Oregon, dumbfounding denunciations in New York. Michael Vlahos Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisishttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/us/oregon-climate-fight.htmlOregon, like the rest of the nation, has long been divided along urban and rural lines. But those divisions have deepened significantly in recent decades. Portland and other metropolitan areas have expanded and their residents have become increasingly Democratic, while Oregon’s rural areas have struggled to retain residents and have become more Republican....more

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• The Oberlin defamation case contrasted with the famous New York Times v. Sullivan, 1964. 1 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Jun 30 2019

  Photo: the undefeated 1892 Oberlin College football squad. Caption: "The undefeated Oberlin eleven--the 1892 varsity coached by John Heisman, who also played in several of its contests. Back row (from left): Louis Hart, Louis (Lou) B. Fauver, Will Merriam, Bert Hogen, John H. White, George Berry, Orin W. Ensworth. Second row: John Heisman, Lynds Jones, Josiah (Joe) C. Teeters, Miles E. Marsh, Clayton (Clate) K. Fauver, John Wise, Thomas W.Johnson. Bottom row: Washington Irving Squire, Fred Savage, Carl Williams, Ellsworth B. Westcott, Max F. Millikan, Harry Zimmerman, Andrew B. Kell. The woolen cap that Berry is wearing was the only kind of "helmet" that was acceptable." Photo from Oberlin College Archives.Date | 1892Source | Williams, Ronald, Jr. (2012). "To Raise a Voice in Praise: The Revivalist Mission of John Henry Wise, 1889-1896 ". Hawaiian Journal of History (Hawaiian Historical Society) 46: 17. hdl:10524/33792.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Oberlin defamation case contrasted with the famous New York Times v. Sullivan, 1964. 1 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/race-madness-oberlin-collegeThe jury verdict in this case is instructive because it illustrates the massive transformation—all for the worse—in the civil rights movement over the past sixty years. When I was a college student, the Supreme Court waded into the law of defamation in a suit brought by L.B. Sullivan, an elected Commissioner of Montgomery County, Alabama, against the New York Times. The Times had published an advertisement—Heed their Rising Voices—which documented violent attacks on student groups in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Montgomery, Alabama, and elsewhere. The letter was signed by sixty-four leading civil rights leaders, all intent on exposing the systematic evils of segregation. They urged contributions to support the work of Dr. Martin Luther King. The statements about Montgomery talked about “truckloads of police armed with shot guns and tear-gas ringed the Alabama State College Campus.”  No mention was made of Sullivan by name or by his office. Nonetheless, he claimed that the advertisement defamed him personally, given that there were some factual inaccuracies in the account. ...more

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• The Oberlin defamation case contrasted with the famous New York Times v. Sullivan, 1964. 2 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Jun 30 2019

  Photo:  1836 (1830s) Authors:  Oberlin College. Graduate School of Theology Subjects:  Publisher:  Oberlin, O Contributing Library:  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Digitizing Sponsor:  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Oberlin defamation case contrasted with the famous New York Times v. Sullivan, 1964.  2 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/race-madness-oberlin-collegeThe jury verdict in this case is instructive because it illustrates the massive transformation—all for the worse—in the civil rights movement over the past sixty years. When I was a college student, the Supreme Court waded into the law of defamation in a suit brought by L.B. Sullivan, an elected Commissioner of Montgomery County, Alabama, against the New York Times. The Times had published an advertisement—Heed their Rising Voices—which documented violent attacks on student groups in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Montgomery, Alabama, and elsewhere. The letter was signed by sixty-four leading civil rights leaders, all intent on exposing the systematic evils of segregation. They urged contributions to support the work of Dr. Martin Luther King. The statements about Montgomery talked about “truckloads of police armed with shot guns and tear-gas ringed the Alabama State College Campus.”  No mention was made of Sullivan by name or by his office. Nonetheless, he claimed that the advertisement defamed him personally, given that there were some factual inaccuracies in the account. ...more

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• Podcasts of the endeavor are good for small businesses. @GeneMarks @Guardian

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  Jun 30 2019

  Photo: Gambling at the Orient Saloon in Bisbee, Arizona, c.1900. Photograph by C.S. Fly. C.S. Fly - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPodcasts of the endeavor are good for small businesses. @GeneMarks @GuardianPodcasts are a thing. So, should your business have one? https://www.inquirer.com/business/small-business/podcast-small-business-gene-marks-20190619.html

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• Small Business America: Contradictory bust and bounce signals from small businesses. @GeneMarks @Guardian

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  Jun 30 2019

  Photo: Albion Hotel, Goderich, Ont. Johnathan Miller Prop. -- photo includes front view of hotel that covers the entire block; people and horse and buggies out front, one buggy reads "OMNIBUS LINE"; sign on storefront reads "J.H. Edward"http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSmall Business America: Contradictory bust and bounce signals from small businesses. @GeneMarks @GuardianSmall Business Owners Feel Ready for Next Recessionhttps://www.businessnewsdaily.com/15165-businesses-recession-ready.htmlFederal Government Achieves Small Business Contracting Goal for Sixth Consecutive Year with Record-Breaking $120B to small businesseshttps://prn.to/2IOxuyUSmall Business Owners' Economic Outlook Rebounds, Hiring Plans Hold Steadyhttps://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/small-business-owners-economic-outlook-rebounds-hiring-plans-hold-steady-300864828.htmlU.S. business borrowing for equipment rises 18% in May: ELFAhttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-elfa/u-s-business-borrowing-for-equipment-rises-18-in-may-elfa-idUSKCN1TP2IN...more

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• Guest Podcast: "She put her crosshairs on Crooked Joe Crowley...and took him out." @RichValdes #ThisIsAmerica

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  Jun 29 2019

  Photo: Queens Borough, New York City, 1910-1920; the borough of homes and industry, a descriptive and illustrated book setting forth its wonderful growth and development in commerce, industry and homes during the past ten years ... a prediction of even greater growth during the next ten years ... and a statement of its many advantages, attractions and possibilities as a section wherein to live, to work and to succeedYear: 1920 (1920s)Authors:  Chamber of Commerce (Queens, New York, N.Y.) Willis, Walter I., compSubjects: Publisher:  (New York, L. I. Star Pub. Co.)Contributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  Sloan FoundationView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From Bookhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGuest Podcast: "She put her crosshairs on Crooked Joe Crowley...and took him out." @RichValdes #ThisIsAmerica...more

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• The Food Police: 1 of 2: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate 1st Edition. by Jayson Lusk (Author)

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  Jun 29 2019

  Photo: Restaurant or dining hall interior showing men eating, Sulphur Creek Claim No. 3 near Dawson, Yukon Territory, circa 1900Description | English:Caption on image: G.P. Sprowl, 3 SulphurHandwritten on image: Larss & Duclos Photos, DawsonPH Coll 306.24Subjects (LCTGM): Eating & drinking--Yukon; Eating & drinking faciilities--Yukon; Dining rooms--YukonDepicted place | YukonDate | circa 1900http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Food Police: 1 of 2: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate 1st Edition. by Jayson Lusk  (Author)https://www.amazon.com/Food-Police-Well-Fed-Manifesto-Politics-ebook-dp-B009UAO2C8/dp/B009UAO2C8/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?         A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are wallowing in government subsidies. Meat packers and fast food restaurants are exploiting workers and tainting the food supply. And Paula Deen has diabetes!     Something must be done. So says an emerging elite in this country who think they know exactly what we should grow, cook and eat. They are the food police.     Taking on the commandments and condescension the likes of Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and Mark Bittman, The Food Police casts long overdue skepticism on fascist food snobbery, debunking the myths propagated by the food elite.  You'll learn:-   Organic food is not necessarily healthier or tastier (and is certainly more expensive).-   Genetically modified foods haven't sickened a single person but they have made farmers more profitable  and they do hold the promise of feeding impoverished Africans.-   Farm policies aren't making us fat.-   Voguish locavorism is not greener or better for the economy.-   Fat taxes won't slim our waists and "fixing" school lunch programs won't make our kids any smarter.-   Why the food police hypocritically believe an iPad is a technological marvel but food technology is an industrial evilSo before Big Brother and Animal Farm merge into a socialist nightmare, read The Food Police and let us as Americans celebrate what is good about our food system and take back our forks and foie gras before it's too late!...more

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• The Food Police: 2 of 2: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate 1st Edition. by Jayson Lusk (Author)

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  Jun 29 2019

  Photo: : Two women, man, and young girl at dining table in miner's tent, Hunker Creek, ca. 1900Description | English: PH Coll 35.532 Klondike Gold RushSubjects (LCTGM): Women--Yukon; Girls--Yukon; Dining tables; Tents--Yukon; TablewareDepicted place | English: Canada--Yukon Territory--Hunker CreekDate | circa 1900http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Food Police: 2 of 2: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate 1st Edition. by Jayson Lusk  (Author)https://www.amazon.com/Food-Police-Well-Fed-Manifesto-Politics-ebook-dp-B009UAO2C8/dp/B009UAO2C8/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows?         A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are wallowing in government subsidies. Meat packers and fast food restaurants are exploiting workers and tainting the food supply. And Paula Deen has diabetes!     Something must be done. So says an emerging elite in this country who think they know exactly what we should grow, cook and eat. They are the food police.     Taking on the commandments and condescension the likes of Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and Mark Bittman, The Food Police casts long overdue skepticism on fascist food snobbery, debunking the myths propagated by the food elite.  You'll learn:-   Organic food is not necessarily healthier or tastier (and is certainly more expensive).-   Genetically modified foods haven't sickened a single person but they have made farmers more profitable  and they do hold the promise of feeding impoverished Africans.-   Farm policies aren't making us fat.-   Voguish locavorism is not greener or better for the economy.-   Fat taxes won't slim our waists and "fixing" school lunch programs won't make our kids any smarter.-   Why the food police hypocritically believe an iPad is a technological marvel but food technology is an industrial evilSo before Big Brother and Animal Farm merge into a socialist nightmare, read The Food Police and let us as Americans celebrate what is good about our food system and take back our forks and foie gras before it's too late!...more

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• College of Intolerance & What is to be done? @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 29 2019

  Photo: Partial View Oberlin by H. Alonzo Pease, 1838View author informationPublic Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCollege of Intolerance & What is to be done? @DanHenninger @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/oberlins-44-million-mistake-11561589414

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• Plan to disappear the PRC-hacked OPM inside the GAO. @FRoseDC @WJLA

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  Jun 29 2019

  Photo:  Imperial Maritime Customs House (first building) on the Shanghai's Bund.Date | between 1857 and 1893 Source | Shanghai lishi bowuguan (ed.) 上海历史博物馆, Survey of Shanghai 1840's-1940's, Shanghai renmin meisha chubanshe (1992)Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPlan to disappear the PRC-hacked OPM inside the GAO. @FRoseDC @WJLA

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• Pacific Watch: Homeless Industrial Complex seeks more money from Sacramento. Jeff Bliss.

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  Jun 29 2019

  Photo: Evicted: State highway officials moving evicted Black sharecroppers away from roadside to area between the levee and the Mississippi River. New Madrid County, Missouri, 1938.Photo by Russell Lee. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPacific Watch: Homeless Industrial Complex seeks more money from Sacramento. Jeff Bliss.http://www.capradio.org/136102 

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• #TheScalaReport: Delta Airlines starts facial recognition check-ins as a commercial decision is made not to attach facial recognition to police body-cams. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE ⁦@ScalaInc⁩

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  Jun 29 2019

  Photo: London strike. Truck under police protection (LOC)Bain News Service,, publisher. London strike. Truck under police protection [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: Delta Airlines starts facial recognition check-ins as a commercial decision is made not to attach facial recognition to police body-cams. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE ⁦@ScalaInc⁩https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2019/06/20/facial-recognition-delta-msp/ ...more

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• Did Moslem Brother Morsi perish of ill treatment in the Egyptian prison? @EliLake Bloomberg View

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  Jun 29 2019

  Photo: : Dorpsbeeld van een dorp rond Cairo door Emille Wauters. Waarschijnlijk geschilderd vanuit een foto.Date | 1880Source | Postcard copy Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles collection Panorama du Caire (1880)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDid Moslem Brother Morsi perish of ill treatment in the Egyptian prison? @EliLake Bloomberg ViewEli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI. ·      https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-24/mohamed-mursi-death-caused-in-part-by-gulag-conditions-in-egypt ·      https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-20/after-iranian-drone-attack-u-s-has-several-military-options ·      https://www.timesofisrael.com/bahrains-fm-tells-toi-he-hopes-to-visit-israel-when-its-all-open-peaceful/ ·      https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/22/middle-east-palestine-peace-plan-1376708 ...more

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• More meetings possible for the three premier national security advisers at a sit-down in Jerusalem. @Jschanzer @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 28 2019

  Photo: Russian 1914 poster. The upper inscription reads "concord". Shown are the female personifications of France, Russia, and Britain, the "Triple Entente" allies in the first World War. In center, Russia holds aloft an Orthodox Cross (symbol of faith), Britannia on the right with an anchor (referring to Britain's navy, but also a traditional symbol of hope), and Marianne on the left with a heart (symbol of charity/love, probably with reference to the recently-completed Sacré-Cœur Basilica) -- "faith, hope, and charity" being the three virtues of the famous Biblical passage I Corinthians 13:13. In the background is a battle scene, with men fighting with guns and swords, some on horseback. Above them is an exploding shell, an early aeroplane, and an airship.Čeština: Ruský plakát z roku 1914, zobrazující svornost států Trojdohody. Státy alegoricky představují ženské postavy: Francie jako Marianne se srdcem, Rusko s pravoslavným křížem, Anglie s kotvou (symbol britského námořnictva). Postavy těmito symboly zároveň znázorňují tři křesťanské ctnosti: lásku, víru a naději.Date | 1914Source | Poster from 1914Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMore meetings possible for the three premier national security advisers at a sit-down in Jerusalem.  @Jschanzer @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres...more

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• Still impossible to believe the Amazing 1969 New York Mets and the heroic Gil Hodges. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 28 2019

  Photo: Mike Mattimore, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print : albumen ; sheet 3.4 x 6.7 cm.Date | 1887Source | Library of CongressCatalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/2008675114Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/bbc/0400/0440/0447fv.jpgOriginal url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008675114/Author | Goodwin & Co., sponsorhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowStill impossible to believe the Amazing 1969 New York Mets and the heroic Gil Hodges. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/basking-in-baseballs-summer-of-69-11561416180 ...more

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• The end of the all-powerful ex-mayor of Istanbul, Recip Erdogan. @aykan_erdemir @FDD Senior Fellow. Former Member of the #Turkish Parliament. @ADL Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 28 2019

  Photo: The Istanbul Grand Bazaar in the 1890s.Date | 1890s Source | http://www.mideastimage.com/cities/istanbulAuthor | Creator:Jean Pascal Sèbahhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe end of the all-powerful ex-mayor of Istanbul, Recip Erdogan. @aykan_erdemir @FDD Senior Fellow. Former Member of the #Turkish Parliament. @ADL Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presDr. Aykan Erdemir, senior fellow at FDD, is a former member of the Turkish Parliament (2011 to 2015) who served in the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, EU Harmonization Committee, and the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on the IT Sector and the Internet. As an outspoken defender of pluralism, minority rights, and religious freedoms in the Middle East, Aykan has been at the forefront of the struggle against religious persecution, hate crimes, and hate speech in Turkey.    Related articles ●     https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/06/24/istanbuls-new-mayor-elect-emerges-as-top-erdogan-rival/ ●     https://thehill.com/opinion/international/450368-political-earthquake-in-istanbul ●      https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-istanbul-revote-what-happens-next ●     https://ahvalnews.com/ekrem-imamoglu/oppositions-imamoglu-reveal-documents-squandering-akps-istanbul  ...more

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• Pipeline geopolitics: Ukraine and Russia negotiate while NordStream2 aims to isolate Kiev. @RobertMCutler Carleton University

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  Jun 28 2019

  Photo: Bolshevik troops entering Odessa, Ukraine http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPipeline geopolitics: Ukraine and Russia negotiate while NordStream2 aims to isolate Kiev. @RobertMCutler Carleton Universityhttps://world-news-monitor.com/energy/oil/2019/06/18/european-commission-to-discuss-opportunity-of-gas-talks-with-russia-before-elections-in-ukraine/

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• The Democrats aim to take away the union healthcare & What is to be done? @ThadMcCotter @SalenaZito

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  Jun 28 2019

  Photo: Mine workers pose outside the Hecla Mining Company #3 rock house in 1878. NPS Photo http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Democrats aim to take away the union healthcare & What is to be done? @ThadMcCotter @SalenaZito

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• Harris challenges Biden, and how did the Midwest hear it? @SalenaZito @ThadMcCotter @ChristianWhiton

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  Jun 28 2019

  Photo: A subway-bound tram at Central Square on Massachusetts Avenue. The photo is undated, but the poster on the tram for an exhibition dates the photo to 1911.Date | 1911http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHarris challenges Biden, and how did the Midwest hear it? @SalenaZito @ThadMcCotter @ChristianWhiton

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• What kind of US cyberattacks on Iran? @afixler fdd.org @FDD

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  Jun 28 2019

  Photo: Cyrus the Great is said in the Bible to have liberated the Hebrew captives in Babylon to resettle and rebuild Jerusalem, earning him an honored place in Judaism. Jean Fouquet - http://expositions.bnf.fr/fouquet/grand/f063.htm This is a depiction of the biblical character, Emperor Cyrus the Great of Persia, who permitted the Hebrews to return to the Holy Land and rebuild God's Temple. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat kind of US cyberattacks on Iran? @afixler fdd.org @FDDAnnie Fixler is the deputy director of FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, contributing to the cyber-enabled economic warfare project and the Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab. She works on issues related to the national security implications of cyberattacks on economic targets, adversarial strategies and capabilities, and U.S. cyber resilience. She also contributes to the work of FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power on offensive and defensive tools of economic coercion. Articles: ·      https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/25/politics/us-iranian-proxy-cyber-attack/index.html ·      https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/22/us/politics/us-iran-cyber-attacks.html ·      https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/us/politics/trump-iran-cyber-shadow-war.html?module=inline ·      https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cyber-cloudhopper-companies-exc/exclusive-china-hacked-eight-major-computer-services-firms-in-years-long-attack-idUSKCN1TR1D4 ·      https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-cyber-attack-on-iran-shrouded-in-digital-fog-of-war/ ·      https://www.eurasiareview.com/26062019-use-of-cyber-war-as-force-multiplier-in-us-iran-escalation-oped/ ...more

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• The Europeans seek a workaround on the Iran sanctions & What is to be done? Michael Doran, Hudson Institute. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 28 2019

  Photo: The age of mammals in Europe, Asia and North AmericaIdentifier: ageofmammalsineu00osbo (find matches)Year: 1910 (1910s)Authors: Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935Subjects: Mammals, Fossil; PaleontologyPublisher: New York, The Macmillan CompanyContributing Library: Smithsonian LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Librarieshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Europeans seek a workaround on the Iran sanctions & What is to be done? Michael Doran, Hudson Institute. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presMichael Doran is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. He specializes in Middle East security issues. In the administration of President George W. Bush, Doran served in the White House as a senior director in the National Security Council.   Related articles ●     https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/politics-current-affairs/2019/06/what-iran-is-really-up-to/ ●     https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/27/trump-iran-nuclear-deal-1385122 ●     https://www.jns.org/calls-grow-to-end-waivers-allowing-iran-to-conduct-civil-nuclear-activities/ ●     https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5537037,00.html ...more

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• Israel prepares for an attack by Iran's surrogates in Lebanon. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 28 2019

  Photo: City of BeyroutImage Description from historic lecture booklet: "The city of Beyrout was formerly called Berytus. It was named after Julia Augusta Felix Berytus, the daughter Emperor Augustus. It has about 120,000 inhabitants 38 Christian churches. The Christian element is growing stronger every year. Being the most important city on the Syrian coast of the Mediterranean, it is quite natural that it should become the center of missionary work." Original Format: Lantern slidesOriginal Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern SlidesItem Number: P217:set 010 xxxRestrictions: Permission to use must be obtained from the OSU Archives.Click here to view The Best of the Archives.Click here to view Oregon State University's other digital collections.We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons; however, certain restrictions on high quality reproductions of the original physical version may apply. To read more about what “no known restrictions” means, please visit the OSU Archives website.Date | Not dated. Probably c. start of 20th century.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIsrael prepares for an attack by Iran's surrogates in Lebanon. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres...more

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• The Democrats are very very strong in New York City and Washington. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Jun 28 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Democrats are very very strong in New York City and Washington.  @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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• Will China bend to Trump's tariffs as did Mexico? @SebGorka

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  Jun 28 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWill China bend to Trump's tariffs as did Mexico? @SebGorka

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• What about private space stations? @PappalardoJoe @PopMechanics`

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  Jun 28 2019

  Photo::Wernher von Braunartwork:Chesley BonestellTitle | von Braun 1952 Space Station ConceptDescription | English: This is a von Braun 1952 space station concept. In a 1952 series of articles written in Collier's, Dr. Wernher von Braun, then Technical Director of the Army Ordnance Guided Missiles Development Group at Redstone Arsenal, wrote of a large wheel-like space station in a 1,075-mile orbit. This station, made of flexible nylon, would be carried into space by a fully reusable three-stage launch vehicle. Once in space, the station's collapsible nylon body would be inflated much like an automobile tire. The 250-foot-wide wheel would rotate to provide artificial gravity, an important consideration at the time because little was known about the effects of prolonged zero-gravity on humans. Von Braun's wheel was slated for a number of important missions: a way station for space exploration, a meteorological observatory and a navigation aid. This concept was illustrated by artist Chesley Bonestell.Date | 1 January 1952Accession number | MSFC Negative Number: 9132079Reference Number: MSFC-75-SA-4105-2C http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat about private space stations? @PappalardoJoe @PopMechanics...more

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• The "For Sale" Sign on Paul Allen's Gigantic Stratolaunch. Alan Boyle @b0yle Aerospace and science editor @GeekWire. Longtime blogger @CosmicLog.

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  Jun 28 2019

  Photo: 1880/1910 Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs Geographic subject (state): California Subject (file heading): Riverside County -- General -- Desert views; Mining -- Miners; Transportation -- Draft -- Pack Trains Format: glass plate negatives Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. Geographic subject (county): Riverside Subject (lcsh): Freight and freightage; Donkeys; Pack transportation; Mines and mineral resources; Miners; Horses; Deserts Subject: La Mamlarin, Edward (raised in Calico, Calif.) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe "For Sale" Sign on Paul Allen's Gigantic Stratolaunch. Alan Boyle @b0yle Aerospace and science editor @GeekWire. Longtime blogger @CosmicLog. ...more

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• Coals to Newcastle and Nuclear Energy to Saudi Arabia. Henry Sokolski Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

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  Jun 28 2019

  Photo: English: King Abdulaziz's raiders on their way to recapture Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Date | circa 1910 Source | National MuseumAuthor | Original photographer unknown, reproduction by User:(WT-shared) Jpatokalhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCoals to Newcastle and Nuclear Energy to Saudi Arabia. Henry Sokolski Nonproliferation Policy Education Center http://npolicy.org/article.php?aid=1439&rtid=5

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• Boris Johnson is highly entertaining for England but not for Scotland. @TheRealConstable

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  Jun 28 2019

  Photo:  Highways and byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds.$With illus. by Frederick L. Griggs Year: 1916 (1910s) Authors:  Evans, Herbert Arthur, 1846- Subjects:  Publisher:  London, Macmillan Contributing Library:  Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor:  University of Toronto http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBoris Johnson is highly entertaining for England but not for Scotland. @TheRealConstable

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• Looking to Biden and Bernie and the China question. @SalenaZito @ThadMcCotter

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  Jun 27 2019

  Photo: The Englishman in China" Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10057.b.20." Page: 95 Place of Publishing: London Date of Publishing: 1860 Issuance: monographic Identifier: 001144097 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLooking to Biden and Bernie and the China question. @SalenaZito @ThadMcCotter

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• First Debate, Part 1: The Blue Suits and the Democratic coastal elite on stage. @SalenaZito @ThadMcCotter

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  Jun 27 2019

  Photo: East side of Broadway, New York, 30th to 31st Streets, some time from January to June, 1910.Caption reads: “BROADWAY, 30TH TO 31ST STREETS, 1218 TO 1238 --ATLANTIC COAST LINE--WALLACK’S THEATRE--HIRAM WALKER & SONS, CANADIN CLUB WHISKEY--THE MEN’S SHOP, HABERDASHERS--NEW GRAND HOTEL”Above the caption is the line: “Made from the Lumiere Sigma Plate. The C. P. Goerz American Optical Co.’s Lenses were used exclusively.”Date | 1910Source | Rudolph M. De Leeuw. Both sides of Broadway, from Bowling green to Central park, New York City (New York: De Leeuw Riehl Pub. Co., 1910), p. 367. Online at CUNY website.Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFirst Debate, Part 1: The Blue Suits and the Democratic coastal elite on stage. @SalenaZito @ThadMcCotter...more

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• How does Taipei hear the turmoil in Hong Kong and the trade war in Osaka? @YatesDCIA @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jun 27 2019

  Photo: Ōshima Kumaji with his wife and son leaving the official residence in Taiwan 1910.jpg1910Source | https://scontent.ftpe8-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/24173858_10155851196438618_1754802907638860431_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=3a76f1d9fcab9aa505c542dbd952d140&oe=5BD68790Author | Unknown http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHow does Taipei hear the turmoil in Hong Kong and the trade war in Osaka? @YatesDCIA @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast ...more

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• Low expectations from the Osaka meeting on China trade. @AlanTonelson RealityChek @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jun 27 2019

  Photo: 中文（繁體）‎: 1900代的珠江，後方可見石室聖心大教堂。Date | 1900s Source | InternetAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLow expectations from the Osaka meeting on China trade. @AlanTonelson RealityChek @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast 

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• The magic of cryptocurrency and the heavy hands of central bankers. @StephenMoore

