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• (1/2) Trends in geopolitical, economic, and technological developments increasingly need to be viewed within a global context. Gregory R. Copley

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  Aug 17 2019

  Image: New York City streets in 1890. Besides telegraph lines, multiple electric lines were required for each class of device requiring different voltages. Public domain.  Book of Old New York. Henry Collins Brown. 1913. Defense and Strategic Planning Challenges in an Entirely New Age  (1 of 2) Trends in geopolitical, economic, and technological developments increasingly need to be viewed within a global context. The age of stovepiping, which worked during much of the Cold War, cannot be expected to work now, or through the coming decades. Everything is connected. Analysis. By Gregory R. Copley, Editor , GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs. Defense and strategic policy planning officials around the world are beginning to comprehend that the types of threats and opportunities likely to arise in the coming few decades have little in common with the threats, opportunities, and contextual priorities which evolved during the 20th Century.   That is not to say that there are no lessons to be learned from the past, that strategic principles have changed, or that there is no continuity whatsoever between the recent past and our immediate future. But some things have already profoundly changed, or will soon change, and, as a result, it is necessary to see where the balance of thinking and budgets should go in addressing future threats and context as opposed to funding evolving legacy technologies, doctrines, and alliance structures.   Because of substantially changed global circumstances (with more to come), it is increasingly clear that the tendency of experienced military and policy officials to “fight yesterday’s wars” is more dangerous than usual. On the other hand, the inexperience which youth — especially today’s younger generation — brings to the situation tends to ignore historical lessons substantially, while expecting the security of funding and the availability of resources to be inviolate.   So, it is true: the future is not what it used to be. After at least a century and a half of being able to extrapolate our current trends into expectations of the near future, we can no longer do so.   So what is changing in our global strategic context to make us reconsider whether thinking needs, commensurately, to be changed in geopolitics (transforming the balance of power, and therefore considerations on basing, power projection, etc.), economics, military doctrine, and technology?     1. Changed context: For much of the recent era, from, say, around 1800 until 2000, the strategic context was driven by the direct physical realities of geography, resources, and kinetic power. By the year 2000, or maybe slightly before, the strategic contextual tipped and began to be dominated more by the indirect, intangible power of electricity.   Yes, the fundamentals remained: food, water, and geography were necessary elements of actual survival. But now, for advanced societies to prosper and have power, their wealth and fighting ability became overwhelmingly dependent upon their ability to produce, protect, and project their use of electricity. This applies now to kinetic competition as well as to wealth creation.   Again, the principle driving purpose (or goal) of power projection did not change, which is the need to impose the will of one’s own society on another society and/or its leadership. The contextual difference which emerged, and which became of overriding importance, is that the most important way to impose will is now through the electronic spectrum rather than through marching feet and high explosives.   So areas of greatest threat potential and areas under greatest threat have often become the same: areas of greatest access to electricity.   If nothing else, . . .  ...more

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• (2/2) Trends in geopolitical, economic, and technological developments increasingly need to be viewed within a global context. Gregory R. Copley

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  Aug 17 2019

  Image: Population density (people per km2) map of the world in 1994. In relation to the equator it is seen that the vast majority of the human population lives in the Northern Hemisphere, as 67% of the Earth's land area is there. Public domain. (A more recent population density map can be found at   http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/)  Defense and Strategic Planning Challenges in an Entirely New Age  (2 of 2) Analysis. By Gregory R. Copley, Editor , GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs. Trends in geopolitical, economic, and technological developments increasingly need to be viewed within a global context. The age of stovepiping, which worked during much of the Cold War, cannot be expected to work now, or through the coming decades. Everything is connected. . . . 2. The changing nature of economics:   Population growth, coupled with urbanization, from the end of World War II until today meant two overriding things:   ·      The rise of consumerism as the most significant driver of economic growth; and   ·      The rise in real estate asset values because of constantly rising demand.   As a result, modern urban thinking is now driven, almost to the point of visceral paranoia, toward sustaining this model. However, we are now moving toward an end to that model, whether we like it or not, because macro-level population reduction is starting to occur at the same time that balanced societal viability is being threatened by mass urbanization and migration.   What will this population chaos do to the very recent economic model of wealth and credit leveraged against demand for urban real estate? Population quantitative and qualitative reduction would reduce demand for urban real estate and would therefore reduce the consumer-driven creation of cash.   So we are moving gradually from a global economic model which had been based around rising population and rising urbanization to an economic model based on declining population — either in absolute numbers or, because educational and linguistic factors make societies unable to create efficiencies — and therefore declining demand or value of urban real estate. This is neither happening overnight nor with clarity, but the massive inertia is under way.   It has the force of nature. Even if the global population, except Africa and India, declines by 20 percent over the coming two decades or so, then we need to think of economic models being rewritten to accommodate the change from rising market size to static or declining market size.   Right now, the internal wars in most advanced economies are between those, mostly urban people, who insist that the growth model must prevail at all costs, and those which wish to revert to the safety of control of the fundamentals of life: food, water, and shelter. This is at the heart of the urban globalist war with the regional nationalists. And it is this fundamental which drives us to the reality that, for example, internal population schisms in each society — the US, the PRC, or Europe — represent the greatest threats to each of these societies before they consider threats from external powers.   3. The changing nature of technology: The most fundamental change of the past few decades is that we have moved past the tipping point in our dependence on electricity as the driver of everything. Electrification makes urbanization viable at the scale we have achieved; it makes every form of advanced warfare viable and more effective. And it has become the tool of warfare; the weapon of choice.   Just as electricity has become the basis of modern wealth, capability, and scientific advance, so too has it become the basis of weaponizing the new strategic doctrine and  framework: Strategic Information Dominance (SID). This framework embraces and permeates the operational tools of cyber warfare, psychological strategic warfare, information warfare, electronic warfare and the various levels of countermeasures, energy weapons and their countermeasures, and all the levels of C4I (command, control, communications, computing, and intelligence). It is therefore the guiding hand in the creation and use of the new generation of kinetic weapons and the application of direct force.   But we must bear in mind that the sole goal of power is the imposition of our will upon an opponent, rival, or friend; and the countervailing ability to resist such an imposition of will upon our own society and leadership.    The US (and the USSR) in the Cold War calculated strength on an ability, particularly with nuclear weapons, to “blast enemies back into the Stone Age”, but, from the perspective of the end of the second decade of the 21st Century, even the use of strategic nuclear weapons would be “so Stone Age”.   As a result, the decision by Boeing to withdraw for the time being from the US Air Force’s Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program to replace the Cold War era Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and their obsolescent nuclear warheads may provide an opportunity for the US to re-think the entire basis of strategic deterrence. ICBM thinking — let alone counter-city nuclear weapons thinking — is now profoundly “old school” in much the same way that manned penetrator bombers and carrier strike groups are “old school”. They represent the legacy systems which we dare not, yet, discard. But we must calculate where, at what cost in manpower, doctrinal, and budgetary terms, they still fit into our spectrum of priorities.   The GBSD has begun as an $85-billion program, and one to which the incoming Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Gen. Mark Milley, has thrown his support. But the US at this moment has the opportunity to weigh whether . . .    ...more

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• Endangered Species Act: “cumbersome . . . has ill-served both wildlife & rural communities”; Brian Yablonski (@BrianYablonski), PERC Exec Dir

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  Aug 17 2019

  Post: "Gift for the Grangers," 1873 print promoting U.S. farmers' organization. Public domain...The excitement over the language choice of "endangered" or "threatened" in the Endangered Species Act. https://www.perc.org/2018/04/24/the-road-to-recovery/Brian Yablonski (@BrianYablonski), PERC Exec Dir (@PERCtweets) The statute provides for the listing of two categories of species: “endangered” species, which are currently at risk of extinction, and “threatened” species, which are at risk of becoming endangered in the foreseeable future. When Congress passed the act in 1973, it envisioned states taking the lead to protect threatened species, with strict federal regulations against “take” reserved for endangered species. In 1975, however, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a regulation extending the take regulation to threatened species too, eliminating the distinction between the two categories. Take is defined so broadly that it can include activities intended to help species and can complicate state and private efforts to recover species. Under the current approach, landowners who provide habitat to listed species receive no benefit; instead, they are penalized through costly regulatory burdens such as restrictions on land use, reduced property values, and costly permitting requirements.  The Department of the Interior should restore the Endangered Species Act’s distinction between endangered and threatened species, reserving the take prohibition as a backstop to protect endangered species from extinction. If the statute’s distinction between the two categories was restored, states and landowners would be encouraged to recover threatened species before they reach endangered status. A threatened listing would serve as a signal that a species was at risk of becoming endangered, encouraging states, landowners, and other groups to recover the species...  ..  ..  Also:  Of the 1,661 species listed as threatened or endangered, only 3 percent have been recovered — paltry even for a government program. ...more

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• #TheScalaReport: Should we punish companies with data breaches like Capital One's the same way we punish companies with oil spills like Exxon's Exxon Valdez? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE ⁦@ScalaInc⁩

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  Aug 17 2019

  Photo: Shortly after leaving the Port of Valdez, the Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef. The picture below was taken 3 days after the vessel grounded, just before a storm arrived.http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/photos/exxon/02.html http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: Should we punish companies with data breaches like Capital One's the same way we punish companies with oil spills like Exxon's Exxon Valdez?  Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE  ⁦@ScalaInc⁩https://www.economist.com/business/2019/08/08/the-exxon-valdez-of-cyberspace ...more

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• PacWatch: Bubonic Plague Downtown Los Angeles. Jeff Bliss.

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  Aug 17 2019

  Engraving: Paul Fürst, engraving, c. 1721, of a plague doctor of Marseilles (introduced as 'Dr Beaky of Rome'). His nose-case is filled with herbal material to keep off the plague. [Likely a mixture of strong, antimicrobial aromatics, including clove and cinnamon. –Ed]  Public domain.PacWatch: Bubonic Plague Downtown Los Angeles. https://www.theepochtimes.com/bubonic-plague-may-join-homelessness-rats-on-list-of-crises-in-los-angeles_3035204.html

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• Trump's Pennsylvania energy jobs are the story. @Salenaito @WashingtnExaminer

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  Aug 17 2019

  Photo:  The original Point Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Photo taken in 1900.Date | 1900Source | http://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/Best-of-the-Burgh-Blogs/The-412/January-2014/25-Amazing-Photos-of-the-Real-Steel-City/Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTrump's Pennsylvania energy jobs are the story. @SalenaZito @WashingtnExaminerhttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/rick-perry-says-fossil-fuels-combined-with-modern-technology-will-jump-start-the-ohio-valley?utm_source=Salena+Zito&utm_campaign=1bd058afd1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_15_06_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_06ac76b2f8-1bd058afd1-11447385 ...more

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• The Yemen Civil War fragments, deepens, starves. @ElanaGulf @WashInstitute

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  Aug 17 2019

  Photo: Atlas map of 1883Letts's Popular Atlas - http://www.britishempire.co.uk/images2/arabia1883map.jpg Arabia, Egypt, Nubia & Abyssinia. Part of Lett's Popular Atlas. Letts, Son & Co. Limited, London. Public Domain File:Arabia, Egypt, Nubia and Abyssinia 1883 map.jpg Created: 31 December 1882 @ElanaGulf http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Yemen Civil War fragments, deepens, starves. @ElanaGulf @WashInstituteElana DeLozier is a Research Fellow in the Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy at The Washington Institute, where she specializes in nuclear weapons and proliferation, counterterrorism, and Gulf politics...more

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• The Syrian Kurds and the uncertain Erdogan regime. Bilal Wahab @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Aug 17 2019

  Photo: The Turkish borders as determined in the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne  Lt.-Col. Lawrence Martin - From: The Treaties of Peace 1919-1923, Vol. II, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, New York, 1924. Compiled by Lt.-Col. Lawrence Martin, Geographer of the Institute of Politics. immediate source: http://www.hri.org/docs/lausanne/turkey.gif Borders of the Republic of Turkey as determined in 1923. CC BY-SA 3.0 File:Turkey Peace treaty.gif Created: 1924 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Syrian Kurds and the uncertain Erdogan regime. Bilal Wahab @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presBilal Wahab is the Nathan and Esther K. Wagner fellow at The Washington Institute, where he focuses on governance in the Iraqi Kurdish region and in Iraq as a whole. He has taught at the American University of Iraq in Sulaimani, where he established the Center for Development and Natural Resources, a research program on oil and development. He earned his Ph.D. from George Mason University; his M.A. from American University, where he was among the first Iraqis awarded a Fulbright scholarship; and his B.A. from Salahaddin University in Erbil. Along with numerous scholarly articles, he has written extensively in the Arabic and Kurdish media.  Related Articles:            ●     https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/turkeys-rising-wave-of-social-protests ●     https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/growing-anti-syrian-sentiment-in-turkey ●     https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/syria-safe-zone-can-help-turkey-come-to-terms-with-the-pkk-and-yp ●     https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-07/turkey-s-akar-says-syria-talks-with-u-s-were-positive-anadolu        ●     https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/turkey-agree-set-syria-safe-zone-operation-centre-190807140235933.html      ●     https://warontherocks.com/2019/08/the-crisis-is-coming-syria-and-the-end-of-the-u-s-turkish-alliance/    ●     https://twitter.com/USEmbassyTurkey/status/1159101377764843520/photo/1     ●     https://sethfrantzman.com/2019/08/07/turkeys-gambit-on-syria-pays-off-as-washington-discusses-peace-corridor/ ●     https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/syria-safe-zone-will-create-more-problems-it-solves-72961 ...more

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• The long, long, long delayed SLS & What is to be done? Jeff Foust, @ScienceNews David Livingston SpaceShow.com

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  Aug 17 2019

  Photo: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- President John F. Kennedy honors John H. Glenn Jr. at Hangar S, Cape Canaveral, Florida, after his historic three-orbit mission aboard Friendship 7. Photo credit: NASA KSC-PL62-76870 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe long, long, long delayed SLS & What is to be done? Jeff Foust, @ScienceNews David Livingston SpaceShow.comhttps://aviationweek.com/awinspace/nasa-overcoming-sls-challenge-bridenstine-says ...more

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• Omar and Tlaib call attention to their anti-Semitic conduct. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Aug 17 2019

  Photo: The destruction of Jewish Temple (painting by David Roberts from 1850) David Roberts - http://www.preteristarchive.com/ARTchive/1850_roberts_destruction-jerusalem.html http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOmar and Tlaib call attention to their anti-Semitic conduct. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_preshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/world/middleeast/rashida-tlaib-israel-visit.html

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• The pending War of the North; the present Gaza provocations. Yossi Kupperwasser, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Aug 16 2019

  Photo: The Madaba Map depiction of 6th-century Jerusalem Brandmeister - W:en:Image:Madaba_map.jpghttp://www.mcah.columbia.edu/dbcourses/islamic/large/madaba_map.jpg Jerusalem as seen on the Madaba Map http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe pending War of the North; the present Gaza provocations.  Yossi Kupperwasser, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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• The New ISIS is the old Pirate Kingdom. Norman Roule, United Against Nuclear Iran. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Aug 16 2019

  Photo: Benjamin Hornigold Source (WP:NFCC#4) Wood engraving of Benjamin Hornigold Fair use (old-70) File:PortraitofBenjaminHornigold.png Uploaded: 2017-02-10 17:50:40 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe New ISIS is the old Pirate Kingdom. Norman Roule, United Against Nuclear Iran. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presNorman Roule is a Senior Advisor to United Against Nuclear Iran and a 34-year veteran of the CIA. Before leaving the intelligence community, Roule served as the National Intelligence Manager for Iran at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence from November 2008 to September 2017. Here he was the principal Intelligence Community official responsible for overseeing all aspects of national intelligence policy and activities related to Iran. Related Articles:●     http://www.ilanberman.com/23065/a-resilient-isis-roars-back ●     https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/militias-are-threatening-public-safety-in-iraq ●     https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/web-of-lebanese-companies-may-be-shipping-iranian-oil-to-syria-1.897168 ●     https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/11/john-bolton-arrives-in-uk-to-seek-support-on-iran-and-huawei ●     https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/15/us-moves-to-block-release-of-iranian-vessel-in-gibraltar ●     https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECBMPCRX4AMKxx8?format=jpg&name=900x900 ●     https://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/press-releases/chief-ministers-statement-on-the-release-of-the-grace-1-5952019-5187 ...more

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• BDS in Europe, Canada and California (@GoldsteinBrooke)

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  Aug 16 2019

  Engraving: View of Jerusalem (Conrad Grünenberg, 1487).BDS in Europe.  Brooke Goldstein is a New York City-based human rights attorney, and Executive Director of The Lawfare Project.   https://www.thelawfareproject.org/releases/2019/6/14/press-release-lawyers-warn-of-pandoras-box-of-unintended-consequences-after-advocate-general-gives-opinion-in-european-court-of-justice-labeling-case

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• Robert Francis O’Rourke: why does he call himself Beto? (@VDHanson)

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  Aug 16 2019

  Photo:  Company D, Texas Rangers, at Ysleta in 1894. Captain John Hughes is seated in a chair at the far right.  Public domain. Why is it Beto?https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/beto-orourke-nickname-cynical-political-advantage/    

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• Bruce and Nellie Ohr and the plot against the Trump presidency by the Obama presidency. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Aug 16 2019

  Photo: Boston Public Libraryhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBruce and Nellie Ohr and the parochial oppo research against the Trump presidency by the Obama presidency. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/08/14/judicial-watch-finds-documents-showing-fusion-gps-working-directly-with-doj-to-frame-trump-with-ties-to-russia-n2551685

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• Trump on Hong Kong. (@SebGorka)

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  Aug 16 2019

  Photo:  Hong Kong in the 1930s.  Unknown photographer, old photograph, private collection. Public domain. Hong Kong and Trump  https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/08/13/trump-tweets-china-moving-troops-to-hong-kong-border.html

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• What about Glenn Simpson and the Trump Tower meeting, June 9, 2016? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Aug 16 2019

  Photo: 1902personContributorsMetropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)collectionsIn CollectionsNew York Postcards, 1900sNew York Postcards, The Detroit Publishing Company http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat about Glenn Simpson and the Trump Tower meeting, June 9, 2016? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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• The spies of Huawei still have a chance to launch 5G in Canada. Charles Burton, Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at Macdonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Aug 16 2019

  Photo:  City of London, Ontaro, Canada. The pioneer period and the London of to-dayYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  Bremner, Archibald, 1849-Subjects: Publisher:  London, Ont. : London Printing & Lithographing Co.Contributing Library:  Cornell University LibraryDigitizing 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:H a w h ;« oo ^, ?, fc r> H hj <1 O H Ch H <i ro ti tc h ii » ° KText Appearing After Image:20 CITY OF LONDON, The brow of a hill near a spot where bodieswere interred gives us a mental picture ofthe spot where Elliots creek joins the river,before Siftons Cut had been made for therailway. Some years ago Indian remains -weredug up in the neighborhood of BlackfriarsBridge, and in September, 1895, the skeletonof an Indian maiden, computed to have beenburied about seventy years, was found nearthe Cove Bridge. In the correspondence ofGovernor Simcoe, and in the state papers ofthe period, there are frequent i-eferences tohis plan for establishing the capital of UpperCanada at this jioint, which he proposed tocall Georgiana, in honor of the reigning mon-arch. He went to England, however, on leaveof absence in 1796, and never returned. The fanciful title is derived from the large num-ber of shade trees. There is ground for this,but in reality London was first called theForest City because it was surveyed anddesigned for a city before a tree of the pri-meval forest had been levelled.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe spies of Huawei still have a chance to launch 5G in Canada. Charles Burton, Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at Macdonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast ...more

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• The trouble with the Democrats threatening higher and higher taxes. @StephenMoore @Heritage

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  Aug 16 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe trouble with the Democrats threatening higher and  higher taxes. @StephenMoore @Heritagehttps://www.wsj.com/articles/making-money-is-a-patriotic-act-11565737046?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1

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• The Plotters Convene, Washington, January 5, 2017: Ball of Collusion: 1 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy (Author)

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  Aug 15 2019

  Photo: Floor plan of the main floor (now called the State Floor) of the White House in Washington, D.C., in 1900, by Frederick D. Owen of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The plan shows the original floor plan with additions made in 1823, 1826, and 1829.Date | 1900Source | https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/93515761/Author | F. D. Owenhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Plotters Convene, Washington, January 5, 2017: Ball of Collusion: 1 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_books_6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TYWTCSM7JP66ERDKPRRS The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?...more

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• John Brennan and GCHQ, Late 2015: Ball of Collusion: 2 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy (Author)

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  Aug 15 2019

  Photo: 1858 - 1900personContributorsWhite House (Washington, D.C.)createSourceNew York Public LibrarylinkLinkhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow John Brennan and  GCHQ, Late 2015: Ball of Collusion: 2 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_books_6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TYWTCSM7JP66ERDKPRRS The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?...more

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• Joseph Mifsud and George Papadopoulos, London, April 26, 2016: Ball of Collusion: 3 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy (Author)

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  Photo: : De drukke rivierbank van de Thames in LondenDate | 1938 PostedSource | Postcard C. F. Castle's Lesco SeriesAuthor | UnknownThis 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). http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Joseph Mifsud and George Papadopoulos, London, April 26, 2016: Ball of Collusion: 3 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_books_6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TYWTCSM7JP66ERDKPRRS The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?...more

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• Enter Alexander Down, Bill Priestap and Five Eyes, London,May, 2016: Ball of Collusion: 4 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy (Author)

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  Photo: [London Bridge, London, England] (LOC)[London Bridge, London, 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. "11212".Forms part of: Views of the British Isles, in the Photochrom print collection.Exhibited: "Monet's London : Artists' reflections on the Thames" at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, and other venues, 2005-2006.Taken circa 1890 No known copyright restrictions http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Enter Alexander Down, Bill Priestap and Five Eyes, London,May, 2016: Ball of Collusion: 4 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_books_6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TYWTCSM7JP66ERDKPRRS The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?...more

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• Carter Page and the FISA abuse, Moscow, Cambridge,July 2016: Ball of Collusion: 5 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy (Author)

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  Photo: Moscow Kremlin. Voznesenskaya Square (all demolished)Date | 1900s Source | "Вuilders of Russia. Moscow at the turn of century" ("Строители России. Москва в начале века", M, 2001Author | UnknownPermission(Reusing this file) |  | This work is in the public domain in Russia according to article 1256 of Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation No. 230-FZ of December 18, 2006 (details).It was published on territory of the Russian Empire (Russian Republic) except for territories of the Grand Duchy of Finland and Congress Poland before 7 November 1917 and wasn't re-published for 30 days following initial publications on the territory of Soviet Russia or any other states.The Russian Federation (early RSFSR, Soviet Russia) is the historical heir but not legal successor of the Russian Empire.If applying, {{PD-Russia-1996}} or {{PD-Russia-expired}} should be used instead of this tag.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.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Carter Page and the FISA abuse, Moscow, Cambridge,July 2016: Ball of Collusion: 5 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_books_6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TYWTCSM7JP66ERDKPRRS The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?...more

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• The Trump Tower Provocation, June 9, 2016: Ball of Collusion: 6 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy (Author)

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  Photo: English: Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue, New York 1900Date | 28 January 2014, 02:43:14Source | http://www.old-picture.com/american-history-1900-1930s/Avenue-Fifth-Yorks-New.htmAuthor | Unknown | This media file is in the public domain in the United States. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Trump Tower Provocation, June 9, 2016: Ball of Collusion: 6 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_books_6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TYWTCSM7JP66ERDKPRRS The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?...more

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• The FBI Insurance Policy, August 15, 2016: Ball of Collusion: 7 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy (Author)

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  Photo: circa 1900-1905, 7th Street NW, east side, looking north from G Street, Washington, D.C. Included in photograph are the Tennille clothing store, the Queen Cafe and L. Baum Manufacturing Jeweler. D.C. Street Survey Collection, Library of Congress; glass negative; plate 13 x 18 cmDate | between circa 1900 and circa 1905 Source | Library of Congress, Call Number: LC-Z7- 37, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014646486/Author | D.C. Street Survey Collection (Library of Congress) Camera location | 38° 53′ 54.6″ N, 77° 01′ 18.88″ W  | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth | Licensing[edit] | This work is in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The FBI Insurance Policy, August 15, 2016: Ball of Collusion: 7 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_books_6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TYWTCSM7JP66ERDKPRRS The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?...more

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• The Steele Dossier Released, January 10, 2017: Ball of Collusion: 8 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy (Author)

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  Photo: 1900personContributorsUnderwood & Underwood, PublishercreateSourceNew York Public Libraryhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Steele Dossier Released, January 10, 2017: Ball of Collusion: 8 of 8: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency Hardcover – August 13, 2019. by Andrew C. McCarthy  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency/dp/1641770252/ref=zg_bs_books_6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TYWTCSM7JP66ERDKPRRS The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration.The media–Democrat “collusion narrative,” which paints Donald Trump as cat’s paw of Russia, is a studiously crafted illusion.Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign.Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Their collusion narrative was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues―the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, high-level intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the election.Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the administration for two years.Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against media–Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?...more

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• Communist China is not ten feet tall; (@JimTalent).