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  Jun 27 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe magic of cryptocurrency and the heavy hands of central bankers. @StephenMoorehttps://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/exclusive-stephen-moore-fed-crypto-central-bank

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• Canada's Trudeau cannot stop the PRC bullying. Charles Burton, Brock University. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jun 27 2019

  Photo: The Kings Hotel on Scarth Street and the Was-cana Hotel on Hamilton are both buildings whichreflect great credit on the parties who erected them. The type of residence which has been erectedthroughout the residential portion of the city is an-other sure sign of the faith which the citizens ofREGINA have in the stability of their city, as doAlbert Court and two other fine residence apartmentsrecently erected.Note About ImagesPlease note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.Date | 1910http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCanada's Trudeau cannot stop the PRC bullying. Charles Burton, Brock University. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/asia/canada-china-meat-intl-hnk/index.html ...more

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• Oceania: Talk that the Mormons may come to the rescue of the Kingdom of Tonga in debt to the PRC.@CleoPaskal @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jun 27 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOceania: Talk that the Mormons may come to the rescue of the Kingdom of Tonga in debt to the PRC.@CleoPaskal @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/chinas-debt-diplomacy-challenged-new-playershttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-usa-pompeo/u-s-s-pompeo-faces-thorny-issues-on-india-visit-from-trade-to-russia-arms-deals-idUSKCN1TQ1RR

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• Will the US president rescue the PRC again as it did in 1972, 1989, 1999? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jun 27 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWill the US president rescue the PRC again as it did in 1972, 1989, 1999? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14443/trump-rescue-china-communism

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• Facebook Libra is a better idea. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets

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  Jun 27 2019

  Photo: Pennsylvania Ave. from U.S. Treasury, Washington, D.C.. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFacebook Libra is a better idea. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2019/06/23/dont-underestimate-the-significance-of-facebooks-libra-currency/#3233c28b62ef

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• Three National Security Advisers and One Prime Minister speak of Iran in Jerusalem. @Jschanzer @FDD

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  Jun 27 2019

  Photo: Publisher:  London : Palestine Exploration Fund Contributing Library:  Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor:  MSN    View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book  Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.  Text Appearing Before Image:e, During the time when the scaffolding was erected within the Dome,Lieutenant Conder ascended into the drum and was able to observe theglass mosaic. It is remarkable that the gilded tessercc are fitted in at ananyle so as to reflect the licrht downwards. The tcsscrcc of other colours 248 THE SURVEY OF WESTERN PALESTINE. are not so arranged, but are placed flat in the wall. This arrangementappears first to have been noticed by Herr K. Schick. The removal of the Kishani tiles from the e.xterior of the octagonwall laid bare the arcades of the balustrade above the roof. This wasexamined by all the officers of the Society. The dressing of the stoneshas been injured by their preparation to receive the tiles, but both inproportion and dressing they appear to bear no resemblance to Crusadingmasonry. Beams were found resting on this wall above the modernceiling, forming part of an older roofj with an inscription dating from913 .A.D. A well-carved wooden cornice, hidden by the modL-rn ceiling, http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThree National Security Advisers and One Prime Minister speak of Iran in Jerusalem. @Jschanzer @FDD...more

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• What's the anomaly with Long March 5? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 27 2019

  Photo: Long March (CZ) 2Fhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat's the anomaly with Long March 5? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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• New, unexplained reports of methane on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 27 2019

  Photo: Curiosity's view of Martian soil and boulders after crossing the "Dingo Gap" sand dune (February 9, 2014; raw color).NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA17944.jpg PIA17944: Curiosity's Color View of Martian Dune After Crossing Ithttp://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17944 This look back at a dune that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drove across was taken by the rover's Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the 538th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Feb. 9, 2014). The rover had driven over the dune three days earlier. For scale, the distance between the parallel wheel tracks is about 9 feet (2.7 meters). The dune is about 3 feet (1 meter) tall in the middle of its span across an opening called "Dingo Gap." This view is looking eastward. The image has been white balanced to show what the Martian surface materials would look like if under the light of Earth's sky. A version with raw color, as recorded by the camera under Martian lighting conditions, is available as Figure 1. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover. Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates the rover's Mastcam. More information about Curiosity is online at http://www.nasa.gov/msland http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNew, unexplained reports of methane on Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spike-in-methane-detection-in-gale-crater/ ...more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Waiting for the G-20 meet between Trump and Putin. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Jun 26 2019

  Photo: "Entry into Tavriz of the battalion of Russian deserters returning to the fatherland." January 22, 1838Date | 19th century Source | http://warfare.ml/Persia/19/Russian_Deserters_In_The_Persian_Army.htmAuthor | (Italian) Colonel F. Colombarihttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Waiting for the G-20 meet between Trump and Putin. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: Waiting for the G-20 meet between Trump and Putin. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Jun 26 2019

  Photo: Русский: Коровин Пётр Иванович (1857—1919). Взятие Казани Иоанном Грозным. 1880-1890-е годы.Date | between circa 1880 and circa 1890 Source | http://www.art-catalog.ru/picture.php?id_picture=14007Author | Пётр Иванович Коровинhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: Waiting for the G-20 meet between Trump and Putin. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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• The Washington Post turns on "Middle Class" Joe Biden in his $20,000 per month rental. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Jun 26 2019

  Photo: A history of Virginia for boys and girls Year: 1920 (1920s) Authors:  Wayland, John Walter, 1872-1962Subjects: Publisher:  New York, The Macmillan Company Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ginia. He wasmade a commodore in the Confederate navy andapplied his inventive genius in many ways. Forexample, he assisted in fitting out the famouswarship Virginia, one of the first ironclads inhistory. Maury was elected a teacher at Lexington inSeptember, 1868. When he located there a fewmonths later he and General Lee were neighbors.Lee was president of Washington College (nowWashington and Lee University) and Maury wasprofessor of physics in Virginia Military In-stitute. And he lived at Lexington nearly fiveyears — almost as long as did General Lee. Leedied there in October of 1870 ; Maury, in Februaryof 1873. His body was kept there till the spring-time — till the flowers of the mountains wereblooming in Goshen Pass. Then, in keeping with MAURY AND HIS MAPS 331 his own desire, the casket was borne throughthat beautiful aisle of natures temple, and so onto the distant railway station. In HollywoodCemetery at Richmond he was buried ; and therea simple monument marks his grave. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Washington Post turns on "Middle Class" Joe Biden in his $20,000 per month rental. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst...more

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• Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar and Beto O'Rourke on the stage with Liz Warren. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Jun 26 2019

  Photo: Annual Catalogue of the State Normal School at Mankato, MinnesotaYear: 1870 (1870s)Authors:  Mankato Normal SchoolSubjects:  Mankato Normal SchoolPublisher:  Mankato, Minn. : State Normal School : Weekly Union Print. Office (Printer)Contributing Library:  University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignDigitizing Sponsor:  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaignhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCory Booker, Amy Klobuchar and Beto O'Rourke on the stage with Liz Warren. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst...more

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• Elizabeth Warren takes command to "Tax the rich!" @LizPeek

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  Jun 26 2019

  Photo:The judgement of Midas by Abraham Janssens Abraham Janssens I - http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.12.html/2011/old-master-british-paintings-evening-l11033 Public Domain File:Abraham Janssens - The judgement of Midas.jpg  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowElizabeth Warren takes command to "Tax the rich!" @LizPeek

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• Trump and Xi need a trade deal in Japan for their own successes at home. @LizPeek @TheHill

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  Jun 26 2019

  Photo: Osaka Japan in 1880s Henry Spencer Palmer (ヘンリー･スペンサー･パーマー) The British Library - British Library Osaka, Japan in 1880s http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTrump and Xi need a trade deal in Japan for their own successes at home. @LizPeek @TheHillhttps://thehill.com/opinion/finance/449988-trumps-reelection-is-in-serious-jeopardy-without-a-china-deal

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• Bloody Spring: 4 of 4: Forty Days That Sealed the Confederacy's Fate Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Joseph Wheelan (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jun 26 2019

  Photo: Volome 8 Photographic History of the Civil War p.179 Bottom photograph of Relics of the Dead in the Battle of the Wilderness- similar to preceding photograph; In Volume III Battles and Leaders of the Civil War .p.199;a drawing from this photograph is shown; location is identied as "...in the woods near the Plank Road." From an 1864 photograph various - The internet Archive Permission details Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file must have an additional copyright tag indicating the copyright status in the source country.View more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Bloody Spring: 4 of 4: Forty Days That Sealed the Confederacy's Fate Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Joseph Wheelan (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Bloody-Spring-Forty-Sealed-Confederacys/dp/B00JJVCTJQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=A unique and compelling examination of the Civil War's "turning point" - 40 crucial days in the spring of 1864 that turned the tide for the Union.  In the spring of 1864, Robert E. Lee faced a new adversary: Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Named commander of all Union armies in March, Grant quickly went on the offensive against Lee in Virginia. On May 4th, Grant's army struck hard across the Rapidan River into north central Virginia, with Lee's army contesting every mile. They fought for 40 days until, finally, the Union army crossed the James River and began the siege of Petersburg.  The campaign cost 90,000 men - the largest loss the war had seen. While Grant lost nearly twice as many men as Lee did, he could replace them. Lee could not and would never again mount another major offensive. Lee's surrender at Appomattox less than a year later was the denouement of the drama begun in those crucial 40 days....more

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• Bloody Spring: 3 of 4: Forty Days That Sealed the Confederacy's Fate Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Joseph Wheelan (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jun 26 2019

  Photo: Skulls remaining on the field and trees destroyed at the Battle of the Wilderness, 1864.Possibly G. O. Brown - File from The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Three, The Decisive Battles. The Review of Reviews Co., New York. 1911. p. 21. Skulls remaining on the field and trees destroyed at the Battle of the Wilderness, 1864. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Bloody Spring: 3 of 4: Forty Days That Sealed the Confederacy's Fate Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Joseph Wheelan (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Bloody-Spring-Forty-Sealed-Confederacys/dp/B00JJVCTJQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=A unique and compelling examination of the Civil War's "turning point" - 40 crucial days in the spring of 1864 that turned the tide for the Union.  In the spring of 1864, Robert E. Lee faced a new adversary: Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Named commander of all Union armies in March, Grant quickly went on the offensive against Lee in Virginia. On May 4th, Grant's army struck hard across the Rapidan River into north central Virginia, with Lee's army contesting every mile. They fought for 40 days until, finally, the Union army crossed the James River and began the siege of Petersburg.  The campaign cost 90,000 men - the largest loss the war had seen. While Grant lost nearly twice as many men as Lee did, he could replace them. Lee could not and would never again mount another major offensive. Lee's surrender at Appomattox less than a year later was the denouement of the drama begun in those crucial 40 days....more

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• Bloody Spring: 2 of 4: Forty Days That Sealed the Confederacy's Fate Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Joseph Wheelan (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jun 26 2019

  Photo: Confederate troops capture part of the Union breastworks near the Brock Road Alfred Waud. A list of artists and engravers can be found on p. 21 of the PDF. - This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library.  View image on Flickr   View all images from book   View catalogue entry for book.  On May 6, 1864 during the Battle of the Wilderness, Confederate troops capture part of the Union breastworks near the Brock Road. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Bloody Spring: 2 of 4: Forty Days That Sealed the Confederacy's Fate Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Joseph Wheelan (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Bloody-Spring-Forty-Sealed-Confederacys/dp/B00JJVCTJQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=A unique and compelling examination of the Civil War's "turning point" - 40 crucial days in the spring of 1864 that turned the tide for the Union.  In the spring of 1864, Robert E. Lee faced a new adversary: Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Named commander of all Union armies in March, Grant quickly went on the offensive against Lee in Virginia. On May 4th, Grant's army struck hard across the Rapidan River into north central Virginia, with Lee's army contesting every mile. They fought for 40 days until, finally, the Union army crossed the James River and began the siege of Petersburg.  The campaign cost 90,000 men - the largest loss the war had seen. While Grant lost nearly twice as many men as Lee did, he could replace them. Lee could not and would never again mount another major offensive. Lee's surrender at Appomattox less than a year later was the denouement of the drama begun in those crucial 40 days....more

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• Bloody Spring: 1 of 4: Forty Days That Sealed the Confederacy's Fate Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Joseph Wheelan (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jun 26 2019

  Photo: Union troops cross the Rapidan Edwin Forbes. A list of artists and engravers can be found on p. 21 of the PDF. - This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library.  View image on Flickr   View all images from book   View catalogue entry for book.  Union troops cross the Rapidan River at Germanna Ford prior to the Battle of the Wilderness Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Bloody Spring: 1 of 4: Forty Days That Sealed the Confederacy's Fate Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Joseph Wheelan (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Bloody-Spring-Forty-Sealed-Confederacys/dp/B00JJVCTJQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=A unique and compelling examination of the Civil War's "turning point" - 40 crucial days in the spring of 1864 that turned the tide for the Union.  In the spring of 1864, Robert E. Lee faced a new adversary: Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Named commander of all Union armies in March, Grant quickly went on the offensive against Lee in Virginia. On May 4th, Grant's army struck hard across the Rapidan River into north central Virginia, with Lee's army contesting every mile. They fought for 40 days until, finally, the Union army crossed the James River and began the siege of Petersburg.  The campaign cost 90,000 men - the largest loss the war had seen. While Grant lost nearly twice as many men as Lee did, he could replace them. Lee could not and would never again mount another major offensive. Lee's surrender at Appomattox less than a year later was the denouement of the drama begun in those crucial 40 days....more

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• Why is AMLO militarizing Mexico & What is to be done? @MaryAnastasiaOG @SJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-militarizes-mexico-11560109220

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  Jun 25 2019

  Photo: Español: Plaza de armas tras su remodelación en 1896.Date | 1900Source | Fotos antiguas de GuatemalaAuthor | Peter van der KrogtPermission(Reusing this file) | First published in the 1900shttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhy is AMLO militarizing Mexico & What is to be done?  @MaryAnastasiaOG @SJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-militarizes-mexico-11560109220

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• How does the bad governance of Central America create refugees? Mary Anastasia O'Grady, @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 25 2019

  Photo: Español: Plaza de armas tras su remodelación en 1896.Date | 1900Source | Fotos antiguas de GuatemalaAuthor | Peter van der KrogtPermission(Reusing this file) | First published in the 1900shttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHow does the bad governance of Central America create refugees? Mary Anastasia O'Grady, @WSJOpinion

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• The Spygate investigation is a shadow over the 2020 Election. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Jun 25 2019

  Photo: Evening Shadows Konstantin Somov http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Spygate investigation is a shadow over the 2020 Election.  @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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• Pelosi rows against the Impeachment/Censure current in her caucus @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR.

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  Jun 25 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPelosi rows against the Impeachment/Censure current in her caucus  @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR.

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• "Indiana Hoenlein" and the lost OSS Jewish hero William Brickman who battled the fleeing SS criminals in 1944-45.

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  Jun 25 2019

  Photo: Soldiers of the US 3rd Infantry Division in Nuremberg on 20 AprilUS Army - US Army Soldaten der 3. US-Inf.-Div. (O'Daniel) während der Eroberung Nürnbergs am 20.04.1945. Photo aufgenommen an der Mauthalle. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana Hoenlein" and the lost OSS Jewish hero William Brickman who battled the fleeing SS criminals in 1944-45.https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/06/15/a-jew-in-ss-uniform/

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• Hong Kong financial community warns the Mainland not to crackdown on the protesters. Andrew Collier, Orient Capital Research @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  Jun 25 2019

  Photo: John Thomson: THE clock-tower, designed by Mr. Rawlings in 1861, is a great ornament to the city, the clock too, when regulated properly, is of no inconsiderable service. It has, however, been a victim to the climate, and is liable to fits of indisposition, resting from its duties at the most inconvenient seasons, as if unable to contend against the heat. The tower is seen to advantage from the harbour, and the lighted dial of the clock forms a good landmark to guide the benighted steersman to the landing steps at Pedders wharf. In the street which conducts to the clock-tower from the wharf stand several of the oldest buildings in the Colony. On the right of this picture we see the residence lately occupied by Messrs. Hunt and Co.In the foreground, to the left, is shown a part of the west wing of the palatial-looking building erected by Messrs. Dent, when commerce was most flourishing in the settlement; this edifice is now tenanted by three separate mercantile houses. On the left, 'and nearest to the tower, stands the Hong-Kong Hotel, constructed after the model of the large hotels in London. It has not proved to the shareholders a very profitable undertaking, being on a scale too vast for the requirements of the place. At present it is rented and conducted by a Chinaman, and none but Chinese cooks and waiters are employed. The management is good, and the hotel comfortable. To a visitor the large dining hall presents an animated and interesting scene, and he finds on further experience that the arrangements are perfect and the fare unexceptionable. The native waiters are remarkable no less for promptitude and politeness, than for the spotless purity of their light silk or linen robes, and for the fluency of " Pidgin " English, in which they converse; this is, however, a jargon intelligible only to the residents. The younger boy-servitors pronounce with a pure English accent ; they can also read, write, and reckon in our language with facility, having most of them been trained at the Government School.The turbaned figure on the right is an Indian policeman, of whom there were at one time about 300 in the force. They are now being gradually drafted off to India, and replaced by Europeans and West-Indian negroes. These tall Indian members of the constabulary were admitted on all hands to be highly ornamental, but proved comparatively useless for the maintenance of order among the Chinese, as, with one or two notable exceptions, they could neither converse in English nor in the language of China. One or two of the chair coolies are seen waiting for a fare ; and as these men perform very important services for the native and foreign community, I propose to furnish the reader with a more detailed account of them on another page.Date | Source | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Libraryhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHong Kong financial community warns the Mainland not to crackdown on the protesters. Andrew Collier, Orient Capital Research @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter...more

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• A founder of the China Communist Party declared that "Mr. Democracy" belongs with "Mr. Science." @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst

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  Jun 25 2019

  Photo:  Peking : a social survey conducted under auspices of the Princeton University Center in China and the Peking Young Men's Christian Association Year: 1921 (1920s) Authors:  Gamble, Sidney D. (Sidney David), 1890-1968 Burgess, John Stewart, b. 1883 Princeton University Center in China Young Men's Christian Association (Beijing, China) Subjects:  Social surveys Publisher:  New York : George H. Doran Co. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowA founder of the China Communist Party declared that "Mr. Democracy" belongs with "Mr. Science." @MichaelAuslin @HooverInsthttps://www.lawliberty.org/liberty-forum/chinas-privileging-of-mr-science-over-mr-democracy/?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=d96ddf76fe-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_19_06_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-d96ddf76fe-72527561 ...more

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• Expecting the G20 meeting Osaka between Trump and Xi will kick the can down the road. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  Jun 25 2019

  Photo: 1907http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowExpecting the G20 meeting Osaka between Trump and Xi will kick the can down the road. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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• United Nations report confirms that Al Qaeda dominates the Talian. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Jun 25 2019

  Photo: Zawahi: "In an Aug. 2018 video, Ayman al-Zawahiri argued that the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan will be the nucleus for a new caliphate."http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowUnited Nations report confirms that Al Qaeda dominates the Talian. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDDhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/06/al-qaeda-growing-stronger-under-talibans-umbrella-un-finds.php

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• Erdogan is profoundly weakened by the loss of Istanbul's patronage system. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  Jun 25 2019

  Photo: A street in an Istanbul Muslim mahalle of the 1870s (15001801248).jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowErdogan is profoundly weakened by the loss of Istanbul's patronage system. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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• Rehearsing the top tier Democrats for the first debates: Warren, Biden, Sanders, Buttigieg, Harris. @DavidMDrucker @ThadMcCotter

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  Jun 25 2019

  Photo: The History of Marshall County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., a biographical directory of citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, general and local statistics, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, history of the Northwest, history of Iowa, map of Marshall County, constitution of the United States, miscellaneous matters, etcYear: 1878 (1870s)Authors:  Western Historical Co., Chicago, pubSubjects: Publisher:  Chicago, Western Historical CompanyContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundationhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRehearsing the top tier Democrats for the first debates: Warren, Biden, Sanders, Buttigieg, Harris. @DavidMDrucker  @ThadMcCotter...more

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• Jihadists grow the battlefield to attack French and US forces in Niger. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @FDD

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  Jun 25 2019

  Photo: A U.S. Special Forces team commander salutes the official party of the opening ceremonies for Flintlock 2017 during opening ceremonies in Diffa, Niger, Feb. 27, 2017. Flintlock is an annual exercise across the Trans-Sahara region of Africa. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Zayid Ballesteros) (Photo Credit: Spc. Zayid Ballesteros)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowJihadists grow the battlefield to attack French and US forces in Niger. @BillRoggio @ThomasJoscelyn @FDDhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/06/islamic-state-claims-attacks-on-american-french-forces-in-the-sahel.php ...more

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• The Last Pirate: 1 of 4: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tony Dokoupil (Author), MacLeod Andrews (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jun 24 2019

  Photo: The Land of Cockaigne by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1567. Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202.  Permission details [1]View more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Last Pirate: 1 of 4: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Tony Dokoupil (Author), MacLeod Andrews (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Last-Pirate-Father-Golden-Marijuana/dp/B00JECXVU6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1561416352&sr=1-1As he relates his father's rise from hey-man hippie dealer to multi-ton smuggler extraordinaire, Tony Dokoupil tells the larger history of marijuana and untangles the controversies still stirring furious debate today. He blends superb reportage with searing personal memories, presenting a probing chronicle of pot-smoking, drug-taking America from the perspective of the generation that grew up in the aftermath of the Great Stoned Age. Back then, everyone knew a drug dealer. The Last Pirate is the story of what happened to one of them, to his family, and in a pharmacological sense, to us all.  The Last Pirate is a cultural portrait of marijuana's endless allure set against the Technicolor backdrop of South Florida in the era of Miami Vice. It's a public saga complete with a real pirate's booty: more than a million dollars lost, buried, or stolen - but it's also a deeply personal pursuit, the product of a son's determination to replant the family tree in richer soil....more

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• The Last Pirate: 2 of 4: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tony Dokoupil (Author), MacLeod Andrews (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jun 24 2019

  Photo: Medieval manuscript illumination from the Menologion of Basil II (985 AD), showing the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus sleeping in their caveAnonymous - http://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1613/0143?sid=a7590df9b8aca22111c8359533716419&zoomlevel=4 Константинополь. 985 г. Миниатюра Минология Василия II. Ватиканская библиотека. Рим. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Last Pirate: 2 of 4: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Tony Dokoupil (Author), MacLeod Andrews (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Last-Pirate-Father-Golden-Marijuana/dp/B00JECXVU6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1561416352&sr=1-1As he relates his father's rise from hey-man hippie dealer to multi-ton smuggler extraordinaire, Tony Dokoupil tells the larger history of marijuana and untangles the controversies still stirring furious debate today. He blends superb reportage with searing personal memories, presenting a probing chronicle of pot-smoking, drug-taking America from the perspective of the generation that grew up in the aftermath of the Great Stoned Age. Back then, everyone knew a drug dealer. The Last Pirate is the story of what happened to one of them, to his family, and in a pharmacological sense, to us all.  The Last Pirate is a cultural portrait of marijuana's endless allure set against the Technicolor backdrop of South Florida in the era of Miami Vice. It's a public saga complete with a real pirate's booty: more than a million dollars lost, buried, or stolen - but it's also a deeply personal pursuit, the product of a son's determination to replant the family tree in richer soil....more

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• The Last Pirate: 3 of 4: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tony Dokoupil (Author), MacLeod Andrews (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jun 24 2019

  Photo: The Sentry (1654) by Carel Fabritius Carel Fabritius - 1. kalden.home.xs4all.nl 2. Staatliches Museum Schwerin 3. Google Art Project works from the Staatliches Museum Schwerin after restoration 2005 Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Last Pirate: 3 of 4: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Tony Dokoupil (Author), MacLeod Andrews (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Last-Pirate-Father-Golden-Marijuana/dp/B00JECXVU6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1561416352&sr=1-1As he relates his father's rise from hey-man hippie dealer to multi-ton smuggler extraordinaire, Tony Dokoupil tells the larger history of marijuana and untangles the controversies still stirring furious debate today. He blends superb reportage with searing personal memories, presenting a probing chronicle of pot-smoking, drug-taking America from the perspective of the generation that grew up in the aftermath of the Great Stoned Age. Back then, everyone knew a drug dealer. The Last Pirate is the story of what happened to one of them, to his family, and in a pharmacological sense, to us all.  The Last Pirate is a cultural portrait of marijuana's endless allure set against the Technicolor backdrop of South Florida in the era of Miami Vice. It's a public saga complete with a real pirate's booty: more than a million dollars lost, buried, or stolen - but it's also a deeply personal pursuit, the product of a son's determination to replant the family tree in richer soil....more

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• The Last Pirate: 4 of 4: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tony Dokoupil (Author), MacLeod Andrews (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jun 24 2019

  Photo: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1799) by Francisco Goya Francisco Goya - Museo del Prado This print is work No. 43 of the "Caprichos" series (1st edition, Madrid, 1799). http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Last Pirate: 4 of 4: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Tony Dokoupil (Author), MacLeod Andrews (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Last-Pirate-Father-Golden-Marijuana/dp/B00JECXVU6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1561416352&sr=1-1As he relates his father's rise from hey-man hippie dealer to multi-ton smuggler extraordinaire, Tony Dokoupil tells the larger history of marijuana and untangles the controversies still stirring furious debate today. He blends superb reportage with searing personal memories, presenting a probing chronicle of pot-smoking, drug-taking America from the perspective of the generation that grew up in the aftermath of the Great Stoned Age. Back then, everyone knew a drug dealer. The Last Pirate is the story of what happened to one of them, to his family, and in a pharmacological sense, to us all.  The Last Pirate is a cultural portrait of marijuana's endless allure set against the Technicolor backdrop of South Florida in the era of Miami Vice. It's a public saga complete with a real pirate's booty: more than a million dollars lost, buried, or stolen - but it's also a deeply personal pursuit, the product of a son's determination to replant the family tree in richer soil....more

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• What is the meaning of "tidal lock?" Ken Croswell, The Lives of Stars.

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  Jun 24 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat is the meaning of "tidal lock?"  Ken Croswell, The Lives of Stars.

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• Guest Podcast: "Biden, the attacks continue, from ABC News." Rich Valdes #ThisIsAmerica

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  Jun 24 2019

  Photo:A patriotic demonstration in Kyiv, UkraineUnknown - former image source [1]; current image source [2] Permission details public domainView more Public Domainview terms File:Mityng.jpg Created: 31 December 1916   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGuest Podcast: "Biden, the attacks continue, from ABC News." Rich Valdes #ThisIsAmericahttps://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/06/20/abc_tom_llamas_investigates_was_hunter_biden_profiting_off_his_dads_work.html ...more

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• The Man Who Saved the Union: 1 of 4: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. H. W. Brands (Author), Stephen Hoye (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Second lieutenant Grant in full dress uniform in 1843Unknown (Engraving); Centpacrr (Digital image) - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. (Original text : Richardson, Albert D. "A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant" Hartford: The American Publishing Company 1868"The Cooper Collections" (uploader's personal collection) Scanned by the uploader, Centpacrr.) Engraving of Brevet Second Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant in 1843 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Man Who Saved the Union: 1 of 4:  Ulysses Grant in War and Peace  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  H. W. Brands (Author), Stephen Hoye (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Saved-Union-Ulysses/dp/B009KF04ZM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1561342913&sr=1-1From New York Times best-selling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history. Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover he had a genius for battle, and he propelled the Union to victory in the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the disastrous brief presidency of Andrew Johnson, America turned to Grant again to unite the country, this time as president. In Brands' sweeping, majestic full biography, Grant emerges as a heroic figure who was fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field but willing to make the troop sacrifices necessary to win the war, even in the face of storms of criticism. He worked valiantly to protect the rights of freedmen in the South; Brands calls him the last presidential defender of black civil rights for nearly a century. He played it straight with the American Indians, allowing them to shape their own fate even as the realities of Manifest Destiny meant the end of their way of life. He was an enormously popular president whose memoirs were a huge best seller; yet within decades of his death his reputation was in tatters, the victim of Southerners who resented his policies on Reconstruction. In this page-turning biography, Brands now reconsiders Grant's legacy and provides a compelling and intimate portrait of a man who saved the Union on the battlefield and consolidated that victory as a resolute and principled political leader....more

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• The Man Who Saved the Union: 2 of 4: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. H. W. Brands (Author), Stephen Hoye (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 24 2019

  Photo: Battle of Monterrey, 1846View author information http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Man Who Saved the Union: 2 of 4:  Ulysses Grant in War and Peace  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  H. W. Brands (Author), Stephen Hoye (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Saved-Union-Ulysses/dp/B009KF04ZM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1561342913&sr=1-1From New York Times best-selling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history. Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover he had a genius for battle, and he propelled the Union to victory in the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the disastrous brief presidency of Andrew Johnson, America turned to Grant again to unite the country, this time as president. In Brands' sweeping, majestic full biography, Grant emerges as a heroic figure who was fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field but willing to make the troop sacrifices necessary to win the war, even in the face of storms of criticism. He worked valiantly to protect the rights of freedmen in the South; Brands calls him the last presidential defender of black civil rights for nearly a century. He played it straight with the American Indians, allowing them to shape their own fate even as the realities of Manifest Destiny meant the end of their way of life. He was an enormously popular president whose memoirs were a huge best seller; yet within decades of his death his reputation was in tatters, the victim of Southerners who resented his policies on Reconstruction. In this page-turning biography, Brands now reconsiders Grant's legacy and provides a compelling and intimate portrait of a man who saved the Union on the battlefield and consolidated that victory as a resolute and principled political leader....more

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• The Man Who Saved the Union: 3 of 4: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. H. W. Brands (Author), Stephen Hoye (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 24 2019

  Photo: "Hardscrabble", the farm home Grant built in Missouri for his familyOscar Kuehn - Missouri History Museum. https://dp.la/item/ef4925a0decc07ebc2f80e28560e1398 Horizontal, black and white photograph of three-quarter view of Grant's log cabin and surrounding grounds. Public Domain File:Grant's Log C http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Man Who Saved the Union: 3 of 4:  Ulysses Grant in War and Peace  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  H. W. Brands (Author), Stephen Hoye (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Saved-Union-Ulysses/dp/B009KF04ZM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1561342913&sr=1-1From New York Times best-selling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history. Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover he had a genius for battle, and he propelled the Union to victory in the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the disastrous brief presidency of Andrew Johnson, America turned to Grant again to unite the country, this time as president. In Brands' sweeping, majestic full biography, Grant emerges as a heroic figure who was fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field but willing to make the troop sacrifices necessary to win the war, even in the face of storms of criticism. He worked valiantly to protect the rights of freedmen in the South; Brands calls him the last presidential defender of black civil rights for nearly a century. He played it straight with the American Indians, allowing them to shape their own fate even as the realities of Manifest Destiny meant the end of their way of life. He was an enormously popular president whose memoirs were a huge best seller; yet within decades of his death his reputation was in tatters, the victim of Southerners who resented his policies on Reconstruction. In this page-turning biography, Brands now reconsiders Grant's legacy and provides a compelling and intimate portrait of a man who saved the Union on the battlefield and consolidated that victory as a resolute and principled political leader....more

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• The Man Who Saved the Union: 4 of 4: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. H. W. Brands (Author), Stephen Hoye (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: "Hardscrabble", the farm home Grant built in Missouri for his familyOscar Kuehn - Missouri History Museum. https://dp.la/item/ef4925a0decc07ebc2f80e28560e1398 Horizontal, black and white photograph of three-quarter view of Grant's log cabin and surrounding grounds. Public Domain File:Grant's Log C http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Man Who Saved the Union: 4 of 4:  Ulysses Grant in War and Peace  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  H. W. Brands (Author), Stephen Hoye (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Saved-Union-Ulysses/dp/B009KF04ZM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1561342913&sr=1-1From New York Times best-selling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history. Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover he had a genius for battle, and he propelled the Union to victory in the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the disastrous brief presidency of Andrew Johnson, America turned to Grant again to unite the country, this time as president. In Brands' sweeping, majestic full biography, Grant emerges as a heroic figure who was fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field but willing to make the troop sacrifices necessary to win the war, even in the face of storms of criticism. He worked valiantly to protect the rights of freedmen in the South; Brands calls him the last presidential defender of black civil rights for nearly a century. He played it straight with the American Indians, allowing them to shape their own fate even as the realities of Manifest Destiny meant the end of their way of life. He was an enormously popular president whose memoirs were a huge best seller; yet within decades of his death his reputation was in tatters, the victim of Southerners who resented his policies on Reconstruction. In this page-turning biography, Brands now reconsiders Grant's legacy and provides a compelling and intimate portrait of a man who saved the Union on the battlefield and consolidated that victory as a resolute and principled political leader....more

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• The Nile: 2 of 4: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present Hardcover – . by Toby Wilkinson (Author)

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  Photo: Alexander at the Temple of Apis in Memphis, by Andre Castaigne (1898–1899).Andre Castaigne - Died 1930 - http://www.alexanderstomb.com/ Alexander old drawings Permission details This work is Public DomainView more Public Domainview terms File:Alexander visits the Apis bull at the temple in Memphis by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899).jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Nile: 2 of 4: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present Hardcover – . by Toby Wilkinson (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Nile-Journey-Downriver-Through-Present/dp/0385351550A hypnotic journey in the company of one of the world's most acclaimed Egyptologists over the fabled river telling how the Nile continually brought life to an ancient civilization now dead and how it sustained its successors, now in tumult.Renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson leads us through space as much as time: from the river's mystical sources (the Blue Nile which rises in Ethiopia, and the White Nile coursing from majestic Lake Victoria); to Thebes, with its Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, and Luxor Temple; the fertile Delta; Giza, home of the Great Pyramid, the sole surviving Wonder of the Ancient World; and finally, to the pulsating capital city of Cairo, where the Arab Spring erupted on the bridges over the Nile. Along the way, he introduces us to mysterious and fabled characters-the gods, godlike pharaohs, emperors and empresses, who joined their fate to the Nile and gained immortality; the adventurers, archaeologists, and historians who have all fallen under its spell. With matchless erudition and storytelling skill, through a lens equal to both panoramas and close-ups, Wilkinson brings millennia of history into view....more

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• The Nile:1 of 4: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present Hardcover – . by Toby Wilkinson (Author)

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  Photo: The ruins of the temple of Hathor of Memphis.No machine-readable author provided. Neithsabes assumed (based on copyright claims). - No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims). Vue d'ensemble de la cour péristyle aux chapiteaux hathoriques du temple d'Hathor de Memphis - août 2004 Public Domain File:Temple d'Hathor pano.jpg Created: 25 December 2006 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Nile:1 of 4: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present Hardcover – . by Toby Wilkinson (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Nile-Journey-Downriver-Through-Present/dp/0385351550A hypnotic journey in the company of one of the world's most acclaimed Egyptologists over the fabled river telling how the Nile continually brought life to an ancient civilization now dead and how it sustained its successors, now in tumult.Renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson leads us through space as much as time: from the river's mystical sources (the Blue Nile which rises in Ethiopia, and the White Nile coursing from majestic Lake Victoria); to Thebes, with its Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, and Luxor Temple; the fertile Delta; Giza, home of the Great Pyramid, the sole surviving Wonder of the Ancient World; and finally, to the pulsating capital city of Cairo, where the Arab Spring erupted on the bridges over the Nile. Along the way, he introduces us to mysterious and fabled characters-the gods, godlike pharaohs, emperors and empresses, who joined their fate to the Nile and gained immortality; the adventurers, archaeologists, and historians who have all fallen under its spell. With matchless erudition and storytelling skill, through a lens equal to both panoramas and close-ups, Wilkinson brings millennia of history into view....more

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• The Nile: 3 of 4: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present Hardcover – . by Toby Wilkinson (Author)

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  Photo: The ruins of the palace of Apries, overlooking Memphis.No machine-readable author provided. Neithsabes assumed (based on copyright claims). - No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims). Vue des ruines du palais d'Apriès - XXVIe dynastie - Memphis - Mit Rahineh user:Neithsabes Public Domain File:Memphis200402.JPG Created: 4 August 2004 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Nile: 3 of 4: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present Hardcover – . by Toby Wilkinson (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Nile-Journey-Downriver-Through-Present/dp/0385351550A hypnotic journey in the company of one of the world's most acclaimed Egyptologists over the fabled river telling how the Nile continually brought life to an ancient civilization now dead and how it sustained its successors, now in tumult.Renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson leads us through space as much as time: from the river's mystical sources (the Blue Nile which rises in Ethiopia, and the White Nile coursing from majestic Lake Victoria); to Thebes, with its Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, and Luxor Temple; the fertile Delta; Giza, home of the Great Pyramid, the sole surviving Wonder of the Ancient World; and finally, to the pulsating capital city of Cairo, where the Arab Spring erupted on the bridges over the Nile. Along the way, he introduces us to mysterious and fabled characters-the gods, godlike pharaohs, emperors and empresses, who joined their fate to the Nile and gained immortality; the adventurers, archaeologists, and historians who have all fallen under its spell. With matchless erudition and storytelling skill, through a lens equal to both panoramas and close-ups, Wilkinson brings millennia of history into view....more

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• The Nile: 4 of 4: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present Hardcover – . by Toby Wilkinson (Author)

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  Photo: James Rennell's map of Memphis and Cairo in 1799, showing the changes in the course of the Nile river.James Rennell - Book "The geographical system of Herodotus examined and explained", by James Rennell (published 1800 and 1830). Map of Cairo and region in 1799: Explaining the (ancient siting) position of Memphis and the changes in the course, islands, and ancient branches of the Nile. Created and published by James Rennell; September 2, 1799. Permission details This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.View more Public Domainview terms File:MemphisJamesRennell01.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Nile: 4 of 4: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present Hardcover – . by Toby Wilkinson (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Nile-Journey-Downriver-Through-Present/dp/0385351550A hypnotic journey in the company of one of the world's most acclaimed Egyptologists over the fabled river telling how the Nile continually brought life to an ancient civilization now dead and how it sustained its successors, now in tumult.Renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson leads us through space as much as time: from the river's mystical sources (the Blue Nile which rises in Ethiopia, and the White Nile coursing from majestic Lake Victoria); to Thebes, with its Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, and Luxor Temple; the fertile Delta; Giza, home of the Great Pyramid, the sole surviving Wonder of the Ancient World; and finally, to the pulsating capital city of Cairo, where the Arab Spring erupted on the bridges over the Nile. Along the way, he introduces us to mysterious and fabled characters-the gods, godlike pharaohs, emperors and empresses, who joined their fate to the Nile and gained immortality; the adventurers, archaeologists, and historians who have all fallen under its spell. With matchless erudition and storytelling skill, through a lens equal to both panoramas and close-ups, Wilkinson brings millennia of history into view....more

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• Such Troops as These: 1 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014

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  Jun 23 2019

  Photo: Phillip Pry's prosperous farm and home near Sharpsburg, Maryland; the house was taken over by Union commander General George McClellan to use as his headquarters during the Battle of Antietam.Date | September 1862Source | http://www.nps.gov/anti/photosmultimedia/gardnerphotos.htm?eid=104723&aId=43&root_aid=43&sort=title&startRow=13#e_104723Author | Alexander Gardner (1821-1882)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Such Troops as These: 1 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014 https://www.amazon.com/Such-Troops-These-Leadership-Confederate/dp/0425271293/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a fresh and cogent analysis of Stonewall Jackson’s military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson’s strategies had been adopted. The Civil War of 1861–65 pitted the industrial North against the agricultural South, and remains the most catastrophic conflict in terms of loss of life in American history. With triple the population and eleven times the industry, the Union had a decided advantage over the Confederacy in terms of direct conflict and conventional warfare. One general had the vision of an alternative approach that could win the War for the South—his name was Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson.It was Jackson’s strategy to always strike at the Union’s vulnerabilities, not to challenge its power directly. He won a campaign against the North with a force only a quarter of the size of the Union army, and he was the first commander to recognize the overwhelming defensive power of the new rifles and cannons. With most of its military forces on the offensive in the South, the North was left virtually undefended on its own turf. Jackson believed invading the eastern states along the great industrial corridor from Baltimore to Maine could divide and cripple the Union, forcing surrender. But he failed to convince Confederate president Jefferson Davis or General Robert E. Lee of the viability of his plan.In Such Troops as These, Bevin Alexander presents a compelling case for Stonewall Jackson as a supreme military strategist and the greatest general in American history. Fiercely dedicated to the cause of Southern independence, Jackson would not live to see the end of the War. But his military legacy lives on and finds fitting tribute in this book....more

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• Such Troops as These: 2 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014

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  Jun 23 2019

  Photo: Antietam off the coast of San Diego, Calif., while she begins a week-long exercise in Pacific waters, 31 March 2004. (Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class John DeCoursey, U.S. Navy Photograph 040331-N-8209D-019, Navy NewsStand)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Such Troops as These: 2 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014 https://www.amazon.com/Such-Troops-These-Leadership-Confederate/dp/0425271293/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a fresh and cogent analysis of Stonewall Jackson’s military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson’s strategies had been adopted. The Civil War of 1861–65 pitted the industrial North against the agricultural South, and remains the most catastrophic conflict in terms of loss of life in American history. With triple the population and eleven times the industry, the Union had a decided advantage over the Confederacy in terms of direct conflict and conventional warfare. One general had the vision of an alternative approach that could win the War for the South—his name was Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson.It was Jackson’s strategy to always strike at the Union’s vulnerabilities, not to challenge its power directly. He won a campaign against the North with a force only a quarter of the size of the Union army, and he was the first commander to recognize the overwhelming defensive power of the new rifles and cannons. With most of its military forces on the offensive in the South, the North was left virtually undefended on its own turf. Jackson believed invading the eastern states along the great industrial corridor from Baltimore to Maine could divide and cripple the Union, forcing surrender. But he failed to convince Confederate president Jefferson Davis or General Robert E. Lee of the viability of his plan.In Such Troops as These, Bevin Alexander presents a compelling case for Stonewall Jackson as a supreme military strategist and the greatest general in American history. Fiercely dedicated to the cause of Southern independence, Jackson would not live to see the end of the War. But his military legacy lives on and finds fitting tribute in this book....more

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• Such Troops as These: 3 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014

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  Jun 23 2019

  Photo: The Battle of Pittsburg Landing [Shiloh, Tenn., April 1862]: The woods on fire...Sunday, Apr. 6; 44th Regt, Indian Volunteers engagedAbstract/medium: 1 print : wood engraving.Date | 1862Source | Library of CongressCatalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/2005694845Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b00000/3b07000/3b07100/3b07179r.jpgOriginal url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005694845/Author | Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of CongressPermission(Reusing this file) | No known restrictions on publication.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSuch Troops as These: 3 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014 https://www.amazon.com/Such-Troops-These-Leadership-Confederate/dp/0425271293/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a fresh and cogent analysis of Stonewall Jackson’s military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson’s strategies had been adopted. The Civil War of 1861–65 pitted the industrial North against the agricultural South, and remains the most catastrophic conflict in terms of loss of life in American history. With triple the population and eleven times the industry, the Union had a decided advantage over the Confederacy in terms of direct conflict and conventional warfare. One general had the vision of an alternative approach that could win the War for the South—his name was Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson.It was Jackson’s strategy to always strike at the Union’s vulnerabilities, not to challenge its power directly. He won a campaign against the North with a force only a quarter of the size of the Union army, and he was the first commander to recognize the overwhelming defensive power of the new rifles and cannons. With most of its military forces on the offensive in the South, the North was left virtually undefended on its own turf. Jackson believed invading the eastern states along the great industrial corridor from Baltimore to Maine could divide and cripple the Union, forcing surrender. But he failed to convince Confederate president Jefferson Davis or General Robert E. Lee of the viability of his plan.In Such Troops as These, Bevin Alexander presents a compelling case for Stonewall Jackson as a supreme military strategist and the greatest general in American history. Fiercely dedicated to the cause of Southern independence, Jackson would not live to see the end of the War. But his military legacy lives on and finds fitting tribute in this book....more

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• Such Troops as These: 4 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014

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  Jun 23 2019

  Photo: The Battle of Pittsburg Landing [Shiloh, Tenn., April 1862]: Burning the dead horses near the Peach Orch. Abstract/medium: 1 print : wood engraving.Date | 1862Source | Library of CongressCatalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/2005694847Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b00000/3b07000/3b07100/3b07181r.jpgOriginal url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005694847/Author | Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of CongressPermission(Reusing this file) | No known restrictions on publication.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSuch Troops as These: 4 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014 https://www.amazon.com/Such-Troops-These-Leadership-Confederate/dp/0425271293/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a fresh and cogent analysis of Stonewall Jackson’s military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson’s strategies had been adopted. The Civil War of 1861–65 pitted the industrial North against the agricultural South, and remains the most catastrophic conflict in terms of loss of life in American history. With triple the population and eleven times the industry, the Union had a decided advantage over the Confederacy in terms of direct conflict and conventional warfare. One general had the vision of an alternative approach that could win the War for the South—his name was Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson.It was Jackson’s strategy to always strike at the Union’s vulnerabilities, not to challenge its power directly. He won a campaign against the North with a force only a quarter of the size of the Union army, and he was the first commander to recognize the overwhelming defensive power of the new rifles and cannons. With most of its military forces on the offensive in the South, the North was left virtually undefended on its own turf. Jackson believed invading the eastern states along the great industrial corridor from Baltimore to Maine could divide and cripple the Union, forcing surrender. But he failed to convince Confederate president Jefferson Davis or General Robert E. Lee of the viability of his plan.In Such Troops as These, Bevin Alexander presents a compelling case for Stonewall Jackson as a supreme military strategist and the greatest general in American history. Fiercely dedicated to the cause of Southern independence, Jackson would not live to see the end of the War. But his military legacy lives on and finds fitting tribute in this book....more

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• The mystery of the 1990 Kahane conspiracy and the debate of Double Sovereignty. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO

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  Jun 23 2019

  Photo: The Old Royal Exchange, in New York City, where the first meeting of the Court was held in February 1790, though with no cases to hear.This drawing was published in Vol. 2 of the History of the City of New York by Martha Joanna Lamb (1881; page 634), as referenced here. This is a drawing of the Old Royal Exchange building in New York City, formerly located in Broad Street near the intersection with Water Street. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe mystery of the 1990 Kahane conspiracy and the debate of Double Sovereignty. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NROhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/supreme-court-upholds-dual-sovereignty-doctrine/ ...more

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• The Nagorno-Karabakh tragedy at the White House. @ElinSuleytmanov @azembassyus

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  Jun 23 2019

  Photo: English: Satellite image of the Caucasus, from NASA’s Visible EarthNASA/MODIS - Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team - http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=1939 Permission details Public DomainView more Public Domainview terms File:Kaukasus.jpg Created: 12 June 2001 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Nagorno-Karabakh tragedy at the White House. @ElinSuleymanov @azembassyus https://www.azernews.az/nation/152402.html ...more

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• The Blob on Jupiter. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 23 2019

  Photo: This full-disc image of Jupiter was taken on 21 April 2014 with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).Date | 21 April 2014Source | http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1410a/ or http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/24/image/b/Author | NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Blob on Jupiter. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/?s=Juno ...more

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• GAO doubts NASA & What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 23 2019

  Photo: Erie Canal panorama of Clinton Square in Syracuse, New York about 1900 - Old County Courthouse on left and Onondaga Savings Bank Building on far rightDate | 1900Source | Post Card from Onondaga County Public Library collectionAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGAO doubts NASA & What is to be done? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/?s=GAO

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• New American Civil War: 2 of 2: Competing National Mytholgies: US vs RU vs CN vs US. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Jun 23 2019

  Photo: The Middle Kingdom : a survey of the geography, government, education, social life, arts, and history of the Chinese Empire and its inhabitantsYear: 1913 (1910s)Authors:  Williams, S. Wells (Samuel Wells), 1812-1884Subjects:  ChinaPublisher:  New York : C. Scribner's SonsContributing Library:  University of California LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:, or ten miles, for theChinese city on its south; not counting the cross-wall, the cir-cuit measures almost twenty-one miles. The suburbs near thethirteen outer gates altogether form a small pi-oportion to thewhole; the area within them is nearly twenty-six square miles.Those residents who have had the best opportunities estimatethe entire population at a million or somewhat less; no censusreturns are available to prove this figure, nor can it be statedwhat is the proportion of Manchus, Mongols, and Chinese, exceptthat the latter outnumber all others. Du Ilalde reckoned itto be about three millions, and Klaproth one million three hun-dred thousand; and each was probably true at some period,for the number has diminished with the poverty of the Govern-ment. Peking is regarded by the Chinese as one of their ancientcities, ))ut it was not made the capital of the whole empireuntil Kublai established his court at this spot in 1264. TheMing emperors who succeeded the Mongols held their courthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNew American Civil War: 2 of 2: Competing National Mytholgies: US vs RU vs CN vs US. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis...more

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• New American Civil War: 1 of 2: Competing National Mytholgies: US vs RU vs CN vs US. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Jun 23 2019

  Photo: 1963 Soviet stamp commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad, with caption reading Великая Отечественная война 1941-1945гг..Unknown - Почтовая марка СССР Почтовая марка СССР 1963 года, посвященная 20-ю Сталинградской битвы http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNew American Civil War: 1 of 2: Competing National Mytholgies: US vs RU vs CN vs US. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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• The Istanbul rerun election exposes the clashing politics of Turkey: 2 of 2: @SvanteCornell @AFPC

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  Jun 23 2019

  Photo: Dolmabahçe Mosque, 1880, Abdullah FrèresSALT Research, Photograph ArchiveDolmabahçe Camii, 1880, Abdullah FrèresSALT Araştırma, Fotoğraf ArşiviDate | 6 March 2014, 12:05:47Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/saltonline/12966887134/http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Istanbul rerun election exposes the clashing politics of Turkey: 2 of 2: @SvanteCornell @AFPChttps://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/06/12/crashing-the-parties/?utm-access=newsletter&utm_source=TAI+Today&utm_campaign=fda8c88ab7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_18_08_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6322a81c35-fda8c88ab7-178777051. ...more

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• The Istanbul rerun election exposes the clashing politics of Turkey: 1 of 2: @SvanteCornell @AFPC

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  Jun 23 2019

  Photo: Abdullah brothers - View of Istanbul and the Laleli Camii; before the mosque: View of ramp leading into the royal lodge, looking west, before 1895. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Istanbul rerun election exposes the clashing politics of Turkey: 1 of 2: @SvanteCornell @AFPChttps://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/06/12/crashing-the-parties/?utm-access=newsletter&utm_source=TAI+Today&utm_campaign=fda8c88ab7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_18_08_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6322a81c35-fda8c88ab7-178777051. ...more

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• Reasons to be bearish as the SPX goes to all-time highs. @McTagueJames

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  Jun 22 2019

  Photo: Wall Street, New YorkObject type | photographDescription | English: Paul Strand took this photograph from the steps of the New York Federal Hall during morning rush hour. The recently completed building of white marble at 23 Wall Street (on the southeast corner of Wall and Broad Streets) was located in one of the most expensive areas of real estate in New York City. A symbol of financial power, it was the new headquarters of J.P. Morgan and Company. The photograph grew out of what the artist described as an attempt to capture a “kind of movement” that was at once “abstract and controlled.” The long horizontal shadows of the figures counterpose the yawning dark verticals of the Morgan Bank’s windows, and the dynamism of their movement plays off of the building’s solidity. While this image evokes the tenor of urban existence in early twentieth century America, it is just as important for its abstract formal patterns and structures, which Strand believed were uncovered by the camera’s objectivity. The photograph can be seen as the quintessential representation of the uneasy relationship between early twentieth-century Americans and their new cities. Here the people are seen not as individuals but as abstract silhouettes trailing long shadows down the chasms of commerce. The intuitive empathy that Strand demonstrates for these workers of New York's financial district would be evident throughout the wide and varied career of this seminal American photographer and filmmaker, who increasingly became involved with the hardships of working people around the world. In this and his other early photographs of New York, Strand helped set a trend toward pure photography of subject and away from the "pictorialist" imitation of painting.Date | 1915http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowReasons to be bearish as the SPX goes to all-time highs. @McTagueJameshttps://www.wsj.com/articles/stocks-are-sitting-pretty-heading-into-summer-11561109403?mod=hp_lead_pos3 ...more

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• #TheScalaReport: Facial recognition software and the long goodbye to privacy and non-transparency online. Part 2 of 2. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com

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  Jun 22 2019

  Photo: The Patrician Torlonia bust, believed to be of Cato the Elder. 1st century BCUnknown - scan from 19th century book So called patrician Torlonia Patrizio Torlonia. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: Facial recognition software and the long goodbye to privacy and non-transparency online. Part 2 of 2.   Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE ⁦@ScalaInc⁩https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/16/california-could-limit-how-police-use-facial-recognition-technology/1456448001/ ...more

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• The DoD drones are unready for enemy powers. @FRoseDC "Governbment Matters." WJLA-TV.