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  Image: Xi JInping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, author of the currently-failing Chinese economy.The Trade War Hits China Where It Hurts  Beijing’s doctored data show growth has slowed to 6.2%. The actual rate is almost certainly worse.     President Trump’s tariffs and other sanctions are hitting China at a vulnerable moment. The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics reported July 15 that gross domestic product grew by 6.2% in the second quarter, China’s slowest growth since 1992. The actual picture is much cloudier. Beijing has for years cooked the books to make the regime’s performance look better, and they are undoubtedly doing the same now. . . . https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trade-war-hits-china-where-it-hurts-11565552398?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1     James Matthes Talent (@JimTalent) is an American politician and former U.S. Senator from Missouri.  ...more

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• Negative yields. John Mauldin, Mauldin Economics (@JohnFMauldin) (@mauldinecon)

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  Image: An inverted yield curve; this one, the British pound yield curve on February 9, 2005.  / Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; under Creative Commons.     The upside-down US and world economieshttps://www.ft.com/content/95c4362e-be79-11e9-b350-db00d509634e

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• Hong Kong's markets and money hesitate. Andrew Collier, Orient Capital Research. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Aug 15 2019

  Photo: Image taken from page 17 of 'Twelve Years in China. The People, the Rebels, and the Mandarins. By a British Resident (J. Scarth). With illustrations'Image taken from:  Title: "Twelve Years in China. The People, the Rebels, and the Mandarins. By a British Resident (J. Scarth). With illustrations" Author: SCARTH, Harry Mingden. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10057.c.32." Page: 17 Place of Publishing: Edinburgh Date of Publishing: 1860 Issuance: monographic Identifier: 003266054 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHong Kong's markets and money hesitate.  Andrew Collier, Orient Capital Research. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast ...more

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• Emphasis on peaceful protests in Hong Kong. @ChristianWhiton @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Photo: Kowloon, Hong Kong: military encampments (pic 1 of 6)Description | Kowloon, Hong Kong: military encampments on land and fleets in the bay during the Second China War: panoramic view: section one. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1860.Iconographic CollectionsKeywords: Felice BeatoCredit line |  | This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. Refer to Wellcome blog post (archive).This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.References | Library reference: Iconographic Collection 569636iPhoto number: L0067729Full Bibliographic Record: http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1569636Source/Photographer | https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/80/92/1ae5622265f94df0f32c5aa6f67f.jpgGallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0067729.htmlWellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-30): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/yryv6pp4 CC-BY-4.0http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowEmphasis on peaceful protests in Hong Kong. @ChristianWhiton @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast China’s Xi looks increasingly dazed and confused – Could Hong Kong win this showdown?By Christian Whiton   Published August 14, 2019It wasn’t supposed to be like this. When Xi Jinping effectively crowned himself emperor at the 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress in 2017, consolidating his power by ending a practice of term limits, China was supposed to be ready for its next stage of his meteoric rise.In a triumphal speech, Xi heralded a “new era” of Chinese power and predicted the nation would become a “mighty force” under his control. But as the summer of 2019 drags on, Xi and the government he leads look increasingly weak and lost.China’s economy is in the doldrums, put there in part by President Trump’s decision to change U.S. tactics dramatically in long-running trade disputes. Last month, the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics reported the slowest economic growth since 1992.  China’s manufacturing index has indicated contraction for all but two months so far this year.In July, imports fell 5.6% compared to a year before, partly due to less demand for inputs to manufacturing that increasingly is moving out of China.  (In the first quarter of this year, foreign investors pumped $10.8 billion into neighboring Vietnam, an increase of 86.2 percent.)  China has also nationalized three banks since May with more bailouts expected as its overextended financial system faces extreme risk.A fair assessment of the U.S.-China trade war shows Washington winning the dispute, although not everyone agrees. In his weekly New York Times column titled “China Tries to Teach Trump Economics,” progressive economist Paul Krugman argued that the president, “…vastly overrates his ability to inflict damage on China while underrating the damage China can do in return.”...more

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• Xi and Hong Kong rush toward a lose-lose. Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Photo: The Second Opium War 1856-1860Panorama of Hong Kong Harbour.Date | 1860 (Pre-1914)Source | http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//362/media-362488/large.jpg | This is photograph Q 70025 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. | Author | UnknownPermission(Reusing this file) | 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.Part of | Royal Artillery InstitutionSubjects | Associated placesHong Kong, ChinaCategory | photographsThis work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowXi and Hong Kong rush toward a lose-lose. Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.wsj.com/articles/washington-offers-conflicting-messages-on-hong-kong-unrest-amid-u-s-china-trade-talks-11565802045?mod=hp_lead_pos4 ...more

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• Hong Kong craves liberty. Claudia Rosett (@CRosett)

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  Painting:  Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island in the 1860s. Public domain.Hong Kong craves liberty.      "Fight for freedom! Stand with Hong Kong!" This was the chant echoing through the arrival hall of Hong Kong's international airport on Tuesday, as thousands of protesters beseeched arriving passengers -- and the world -- for help in their struggle against China's encroaching tyranny.       It's a lonely fight, though it shouldn't be. The protesters' demands boil down to profoundly legitimate calls for liberty, justice, and accountable government. . . .  https://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/stand-with-hong-kong-where-is-the-free-worlds-reaganesque-response/ ...more

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• Trouble for Mars 2020, delay expected. European Space Agency hits a snag. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Aug 15 2019

  Photo.  In the matter of space parachutes, here’s another: engineers pack the Technology Education Satellite (TechEdSat-5) with the Exo-Brake payload. At almost 4 square feet in cross section, the Exo-Brake is made of Mylar and is controlled by a hybrid system of mechanic struts and flexible cord.  Credits: NASA Ames/Dominic Hart ESA confirms ExoMars parachute test failure.   The European Space Agency (ESA) today confirmed earlier stories from last week that the parachutes for its ExoMars 2020 spacecraft had failed during a high altitude drop test on August 5.     By Saturday 10 August, the ESA had not confirmed this. It apparently took them a week to write the press release.      This was the second consecutive test failure for these parachutes, as noted in the release.     On 28 May this year, the deployment sequence of all four parachutes was tested for the first time from a height of 29 km – released from a stratospheric helium balloon. While the deployment mechanisms activated correctly, and the overall sequence was completed, both main parachute canopies suffered damage.  . . .  https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/esa-confirms-exomars-parachute-test-failure/   ...more

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• Capitalism in space: Vector shuts down. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

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  Image: What are SmallSats and CubeSats?  NASA image; public domain Capitalism in space: Vector shuts down, loses CEO, might have money issues Jim Cantrell, who had been the CEO of smallsat rocket company Vector Launch since inception, apparently has left the company. Vector, a micro-launch company founded in 2016 to build small rockets for payloads of up to 60kg, may be in financial trouble, multiple industry sources told Ars on Friday. A spokeswoman for Vector did not comment on that. However, she did confirm the company has parted ways with its chief executive: “Jim Cantrell is no longer with Vector effective today. John Garvey has assumed the role of CEO.” https://behindtheblack.com/?s=Vector ...more

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• Birth pains of the US Space Force: 1 of 2: @GarretsonPeter https://sites.google.com/site/spacestrategist

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  Photo: On Oct. 14, 1966, the towering Saturn V rocket rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building and heads for Launch Pad 39A. Image credit: NASAhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBirth pains of the US Space Force: 1 of 2:  @GarretsonPeter https://sites.google.com/site/spacestrategisthttps://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/08/08/air-force-generals-supporters-mount-campaign-make-him-leader-space-force.html https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/456214-space-force-defenses-must-stretch-to-the-moonhttps://warontherocks.com/2019/07/space-forces-jupiter-sized-culture-problem/https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/450519-the-purpose-of-a-space-force-is-a-spacefaring-economyhttps://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/21/opinion-space-force-commerce-1374229https://thediplomat.com/2019/07/the-future-of-the-asian-order-will-be-decided-in-space/http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3744/1https://youtu.be/WLJnp5qKQIIhttp://www.thespacereview.com/article/3099/1...more

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• Birth pains of the US Space Force: 2 of 2: @GarretsonPeter https://sites.google.com/site/spacestrategist

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  Photo:  On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Armstrong leads astronauts Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., from the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building to the transfer van for the eight-mile trip to Pad 39A. Image credit: NASAhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBirth pains of the US Space Force: 2 of 2:  @GarretsonPeter https://sites.google.com/site/spacestrategisthttps://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/08/08/air-force-generals-supporters-mount-campaign-make-him-leader-space-force.html https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/456214-space-force-defenses-must-stretch-to-the-moonhttps://warontherocks.com/2019/07/space-forces-jupiter-sized-culture-problem/https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/450519-the-purpose-of-a-space-force-is-a-spacefaring-economyhttps://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/21/opinion-space-force-commerce-1374229https://thediplomat.com/2019/07/the-future-of-the-asian-order-will-be-decided-in-space/http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3744/1https://youtu.be/WLJnp5qKQIIhttp://www.thespacereview.com/article/3099/1...more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Russia's nuclear-powered fear of First Strike. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Aug 14 2019

  Photo: Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe, Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875Year: 1905 (1900s)Authors:  Harvie-Brown, J. A. (John Alexander), 1844-1916Subjects:  Birds -- Europe, Northern Europe, Northern -- Description and travel Valdres (Norway) -- Description and travelPublisher:  London, T. F. UnwinView 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:onlyvillage we have seen it in since leaving Vologda Govern-ment. (In Archangel I have omitted to mention that weobserved a few specimens only of the Tree Sparrow.) On the last stage before reaching Pifiega we shot aGreat Spotted Woodpecker, and tried in vain to get at twoSiberian Jays. We found it, however, absolutely imprac-ticable to attempt any work in the woods without snow-shoes, and soon gave up attempting it. At Pinega, which we reached at 2 p.m., we saw twentySamoyede sledges and about eighty Reindeer (at four deerto each sledge). They were from Kahin. We left ourletter for the Ispravnik of Piiiega, as he may possibly beuseful to us on our return journey. Our route to Kuloiskaia, a 34 versts stage, lay princi-pally along the Kuloi River from near its source, onthe right bank, amidst beautiful scenery. A low rangeof what Seebohm recognised as Oolite skirts the river-side, and is covered with weird forest of lichen-coveredlarches and pines and spruce. The tall larches were mosthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Russia's nuclear-powered fear of First Strike. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/world/europe/russia-nuclear-explosion-accident.html ...more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: Russia's nuclear-powered fear of First Strike. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Photo: Traveling by reindeer, en:Arkhangelsk, Russia. photomechanical print : photochrom, color.Svenska: Rensläde, Archangelsk i Ryssland.Français : Voyage aux rennes (Gouverment d'Archangel).Русский: Езда на оленях в Архангельской губернии.Date | between 1890 and 1900 Source | Library of Congress CALL NUMBER: LOT 13419, no. 146 [item] [P&P]Author | Detroit Publishing Co.Other versions | Restored version of Image:Archangel reindeer3.jpg. Dirt, text, and artifacts removed. Uneven tone in sky resolved. Histogram and color balance adjusted. | This work is in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: Russia's nuclear-powered fear of First Strike. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/world/europe/russia-nuclear-explosion-accident.html ...more

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• Why won't the Democrats embrace the dignified and well-liked Joe Biden? @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Photo: Full-length portrait in oils of a clean-shaven young George in eighteenth century dress: gold jacket and breeches, ermine cloak, powdered wig, white stockings, and buckled shoes. Allan Ramsay - vgGv1tsB1URdhg at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level Public Domain File:Allan Ramsay - King George III in coronation robes - Google Art Project.jpg Created: circa 1765 date QS:P571,+1765-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhy won't the Democrats embrace the dignified and well-liked Joe Biden? @HooverWhalen @HooverInsthttps://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2019/08/01/does-candidate-biden-have-what-it-takes-to-fill-the-bill-clinton/#3377b19057bd ...more

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• Liz Peek (@lizpeek): Biden at the Iowa State Fair

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  Map: First nations of Iowa, 1718 Guillaume Delisle map, showing locations of the Ioway (Aiouez au Pauotez), the Omaha (Maha), the Otoe (Octotata), and the Kaw (Cansez), and the main voyageurtrail (Chemin des voyageurs). Public domain.Biden at the Iowa State Fair.https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/08/12/iowa-politics-presidential-candidates-2020-style-contrast-caucus-sanders-warren-harris-buttigieg/1992336001/

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• John Bolton welcomes Boris Johnson to the Strait of Hormuz. Benham ben Taleblu @FDD

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  Photo: Safavid Persia, 1598w:en:Image:Matthaus_1598.JPG Maker: Quad Matthaus Affiliation: Cologne school of mapmakers Date: 1602 Size: 29.5 x 21cm Colored Location: Hong Kong University Library of Science and Technology Public Domain File:Matthaus 1598.jpg Created: between 1602 and 1598 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1602-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1598-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowJohn Bolton welcomes Boris Johnson to the Strait of Hormuz. Benham ben Taleblu @FDDhttps://news.sky.com/story/us-could-negotiate-uk-trade-deal-sector-by-sector-says-trumps-national-security-adviser-john-bolton-11784095 ...more

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• Has Trump already won in China? Liz Peek (@lizpeek)

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  Image: Possibly the earliest painting of Hong Kong Island, showing the waterfront settlement which became Victoria City. Public domain.Has Trump already won in China? China has fallen to being our number-three trading partner; how critical is China in our economic outlook? https://www.ft.com/content/6b4b4010-bd69-11e9-89e2-41e555e96722

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• The unanswered questions of Epstein's jail cell. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Photo: "The workroom at St James's workhouse", from The Microcosm of London (1808)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://www.londonlives.org/static/Workhouses.jsp Workhouse, St James's Parish: this engraving was published in Pyne, William Henry; Combe, William (1904) [1810] "The Workhouse" in The Microcosm of London or London in Miniature, Volume III, London: Methuen and Company, pp. Plate 96 Retrieved on 13 July 2011. 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:Workroom at St James Workhouse.jpg Created: 31 December 1807 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe unanswered questions of Epstein's jail cell. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR http://www.innercitypress.com/mcc2epsteinjberman081219.html ...more

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• What does a Red Flag legislation mean for gun-owners? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Photo: Various muzzle-loading arms, to scale; numbers 1, 10, and 11 are identified as carbines (Encyclopædia Britannica, 1910).View author information Taken from 1910 The Encyclopædia Britannica, page 719. Shows a number of various types of muzzle-loading guns: 16th century German carbine, with double wheel lock Snaphance William III Brown Bess George II Brown Bess George III Brown Bess French Napoleon 1839 British percussion musket Blunderbuss or musketoon, early 18th century Large blunderbuss, 1750 Flintlock cavalry carbine, 1875 Percussion carbine, 1830 Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat does a Red Flag legislation mean for gun-owners? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/combat-white-supremacist-gun-violence-and-protect-the-second-amendment/ ...more

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• Indiana Hoenlein and the Lost Jewel of the Babylonian Captivity, dating to 587 BCE. Indiana Hoenlein (@Conf_of_Pres)

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  Image: Concord grapes cluster; public domainIndiana Hoenlein and the Lost Jewel of the Babylonian Captivity, dating to 587 BCE. Indiana Hoenlein (@Conf_of_Pres) A cluster of grapes in a golden clasp, found in a layer of ash from the time of the destruction of Jerusalem. Iron Age Jerusalem now thought not to have been a small village but a sprawling city.Also: unique Franz Kafka manuscripts.

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• Armenia provokes the US by sanction-busting with the rogue Iran regime. Paul Miller @Salomoncenter

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  Aug 14 2019

  Photo:  1978 Iranian revolution - row of men holding khomeini's photosDate | 1978Source | ScanningAuthor | UnknownPermission(Reusing this file) | see below: | This work is now in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowArmenia provokes the US by sanction-busting with the rogue Iran regime. Paul Miller @Salomoncenterhttps://www.jns.org/opinion/beware-of-the-sanctions-busters/

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• French intelligence reveals the Abu Nidal deal of the 1980s. Malcolm Hoenlein (@Conf_of_Pres)

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  Aug 14 2019

  Engraving: View of Paris from the Pont Neuf, 1763. Public domain.French intelligence reveals the Abu Nidal deal of the 1980s. Malcolm Hoenlein (@Conf_of_Pres).  https://www.ft.com/content/9b6f45ae-bd17-11e9-89e2-41e555e96722

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• Follow the money of the late Epstein. @WSJ @GregoryZuckerman

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  Aug 14 2019

  Photo: The way to KukuanalandH. Rider Haggard - http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/h/haggard/h_rider/king/map.jpg The Way to Kukuanaland, from King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFollow the money of the late Epstein. @WSJ @GregoryZuckerman https://www.wsj.com/articles/leslie-wexner-says-jeffrey-epstein-misappropriated-vast-sums-of-money-from-me-11565219336

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• (@bill roggio)(@thomasjoscelyn) Taliban suicide bomber levels a Kabul police station

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  Aug 13 2019

  Photo:  Group of the Amir Shere Ali, Prince Abdullah Jan, & Sirdars. Photograph taken by John Burke in 1869; studio portrait.  Public domain.. A Taliban suicide bomber, identified by the terrorist group as "a hero of Islamic Emirate, Mullah Jabbar Logari," leveled a police headquarters in Kabul's Police District District 6. EIghteen dead, 100-plus wounded. The Peace of the Taliban, coming to an Afghan city near you.   https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/08/taliban-suicide-bomber-strikes-police-in-kabul.php ...more

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• Does a PRC crackdown in Hong Kong boost the Trump Administration?

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  Aug 13 2019

  Photo: Kowloon, Hong Kong: military encampments (pic 5 of 6)DescriptionKowloon, Hong Kong: military encampments on land and fleets in the bay during the Second China War: panoramic view: section five. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1860.Iconographic CollectionsKeywords: Felice BeatoCredit lineThis file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. Refer to Wellcome blog post (archive).This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.ReferencesLibrary reference: Iconographic Collection 569636iPhoto number: L0067733Full Bibliographic Record: http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1569636Source/Photographerhttps://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/db/48/51b797221ade0fd60c460ebe19bf.jpgGallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0067733.htmlWellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-30): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ha4thejg CC-BY-4.0http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDoes a PRC crackdown in Hong Kong  boost the Trump Administration? ...more

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• Kloubachar, Warren and Harris outshine the challenged Biden at the Iowa State Fair. @JohnFund @@ThadMcCotter

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  Aug 13 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 FoundationView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in contehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowKloubachar, Warren and Harris outshine the challenged Biden at the Iowa State Fair. @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/08/12/iowa-politics-presidential-candidates-2020-style-contrast-caucus-sanders-warren-harris-buttigieg/1992336001/...more

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• Chinese threaten brutality in Hong Kong. Gordon Chang (@GordonGChang) & Thaddeus McCotter (@ThadMcCotter)

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  Aug 13 2019

  Image: Peoples Liberation Army flag, with numbers "8" and "1" (but not "81") to indicate its founding on August 1, 1927.  Public domain..Chinese threaten brutality in Hong Kong.  Gordon Chang (@GordonGChang) & Thaddeus McCotter (@ThadMcCotter)

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• Al Q's Zawahiri reported in poor health, no confirmation. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD @LongWarJournal

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  Aug 13 2019

  Photo: UP TO $25,000 REWARDAIMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI OSAMA BIN LADENBACK"UP TO $25,000,000 REWARD FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE WHEREABOUTS OR CAPTURE OF THESE TWO MEN!"U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters on November 19, 2001 that leaflets advertising a $25 million reward for information leading to the capture of Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden and Aimen al Zawahiri, bin Laden's top lieutenant were "dropping like snowflakes in December in Chicago." from U.S. military aircraft. This Department of Defense photograph shows an example of the leaflet.Date | Unknown dateSource | http://www.psywarrior.com/afghanleaf06.htmlAuthor | CIAhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAl Q's Zawahiri reported in poor health, no confirmation. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD @LongWarJournal...more

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• Beware the overstuffed armchairs in the PRC. David Rennie, @TheEconomist @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Aug 13 2019

  Photo: Public Domain: President Nixon Meets Chairman Mao, 1972 (NARA)This image is believed to be in the public domain and is from the National Archives. More information may be found below. Search or Contact the National Archives. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBeware the overstuffed armchairs in the PRC. David Rennie, @TheEconomist @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast   https://www.economist.com/china/2019/08/01/why-chinese-officials-like-useless-meetings-in-over-stuffed-chairs ...more

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• Rampage: 1 of 4: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James M. Scott (Author), Jesse Einstein (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Aug 13 2019

  PhotoDestruction at the Walled City (Intramuros district) of old Manila in May 1945 — after the Battle of Manila.Español: Fotografía de Manila destruida, después de la Batalla de Manila.Date | May 1945Source | Illustration 341 in Medical Dept., U.S. Army: Surgery in World War II: Activities of Surgical Consultants, Vol. II, Office of the Surgeon general, Dept. of the Army, Washington, D.C., 1964.Author | Unknown photographerPermission(Reusing this file) |  | This image is a work of a U.S. military or Department of Defense 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 in the United States.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Rampage: 1 of 4:  MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  James M. Scott (Author), Jesse Einstein (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Rampage-MacArthur-Yamashita-Battle-Manila/dp/B07L3BR7RR/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war in the Pacific.    Before World War II, Manila was a slice of America in Asia, populated with elegant neoclassical buildings, spacious parks, and home to thousands of US servicemen and business executives who enjoyed the relaxed pace of the tropics. The outbreak of the war, however, brought an end to the good life. General Douglas MacArthur, hoping to protect the Pearl of the Orient, declared the Philippine capital an open city and evacuated his forces. The Japanese seized Manila on January 2, 1942, rounding up and interning thousands of Americans.    MacArthur, who escaped soon after to Australia, famously vowed to return. For nearly three years, he clawed his way north, obsessed with redeeming his promise and turning his earlier defeat into victory. By early 1945, he prepared to liberate Manila, a city whose residents by then faced widespread starvation. Convinced the Japanese would abandon the city as he did, MacArthur planned a victory parade down Dewey Boulevard. But the enemy had other plans. Determined to fight to the death, Japanese marines barricaded intersections, converted buildings into fortresses, and booby-trapped stores, graveyards, and even dead bodies.    The 29-day battle to liberate Manila resulted in the catastrophic destruction of the city and a rampage by Japanese forces that brutalized the civilian population. Landmarks were demolished, houses were torched, suspected resistance fighters were tortured and killed, countless women were raped, and their husbands and children were murdered. American troops had no choice but to battle the enemy, floor by floor and even room by room, through schools, hospitals, and even sports stadiums. In the end, an estimated 100,000 civilians lost their lives in a massacre as heinous as the Rape of Nanking.    Based on extensive research in the United States and the Philippines, including war-crimes testimony, after-action reports, and survivor interviews, Rampage recounts one of the most heartbreaking chapters of Pacific War history....more

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• Rampage:2 of 4: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James M. Scott (Author), Jesse Einstein (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Japanese Imperial forces wounded surrender to US and Filipino soldiers under the United States Army and Philippine Commonwealth Army in unidentified city in Manila, May 1945. Note the American troops on the right foreground carrying two M1 Garand rifles.Date | between 1942 and 1945 Source |  | This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID fsa.8e02793.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.العربية | беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ | čeština | Deutsch | English | español | فارسی | suomi | français | עברית | magyar | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | polski | português | português do Brasil | русский | slovenčina | slovenščina | Türkçe | українська | 中文 | 中文（简体）‎ | 中文（繁體）‎ | +/−via https://www.flickr.com/photos/pingnews/509316753Author | United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. | This work is in the public domain i http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Rampage:2 of 4:  MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  James M. Scott (Author), Jesse Einstein (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Rampage-MacArthur-Yamashita-Battle-Manila/dp/B07L3BR7RR/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war in the Pacific.    Before World War II, Manila was a slice of America in Asia, populated with elegant neoclassical buildings, spacious parks, and home to thousands of US servicemen and business executives who enjoyed the relaxed pace of the tropics. The outbreak of the war, however, brought an end to the good life. General Douglas MacArthur, hoping to protect the Pearl of the Orient, declared the Philippine capital an open city and evacuated his forces. The Japanese seized Manila on January 2, 1942, rounding up and interning thousands of Americans.    MacArthur, who escaped soon after to Australia, famously vowed to return. For nearly three years, he clawed his way north, obsessed with redeeming his promise and turning his earlier defeat into victory. By early 1945, he prepared to liberate Manila, a city whose residents by then faced widespread starvation. Convinced the Japanese would abandon the city as he did, MacArthur planned a victory parade down Dewey Boulevard. But the enemy had other plans. Determined to fight to the death, Japanese marines barricaded intersections, converted buildings into fortresses, and booby-trapped stores, graveyards, and even dead bodies.    The 29-day battle to liberate Manila resulted in the catastrophic destruction of the city and a rampage by Japanese forces that brutalized the civilian population. Landmarks were demolished, houses were torched, suspected resistance fighters were tortured and killed, countless women were raped, and their husbands and children were murdered. American troops had no choice but to battle the enemy, floor by floor and even room by room, through schools, hospitals, and even sports stadiums. In the end, an estimated 100,000 civilians lost their lives in a massacre as heinous as the Rape of Nanking.    Based on extensive research in the United States and the Philippines, including war-crimes testimony, after-action reports, and survivor interviews, Rampage recounts one of the most heartbreaking chapters of Pacific War history....more

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• Rampage: 3 of 4: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James M. Scott (Author), Jesse Einstein (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Aug 13 2019