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  Jun 22 2019

  Photo:  Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian warYear: 1889 (1880s)Authors:  Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna), 1835-1924Subjects:  Zoroastrianism Iran -- History Babylon (Extinct city) -- HistoryPublisher:  London : T. Fisher Unwin New York : G.P. Putnam's SonsContributing Library:  Robarts - University of TorontoDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe DoD drones are unready for enemy powers. @FRoseDC "Governbment Matters."  WJLA-TV.https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/06/how-pentagon-nickel-and-dimed-its-way-losing-drone/157912/ ...more

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• Born to Battle: 1 of 4: Grant and Forrest: Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga: The Campaigns that Doomed the Confederacy. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Jack Hurst (Author), Joe Barrett (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 22 2019

  Photo: American Civil War, produced by L. Prang & Co. Thure de Thulstrup - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID pga.04037. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Born to Battle: 1 of 4: Grant and Forrest: Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga: The Campaigns that Doomed the Confederacy.  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Jack Hurst (Author), Joe Barrett (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Born-Battle-Vicksburg-Chattanooga-Confederacy-dp-B00870FNHK/dp/B00870FNHK/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=Born to Battle examines the Civil War's complex and decisive western theater through the exploits of its greatest figures: Ulysses S. Grant and Nathan Bedford Forrest. These two opposing giants squared off in some of the most epic campaigns of the war, starting at Shiloh and continuing through Perryville, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga - battles in which the Union would slowly but surely divide the western Confederacy, setting the stage for the final showdowns of this bloody and protracted conflict.  Grant is widely regarded as the man most responsible for winning the war for the Union; Forrest is known as the Confederacy's most fearsome defender in the West. Both men had risen through their respective hierarchies thanks to their cunning and military brilliance, and despite their checkered pasts. Grant and Forrest were both lower-born officers who struggled to overcome particular, dubious reputations. In time, each became renowned for his intelligence, resourcefulness, and grit.  Beginning with the Union victory at Tennessee's Fort Donelson in February, 1862, Hurst follows both men through the campaigns of the next 20 months, showing how this critical period - and these two unequaled leaders - would change the course of the war. An utterly American tale about class and merit and their role in one of the most formative wars in the nation's history, Born to Battle offers an impassioned account of two visionary Civil War leaders and the clashing cultures they fought - in some cases, quite ironically - to protect.  Hurst shows how Grant and Forrest brought to the battlefield the fabled virtues of the American working class: ingenuity, hard work, and intense determination. Each man's background contributed to his triumphs on the battlefield, but the open-mindedness of his fellow commanders proved just as important. When the North embraced Grant, it won a stalwart defender. When the South rejected Forrest, by contrast, it sealed its fate....more

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• Born to Battle: 2 of 4: Grant and Forrest: Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga: The Campaigns that Doomed the Confederacy. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Jack Hurst (Author), Joe Barrett (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 22 2019

  Photo: Kentucky–Tennessee, 1862United States, War Department. - United States, War Department. Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1891 (2 vols.). http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Born to Battle: 2 of 4: Grant and Forrest: Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga: The Campaigns that Doomed the Confederacy.  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Jack Hurst (Author), Joe Barrett (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Born-Battle-Vicksburg-Chattanooga-Confederacy-dp-B00870FNHK/dp/B00870FNHK/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=Born to Battle examines the Civil War's complex and decisive western theater through the exploits of its greatest figures: Ulysses S. Grant and Nathan Bedford Forrest. These two opposing giants squared off in some of the most epic campaigns of the war, starting at Shiloh and continuing through Perryville, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga - battles in which the Union would slowly but surely divide the western Confederacy, setting the stage for the final showdowns of this bloody and protracted conflict.  Grant is widely regarded as the man most responsible for winning the war for the Union; Forrest is known as the Confederacy's most fearsome defender in the West. Both men had risen through their respective hierarchies thanks to their cunning and military brilliance, and despite their checkered pasts. Grant and Forrest were both lower-born officers who struggled to overcome particular, dubious reputations. In time, each became renowned for his intelligence, resourcefulness, and grit.  Beginning with the Union victory at Tennessee's Fort Donelson in February, 1862, Hurst follows both men through the campaigns of the next 20 months, showing how this critical period - and these two unequaled leaders - would change the course of the war. An utterly American tale about class and merit and their role in one of the most formative wars in the nation's history, Born to Battle offers an impassioned account of two visionary Civil War leaders and the clashing cultures they fought - in some cases, quite ironically - to protect.  Hurst shows how Grant and Forrest brought to the battlefield the fabled virtues of the American working class: ingenuity, hard work, and intense determination. Each man's background contributed to his triumphs on the battlefield, but the open-mindedness of his fellow commanders proved just as important. When the North embraced Grant, it won a stalwart defender. When the South rejected Forrest, by contrast, it sealed its fate....more

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• Born to Battle: 3 of 4: Grant and Forrest: Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga: The Campaigns that Doomed the Confederacy. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Jack Hurst (Author), Joe Barrett (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 22 2019

  Photo: Lexington and Tyler at Shiloh Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel (book authors). - This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library.  View image on Flickr   View all images from book   View catalogue entry for book.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Born to Battle: 3 of 4: Grant and Forrest: Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga: The Campaigns that Doomed the Confederacy.  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Jack Hurst (Author), Joe Barrett (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Born-Battle-Vicksburg-Chattanooga-Confederacy-dp-B00870FNHK/dp/B00870FNHK/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=Born to Battle examines the Civil War's complex and decisive western theater through the exploits of its greatest figures: Ulysses S. Grant and Nathan Bedford Forrest. These two opposing giants squared off in some of the most epic campaigns of the war, starting at Shiloh and continuing through Perryville, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga - battles in which the Union would slowly but surely divide the western Confederacy, setting the stage for the final showdowns of this bloody and protracted conflict.  Grant is widely regarded as the man most responsible for winning the war for the Union; Forrest is known as the Confederacy's most fearsome defender in the West. Both men had risen through their respective hierarchies thanks to their cunning and military brilliance, and despite their checkered pasts. Grant and Forrest were both lower-born officers who struggled to overcome particular, dubious reputations. In time, each became renowned for his intelligence, resourcefulness, and grit.  Beginning with the Union victory at Tennessee's Fort Donelson in February, 1862, Hurst follows both men through the campaigns of the next 20 months, showing how this critical period - and these two unequaled leaders - would change the course of the war. An utterly American tale about class and merit and their role in one of the most formative wars in the nation's history, Born to Battle offers an impassioned account of two visionary Civil War leaders and the clashing cultures they fought - in some cases, quite ironically - to protect.  Hurst shows how Grant and Forrest brought to the battlefield the fabled virtues of the American working class: ingenuity, hard work, and intense determination. Each man's background contributed to his triumphs on the battlefield, but the open-mindedness of his fellow commanders proved just as important. When the North embraced Grant, it won a stalwart defender. When the South rejected Forrest, by contrast, it sealed its fate....more

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• Born to Battle: 4 of 4: Grant and Forrest: Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga: The Campaigns that Doomed the Confederacy. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Jack Hurst (Author), Joe Barrett (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 22 2019

  Photo: Hurlbut's Division defending the peach orchard Internet Archive Book Images - https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14576331188/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/soldierinourcivi01lesl/soldierinourcivi01lesl#page/n277/mode/1up http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Born to Battle: 4 of 4: Grant and Forrest: Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga: The Campaigns that Doomed the Confederacy.  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Jack Hurst (Author), Joe Barrett (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Born-Battle-Vicksburg-Chattanooga-Confederacy-dp-B00870FNHK/dp/B00870FNHK/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=Born to Battle examines the Civil War's complex and decisive western theater through the exploits of its greatest figures: Ulysses S. Grant and Nathan Bedford Forrest. These two opposing giants squared off in some of the most epic campaigns of the war, starting at Shiloh and continuing through Perryville, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga - battles in which the Union would slowly but surely divide the western Confederacy, setting the stage for the final showdowns of this bloody and protracted conflict.  Grant is widely regarded as the man most responsible for winning the war for the Union; Forrest is known as the Confederacy's most fearsome defender in the West. Both men had risen through their respective hierarchies thanks to their cunning and military brilliance, and despite their checkered pasts. Grant and Forrest were both lower-born officers who struggled to overcome particular, dubious reputations. In time, each became renowned for his intelligence, resourcefulness, and grit.  Beginning with the Union victory at Tennessee's Fort Donelson in February, 1862, Hurst follows both men through the campaigns of the next 20 months, showing how this critical period - and these two unequaled leaders - would change the course of the war. An utterly American tale about class and merit and their role in one of the most formative wars in the nation's history, Born to Battle offers an impassioned account of two visionary Civil War leaders and the clashing cultures they fought - in some cases, quite ironically - to protect.  Hurst shows how Grant and Forrest brought to the battlefield the fabled virtues of the American working class: ingenuity, hard work, and intense determination. Each man's background contributed to his triumphs on the battlefield, but the open-mindedness of his fellow commanders proved just as important. When the North embraced Grant, it won a stalwart defender. When the South rejected Forrest, by contrast, it sealed its fate....more

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• Democrat Dilemma: If not "Sleepy Joe," then? @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 22 2019

  Photo: Northwestern Indiana from 1800 to 1900;Year: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  Ball, Timothy Horton, 1826- (from old catalog)Subjects:  IndiansPublisher:  (Chicago, Donohue & Henneberry, printers)Contributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  The Library of Congresshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDemocrat Dilemma: If not "Sleepy Joe," then? @DanHenninger @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-sleepy-joe-problem-11560985060 ...more

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• Groundhog Day Election in Israel. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 22 2019

  Photo: Citron Harvest1900עברית: קטיף אתרוגים ,Original Image Name: קטיף אתרוגים ,Notes: source: documentors - Vivienne Silver BrodyDate | 1900Source | The Israel Internet Association via the PikiWiki - Israel free image collection projectAuthor | צדוק בסאןhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGroundhog Day Election in Israel. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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• What is the secret Trump Administration plan for the Palestinians? Dennis Ross @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 22 2019

  Photo: Road to Hebron, Mar Saba, etc. General view of Mar Saba.Medium/Size | 1 negative: glass, stereograph, dry plate / 5 × 7 ″ (12.7 × 17.7 cm).Notes | Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?].Caption on negative: General view of Mar Saba.Date from Matson LOT cards.Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.Date | circa from 1900 until 1920 Source | https://humus.dreamwidth.org/8589293.html?thread=30995181&style=lightAuthor | American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographerhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat is the secret Trump Administration plan for the Palestinians? Dennis Ross @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presAmbassador Dennis Ross is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Prior to returning to the Institute in 2011, he served two years as special assistant to President Obama and National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, and a year as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.Ambassador Ross was U.S. point man on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He was instrumental in assisting Israelis and Palestinians to reach the 1995 Interim Agreement; he also successfully brokered the 1997 Hebron Accord, facilitated the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty, and intensively worked to bring Israel and Syria together. Articles:·      https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/dont-dismiss-the-bahrain-conference.-it-can-help-palestinians ·      https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/06/20/without-israel-and-the-palestinians-what-progress-can-be-made-in-bahrain/ ·      https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinians-boast-of-foiling-bahrain-peace-conference/ ·      https://www.timesofisrael.com/bahrain-conference-may-succeed-but-not-at-bringing-israeli-palestinian-peace/ ·      https://www.jta.org/2019/06/18/politics/jared-kushners-bahrain-peace-summit-is-for-the-israelis-and-palestinians-but-neither-will-be-there ...more

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• The Russians are not able to contain the IRGC in Syria & What is to be done? Yossi Kupperwasser, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 22 2019

  Photo: The Babylonian captivity (painting by James Tissot from c. 1896 to 1902) James Tissot - https://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/26577-the-flight-of-the-prisoners Jacques Joseph Tissot The Flight of the Prisoners, c. 1896-1902 , gouache on board, 8 15/16 x 11 5/8 in. (22.7 x 29.7 cm), Jewish Museum, New York, NY. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Russians are not able to contain the IRGC in Syria & What is to be done? Yossi Kupperwasser, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presBrig. Gen. (Res.) Yosef Kuperwasser is a senior project manager at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He is former Director General of the Ministry of International Affairs and Strategy. In his long career at the IDF, Brig. Gen. (res.) Kuperwasser served as Assistant Defense Attaché for Intelligence at the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC (1992-1994) and Intelligence Officer of the IDF Central Command (1998-2001), and Head of the Analysis and Production Division of the IDF Directorate of Military Intelligence (2001-2006).  Related articles·      https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/06/weapons-iran-palestinian-factions-west-bank-missiles-pa.html ·      http://jcpa.org/article/the-war-of-many-rounds-in-gaza-hamas-islamic-jihad-vs-israel/ ·      https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-process-gaza-sewage-with-new-pipeline-report/ ·      https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Hamas-goes-back-on-helping-poor-will-give-Qatari-funds-to-its-members-592828 ·      https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-says-it-arrested-iranian-spy-in-west-bank-amid-ratcheting-tensions/ ...more

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• Such Troops as These: 4 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014

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  Jun 22 2019

  Photo: The Private Soldier Monument at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, PA, in 1876. NPS Photo http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Such Troops as These: 4 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014 https://www.amazon.com/Such-Troops-These-Leadership-Confederate/dp/0425271293/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a fresh and cogent analysis of Stonewall Jackson’s military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson’s strategies had been adopted. The Civil War of 1861–65 pitted the industrial North against the agricultural South, and remains the most catastrophic conflict in terms of loss of life in American history. With triple the population and eleven times the industry, the Union had a decided advantage over the Confederacy in terms of direct conflict and conventional warfare. One general had the vision of an alternative approach that could win the War for the South—his name was Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson.It was Jackson’s strategy to always strike at the Union’s vulnerabilities, not to challenge its power directly. He won a campaign against the North with a force only a quarter of the size of the Union army, and he was the first commander to recognize the overwhelming defensive power of the new rifles and cannons. With most of its military forces on the offensive in the South, the North was left virtually undefended on its own turf. Jackson believed invading the eastern states along the great industrial corridor from Baltimore to Maine could divide and cripple the Union, forcing surrender. But he failed to convince Confederate president Jefferson Davis or General Robert E. Lee of the viability of his plan.In Such Troops as These, Bevin Alexander presents a compelling case for Stonewall Jackson as a supreme military strategist and the greatest general in American history. Fiercely dedicated to the cause of Southern independence, Jackson would not live to see the end of the War. But his military legacy lives on and finds fitting tribute in this book....more

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• Such Troops as These: 3 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014

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  Jun 22 2019

  Photo: Dedication of the Private Soldier Monument, September 17, 1880 NPS Photo http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Such Troops as These: 3 of 4: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson Hardcover – September 2, 2014 https://www.amazon.com/Such-Troops-These-Leadership-Confederate/dp/0425271293/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a fresh and cogent analysis of Stonewall Jackson’s military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson’s strategies had been adopted. The Civil War of 1861–65 pitted the industrial North against the agricultural South, and remains the most catastrophic conflict in terms of loss of life in American history. With triple the population and eleven times the industry, the Union had a decided advantage over the Confederacy in terms of direct conflict and conventional warfare. One general had the vision of an alternative approach that could win the War for the South—his name was Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson.It was Jackson’s strategy to always strike at the Union’s vulnerabilities, not to challenge its power directly. He won a campaign against the North with a force only a quarter of the size of the Union army, and he was the first commander to recognize the overwhelming defensive power of the new rifles and cannons. With most of its military forces on the offensive in the South, the North was left virtually undefended on its own turf. Jackson believed invading the eastern states along the great industrial corridor from Baltimore to Maine could divide and cripple the Union, forcing surrender. But he failed to convince Confederate president Jefferson Davis or General Robert E. Lee of the viability of his plan.In Such Troops as These, Bevin Alexander presents a compelling case for Stonewall Jackson as a supreme military strategist and the greatest general in American history. Fiercely dedicated to the cause of Southern independence, Jackson would not live to see the end of the War. But his military legacy lives on and finds fitting tribute in this book....more

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• A miracle for the lives of Glioblastoma patients: 2 of 2: Fahar Merchant, @Medicenna

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  Jun 22 2019

  Photo: Industrial medicine and surgeryYear: 1919 (1910s)Authors:  Mock, Harry E. (Harry Edgar), 1880-Subjects:  Occupational diseases Working class Surgery MedicinePublisher:  Philadelphia and London : W. B. Saunders CompanyContributing Library:  Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Libraryhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowA miracle for the lives of Glioblastoma patients: 2 of 2:  Fahar Merchant, @Medicenna  TARGETING GLIOBLASTOMAThere are around 23,800 brain and nervous system cancers diagnosed each year in the United States1. The most common and also a uniformly fatal form of primary brain cancer in adults is glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)2. Regrettably, despite decades of research, very few treatment options are available for GBM and patients diagnosed with the disease typically survive fewer than 15 months. The current international standard-of-care is surgery, followed by radiation and chemotherapy (typically temozolomide). But not everyone responds to this treatment, and those that do almost invariably find that the tumour becomes resistant or comes back. The difficulty in developing new treatments for brain tumours is that the central nervous system is unique in the body because it is separated from the circulatory system by the blood-brain barrier (BBB). This membrane tightly controls the traffic of immune cells, cytokines, or drugs into the brain3. Additionally, the specialized cells that exist around a brain tumour, known as the tumour microenvironment (TME), are often immunosuppressive. This dampens the impact of any infiltrating immune cells that seek to destroy the cancer. The good news is that a growing understanding of how the immune system functions within the brain has led to some promising early-stage trials using immunotherapy4, such as oncolytic viruses5, vaccines6 and checkpoint inhibitors7. But in order to meaningfully tackle the disease entails overcoming this immunosuppressive TME and implementing a delivery mechanism able to bypass the BBB. Medicenna has taken a multi-pronged approach to tackling GBM using our Empowered™ IL-4 cytokine, MDNA55. The GBM micro-environment is supported by a robust population of immunosuppressive Myeloid Derived Suppressor Cells (MDSCs) and tumour associated macrophages (TAMs) which over-express the receptor for IL-4 (IL4R).  Crucially, in glioblastoma tumours, the IL4R is significantly increased, while being almost completely absent in normal brain tissue8. MDNA55 is an engineered version of IL-4 that exploits this discrepancy by carrying a cell-killing payload. When MDNA55 binds to the IL4R, the entire molecule is transported into the cell where the payload is delivered, triggering cell death. In our previous and ongoing clinical trials, this MDNA55 is locally administered after surgery by directly infusing the drug onto the tumour itself after the tumour has recurred. This delivery method means that the treatment can bypass the BBB and reduce systemic side effects.  By neutralizing MDSCs and TAMs that highly express IL-4R, MDNA55 is also able to influence the local tumour microenvironment, reducing the tumours inherent immunosuppression and potentially enhancing any follow up immunotherapy treatments. The uniqueness of this approach allows MDNA55 to potentially treat glioblastoma with minimal side effects, ease of drug delivery and reduce the immunosuppression inherent in these tumours. 1. https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/brain.html2. https://www.braintumour.ca/2494/brain-tumour-facts3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4506234/4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2786905/5. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5084676/”6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619015/7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735528/8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15830341 ...more

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• A miracle for the lives of Glioblastoma patients: 1 of 2: Fahar Merchant, @Medicenna

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  Jun 22 2019

  Photo:  Catalogue of surgeons instruments and medical appliances. Electro-therapeutic apparatus. Sundries for the surgery and sick-room, medicine chests, etcYear: 1896 (1890s)Authors:  James Woolley (Firm)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowA miracle for the lives of Glioblastoma patients: 1 of 2:  Fahar Merchant, @Medicenna  TARGETING GLIOBLASTOMAThere are around 23,800 brain and nervous system cancers diagnosed each year in the United States1. The most common and also a uniformly fatal form of primary brain cancer in adults is glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)2. Regrettably, despite decades of research, very few treatment options are available for GBM and patients diagnosed with the disease typically survive fewer than 15 months. The current international standard-of-care is surgery, followed by radiation and chemotherapy (typically temozolomide). But not everyone responds to this treatment, and those that do almost invariably find that the tumour becomes resistant or comes back. The difficulty in developing new treatments for brain tumours is that the central nervous system is unique in the body because it is separated from the circulatory system by the blood-brain barrier (BBB). This membrane tightly controls the traffic of immune cells, cytokines, or drugs into the brain3. Additionally, the specialized cells that exist around a brain tumour, known as the tumour microenvironment (TME), are often immunosuppressive. This dampens the impact of any infiltrating immune cells that seek to destroy the cancer. The good news is that a growing understanding of how the immune system functions within the brain has led to some promising early-stage trials using immunotherapy4, such as oncolytic viruses5, vaccines6 and checkpoint inhibitors7. But in order to meaningfully tackle the disease entails overcoming this immunosuppressive TME and implementing a delivery mechanism able to bypass the BBB. Medicenna has taken a multi-pronged approach to tackling GBM using our Empowered™ IL-4 cytokine, MDNA55. The GBM micro-environment is supported by a robust population of immunosuppressive Myeloid Derived Suppressor Cells (MDSCs) and tumour associated macrophages (TAMs) which over-express the receptor for IL-4 (IL4R).  Crucially, in glioblastoma tumours, the IL4R is significantly increased, while being almost completely absent in normal brain tissue8. MDNA55 is an engineered version of IL-4 that exploits this discrepancy by carrying a cell-killing payload. When MDNA55 binds to the IL4R, the entire molecule is transported into the cell where the payload is delivered, triggering cell death. In our previous and ongoing clinical trials, this MDNA55 is locally administered after surgery by directly infusing the drug onto the tumour itself after the tumour has recurred. This delivery method means that the treatment can bypass the BBB and reduce systemic side effects.  By neutralizing MDSCs and TAMs that highly express IL-4R, MDNA55 is also able to influence the local tumour microenvironment, reducing the tumours inherent immunosuppression and potentially enhancing any follow up immunotherapy treatments. The uniqueness of this approach allows MDNA55 to potentially treat glioblastoma with minimal side effects, ease of drug delivery and reduce the immunosuppression inherent in these tumours. 1. https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/brain.html2. https://www.braintumour.ca/2494/brain-tumour-facts3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4506234/4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2786905/5. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5084676/”6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619015/7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735528/8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15830341 ...more

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• Russia always has a Plan B. @IlanBerman @AFPC Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 21 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRussia always has a Plan B. @IlanBerman @AFPC Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presIlan Berman is Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC. An expert on regional security in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Russian Federation, he has consulted for both the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Department of Defense, and provided assistance on foreign policy and national security issues to a range of governmental agencies and congressional offices. He has been called one of America's "leading experts on the Middle East and Iran" by CNN.        ●     https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/06/19/irans-attack-opportunity-limit-irans-influence-oil-prices-column/1485948001/ ●     https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/448853-iran-is-winning-but-us-has-options-in-gulf-crisis ●     https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-18/to-avoid-war-with-iran-democrats-and-europe-should-support-trump  ●     https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/an-international-coalition-to-protect-ships-from-iran-is-the-best-way-to-avoid-a-war/2019/06/19/d7e708de-92d1-11e9-aadb-74e6b2b46f6a_story.html ...more

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• Iran predators are out of options. @TzviKahn @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 21 2019

  Photo: the Behistun in-scription of temples destroyed and rebuilt has sorelypuzzled the decipherers. For it is well known thatthe Zoroastrian religion admits of no temples, andthat its only rallying-points of worship are its dtesJi-gdlis or fire-altars, in the open air or in unpretend-ing, unadorned chapels.* That a Mazdayaznian,therefore, should take to himself credit for rebuild-ing temples seemed an unaccountable anomaly. * The Persians have had temples, but at a later period, which doesnot come within the bounds of the present work. That period maybe called that of the final decadence of pure Mazdeism. We knowof temples erected to Mithra and Anahita-Ardvi-Sura already byKing Artaxerxes, the grandson of Dareios. This was due to theinfluence of the Semitic and Canaanitic religions ; Mithra was trans-formed into a counterpart of their Baals and Molochs, and Anahitainto that of their nature goddesses—Beltis, Mylitta, Astarte, Atarga-tis, and the rest. She had a famous temple at Susa.Text Appearing After Image:QZ DOA■J 0 X A H A y j^ n t^ ^^ y-^ J ;4 X < ** z, 4J u < Hi T. 3 . a n ■Ji <fl 7, c c /. yi -^ .1 ^, Y) ^ •i. ■^ •< o en 368 MEDIA BABYLON, AND PERSIA. The inconsistcnc), however, vanishes if wc assume,with JMax Duncker,* that temples not of tlic Per-sians or Medes are meant, but of the subject nations.Wc have seen that Kyros and, in imitation of him,his son Kambyses made it a point not only to toler-ate, but personally to honor, the religions of con-quered countries. It is very natural to suppose thatthe usurper would be uninfluenced by the dictatesof sound statecraft, and, blindly following his priestlyzeal, would neglect and even destroy these to himabominable seats and landmarks of heathenism.Dareios, no less naturally, immediately resumed theliberal and conciliatory policy of his house, andmentions it in his annals as a claim on the reg-ard ofa large portion of his subjects. We must rememberthat all the AkhaeNote About ImagesPlease note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.Date | 1889Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14778129431/Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/mediababylonpers00ragouoft/mediababylonpers00ragouoft#page/n398/mode/1uphttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIran predators are out of options. @TzviKahn @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres Tzvi Kahn is a senior Iran analyst at FDD. He previously worked as a senior policy analyst at the Foreign Policy Initiative, where he published extensively on Iran’s nuclear program and regional ambitions. Tzvi also served as assistant director for policy and government affairs at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). From 2013 to 2014, he was an FDD national security fellow. ●     https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/06/18/iran-releases-a-u-s-resident-taken-hostage ●     https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/world/middleeast/iran-zakka-prisoner.html ●     https://apnews.com/fc0d27f4e25f4338b671cf8913e3f408 ●     https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/06/17/cash-strapped-regime-in-tehran-taps-sovereign-wealth-fund/ ●     https://en.radiofarda.com/a/29995011.html ...more

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• Erdogan of Turkey is not ten feet tall. @SvanteCornell @AFPC Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 21 2019

  Photo: Soğukceşme Road, Istanbul“Sokağın ilginçliği, fiziksel konumundadır: Bütün evler, arkadaki Saray duvarına yapışık olarak inşa edilmişlerdir. İçeriye doğru yüründüğü zaman farkedilir ki, başka da bir çözüme imkân yoktur, yani yol epeyce dardır. Sol tarafta, Ayasofya’nın önce binası, sonra bahçesi yer alır, sağ taraftaki yüksek duvarının önüne de, bu dizi tarihî evler sıralanmıştır. [...] Hepsi tahtadan yapılmış olan, bir zamanların bu eski, şirin ve romantik evleri, zamanla öylesine bozulmuşlar, hatta son bir kaç yılda, tam çöküntü durumuna gelmişlerdi. Yol boyunda biraz ilerleyince, yine sağ tarafta, önce küçük bir konak hamamı, ondan bir kaç ev ötede ise, büyük bir Bizans sarnıcı da yer alır. [...] Yokuşun alt tarafına bakan giriş yerinde de, III. Selim dönemine ait mermer bir Türk çeşmesi yer alıyor. 1800 tarihli. Sokağa ismini veren varlık da, bu çeşme.” Kaynak: Çelik Gülersoy, “Soğukçeşme Sokağı”, İstanbul: Türkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu, 1989 Ayasofya İmaret Kapısı ve Soğukçeşme Sokağı SALT Araştırma, Ali Saim Ülgen Arşivi http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowErdogan of Turkey is not ten feet tall. @SvanteCornell @AFPC Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presSvante E. Cornell is the Director of the American Foreign Policy Council’s Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and a co-founder of the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. His main areas of expertise are security issues, state-building, and transnational crime in Southwest and Central Asia, with a specific focus on the Caucasus and Turkey. He is the Editor of CACI’s Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst and Turkey Analyst, the Center’s electronic publications, and of its Silk Road Papers series of occasional papers. Articles·      https://jinsa.org/turkeys-hour-of-nationalism-the-deeper-sources-of-political-realignment/ ·      https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-election-explainer/explainer-what-is-at-stake-in-istanbuls-election-re-run-idUSKCN1TK30H ·      https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/06/turkey-erdogan-faces-consequences-of-his-biggest-mistakes.html ...more

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• Rent stabilization (control) makes Manhattan out of reach: 1 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Jun 21 2019

  Photo: New York, N.Y., yard of tenementDate | between 1900 and 1910http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRent stabilization (control) makes Manhattan out of reach: 1 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/rent-too-damn-low

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• Rent stabilization (control) makes Manhattan out of reach: 2 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Jun 21 2019

  Photo: "Cliff Dwellers" by Bellows, depicting the Lower East Side as it was in the early 20th century George Bellows - secondat.blogspot.de Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRent stabilization (control) makes Manhattan out of reach: 2 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/rent-too-damn-low

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• Washington responds to Iran's provocation. @DevinNunes

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  Jun 21 2019

  Photo: Shah Tahmasp greets the exiled HumayunUnknown - Unknown Shah Tahmasp greets the exiled Humayun. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWashington responds to Iran's provocation. @DevinNunes 

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• Why is Xi calling on Kim to the tune of "I love you, China"? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jun 21 2019

  Photo: USAF light bombers destroyed this railroad bridge north of Pyongyang, North Korea. (U.S. Air Force photo) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhy is Xi calling on Kim to the tune of "I love you, China"? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast 

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• NSA John Bolton welcomes an "intensive" dialogue between the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh tragedy. @ProfBShafer Georgetown University

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  Jun 21 2019

  Photo: Baku, the capital and commercial hub of Azerbaijan, is a low-lying city with coastline along the Caspian Sea. It's famed for its medieval walled old city, which contains the Palace of the Shirvanshahs, a vast royal complex, and the iconic stone Maiden Tower.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNSA John Bolton welcomes an "intensive" dialogue between the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh tragedy. @ProfBShafer Georgetown Universityhttps://www.azernews.az/nation/152402.html ...more

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• Alternatives to Russia: Uzbekistan reforms the energy sector, NordStream2 remains unfinished. Robert Cutler, Carleton University.

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  Jun 21 2019

  Photo: [Flamborough, North Sea landing, Yorkshire, England] [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. Notes:Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J--foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905.Print no. "10373".Forms part of: Views of the British Isles, in the Photochrom print collection. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAlternatives to Russia: Uzbekistan reforms the energy sector, NordStream2 remains unfinished. Robert Cutler, Carleton University. https://www.upstreamonline.com/hardcopy/1795795/sultanov-pushes-for-reform-in-uzbekistan ...more

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• On the Road to Tashkent: Teaching English to become the second language of Uzbekistan. Part 1 of 2: Sherzod Shermatov, Minister of Pubic Education.

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  Jun 20 2019

  Photo: Uzbekistan Field Central Asia http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: Teaching English to become the second language of Uzbekistan. Part 1 of 2: Sherzod Shermatov, Minister of Pubic Education.

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• On the Road to Tashkent: Teaching English to become the second language of Uzbekistan. Part 2 of 2: Sherzod Shermatov, Minister of Pubic Education.

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  Jun 20 2019

  Photo: Flora and nature of UzbekistanValery Fassiaux - Own work Ferula assa-foetida near the fortress of Ayaz Kala in the republic of Karakalpakstan and the Kyzyl Kum desert in Uzbekistan. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: Teaching English to become the second language of Uzbekistan. Part 2 of 2: Sherzod Shermatov, Minister of Pubic Education.

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• Ultimatum in Hong Kong. Mark Clifford, former editor South China Morning Post @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jun 20 2019

  Photo: Hong Kong, Main StreetDate | circa 1910 Source | Originally from here.Author | UnknownPermission(Reusing this file) | PD-HK.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowUltimatum in Hong Kong. Mark Clifford, former editor South China Morning Post @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast 

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• PRC visits Kim to what end? Bruce Bechtol, professor at Angelo State University and author of "North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability."

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  Jun 20 2019

  Photo: Groundbreaking the Seoul–Pusan railwayNo known restrictions on publication. - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b20028http://gongu.copyright.or.kr/writing/view.do?writingSeq=9028838 Groundbreaking ceremony of Gyeongbu Line at Busan Public Domain File:Groundbreaking ceremony of Gyeongbu Line at Busan, 1901.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPRC visits Kim to what end? Bruce Bechtol, professor at Angelo State University and author of "North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability." https://www.npr.org/2019/06/17/733343002/chinese-president-xi-jinping-to-visit-north-korea-this-week https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/06/china-xi-backs-north-korea-op-ed-pyongyang-paper-190619024730572.html...more

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• Trump launches in Florida. Warren launches at the first debate. @LaraMBrownPHD @SalenaZito

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  Jun 20 2019

  Photo: Old Orlando Railroad Depot Date: ca. 1910 General Note: The Old Orlando Railroad Depot, located at Depot Place and West Church Street in downtown Orlando, Florida, was built for railroad magnate Henry B. Plant in 1889. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 8 x 10 in. Series Title: Reference Collection Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTrump launches in Florida. Warren launches at the first debate. @LaraMBrownPHD @SalenaZito ...more

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• Hotel Mars: The New Frontier of Manned Exploration of the Solar System begins with private enterprise. @robert_zubrin David Livingston, Spaceshow.com

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  Jun 20 2019

  Photo: Opportunity's panoramic camera (Pancam) took the component images for this view from a position outside Endeavor Crater during the span of June 7 to June 19, 2017. Toward the right side of this scene is a broad notch in the crest of the western rim of crater. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHotel Mars: The New Frontier of Manned Exploration of the Solar System begins with private enterprise. @robert_zubrin  David Livingston, Spaceshow.comhttps://www.spaceflightinsider.com/editorial/book-review-the-case-for-space/ ...more

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• London's smart set disdains Xi Jinping as lawless & What is to be done?. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jun 20 2019

  Photo:  Petticoat Lane, London, ca. 1920sDate | Unrecordedhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLondon's smart set disdains Xi Jinping as lawless & What is to be done?. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast 

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• APPL Plan B to move production out of China to Southeast Asia. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jun 20 2019

  Photo:  Vietnamese ActeursDate | 5 December 2017Source | VietnamAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAPPL Plan B to move production out of China to Southeast Asia. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://nationalinterest.org/feature/trump-has-already-won-%E2%80%98trade-war%E2%80%99-63097

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• The failed leadership of Xi Jinping in Hong Kong & What is to be done? .@GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania.

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  Jun 20 2019

  Photo: Shore of Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong at 1880http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe failed leadership of Xi Jinping in Hong Kong & What is to be done? .@GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania.

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• Why does Spygate matter for the future of national security? 1 of 2: @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Jun 20 2019

  Photo: English: President Lyndon B. Johnson announcing the capture of Ku Klux Klan members suspected of murdering civil rights worker in Alabama. L-R: J. Edgar Hoover, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Nicholas Katzenbach. White House interior, Washington, DC. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto.Date | 26 March 1965http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhy does Spygate matter for the future of national security? 1 of 2: @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/the-lessons-of-the-mueller-probe/ ...more

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• Why does Spygate matter for the future of national security? 2 of 2: @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Jun 20 2019

  Photo: Hoover in 1932Underwood & Underwood - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3b10753. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. J. Edgar Hoover, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing left Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhy does Spygate matter for the future of national security? 2 of 2: @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/the-lessons-of-the-mueller-probe/ ...more

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• Stratolaunch is the New Spruce Goose. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 20 2019

  Photo: Spruce Goose construction. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowStratolaunch is the New Spruce Goose. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/stratolaunch-for-sale/

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• How much did a moon mission cost in 1969 dollars? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 20 2019

  Photo: Three astronauts in spacesuits without helmets sitting in front of a large photo of the Moon.NASA - NASA Human Space Flight Gallery (image link)  The Apollo 11 lunar landing mission crew, pictured from left to right, Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHow much did a moon mission cost in 1969 dollars? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com ...more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: The US boasts of a Cyber Attack on Russia. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Jun 19 2019

  Photo: President Merkin MuffleyDirected by Stanley Kubrick, distributed by Columbia Pictures - Dr. Strangelove trailer from 40th Anniversary Special Edition DVD, 2004 Peter Sellers as President Merkin Muffley in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: The US boasts of a Cyber Attack on Russia. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/us/politics/trump-cyber-russia-grid.html ...more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: The US boasts of a Cyber Attack on Russia. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Jun 19 2019

  Photo: Dr. StrangeloveDirected by Stanley Kubrick, distributed by Columbia Pictures - Dr. Strangelove trailer from 40th Anniversary Special Edition DVD, 2004 Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove from Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: The US boasts of a Cyber Attack on Russia. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/us/politics/trump-cyber-russia-grid.html ...more

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• The Presidential Medal of Freedom 35 years later for Art Laffer and the triumphant Laffer Curve. @StephenMoore @Heritage

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  Jun 19 2019

  Photo: The Last Spike (1881) by Thomas Hill Thomas Hill (1829–1908) - Here The painting depicts the ceremony of the driving of the "Last Spike" at Promontory Summit, UT, on May 10, 1869, joining the rails of the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Presidential Medal of Freedom 35 years later for Art Laffer and the triumphant Laffer Curve. @StephenMoore @Heritage ...more

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• The 2016 smart set disdains Trump again in 2020 & What is to be done? @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Jun 19 2019

  Photo: The Woolworth Building, built in 1913Copyright by The Pictorial News Co., N.Y. No. NN 98. {{PD-US}} - Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division: LC-USZ62-127214 View of Woolworth Building and surrounding buildings, New York City. Mullet's City Hall Post Office and Courthouse (New York City) in middleground left. Permission details Original uploader was Janke at en.wikipediaView more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe 2016 smart set disdains Trump again in 2020 & What is to be done? @HooverWhalen @HooverInsthttps://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2019/06/16/where-were-you-four-years-ago-today-like-me-probably-discounting-trump/#648ba4fd3294 ...more

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• Liz Warren rising against Bernie Sanders before the first debate. @LizWarren @TheHill

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  Jun 19 2019

  Photo: Main Street in Gloucester, Massachusetts, USADate | circa 1900 sSource | Kenneth Anderson (2008)  Victorian Advertising of Gloucester, Kenneth Anderson  ISBN:  978-0-615-25910-9. Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLiz Warren rising against Bernie Sanders before the first debate. @LizWarren @TheHill @FNC https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-sorry-elizabeth-warren-student-loan-relief-is-not-the-way-to-win-over-millennial-voters ...more

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• Will Europe wake up to Trumponomics? Will the Fed wake up to Trumponomics? @LizPeek

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  Jun 19 2019

  Photo: [Paris. Exposition universelle 1900. L'ancien palais du Trocadéro] Raoul Berthelé Description | Français : Vue de L'ancien palais du Trocadéro lors de l'Exposition universelle de 1900 à Paris.Medium | photograph on glassDimensions | 6 x 9 cmhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWill Europe wake up to Trumponomics? Will the Fed wake up to Trumponomics? @LizPeek

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• Churchill's Secret War: 1 of 4: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Madhusree Mukarjee (Author), James Adams (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jun 19 2019

  Photo:  Cattle Relaxing in BombayDate | 1930s Source | http://www.oldindianphotos.in/2010_12_12_archive.htmlAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Churchill's Secret War: 1 of 4: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Madhusree Mukarjee (Author), James Adams (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Secret-War-British-Ravaging/dp/B0044X82CW/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=In the tradition of The Rape of Nanking and A Problem from Hell, this account will change the way we think of Churchill and World War II.  In 1943 Winston Churchill and the British Empire needed millions of Indian troops, all of India's industrial output, and tons of Indian grain to support the Allied war effort. Such massive contributions were certain to trigger famine in India. Because Churchill believed that the fate of the British Empire hung in the balance, he proceeded, sacrificing millions of Indian lives in order to preserve what he held most dear. The result: the Bengal Famine of 1943-44, in which millions of villagers starved to death.  Relying on extensive archival research and first-hand interviews, Mukerjee weaves a riveting narrative of Churchill's decisions to ratchet up the demands on India as the war unfolded and to ignore the corpses piling up in the Bengali countryside. The hypocrisy, racism, and extreme economic conditions of two centuries of British colonial policy finally built to a head, leading Indians to fight for their independence in 1947.  Few Americans know that World War II was won on the backs of these starving peasants; Mukerjee shows us a side of World War II that we have been blind to. We know what Hitler did to the Jews, what the Japanese did to the Chinese, what Stalin did to his own people. This story has largely been neglected, until now....more

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• Churchill's Secret War: 2 of 4: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Madhusree Mukarjee (Author), James Adams (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jun 19 2019

  Photo: Money changer street merchant in India in the 1930sDate | 1930s Source | http://www.oldindianphotos.in/2011_07_08_archive.htmlAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Churchill's Secret War: 2 of 4: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Madhusree Mukarjee (Author), James Adams (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Secret-War-British-Ravaging/dp/B0044X82CW/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=In the tradition of The Rape of Nanking and A Problem from Hell, this account will change the way we think of Churchill and World War II.  In 1943 Winston Churchill and the British Empire needed millions of Indian troops, all of India's industrial output, and tons of Indian grain to support the Allied war effort. Such massive contributions were certain to trigger famine in India. Because Churchill believed that the fate of the British Empire hung in the balance, he proceeded, sacrificing millions of Indian lives in order to preserve what he held most dear. The result: the Bengal Famine of 1943-44, in which millions of villagers starved to death.  Relying on extensive archival research and first-hand interviews, Mukerjee weaves a riveting narrative of Churchill's decisions to ratchet up the demands on India as the war unfolded and to ignore the corpses piling up in the Bengali countryside. The hypocrisy, racism, and extreme economic conditions of two centuries of British colonial policy finally built to a head, leading Indians to fight for their independence in 1947.  Few Americans know that World War II was won on the backs of these starving peasants; Mukerjee shows us a side of World War II that we have been blind to. We know what Hitler did to the Jews, what the Japanese did to the Chinese, what Stalin did to his own people. This story has largely been neglected, until now....more

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• Churchill's Secret War: 3 of 4: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Madhusree Mukarjee (Author), James Adams (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jun 19 2019

  Photo:  "The indifference of the passerby on this downtown Calcutta street to the plight of the dying woman inthe foreground is considered commonplae. During the famine of 1943, cases like this were to be seen in most every block, and though less frequent now, the hardened public reaction seems to have endured."The South Asia Section of the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania recently acquired from a bookdealer a photograph album consisting of 60 photographs of Calcutta taken most likely between 1945-1946. The photographer, Mr. Clyde Waddell, also provided the interesting glosses accompanying each photograph. Several attested copies of this work has emerged including one with a 'title page' held by the Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. Mr. Waddell was a military photographer. Many of his captions sound like annotations that would be found in a typical military magazine. The album begins with several general long shots of Calcutta and ends with a picture of dhobi-s (washermen) washing clothes. The text accompanying the last photograph also sounds as if the author intended to finish with that picture of one of the "great mysteries of India." The annotations have been included because of their intrinsic interest not only to the photographs but to a 'typical' American impression of India at this time.Date | 1945Source | http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/sasia/calcutta1947/Author | Clyde Waddellhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Churchill's Secret War: 3 of 4: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Madhusree Mukarjee (Author), James Adams (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Secret-War-British-Ravaging/dp/B0044X82CW/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=In the tradition of The Rape of Nanking and A Problem from Hell, this account will change the way we think of Churchill and World War II.  In 1943 Winston Churchill and the British Empire needed millions of Indian troops, all of India's industrial output, and tons of Indian grain to support the Allied war effort. Such massive contributions were certain to trigger famine in India. Because Churchill believed that the fate of the British Empire hung in the balance, he proceeded, sacrificing millions of Indian lives in order to preserve what he held most dear. The result: the Bengal Famine of 1943-44, in which millions of villagers starved to death.  Relying on extensive archival research and first-hand interviews, Mukerjee weaves a riveting narrative of Churchill's decisions to ratchet up the demands on India as the war unfolded and to ignore the corpses piling up in the Bengali countryside. The hypocrisy, racism, and extreme economic conditions of two centuries of British colonial policy finally built to a head, leading Indians to fight for their independence in 1947.  Few Americans know that World War II was won on the backs of these starving peasants; Mukerjee shows us a side of World War II that we have been blind to. We know what Hitler did to the Jews, what the Japanese did to the Chinese, what Stalin did to his own people. This story has largely been neglected, until now....more

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• Churchill's Secret War: 4 of 4: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Madhusree Mukarjee (Author), James Adams (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jun 19 2019

  Photo: : Calcutta (India): Chowringhee road in de jaren dertig van de 20ste eeuw English: Kolkata (India): Chowringhee road in the 1930s Français : Calcutta (Inde) : Chowringhee road dans les années '30 du XXème siècleDate1930s Source Private collectionAuthorunknown photographer -- scanned and optimized by Marc Ryckaert (MJJR)Licensing http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Churchill's Secret War: 4 of 4: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Madhusree Mukarjee (Author), James Adams (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Secret-War-British-Ravaging/dp/B0044X82CW/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=In the tradition of The Rape of Nanking and A Problem from Hell, this account will change the way we think of Churchill and World War II.  In 1943 Winston Churchill and the British Empire needed millions of Indian troops, all of India's industrial output, and tons of Indian grain to support the Allied war effort. Such massive contributions were certain to trigger famine in India. Because Churchill believed that the fate of the British Empire hung in the balance, he proceeded, sacrificing millions of Indian lives in order to preserve what he held most dear. The result: the Bengal Famine of 1943-44, in which millions of villagers starved to death.  Relying on extensive archival research and first-hand interviews, Mukerjee weaves a riveting narrative of Churchill's decisions to ratchet up the demands on India as the war unfolded and to ignore the corpses piling up in the Bengali countryside. The hypocrisy, racism, and extreme economic conditions of two centuries of British colonial policy finally built to a head, leading Indians to fight for their independence in 1947.  Few Americans know that World War II was won on the backs of these starving peasants; Mukerjee shows us a side of World War II that we have been blind to. We know what Hitler did to the Jews, what the Japanese did to the Chinese, what Stalin did to his own people. This story has largely been neglected, until now....more

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• Shadow Warrior: 1 of 4: William Egan Colby and the CIA Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Randall B. Woods (Author), Michael Puttonen (Narrator), Post Hypnotic Press (Publisher)

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  Jun 18 2019

  photo: Australian troops with weapons captured at Long TanNot stated on the AWM database - This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. AWM Caption: LONG TAN, VIETNAM. 19 AUGUST 1966. TROOPS IN A CLEARING IN THE RUBBER PLANTATION EXAMINE SOME OF THE VIET CONG WEAPONS CAPTURED BY D COMPANY, 6TH BATTALION, THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT (6RAR), AFTER THE LONG TAN BATTLE. THE WEAPONS INCLUDED ROCKET LAUNCHERS, HEAVY MACHINE GUNS, RECOILLESS RIFLES, AND SCORES OF RIFLES AND CARBINES. LEFT TO RIGHT: 2781706 PRIVATE (PTE) A. L. PARR (WITH BACK TO CAMERA); CORPORAL (CPL) ROSS (BLACKMAC) MCDONALD; PTE (STING) HORNET; PTE PETER DOYLE (WITH WEAPON); PTE (POM) RENCHER; CPL (BLUEY) MOORE. Permission details This image is Crown Copyright because it is owned by the Australian Government or that of the states or territories, and is in the public domain because it was created or published prior to 1969 and the copyright has therefore expired. The government of Australia has declared that the expiration of Crown Copyrights applies worldwide. This has been confirmed by correspondence received by OTRS (Ticket:2017062010010417).View more Public Domainview terms File:Australian troops with weapons captured at Long Tan (AWM FOR660667VN).JPG http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Shadow Warrior: 1 of 4: William Egan Colby and the CIA  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Randall B. Woods (Author), Michael Puttonen (Narrator), Post Hypnotic Press (Publisher) As a World War II commando, a Cold War spy, and CIA director under Presidents Nixon and Ford, William Egan Colby played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. A quintessential member of the greatest generation, Colby embodied the moral and strategic ambiguities of the postwar world, and confronted many of the dilemmas about power and secrecy that America still grapples with today.  In Shadow Warrior, eminent historian Randall B. Woods riveting biography of Colby, he reveals that this crusader for global democracy was also drawn to the darker side of American power. Colby joined the U.S. Army in 1941, just as America entered World War II, serving with distinction in France and Norway. At the end of the war he transitioned into America's first peacetime intelligence agency: the CIA. Fresh from fighting fascism, Colby zealously redirected his efforts against international communism. He insisted on the importance of fighting communism on the ground, doggedly applying guerilla tactics for counterinsurgency, sabotage, surveillance, and information-gathering - the new battlefields of the Cold War. Over time, these strategies became increasingly ruthless; as head of the CIA's Far East Division, Colby oversaw an endless succession of assassination attempts, coups, secret wars in Laos and Cambodia, and the Phoenix Program, in which 20,000 civilian supporters of the Vietcong were killed. Colby ultimately came clean about many of the CIA's illegal activities, making public a set of internal reports known as the "family jewels." Ostracized from the intelligence community, he died under suspicious circumstances - a murky ending to a life lived in the shadows.  Drawing on multiple new sources, including interviews with members of Colby's family, Woods has crafted a gripping biography of one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of the twentieth century....more

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• Shadow Warrior: 2 of 4: William Egan Colby and the CIA Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Randall B. Woods (Author), Michael Puttonen (Narrator), Post Hypnotic Press (Publisher)