  Photo: Damage to the Manila Post Office 1945Date | 1945Source | Private Glenn W. EveAuthor | Private Glenn W. EvePermission(Reusing this file) |  | This image is a work of a U.S. military or Department of Defense 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 in the United States.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Rampage: 3 of 4:  MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  James M. Scott (Author), Jesse Einstein (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Rampage-MacArthur-Yamashita-Battle-Manila/dp/B07L3BR7RR/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war in the Pacific.    Before World War II, Manila was a slice of America in Asia, populated with elegant neoclassical buildings, spacious parks, and home to thousands of US servicemen and business executives who enjoyed the relaxed pace of the tropics. The outbreak of the war, however, brought an end to the good life. General Douglas MacArthur, hoping to protect the Pearl of the Orient, declared the Philippine capital an open city and evacuated his forces. The Japanese seized Manila on January 2, 1942, rounding up and interning thousands of Americans.    MacArthur, who escaped soon after to Australia, famously vowed to return. For nearly three years, he clawed his way north, obsessed with redeeming his promise and turning his earlier defeat into victory. By early 1945, he prepared to liberate Manila, a city whose residents by then faced widespread starvation. Convinced the Japanese would abandon the city as he did, MacArthur planned a victory parade down Dewey Boulevard. But the enemy had other plans. Determined to fight to the death, Japanese marines barricaded intersections, converted buildings into fortresses, and booby-trapped stores, graveyards, and even dead bodies.    The 29-day battle to liberate Manila resulted in the catastrophic destruction of the city and a rampage by Japanese forces that brutalized the civilian population. Landmarks were demolished, houses were torched, suspected resistance fighters were tortured and killed, countless women were raped, and their husbands and children were murdered. American troops had no choice but to battle the enemy, floor by floor and even room by room, through schools, hospitals, and even sports stadiums. In the end, an estimated 100,000 civilians lost their lives in a massacre as heinous as the Rape of Nanking.    Based on extensive research in the United States and the Philippines, including war-crimes testimony, after-action reports, and survivor interviews, Rampage recounts one of the most heartbreaking chapters of Pacific War history....more

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• Rampage:4 of 4: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James M. Scott (Author), Jesse Einstein (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Aug 13 2019

  Photo: Memorare - Manila 1945 Memorial General Luna (Calle Real de Palacio) Street Tamayo's Business Center, Barbara's Heritage Restaurant, Patio Victoria (Plaza San Luis Complex) Intramuros, Landmarks include the San Agustin Church the Manila Cathedral Right facade (Clock Tower-Belfry & Dome, Manila Cathedral) Main facade Exterior and Interior of the Manila Metropolitan Cathedral-Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception re-opened on April 9, 2014 after structural retrofitting, architectural restoration and engineering enhancements; Plaza de Roma, Intramuros 1886 Fountain King Charles IV of Spain monument, Intramuros along Genral Luna Real de Palacio Street corner A. Soriano, Jr. Avenue (formerly Aduana) corner Arzobizpo Street; Main facade-Clock Tower-Belfry; (Note: Judge Florentino Floro, the owner, to repeat, Donor Florentino Floro of all these photos hereby donate gratuitously, freely and unconditionally all these photos to and for Wikimedia Commons, exclusively, for public use of the public domain, and again without any condition whatsoever).Date | 8 September 2016, 15:54:08Source | Own workAuthor | Judgefloro | I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Rampage:4 of 4:  MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  James M. Scott (Author), Jesse Einstein (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Rampage-MacArthur-Yamashita-Battle-Manila/dp/B07L3BR7RR/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war in the Pacific.    Before World War II, Manila was a slice of America in Asia, populated with elegant neoclassical buildings, spacious parks, and home to thousands of US servicemen and business executives who enjoyed the relaxed pace of the tropics. The outbreak of the war, however, brought an end to the good life. General Douglas MacArthur, hoping to protect the Pearl of the Orient, declared the Philippine capital an open city and evacuated his forces. The Japanese seized Manila on January 2, 1942, rounding up and interning thousands of Americans.    MacArthur, who escaped soon after to Australia, famously vowed to return. For nearly three years, he clawed his way north, obsessed with redeeming his promise and turning his earlier defeat into victory. By early 1945, he prepared to liberate Manila, a city whose residents by then faced widespread starvation. Convinced the Japanese would abandon the city as he did, MacArthur planned a victory parade down Dewey Boulevard. But the enemy had other plans. Determined to fight to the death, Japanese marines barricaded intersections, converted buildings into fortresses, and booby-trapped stores, graveyards, and even dead bodies.    The 29-day battle to liberate Manila resulted in the catastrophic destruction of the city and a rampage by Japanese forces that brutalized the civilian population. Landmarks were demolished, houses were torched, suspected resistance fighters were tortured and killed, countless women were raped, and their husbands and children were murdered. American troops had no choice but to battle the enemy, floor by floor and even room by room, through schools, hospitals, and even sports stadiums. In the end, an estimated 100,000 civilians lost their lives in a massacre as heinous as the Rape of Nanking.    Based on extensive research in the United States and the Philippines, including war-crimes testimony, after-action reports, and survivor interviews, Rampage recounts one of the most heartbreaking chapters of Pacific War history. ...more

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• No Better Friend: 1 of 4: One Man, One Dog, and Their Incredible Story of Courage and Survival in WWII Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert Weintraub (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Hachette Audio (Publisher)

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  Aug 12 2019

  Photo:  A Type 4 15-cm-howitzer of the Imperial Japanese Army, China 1937Date | 1937Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/dani1944/3526936624/in/photostream/Author | Imperial Japanese ArmyThis photograph is in the public domain in Japan because its copyright has expired according to Article 23 of the 1899 Copyright Act of Japan (English translation) and Article 2 of Supplemental Provisions of Copyright Act of 1970. This is when the photograph meets one of the following conditions:http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow No Better Friend: 1 of 4: One Man, One Dog, and Their Incredible Story of Courage and Survival in WWII  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Robert Weintraub (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Hachette Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/No-Better-Friend-Incredible-Survival/dp/B00X4RGIJS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: a World War II internment camp in the Pacific. Judy was a fiercely loyal dog, with a keen sense for who was friend and who was foe, and the pair's relationship deepened throughout their captivity. When the prisoners suffered beatings, Judy would repeatedly risk her life to intervene. She survived bombings and other near-death experiences and became a beacon not only for Frank but for all the men, who saw in her survival a flicker of hope for their own.  Judy's devotion to those she was interned with was matched by their love for her, which helped keep the men and their dog alive despite the ever-present threat of death by disease or the rifles of the guards. At one point, deep in despair and starvation, Frank contemplated killing himself and the dog to prevent either from watching the other die. But both were rescued, and Judy spent the rest of her life with Frank. She became the war's only official canine POW, and after she died at age 14, Frank couldn't bring himself to ever have another dog. Their story - of an unbreakable bond forged in the worst circumstances - is one of the great undiscovered sagas of World War II....more

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• No Better Friend: 2 of 4: One Man, One Dog, and Their Incredible Story of Courage and Survival in WWII Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert Weintraub (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Hachette Audio (Publisher)

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  Aug 12 2019

  Photo: China in 1937 war with Japan Catalog #: 01056 Subject: The Flying Tigers - China Title: China in 1937 war with Japan Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow No Better Friend: 2 of 4: One Man, One Dog, and Their Incredible Story of Courage and Survival in WWII  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Robert Weintraub (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Hachette Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/No-Better-Friend-Incredible-Survival/dp/B00X4RGIJS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: a World War II internment camp in the Pacific. Judy was a fiercely loyal dog, with a keen sense for who was friend and who was foe, and the pair's relationship deepened throughout their captivity. When the prisoners suffered beatings, Judy would repeatedly risk her life to intervene. She survived bombings and other near-death experiences and became a beacon not only for Frank but for all the men, who saw in her survival a flicker of hope for their own.  Judy's devotion to those she was interned with was matched by their love for her, which helped keep the men and their dog alive despite the ever-present threat of death by disease or the rifles of the guards. At one point, deep in despair and starvation, Frank contemplated killing himself and the dog to prevent either from watching the other die. But both were rescued, and Judy spent the rest of her life with Frank. She became the war's only official canine POW, and after she died at age 14, Frank couldn't bring himself to ever have another dog. Their story - of an unbreakable bond forged in the worst circumstances - is one of the great undiscovered sagas of World War II....more

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• No Better Friend: 3 of 4: One Man, One Dog, and Their Incredible Story of Courage and Survival in WWII Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert Weintraub (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Hachette Audio (Publisher)

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  Aug 12 2019

  Photo: English: Chinese Civil WarDate | 5 November 2012Source | http://www.usma.edu/history/sitepages/chinese%20civil%20war.aspxAuthor | U.S. Armyhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow No Better Friend: 3 of 4: One Man, One Dog, and Their Incredible Story of Courage and Survival in WWII  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Robert Weintraub (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Hachette Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/No-Better-Friend-Incredible-Survival/dp/B00X4RGIJS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: a World War II internment camp in the Pacific. Judy was a fiercely loyal dog, with a keen sense for who was friend and who was foe, and the pair's relationship deepened throughout their captivity. When the prisoners suffered beatings, Judy would repeatedly risk her life to intervene. She survived bombings and other near-death experiences and became a beacon not only for Frank but for all the men, who saw in her survival a flicker of hope for their own.  Judy's devotion to those she was interned with was matched by their love for her, which helped keep the men and their dog alive despite the ever-present threat of death by disease or the rifles of the guards. At one point, deep in despair and starvation, Frank contemplated killing himself and the dog to prevent either from watching the other die. But both were rescued, and Judy spent the rest of her life with Frank. She became the war's only official canine POW, and after she died at age 14, Frank couldn't bring himself to ever have another dog. Their story - of an unbreakable bond forged in the worst circumstances - is one of the great undiscovered sagas of World War II....more

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• No Better Friend: 4 of 4: One Man, One Dog, and Their Incredible Story of Courage and Survival in WWII Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert Weintraub (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Hachette Audio (Publisher)

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  Aug 12 2019

  Photo: Shanghai. A Chinese funeral http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow No Better Friend: 4 of 4: One Man, One Dog, and Their Incredible Story of Courage and Survival in WWII  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Robert Weintraub (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Hachette Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/No-Better-Friend-Incredible-Survival/dp/B00X4RGIJS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: a World War II internment camp in the Pacific. Judy was a fiercely loyal dog, with a keen sense for who was friend and who was foe, and the pair's relationship deepened throughout their captivity. When the prisoners suffered beatings, Judy would repeatedly risk her life to intervene. She survived bombings and other near-death experiences and became a beacon not only for Frank but for all the men, who saw in her survival a flicker of hope for their own.  Judy's devotion to those she was interned with was matched by their love for her, which helped keep the men and their dog alive despite the ever-present threat of death by disease or the rifles of the guards. At one point, deep in despair and starvation, Frank contemplated killing himself and the dog to prevent either from watching the other die. But both were rescued, and Judy spent the rest of her life with Frank. She became the war's only official canine POW, and after she died at age 14, Frank couldn't bring himself to ever have another dog. Their story - of an unbreakable bond forged in the worst circumstances - is one of the great undiscovered sagas of World War II....more

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• Bezos likely puts another billion dollars into Blue Origen. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Aug 12 2019

  Photo: An early edition of the notorious Griffith & Farran adaptation of Journey to the Center of the Earth The original uploader was Sherurcij at English Wikisource. - Transferred from en.wikisource to Commons. 1874 Edition Book Cover, nabbed from http://www.vanishingbooks.com/features/verne/large/234journeyfxd.jpg Public Domain File:A Journey to the Centre of the Earth-1874.jpg Created: 10 March 2007 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBezos likely puts another billion dollars into Blue Origen.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/bezos-sells-an-additional-billion-dollars-in-amazon-stock/ ...more

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• Still undetermined if the sun is entering a Maunder Minimum. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Aug 12 2019

  Photo: English: A report in the Daily Mail characterized sunspot 1302 as a "behemoth" unleashing huge solar flares.Date | 24 September 2011Source | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2042428/Best-auroras-seen-Britain-thanks-huge-solar-flares.htmlAuthor | NASAhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowStill undetermined if the sun is entering a Maunder Minimum.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/sunspot-update-july-2019-almost-no-sunspots/ ...more

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• Medicare-for-all ends healthcare as we know it. 1 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Aug 12 2019

  Photo: Hospital ship in front of the new hospital building (1904–1905)Unknown (web search performed on the image) - http://www.penarth-dock.org.uk/02_13_050_04.html The former HMS Hamadryad as a hospital ship moored in the River Taff in Cardiff, Wales. Behind is the Royal Hamadryad Seamen's Hospital in the final stages of building. The hospital was built in 1902-1905 and the ship was towed away in 1905. Public Domain File:HMS Hamadryad and Royal Hamadryad Hospital, Cardiff.jpg Created: between 1903 and 1905 date QS:P,+1903-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1903-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 Location: 51° 27′ 41.04″ N, 3° 10′ 19.2″ W http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMedicare-for-all ends healthcare as we know it. 1 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/economic-trap-medicare-all ...more

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• Medicare-for-all ends healthcare as we know it. 2 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Aug 12 2019

  Photo: John Maurer  (1964–)  TitleThe Hospital of Bethlem (Bedlam) at Moorfields, London: seenDescriptionThe Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with lunatics capering in the foreground. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles after J. Maurer.Iconographic CollectionsKeywords: Bethlem Royal Hospital (London); Robert Hooke; moorfield; bethlem; t bowler; bedlam; j maurer; John Maurer; ic; Thomas BowlesLibrary reference: ICV No 13459Photo number: V0013176Full Bibliographic Record: http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1183463Source/Photographer | https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/67/71/d2dd0494e921f3a7bd10bc355dc2.jpgGallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0013176.htmlWellcome Collection gallery (2018-04-03): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/u7srmtev CC-BY-4.0http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMedicare-for-all ends healthcare as we know it. 2 of 2: @RichardAEpstein @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/research/economic-trap-medicare-all ...more

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• Rampage: 1 of 4: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. James M. Scott (Author), Jesse Einstein (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Aug 12 2019

  Photo:  Destruction at the Walled City (Intramuros district) of old Manila in May 1945 — after the Battle of Manila.Español: Fotografía de Manila destruida, después de la Batalla de Manila.Date | May 1945Source | Illustration 341 in Medical Dept., U.S. Army: Surgery in World War II: Activities of Surgical Consultants, Vol. II, Office of the Surgeon general, Dept. of the Army, Washington, D.C., 1964.Author | Unknown photographerPermission(Reusing this file) |  | This image is a work of a U.S. military or Department of Defense 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 in the United States.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Rampage: 1 of 4:  MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  James M. Scott (Author), Jesse Einstein (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Rampage-MacArthur-Yamashita-Battle-Manila/dp/B07L3BR7RR/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war in the Pacific.    Before World War II, Manila was a slice of America in Asia, populated with elegant neoclassical buildings, spacious parks, and home to thousands of US servicemen and business executives who enjoyed the relaxed pace of the tropics. The outbreak of the war, however, brought an end to the good life. General Douglas MacArthur, hoping to protect the Pearl of the Orient, declared the Philippine capital an open city and evacuated his forces. The Japanese seized Manila on January 2, 1942, rounding up and interning thousands of Americans.    MacArthur, who escaped soon after to Australia, famously vowed to return. For nearly three years, he clawed his way north, obsessed with redeeming his promise and turning his earlier defeat into victory. By early 1945, he prepared to liberate Manila, a city whose residents by then faced widespread starvation. Convinced the Japanese would abandon the city as he did, MacArthur planned a victory parade down Dewey Boulevard. But the enemy had other plans. Determined to fight to the death, Japanese marines barricaded intersections, converted buildings into fortresses, and booby-trapped stores, graveyards, and even dead bodies.    The 29-day battle to liberate Manila resulted in the catastrophic destruction of the city and a rampage by Japanese forces that brutalized the civilian population. Landmarks were demolished, houses were torched, suspected resistance fighters were tortured and killed, countless women were raped, and their husbands and children were murdered. American troops had no choice but to battle the enemy, floor by floor and even room by room, through schools, hospitals, and even sports stadiums. In the end, an estimated 100,000 civilians lost their lives in a massacre as heinous as the Rape of Nanking.    Based on extensive research in the United States and the Philippines, including war-crimes testimony, after-action reports, and survivor interviews, Rampage recounts one of the most heartbreaking chapters of Pacific War history....more

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• Guest Podcast: "Enter, stage left, Michelle Obama." @RichVAldes #ThisIsAmerica

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  Aug 12 2019

  Photo: E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) -- PublisherTitle | South Front of the White House, Fountain in the foreground.Alternate Title: Views in Washington City, D.C., No.6506.Date | Created: 1860-1880.Coverage: 1860-1880. Source Imprint: 1860?-1880?.Digital item published 1-25-2006; updated 2-13-2009.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGuest Podcast: "Enter, stage left, Michelle Obama." @RichVAldes #ThisIsAmerica

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• [1 of 2] How Antarctica got its ice, by Caroline H. Lear, Dan J. Lunt (@ConversationUK ; @Bristoluni ), University of Bristol. Antarctica's whole ice sheet is only 34 million years old.

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  Aug 11 2019

  Image: West Antarctica. Permissions:  Public domain, Credit: NASA/NSIDC Ice sheets such as those on Greenland and Antarctica today not only respond to changing climate but also can cause climate to change. Their sizes have fluctuated substantially in the past. In particular, Antarctica was effectively ice-free until its ice cover began to expand rapidly at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary around 34 million years ago. Recent research helps to identify the mechanisms that led to this rapid ice sheet growth.   http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6281/34 ...more

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• [2 of 2] How Antarctica got its ice, by Caroline H. Lear, Dan J. Lunt (@ConversationUK ; @Bristoluni ), University of Bristol. Antarctica's whole ice sheet is only 34 million years old.

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  Aug 11 2019

  Image: A perfectly rectilinear Antarctic ice shelf, a strange-looking but natural phenomenon called a tabular iceberg. Public domain, photo by NASA.Ice sheets such as those on Greenland and Antarctica today not only respond to changing climate but also can cause climate to change. Their sizes have fluctuated substantially in the past. In particular, Antarctica was effectively ice-free until its ice cover began to expand rapidly at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary around 34 million years ago. Recent research helps to identify the mechanisms that led to this rapid ice sheet growth.   http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6281/34 ...more

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• To Hell and Back: 1 of 12: The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino (Author)

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  Aug 11 2019

  Photo:  The ground crew of the B-29 "Enola Gay" which atom-bombed Hiroshima, Japan. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, the pilot is the center. Marianas Islands. (U.S. Air Force photo)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow To Hell and Back: 1 of 12:  The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Back-Hiroshima-Pacific-Perspectives/dp/1442250585/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning, “you are there” time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino’s scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.At the narrative’s core are eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand—the Japanese civilians on the ground. As the first city targeted, Hiroshima is the focus of most histories. Pellegrino gives equal weight to the bombing of Nagasaki, symbolized by the thirty people who are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki—where they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the only person who experienced the full effects of both cataclysms within Ground Zero. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell behind which Yamaguchi’s office conference was convened—placing him and few others in a shock cocoon that offered protection while the entire building disappeared around them.Pellegrino weaves spellbinding stories together within an illustrated narrative that challenges the “official report,” showing exactly what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and why.Also available from compatible vendors is an enhanced e-book version containing never-before-seen video clips of the survivors, their descendants, and the cities as they are today. Filmed by the author during his research in Japan, these 18 videos are placed throughout the text, taking readers beyond the page and offering an eye-opening and personal way to understand how the effects of the atomic bombs are still felt 70 years after detonation....more

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• To Hell and Back:2 of 12: The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino (Author)

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  Aug 11 2019

  Photo:  Hiroshima Court of Appeals日本語: 広島控訴院Date | English: bofore 1945日本語: 1945年以前Source | English: Japanese book "Album of Japanese Justice Ministry and Court Buildings" published by Ministry of Justice.日本語: 司法省「司法省及裁判所庁舎写真帖」より。Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow To Hell and Back:2 of 12:  The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Back-Hiroshima-Pacific-Perspectives/dp/1442250585/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning, “you are there” time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino’s scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.At the narrative’s core are eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand—the Japanese civilians on the ground. As the first city targeted, Hiroshima is the focus of most histories. Pellegrino gives equal weight to the bombing of Nagasaki, symbolized by the thirty people who are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki—where they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the only person who experienced the full effects of both cataclysms within Ground Zero. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell behind which Yamaguchi’s office conference was convened—placing him and few others in a shock cocoon that offered protection while the entire building disappeared around them.Pellegrino weaves spellbinding stories together within an illustrated narrative that challenges the “official report,” showing exactly what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and why.Also available from compatible vendors is an enhanced e-book version containing never-before-seen video clips of the survivors, their descendants, and the cities as they are today. Filmed by the author during his research in Japan, these 18 videos are placed throughout the text, taking readers beyond the page and offering an eye-opening and personal way to understand how the effects of the atomic bombs are still felt 70 years after detonation....more

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• To Hell and Back: 3 of 12: The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino (Author)

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  Photo: Little Boy unit on trailer cradle in pit on Tinian, before being loaded into Enola Gay's bomb bayUnknown - https://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/ Atombombe. LB (Little Boy) unit on trailer cradle in pit on Tinian island, before being loaded into Enola Gay's bomb bay. [Note bomb bay door in upper right-hand corner.] , 08/1945. ARC Identifier: 519394. Permission details Public DomainView more Public Domainview terms File:Atombombe Little Boy 2.jpg Created: 31 July 1945 Location: 15° 0′ 59.12″ N, 145° 37′ 55.27″ E http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow To Hell and Back: 3 of 12:  The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Back-Hiroshima-Pacific-Perspectives/dp/1442250585/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning, “you are there” time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino’s scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.At the narrative’s core are eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand—the Japanese civilians on the ground. As the first city targeted, Hiroshima is the focus of most histories. Pellegrino gives equal weight to the bombing of Nagasaki, symbolized by the thirty people who are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki—where they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the only person who experienced the full effects of both cataclysms within Ground Zero. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell behind which Yamaguchi’s office conference was convened—placing him and few others in a shock cocoon that offered protection while the entire building disappeared around them.Pellegrino weaves spellbinding stories together within an illustrated narrative that challenges the “official report,” showing exactly what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and why.Also available from compatible vendors is an enhanced e-book version containing never-before-seen video clips of the survivors, their descendants, and the cities as they are today. Filmed by the author during his research in Japan, these 18 videos are placed throughout the text, taking readers beyond the page and offering an eye-opening and personal way to understand how the effects of the atomic bombs are still felt 70 years after detonation....more

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• To Hell and Back: 4 of 12: The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino (Author)

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  Photo: Hiroshima explosion George R. Caron - This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 542192. At the time this photo was made, smoke billowed 20,000 feet above Hiroshima while smoke from the burst of the first atomic bomb had spread over 10,000 feet on the target at the base of the rising column. Six planes of the 509th Composite Group, participated in this mission; one to carry the bomb Enola Gay, one to take scientific measurements of the blast The Great Artiste, the third to take photographs Necessary Evil the others flew approximately an hour ahead to act as weather scouts, 08/06/1945. Bad weather would disqualify a target as the scientists insisted on a visual delivery, the primary target was Hiroshima, secondary was Kokura, and tertiary was Nagasaki. 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 File:Atomic cloud over Hiroshima.jpg Created: 5 August 1945 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow To Hell and Back: 4 of 12:  The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Back-Hiroshima-Pacific-Perspectives/dp/1442250585/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning, “you are there” time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino’s scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.At the narrative’s core are eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand—the Japanese civilians on the ground. As the first city targeted, Hiroshima is the focus of most histories. Pellegrino gives equal weight to the bombing of Nagasaki, symbolized by the thirty people who are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki—where they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the only person who experienced the full effects of both cataclysms within Ground Zero. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell behind which Yamaguchi’s office conference was convened—placing him and few others in a shock cocoon that offered protection while the entire building disappeared around them.Pellegrino weaves spellbinding stories together within an illustrated narrative that challenges the “official report,” showing exactly what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and why.Also available from compatible vendors is an enhanced e-book version containing never-before-seen video clips of the survivors, their descendants, and the cities as they are today. Filmed by the author during his research in Japan, these 18 videos are placed throughout the text, taking readers beyond the page and offering an eye-opening and personal way to understand how the effects of the atomic bombs are still felt 70 years after detonation....more

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• To Hell and Back: 5 of 12: The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino (Author)

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  Photo: Enola Gay landing at its baseU.S. Air Force photo - http://www.af.mil/photos/index.asp?galleryID=161&page=3 MARIANAS ISLAND -- Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" landing after the atomic bombing mission on Hiroshima, Japan - This is a filtered version. Public Domain File:Enola Gay2-PS.jpg Created: 1945(1945) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow To Hell and Back: 5 of 12:  The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Back-Hiroshima-Pacific-Perspectives/dp/1442250585/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning, “you are there” time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino’s scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.At the narrative’s core are eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand—the Japanese civilians on the ground. As the first city targeted, Hiroshima is the focus of most histories. Pellegrino gives equal weight to the bombing of Nagasaki, symbolized by the thirty people who are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki—where they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the only person who experienced the full effects of both cataclysms within Ground Zero. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell behind which Yamaguchi’s office conference was convened—placing him and few others in a shock cocoon that offered protection while the entire building disappeared around them.Pellegrino weaves spellbinding stories together within an illustrated narrative that challenges the “official report,” showing exactly what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and why.Also available from compatible vendors is an enhanced e-book version containing never-before-seen video clips of the survivors, their descendants, and the cities as they are today. Filmed by the author during his research in Japan, these 18 videos are placed throughout the text, taking readers beyond the page and offering an eye-opening and personal way to understand how the effects of the atomic bombs are still felt 70 years after detonation....more

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• To Hell and Back: 6 of 12: The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino (Author)

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  Photo:  Hiroshima Aftermath, cropped version with writing of Paul TibbetsDate | Short after 6 August 1945 (8:15 a.m. – the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima ...)Source | http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/images/historical/hiroshima.jpgAuthor | U.S. Navy Public Affairs Resources WebsitePermission(Reusing this file) | "All information on this site is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested."http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/chinfoprivacy.htmlhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow To Hell and Back: 6 of 12:  The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Back-Hiroshima-Pacific-Perspectives/dp/1442250585/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning, “you are there” time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino’s scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.At the narrative’s core are eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand—the Japanese civilians on the ground. As the first city targeted, Hiroshima is the focus of most histories. Pellegrino gives equal weight to the bombing of Nagasaki, symbolized by the thirty people who are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki—where they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the only person who experienced the full effects of both cataclysms within Ground Zero. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell behind which Yamaguchi’s office conference was convened—placing him and few others in a shock cocoon that offered protection while the entire building disappeared around them.Pellegrino weaves spellbinding stories together within an illustrated narrative that challenges the “official report,” showing exactly what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and why.Also available from compatible vendors is an enhanced e-book version containing never-before-seen video clips of the survivors, their descendants, and the cities as they are today. Filmed by the author during his research in Japan, these 18 videos are placed throughout the text, taking readers beyond the page and offering an eye-opening and personal way to understand how the effects of the atomic bombs are still felt 70 years after detonation....more

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• To Hell and Back: 7 of 12: The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino (Author)

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  Aug 11 2019

  Photo: Bockscar with temporary triangle N tail marking, on 9 August 1945, the day of its atomic bombing missionU.S. government - http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/Photos.aspx?igphoto=2000693077 Temporary triangle N tail marking of the B-29 bomber Bockscar, on August 9, 1945, the day of its atomic bombing mission 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 File:Bockscar triangle N tail marking.jpg Created: 8 August 1945 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow To Hell and Back: 7 of 12:  The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Back-Hiroshima-Pacific-Perspectives/dp/1442250585/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning, “you are there” time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino’s scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.At the narrative’s core are eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand—the Japanese civilians on the ground. As the first city targeted, Hiroshima is the focus of most histories. Pellegrino gives equal weight to the bombing of Nagasaki, symbolized by the thirty people who are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki—where they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the only person who experienced the full effects of both cataclysms within Ground Zero. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell behind which Yamaguchi’s office conference was convened—placing him and few others in a shock cocoon that offered protection while the entire building disappeared around them.Pellegrino weaves spellbinding stories together within an illustrated narrative that challenges the “official report,” showing exactly what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and why.Also available from compatible vendors is an enhanced e-book version containing never-before-seen video clips of the survivors, their descendants, and the cities as they are today. Filmed by the author during his research in Japan, these 18 videos are placed throughout the text, taking readers beyond the page and offering an eye-opening and personal way to understand how the effects of the atomic bombs are still felt 70 years after detonation....more

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• To Hell and Back: 8 of 12: The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino (Author)

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  Aug 11 2019

  Photo: The mushroom cloud as seen from one of the B-29s on the missionUS gov - US gov Atomic cloud over Nagasaki from B-29 Public Domain File:Atomic cloud over Nagasaki from B-29.jpg Created: 31 December 1944 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow To Hell and Back: 8 of 12:  The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Back-Hiroshima-Pacific-Perspectives/dp/1442250585/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning, “you are there” time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino’s scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.At the narrative’s core are eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand—the Japanese civilians on the ground. As the first city targeted, Hiroshima is the focus of most histories. Pellegrino gives equal weight to the bombing of Nagasaki, symbolized by the thirty people who are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki—where they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the only person who experienced the full effects of both cataclysms within Ground Zero. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell behind which Yamaguchi’s office conference was convened—placing him and few others in a shock cocoon that offered protection while the entire building disappeared around them.Pellegrino weaves spellbinding stories together within an illustrated narrative that challenges the “official report,” showing exactly what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and why.Also available from compatible vendors is an enhanced e-book version containing never-before-seen video clips of the survivors, their descendants, and the cities as they are today. Filmed by the author during his research in Japan, these 18 videos are placed throughout the text, taking readers beyond the page and offering an eye-opening and personal way to understand how the effects of the atomic bombs are still felt 70 years after detonation....more

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• To Hell and Back: 9 of 12: The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino (Author)

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  Aug 11 2019

  Photo: Crew C-15. front row: Dehart, Kuharek, Buckley, Gallagher, Spitzer; back row: Olivi, Beahan, Sweeney, Van Pelt, AlburyASAF - http://www.historytoday.com/alonzo-hamby/truman-and-bomb Enlisted flight crew of the Bock's Car. Public Domain File:Bocks-Car-enlisted-flight-crew.png Created: 31 December 1944 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow To Hell and Back: 9 of 12:  The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Back-Hiroshima-Pacific-Perspectives/dp/1442250585/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning, “you are there” time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino’s scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.At the narrative’s core are eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand—the Japanese civilians on the ground. As the first city targeted, Hiroshima is the focus of most histories. Pellegrino gives equal weight to the bombing of Nagasaki, symbolized by the thirty people who are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki—where they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the only person who experienced the full effects of both cataclysms within Ground Zero. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell behind which Yamaguchi’s office conference was convened—placing him and few others in a shock cocoon that offered protection while the entire building disappeared around them.Pellegrino weaves spellbinding stories together within an illustrated narrative that challenges the “official report,” showing exactly what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and why.Also available from compatible vendors is an enhanced e-book version containing never-before-seen video clips of the survivors, their descendants, and the cities as they are today. Filmed by the author during his research in Japan, these 18 videos are placed throughout the text, taking readers beyond the page and offering an eye-opening and personal way to understand how the effects of the atomic bombs are still felt 70 years after detonation....more

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• To Hell and Back:10 of 12: The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino (Author)

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  Aug 11 2019

  Photo:  Battered religious figures stand watch on a hill above a tattered valley. Nagasaki, Japan. September 24, 1945, 6 weeks after the city was destroyed by the world's second atomic bomb attack. Photo by Cpl. Lynn P. Walker, Jr. (Marine Corps) NARA FILE #: 127-N-136176Français : Statues religieuses fracturées sur une colline au dessus d'une vallée entièrement détruite. Nagasaki, Japon, 24 septembre 1945, 6 semaines après la destruction de la ville par le deuxième bombardement atomique de l'histoire.Русский: Фото разрушенного храма в Нагасаки, сделанная через 6 недель после бомбардировки. Нагасаки, Япония, 24 сентября 1945 года.Türkçe: Atom bombası saldırısı sonrasında Nagasaki'nin Urakami bölgesinde yer alan Sakamoto mahallesinin görünümü. 24 Eylül 1945 tarihinde Strategic Bombing Survey'nin incelemesi sırasında Deniz Piyade Onbaşısı Lynn P. Walker, Jr. tarafından çekildi. Önde Kannon Bosatsu ve Jizō Bosatsuheykelleri, sağ tarafında Sannō Jinja (ground zero'nun 800 metre güneydoğusu)'nın "Ipponbashira Torii" ("Tek Sutünlü Torii")'si görülmektedir. İleride solda Chinzei Gakuin Ortaokulu Takenokubo Kampüsü (ground zero'nun 500 metre güneybatısı, günümüzde Kassui Lisesi), ortada Shiroyama Millet Okulu (ground zero'nun 500 metre batısı, günümüzde Shiroyama İlkokulu), Arkasında görülen yükselti ise Iwaya Dağı'dır.Date | Taken on 24 September 1945Source | archive copy at the Wayback Machine (archived on 16 September 2011) "War and Conflict" image collection] (HD-SN-99-02900)Author | Cpl. Lynn P. Walker, Jr. (Marine Corps)Permission(Reusing this file) |  | This image or file is in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow To Hell and Back:10 of 12:  The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Back-Hiroshima-Pacific-Perspectives/dp/1442250585/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning, “you are there” time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino’s scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.At the narrative’s core are eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand—the Japanese civilians on the ground. As the first city targeted, Hiroshima is the focus of most histories. Pellegrino gives equal weight to the bombing of Nagasaki, symbolized by the thirty people who are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki—where they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the only person who experienced the full effects of both cataclysms within Ground Zero. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell behind which Yamaguchi’s office conference was convened—placing him and few others in a shock cocoon that offered protection while the entire building disappeared around them.Pellegrino weaves spellbinding stories together within an illustrated narrative that challenges the “official report,” showing exactly what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and why.Also available from compatible vendors is an enhanced e-book version containing never-before-seen video clips of the survivors, their descendants, and the cities as they are today. Filmed by the author during his research in Japan, these 18 videos are placed throughout the text, taking readers beyond the page and offering an eye-opening and personal way to understand how the effects of the atomic bombs are still felt 70 years after detonation....more

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• To Hell and Back:11 of 12: The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino (Author)

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  Aug 11 2019

  Photo: Atomic bomb damage at Nagasaki. (U.S. Air Force photo)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow To Hell and Back:11 of 12:  The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Back-Hiroshima-Pacific-Perspectives/dp/1442250585/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning, “you are there” time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino’s scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.At the narrative’s core are eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand—the Japanese civilians on the ground. As the first city targeted, Hiroshima is the focus of most histories. Pellegrino gives equal weight to the bombing of Nagasaki, symbolized by the thirty people who are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki—where they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the only person who experienced the full effects of both cataclysms within Ground Zero. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell behind which Yamaguchi’s office conference was convened—placing him and few others in a shock cocoon that offered protection while the entire building disappeared around them.Pellegrino weaves spellbinding stories together within an illustrated narrative that challenges the “official report,” showing exactly what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and why.Also available from compatible vendors is an enhanced e-book version containing never-before-seen video clips of the survivors, their descendants, and the cities as they are today. Filmed by the author during his research in Japan, these 18 videos are placed throughout the text, taking readers beyond the page and offering an eye-opening and personal way to understand how the effects of the atomic bombs are still felt 70 years after detonation....more

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• To Hell and Back:12 of 12: The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino (Author)

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  Aug 11 2019

  Photo: Public Domain: Atomic Ruins, Nagasaki, Japan 1945 (NARA)This image is believed to be in the public domain and is from the National Archives. More information may be found below. Search or Contact the National Archives. _______________________ All images from the National Archives posted on this site should be "unrestricted&quot, according to NARA's information provided below. PLEASE DO NOT ATTRIBUTE IMAGE TO PINGNEWS. You may say "via" pingnews or found through pingnews. You may also thank the "pingnews photo service." Here, we are serving as A FREE PHOTO SERVICE and NOT THE ORIGINATOR/CREATOR of these images NOR the archival location. Any credit should attribute photographer (if known) and the National Archives. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow To Hell and Back:12 of 12:  The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives) Hardcover – August 6, 2015. by Charles Pellegrino  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Back-Hiroshima-Pacific-Perspectives/dp/1442250585/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning, “you are there” time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino’s scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.At the narrative’s core are eyewitness accounts of those who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand—the Japanese civilians on the ground. As the first city targeted, Hiroshima is the focus of most histories. Pellegrino gives equal weight to the bombing of Nagasaki, symbolized by the thirty people who are known to have fled Hiroshima for Nagasaki—where they arrived just in time to survive the second bomb. One of them, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is the only person who experienced the full effects of both cataclysms within Ground Zero. The second time, the blast effects were diverted around the stairwell behind which Yamaguchi’s office conference was convened—placing him and few others in a shock cocoon that offered protection while the entire building disappeared around them.Pellegrino weaves spellbinding stories together within an illustrated narrative that challenges the “official report,” showing exactly what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and why.Also available from compatible vendors is an enhanced e-book version containing never-before-seen video clips of the survivors, their descendants, and the cities as they are today. Filmed by the author during his research in Japan, these 18 videos are placed throughout the text, taking readers beyond the page and offering an eye-opening and personal way to understand how the effects of the atomic bombs are still felt 70 years after detonation....more

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• Malcolm Hoenlein (@Conf_of_Pres). Iran’s economy: suddenly reminiscent of 1920s Germany. Dwindling oil exports. Falling birthrate.

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  Aug 10 2019

  Image:  Persia, 10 toman, AH1314 (c. 1896), depicting Mozaffar ad-Din, Shah of the Qajar dynasty.  Credit to the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History. Public domain. Iran’s economy: suddenly reminiscent of 1920s Germany.  Dwindling oil exports. Falling birthrate. Birthrate crashing to 1.24% annual increase; damage for decades to come.  NE Iran “terrorist attack.” Javad Zarif. Currency name-change to: toman – and dropped four zeros.  Collapsed economy! while increasing cash to Palestinian Authority. Oil exports ’way down. New missile systems. Malcolm Hoenlein (@Conf_of_Pres).    https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Amid-economic-environmental-crisis-Khamenei-urges-Iranians-to-have-babies-597856 ...more

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• Palestinian quandary and the odd homicide-menticide. (@palwatch)

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  Aug 10 2019

  Image: Market at Jaffa, by Gustav Bauernfeind, 1877. Public domain..Itamar Marcus @palwatch, on the Sbarro massacre: killers paid well (pay to slay). Abass's Palestinian Authority does zip to protect Palestinian refugees in Syria. The most regrettable futility of negotiating with the venal PA.

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• Google may be the villain. @GeneMarks.

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  Aug 10 2019

  Photo: Charles Bowles, aka "Black Bart", American stagecoach robberUnknown - Cover of Black Bart: Boulevardier Bandit (Fresno, CA : Word Dancer Press, 1995) 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 File:Charles Bowles aka Black Bart.jpg Created: 31 December 1887 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGoogle may be the villain. @GeneMarks.6.  Trump's health care initiatives are great for small business — except for one huge problemhttps://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/454244-trumps-health-care-initiatives-are-great-for-small-business-except-for-one7.  Google's monopoly is killing small businesshttps://thehill.com/opinion/finance/456543-googles-monopoly-is-killing-small-business ...more

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• Large Russian protests across the eleven time zones: surprise to the Moscow kreml.

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  Aug 10 2019

  Image: Moscow uprising of 1648 (Salt Riot on Red Square, by Ernest Lissner, 1874-1941). Public domain.Large Russian protests across the eleven time zones: surprise to the Moscow kreml. Anna Borshchevskaya (@annaborsh).  The spark was Moscow’s barring some candidates from participating in elections, but it mushroomed into wider complaints. Severe crackdown (force, tear gas, massive arrests).  Also: Russia’s support of Iran in the Hormuz crisis; the INF treaty.

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• Rumors of Recession return. @GeneMarks

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  Photo: Photograph of Camp Wind Cave NPS Photo  From Wind Cave’s creation in 1903 to today, the park has made many improvements to its facilities, routes. Many of the founding projects to enhance the parks facilities were established during the 1930s when the park housed a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp. The men stationed at the camp participated in projects to construct park buildings, tour paths, roads, and many other important facilities that we continue to utilize today. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRumors of Recession return. @GeneMarks1.  U.S. service sector slows in July to weakest rate in almost three yearshttps://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-service-sector-slows-further-in-july-to-slowest-rate-in-almost-three-years-2019-08-05 2.  U.S. Labor Market Slowing As Job Openings, Hirings Fallhttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-jobs/u-s-labor-market-slowing-as-job-openings-hiring-fall-idUSKCN1UW1O1 3. Morgan Stanley: If the trade war escalates, a recession will be here in 9 monthshttps://cnb.cx/2Yq1QBf 4.  RV shipments and sales continue to declinehttps://www.southbendtribune.com/news/business/rv-shipments-and-sales-continue-to-decline/article_1a49048c-1334-539f-9b5d-6a5d7b137121.html? ...more

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• The return of ISIS. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Photo: Iraq. Kirkuk. General view showing ancient bridge over the winter torrent 1932.Library of CongresslinkLinkhttp://www.loc.gov/copyrightCopyright infoNo known restrictions on publication http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe return of ISIS. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres https://www.thedailybeast.com/isis-assad-and-turkey-are-waging-a-shadow-war-on-americas-kurdish-allies-in-syria

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• Freedom's Forge: 1 of 4: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Arthur Herman (Author), John McDonough (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Aug 10 2019

  Photo: Aerial photograph of the Liberty ship SS John W. Brown outbound from the United States carrying a large deck cargo after her conversion to a "Limited Capacity Troopship." It probably was taken in the summer of 1943 during her second voyage. National Archives photo - Scanned from Live (program published by Project Liberty Ship for cruises of the Liberty ship SS John W. Brown), 2013 edition, page 7. Additional descriptive information from p. 6 of the same publication. Aerial photo of the Liberty ship SS John W. Brown outbound from the United States with a large deck cargo after her conversion into a "Limited Capacity Troopship." The photo probably was taken in the summer of 1943 during her second voyage. Public Domain File:SS John W. Brown aerial photo.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Freedom's Forge: 1 of 4: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Arthur Herman (Author), John McDonough (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Freedoms-Forge-American-Business-Democracy/dp/B008Y2ARWC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman pens this fascinating look at how two businessmen turned the U.S. into a military powerhouse during World War II. In 1940, FDR asked General Motors CEO William Knudsen to oversee the production of guns, tanks, and planes needed for the war. Meanwhile, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser presided over the building of "Liberty ships" - vessels that came to symbolize America's great wartime output....more

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• Freedom's Forge: 2 of 4: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Arthur Herman (Author), John McDonough (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Photo: Day 14 : Upper deck erected and mast houses and the after-deck house in placeUnited States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944 - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID fsa.8e01463. 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. Construction of a Liberty ship at Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland (USA) in March/April 1943. Original caption: “On the fourteenth day the upper deck has been erected and mast houses and the after-deck house are in place. Electrical conduits and engine and boiler room piping are being installed.” Public Domain File:Liberty ship construction 10 upper decks.jpg Created: 31 March 1943 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Freedom's Forge: 2 of 4: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Arthur Herman (Author), John McDonough (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Freedoms-Forge-American-Business-Democracy/dp/B008Y2ARWC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman pens this fascinating look at how two businessmen turned the U.S. into a military powerhouse during World War II. In 1940, FDR asked General Motors CEO William Knudsen to oversee the production of guns, tanks, and planes needed for the war. Meanwhile, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser presided over the building of "Liberty ships" - vessels that came to symbolize America's great wartime output....more

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• Freedom's Forge: 3 of 4: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Arthur Herman (Author), John McDonough (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Photo: Day 2 : Laying of the keel platesUnited States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944 - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID fsa.8e01459. 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. Construction of a Liberty ship at Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland (USA) in March/April 1943: laying of the keel plates on the second day of construction. Original caption:” Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards, near Baltimore, Maryland. Construction of a Liberty ship. Laying of the keelplates to which will be attached the vertical keel.” Public Domain File:Liberty ship construction 03 keel plates.jpg Created: 28 February 1943 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Freedom's Forge: 3 of 4: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Arthur Herman (Author), John McDonough (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Freedoms-Forge-American-Business-Democracy/dp/B008Y2ARWC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman pens this fascinating look at how two businessmen turned the U.S. into a military powerhouse during World War II. In 1940, FDR asked General Motors CEO William Knudsen to oversee the production of guns, tanks, and planes needed for the war. Meanwhile, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser presided over the building of "Liberty ships" - vessels that came to symbolize America's great wartime output....more

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• Freedom's Forge: 4 of 4: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Arthur Herman (Author), John McDonough (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Aug 10 2019

  Photo: 140-ton vertical triple expansion steam engine of the type used to power World War II Liberty ships, assembled for testing before delivery United States Maritime Commission photo - Scanned from Live (program published by Project Liberty Ship for cruises of the Liberty ship SS John W. Brown), 2013 edition, page 11. Additional descriptive information from p. 10 of the same publication. 140-ton – also described as 135-ton – vertical triple expansion steam engine of the type used to power World War II Liberty ships, assembled for testing prior to delivery. The engine is 21 feet (6.4 meters) long and 19 feet (5.8 meters) tall and was designed to operate at 76 rpm and propel a Liberty ship at about 11 knots (12.7 mph; 20.4 km/hr). Public Domain File:Liberty ship 140-ton VTE engine.jpg Created: During the period of construction of Liberty ships (1941-1945) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Freedom's Forge: 4 of 4: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Arthur Herman (Author), John McDonough (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Freedoms-Forge-American-Business-Democracy/dp/B008Y2ARWC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman pens this fascinating look at how two businessmen turned the U.S. into a military powerhouse during World War II. In 1940, FDR asked General Motors CEO William Knudsen to oversee the production of guns, tanks, and planes needed for the war. Meanwhile, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser presided over the building of "Liberty ships" - vessels that came to symbolize America's great wartime output....more

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• #TheScalaReport: Teething pains of the Global Baby Amazons: "The winner will be the one who doesn’t run out of money." Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE ⁦@ScalaInc⁩

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  Photo:  As was loudly heralded in the photo next door, Tyler & Sons completed their alterations and opened premises at nos. 9 and 10 Broad Street in Waterford! Photographer: Poole Photographic Studios, WaterfordDate: 1896?NLI Ref.: P_WP_0784This photograph features in our Working Lives, 1893-1913 exhibition at the National Photographic Archive in Temple Bar, Dublin.Date | 1896Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/11320886266/Author | National Library of Ireland on The CommonsPermission(Reusing this file) | No known copyright restrictionshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: Teething pains of the Global Baby Amazons: "The winner will be the one who doesn’t run out of money."  Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE  ⁦@ScalaInc⁩ ...more

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• How long until the 311 mile-per-hour magic of NYC to DC on the Northeast MAGLEV? Governor George Pataki, Advisory Board, Central Japan Railroad Company.

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  Photo: Host pointing to the MAGLEV at Yamanishi, Japan.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHow long until the 311 mile-per-hour magic of NYC to DC on the Northeast MAGLEV? Governor George Pataki, Advisory Board, Central Japan Railroad Company.

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• Strait of Hormuz: Teheran pressures the whole Gulf. Behnam Ben Taleblu,@FDD

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  Map: The Strait of Hormuz separates Iran to the north and the Musandam Governorate of Oman and the United Arab Emirates to the south. Public domain.  Behnam Ben Taleblu, FDD senior Fellow

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• Compelling and surprising evidence of Homo Sapiens in Greece more than 200,000 years ago. Eric Delson, Lehman College, CUNY. American Museum of Natural History.

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  Aug 09 2019

  Photo: A fresco found at the Minoan site of Knossos, indicating a sport or ritual of "bull leaping", the dark skinned figure is a man and the two light skinned figures are womenunknown ancient artist - ArtStudy version 2.0 (Saskia Ltd, Thomson Wadsworth) Fresco of bull-leaping from Knossos (an acrobat on a bull with two female acrobats on either side). Permission details ineligible for copyright (PD-Art)View more Public Domainview terms File:Knossos Bull-Leaping Fresco.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCompelling and surprising evidence of Homo Sapiens in Greece more than 200,000 years ago. Eric Delson, Lehman College, CUNY. American Museum of Natural History.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02075-9 ...more

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• What about the PLA garrison in Hong Kong? Rick Fisher, Intl Assessment and Strategy Center

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  Engraving: Chinese Qing Empire officers with the French Montigny mitrailleuse gun, C. 1880. Public domain..What about the PLA garrison in Hong Kong? with Rick Fisher,  International Assessment and Strategy Center

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• Hong Kong cannot be replaced as a banking center for Mainland China. Fraser Howie, Singapore, "Red Capitalism." @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Aug 09 2019

  Photo: View of Spring Gardens, Hong Kong, 20 August 1846.Date | 20 August 1846Source | http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_04/gallery_places/pages/cwHK_1846_AH643890_Gden.htmAuthor | Painted by Murdoch Bruce (fl. 1840–1854), lithograph by Andrew Maclure (1812–1885)Other versions | http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHong Kong cannot be replaced as a banking center for Mainland China. Fraser Howie, Singapore, "Red Capitalism." @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast  ...more

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• The Palestinians reject peace and prosperity. Jason Greenblatt, US Special Representative for International Negotiations by President Donald Trump. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Photo: The Palestinians reject peace and prosperity. Jason Greenblatt, US Special Representative for International Negotiations by President Donald Trump.  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_preshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Palestinians reject peace and prosperity. Jason Greenblatt, US Special Representative for International Negotiations by President Donald Trump.  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presJason Dov Greenblatt (born 1966/67) is an American lawyer. He was the executive vice president and chief legal officer to Donald Trump and The Trump Organization, and is his advisor on Israel. In January 2017, he was appointed as the United States Special Representative for International Negotiations by President Donald Trump. Relevant articles:●     https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greenblatt-and-hook-israeli-palestinian-peace-would-be-irans-worst-nightmare ●     https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/new-palestinian-poll-reveals-wait-and-see-view-of-trump-peace-plan ●     https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-israel-palestine-peace-greenblatt-un ●      https://www.timesofisrael.com/white-house-demands-info-on-any-misuse-of-american-funds-by-unrwa/ ●      https://usun.usmission.gov/remarks-at-a-un-security-council-open-debate-on-the-middle-east-9/ ...more

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• Hong Kong 2019 and Budapest 1956. @SebGorka

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  Aug 09 2019

  Photo: Historic photograph, 1956 Hungarian Revolution against Soviet occupation, Gabor B. Racz circled in red. Racz was twenty-one years old in his first years of medical school when he was forced to flee his home in Budapest to escape persecution. He eventually moved to the United States, and became a world renowned physician and innovator of procedures and medical devices in the field of interventional pain management.Date | 1956Source | sent to me personallyAuthor | Gabor B. RaczPermission(Reusing this file) | Evidence: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 #2014041010014031.If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard. Ticket link: https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber=2014041010014031 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHong Kong 2019 and Budapest 1956. @SebGorka ...more

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• New American Civil War: A house divided will fall to foreign foes. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Aug 09 2019

  Photo: Painting of CSS Alabama Rear Admiral J. W. Schmidt [1] - From the US Navy's Naval Historical Center. Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is (was) here; uploaded onto en.wiki 03:11, 14 November 2004 by McMullen 740×571 (59,800 bytes; Painting of CSS Alabama) Public Domain File:CSSAlabama.jpg Created: 31 December 1960 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNew American Civil War: A house divided will fall to foreign foes. Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins @JHUWorldCrisis...more

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• Natural gas is already the solution. Bud Weinstein, Maguire Energy Institute.