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  Jun 18 2019

  Photo: Australian soldiers and M113 APCs during Operation SmithfieldNot stated on the AWM database - This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. SOUTH VIETNAM. 1966-08-19. DURING OPERATION SMITHFIELD AUSTRALIAN ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIERS (APCS) OF 1 APC SQUADRON AND SOLDIERS ON FOOT SWEEP ALONG IN PURSUIT OF RETREATING VIET CONG TROOPS IN PHUOC TUY PROVINCE. THE CHASE FOLLOWED A SAVAGE BATTLE AT LONG TAN IN WHICH MEMBERS OF 6TH BATTALION, THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT (6RAR), APCS AND ARTILLERY FIRE KILLED 250 ENEMY SOLDIERS. Permission details Image copyright: Copyright expired - public domainView more Public Domainview terms File:Australian APCs and soldiers during Operation Smithfield in 1966.JPG http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Shadow Warrior: 2 of 4: William Egan Colby and the CIA  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Randall B. Woods (Author), Michael Puttonen (Narrator), Post Hypnotic Press (Publisher) As a World War II commando, a Cold War spy, and CIA director under Presidents Nixon and Ford, William Egan Colby played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. A quintessential member of the greatest generation, Colby embodied the moral and strategic ambiguities of the postwar world, and confronted many of the dilemmas about power and secrecy that America still grapples with today.  In Shadow Warrior, eminent historian Randall B. Woods riveting biography of Colby, he reveals that this crusader for global democracy was also drawn to the darker side of American power. Colby joined the U.S. Army in 1941, just as America entered World War II, serving with distinction in France and Norway. At the end of the war he transitioned into America's first peacetime intelligence agency: the CIA. Fresh from fighting fascism, Colby zealously redirected his efforts against international communism. He insisted on the importance of fighting communism on the ground, doggedly applying guerilla tactics for counterinsurgency, sabotage, surveillance, and information-gathering - the new battlefields of the Cold War. Over time, these strategies became increasingly ruthless; as head of the CIA's Far East Division, Colby oversaw an endless succession of assassination attempts, coups, secret wars in Laos and Cambodia, and the Phoenix Program, in which 20,000 civilian supporters of the Vietcong were killed. Colby ultimately came clean about many of the CIA's illegal activities, making public a set of internal reports known as the "family jewels." Ostracized from the intelligence community, he died under suspicious circumstances - a murky ending to a life lived in the shadows.  Drawing on multiple new sources, including interviews with members of Colby's family, Woods has crafted a gripping biography of one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of the twentieth century....more

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• Shadow Warrior: 3 of 4: William Egan Colby and the CIA Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Randall B. Woods (Author), Michael Puttonen (Narrator), Post Hypnotic Press (Publisher)

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  Jun 18 2019

  Photo:Viet Cong soldiers from D445 BattalionSource This photograph is from an album captured by the soldiers of 1 Platoon, A Company, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7RAR), during Operation Santa Fe at YS561825 on 1967-11-08. The album was used for propaganda purposes, probably by a political officer from D445, the local Viet Cong (VC) Battalion in Phuoc Tuy Province. (Donor Colonel E.J. O'Donnell). Copyright unknown - orphaned work. Fair use File:Viet Cong soldiers from D445 Bn (AWM P01934033).png Uploaded: 2018-01-06 07:34:38 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Shadow Warrior: 3 of 4: William Egan Colby and the CIA  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Randall B. Woods (Author), Michael Puttonen (Narrator), Post Hypnotic Press (Publisher) As a World War II commando, a Cold War spy, and CIA director under Presidents Nixon and Ford, William Egan Colby played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. A quintessential member of the greatest generation, Colby embodied the moral and strategic ambiguities of the postwar world, and confronted many of the dilemmas about power and secrecy that America still grapples with today.  In Shadow Warrior, eminent historian Randall B. Woods riveting biography of Colby, he reveals that this crusader for global democracy was also drawn to the darker side of American power. Colby joined the U.S. Army in 1941, just as America entered World War II, serving with distinction in France and Norway. At the end of the war he transitioned into America's first peacetime intelligence agency: the CIA. Fresh from fighting fascism, Colby zealously redirected his efforts against international communism. He insisted on the importance of fighting communism on the ground, doggedly applying guerilla tactics for counterinsurgency, sabotage, surveillance, and information-gathering - the new battlefields of the Cold War. Over time, these strategies became increasingly ruthless; as head of the CIA's Far East Division, Colby oversaw an endless succession of assassination attempts, coups, secret wars in Laos and Cambodia, and the Phoenix Program, in which 20,000 civilian supporters of the Vietcong were killed. Colby ultimately came clean about many of the CIA's illegal activities, making public a set of internal reports known as the "family jewels." Ostracized from the intelligence community, he died under suspicious circumstances - a murky ending to a life lived in the shadows.  Drawing on multiple new sources, including interviews with members of Colby's family, Woods has crafted a gripping biography of one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of the twentieth century....more

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• Shadow Warrior: 4 of 4: William Egan Colby and the CIA Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Randall B. Woods (Author), Michael Puttonen (Narrator), Post Hypnotic Press (Publisher)

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  Jun 18 2019

  Photo: Ranch Hand UC-123 clearing a roadside in central South Vietnam in 1966. Note the aircraft’s very low altitude. (U.S. Air Force photo)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Shadow Warrior: 4 of 4: William Egan Colby and the CIA  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Randall B. Woods (Author), Michael Puttonen (Narrator), Post Hypnotic Press (Publisher) As a World War II commando, a Cold War spy, and CIA director under Presidents Nixon and Ford, William Egan Colby played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. A quintessential member of the greatest generation, Colby embodied the moral and strategic ambiguities of the postwar world, and confronted many of the dilemmas about power and secrecy that America still grapples with today.  In Shadow Warrior, eminent historian Randall B. Woods riveting biography of Colby, he reveals that this crusader for global democracy was also drawn to the darker side of American power. Colby joined the U.S. Army in 1941, just as America entered World War II, serving with distinction in France and Norway. At the end of the war he transitioned into America's first peacetime intelligence agency: the CIA. Fresh from fighting fascism, Colby zealously redirected his efforts against international communism. He insisted on the importance of fighting communism on the ground, doggedly applying guerilla tactics for counterinsurgency, sabotage, surveillance, and information-gathering - the new battlefields of the Cold War. Over time, these strategies became increasingly ruthless; as head of the CIA's Far East Division, Colby oversaw an endless succession of assassination attempts, coups, secret wars in Laos and Cambodia, and the Phoenix Program, in which 20,000 civilian supporters of the Vietcong were killed. Colby ultimately came clean about many of the CIA's illegal activities, making public a set of internal reports known as the "family jewels." Ostracized from the intelligence community, he died under suspicious circumstances - a murky ending to a life lived in the shadows.  Drawing on multiple new sources, including interviews with members of Colby's family, Woods has crafted a gripping biography of one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of the twentieth century....more

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• Cat Sense: 1 of 4: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw by John Bradshaw (Author)

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  Jun 18 2019

  Photo:John Reinhard Weguelin – The Obsequies of an Egyptian Cat (1886) The Obsequies of an Egyptian CatObject type | paintingDescription | English: A priestess offers gifts of food and milk to the spirit of a cat. On an altar stands the mummy of the deceased, and the tomb is decorated with frescoes, urns of fresh flowers, lotus blossoms, and statuettes. The priestess kneels as she wafts incense smoke toward the altar. In the background, a statue of Sekhmet or Bastet guards the entrance to the tomb.Date | 1886  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Cat Sense: 1 of 4: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw by John Bradshaw  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Sense-Science-Bradshaw-2013-09-10/dp/B01K15G5WU/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Cat+sense+bradshaw&qid=1560820636&s=books&sr=1-2 ...more

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• Cat Sense: 2 of 4: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw by John Bradshaw (Author)

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  Jun 18 2019

  Photo: Drawing on limestone of a scene from a fable, Ancient Egyptian, 19th dynasty, c1120 BC. A cat with a shepherd's crook and a bag over his shoulder guards six geese and a nest of eggs. From the Cairo Museum.Egyptian Museum, upper floor, room 24, JE 63801 (H= 11 cm)Date | circa 1120 BCSource | http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/WF004134.html and http://www.heritage-images.com/Preview/PreviewPage.aspx?id=2326132Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Cat Sense: 2 of 4: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw by John Bradshaw  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Sense-Science-Bradshaw-2013-09-10/dp/B01K15G5WU/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Cat+sense+bradshaw&qid=1560820636&s=books&sr=1-2 ...more

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• Cat Sense: 3 of 4: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw by John Bradshaw (Author)

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  Jun 18 2019

  Photo: The ancient Egyptians mummified dead cats out of respect in the same way that they mummified people.[4]  anonymous and one more author Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Cat Sense: 3 of 4: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw by John Bradshaw  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Sense-Science-Bradshaw-2013-09-10/dp/B01K15G5WU/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Cat+sense+bradshaw&qid=1560820636&s=books&sr=1-2 ...more

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• Cat Sense: 4 of 4: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw by John Bradshaw (Author)

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  Jun 18 2019

  Photo: Ancient Roman mosaic of a cat killing a partridge from the House of the Faun in Pompeii  Unknown - Marie-Lan Nguyen (2011) Upper tier : cat with a partridge in her mouth; lower tier: ducks (on the left a male Eurasian Teal, on the right a Common Shelduck), birds, fish and shellfish. Roman mosaic. Permission details This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.View more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Cat Sense: 4 of 4: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw by John Bradshaw  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Sense-Science-Bradshaw-2013-09-10/dp/B01K15G5WU/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Cat+sense+bradshaw&qid=1560820636&s=books&sr=1-2 ...more

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• Jimmy Carter: 1 of 2: The American Presidents Series: The 39th President, 1977-1981 Hardcover – September 14, 2010. by Julian E. Zelizer (Author), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Editor), Sean Wilentz (Editor)

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  Jun 18 2019

  Photo:  A view of Brunswick, Georgia, US, featuring the headquarters of the Brunswick and Birmingham Railroad, which is now the Ritz Theatre. The railroad lasted only until 1904. Horse and buggy visible; no cars.Date | early 1900sSource | Original publication: unknownImmediate source: http://railga.com/oddend/rrofficesbrun2.htmlAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Jimmy Carter: 1 of 2:  The American Presidents Series: The 39th President, 1977-1981 Hardcover – September 14, 2010. by Julian E. Zelizer  (Author), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Editor), Sean Wilentz  (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Jimmy-Carter-Presidents-President-1977-1981/dp/0805089578/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The maverick politician from Georgia who rode the post- Watergate wave into office but whose term was consumed by economic and international crises  A peanut farmer from Georgia, Jimmy Carter rose to national power through mastering the strategy of the maverick politician. As the face of the "New South," Carter's strongest support emanated from his ability to communicate directly to voters who were disaffected by corruption in politics.  But running as an outsider was easier than governing as one, as Princeton historian Julian E. Zelizer shows in this examination of Carter's presidency. Once in power, Carter faced challenges sustaining a strong political coalition, as he focused on policies that often antagonized key Democrats, whose support he desperately needed. By 1980, Carter stood alone in the Oval Office as he confronted a battered economy, soaring oil prices, American hostages in Iran, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.  Carter's unpopularity enabled Ronald Reagan to achieve a landslide victory, ushering in a conservative revolution. But during Carter's post-presidential career, he has emerged as an important voice for international diplomacy and negotiation, remaking his image as a statesman for our time. ...more

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• Jimmy Carter: 2 of 2: The American Presidents Series: The 39th President, 1977-1981 Hardcover – September 14, 2010. by Julian E. Zelizer (Author), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Editor), Sean Wilentz (Editor)

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  Jun 18 2019

  Photo: Temporary shacks for settlers dwelling near houses on Wolf Creek Farms, Georgia.date_rangeDate1935personContributorsUnited States. Farm Security Administration, SponsorRothstein, Arthur (1915-1985), Photographer http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Jimmy Carter: 2 of 2:  The American Presidents Series: The 39th President, 1977-1981 Hardcover – September 14, 2010. by Julian E. Zelizer  (Author), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Editor), Sean Wilentz  (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Jimmy-Carter-Presidents-President-1977-1981/dp/0805089578/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The maverick politician from Georgia who rode the post- Watergate wave into office but whose term was consumed by economic and international crises  A peanut farmer from Georgia, Jimmy Carter rose to national power through mastering the strategy of the maverick politician. As the face of the "New South," Carter's strongest support emanated from his ability to communicate directly to voters who were disaffected by corruption in politics.  But running as an outsider was easier than governing as one, as Princeton historian Julian E. Zelizer shows in this examination of Carter's presidency. Once in power, Carter faced challenges sustaining a strong political coalition, as he focused on policies that often antagonized key Democrats, whose support he desperately needed. By 1980, Carter stood alone in the Oval Office as he confronted a battered economy, soaring oil prices, American hostages in Iran, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.  Carter's unpopularity enabled Ronald Reagan to achieve a landslide victory, ushering in a conservative revolution. But during Carter's post-presidential career, he has emerged as an important voice for international diplomacy and negotiation, remaking his image as a statesman for our time. ...more

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• On the Road to Tashkent: Reawakening the major civilization of Central Asia: 1 of 2: or, the city state supremacy long before the Silk Road. S. Frederick Starr, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

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  Jun 17 2019

  Photo: Russian Central Asia : including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and MervYear: 1885 (1880s)Authors:  Lansdell, Henry, 1841-1919 Lansdell, Henry, 1841-1919, inscriber. insSubjects: Publisher:  London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and RivingtonContributing Library:  Harold B. Lee LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  Brigham Young UniversityView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:om-pany him. Then, again, early next morning we weredisturbed by bugle calls for the practising of thesoldiers. Accordingly, when the messengers cameafter breakfast from the Kush-beggi to inquire forour health, and to ask if I had slept well, I repliedthat we had been somewhat disturbed by dogs andwatchmen, but that on the morrow we should like tosee the soldiers practise. Things were better after-wards as regards watchmen and animals, though as Psalm lix. 6. I never had so lively an illustration of this lastfigure as in Constantinople, where every street was monopolized byownerless dogs. They did not obtrude themselves much by day, butat night they are unmercifully severe upon any strange dog that tres-passes into their particular streets, and are not too nice in barking at,if not even attacking, foot passengers t Thereby illustrating The watchmen that went about the city foundme, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls tookaway my vail from me (Cant. v. 7 ; iii. 3).http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: Reawakening the major civilization of Central Asia: 1 of 2: or, the city state supremacy long before the Silk Road. S. Frederick Starr, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged S. Frederick Starr (Author), Kevin Stillwell (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Enlightenment-Central-Conquest-Tamerlane/dp/B00FTWM4U8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= In this rich and sweeping history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds - remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly all of these figures wrote in Arabic, they were long assumed to have been Arabs. In fact, they were from Central Asia - drawn from the Persianate and Turkic peoples of a region that today extends from Kazakhstan southward through Afghanistan, and from the easternmost province of Iran through Xinjiang, China.  Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields. Central Asians achieved signal breakthroughs in astronomy, mathematics, geology, medicine, chemistry, music, social science, philosophy, and theology, among other subjects. They gave algebra its name, calculated the earth's diameter with unprecedented precision, wrote the books that later defined European medicine, and penned some of the world's greatest poetry.  One scholar, working in Afghanistan, even predicted the existence of North and South America - five centuries before Columbus. Rarely in history has a more impressive group of polymaths appeared at one place and time. No wonder that their writings influenced European culture from the time of St. Thomas Aquinas down to the scientific revolution, and had a similarly deep impact in India and much of Asia.  Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise. Informed by the latest scholarship yet presented in a lively and accessible style, this is a book that will surprise general listeners and specialists alike....more

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• On the Road to Tashkent: Reawakening the major civilization of Central Asia: 2 of 2: or, the city state supremacy long before the Silk Road. S. Frederick Starr, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

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  Jun 17 2019

  Photo: Emir Timur feasts in the gardens of Samarkand.Sharuf ad-din Ali Yesdy - http://www.barabass.ru/eng/59.php Timur feasts in the environs of Samarkand.“Zafar-nama”. MS IOS AS Uzbek SSR, 4472, f. 288a. Samarkand Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: Reawakening the major civilization of Central Asia: 2 of 2: or, the city state supremacy long before the Silk Road. S. Frederick Starr, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged S. Frederick Starr (Author), Kevin Stillwell (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Enlightenment-Central-Conquest-Tamerlane/dp/B00FTWM4U8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= In this rich and sweeping history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds - remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly all of these figures wrote in Arabic, they were long assumed to have been Arabs. In fact, they were from Central Asia - drawn from the Persianate and Turkic peoples of a region that today extends from Kazakhstan southward through Afghanistan, and from the easternmost province of Iran through Xinjiang, China.  Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields. Central Asians achieved signal breakthroughs in astronomy, mathematics, geology, medicine, chemistry, music, social science, philosophy, and theology, among other subjects. They gave algebra its name, calculated the earth's diameter with unprecedented precision, wrote the books that later defined European medicine, and penned some of the world's greatest poetry.  One scholar, working in Afghanistan, even predicted the existence of North and South America - five centuries before Columbus. Rarely in history has a more impressive group of polymaths appeared at one place and time. No wonder that their writings influenced European culture from the time of St. Thomas Aquinas down to the scientific revolution, and had a similarly deep impact in India and much of Asia.  Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise. Informed by the latest scholarship yet presented in a lively and accessible style, this is a book that will surprise general listeners and specialists alike....more

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• Custer's Trials: 1 of 8: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. T.J. Stiles (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 17 2019

  Photo: The victorious Grand Army of the Republic marches up Pennsylvania Avenue Mathew Brady - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpb.02798. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Washington, D.C. Mounted officers and unidentified units passing on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Treasury. Grand Review of the Armies, May, 1865. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Custer's Trials: 1 of 8: A Life on the Frontier of a New America  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  T.J. Stiles (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Custers-Trials-Life-Frontier-America/dp/B016022ECS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Pulitzer Prize, History, 2016 From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.  In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person - capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years).  The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West.  He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer's lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation's gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer's tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions....more

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• Custer's Trials: 2 of 8: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. T.J. Stiles (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 17 2019

  Photo: The Presidential reviewing standCivil War Glass Negatives - Library of Congress Catalog: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003005211/PPOriginal url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.02791 Title: Washington, District of Columbia. The grand review of the Army. Presidential reviewing stand with guests and guard Physical description: 1 negative (2 plates) : Permission details This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpb.02791. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.View more Public Domainview terms File:Washington, District of Columbia. The grand review of the Army. Presidential reviewing  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Custer's Trials: 2 of 8: A Life on the Frontier of a New America  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  T.J. Stiles (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Custers-Trials-Life-Frontier-America/dp/B016022ECS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Pulitzer Prize, History, 2016 From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.  In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person - capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years).  The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West.  He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer's lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation's gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer's tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions....more

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• Custer's Trials: 3 of 8: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. T.J. Stiles (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 17 2019

  Photo: Troops marching while the crowd is watching on Pennsylvania Avenue NWBrady, Mathew B. - Library of Congress Catalog: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003005218/PP Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.02811 Title: Washington, District of Columbia. The Grand Review of the Army. [Cavalry?] passing on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Treasury Physical description: 1 negative (2 plates) : Permission details This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpb.02811. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.View more Public Domainview terms File:Washington, District of Columbia. The Grand Review of the Army. (Cavalry?) passing on  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Custer's Trials:  3 of 8: A Life on the Frontier of a New America  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  T.J. Stiles (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Custers-Trials-Life-Frontier-America/dp/B016022ECS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Pulitzer Prize, History, 2016 From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.  In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person - capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years).  The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West.  He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer's lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation's gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer's tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions.  ...more

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• Custer's Trials: 4 of 8: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. T.J. Stiles (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 17 2019

  Photo: Infantry marching on Pennsylvania Avenue NWBrady, Mathew B. - Library of Congress Catalog: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003005223/PP Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.02824 Title: Washington, District of Columbia. Grand Review of the Army. Infantry passing on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Treasury Physical description: 1 negative (2 plates) : Permission details This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpb.02824. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.View more Public Domainview terms File: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Custer's Trials: 4 of 8: A Life on the Frontier of a New America  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  T.J. Stiles (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Custers-Trials-Life-Frontier-America/dp/B016022ECS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Pulitzer Prize, History, 2016 From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.  In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person - capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years).  The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West.  He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer's lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation's gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer's tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions....more

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• Custer's Trials: 5 of 8: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. T.J. Stiles (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 17 2019

  Photo: Infantry unit with fixed bayonets followed by ambulances passing on Pennsylvania near the TreasuryBrady, Mathew B. - Library of Congress Catalog: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003005226/PP Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.02831 Title: Washington, District of Columbia. Grand Review of the Army. Infantry unit with fixed bayonets followed by ambulances passing on Pennsylvania near the Treasury Physical description: 1 negative (2 plates) : Permission details This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpb.02831. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.View more Public Domainview terms File: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Custer's Trials: 5 of 8: A Life on the Frontier of a New America  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  T.J. Stiles (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Custers-Trials-Life-Frontier-America/dp/B016022ECS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Pulitzer Prize, History, 2016 From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.  In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person - capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years).  The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West.  He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer's lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation's gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer's tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions....more

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• Custer's Trials: 6 of 8: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. T.J. Stiles (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 17 2019

  Photo: Union Troops during the Grand Review of the ArmiesBrady, Mathew B. - Library of Congress Catalog: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003004631/PP Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.01427 Title: Washington, District of Columbia. Grand review of the army Physical description: 1 negative (2 plates) : Permission details This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpb.01427. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.View more Public Domainview terms File:Washington, District of Columbia. Grand review of the army LOC cwpb.01427.jpg Created: 31 December 1864 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Custer's Trials: 6 of 8: A Life on the Frontier of a New America  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  T.J. Stiles (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Custers-Trials-Life-Frontier-America/dp/B016022ECS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Pulitzer Prize, History, 2016 From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.  In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person - capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years).  The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West.  He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer's lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation's gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer's tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions....more

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• Custer's Trials: 7 of 8: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. T.J. Stiles (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 17 2019

  Photo: Crowd during the Grand Review of the ArmiesBrady, Mathew B. - Library of Congress Catalog: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003004632/PP Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.01429 Title: Washington, District of Columbia. Grand review of the army Physical description: 1 negative (2 plates) : Permission details This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpb.01429. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.View more Public Domainview terms File:Washington, District of Columbia. Grand review of the army LOC cwpb.01429.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Custer's Trials: 7 of 8: A Life on the Frontier of a New America  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  T.J. Stiles (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Custers-Trials-Life-Frontier-America/dp/B016022ECS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Pulitzer Prize, History, 2016 From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.  In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person - capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years).  The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West.  He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer's lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation's gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer's tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions....more

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• Custer's Trials: 8 of 8: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. T.J. Stiles (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 17 2019

  Photo: showCharles Marion Russell  (1864–1926)  Object type | lithographDescription | English: Lithograph showing the Battle of Little Bighorn, from the Indian side.Date | 1903 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Custer's Trials: 8 of 8: A Life on the Frontier of a New America  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  T.J. Stiles (Author), Arthur Morey (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Custers-Trials-Life-Frontier-America/dp/B016022ECS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Pulitzer Prize, History, 2016 From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.  In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person - capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years).  The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West.  He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer's lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation's gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer's tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions....more

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• The Eve of Destruction: 1 of 4: How 1965 Transformed AmericaHardcover – November 27, 2012. by James T. Patterson (Author)

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  Photo: President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Yoichi Okamoto - http://lbjlibrary.org/collections/photo-archive/photolab-detail.html?id=225 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 while Martin Luther King and others look on Permission details Public Domain: This image is in the public domain and may be used free of charge without permissions or fees.View more Public Domainview terms File:LyndonJohnson signs Voting Rights Act of 1965.jpg Created: 5 August 1965 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Eve of Destruction: 1 of 4: How 1965 Transformed AmericaHardcover – November 27, 2012. by James T. Patterson  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Eve-Destruction-1965-Transformed-America/dp/0465013589At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and optimism that showed no signs of abating. Indeed, political liberalism and interracial civil rights activism made it appear as if 1965 would find America more progressive and unified than it had ever been before. In January 1965, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed that the country had “no irreconcilable conflicts.”Johnson, who was an extraordinarily skillful manager of Congress, succeeded in securing an avalanche of Great Society legislation in 1965, including Medicare, immigration reform, and a powerful Voting Rights Act. But as esteemed historian James T. Patterson reveals in The Eve of Destruction, that sense of harmony dissipated over the course of the year. As Patterson shows, 1965 marked the birth of the tumultuous era we now know as “The Sixties,” when American society and culture underwent a major transformation. Turmoil erupted in the American South early in the year, when police attacked civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama. Many black leaders, outraged, began to lose faith in nonviolent and interracial strategies of protest. Meanwhile, the U.S. rushed into a deadly war in Vietnam, inciting rebelliousness at home. On August 11th, five days after Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, racial violence exploded in the Watts area of Los Angeles. The six days of looting and arson that followed shocked many Americans and cooled their enthusiasm for the president's remaining initiatives. As the national mood darkened, the country became deeply divided. By the end of 1965, a conservative resurgence was beginning to redefine the political scene even as developments in popular music were enlivening the Left.In The Eve of Destruction, Patterson traces the events of this transformative year, showing how they dramatically reshaped the nation and reset the course of American life....more

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• The Eve of Destruction: 2 of 4: How 1965 Transformed AmericaHardcover – November 27, 2012. by James T. Patterson (Author)

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  Photo:  President Lyndon B. Johnson announcing the capture of Ku Klux Klan members suspected of murdering civil rights worker in Alabama. L-R: J. Edgar Hoover, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Nicholas Katzenbach. White House interior, Washington, DC. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto.Date | 26 March 1965Source | http://www.lbjlibrary.net/collections/photo-archive/photolab-detail.html?serial=a157-22Serial number: A157-22Author | Yoichi Okamoto  (1915–1985)  Permission(Reusing this file) | This image is in the public domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Eve of Destruction: 2 of 4: How 1965 Transformed AmericaHardcover – November 27, 2012. by James T. Patterson  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Eve-Destruction-1965-Transformed-America/dp/0465013589At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and optimism that showed no signs of abating. Indeed, political liberalism and interracial civil rights activism made it appear as if 1965 would find America more progressive and unified than it had ever been before. In January 1965, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed that the country had “no irreconcilable conflicts.”Johnson, who was an extraordinarily skillful manager of Congress, succeeded in securing an avalanche of Great Society legislation in 1965, including Medicare, immigration reform, and a powerful Voting Rights Act. But as esteemed historian James T. Patterson reveals in The Eve of Destruction, that sense of harmony dissipated over the course of the year. As Patterson shows, 1965 marked the birth of the tumultuous era we now know as “The Sixties,” when American society and culture underwent a major transformation. Turmoil erupted in the American South early in the year, when police attacked civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama. Many black leaders, outraged, began to lose faith in nonviolent and interracial strategies of protest. Meanwhile, the U.S. rushed into a deadly war in Vietnam, inciting rebelliousness at home. On August 11th, five days after Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, racial violence exploded in the Watts area of Los Angeles. The six days of looting and arson that followed shocked many Americans and cooled their enthusiasm for the president's remaining initiatives. As the national mood darkened, the country became deeply divided. By the end of 1965, a conservative resurgence was beginning to redefine the political scene even as developments in popular music were enlivening the Left.In The Eve of Destruction, Patterson traces the events of this transformative year, showing how they dramatically reshaped the nation and reset the course of American life....more