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  Aug 09 2019

  Photo: Oil and gas yielding formations of California Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors:  Watts, William Lord, b. 1850 Subjects:  Natural gas Petroleum Publisher:  Sacramento, A.J. Johnston, superintendent State printing Contributing Library:  University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor:  Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network    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 Fig. 23) two oil-lines might be formed, and the oil might be reachedby wells of moderate depth between points E and B, as well as betweenB and D. In Fig. 23 a gravity fault is used for purposes of illustration, and itwill be observed that the fracture slopes toward the block which hasslipped down. Thrust faults, when the fissures which formed them arenearly vertical, might produce similar results, so far as the multiplica-tion of the oil-line is concerned; but in the case of thrust faults thefractures would slope toward the block which has been elevated. Whenfaults are close together the rocks are likely to be so crushed that theoil-line has been destroyed. 12.4.13. Lines of geological disturbance may show faults at one pointand a well-marked fold at another. Other things being equal, the ques-tion of faulting or folding is determined by the character of the rocks,the thickness of the strata, and the conditions to which they are sub- GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE PERTAINING TO PETROLEUM. 191 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNatural gas is already the solution. Bud Weinstein, Maguire Energy Institute. https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/454824-natural-gas-is-the-real-green-new-deal ...more

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• US consumers prep to decouple from PRC manufacturing & What is to be done? @AlanTonelson RealityChek.com @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Aug 09 2019

  Photo: Lai Afong's photograph of a commercial street in Guangzhou c. 1880 Lai Afong - kristine 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:Lai Afong, Canton commercial street view, c1880.jpg Created: circa 1880 date QS:P571,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowUS consumers prep to decouple from PRC manufacturing & What is to be done? @AlanTonelson RealityChek.com @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast ...more

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• Pig lard at Stonehenge. Peter Bogucki, @Princeton

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  Photo:  The imperial island; England's chronicle in stone;Year: 1886 (1880s)Authors:  Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910Subjects:  ArchitecturePublisher:  Boston, TicknorContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundationhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPig lard at Stonehenge. Peter Bogucki, @Princetonhttps://www.upi.com/Science_News/2019/07/16/Stonehenge-construction-may-have-been-aided-by-lots-of-pig-fat/2501563246916/ ...more

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• Hong Kong: early harbinger of the end of the Chinese Communist Party? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  Aug 08 2019

  Photo: Looting of the Old Summer Palace by Anglo-French forces in 1860 Godefroy Durand - L'Illustration, 22 December 1860 Looting_of_the Yuan Ming Yuan pavilion by Anglo-French forces in_1860. Formerly in the Xiyang Lou(Western mansions) section, of structures and gardens. On the grounds of the Yunamingyuan (Old Summer Palace) — in Beijing. 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: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIs the US economy decoupling from PRC manufacturing & What is to be done? @AlanTonelson RealityCheck.com. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast ...more

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• How would the Chinese Communists signal a change in leadership? Charles Burton, Macdonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Aug 08 2019

  Photo: Pa-Li-Kiao's bridge, on the evening of the battle. The Battle of Palikiao (Baliqiao) took place on 21 September 1860 during the Second Opium War (1856-1860). The Anglo-French victory opened a path to Beijing for Western armies. Émile Bayard - http://www.lessignets.com/signetsdiane/calendrier/sept/21.htmhttp://www.transasiart.com/voyageurs/voyageurs03/srs03dpalikao.htm Public Domain File:La bataille de Palikiao.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHow would the Chinese Communists signal a change in leadership? Charles Burton, Macdonald-Laurier Institute. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast ...more

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• Japan says that China only respects strength. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Aug 08 2019

  Photo: English: Oil on canvas of the residence of Augustine Heard and Company, Hong Kong, c. 1860Date | circa 1860 Source | http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_04/gallery_places/pages/cwHK_1860c_M17297_Heard.htmAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowJapan says that China only respects strength. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast 

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• Hong Kong preps for shocks. Mark Clifford, former editor South China Morning Post

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  Aug 08 2019

  Photo: Hong Kong: panoramic view.Description | Hong Kong: panoramic view. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.Iconographic CollectionsKeywords: Felice Beatohttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHong Kong preps for shocks. Mark Clifford, former editor South China Morning Post

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• John Bolton is unpopular in Dictatorville and in the NYT. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion

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  Aug 08 2019

  Photo: Anton von Werner, At the Congress of Berlin (1878) the tall Bismarck on the right is shaking hands with Gyula Andrássy and Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov; on the left are Alajos Károlyi, Alexander Gorchakov and Benjamin Disraeli Anton von Werner - First uploaded to de.wikipedia by de:Benutzer:APPER. Public Domain File:Berliner kongress.jpg Created: 1881date QS:P571,+1 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowJohn Bolton is unpopular in Dictatorville and in the NYT. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/all-john-boltons-wars-11565045286?emailToken=c9dc0ca01b8d7cdef724c8b368877d6eHYXACydlwTsJaUK2Hw090qaUVsHHCDBtDCcAd0WEzWwHBw9ZN+InrCqSbNCsGiufXGthOy12k2l6lj/AAygT3g%3D%3D&reflink=article_copyURL_share ...more

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• Currency manipulation is an expedient fiction. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets

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  Aug 08 2019

  Photo: : US-$1-LT-1880-Fr-29 (face only)Date | 9 February 2014, 13:17:17Source | Image by Godot13Author | Bureau of Engraving and Printinghttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCurrency manipulation is an expedient fiction. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarketshttps://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2019/08/06/someone_should_remind_trump_that_investment_powers_all_economic_growth_103845.html

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• Iran is hoping for President Biden

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  Aug 08 2019

  Photo: Mihr 'Ali (Iranian, active ca. 1800-1830). Portrait of Fath Ali Shah Qajar, 1815. Brooklyn MuseumIran is hoping for President Biden

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• Allied Master Strategists: 1 of 4: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II Hardcover – November 15, 2012. by David Rigby (Author)

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  Photo:  General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army, stops to chat with a GI on an inspection of the beachheads of France on June 12, 1944.Date | 12 June 1944Source | U.S Army Military History InstituteAuthor | Army photographerhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Allied Master Strategists: 1 of 4:  The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II Hardcover – November 15, 2012.  by David Rigby  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Allied-Master-Strategists-Combined-Chiefs/dp/1612510817Awarded NASOH's 2012 "John Lyman Book Award for Best U.S. Naval History," Allied Master Strategists describes the unique and vital contribution to Allied victory in World War II made by the Combined Chiefs of Staff. Based on a combination of primary and secondary source material, this book proves that the Combined Chiefs of Staff organization was the glue holding the British-American wartime alliance together. As such, the Combined Chiefs of Staff was probably the most important international organization of the Twentieth Century. Readers will get a good view of the personalities of the principals, such as Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke and Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. The book provides insight into the relationships between the Combined Chiefs of Staff and Allied theater commanders, the role of the Combined Chiefs regarding economic mobilization, and the bitter inter-Allied strategic debates in regard to OVERLORD and the war in the Pacific. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the British American alliance in World War II.Careful attention is paid in the book to the three organizations that contributed the principal membership of the Combined Chiefs of Staff; i.e., the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the British Chiefs of Staff Committee, and (in the case of Sir John Dill) the British Joint Staff Mission in Washington. After providing a biographical background of the principal member so the Combined Chiefs of Staff, Rigby provides information on wartime Washington, D.C. as the home base for the Combined Chiefs of Staff organization. ...more

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• Allied Master Strategists: 2 of 4: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II Hardcover – November 15, 2012. by David Rigby (Author)

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  Photo: Casablanca Conference, January 14-24, 1943. A session of the conference. Admiral Ernest J. King, USN, and General George C. Marshall, USA. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/03/08). Accession #: 80-G-38561 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Allied Master Strategists: 2 of 4:  The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II Hardcover – November 15, 2012.  by David Rigby  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Allied-Master-Strategists-Combined-Chiefs/dp/1612510817Awarded NASOH's 2012 "John Lyman Book Award for Best U.S. Naval History," Allied Master Strategists describes the unique and vital contribution to Allied victory in World War II made by the Combined Chiefs of Staff. Based on a combination of primary and secondary source material, this book proves that the Combined Chiefs of Staff organization was the glue holding the British-American wartime alliance together. As such, the Combined Chiefs of Staff was probably the most important international organization of the Twentieth Century. Readers will get a good view of the personalities of the principals, such as Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke and Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. The book provides insight into the relationships between the Combined Chiefs of Staff and Allied theater commanders, the role of the Combined Chiefs regarding economic mobilization, and the bitter inter-Allied strategic debates in regard to OVERLORD and the war in the Pacific. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the British American alliance in World War II.Careful attention is paid in the book to the three organizations that contributed the principal membership of the Combined Chiefs of Staff; i.e., the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the British Chiefs of Staff Committee, and (in the case of Sir John Dill) the British Joint Staff Mission in Washington. After providing a biographical background of the principal member so the Combined Chiefs of Staff, Rigby provides information on wartime Washington, D.C. as the home base for the Combined Chiefs of Staff organization. ...more

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• Allied Master Strategists: 3 of 4: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II Hardcover – November 15, 2012. by David Rigby (Author)

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  Aug 08 2019

  Photo: ARC Identifier 2569675 / Local Identifier 111-TV-408. The story of General George C. Marshall, told on Army's "THE BIG PICTURE" -- This is a personal history film of General George C. Marshall who resigned from the Defense Department and settled in Leesburg, Virginia, in 1951. It is a pictorial record of his role as a public servant, spanning a critical half century, which ultimately placed him in the ranks of great American patriots.  It is rare in history when a man who has distinguished his name in war goes on to greatness in peace. But for George Catlett Marshall it was a short step from a brilliant military career to his role as statesman, diplomat, and peacemaker winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace.  Narrated by Walter Cronkite, and introduced by Master Sergeant Stuart Queen, "The General Marshall Story" will appeal to old and young for it has been skillfully written and produced. It approaches General Marshall's life story from an objective viewpoint with a beguilingly fresh format, used on THE BIG PICTURE this past season in relating the General Bradley story.  The same excellence that applied in the Bradley story has been carried into "The General Marshall Story." Visually, and as a professional motion picture exploration for television into the lives of five-star Army generals, THE BIG PICTURE production staff has created a new list of subjects for forthcoming episodes in the weekly TV series. Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Allied Master Strategists: 3 of 4:  The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II Hardcover – November 15, 2012.  by David Rigby  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Allied-Master-Strategists-Combined-Chiefs/dp/1612510817Awarded NASOH's 2012 "John Lyman Book Award for Best U.S. Naval History," Allied Master Strategists describes the unique and vital contribution to Allied victory in World War II made by the Combined Chiefs of Staff. Based on a combination of primary and secondary source material, this book proves that the Combined Chiefs of Staff organization was the glue holding the British-American wartime alliance together. As such, the Combined Chiefs of Staff was probably the most important international organization of the Twentieth Century. Readers will get a good view of the personalities of the principals, such as Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke and Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. The book provides insight into the relationships between the Combined Chiefs of Staff and Allied theater commanders, the role of the Combined Chiefs regarding economic mobilization, and the bitter inter-Allied strategic debates in regard to OVERLORD and the war in the Pacific. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the British American alliance in World War II.Careful attention is paid in the book to the three organizations that contributed the principal membership of the Combined Chiefs of Staff; i.e., the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the British Chiefs of Staff Committee, and (in the case of Sir John Dill) the British Joint Staff Mission in Washington. After providing a biographical background of the principal member so the Combined Chiefs of Staff, Rigby provides information on wartime Washington, D.C. as the home base for the Combined Chiefs of Staff organization. ...more

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• Allied Master Strategists: 4 of 4: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II Hardcover – November 15, 2012. by David Rigby (Author)

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  Aug 08 2019

  Photo: Casablanca Conference, January 14-24, 1943. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Shown (left to right): General George C. Marshall, Lieutenant General William H. Wilbur; and Major General George S. Patton. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2014/7/9)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Allied Master Strategists: 4 of 4:  The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II Hardcover – November 15, 2012.  by David Rigby  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Allied-Master-Strategists-Combined-Chiefs/dp/1612510817Awarded NASOH's 2012 "John Lyman Book Award for Best U.S. Naval History," Allied Master Strategists describes the unique and vital contribution to Allied victory in World War II made by the Combined Chiefs of Staff. Based on a combination of primary and secondary source material, this book proves that the Combined Chiefs of Staff organization was the glue holding the British-American wartime alliance together. As such, the Combined Chiefs of Staff was probably the most important international organization of the Twentieth Century. Readers will get a good view of the personalities of the principals, such as Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke and Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. The book provides insight into the relationships between the Combined Chiefs of Staff and Allied theater commanders, the role of the Combined Chiefs regarding economic mobilization, and the bitter inter-Allied strategic debates in regard to OVERLORD and the war in the Pacific. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the British American alliance in World War II.Careful attention is paid in the book to the three organizations that contributed the principal membership of the Combined Chiefs of Staff; i.e., the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the British Chiefs of Staff Committee, and (in the case of Sir John Dill) the British Joint Staff Mission in Washington. After providing a biographical background of the principal member so the Combined Chiefs of Staff, Rigby provides information on wartime Washington, D.C. as the home base for the Combined Chiefs of Staff organization.  ...more

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• Will Americans surrender their health insurance to the Democrats, asks @LizPeek?

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  Aug 07 2019

  Image: The Cow-Pock—or—the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation!—vide. the Publications of ye Anti-Vaccine Society Print (color engraving) published June 12, 1802 by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street. (public domain).Will Americans surrender their health insurance to the Democrats, asks @LizPeek?

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• The Recession Seekers & What is to be done?. @LizPeek

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  Aug 07 2019

  Photo: The Justice  Robert Smirke (1752 - 1845) – Artist (British) Born in Wigton. Dead in London. Details of artist on Google Art Project - 7wHzfoeAvEMU5A at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level Public Domain File:Robert Smirke - The Seven Ages of Man- The Justice, 'As You Like It,' II, vii - Google Art Project.jpg Created: between 1798 and 1801 date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1801-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Recession Seekers & What is to be done?. @LizPeek...more

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• Can the not fresh Joe Biden outlast the fresh? @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Aug 07 2019

  Photo: The Pantaloon  Robert Smirke (1752 - 1845) – Artist (British) Born in Wigton. Dead in London. Details of artist on Google Art Project - hgEBSFeM05IEZg at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level Public Domain File:Robert Smirke - The Seven Ages of Man- The Pantaloon, 'As You Like It,' II, vii - Google Art Project.jpg Created: between 1798 and 1801 date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1801-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCan the not fresh Joe Biden outlast the fresh? @HooverWhalen @HooverInst...more

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• The "posturing" Democrats and the "authentic" Marianne Williamson. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Aug 07 2019

  Photo: The Old Age  Robert Smirke (1752 - 1845) – Artist (British) Born in Wigton. Dead in London. Details of artist on Google Art Project - 0gEO4KNBg-662Q at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level Public Domain File:Robert Smirke - The Seven Ages of Man- Second Childishness, 'As You Like It,' II, vii - Google Art Project.jpg Created: between 1798 and 1801 date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1801-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAre the "posturing" Democrats fearful of the "authentic" Marianne Williamson?  @HooverWhalen @HooverInsthttps://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/31/20748594/marianne-williamson-debate-democratic-july-2019-depression ...more

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• Can Pelosi hold off the Impeachers in the House? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Aug 07 2019

  Photo: Local accession number: 11_03_000082 Title: Spoons as Falstaff mustering the impeachment managers Statement of responsibility: Worth del. Creator/Contributor: Worth, Thomas, 1834-1917 (Artist) Genre: Political cartoons; Lithographs; Prints Publisher: Published by John McDermott, 31 John Street, N. Y. Date issued: 1860 Physical description: 1 print : lithograph ; 14 x 18 1/2 in. General notes: Title from item. Subjects: Impeachments; Presidents; Legislators; Costumes; Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893; Boutwell, George S. (George Sewall), 1818-1905; Williams, Thomas, 1806-1872; Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868; Bingham, John Armor, 1815-1900; Logan, John Alexander, 1826-1886; Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873; Wilson, James F. (James Falconer), 1828-1895; Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 Collection: Americana Collection Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department Rights: No known copyright restrictions. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCan Pelosi hold off the Impeachers in the House? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR...more

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• Barr chooses not to charge Comey with leaking to the NYT. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Aug 07 2019

  Photo: ustice, oil on canvas painting by David Gilmour Blythe, c. 1860, De Young MuseumDate | circa 1860 Source | Own workAuthor | Wmpearlhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBarr chooses not to charge Comey with leaking to the NYT. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/the-doj-will-not-prosecute-james-comey-over-trump-memos/

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• House Democrats are now majority for impeachment & What is to be done? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Aug 07 2019

  Photo: Thaddeus Stevens closing the debate on impeachment in the House, 1868http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHouse Democrats are now majority for impeachment & What is to be done? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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• "Indiana" Hoenlein and he Lost Philistine City of Gath. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  Aug 07 2019

  Photo: Guillaime Courtois - David and Goliathbetween 1650 and 1660The author died in 1679, so 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. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Philistine City of Gath. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotterhttps://www.timesofisrael.com/colossal-ancient-structures-found-at-gath-may-explain-origin-of-story-of-goliath/ ...more

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• Abbas and the Palestinians continue their "Pay-to-Slay" provocation. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Aug 07 2019

  Photo:  Title: Northern views. Street at RamallahAbstract/medium: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph CollectionPhysical description: aDate | 1900Source | Library of CongressCatalog: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/matpc/item/mpc2004001140/PPOriginal url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/matpc.01048Author | Matson CollectionPermission(Reusing this file) | No known restrictions on publication.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAbbas and the Palestinians continue their "Pay-to-Slay" provocation.  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres...more

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• Social Security in the stock and bond markets. @StephenMoore @Heritage

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  Aug 07 2019

  Photo: August Belmont: DNC Chair for 12 years during and after the Civil warhttp://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a20000/3a28000/3a28500/3a28502v.jpg Portrait of August Belmont / Daguerreotype Public Domain File:Augustbelmont.jpg Created: CREATED/PUBLISHED between 1844 and 1860 date QS:P,+1850-00- http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSocial Security in the stock and bond markets.  @StephenMoore @Heritagehttps://www.wsj.com/articles/counter-inequality-with-private-social-security-accounts-11564094326?mod=article_inline ...more

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• The remains of the Democratic debates. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Aug 07 2019

  Photo: 1837 cartoon shows the Democratic Party as donkeyHenry R. Robinson - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.15775. 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. 1837 political caricature "The modern Balaam and his ass", which uses the Biblical story of Balaam (from the book of Numbers) to satirize the end of the Andrew Jackson presidency. A gaunt figure labeled Bankrupts of 1837 "the Regency" "Safety Fund" "Deposit Banks" "Old Hickory" & Uncle Sam $300,000,000 holds a fiery sword labeled Protest $200,000. The figure says "Wherefore hast thou smitten thine Ass? Behold I went out to Protest thee, because thy way is perverse before me!!" An ass carrying a man and a sack with the words Specie Currency Circulating Medium replies to the figure, "Am not I thine Ass upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day?" The man ontop the talking Ass wields a cane with the word Veto on it and says to the figure, "Because thou hast mocked me, I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I veto thee!!" The man also has part of his garment labeled Farewell Address. A man walking behind him with a bulge in his pocket labeled $300,000 says, "I shall tread in the footsteps of my illustrious predecessor." Public Domain File:The modern balaam and his ass.jpg Created: 31 December 1836 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe remains of the Democratic debates. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter...more

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• The unknowns of Jeffrey Epstein's genuine wealth. @GregoryZuckerman @WSJ

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  Aug 07 2019

  Photo: Simon FloquetTitleApollo and King MidasDatecirca 1634 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe unknowns of Jeffrey Epstein's genuine wealth. @GregoryZuckerman @WSJhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-epstein-burrowed-into-the-lives-of-the-rich-and-made-a-fortune-11564092553?emailToken=4698b48832bba897957ca7e702b4e9d2TVa5nN98piUB3ndnWG1Z9eMs0lUOjUaBW/8xLELbggU5cNWdSt8W0ZL02lITS+bRE58Ec/iPNrdnLt9JnqZ/Rxz8aRNf6OLhwARzjy4x3bCh1Za54LMA8OqPejqV2VB61wQIU37J22p50eUUoKvYlA%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share ...more

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• Hong Kong under existential threat; PRC under existential threat. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  Aug 06 2019

  Photo: Naval Dockyard buildings (centre), Queen's Road, 1894Unknown - Unknown View of the premises of the two-storey Military Commissariat from Queen's Road. The 2 identical 3-storey buildings are the main Royal Naval Dockyard buildings. The entrance to the Dockyard is located between them. Taken c.1894, author unknown Permission details PD-HK.View more Public Domainview terms File:HK dockyard 1894.jpg Created: circa 1894 date QS:P,+1894-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHong Kong under existential threat; PRC under existential threat. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast  @ThadMcCotter...more

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• ISIS builds Afghanistan into the anchor of Central Asia jihad. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Aug 06 2019

  Photo: From @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDDThe Islamic State’s Khorasan province continues to oppose the Taliban in Nangarhar province and elsewhere.  The Islamic State’s central leadership replaced their top man in Afghanistan after a meeting earlier this year, according to a recent report submitted to the United Nations Security Council. The report was authored by the monitoring team responsible for tracking al Qaeda, the Islamic State and affiliated groups. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowISIS builds Afghanistan into the anchor of Central Asia jihad. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD  https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/07/un-islamic-state-replaced-leader-in-afghanistan-after-visit-from-central-leadership.php ...more

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• Taliban ushers the US out of Afghanistan. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio

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  Aug 06 2019

  Photo: 2010: 101206-A-5634G-001: Afghan provincial governors and members of the High Peace Council, an organization set up to promote peace talks with the Taliban, gather Dec. 6, 2010, in Kandahar City, Afghanistan, to talk about reintegrating former Taliban into society. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Edward A. Garibay, 16th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment) (Photo Credit: Spc. Edward A. Garibay, 16th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment) VIEW ORIGINAL http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTaliban ushers the US out of Afghanistan. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggiohttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/taliban-push-peace-deal-doha-talks-190804080452773.htmlhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/07/taliban-ied-blast-kills-35-civilians-in-western-afghanistan.php ...more

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• Is this a trade war with the PRC? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter @VerodeRugy @Mercatus

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  Aug 06 2019

  Photo: Guards of Shanghai Old City.Unknown - Pre 1912 photograph. Photographed by me at Dajing ge in 2009 Guards_of_Shanghai_Old_City Public Domain File:Guards of Shanghai Old City.jpg Created: before 1912 date QS:P,+1912-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1912-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIs this a trade war with the PRC? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter @VerodeRugy @Mercatus

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• What is the significance of the twenty-five thousand times you are asleep in your lifetime? 1 of 2: Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy @ScienceMagazine.

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  Aug 06 2019

  Photo: Domenico Fetti - Sleeping Girl Esterházy collection, 1871Notes | English: Although the museum maintains that this painting is by Fetti, this attribution has been disputed and remains uncertain (Safarik 1990, p. 301). Several experts in Tuscan art have attributed the work to Sigismondo Coccapani.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:  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat is the significance of the twenty-five thousand times you are asleep in your lifetime? 1 of 2: Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy @ScienceMagazine. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6263/909.summary?sid=1c8379a8-11f2-49ff-9888-182905703aad We generally fall asleep and then wake up at least 25,000 to 30,000 times throughout our lifetime. Transitions between sleep and waking appear to occur seamlessly, but the underlying mechanisms are extraordinarily complex. There is much interest in characterizing the brain's neuronal circuitry that control these shifts in state, and recent research has pointed to specific populations of neurons in the brainstem, hypothalamus, basal forebrain, and thalamus. On page 957 of this issue, Hayashi et al. (1) report that a specific population of neurons in the early developing hindbrain gives rise to subpopulations that contribute to the sleep-wake circuitry. ...more

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• What is the significance of the twenty-five thousand times you are asleep in your lifetime? 2 of 2: Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy @ScienceMagazine.

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  Aug 06 2019

  Photo: Waterhouse-sleep and his half-brother death-1874 John William Waterhouse - Unknown Public Domain File:Waterhouse-sleep and his half-brother death-1874.jpg Created: 1874date QS:P571,+1874-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat is the significance of the twenty-five thousand times you are asleep in your lifetime? 2 of 2: Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy @ScienceMagazine. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6263/909.summary?sid=1c8379a8-11f2-49ff-9888-182905703aad We generally fall asleep and then wake up at least 25,000 to 30,000 times throughout our lifetime. Transitions between sleep and waking appear to occur seamlessly, but the underlying mechanisms are extraordinarily complex. There is much interest in characterizing the brain's neuronal circuitry that control these shifts in state, and recent research has pointed to specific populations of neurons in the brainstem, hypothalamus, basal forebrain, and thalamus. On page 957 of this issue, Hayashi et al. (1) report that a specific population of neurons in the early developing hindbrain gives rise to subpopulations that contribute to the sleep-wake circuitry....more

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• Moment of Battle: 1 of 4: The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Kevin Foley (Narrator), James Lacey (Author), Williamson Murray (Author), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Aug 06 2019

  Photo: "They crashed into the Persian army with tremendous force", illustration by Walter Crane in Mary Macgregor, The Story of Greece Told to Boys and Girls, London: T.C. & E.C. Jack. Walter Crane - The story of Greece : told to boys and girls (191-?) by Macgregor, Mary These stories from the history of ancient Greece begin with myths and legends of gods and heroes and end with the conquests of Alexander the Great. The book is accessible and well organized, but it is considerably more detailed than some other introductory texts. It covers Greek history from the age of Mythology to the rise of Alexander, but because of its length we do not recommend it for 5th grade or younger. It is an excellent reference, thoroughly engaging, and a good candidate for a somewhat older student's first foray into Greek history. Public Domain File:They crashed into Persian army with tremendous force.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Moment of Battle: 1 of 4: The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Kevin Foley (Narrator), James Lacey (Author), Williamson Murray (Author), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Moment-Battle-Twenty-Clashes-Changed/dp/B00G02D6U8/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Moment+of+Battle&qid=1564946049&s=audible&sr=1-1 In the grand tradition of Edward Creasy's classic Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, James Lacey and Williamson Murray spotlight only those engagements that changed the course of civilization. In gripping narrative accounts they bring these conflicts and eras to vivid life, detailing the cultural imperatives that led inexorably to the battlefield, the experiences of the common soldiers who fought and died, and the legendary commanders and statesmen who matched wits, will, and nerve for the highest possible stakes.  From the great clashes of antiquity to the high-tech wars of the twenty-first century, here are the stories of the twenty most consequential battles ever fought, including Marathon, where Greece's "greatest generation" repelled Persian forces three times their numbers-and saved Western civilization in its infancy.  Adrianople, the death blow to a disintegrating Roman Empire Trafalgar; the epic naval victory that cemented a century of British supremacy over the globe; Saratoga, the first truly American victory, won by united colonial militias, which ensured the ultimate triumph of the Revolution; Midway, the ferocious World War II sea battle that broke the back of the Japanese navy; Dien Bien Phu, the climactic confrontation between French imperial troops and Viet Minh rebels that led to American intervention in Vietnam and marked the rise of a new era of insurgent warfare; Operation Peach, the perilous 2003 mission to secure a vital bridge over the Euphrates River that would open the way to Baghdad, and many more.  Historians and armchair generals will argue forever about which battles have had the most direct impact on history. But there can be no doubt that these twenty are among those that set mankind on new trajectories. Each of these epochal campaigns is examined in its full historical, strategic, and tactical context-complete with edge-of-your-seat you-are-there battle re-creations.  With an eye for the small detail as well as the bigger picture, Lacey and Murray identify the elements that bind these battles together: the key decisions, critical mistakes, and moments of crisis on which the fates of entire civilizations depended. Some battles merely leave a field littered with the bodies of the fallen. Others transform the map of the entire world. Moment of Battle is history written with the immediacy of today's news, a magisterial tour d'horizon that refreshes our understanding of those essential turning points where the future was decided....more

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• Moment of Battle: 2 of 4: The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Kevin Foley (Narrator), James Lacey (Author), Williamson Murray (Author), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Greek troops rushing forward at the Battle of Marathon, Georges Rochegrosse, 1859. Georges Rochegrosse - [1] Battle of Marathon, Georges Rochegrosse 1859 Public Domain File:Les Héros de Marathon Georges Rochegrosse 1859.jpg Created: 31 December 1858 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Moment of Battle: 2 of 4: The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Kevin Foley (Narrator), James Lacey (Author), Williamson Murray (Author), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Moment-Battle-Twenty-Clashes-Changed/dp/B00G02D6U8/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Moment+of+Battle&qid=1564946049&s=audible&sr=1-1 In the grand tradition of Edward Creasy's classic Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, James Lacey and Williamson Murray spotlight only those engagements that changed the course of civilization. In gripping narrative accounts they bring these conflicts and eras to vivid life, detailing the cultural imperatives that led inexorably to the battlefield, the experiences of the common soldiers who fought and died, and the legendary commanders and statesmen who matched wits, will, and nerve for the highest possible stakes.  From the great clashes of antiquity to the high-tech wars of the twenty-first century, here are the stories of the twenty most consequential battles ever fought, including Marathon, where Greece's "greatest generation" repelled Persian forces three times their numbers-and saved Western civilization in its infancy.  Adrianople, the death blow to a disintegrating Roman Empire Trafalgar; the epic naval victory that cemented a century of British supremacy over the globe; Saratoga, the first truly American victory, won by united colonial militias, which ensured the ultimate triumph of the Revolution; Midway, the ferocious World War II sea battle that broke the back of the Japanese navy; Dien Bien Phu, the climactic confrontation between French imperial troops and Viet Minh rebels that led to American intervention in Vietnam and marked the rise of a new era of insurgent warfare; Operation Peach, the perilous 2003 mission to secure a vital bridge over the Euphrates River that would open the way to Baghdad, and many more.  Historians and armchair generals will argue forever about which battles have had the most direct impact on history. But there can be no doubt that these twenty are among those that set mankind on new trajectories. Each of these epochal campaigns is examined in its full historical, strategic, and tactical context-complete with edge-of-your-seat you-are-there battle re-creations.  With an eye for the small detail as well as the bigger picture, Lacey and Murray identify the elements that bind these battles together: the key decisions, critical mistakes, and moments of crisis on which the fates of entire civilizations depended. Some battles merely leave a field littered with the bodies of the fallen. Others transform the map of the entire world. Moment of Battle is history written with the immediacy of today's news, a magisterial tour d'horizon that refreshes our understanding of those essential turning points where the future was decided....more

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• Moment of Battle: 3 of 4: The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Kevin Foley (Narrator), James Lacey (Author), Williamson Murray (Author), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Scene of the Battle of Marathon John Steeple Davis - The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century(published in 1900) Public Domain File:Scene of the Battle of Marathon.jpg Created: 31 December 1899 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Moment of Battle: 3 of 4: The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Kevin Foley (Narrator), James Lacey (Author), Williamson Murray (Author), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Moment-Battle-Twenty-Clashes-Changed/dp/B00G02D6U8/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Moment+of+Battle&qid=1564946049&s=audible&sr=1-1 In the grand tradition of Edward Creasy's classic Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, James Lacey and Williamson Murray spotlight only those engagements that changed the course of civilization. In gripping narrative accounts they bring these conflicts and eras to vivid life, detailing the cultural imperatives that led inexorably to the battlefield, the experiences of the common soldiers who fought and died, and the legendary commanders and statesmen who matched wits, will, and nerve for the highest possible stakes.  From the great clashes of antiquity to the high-tech wars of the twenty-first century, here are the stories of the twenty most consequential battles ever fought, including Marathon, where Greece's "greatest generation" repelled Persian forces three times their numbers-and saved Western civilization in its infancy.  Adrianople, the death blow to a disintegrating Roman Empire Trafalgar; the epic naval victory that cemented a century of British supremacy over the globe; Saratoga, the first truly American victory, won by united colonial militias, which ensured the ultimate triumph of the Revolution; Midway, the ferocious World War II sea battle that broke the back of the Japanese navy; Dien Bien Phu, the climactic confrontation between French imperial troops and Viet Minh rebels that led to American intervention in Vietnam and marked the rise of a new era of insurgent warfare; Operation Peach, the perilous 2003 mission to secure a vital bridge over the Euphrates River that would open the way to Baghdad, and many more.  Historians and armchair generals will argue forever about which battles have had the most direct impact on history. But there can be no doubt that these twenty are among those that set mankind on new trajectories. Each of these epochal campaigns is examined in its full historical, strategic, and tactical context-complete with edge-of-your-seat you-are-there battle re-creations.  With an eye for the small detail as well as the bigger picture, Lacey and Murray identify the elements that bind these battles together: the key decisions, critical mistakes, and moments of crisis on which the fates of entire civilizations depended. Some battles merely leave a field littered with the bodies of the fallen. Others transform the map of the entire world. Moment of Battle is history written with the immediacy of today's news, a magisterial tour d'horizon that refreshes our understanding of those essential turning points where the future was decided....more

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• Moment of Battle: 4 of 4: The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Kevin Foley (Narrator), James Lacey (Author), Williamson Murray (Author), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: The battlefield of MarathonMaspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916; Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 - History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria Volume 9 The Battlefield of Marathon Public Domain File:The Battlefield of Marathon.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Moment of Battle: 4 of 4: The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Kevin Foley (Narrator), James Lacey (Author), Williamson Murray (Author), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Moment-Battle-Twenty-Clashes-Changed/dp/B00G02D6U8/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Moment+of+Battle&qid=1564946049&s=audible&sr=1-1 In the grand tradition of Edward Creasy's classic Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, James Lacey and Williamson Murray spotlight only those engagements that changed the course of civilization. In gripping narrative accounts they bring these conflicts and eras to vivid life, detailing the cultural imperatives that led inexorably to the battlefield, the experiences of the common soldiers who fought and died, and the legendary commanders and statesmen who matched wits, will, and nerve for the highest possible stakes.  From the great clashes of antiquity to the high-tech wars of the twenty-first century, here are the stories of the twenty most consequential battles ever fought, including Marathon, where Greece's "greatest generation" repelled Persian forces three times their numbers-and saved Western civilization in its infancy.  Adrianople, the death blow to a disintegrating Roman Empire Trafalgar; the epic naval victory that cemented a century of British supremacy over the globe; Saratoga, the first truly American victory, won by united colonial militias, which ensured the ultimate triumph of the Revolution; Midway, the ferocious World War II sea battle that broke the back of the Japanese navy; Dien Bien Phu, the climactic confrontation between French imperial troops and Viet Minh rebels that led to American intervention in Vietnam and marked the rise of a new era of insurgent warfare; Operation Peach, the perilous 2003 mission to secure a vital bridge over the Euphrates River that would open the way to Baghdad, and many more.  Historians and armchair generals will argue forever about which battles have had the most direct impact on history. But there can be no doubt that these twenty are among those that set mankind on new trajectories. Each of these epochal campaigns is examined in its full historical, strategic, and tactical context-complete with edge-of-your-seat you-are-there battle re-creations.  With an eye for the small detail as well as the bigger picture, Lacey and Murray identify the elements that bind these battles together: the key decisions, critical mistakes, and moments of crisis on which the fates of entire civilizations depended. Some battles merely leave a field littered with the bodies of the fallen. Others transform the map of the entire world. Moment of Battle is history written with the immediacy of today's news, a magisterial tour d'horizon that refreshes our understanding of those essential turning points where the future was decided....more

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• The Campaigns for Vicksburg, 1862-1863: 1 of 2: Leadership Lessons Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Kevin Dougherty (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Heavy artillery pieces that were used by the Union in order to force the besieged city and its defenders into surrender Internet Archive Book Images - https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14576375107/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/photographichist02mill/photographichist02mill#page/n202/mode/1up Identifier: photographichist02mill (find matches) Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880- Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co. Contributing Library: New York Public Library 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: ' Text Appearing After Image: HI&MT, 1911, HtVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE WORK OF THE BESIEGERS Battery Sherman, on tlie Jackson Road, before Vicksburg. Settling down to a siege did not mean idlenessfor Grants army. Fortifications had to be opposed to the formidable one of the Confederates and a con-stant bombardment kept up to silence their gnns, one by one. It was to he a (haw ii-ont duel in whicliPemberton, hoping for the long-delayed relief from Johnston, held ont bravely against starvation and evenmutiny. For twelve miles the Federal lines stretched around Vicksburg, investing it to the river bank,north and south. More than eighty-nine battery positions were constructed by the Federals. BatterySherman was exceptionally well built—not merely revetted with rails or cotton-bales and floored withrough timber, as lack of proper material often made necessary. Gradually the lines were drawn closer amicloser as the Federals moved up their guns to silence the works that they had failed to take in May. Atthe time of t Note About Images Please 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. 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:The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14576375107).jpg Created: 31 December 1910 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Campaigns for Vicksburg, 1862-1863: 1 of 2: Leadership Lessons  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Kevin Dougherty (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Campaigns-Vicksburg-1862-63-Leadership-Lessons/dp/1612000037/ref=sr12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1498890345&sr=1-2&keywords=dougherty+vicksburg Long relegated to a secondary position behind Gettysburg, Vicksburg has more recently earned consideration by historians as the truly decisive battle of the Civil War. Indeed, Vicksburg is fascinating on many levels. A focal point of both western armies, the Federal campaign of maneuver that finally isolated the Confederates in the city was masterful. The Navy’s contribution to the Federal victory was significant. The science of the fortifications and siege tactics are rich in detail. The human drama of Vicksburg’s beleaguered civilian population is compelling, and the Confederate cavalry dashes that first denied the Union victory were thrilling. But perhaps more than any other factor, the key to the Federal victory at Vicksburg was simply better leadership. It is this aspect of the campaign that Leadership Lessons: The Campaigns for Vicksburg, 1862–1863 seeks to explore. The first section of this book familiarizes the reader with the challenges, characteristics, and styles associated with leadership during the Civil War in general. It also outlines the Vicksburg Campaign by explaining the strategic significance of the Mississippi River and Vicksburg, detailing the opposing forces and the terrain, discussing the failed attempts to capture Vicksburg over the winter of 1862–63, and tracing the brilliant campaign of maneuver and logistics that allowed Grant to ultimately lay siege and win a Federal victory. The second section of the book contains 30 “leadership vignettes” that span the actions of the most senior leaders down to those of individual soldiers. Each vignette focuses the campaign overview to the specific situation in order to provide appropriate context, explains the action in terms of leadership lessons learned, and concludes with a short list of “take-aways” to crystallize the lessons for the reader. The human drama of Vicksburg involved such traits as daring, persistence, hesitation, raw courage, vascillation, self-confidence, and over-reliance―all with a great prize at stake. This study of many of the Civil War’s most famous commanders who vied for the Rebel “Gibraltar on the Mississippi” reveals combat on a wide scale, but more importantly lessons on decision-making that still apply to this day. Kevin Dougherty, a career Army officer and more recently a university history instructor and tactical officer at the Citadel, is the author of six previous books on the Civil War. ...more

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• The Campaigns for Vicksburg, 1862-1863: 2 of 2: Leadership Lessons Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Kevin Dougherty (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Shirley's House, also known as the White House, during the siege of Vicksburg, 1863. Union troops of Logan's division set about as engineers and sappers to undermine Confederate fortifications but they had to stay under cover for fear of Confederate sharpshooters.Unknown - File from The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Two, Two Years of Grim War. The Review of Reviews Co., New York. 1911. p. 206. Shirley's House, also known as the White House, during the siege of Vicksburg, 1863. Union troops of Logan's division set about as engineers and sappers to undermine Confederate fortifications but they had to stay under cover for fear of Confederate sharpshooters. Public Domain File:ShirleysWhiteHouseVicksburg1863.jpg Created: Published 1911 (photo 1863) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Campaigns for Vicksburg, 1862-1863: 2 of 2: Leadership Lessons  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Kevin Dougherty (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Campaigns-Vicksburg-1862-63-Leadership-Lessons/dp/1612000037/ref=sr12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1498890345&sr=1-2&keywords=dougherty+vicksburg Long relegated to a secondary position behind Gettysburg, Vicksburg has more recently earned consideration by historians as the truly decisive battle of the Civil War. Indeed, Vicksburg is fascinating on many levels. A focal point of both western armies, the Federal campaign of maneuver that finally isolated the Confederates in the city was masterful. The Navy’s contribution to the Federal victory was significant. The science of the fortifications and siege tactics are rich in detail. The human drama of Vicksburg’s beleaguered civilian population is compelling, and the Confederate cavalry dashes that first denied the Union victory were thrilling. But perhaps more than any other factor, the key to the Federal victory at Vicksburg was simply better leadership. It is this aspect of the campaign that Leadership Lessons: The Campaigns for Vicksburg, 1862–1863 seeks to explore. The first section of this book familiarizes the reader with the challenges, characteristics, and styles associated with leadership during the Civil War in general. It also outlines the Vicksburg Campaign by explaining the strategic significance of the Mississippi River and Vicksburg, detailing the opposing forces and the terrain, discussing the failed attempts to capture Vicksburg over the winter of 1862–63, and tracing the brilliant campaign of maneuver and logistics that allowed Grant to ultimately lay siege and win a Federal victory. The second section of the book contains 30 “leadership vignettes” that span the actions of the most senior leaders down to those of individual soldiers. Each vignette focuses the campaign overview to the specific situation in order to provide appropriate context, explains the action in terms of leadership lessons learned, and concludes with a short list of “take-aways” to crystallize the lessons for the reader. The human drama of Vicksburg involved such traits as daring, persistence, hesitation, raw courage, vascillation, self-confidence, and over-reliance―all with a great prize at stake. This study of many of the Civil War’s most famous commanders who vied for the Rebel “Gibraltar on the Mississippi” reveals combat on a wide scale, but more importantly lessons on decision-making that still apply to this day. Kevin Dougherty, a career Army officer and more recently a university history instructor and tactical officer at the Citadel, is the author of six previous books on the Civil War. ...more

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• When Britain Burned the White House: 1 of 4: The 1814 Invasion of Washington by Peter Snow (Author)

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  Photo: : Title: Washington in 1800 Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print.Date | 1800Source | Library of CongressCatalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/90716106Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c00000/3c02000/3c02000/3c02054v.jpgOriginal url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/90716106/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: @BatchelorShowWhen Britain Burned the White House: 1 of 4: The 1814 Invasion of Washington by Peter Snow (Author) https://www.amazon.com/When-Britain-Burned-White-House/dp/1250048281 In August 1814, the United States army was defeated just outside Washington, D.C., by the world's greatest military power. President James Madison and his wife had just enough time to flee the White House before the British invaders entered. British troops stopped to feast on the meal still sitting on the Madisons' dining-room table before setting the White House on fire. The extent of the destruction was massive; finished in wood rather than marble, everything inside the mansion was combustible. Only the outer stone walls would withstand the fire. The tide of the War of 1812 would quickly turn, however. Less than a month later, American troops would stand victorious at the Battle of Fort McHenry. Poet Francis Scott Key, struck by the sight of the American flag waving over Fort McHenry, jotted down the beginnings of a poem that would be set to music and become the U.S. national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner." In his compelling narrative style, Peter Snow recounts the fast-changing fortunes of that summer's extraordinary confrontations. Drawing from a wealth of material, including eyewitness accounts, Snow describes the colorful personalities on both sides of those spectacular events: including the beleaguered President James Madison and First Lady Dolley, American heroes such as Joshua Barney and Sam Smith, and flawed military leaders like Army Chief William Winder and War Secretary John Armstrong. On the British side, Snow re-creates the fiery Admiral George Cockburn, the cautious but immensely popular Major General Robert Ross, and sharp-eyed diarists James Scott and George Gleig. When Britain Burned the White House highlights this unparalleled moment in British and American history, the courageous, successful defense of Fort McHenry and the American triumph that would follow, and America's and Britain's decision to never again fight each other....more

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• When Britain Burned the White House: 2 of 4: The 1814 Invasion of Washington by Peter Snow (Author)

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  Aug 05 2019

  Photo: Mount Vernon, the seat of the late President Washington.Date1800personContributorsMount Vernon (Va. : Estate)Washington, George, 1732-1799http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/ copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhen Britain Burned the White House: 2 of 4: The 1814 Invasion of Washington by Peter Snow (Author) https://www.amazon.com/When-Britain-Burned-White-House/dp/1250048281 In August 1814, the United States army was defeated just outside Washington, D.C., by the world's greatest military power. President James Madison and his wife had just enough time to flee the White House before the British invaders entered. British troops stopped to feast on the meal still sitting on the Madisons' dining-room table before setting the White House on fire. The extent of the destruction was massive; finished in wood rather than marble, everything inside the mansion was combustible. Only the outer stone walls would withstand the fire. The tide of the War of 1812 would quickly turn, however. Less than a month later, American troops would stand victorious at the Battle of Fort McHenry. Poet Francis Scott Key, struck by the sight of the American flag waving over Fort McHenry, jotted down the beginnings of a poem that would be set to music and become the U.S. national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner." In his compelling narrative style, Peter Snow recounts the fast-changing fortunes of that summer's extraordinary confrontations. Drawing from a wealth of material, including eyewitness accounts, Snow describes the colorful personalities on both sides of those spectacular events: including the beleaguered President James Madison and First Lady Dolley, American heroes such as Joshua Barney and Sam Smith, and flawed military leaders like Army Chief William Winder and War Secretary John Armstrong. On the British side, Snow re-creates the fiery Admiral George Cockburn, the cautious but immensely popular Major General Robert Ross, and sharp-eyed diarists James Scott and George Gleig. When Britain Burned the White House highlights this unparalleled moment in British and American history, the courageous, successful defense of Fort McHenry and the American triumph that would follow, and America's and Britain's decision to never again fight each other....more

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• When Britain Burned the White House: 3 of 4: The 1814 Invasion of Washington by Peter Snow (Author)

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  Aug 05 2019

  Photo: A contemporary reprint of Samuel Hill's 1792 print of Ellicott's Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia, published in Massachusetts Magazine, Boston, May 1792, showing street names, lot numbers, coordinates and legends.View author information Public Domain File:Ellicott plan.jpg Uploaded: 2005-08-11 10:03:21 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhen Britain Burned the White House: 3 of 4: The 1814 Invasion of Washington by Peter Snow (Author) https://www.amazon.com/When-Britain-Burned-White-House/dp/1250048281 In August 1814, the United States army was defeated just outside Washington, D.C., by the world's greatest military power. President James Madison and his wife had just enough time to flee the White House before the British invaders entered. British troops stopped to feast on the meal still sitting on the Madisons' dining-room table before setting the White House on fire. The extent of the destruction was massive; finished in wood rather than marble, everything inside the mansion was combustible. Only the outer stone walls would withstand the fire. The tide of the War of 1812 would quickly turn, however. Less than a month later, American troops would stand victorious at the Battle of Fort McHenry. Poet Francis Scott Key, struck by the sight of the American flag waving over Fort McHenry, jotted down the beginnings of a poem that would be set to music and become the U.S. national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner." In his compelling narrative style, Peter Snow recounts the fast-changing fortunes of that summer's extraordinary confrontations. Drawing from a wealth of material, including eyewitness accounts, Snow describes the colorful personalities on both sides of those spectacular events: including the beleaguered President James Madison and First Lady Dolley, American heroes such as Joshua Barney and Sam Smith, and flawed military leaders like Army Chief William Winder and War Secretary John Armstrong. On the British side, Snow re-creates the fiery Admiral George Cockburn, the cautious but immensely popular Major General Robert Ross, and sharp-eyed diarists James Scott and George Gleig. When Britain Burned the White House highlights this unparalleled moment in British and American history, the courageous, successful defense of Fort McHenry and the American triumph that would follow, and America's and Britain's decision to never again fight each other....more

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• When Britain Burned the White House: 4 of 4: The 1814 Invasion of Washington by Peter Snow (Author)