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• The Eve of Destruction: 3 of 4: How 1965 Transformed AmericaHardcover – November 27, 2012. by James T. Patterson (Author)

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  Jun 17 2019

  Photo: President Lyndon B. Johnson greets American troops in Vietnam.Date | 1966Source | http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imagery.html#guid=87adcee33e4ae4a3b1c79f1456fda1e175bee9d7Author | U.S. Information Agencyhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Eve of Destruction: 3 of 4: How 1965 Transformed AmericaHardcover – November 27, 2012. by James T. Patterson  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Eve-Destruction-1965-Transformed-America/dp/0465013589At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and optimism that showed no signs of abating. Indeed, political liberalism and interracial civil rights activism made it appear as if 1965 would find America more progressive and unified than it had ever been before. In January 1965, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed that the country had “no irreconcilable conflicts.”Johnson, who was an extraordinarily skillful manager of Congress, succeeded in securing an avalanche of Great Society legislation in 1965, including Medicare, immigration reform, and a powerful Voting Rights Act. But as esteemed historian James T. Patterson reveals in The Eve of Destruction, that sense of harmony dissipated over the course of the year. As Patterson shows, 1965 marked the birth of the tumultuous era we now know as “The Sixties,” when American society and culture underwent a major transformation. Turmoil erupted in the American South early in the year, when police attacked civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama. Many black leaders, outraged, began to lose faith in nonviolent and interracial strategies of protest. Meanwhile, the U.S. rushed into a deadly war in Vietnam, inciting rebelliousness at home. On August 11th, five days after Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, racial violence exploded in the Watts area of Los Angeles. The six days of looting and arson that followed shocked many Americans and cooled their enthusiasm for the president's remaining initiatives. As the national mood darkened, the country became deeply divided. By the end of 1965, a conservative resurgence was beginning to redefine the political scene even as developments in popular music were enlivening the Left.In The Eve of Destruction, Patterson traces the events of this transformative year, showing how they dramatically reshaped the nation and reset the course of American life....more

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• The Eve of Destruction: 4 of 4: How 1965 Transformed AmericaHardcover – November 27, 2012. by James T. Patterson (Author)

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  Photo:  President Johnson's poverty tour in 1964Date | 7 May 1964Source | http://www.lbjlibrary.org/collections/photo-archive.html Serial number 225-9-wh64Author | Cecil W. Stoughton  (1920–2008)  Permission(Reusing this file) | Public domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Eve of Destruction: 4 of 4: How 1965 Transformed AmericaHardcover – November 27, 2012. by James T. Patterson  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Eve-Destruction-1965-Transformed-America/dp/0465013589At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and optimism that showed no signs of abating. Indeed, political liberalism and interracial civil rights activism made it appear as if 1965 would find America more progressive and unified than it had ever been before. In January 1965, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed that the country had “no irreconcilable conflicts.”Johnson, who was an extraordinarily skillful manager of Congress, succeeded in securing an avalanche of Great Society legislation in 1965, including Medicare, immigration reform, and a powerful Voting Rights Act. But as esteemed historian James T. Patterson reveals in The Eve of Destruction, that sense of harmony dissipated over the course of the year. As Patterson shows, 1965 marked the birth of the tumultuous era we now know as “The Sixties,” when American society and culture underwent a major transformation. Turmoil erupted in the American South early in the year, when police attacked civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama. Many black leaders, outraged, began to lose faith in nonviolent and interracial strategies of protest. Meanwhile, the U.S. rushed into a deadly war in Vietnam, inciting rebelliousness at home. On August 11th, five days after Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, racial violence exploded in the Watts area of Los Angeles. The six days of looting and arson that followed shocked many Americans and cooled their enthusiasm for the president's remaining initiatives. As the national mood darkened, the country became deeply divided. By the end of 1965, a conservative resurgence was beginning to redefine the political scene even as developments in popular music were enlivening the Left.In The Eve of Destruction, Patterson traces the events of this transformative year, showing how they dramatically reshaped the nation and reset the course of American life....more

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• Masters of Command: 4 of 4: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Barry Strauss (Author), Michael Prichard (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: The Killing of Cleitus, by André Castaigne (1898–1899)Andre Castaigne (1861-1929) - here The killing of Cleitus by Alexander the Great. Public Domain File:The killing of Cleitus by Andre Castaigne (1898-1899) reduced.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Masters of Command: 4 of 4: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Barry Strauss (Author), Michael Prichard (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Command-Alexander-Hannibal-Leadership/dp/B007Z95RK2/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar: Each was a master of war. Each had to look beyond the battlefield to decide whom to fight and why; to know what victory was and when to end the war; to determine how to bring stability to the lands he conquered. Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar had to be not only generals but statesmen. And yet each was a battlefield commander, a strategist, a leader of men - in short, a warrior.  Tactics change, weapons change, but the ultimate purpose of war remains much the same through the centuries, and a great warrior must know how to measure success. Publishers Weekly said: "No one presents the military history of the ancient world with greater insight and panache than Barry Strauss," and in Masters of Command he shows what these three great commanders can teach us today about ambition, leadership, branding, and more.  Understanding where Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar succeeded and failed can serve anyone who thinks strategically - whether in business or elsewhere - to analyze his or her actions. Masters of Command is a guidebook for the battlefield and the boardroom alike....more

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• Masters of Command: 2 of 4: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Barry Strauss (Author), Michael Prichard (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: The Macedonian phalanx at the "Battle of the Carts" against the Thracians in 335 BC. John Steeple Davis - The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century(published in 1900) The Macedonian phalanx at the Battle of the Carts against the Thracians in 335 BCE Public Domain File:The Macedonian phalanx at the Battle of the Carts against the Thracians in 335 BCE.jpg Created: 31 December 1899 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Masters of Command: 2 of 4: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Barry Strauss (Author), Michael Prichard (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Command-Alexander-Hannibal-Leadership/dp/B007Z95RK2/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar: Each was a master of war. Each had to look beyond the battlefield to decide whom to fight and why; to know what victory was and when to end the war; to determine how to bring stability to the lands he conquered. Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar had to be not only generals but statesmen. And yet each was a battlefield commander, a strategist, a leader of men - in short, a warrior.  Tactics change, weapons change, but the ultimate purpose of war remains much the same through the centuries, and a great warrior must know how to measure success. Publishers Weekly said: "No one presents the military history of the ancient world with greater insight and panache than Barry Strauss," and in Masters of Command he shows what these three great commanders can teach us today about ambition, leadership, branding, and more.  Understanding where Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar succeeded and failed can serve anyone who thinks strategically - whether in business or elsewhere - to analyze his or her actions. Masters of Command is a guidebook for the battlefield and the boardroom alike....more

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• Masters of Command: 1 of 4: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Barry Strauss (Author), Michael Prichard (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 17 2019

  Photo: The emblema of the Stag Hunt Mosaic, c. 300 BC, from Pella; the figure on the right is possibly Alexander the Great due to the date of the mosaic along with the depicted upsweep of his centrally-parted hair (anastole); the figure on the left wielding a double-edged axe (associated with Hephaistos) is perhaps Hephaestion, one of Alexander's loyal companions.[43] Gnosis, whose signature is found on the work, or simply an anonymous ancient Macedonian artist - www.macedonian-heritage.gr/HellenicMacedonia/en/img_B1233a.html A deer hunt, detail from the mosaic floor signed Gnosis in the 'House of the Abduction of Helen' at Pella, Greece (ancient Macedonia), late 4th century BC, Pella Archaeological Museum. Signed "Gnosis made it". The figure on the right is possibly Alexander the Great due to the date of the mosaic along with the depicted upsweep of his centrally-parted hair (anastole); the figure on the left wielding a double-edged axe (associated with Hephaistos) is perhaps Hephaestion, one of Alexander's loyal companions. For further infromation, see Chugg, Andrew (2006). Alexander's Lovers. Raleigh, N.C.: Lulu. ISBN 978-1-4116-9960-1, pp 78-79. Permission details Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file must have an additional copyright tag indicating the copyright status in the source country.View more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Masters of Command: 1 of 4: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Barry Strauss (Author), Michael Prichard (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Command-Alexander-Hannibal-Leadership/dp/B007Z95RK2/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar: Each was a master of war. Each had to look beyond the battlefield to decide whom to fight and why; to know what victory was and when to end the war; to determine how to bring stability to the lands he conquered. Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar had to be not only generals but statesmen. And yet each was a battlefield commander, a strategist, a leader of men - in short, a warrior.  Tactics change, weapons change, but the ultimate purpose of war remains much the same through the centuries, and a great warrior must know how to measure success. Publishers Weekly said: "No one presents the military history of the ancient world with greater insight and panache than Barry Strauss," and in Masters of Command he shows what these three great commanders can teach us today about ambition, leadership, branding, and more.  Understanding where Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar succeeded and failed can serve anyone who thinks strategically - whether in business or elsewhere - to analyze his or her actions. Masters of Command is a guidebook for the battlefield and the boardroom alike....more

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• On the Road to Tashkent: The US Congress slowly rediscovers Central Asia & What is to be done? Svante Cornell, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, American Foreign Policy Council.

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  Jun 15 2019

  Photo:  Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost ChinaYear: 1912 (1910s)Authors:  Stein, Aurel, Sir, 1862-1943 Archaeological Survey of IndiaSubjects: Publisher:  London : MacmillanContributing Library:  Robarts - University of TorontoDigitizing Sponsor:  University of TorontoView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: The US Congress slowly rediscovers Central Asia & What is to be done? Svante Cornell, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, American Foreign Policy Council. Uzbekistan's New Face (American Foreign Policy Council)Hardcover – October 10, 2018by S. Frederick Starr (Author), Svante E. Cornell (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Uzbekistans-American-Foreign-Policy-Council/dp/1538124742/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Uzbekistan, long considered the center of Central Asia, has the region’s largest population and borders every other regional state including Afghanistan. For the first 25 years of its independence, it adopted a cautious, defensive policy that emphasized sovereignty and treated regional efforts at cooperation with skepticism. But after taking over as President in autumn 2016, Shavkat Mirziyoyev launched a breathtaking series of reform initiatives. His slogan – “it is high time the government serves the people, not vice versa” – led to large-scale reforms in virtually every sector. Time will tell whether the reform effort will succeed, but its first positive fruits are already visible, particularly in a new dynamism within Uzbek society, as well as a fresh approach to foreign relations, where a new spirit of regionalism is taking root. This book is the first systematic effort to analyze Uzbekistan’s reforms....more

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• On the Road to Tashkent: Building a market economy from the ruins of the Soviet failed state. Atabek Nazirov, Director, The Capital Markets Development Agency, Republic of Uzbekistan. www.cmda.gov.uz

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  Jun 15 2019

  Photo:  Kun, Aleksandr L., 1840-1888中文: 亚历山大·L·坤，1840-1888 年Português: Kun, Aleksandr L., 1840-1888العربية: كُن، ألكسندر ل.، 1840-1888Español: Kun, Aleksandr L., 1840-1888Title | Русский: Самаркандский базар и типы торговцев. Базарная площадь между трех медресе (Реджистан)Français : Bazar de Samarcande et ses types de vendeurs. Place du marché au centre de trois madrasas (Registan)English: Samarkand Bazaar and Its Types of Vendors. Market Square between Three Madrasahs (Registan)中文: 撒马尔罕集市及各类商贩。三所伊斯兰教学校之间的集市广场（列吉斯坦广场）Português: Bazar em Samarcanda e seus tipos de vendedores. Praça do mercado entre três madrassas (Registan)العربية: بازار سمرقند وأنواع الباعة به. ساحة السوق الواقعة بين ثلاث مدارس (ريجستان)Español: Bazar de Samarcanda y sus tipos de vendedores. Plaza del mercado entre tres madrazas (Registán)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: Building a market economy from the ruins of the Soviet failed state. Atabek Nazirov, Director, The Capital Markets Development Agency, Republic of Uzbekistan. www.cmda.gov.uz ...more

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• Fierce Patriot: 1 of 8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Jun 15 2019

  Photo: George N. Barnard  (1819–1902)  (NARA record: 2641792)Record creator | War Department. (1789 - 09/18/1947)Title | Georgia, Atlanta Battlefield, July 22, 1864Date | between circa 1862 and circa 1865http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Fierce Patriot: 1 of 8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Tangled-William-Tecumseh/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy", Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, and instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny". From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman, bolstered both by contemporary journalists and by the work of modern historians. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential 19th-century American. Robert O' Connell worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History....more

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• Fierce Patriot: 2 of 8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Jun 15 2019

  Photo: War Department. (1789 - 09/18/1947)Title | Georgia, Atlanta Battlefield, July 22, 1864Date | between circa 1862 and circa 1865http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Fierce Patriot: 2 of 8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Tangled-William-Tecumseh/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy", Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, and instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny". From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman, bolstered both by contemporary journalists and by the work of modern historians. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential 19th-century American. Robert O' Connell worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History....more

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• Fierce Patriot: 3 of 8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Jun 15 2019

  Photo: Battle of Atlanta during US Civil War.Medium | paintingSource/Photographer | Image taken from en wikihttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Fierce Patriot: 3 of 8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Tangled-William-Tecumseh/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy", Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, and instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny". From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman, bolstered both by contemporary journalists and by the work of modern historians. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential 19th-century American. Robert O' Connell worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History....more

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• Fierce Patriot: 4 of 8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Photo:Maj. Gen. William T. ShermanMathew Brady (1823–1896) - The Photography Book, Phaidon Press, London 1997. ISBN 0714836346http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/Assets/Still/1999/DoD/HD-SN-99-01784.JPEG http://www.archives.gov/research/civil-war/photos/images/civil-war-176.jpg Verwendung in der deutschsprachigen WikipediaThis media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 525970.Public Domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Fierce Patriot: 4 of 8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Tangled-William-Tecumseh/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy", Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, and instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny". From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman, bolstered both by contemporary journalists and by the work of modern historians. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential 19th-century American. Robert O' Connell worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History....more

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• Fierce Patriot: 5 of 8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Photo: William Tecumseh Sherman und sein Stab außerhalb von Atlanta, 1864.Fotografiert von einem Fotografen der US-Armee - Library of CongressPublic Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Fierce Patriot: 5 of 8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Tangled-William-Tecumseh/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy", Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, and instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny". From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman, bolstered both by contemporary journalists and by the work of modern historians. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential 19th-century American. Robert O' Connell worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History....more

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• Fierce Patriot: 6 of 8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  PhotoATLANTA CAMPAIGN, Union advance: Etowah River to Jonesboro (May 23 – September 2, 1864).United States Army Center of Military History. - McCarley, J. Britt, The Atlanta and Savannah Campaigns, 1864. Washington, DC: United States Army Center of Military History, 2014. OCLC: 903250037. Source: [1]ATLANTA CAMPAIGN, Union advance: Etowah River to Jonesboro (May 23-September 2, 1864). : http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Fierce Patriot: 6 of 8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Tangled-William-Tecumseh/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy", Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, and instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny". From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman, bolstered both by contemporary journalists and by the work of modern historians. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential 19th-century American. Robert O' Connell worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History....more

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• Fierce Patriot: 7 of 8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.7Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Photo: for L. Prang & Co., BostonTitle | The Siege of AtlantaDescription | showing the Union Soldiers.Date | 1888http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Fierce Patriot: 7 of 8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.7Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Tangled-William-Tecumseh/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy", Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, and instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny". From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman, bolstered both by contemporary journalists and by the work of modern historians. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential 19th-century American. Robert O' Connell worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History....more

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• Fierce Patriot: 8 of 8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Jun 15 2019

  Photo: : Ruins of Atlanta depot after burning by Gen. Sherman's troops, 1864Date | 9 November 2011Source | http://www.learnnc.org/lp/media/uploads/2009/07/atlanta_ruins.jpgAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Fierce Patriot: 8 of 8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Tangled-William-Tecumseh/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy", Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, and instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny". From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman, bolstered both by contemporary journalists and by the work of modern historians. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential 19th-century American. Robert O' Connell worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History....more

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• Masters of Command: 3 of 4: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Barry Strauss (Author), Michael Prichard (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Alexander Cuts the Gordian Knot (1767) by Jean-Simon Berthélemy Jean-Simon Berthélemy - kzu.ch Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Masters of Command: 3 of 4: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Barry Strauss (Author), Michael Prichard (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Command-Alexander-Hannibal-Leadership/dp/B007Z95RK2/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar: Each was a master of war. Each had to look beyond the battlefield to decide whom to fight and why; to know what victory was and when to end the war; to determine how to bring stability to the lands he conquered. Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar had to be not only generals but statesmen. And yet each was a battlefield commander, a strategist, a leader of men - in short, a warrior.  Tactics change, weapons change, but the ultimate purpose of war remains much the same through the centuries, and a great warrior must know how to measure success. Publishers Weekly said: "No one presents the military history of the ancient world with greater insight and panache than Barry Strauss," and in Masters of Command he shows what these three great commanders can teach us today about ambition, leadership, branding, and more.  Understanding where Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar succeeded and failed can serve anyone who thinks strategically - whether in business or elsewhere - to analyze his or her actions. Masters of Command is a guidebook for the battlefield and the boardroom alike....more

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• On the Road to Tashkent: Higher education prospers in Kazakhstan with US, European and Asian partnerships. Shigeo Katsu, President Nazarabayev University.

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  Photo: Coat of arms of KazakhstanBingread - Векторизация эталонного герба РК (СТ РК 989 – 2008) --- С 1 апреля 2008 года утвержден и введен в действие СТ РК 989-2008 «Государственный Герб Республики Казахстан. Форма. Размеры. Технические требования» и утвержден новый образец эталона Государственного Герба Республики Казахстан. The coat of arms of Kazakhstan. Permission details KAZAKHSTAN Law on Copyright and Neighboring Rights - full text (.pdf) Article 8. Works Not Protected by Copyright The following shall not be protected by copyright: official documents (laws, court decisions and other texts of a legislative, administrative, judicial or diplomatic nature) together with official translations thereof; State emblems and official signs (flags, armorial bearings, decorations, monetary signs and other State symbols and official signs); works of folklore, communications concerning events and facts that have an informational character. English | қазақша | македонски | русский | українська | +/− This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Bingread. This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so:Bingread grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.View more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: Higher education prospers in Kazakhstan with US, European and Asian partnerships. Shigeo Katsu, President Nazarabayev University. ...more

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• On the Road to Tashkent: The World Bank in Uzbekistan & What is to be done? Mansur Boston, Projects Coordinator for Global Infrastructure Group, Tashkent, World Bank. Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute.

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  Photo: Tashkent and vicinity, satellite image Landsat 5, 2010-06-30NASA - http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/NewEarthExplorer/ image ID LT51540312010181KHC00 Tashkent, Uzbekistan, city and vicinities, satellite image LandSat-5,2010-06-30, near natural colors, 30 m resolution Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: The World Bank in Uzbekistan & What is to be done? Mansur Boston, Projects Coordinator for Global Infrastructure Group, Tashkent, World Bank. Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute. ...more

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• On the Road to Tashkent: Silicon Valley grows in Georgia. Mariam Lashkhi, Innovation and Technology Agency, Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia. Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute.

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  Photo: Avlabari Bridge, Tbilisi (Yermakov photo)Date | 1900Source | Joseph Berthelot, Baron de Baye (1853-1931). Tiflis : Souvenirs d'une mission / Par le baron de Baye ; extrait de la Revue deGeographie (Livraisons d'Aout, Septembre et Octobre), dirigee par M. L. Drapeyron. Nilsson, 1900. (Russian State Library)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: Silicon Valley grows in Georgia. Mariam Lashkhi, Innovation and Technology Agency, Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia. Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute. ...more

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• On the Road to Tashkent: Education challenges in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. FB Jenny Jenish kyzy J-Invest Consulting LLC.

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  Photo: Urial on a Kyrgyzstan stampPost of Kyrgyzstan - wnsstamps.ch Stamps of Kyrgyzstan, 2011 Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: Education challenges in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. FB Jenny Jenish kyzy J-Invest Consulting LLC.

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• On the Road to Tashkent: Reawakening the major civilization of Central Asia: 2 of 2: or, the city state supremacy long before the Silk Road. S. Frederick Starr, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

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  Photo: Town and Citadel of GhuzneeThis lithograph was taken from plate 18 of 'Afghaunistan' by Lieutenant James Rattray.This sketch was made near some mosques outside the Kandahar Gate to the west side of Ghazni, a city Rattray visited several times. Datum | između 1839. i 1842. Izvor | The British LibraryAutor | Lieutenant James Rattrayhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: Reawakening the major civilization of Central Asia: 2 of 2: or, the city state supremacy long before the Silk Road. S. Frederick Starr, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged S. Frederick Starr (Author), Kevin Stillwell (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Enlightenment-Central-Conquest-Tamerlane/dp/B00FTWM4U8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= In this rich and sweeping history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds - remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly all of these figures wrote in Arabic, they were long assumed to have been Arabs. In fact, they were from Central Asia - drawn from the Persianate and Turkic peoples of a region that today extends from Kazakhstan southward through Afghanistan, and from the easternmost province of Iran through Xinjiang, China.  Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields. Central Asians achieved signal breakthroughs in astronomy, mathematics, geology, medicine, chemistry, music, social science, philosophy, and theology, among other subjects. They gave algebra its name, calculated the earth's diameter with unprecedented precision, wrote the books that later defined European medicine, and penned some of the world's greatest poetry.  One scholar, working in Afghanistan, even predicted the existence of North and South America - five centuries before Columbus. Rarely in history has a more impressive group of polymaths appeared at one place and time. No wonder that their writings influenced European culture from the time of St. Thomas Aquinas down to the scientific revolution, and had a similarly deep impact in India and much of Asia.  Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise. Informed by the latest scholarship yet presented in a lively and accessible style, this is a book that will surprise general listeners and specialists alike....more

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• Trump and the Space Force, aka Space Corps: Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo: "Buck Rogers" operating the controls of a remotely piloted "air ball". Amazing Stories (March 1929).Philip Francis Nowlan - see above http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25438/25438-h/25438-h.htm Project Gutenberg copyright analysis: "This etext was produced from Amazing Stories Fact and Science Fiction May 1962 and was first published in Amazing Stories March 1929. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed." Illustration of "Buck Rogers" operating the control board of an "air-ball", a remotely controlled UAV. 1929. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTrump and the Space Force, aka Space Corps: Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/house-proposes-streamlined-space-corps-within-air-force/ ...more

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• #TheScalaReport: Facial recognition software and the long goodbye to privacy and non-transparency online. Part 1 of 2. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com

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  Photo: RomanAfter GreekTitle | Statue Fragment of the Head of a Young SatyrDescription | English: The pointed ears, tousled hair, and mischievous facial expression identify this head, broken off from a statue, as that of a young satyr. Satyrs were mostly human mythological creatures who often sported the tail, ears and perhaps the legs of a goat. They were unruly followers of Bacchus, god of wine, and were popular subjects for art in antiquity and later periods.Date | 2nd century Medium | marbleMediterraneanObject history | Joseph Brummer, New York1926: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry WaltersCredit line | Acquired by Henry Walters, 1926http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: Facial recognition software and the long goodbye to privacy and non-transparency online. Part 1 of 2.   Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE ⁦@ScalaInc⁩ https://www.ft.com/content/7d3e0d6a-87a0-11e9-a028-86cea8523dc2?accessToken=zwAAAWtXCWk4kc99Pg1qh6AR6dOgKIbOqFI9wg.MEYCIQD07MxTTQG31D7LK-VM12lSBpJWExQFk9uaU2lqE6AhsQIhALVwv-F4F0-ATV4ohKBK97_4Ud8F0A1UG3zVydDuK92W&sharetype=gift?token=2e18fe30-518b-449c-9c93-936d1e451601 ...more

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• On the Road to Tashkent: A brief history of Tashkent under the Soviets: 2 of 2: or, Uzbekistan abused and abandoned by Moscow. Enders Wimbush, StratVarious.com

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  Photo: The Courage Monument in Tashkent on a 1979 Soviet stampPost of the Soviet Union, designer L. Sharov / Почта СССР, художник Л. Шаров - own scan 1979 USSR stamp. Tashkent. Courage monument. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: A brief history of Tashkent under the Soviets: 2 of 2:  or, Uzbekistan abused and abandoned by Moscow. Enders Wimbush, StratVarious.com

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• On the Road to Tashkent: A brief history of Tashkent under the Soviets: 1 of 2: or, Uzbekistan abused and abandoned by Moscow. Enders Wimbush, StratVarious.com

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  Photo: Tashkent, 1917Unknown - Почтовая открытка Tashkent. The building of town council Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: A brief history of Tashkent under the Soviets: 1 of 2:  or, Uzbekistan abused and abandoned by Moscow. Enders Wimbush, StratVarious.com

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• The Twilight War: 1 of 4: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. David Crist (Author), Peter Berkrot (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Twilight War: 1 of 4: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  David Crist (Author), Peter Berkrot (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Twilight-War-Americas-Thirty-Year-Conflict/dp/B07PQXW2N7/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The dramatic secret history of the undeclared, ongoing war between the US and Iran For the past three decades, the United States and Iran have been engaged in an unacknowledged secret war. This conflict has frustrated five American presidents, divided administrations, and repeatedly threatened to bring the two nations to the brink of open warfare.  Drawing upon unparalleled access to senior officials and key documents of several US administrations, David Crist, a senior historian in the federal government, breaks new ground in virtually every section of The Twilight War.  From the Iranian Revolution to secret negotiations between Iran and the United States after 9/11 to Iran's nuclear program and sanctions against it, Crist brings vital new depth to our understanding of "the Iran problem" - and what the future of this tense relationship may bring....more

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• The Twilight War: 2 of 4: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. David Crist (Author), Peter Berkrot (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Twilight War: 2 of 4: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  David Crist (Author), Peter Berkrot (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Twilight-War-Americas-Thirty-Year-Conflict/dp/B07PQXW2N7/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The dramatic secret history of the undeclared, ongoing war between the US and Iran For the past three decades, the United States and Iran have been engaged in an unacknowledged secret war. This conflict has frustrated five American presidents, divided administrations, and repeatedly threatened to bring the two nations to the brink of open warfare.  Drawing upon unparalleled access to senior officials and key documents of several US administrations, David Crist, a senior historian in the federal government, breaks new ground in virtually every section of The Twilight War.  From the Iranian Revolution to secret negotiations between Iran and the United States after 9/11 to Iran's nuclear program and sanctions against it, Crist brings vital new depth to our understanding of "the Iran problem" - and what the future of this tense relationship may bring....more

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• The Twilight War: 3 of 4: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. David Crist (Author), Peter Berkrot (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Twilight War: 3 of 4: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  David Crist (Author), Peter Berkrot (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Twilight-War-Americas-Thirty-Year-Conflict/dp/B07PQXW2N7/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The dramatic secret history of the undeclared, ongoing war between the US and Iran For the past three decades, the United States and Iran have been engaged in an unacknowledged secret war. This conflict has frustrated five American presidents, divided administrations, and repeatedly threatened to bring the two nations to the brink of open warfare.  Drawing upon unparalleled access to senior officials and key documents of several US administrations, David Crist, a senior historian in the federal government, breaks new ground in virtually every section of The Twilight War.  From the Iranian Revolution to secret negotiations between Iran and the United States after 9/11 to Iran's nuclear program and sanctions against it, Crist brings vital new depth to our understanding of "the Iran problem" - and what the future of this tense relationship may bring....more

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• The Twilight War: 4 of 4: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. David Crist (Author), Peter Berkrot (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Twilight War: 4 of 4: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  David Crist (Author), Peter Berkrot (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Twilight-War-Americas-Thirty-Year-Conflict/dp/B07PQXW2N7/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The dramatic secret history of the undeclared, ongoing war between the US and Iran For the past three decades, the United States and Iran have been engaged in an unacknowledged secret war. This conflict has frustrated five American presidents, divided administrations, and repeatedly threatened to bring the two nations to the brink of open warfare.  Drawing upon unparalleled access to senior officials and key documents of several US administrations, David Crist, a senior historian in the federal government, breaks new ground in virtually every section of The Twilight War.  From the Iranian Revolution to secret negotiations between Iran and the United States after 9/11 to Iran's nuclear program and sanctions against it, Crist brings vital new depth to our understanding of "the Iran problem" - and what the future of this tense relationship may bring....more

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• On the road to Tashkent: The Rumsfeld Foundation Fellowship creates network of comrades called the CAMCA. Nargiz Nasrullayeva-Muduroglu. State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan. Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute.