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  Photo: The United States Capitol after the burning of Washington in the War of 1812. Watercolor and ink depiction from 1814, restored.Munger, George, 1781-1825, artist. - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.02160. 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. "Drawing shows the ruins of the U.S. Capitol following British attempts to burn the building; includes fire damage to the Senate and House wings, damaged colonnade in the House of Representatives shored up with firewood to prevent its collapse, and the shell of the rotunda with the facade and roof missing." "1 drawing on paper : ink and watercolor" "Historical context: George Munger's drawing, one of the most significant and compelling images of the early republic, reminds us how short-lived the history of the United States might have been. In the evening hours of August 24, 1814, during the second year of the War of 1812, British expeditionary forces under the command of Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cockburn and Major General Robert Ross set fire to the unfinished Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. All the public buildings in the developing city, except the Patent Office Building, were put to the torch in retaliation for what the British perceived as excessive destruction by American forces the year before in York, capital of upper Canada. At the time of the British invasion, the unfinished Capitol building comprised two wings connected by a wooden causeway. This exceptional drawing, having descended in the Munger family, was purchased by the Library of Congress at the same time the White House purchased the companion view of 'The President's House.'" Public Domain File:US Capitol 1814c.jpg Created: 31 December 1813 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhen Britain Burned the White House: 4 of 4: The 1814 Invasion of Washington by Peter Snow (Author) https://www.amazon.com/When-Britain-Burned-White-House/dp/1250048281 In August 1814, the United States army was defeated just outside Washington, D.C., by the world's greatest military power. President James Madison and his wife had just enough time to flee the White House before the British invaders entered. British troops stopped to feast on the meal still sitting on the Madisons' dining-room table before setting the White House on fire. The extent of the destruction was massive; finished in wood rather than marble, everything inside the mansion was combustible. Only the outer stone walls would withstand the fire. The tide of the War of 1812 would quickly turn, however. Less than a month later, American troops would stand victorious at the Battle of Fort McHenry. Poet Francis Scott Key, struck by the sight of the American flag waving over Fort McHenry, jotted down the beginnings of a poem that would be set to music and become the U.S. national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner." In his compelling narrative style, Peter Snow recounts the fast-changing fortunes of that summer's extraordinary confrontations. Drawing from a wealth of material, including eyewitness accounts, Snow describes the colorful personalities on both sides of those spectacular events: including the beleaguered President James Madison and First Lady Dolley, American heroes such as Joshua Barney and Sam Smith, and flawed military leaders like Army Chief William Winder and War Secretary John Armstrong. On the British side, Snow re-creates the fiery Admiral George Cockburn, the cautious but immensely popular Major General Robert Ross, and sharp-eyed diarists James Scott and George Gleig. When Britain Burned the White House highlights this unparalleled moment in British and American history, the courageous, successful defense of Fort McHenry and the American triumph that would follow, and America's and Britain's decision to never again fight each other. ...more

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• This Gulf of Fire: 1 of 4: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason Paperback – October 18, 2016. by Mark Molesky (Author)

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  Photo: The Earthquake of 1755, painted from 1756 to 1792 by João Glama Ströberle (1708-1792). Currently in the National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon, Portugal.Português: O Terramoto de 1755, pintado entre 1756-1792 por João Glama Ströberle (1708-1792). Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisboa, Portugal.Date | between 1756 and 1792 Source | "Terramoto de 1755", história de um quadro inacabado, Diário de Notícias, 2018-01-13http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow This Gulf of Fire: 1 of 4: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason Paperback – October 18, 2016.  by Mark Molesky (Author) https://www.amazon.com/This-Gulf-Fire-Earthquake-Apocalypse/dp/030738750X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Gulf+of+fire&qid=1564942225&s=audible&sr=8-1The captivating and definitive account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake--the most consequential natural disaster of modern times.On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring approximately 9.0 or perhaps higher on the magnitude scale swept furiously toward Lisbon, then one of the wealthiest cities in the world and the capital of a vast global empire. Within minutes, much of the city lay in ruins. A half hour later, a giant tsunami unleashed by the quake smashed into Portugal’s coastline and barreled up the Tagus River, carrying countless thousands out to sea. To complete Lisbon’s destruction, a hellacious firestorm then engulfed the city’s shattered remains, killing thousands more and incinerating much of what the earthquake and tsunami had spared.Drawing on a wealth of new sources, the latest scientific research, and a sophisticated grasp of European history, Mark Molesky gives us the gripping, authoritative account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake disaster and its impact on the Western world—including descriptions of the world’s first international relief effort, the rise of a brutal, yet modernizing, dictatorship in Portugal, and the effect of the catastrophe on the spirit and direction of the European Enlightenment....more

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• This Gulf of Fire: 2 of 4: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason Paperback – October 18, 2016. by Mark Molesky (Author)

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  Photo: A View of the City of Lisbon the Capital of the Kingdom of Portugal, 18th-century English lithograph.Português: Vista da Cidade de Lisboa, Capital do Reino de Portugal, litografia inglesa, século XVIII.Date | 18th century Source | Cabral Moncada LeilõesAuthor | English Schoolhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow This Gulf of Fire: 2 of 4: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason Paperback – October 18, 2016.  by Mark Molesky (Author) https://www.amazon.com/This-Gulf-Fire-Earthquake-Apocalypse/dp/030738750X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Gulf+of+fire&qid=1564942225&s=audible&sr=8-1The captivating and definitive account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake--the most consequential natural disaster of modern times.On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring approximately 9.0 or perhaps higher on the magnitude scale swept furiously toward Lisbon, then one of the wealthiest cities in the world and the capital of a vast global empire. Within minutes, much of the city lay in ruins. A half hour later, a giant tsunami unleashed by the quake smashed into Portugal’s coastline and barreled up the Tagus River, carrying countless thousands out to sea. To complete Lisbon’s destruction, a hellacious firestorm then engulfed the city’s shattered remains, killing thousands more and incinerating much of what the earthquake and tsunami had spared.Drawing on a wealth of new sources, the latest scientific research, and a sophisticated grasp of European history, Mark Molesky gives us the gripping, authoritative account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake disaster and its impact on the Western world—including descriptions of the world’s first international relief effort, the rise of a brutal, yet modernizing, dictatorship in Portugal, and the effect of the catastrophe on the spirit and direction of the European Enlightenment....more

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• This Gulf of Fire: 3 of 4: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason Paperback – October 18, 2016. by Mark Molesky (Author)

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  Photo: Português: Representação de Lisboa antes do Terramoto de 1755, executada em Londres por J. Couse.Date | between 1755 and 1760 Source | Biblioteca Nacional de PortugalAuthor | J. Cousehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow This Gulf of Fire: 3 of 4: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason Paperback – October 18, 2016.  by Mark Molesky (Author) https://www.amazon.com/This-Gulf-Fire-Earthquake-Apocalypse/dp/030738750X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Gulf+of+fire&qid=1564942225&s=audible&sr=8-1The captivating and definitive account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake--the most consequential natural disaster of modern times.On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring approximately 9.0 or perhaps higher on the magnitude scale swept furiously toward Lisbon, then one of the wealthiest cities in the world and the capital of a vast global empire. Within minutes, much of the city lay in ruins. A half hour later, a giant tsunami unleashed by the quake smashed into Portugal’s coastline and barreled up the Tagus River, carrying countless thousands out to sea. To complete Lisbon’s destruction, a hellacious firestorm then engulfed the city’s shattered remains, killing thousands more and incinerating much of what the earthquake and tsunami had spared.Drawing on a wealth of new sources, the latest scientific research, and a sophisticated grasp of European history, Mark Molesky gives us the gripping, authoritative account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake disaster and its impact on the Western world—including descriptions of the world’s first international relief effort, the rise of a brutal, yet modernizing, dictatorship in Portugal, and the effect of the catastrophe on the spirit and direction of the European Enlightenment....more

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• This Gulf of Fire: 4 of 4: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason Paperback – October 18, 2016. by Mark Molesky (Author)

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  Photo: The Terreiro do Paço (Palace Square) and the Ribeira Royal Palace, prior to their destruction in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.Português: O Terreiro do Paço e o Palácio Real da Ribeira, antes da sua destruição no Terramoto de Lisboa de 1755.Data | First half of the 18th centuryOrigem | "Quadros de antes do Terramoto de 1755 serão expostos ao público em Lisboa" - PúblicoAutor | DesconhecidoEsta obra está no domínio público no seu país de origem e noutros países e áreas onde o período de proteção dos direitos de autor é igual ou inferior à vida do autor mais 100 anos. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow This Gulf of Fire: 4 of 4: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason Paperback – October 18, 2016.  by Mark Molesky (Author) https://www.amazon.com/This-Gulf-Fire-Earthquake-Apocalypse/dp/030738750X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Gulf+of+fire&qid=1564942225&s=audible&sr=8-1The captivating and definitive account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake--the most consequential natural disaster of modern times.On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring approximately 9.0 or perhaps higher on the magnitude scale swept furiously toward Lisbon, then one of the wealthiest cities in the world and the capital of a vast global empire. Within minutes, much of the city lay in ruins. A half hour later, a giant tsunami unleashed by the quake smashed into Portugal’s coastline and barreled up the Tagus River, carrying countless thousands out to sea. To complete Lisbon’s destruction, a hellacious firestorm then engulfed the city’s shattered remains, killing thousands more and incinerating much of what the earthquake and tsunami had spared.Drawing on a wealth of new sources, the latest scientific research, and a sophisticated grasp of European history, Mark Molesky gives us the gripping, authoritative account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake disaster and its impact on the Western world—including descriptions of the world’s first international relief effort, the rise of a brutal, yet modernizing, dictatorship in Portugal, and the effect of the catastrophe on the spirit and direction of the European Enlightenment....more

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• Best of #TheScalaReport: 1: "We tend to identify cool ideas, number one; or problems, number two." 2: A Canticle for Leibowitz: "It's similar to the Foundation trilogy." 3: "A borderless border." 4: "The High Net Worth Individual." Chris Riegel, CEO

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  Aug 04 2019

  Photo: A map of North America in Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. Specifically, the map depicts the territorial arrangement in 3174, during the time frame of "Fiat Lux". Texark territory outlined in yellow; Texark expansion as described in "Fiat Lux" and in Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman marked in orange.Date | Source | User createdAuthor | User:BriangottsPermission(Reusing this file) | I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: | Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. Subject to disclaimers.  | This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Subject to disclaimers. | You are free:to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the workto remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions:attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL licensing update http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBest of #TheScalaReport: 1: "We tend to identify cool ideas, number one; or problems, number two."   2: A Canticle for Leibowitz: "It's similar to the Foundation trilogy."  3: "A borderless border." 4: "The High Net Worth Individual." Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE  ⁦@ScalaInc⁩ ...more

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• Joe Rochefort's War: 1 of 4: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Elliot Carlson (Author), Danny Campbell (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Satellite image of Midway AtollU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Management Plan, Volume IV - Midway Atoll Conceptual Site Plan, p. 12. Aerial photo of Midway Atoll. Public Domain File:Midway Atoll aerial photo 2008.JPG Created: 31 December 2007 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Joe Rochefort's War: 1 of 4: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Elliot Carlson (Author), Danny Campbell (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Joe-Rocheforts-War-Codebreaker-Outwitted/dp/B007VBEESK/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Elliot Carlson's biography of Captain Joe Rochefort is the first to be written of the officer who headed the U.S. Navy's decrypt unit at Pearl Harbor and broke the Japanese Navy's code before the Battle of Midway. Listeners will share Rochefort's frustrations as he searches in vain for Yamamoto's fleet prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and share his joy when he succeeds in tracking the fleet in early 1942 and breaks the code that leads him to believe Yamamoto's invasion target is Midway.  His conclusions, bitterly opposed by some top navy brass, are credited with making the U.S. victory possible and helping change the course of the war. The author tells the story of how opponents in Washington forced Rochefort's removal from the decrypt unit at Pearl and denied him the Distinguished Service Medal recommended by Admiral Nimitz.  In capturing the interplay of policy and personality and the role played by politics at the highest levels of the Navy, Carlson reveals a side of the intelligence community seldom seen by outsiders.  For a full understanding of the man, Carlson examines Rochefort's love-hate relationship with cryptanalysis, his adventure-filled years in the 1930s as the right-hand man to the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet, and his return to code-breaking in mid-1941 as the officer in charge of Station Hypo at Pearl Harbor. He traces Rochefort's career from his enlistment in 1918 to his posting in Washington as head of the Navy's code-breaking desk at age 25, and beyond. In many ways a reinterpretation of Rochefort, the book makes clear the key role his codebreaking played in the outcome of Midway and the legacy he left of reporting actionable intelligence directly to the fleet.  An epilogue describes efforts waged by Rochefort's colleagues to obtain the medal denied him in 1942, a drive that finally paid off in 1986, when the medal was awarded posthumously....more

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• Joe Rochefort's War: 2 of 4: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Elliot Carlson (Author), Danny Campbell (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Midway Atoll in November 1941, looking west Unknown - U.S. Navy photo 80-G-451086 Aerial photograph of Midway Atoll, looking just south of west across the southern side of the atoll, 24 November 1941. Eastern Island, then the site of Midway's airfield, is in the foreground. Sand Island, location of most other base facilities, is across the entrance channel. Public Domain File:Aerial view of Midway Atoll on 24 November 1941 (80-G-451086).jpg Created: 24 November 1941date QS:P,+1941-11-24T00:00:00Z/11 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Joe Rochefort's War: 2 of 4: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Elliot Carlson (Author), Danny Campbell (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Joe-Rocheforts-War-Codebreaker-Outwitted/dp/B007VBEESK/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Elliot Carlson's biography of Captain Joe Rochefort is the first to be written of the officer who headed the U.S. Navy's decrypt unit at Pearl Harbor and broke the Japanese Navy's code before the Battle of Midway. Listeners will share Rochefort's frustrations as he searches in vain for Yamamoto's fleet prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and share his joy when he succeeds in tracking the fleet in early 1942 and breaks the code that leads him to believe Yamamoto's invasion target is Midway.  His conclusions, bitterly opposed by some top navy brass, are credited with making the U.S. victory possible and helping change the course of the war. The author tells the story of how opponents in Washington forced Rochefort's removal from the decrypt unit at Pearl and denied him the Distinguished Service Medal recommended by Admiral Nimitz.  In capturing the interplay of policy and personality and the role played by politics at the highest levels of the Navy, Carlson reveals a side of the intelligence community seldom seen by outsiders.  For a full understanding of the man, Carlson examines Rochefort's love-hate relationship with cryptanalysis, his adventure-filled years in the 1930s as the right-hand man to the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet, and his return to code-breaking in mid-1941 as the officer in charge of Station Hypo at Pearl Harbor. He traces Rochefort's career from his enlistment in 1918 to his posting in Washington as head of the Navy's code-breaking desk at age 25, and beyond. In many ways a reinterpretation of Rochefort, the book makes clear the key role his codebreaking played in the outcome of Midway and the legacy he left of reporting actionable intelligence directly to the fleet.  An epilogue describes efforts waged by Rochefort's colleagues to obtain the medal denied him in 1942, a drive that finally paid off in 1986, when the medal was awarded posthumously....more

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• Joe Rochefort's War: 3 of 4: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Elliot Carlson (Author), Danny Campbell (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Aug 04 2019

  Photo: Burning oil tanks on Sand Island, Midway Atoll, following the Japanese air attack delivered on the morning of 4 June 1942 during the Battle of Midway. These tanks were located near what was then the southern shore of Sand Island. This view looks inland from the vicinity of the beach. Three Laysan Albatross ("Gooney Bird") chicks are visible in the foreground.US Navy - Official U.S. Navy photograph 80-G-17056, now in the collections of the National Archives. Also available at the National Museum of Naval Aviation Public Domain File:Battle of Midway (Japanese air raid).jpg Created: 3 June 1942 Location: 28° 11′ 60″ N, 177° 20′ 60″ E http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Joe Rochefort's War: 3 of 4: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Elliot Carlson (Author), Danny Campbell (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Joe-Rocheforts-War-Codebreaker-Outwitted/dp/B007VBEESK/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Elliot Carlson's biography of Captain Joe Rochefort is the first to be written of the officer who headed the U.S. Navy's decrypt unit at Pearl Harbor and broke the Japanese Navy's code before the Battle of Midway. Listeners will share Rochefort's frustrations as he searches in vain for Yamamoto's fleet prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and share his joy when he succeeds in tracking the fleet in early 1942 and breaks the code that leads him to believe Yamamoto's invasion target is Midway.  His conclusions, bitterly opposed by some top navy brass, are credited with making the U.S. victory possible and helping change the course of the war. The author tells the story of how opponents in Washington forced Rochefort's removal from the decrypt unit at Pearl and denied him the Distinguished Service Medal recommended by Admiral Nimitz.  In capturing the interplay of policy and personality and the role played by politics at the highest levels of the Navy, Carlson reveals a side of the intelligence community seldom seen by outsiders.  For a full understanding of the man, Carlson examines Rochefort's love-hate relationship with cryptanalysis, his adventure-filled years in the 1930s as the right-hand man to the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet, and his return to code-breaking in mid-1941 as the officer in charge of Station Hypo at Pearl Harbor. He traces Rochefort's career from his enlistment in 1918 to his posting in Washington as head of the Navy's code-breaking desk at age 25, and beyond. In many ways a reinterpretation of Rochefort, the book makes clear the key role his codebreaking played in the outcome of Midway and the legacy he left of reporting actionable intelligence directly to the fleet.  An epilogue describes efforts waged by Rochefort's colleagues to obtain the medal denied him in 1942, a drive that finally paid off in 1986, when the medal was awarded posthumously....more

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• Joe Rochefort's War: 4 of 4: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Elliot Carlson (Author), Danny Campbell (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo:Aerial view of the seaplane base of the Naval Air Station Midway on Sand Island, Midway Atoll, during its construction, in 1941.Date | 1941Source | U.S. National Archives San Bruno photo 868130 in: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Historic Preservation Plan, p. 29.Author | USN http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Joe Rochefort's War: 4 of 4: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Elliot Carlson (Author), Danny Campbell (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Joe-Rocheforts-War-Codebreaker-Outwitted/dp/B007VBEESK/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Elliot Carlson's biography of Captain Joe Rochefort is the first to be written of the officer who headed the U.S. Navy's decrypt unit at Pearl Harbor and broke the Japanese Navy's code before the Battle of Midway. Listeners will share Rochefort's frustrations as he searches in vain for Yamamoto's fleet prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and share his joy when he succeeds in tracking the fleet in early 1942 and breaks the code that leads him to believe Yamamoto's invasion target is Midway.  His conclusions, bitterly opposed by some top navy brass, are credited with making the U.S. victory possible and helping change the course of the war. The author tells the story of how opponents in Washington forced Rochefort's removal from the decrypt unit at Pearl and denied him the Distinguished Service Medal recommended by Admiral Nimitz.  In capturing the interplay of policy and personality and the role played by politics at the highest levels of the Navy, Carlson reveals a side of the intelligence community seldom seen by outsiders.  For a full understanding of the man, Carlson examines Rochefort's love-hate relationship with cryptanalysis, his adventure-filled years in the 1930s as the right-hand man to the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet, and his return to code-breaking in mid-1941 as the officer in charge of Station Hypo at Pearl Harbor. He traces Rochefort's career from his enlistment in 1918 to his posting in Washington as head of the Navy's code-breaking desk at age 25, and beyond. In many ways a reinterpretation of Rochefort, the book makes clear the key role his codebreaking played in the outcome of Midway and the legacy he left of reporting actionable intelligence directly to the fleet.  An epilogue describes efforts waged by Rochefort's colleagues to obtain the medal denied him in 1942, a drive that finally paid off in 1986, when the medal was awarded posthumously....more

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• At the Crossroads Between Peace and War: 1 of 4: The London Naval Conference in 1930 Kindle Edition. by John H. Maurer (Editor), Christopher Bell (Editor)

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  Photo:  Barker puts in to Gonaives, Haiti, March 1928. She has steam up in a single boiler, a seaman hangs wash on one of the lines just aft of amidships, and a boat is tethered to her stern. Other vessels come and go in the busy harbor as the fleet carries out training. (Unattributed U.S. Navy Photograph 80-G-421850, National Archives and Records Administration, Still Pictures Branch, College Park, Md.)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow At the Crossroads Between Peace and War: 1 of 4: The London Naval Conference in 1930 Kindle Edition. by John H. Maurer (Editor), Christopher Bell (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Crossroads-Between-Peace-War-Conference-ebook/dp/B00GL9T5NW A great power arms race in naval weaponry and platforms, rising challengers seeking to overturn the existing international order in Asia, an economic slump that put immense pressure on politicians in democracies to trim defense budgets, and diplomatic efforts by statesmen to find ways to promote mutual security and avoid rivalries that could lead to war—all these features mark the current-day strategic environment. These features also marked in the era between the two world wars. To prevent the naval rivalries that augured international conflict, statesmen and naval leaders sought to negotiate arms control agreement. Their efforts to avert a great power naval arms race were crowned with achievement at the London Conference of 1930.What was accomplished at London, of course, did not prove lasting; nor did it lead to additional meaningful arms control and prevent future wars. Instead, London proved a dead end in the evolution of interwar international relations. The London Treaty marked the high point of interwar arms control. When measured against the magnitude of the international catastrophe that would unfold over the next decade, this achievement in arms control now appears practically meaningless at best and dangerous at worst. Critics of interwar arms control argue that, by weakening of American and British naval power, as well as stirring up extremist nationalism in Japanese internal politics, the London agreement represents a case study in political folly that contributed to the awful events leading to the war. The London Conference of 1930 thus represents a watershed, a turning point in the history of the interwar period.In this volume, leading naval historians tackle the question of how to assess the role played by naval arms control in the history of the interwar period. In addressing this important question, the authors uncover new evidence about the role of intelligence and behind-the-scenes political deal making that adds much to our knowledge of the international and naval history of this important era. This volume’s authors provide the first complete account of the strategic calculations and negotiations that shaped the outcome at the London Conference. No one interested in twentieth-century naval history, international relations and the rivalries of rising and declining great powers, and the origins of the Second World War can afford to miss this important new history....more

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• At the Crossroads Between Peace and War: 2 of 4: The London Naval Conference in 1930 Kindle Edition. by John H. Maurer (Editor), Christopher Bell (Editor)

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  Photo: This is the complete order of battle for the Battle of Jutland fought between 31 May and 1 June 1916. The battle involved 250 warships of the British and German navies, and, in terms of combined tonnage of vessels engaged, was the largest naval battle in history4 × Queen Elizabeth class |  | 3 × Iron Duke class | 4 × Orion class |  | 3 × King George V class | 3 × Bellerophon class |  | 2 × Revenge class | 2 × Colossus class |  | 3 × St. Vincent class | 1 × HMS Neptune |  | 1 × HMS Agincourt | 1 × HMS Erin |  | 1 × HMS Canada3 × Invincible class | 2 × Lion class2 × Indefatigable class | 1 × HMS Tiger1 x HMS Queen Mary3 × Minotaur class | 2 × Duke of Edinburgh class2 × Warrior class | 1 × HMS Hampshire26 × Light Cruisers79 × Destroyers (one of them Destroyer-Minelayer)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow At the Crossroads Between Peace and War: 2 of 4: The London Naval Conference in 1930 Kindle Edition. by John H. Maurer (Editor), Christopher Bell (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Crossroads-Between-Peace-War-Conference-ebook/dp/B00GL9T5NW A great power arms race in naval weaponry and platforms, rising challengers seeking to overturn the existing international order in Asia, an economic slump that put immense pressure on politicians in democracies to trim defense budgets, and diplomatic efforts by statesmen to find ways to promote mutual security and avoid rivalries that could lead to war—all these features mark the current-day strategic environment. These features also marked in the era between the two world wars. To prevent the naval rivalries that augured international conflict, statesmen and naval leaders sought to negotiate arms control agreement. Their efforts to avert a great power naval arms race were crowned with achievement at the London Conference of 1930.What was accomplished at London, of course, did not prove lasting; nor did it lead to additional meaningful arms control and prevent future wars. Instead, London proved a dead end in the evolution of interwar international relations. The London Treaty marked the high point of interwar arms control. When measured against the magnitude of the international catastrophe that would unfold over the next decade, this achievement in arms control now appears practically meaningless at best and dangerous at worst. Critics of interwar arms control argue that, by weakening of American and British naval power, as well as stirring up extremist nationalism in Japanese internal politics, the London agreement represents a case study in political folly that contributed to the awful events leading to the war. The London Conference of 1930 thus represents a watershed, a turning point in the history of the interwar period.In this volume, leading naval historians tackle the question of how to assess the role played by naval arms control in the history of the interwar period. In addressing this important question, the authors uncover new evidence about the role of intelligence and behind-the-scenes political deal making that adds much to our knowledge of the international and naval history of this important era. This volume’s authors provide the first complete account of the strategic calculations and negotiations that shaped the outcome at the London Conference. No one interested in twentieth-century naval history, international relations and the rivalries of rising and declining great powers, and the origins of the Second World War can afford to miss this important new history....more

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• At the Crossroads Between Peace and War: 3 of 4: The London Naval Conference in 1930 Kindle Edition. by John H. Maurer (Editor), Christopher Bell (Editor)

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  Photo: The Royal Navy during the Second World WarHMS NELSON showing her crew dressing ship as she steamed into an East Indies StationDátum | 1939 és 1945 között Forrás | http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//18/media-18392/large.jpgThis work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow At the Crossroads Between Peace and War: 3 of 4: The London Naval Conference in 1930 Kindle Edition. by John H. Maurer (Editor), Christopher Bell (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Crossroads-Between-Peace-War-Conference-ebook/dp/B00GL9T5NW A great power arms race in naval weaponry and platforms, rising challengers seeking to overturn the existing international order in Asia, an economic slump that put immense pressure on politicians in democracies to trim defense budgets, and diplomatic efforts by statesmen to find ways to promote mutual security and avoid rivalries that could lead to war—all these features mark the current-day strategic environment. These features also marked in the era between the two world wars. To prevent the naval rivalries that augured international conflict, statesmen and naval leaders sought to negotiate arms control agreement. Their efforts to avert a great power naval arms race were crowned with achievement at the London Conference of 1930.What was accomplished at London, of course, did not prove lasting; nor did it lead to additional meaningful arms control and prevent future wars. Instead, London proved a dead end in the evolution of interwar international relations. The London Treaty marked the high point of interwar arms control. When measured against the magnitude of the international catastrophe that would unfold over the next decade, this achievement in arms control now appears practically meaningless at best and dangerous at worst. Critics of interwar arms control argue that, by weakening of American and British naval power, as well as stirring up extremist nationalism in Japanese internal politics, the London agreement represents a case study in political folly that contributed to the awful events leading to the war. The London Conference of 1930 thus represents a watershed, a turning point in the history of the interwar period.In this volume, leading naval historians tackle the question of how to assess the role played by naval arms control in the history of the interwar period. In addressing this important question, the authors uncover new evidence about the role of intelligence and behind-the-scenes political deal making that adds much to our knowledge of the international and naval history of this important era. This volume’s authors provide the first complete account of the strategic calculations and negotiations that shaped the outcome at the London Conference. No one interested in twentieth-century naval history, international relations and the rivalries of rising and declining great powers, and the origins of the Second World War can afford to miss this important new history....more