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the road to Tashkent: The Rumsfeld Foundation Fellowship creates network of comrades called the CAMCA. Nargiz Nasrullayeva-Muduroglu. State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan. Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute.

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• On the Road to Tashkent: The challenges and unknowns of private banking in Uzbekistan. Irchaev Anvar Akhrolovich, Universalbank.

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  Photo: A Scythian horseman from the general area of the Ili river, Pazyryk, c. 300 BCE. w:en:User:PHG - Photographed by w:en:User:PHG(?). Uploaded as w:en:Image:PazyrikHorseman.JPG by w:en:User:PHG 9 January 2005. Transferred to Commons 6 March 2006 (upload log) Pazyrik horseman. Circa 300 BC. Detail from a carpet - 5-4 th century B.C..- in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. (see e.g. this image) Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: The challenges and unknowns of private banking in Uzbekistan. Irchaev Anvar Akhrolovich, Universalbank.www.universalbank.uz ...more

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• On the Road to Tashkent: Reports of another recession in America are greatly exaggerated. Art Laffer @TheLafferCenter Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute.

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  Photo: Picking cotton in Eden, circa 1895 SMU Central University Libraries - https://www.flickr.com/photos/smu_cul_digitalcollections/5320818446/ Title: [Picking cotton, Eden, Texas] Creator: Blair, A. R. M. Date: ca. 1895 Part Of: Lawrence T. Jones III Texas photography collection Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 10.8 x 14.6 cm. on 12.7 x 17.8 cm. mount File: ag2008_0005_4_2_2_10_eden_opt.jpg Rights: Please cite DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University when using this file. Permission details At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.View more No restrictionsview terms File:Picking cotton, Eden, Texas (5320818446).jpg Created: 1895-01-01 00:00:00 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: Reports of another recession in America are greatly exaggerated.  Art Laffer @TheLafferCenter Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute....more

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• On the Road to Tashkent: Uzbekistan listens closely to the Laffer Curve for growth and prosperity. Art Laffer @TheLafferCenter Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute.

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  Photo: Kyrgyz nomads, 1869–1870. Vasily Vereshchagin - http://www.art-catalog.ru/picture.php?id_picture=2442 Kyrgyz migrations Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: Uzbekistan listens closely to the Laffer Curve for growth and prosperity.  Art Laffer @TheLafferCenter Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute. ...more

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• On the Road to Tashkent: Digital connectivity is the path to prosperity in Central Asia, even the remote Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Talant Sultanov @tis2102 Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute.

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  Photo: The winding stairway inside the Burana Tower Hux - Own work The winding stairway inside the Burana Tower in Kyrgyzstan. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: Digital connectivity is the path to prosperity in Central Asia, even the remote Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.   Talant Sultanov @tis2102 Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute.Independent Expert (Sustainable Development, Digital Transformation, Social Issues); previously Adviser to Prime Minister #FreeSapar ...more

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• On the Road to Tashkent: Uzbekistan resolutely transforms its economy to welcome investment and enhance the American partnership. Senator Sodyq Safoyev, former Ambassador to the United States. Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute.

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  Photo: Authors:  Norman, Henry, 1858-1939 Subjects:  Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 Eastern question (Central Asia) Publisher:  New York, C. Seribner's sons Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  The Library of Congress   Text Appearing After Image:The Boys College, Tashkent. w the present moment this figure is doubtless largely exceeded.The civil administration, which, as everywhere in Russia, is elab-orate and highly manned, brings a population of its own, undera Governor-General of Turkestan at Tashkent, a Governor of theTrans-Caspian Territory at Askhabad, and Governors at Samar-kand and at Margelan, the administrative centre of Fergana. Allthe public offices are fine commodious buildings, the officials andtheir families live in much comfort, indeed, often in luxury, andthe foreign shops in the chief towns are large and well stocked. ADMINISTRATION IN CENTRAL ASIA 279 There are admirable schools for Russian children, and manynative schools for teaching Russian and elementary subjects.Two prisons I inspected, and that of Tashkent was, so far asI could see, excellent. The other, a mere guard-room in the cita-del of Andijan* was not creditable, for the twenty or thirtyprisoners were crowded together in one apartment without dis http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: Uzbekistan resolutely transforms its economy to welcome investment and enhance the American partnership. Senator Sodyq Safoyev, former Ambassador to the United States. Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodiq_Safoyev ...more

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• On the Road to Tashkent: Creating entrepreneurship in Tashkent for the experienced and the beginners. Hikmet Abdurahmanov, Humo Partners. Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute.

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  Photo: Sheikhantaur cemetery in old TashkentРусский: Вид Шейхантаурского кладбища в старом Ташкенте, 1900 годDate | 1 January 1900Source | Из личной коллекцииAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: Creating entrepreneurship in Tashkent for the experienced and the beginners. Hikmet Abdurahmanov, Humo Partners. Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute.https://www.linkedin.com/in/hikmat-abdurahmanov-888b5431/ ...more

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• On the Road to Tashkent: The Rumsfeld Foundation continues to grow its creation, CAMCA, The Central Asia, Mongolia, Caucasus and Afghanistan Regional Forum. Sarah Tonucci, Executive Director. Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute.

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  Photo: Tashkent. Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan till 1966.Unknown - Собственная фотоколлекция Народный дом Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: The Rumsfeld Foundation continues to grow its creation, CAMCA, The Central Asia, Mongolia, Caucasus and Afghanistan Regional Forum. Sarah Tonucci, Executive Director. Christopher Nixon Cox, Lichtenstein Institute.https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/2019-camca-regional-forum-held-in-uzbekistan-on-june-12-14-300863737.html ...more

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• Brave Genius: 1 of 4: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize Hardcover

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  Jun 13 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBrave Genius: 1 of 4:  A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize Hardcover https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Genius-Philosopher-Adventures-Resistance/dp/0307952339 The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius. In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quietly pursuing ordinary, separate lives in Paris. After the German invasion and occupation of France, each joined the Resistance to help liberate the country from the Nazis and ascended to prominent, dangerous roles. After the war and through twists of circumstance, they became friends, and through their passionate determination and rare talent they emerged as leading voices of modern literature and biology, each receiving the Nobel Prize in their respective fields.  Drawing upon a wealth of previously unpublished and unknown material gathered over several years of research, Brave Genius tells the story of how each man endured the most terrible episode of the twentieth century and then blossomed into extraordinarily creative and engaged individuals. It is a story of the transformation of ordinary lives into exceptional lives by extraordinary events--of courage in the face of overwhelming adversity, the flowering of creative genius, deep friendship, and of profound concern for and insight into the human condition....more

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• Brave Genius: 2 of 4: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize Hardcover

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBrave Genius: 2 of 4:  A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize Hardcover https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Genius-Philosopher-Adventures-Resistance/dp/0307952339 The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius. In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quietly pursuing ordinary, separate lives in Paris. After the German invasion and occupation of France, each joined the Resistance to help liberate the country from the Nazis and ascended to prominent, dangerous roles. After the war and through twists of circumstance, they became friends, and through their passionate determination and rare talent they emerged as leading voices of modern literature and biology, each receiving the Nobel Prize in their respective fields.  Drawing upon a wealth of previously unpublished and unknown material gathered over several years of research, Brave Genius tells the story of how each man endured the most terrible episode of the twentieth century and then blossomed into extraordinarily creative and engaged individuals. It is a story of the transformation of ordinary lives into exceptional lives by extraordinary events--of courage in the face of overwhelming adversity, the flowering of creative genius, deep friendship, and of profound concern for and insight into the human condition....more

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• Brave Genius: 3 of 4: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize Hardcover

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  Photo: An AFPU photographer kisses a small child before cheering crowds in Paris, 26 August 1944.An AFPU photographer kisses a small child before cheering crowds in Paris, 26 August 1944.Date | 1944Source | http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//49/media-49758/large.jpghttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBrave Genius: 3 of 4:  A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize Hardcover https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Genius-Philosopher-Adventures-Resistance/dp/0307952339 The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius. In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quietly pursuing ordinary, separate lives in Paris. After the German invasion and occupation of France, each joined the Resistance to help liberate the country from the Nazis and ascended to prominent, dangerous roles. After the war and through twists of circumstance, they became friends, and through their passionate determination and rare talent they emerged as leading voices of modern literature and biology, each receiving the Nobel Prize in their respective fields.  Drawing upon a wealth of previously unpublished and unknown material gathered over several years of research, Brave Genius tells the story of how each man endured the most terrible episode of the twentieth century and then blossomed into extraordinarily creative and engaged individuals. It is a story of the transformation of ordinary lives into exceptional lives by extraordinary events--of courage in the face of overwhelming adversity, the flowering of creative genius, deep friendship, and of profound concern for and insight into the human condition....more

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• Brave Genius: 4 of 4: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize Hardcover

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  Photo:  An AFPU (Army Film and Photographic Unit) jeep displaying a large union flag drives down the Champs Elysees in Paris, 26 August 1944.An AFPU jeep displaying a large union flag drives down the Champs Elysees in Paris, 26 August 1944.Date | 1944Source | http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//49/media-49764/large.jpghttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBrave Genius: 4 of 4:  A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize Hardcover https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Genius-Philosopher-Adventures-Resistance/dp/0307952339 The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius. In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quietly pursuing ordinary, separate lives in Paris. After the German invasion and occupation of France, each joined the Resistance to help liberate the country from the Nazis and ascended to prominent, dangerous roles. After the war and through twists of circumstance, they became friends, and through their passionate determination and rare talent they emerged as leading voices of modern literature and biology, each receiving the Nobel Prize in their respective fields.  Drawing upon a wealth of previously unpublished and unknown material gathered over several years of research, Brave Genius tells the story of how each man endured the most terrible episode of the twentieth century and then blossomed into extraordinarily creative and engaged individuals. It is a story of the transformation of ordinary lives into exceptional lives by extraordinary events--of courage in the face of overwhelming adversity, the flowering of creative genius, deep friendship, and of profound concern for and insight into the human condition....more

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• The Paper Trail: 8 of 8: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention Paperback – February 21, 2017. by Alexander Monro (Author)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Paper Trail: 8 of 8: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention Paperback – February 21, 2017.  by Alexander Monro  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Trail-Unexpected-Revolutionary-Invention/dp/0307456692The Paper Trail is the two-millennia-long history of how a simple Chinese invention changed the course of human events. Tracing the emergence of paper from the imperial court of Han China to its subsequent journeys to Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, through the empire of the Abbasid Caliphate and eventually, by way of the Silk Road, to Europe in the late thirteenth century, Alexander Monro shows how the medium allowed religions and revolutions, philosophies and propaganda to spread like never before. A sweeping, richly detailed, and vividly written tale populated by holy men and scholars, warriors and poets, rulers and ordinary men and women, here is the story not only of paper, but of human culture itself....more

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• The Paper Trail: 7 of 8: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention Paperback – February 21, 2017. by Alexander Monro (Author)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Paper Trail: 7 of 8: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention Paperback – February 21, 2017.  by Alexander Monro  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Trail-Unexpected-Revolutionary-Invention/dp/0307456692The Paper Trail is the two-millennia-long history of how a simple Chinese invention changed the course of human events. Tracing the emergence of paper from the imperial court of Han China to its subsequent journeys to Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, through the empire of the Abbasid Caliphate and eventually, by way of the Silk Road, to Europe in the late thirteenth century, Alexander Monro shows how the medium allowed religions and revolutions, philosophies and propaganda to spread like never before. A sweeping, richly detailed, and vividly written tale populated by holy men and scholars, warriors and poets, rulers and ordinary men and women, here is the story not only of paper, but of human culture itself....more

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• The Paper Trail: 6 of 8: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention Paperback – February 21, 2017. by Alexander Monro (Author)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Paper Trail: 6 of 8: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention Paperback – February 21, 2017.  by Alexander Monro  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Trail-Unexpected-Revolutionary-Invention/dp/0307456692The Paper Trail is the two-millennia-long history of how a simple Chinese invention changed the course of human events. Tracing the emergence of paper from the imperial court of Han China to its subsequent journeys to Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, through the empire of the Abbasid Caliphate and eventually, by way of the Silk Road, to Europe in the late thirteenth century, Alexander Monro shows how the medium allowed religions and revolutions, philosophies and propaganda to spread like never before. A sweeping, richly detailed, and vividly written tale populated by holy men and scholars, warriors and poets, rulers and ordinary men and women, here is the story not only of paper, but of human culture itself....more

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• The Paper Trail: 5 of 8: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention Paperback – February 21, 2017. by Alexander Monro (Author)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Paper Trail: 5 of 8: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention Paperback – February 21, 2017.  by Alexander Monro  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Trail-Unexpected-Revolutionary-Invention/dp/0307456692The Paper Trail is the two-millennia-long history of how a simple Chinese invention changed the course of human events. Tracing the emergence of paper from the imperial court of Han China to its subsequent journeys to Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, through the empire of the Abbasid Caliphate and eventually, by way of the Silk Road, to Europe in the late thirteenth century, Alexander Monro shows how the medium allowed religions and revolutions, philosophies and propaganda to spread like never before. A sweeping, richly detailed, and vividly written tale populated by holy men and scholars, warriors and poets, rulers and ordinary men and women, here is the story not only of paper, but of human culture itself....more

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• The Paper Trail: 4 of 8: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention Paperback – February 21, 2017. by Alexander Monro (Author)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Paper Trail: 4 of 8: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention Paperback – February 21, 2017.  by Alexander Monro  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Trail-Unexpected-Revolutionary-Invention/dp/0307456692The Paper Trail is the two-millennia-long history of how a simple Chinese invention changed the course of human events. Tracing the emergence of paper from the imperial court of Han China to its subsequent journeys to Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, through the empire of the Abbasid Caliphate and eventually, by way of the Silk Road, to Europe in the late thirteenth century, Alexander Monro shows how the medium allowed religions and revolutions, philosophies and propaganda to spread like never before. A sweeping, richly detailed, and vividly written tale populated by holy men and scholars, warriors and poets, rulers and ordinary men and women, here is the story not only of paper, but of human culture itself....more

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• The Paper Trail: 3 of 8: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention Paperback – February 21, 2017. by Alexander Monro (Author)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Paper Trail: 3 of 8: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention Paperback – February 21, 2017.  by Alexander Monro  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Trail-Unexpected-Revolutionary-Invention/dp/0307456692The Paper Trail is the two-millennia-long history of how a simple Chinese invention changed the course of human events. Tracing the emergence of paper from the imperial court of Han China to its subsequent journeys to Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, through the empire of the Abbasid Caliphate and eventually, by way of the Silk Road, to Europe in the late thirteenth century, Alexander Monro shows how the medium allowed religions and revolutions, philosophies and propaganda to spread like never before. A sweeping, richly detailed, and vividly written tale populated by holy men and scholars, warriors and poets, rulers and ordinary men and women, here is the story not only of paper, but of human culture itself....more

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• The Paper Trail: 2 of 8: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention Paperback – February 21, 2017. by Alexander Monro (Author)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Paper Trail: 2 of 8: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention Paperback – February 21, 2017.  by Alexander Monro  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Trail-Unexpected-Revolutionary-Invention/dp/0307456692The Paper Trail is the two-millennia-long history of how a simple Chinese invention changed the course of human events. Tracing the emergence of paper from the imperial court of Han China to its subsequent journeys to Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, through the empire of the Abbasid Caliphate and eventually, by way of the Silk Road, to Europe in the late thirteenth century, Alexander Monro shows how the medium allowed religions and revolutions, philosophies and propaganda to spread like never before. A sweeping, richly detailed, and vividly written tale populated by holy men and scholars, warriors and poets, rulers and ordinary men and women, here is the story not only of paper, but of human culture itself....more

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• The Paper Trail: 1 of 8: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention Paperback – February 21, 2017. by Alexander Monro (Author)

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  Jun 12 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Paper Trail: 1 of 8: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention Paperback – February 21, 2017.  by Alexander Monro  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Trail-Unexpected-Revolutionary-Invention/dp/0307456692The Paper Trail is the two-millennia-long history of how a simple Chinese invention changed the course of human events. Tracing the emergence of paper from the imperial court of Han China to its subsequent journeys to Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, through the empire of the Abbasid Caliphate and eventually, by way of the Silk Road, to Europe in the late thirteenth century, Alexander Monro shows how the medium allowed religions and revolutions, philosophies and propaganda to spread like never before. A sweeping, richly detailed, and vividly written tale populated by holy men and scholars, warriors and poets, rulers and ordinary men and women, here is the story not only of paper, but of human culture itself....more

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• The Lions of Carentan: 1 of 4: Fallschirmjager Regiment 6, 1943-1945 Hardcover – October 20, 2011. by Volker Griesser (Author)

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  Jun 12 2019

  Photo: Map depicting the Battle for CarentanView author informationPublic Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Lions of Carentan: 1 of 4: Fallschirmjager Regiment 6, 1943-1945 Hardcover – October 20, 2011.  by Volker Griesser  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Lions-Carentan-Fallschirmjager-Regiment-1943-1945/dp/1612000061/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Volker+Griesser&qid=1560330287&s=books&sr=1-1Although it is known that Allied airborne forces landed into a German buzzsaw on D-Day, far less is known about the troops they encountered in the dark night of June 6, 1944. One of the formations they encountered was a similarly elite group of paratroopers, who instead of dropping from the skies fought on the defensive, giving their Allied counterparts a tremendous challenge in achieving their objectives.This is the complete wartime history of one of the largest German paratrooper regiments, 6th , from its initial formation in the spring of 1943 to its last day at the end of the war. With numerous firsthand accounts from key members, reporting on their experiences, they describe the events of 1943–45 vividly and without compromise. These accounts reveal previously unknown details about important operations in Italy, Russia, on the Normandy Front, Belgium, Holland, the last German Parachute drop in the Ardennes, and the final battle to the end in Germany.With over 220 original photographs, many from private collections and never before published, this book fully illustrates the men, their uniforms, equipment and weapons. Also included is an appendix with maps, battle calendar, staffing plans, a list of field and post-MOB-numbers, and the Knight's Cross recipients of the regiment. Having earned the respect of the Allied forces who fought against it during World War II, this work will inform current readers of the full record of Fallschirmjäger Regiment 6, and why the Allied advance into German-held Europe was so painstaking to achieve....more

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• The Lions of Carentan: 2 of 4: Fallschirmjager Regiment 6, 1943-1945 Hardcover – October 20, 2011. by Volker Griesser (Author)

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  Photo: Français : Un obusier automoteur M7 Priest du 14th Armored Field Artillery Battalion de la 2nd Armored Division au croisement de la rue Holgate et de la voie ferrée Paris-Cherbourg. Carentan, France.English: A self-propelled howitzer M7 Priest of the 14th Armored Field Artillery Battalion of the 2nd Armored Division at the intersection of Holgate Street and the railway line Paris-Cherbourg. Carentan, FranceDate | 18 June 1944Source | PhotosNormandie Flickr (Originally at http://www.archivesnormandie39-45.org/)National Archives Local Identifier: 111-SC-190413Author | U.S. Army Signal CorpsPermission(Reusing this file) | Conseil Régional de Basse-Normandie / National Archives USAhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Lions of Carentan: 2 of 4: Fallschirmjager Regiment 6, 1943-1945 Hardcover – October 20, 2011.  by Volker Griesser  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Lions-Carentan-Fallschirmjager-Regiment-1943-1945/dp/1612000061/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Volker+Griesser&qid=1560330287&s=books&sr=1-1Although it is known that Allied airborne forces landed into a German buzzsaw on D-Day, far less is known about the troops they encountered in the dark night of June 6, 1944. One of the formations they encountered was a similarly elite group of paratroopers, who instead of dropping from the skies fought on the defensive, giving their Allied counterparts a tremendous challenge in achieving their objectives.This is the complete wartime history of one of the largest German paratrooper regiments, 6th , from its initial formation in the spring of 1943 to its last day at the end of the war. With numerous firsthand accounts from key members, reporting on their experiences, they describe the events of 1943–45 vividly and without compromise. These accounts reveal previously unknown details about important operations in Italy, Russia, on the Normandy Front, Belgium, Holland, the last German Parachute drop in the Ardennes, and the final battle to the end in Germany.With over 220 original photographs, many from private collections and never before published, this book fully illustrates the men, their uniforms, equipment and weapons. Also included is an appendix with maps, battle calendar, staffing plans, a list of field and post-MOB-numbers, and the Knight's Cross recipients of the regiment. Having earned the respect of the Allied forces who fought against it during World War II, this work will inform current readers of the full record of Fallschirmjäger Regiment 6, and why the Allied advance into German-held Europe was so painstaking to achieve....more

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• The Lions of Carentan: 3 of 4: Fallschirmjager Regiment 6, 1943-1945 Hardcover – October 20, 2011. by Volker Griesser (Author)

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  Photo: French people laying flowers on the corpses of American soldiersConseil Régional de Basse-Normandie / National Archives USA - http://www.archivesnormandie39-45.org/specificPhoto.php?ref=p000713 Des Français posent des fleurs sur des corps de soldats américains. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Lions of Carentan: 3 of 4: Fallschirmjager Regiment 6, 1943-1945 Hardcover – October 20, 2011.  by Volker Griesser  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Lions-Carentan-Fallschirmjager-Regiment-1943-1945/dp/1612000061/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Volker+Griesser&qid=1560330287&s=books&sr=1-1Although it is known that Allied airborne forces landed into a German buzzsaw on D-Day, far less is known about the troops they encountered in the dark night of June 6, 1944. One of the formations they encountered was a similarly elite group of paratroopers, who instead of dropping from the skies fought on the defensive, giving their Allied counterparts a tremendous challenge in achieving their objectives.This is the complete wartime history of one of the largest German paratrooper regiments, 6th , from its initial formation in the spring of 1943 to its last day at the end of the war. With numerous firsthand accounts from key members, reporting on their experiences, they describe the events of 1943–45 vividly and without compromise. These accounts reveal previously unknown details about important operations in Italy, Russia, on the Normandy Front, Belgium, Holland, the last German Parachute drop in the Ardennes, and the final battle to the end in Germany.With over 220 original photographs, many from private collections and never before published, this book fully illustrates the men, their uniforms, equipment and weapons. Also included is an appendix with maps, battle calendar, staffing plans, a list of field and post-MOB-numbers, and the Knight's Cross recipients of the regiment. Having earned the respect of the Allied forces who fought against it during World War II, this work will inform current readers of the full record of Fallschirmjäger Regiment 6, and why the Allied advance into German-held Europe was so painstaking to achieve....more

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• Fallschirmjager Regiment 6, 1943-1945 Hardcover – October 20, 2011. by Volker Griesser (Author)

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  Photo: US 7th corps jeep passes under the French flag as civilians thank the Americans after liberating the town.US Army Signal Corps photographer - Imperial War Museum collection, http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205195375 This is photograph EA 26383 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. The French Tricolour floats over a street in Carentan, the first French town to be liberated by the Americans. French civilians wave their hands in welcome as men of the U