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• At the Crossroads Between Peace and War: 4 of 4: The London Naval Conference in 1930 Kindle Edition. by John H. Maurer (Editor), Christopher Bell (Editor)

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  Photo: The Royal Navy Off the Caen Coast, Normandy, June 1944The battleship HMS RODNEY firing at shore targets in Normandy. Photograph taken from on board HMS HOLMES operating off the Caen beachhead.Date | 1944Source | http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//36/media-36067/large.jpgThis work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow At the Crossroads Between Peace and War: 4 of 4: The London Naval Conference in 1930 Kindle Edition. by John H. Maurer (Editor), Christopher Bell (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Crossroads-Between-Peace-War-Conference-ebook/dp/B00GL9T5NW A great power arms race in naval weaponry and platforms, rising challengers seeking to overturn the existing international order in Asia, an economic slump that put immense pressure on politicians in democracies to trim defense budgets, and diplomatic efforts by statesmen to find ways to promote mutual security and avoid rivalries that could lead to war—all these features mark the current-day strategic environment. These features also marked in the era between the two world wars. To prevent the naval rivalries that augured international conflict, statesmen and naval leaders sought to negotiate arms control agreement. Their efforts to avert a great power naval arms race were crowned with achievement at the London Conference of 1930.What was accomplished at London, of course, did not prove lasting; nor did it lead to additional meaningful arms control and prevent future wars. Instead, London proved a dead end in the evolution of interwar international relations. The London Treaty marked the high point of interwar arms control. When measured against the magnitude of the international catastrophe that would unfold over the next decade, this achievement in arms control now appears practically meaningless at best and dangerous at worst. Critics of interwar arms control argue that, by weakening of American and British naval power, as well as stirring up extremist nationalism in Japanese internal politics, the London agreement represents a case study in political folly that contributed to the awful events leading to the war. The London Conference of 1930 thus represents a watershed, a turning point in the history of the interwar period.In this volume, leading naval historians tackle the question of how to assess the role played by naval arms control in the history of the interwar period. In addressing this important question, the authors uncover new evidence about the role of intelligence and behind-the-scenes political deal making that adds much to our knowledge of the international and naval history of this important era. This volume’s authors provide the first complete account of the strategic calculations and negotiations that shaped the outcome at the London Conference. No one interested in twentieth-century naval history, international relations and the rivalries of rising and declining great powers, and the origins of the Second World War can afford to miss this important new history....more

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• JFK's Last Hundred Days: 1 of 4: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Thurston Clarke (Author), Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Postcard: Dallas Road, Victoria, BC, c.1920"Dallas Road, Marine Drive, Victoria, B.C."The Valentine & Sons' Publishing Co., Ltd. Montreal and Toronto. Printed in Great Britain.British Manufacture. View looking west into the 500-block of Dallas Road from the intersection at Government Street in Victoria, BC on Vancouver Island. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow JFK's Last Hundred Days: 1 of 4: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Thurston Clarke (Author), Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/JFKs-Last-Hundred-Days-Transformation/dp/B00DTVV3K8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1564719426&sr=8-1Fifty years after his death, President John F. Kennedy's legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke argues that the heart of that legend is what might have been. As we approach the anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, JFK's Last Hundred Days reexamines the last months of the president's life to show a man in the midst of great change, finally on the cusp of making good on his extraordinary promise.  Kennedy's last 100 days began just after the death of two-day-old Patrick Kennedy, and during this time, the president made strides in the Cold War, civil rights, Vietnam, and his personal life. While Jackie was recuperating, the premature infant and his father were flown to Boston for Patrick's treatment. Kennedy was holding his son's hand when Patrick died on August 9, 1963. The loss of his son convinced Kennedy to work harder as a husband and father, and there is ample evidence that he suspended his notorious philandering during these last months of his life.  Also in these months Kennedy finally came to view civil rights as a moral as well as a political issue, and after the March on Washington, he appreciated the power of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., for the first time.  Though he is often depicted as a devout cold warrior, Kennedy pushed through his proudest legislative achievement in this period, the Limited Test Ban Treaty. This success, combined with his warming relations with Nikita Khrushchev in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis, led to a détente that British foreign secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home hailed as the "beginning of the end of the Cold War".  Throughout his presidency, Kennedy challenged demands from his advisers and the Pentagon to escalate America's involvement in Vietnam. Kennedy began a reappraisal in the last 100 days that would have led to the withdrawal of all 16,000 U.S. military advisers by 1965.  JFK's Last Hundred Days is a gripping account that weaves together Kennedy's public and private lives, explains why the grief following his assassination has endured so long, and solves the most tantalizing Kennedy mystery of all - not who killed him but who he was when he was killed, and where he would have led us....more

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• JFK's Last Hundred Days: 2 of 4: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Thurston Clarke (Author), Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo:  The 300 block of Main Street, between Akard and Stone, facing West. The intersection of Main and Akard is visible in the midground. Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver, on stereograph card mount; 8.8 x 17.7 cm File: a2014_0020_3_2_0021_street_opt.jpg Rights: Please cite DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University when using this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained for a fee. For details see the sites.smu.edu/cul/degolyer/research/permissions/ web page. For other information, contact degolyer@smu.edu. For more information and to view the image in high resolution, see: digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/gcd/id/13/  View the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image CollectionTaken circa 1900 No known copyright restrictions http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow JFK's Last Hundred Days: 2 of 4: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Thurston Clarke (Author), Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/JFKs-Last-Hundred-Days-Transformation/dp/B00DTVV3K8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1564719426&sr=8-1Fifty years after his death, President John F. Kennedy's legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke argues that the heart of that legend is what might have been. As we approach the anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, JFK's Last Hundred Days reexamines the last months of the president's life to show a man in the midst of great change, finally on the cusp of making good on his extraordinary promise.  Kennedy's last 100 days began just after the death of two-day-old Patrick Kennedy, and during this time, the president made strides in the Cold War, civil rights, Vietnam, and his personal life. While Jackie was recuperating, the premature infant and his father were flown to Boston for Patrick's treatment. Kennedy was holding his son's hand when Patrick died on August 9, 1963. The loss of his son convinced Kennedy to work harder as a husband and father, and there is ample evidence that he suspended his notorious philandering during these last months of his life.  Also in these months Kennedy finally came to view civil rights as a moral as well as a political issue, and after the March on Washington, he appreciated the power of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., for the first time.  Though he is often depicted as a devout cold warrior, Kennedy pushed through his proudest legislative achievement in this period, the Limited Test Ban Treaty. This success, combined with his warming relations with Nikita Khrushchev in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis, led to a détente that British foreign secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home hailed as the "beginning of the end of the Cold War".  Throughout his presidency, Kennedy challenged demands from his advisers and the Pentagon to escalate America's involvement in Vietnam. Kennedy began a reappraisal in the last 100 days that would have led to the withdrawal of all 16,000 U.S. military advisers by 1965.  JFK's Last Hundred Days is a gripping account that weaves together Kennedy's public and private lives, explains why the grief following his assassination has endured so long, and solves the most tantalizing Kennedy mystery of all - not who killed him but who he was when he was killed, and where he would have led us....more

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• JFK's Last Hundred Days: 3 of 4: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Thurston Clarke (Author), Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Text Appearing After Image: BREWERS AND BOTTLERS HIGH GRADE LAGER BEEl DALLAS BEER HAS NO SUPERIOR OF GREATER DALLAS S3 Rowen ®. Burson Mercantile Company 668 ELM STREET PHONE MAIN 3580 DRY GOODS, MILLINERY AND NOTIONS CLOTHING, HATS, BOOTS AND SHOES Gents Furnishing Goods Particular Attention Given to Ladies Goods of Every Description THE LATEST STYLES AND COSTLY FABRICS LEMPS A FULL SUPPLY OF KEG AND BOTTLED BEER CONSTANTLY ON HANDTaken circa 1909 No known copyright restrictions http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow JFK's Last Hundred Days: 3 of 4: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Thurston Clarke (Author), Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/JFKs-Last-Hundred-Days-Transformation/dp/B00DTVV3K8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1564719426&sr=8-1Fifty years after his death, President John F. Kennedy's legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke argues that the heart of that legend is what might have been. As we approach the anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, JFK's Last Hundred Days reexamines the last months of the president's life to show a man in the midst of great change, finally on the cusp of making good on his extraordinary promise.  Kennedy's last 100 days began just after the death of two-day-old Patrick Kennedy, and during this time, the president made strides in the Cold War, civil rights, Vietnam, and his personal life. While Jackie was recuperating, the premature infant and his father were flown to Boston for Patrick's treatment. Kennedy was holding his son's hand when Patrick died on August 9, 1963. The loss of his son convinced Kennedy to work harder as a husband and father, and there is ample evidence that he suspended his notorious philandering during these last months of his life.  Also in these months Kennedy finally came to view civil rights as a moral as well as a political issue, and after the March on Washington, he appreciated the power of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., for the first time.  Though he is often depicted as a devout cold warrior, Kennedy pushed through his proudest legislative achievement in this period, the Limited Test Ban Treaty. This success, combined with his warming relations with Nikita Khrushchev in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis, led to a détente that British foreign secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home hailed as the "beginning of the end of the Cold War".  Throughout his presidency, Kennedy challenged demands from his advisers and the Pentagon to escalate America's involvement in Vietnam. Kennedy began a reappraisal in the last 100 days that would have led to the withdrawal of all 16,000 U.S. military advisers by 1965.  JFK's Last Hundred Days is a gripping account that weaves together Kennedy's public and private lives, explains why the grief following his assassination has endured so long, and solves the most tantalizing Kennedy mystery of all - not who killed him but who he was when he was killed, and where he would have led us....more

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• JFK's Last Hundred Days: 4 of 4: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Thurston Clarke (Author), Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Dallas, Texas, city directory Year: 1909 (1900s) Authors:  Subjects:  Publisher:  Polk Contributing Library:  Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor:  Internet Archive    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. Pupil ofWeld, Rome, Italy; pupil at New York Art Leagueand pupil of Fitz, N. Y., and of Cecile Payne (Mania-turist), Chicago.) Drawing and Art. Miss Anna McCoy Francis, (Four years private pupil ofMiss Hollingshead, and two years special pupil of S. H.Clark, University of Chicago.) Oratory and PhysicalCulture, Miss T. Hewson, (M. A. Trinity University, Toronto,Canada.) Secretary to the President. Miss Mary Marshall, Study Hall. Mrs. Goodwin E. Peters, Embroidery and Plain Sewing. Miss Lillian Yeager, (B. A. St. Marys College.) Librarian Miss Edith Hughesdon, Cashier. Miss Marion Harvey, Housekeeper. Miss Annie Fosbroke, Assistant Housekeeper and Nurse. Miss Kathleen Lawrence, (Graduate of General Hospital,St. Catherines, Ontario, as Trained Nurse.) PhysicalTraining, Personal Hygiene and Care of the Infirmary. S. E. Milliken, M. D., and J. H. Smart, M. D., Physicians. J. O. McReynolds, M. D., and D. E. Seay, M. D., Specialists. 4 i OF GREATER DALLAS 39 Holy Trinitv College of DallasTaken circa 1909 No known copyright restrictions http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow JFK's Last Hundred Days: 4 of 4: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Thurston Clarke (Author), Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/JFKs-Last-Hundred-Days-Transformation/dp/B00DTVV3K8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1564719426&sr=8-1Fifty years after his death, President John F. Kennedy's legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke argues that the heart of that legend is what might have been. As we approach the anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, JFK's Last Hundred Days reexamines the last months of the president's life to show a man in the midst of great change, finally on the cusp of making good on his extraordinary promise.  Kennedy's last 100 days began just after the death of two-day-old Patrick Kennedy, and during this time, the president made strides in the Cold War, civil rights, Vietnam, and his personal life. While Jackie was recuperating, the premature infant and his father were flown to Boston for Patrick's treatment. Kennedy was holding his son's hand when Patrick died on August 9, 1963. The loss of his son convinced Kennedy to work harder as a husband and father, and there is ample evidence that he suspended his notorious philandering during these last months of his life.  Also in these months Kennedy finally came to view civil rights as a moral as well as a political issue, and after the March on Washington, he appreciated the power of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., for the first time.  Though he is often depicted as a devout cold warrior, Kennedy pushed through his proudest legislative achievement in this period, the Limited Test Ban Treaty. This success, combined with his warming relations with Nikita Khrushchev in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis, led to a détente that British foreign secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home hailed as the "beginning of the end of the Cold War".  Throughout his presidency, Kennedy challenged demands from his advisers and the Pentagon to escalate America's involvement in Vietnam. Kennedy began a reappraisal in the last 100 days that would have led to the withdrawal of all 16,000 U.S. military advisers by 1965.  JFK's Last Hundred Days is a gripping account that weaves together Kennedy's public and private lives, explains why the grief following his assassination has endured so long, and solves the most tantalizing Kennedy mystery of all - not who killed him but who he was when he was killed, and where he would have led us....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 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Sean B. Carroll (Author), Byron Wagner (Narrator), Pitchstone Publishing (Publisher)

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  Photo: JesseArchive description | Description provided by the archive when the original description is incomplete or wrong. You can help by reporting errors and typos at Commons:Bundesarchiv/Error reports.KBZ OB West,Frankreich 1943, am 14.1.1944 herausgegeben, v.l.: Rommel, von Rundstedt, Gause, Oberst Zimmermann, Besprechung am 19.12.1943 beim Oberbefehlshaber West; Paris, Hotel "Georg V."Title | Paris, Rommel, von Rundstedt, Gause und Zimmermann Depicted people | Rommel, Erwin: Generalfeldmarschall, Ritterkreuz (RK), Heer, Deutschland (GND 118602446)Rundstedt, Gerd von: Generalfeldmarschall, Ritterkreuz (RK), Heer, Deutschland (GND 118939327)Gause, Alfred: General, Ritterkreuz (RK), Heer, DeutschlandDepicted place | ParisDate | 19 December 1943This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany license. | Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-718-0149-12A / Jesse / CC-BY-SA 3.0http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Brave Genius: 1 of 4: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Sean B. Carroll (Author), Byron Wagner (Narrator), Pitchstone Publishing (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Genius-Philosopher-Adventures-Resistance/dp/B07T32HZQ8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1564718110&sr=1-2The 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 20th 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 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Sean B. Carroll (Author), Byron Wagner (Narrator), Pitchstone Publishing (Publisher)

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  Photo: LanghausArchive description | Description provided by the archive when the original description is incomplete or wrong. You can help by reporting errors and typos at Commons:Bundesarchiv/Error reports.Frankreich, Paris Ecke Boulevard Saint-Michel und Rue Soufflot; PK 696Title | Deutsche Soldaten in einem Pariser Straßencafé Date | March 1943This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany license. | Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-247-0775-09 / Langhaus / CC-BY-SA 3.0http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Brave Genius: 2 of 4: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Sean B. Carroll (Author), Byron Wagner (Narrator), Pitchstone Publishing (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Genius-Philosopher-Adventures-Resistance/dp/B07T32HZQ8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1564718110&sr=1-2The 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 20th 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 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Sean B. Carroll (Author), Byron Wagner (Narrator), Pitchstone Publishing (Publisher)

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  Photo: UnknownOriginal caption | For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Paris, Ministerpräsident Pierre Laval und SS-Gruppenführer Carl ObergADN-ZB Frankreich in der Periode der Okkupation und des faschistischen Vichy-Regiemes (1940(44) Hauptquartier der deutschen Faschisten in Paris am 1.5.1943. Der französische Ministerpräsident Pierre Laval (links) im Gespräch mit dem obersten Chef der SS in Frankreich, SS-General und SS-Gruppenführer Carl Oberg (Mitte) und dem SS-Sturmbannführer Herbert Martin Hagen (rechts).Abgebildete Personen:Laval, Pierre: Ministerpräsident, 1945 hingerichtet, FrankreichOberg, Carl: SS-Obergruppenführer, General, 1954 Prozeß in Frankreich, DeutschlandHagen, Herbert Martin: SS-Sturmbannführer, Obergs persönlicher Referent, Deutschlandhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Brave Genius: 3 of 4: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Sean B. Carroll (Author), Byron Wagner (Narrator), Pitchstone Publishing (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Genius-Philosopher-Adventures-Resistance/dp/B07T32HZQ8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1564718110&sr=1-2The 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 20th 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 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Sean B. Carroll (Author), Byron Wagner (Narrator), Pitchstone Publishing (Publisher)

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  Photo: GötzenbergerArchive description | Description provided by the archive when the original description is incomplete or wrong. You can help by reporting errors and typos at Commons:Bundesarchiv/Error reports.Frankreich, Paris. Soldat mit geschultertem Gewehr neben Laterne. Im Hintergrund der Eiffelturm; KBK Lw 3Title | Paris, Soldat vor Eiffelturm Depicted place | ParisDate | January 1943Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-373-2623-30A / Götzenberger / CC-BY-SAYou are free:to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the workto remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions:attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Brave Genius: 4 of 4: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Sean B. Carroll (Author), Byron Wagner (Narrator), Pitchstone Publishing (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Brave-Genius-Philosopher-Adventures-Resistance/dp/B07T32HZQ8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1564718110&sr=1-2The 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 20th 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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• Sex and the Citadel: 1 of 2: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab WorldPaperback – January 21, 2014. by El Feki, Shereen (Author)

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  Photo: Image from page 29 of "Arabia: the cradle of Islam : studies in the geography, people and politics of the peninsula, with an account of Islam and mission work" (1900) Identifier: arabiacradleofis00zwem Title: Arabia: the cradle of Islam : studies in the geography, people and politics of the peninsula, with an account of Islam and mission work Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors:  Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, 1867-1952 Subjects:  Missions -- Arabian Peninsula Islam Islam Arabian Peninsula Arabian Peninsula -- Description and travel Arabian Peninsula -- Missions Publisher:  New York Toronto : F. H. Revell Contributing Library:  Princeton Theological Seminary Library http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Sex and the Citadel: 1 of 2: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab WorldPaperback – January 21, 2014. by El Feki, Shereen  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Citadel-Intimate-Changing-World/dp/0307390292 As the “Arab Spring” and its aftermath sweep streets and squares, parliaments and presidential palaces of the Middle East, Shereen El Feki—an award-winning Canadian-Egyptian journalist—has been looking at unrest a little closer to home: in the sexual lives of Arab men and women. The result is an informative, insightful, and engaging account of this sensitive and still largely secret aspect of Arab society. Sexual attitudes and behaviors are shaped by politics and economics, religion and tradition, gender and generations—not only a reflection of the conditions that led to the uprisings, but also a measure of hard-won reforms in the years to come. Highly personal, rich with original research and remarkable stories, Sex and the Citadel gives us unprecedented and timely insight into a part of the world that is changing before our eyes. ...more

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• Sex and the Citadel: 2 of 2: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab WorldPaperback – January 21, 2014. by El Feki, Shereen (Author)

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  Photo:  Arabia: the cradle of Islam : studies in the geography, people and politics of the peninsula, with an account of Islam and mission workYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, 1867-1952Subjects:  Missions -- Arabian Peninsula Islam Islam Arabian Peninsula Arabian Peninsula -- Description and travel Arabian Peninsula -- MissionsPublisher:  New York Toronto : F. H. RevellContributing Library:  Princeton Theological Seminary LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookThis image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictionsexist, such as: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Sex and the Citadel: 2 of 2: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab WorldPaperback – January 21, 2014. by El Feki, Shereen  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Citadel-Intimate-Changing-World/dp/0307390292 As the “Arab Spring” and its aftermath sweep streets and squares, parliaments and presidential palaces of the Middle East, Shereen El Feki—an award-winning Canadian-Egyptian journalist—has been looking at unrest a little closer to home: in the sexual lives of Arab men and women. The result is an informative, insightful, and engaging account of this sensitive and still largely secret aspect of Arab society. Sexual attitudes and behaviors are shaped by politics and economics, religion and tradition, gender and generations—not only a reflection of the conditions that led to the uprisings, but also a measure of hard-won reforms in the years to come. Highly personal, rich with original research and remarkable stories, Sex and the Citadel gives us unprecedented and timely insight into a part of the world that is changing before our eyes. ...more

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• "Eleven Presidents: Promises vs. Results in Achieving Limited Government" by Ivan Eland.

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  Aug 02 2019

  Photo: President Calvin Coolidge presents Distinguished Flying Cross citations to the Pan American Fliers on May 2, 1927. The first to circumnavigate South America by air, they were (left to right): 1st Lt. Charles Robinson, Capt. Arthur McDaniel, 1st Lt. Ennis Whitehead, Maj. Herbert Dargue, President Coolidge, Capt. Ira Eaker, 1st Lt. Muir Fairchild, 1st Lt. Bernard Thompson and 1st Lt. Leonard Weddington. They received the actual medals at a later date. (U.S. Air Force photo)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Eleven Presidents: Promises vs. Results in Achieving Limited Government" by Ivan Eland.https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07611815N/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i3 Presidents who claimed to limit government often actually did the opposite. History often looks unfavorably on presidents who may have actually contributed smart and important policies. Were Harding and Coolidge really as ineffective as their reputations maintain? Did Hoover not do enough to end the Depression? Was Reagan a true champion of small-government conservatism?We all know that the American president is one of the most powerful people in the world. But to understand the presidency today we often have to learn from the past. Author Ivan Eland offers a new perspective in Eleven Presidents on the evolution of the executive office by exploring the policies of eleven key presidents who held office over the last one hundred years: Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. The book combines an exploration of how political currents shape historical legacies with an in-depth analysis of presidents' actual policies. An important, revealing book about the presidency, legacy, and the formation of history, Eleven Presidents is essential reading for understanding the American presidency. ...more

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• Best of "Indiana" Hoenlein: The Lost Eggplant of Jerusalem. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  Photo: Heim, the pre-eminent official painter of the Bourbon Restoration, is one of the least known painters to have achieved fame and success in France in the 1820s. His oil sketches have always been prized by connoisseurs, and this one is especially vigorous. It is one of two preparatory sketches for the much larger picture of the same subject that was shown at the Salon of 1824 (Musée du Louvre, Paris). The painting is filled with dramatic action as the Romans attack the Jerusalemites against a backdrop of classical buildings with crowds gathered on the steps.François Joseph Heim (French, Belfort 1787–1865 Paris)http://www.metmuseum.org/ copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain Dedication (CC0) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBest of "Indiana" Hoenlein:  The Lost Eggplant of Jerusalem. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotterhttp://www.hortidaily.com/article/39311/Earliest-evidence-of-eggplant-seeds-in-Israel-unearthed-in-City-of-David Earliest evidence of eggplant seeds in Israel unearthed in City of David A 1,100-year-old refuse pit unearthed in Jerusalem by the Antiquities Authority has provided the earliest evidence of eggplants in Israel. The discovery has also shed light on the dietary habits of residents in the Early Islamic period. During a recent excavation under a stepped street in the City of David, eggplant seeds dating between 750 and 940 CE were identified in the ancient garbage depository, the Authority said on Thursday. “These seeds, the earliest evidence of eggplants known in this country, were found alongside thousands of grape seeds, olives, Christ’s thorn jujube pits, black mulberries, lentils, figs and more,” it said. According to IAA excavation director Nahshon Szanton, the eggplant seeds, which originated in Persia – compounded by the thousands of other preserved seeds discovered – provide invaluable insights for researchers. “Archaeological findings from the refuse pit… provide valuable information about the diet, lifestyle and economic and trade connections of the inhabitants of Jerusalem and neighboring countries 1,000 years ago,” he said. “The discovery of the earliest eggplant seeds in this country, and dating them to the Abbasid period, provides important information about how eggplant first became part of local agriculture.” ...more

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• Six Months in 1945: 1 of 4: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman - from World War to Cold War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Dobbs (Author), Bob Walter (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Aerial view of the Tokyo Imperial Palace, Japan, circa in late August 1945. The photo was taken by a U.S. Navy Vought OS2U Kingfisherreconnaissance plane from the heavy cruiser USS Quincy (CA-71).Date | late August 1945 Source | U.S. Navy photo [1] from the USS Quincy (CA-71) World War II cruise book available at Navysite.deAuthor | U.S. Navy Camera location | 35° 40′ 57″ N, 139° 45′ 07.56″ E http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Six Months in 1945: 1 of 4: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman - from World War to Cold War  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Michael Dobbs (Author), Bob Walter (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Six-Months-1945-Stalin-Churchill/dp/B009RFH28M/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1564707819&sr=1-1 From the author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight, a riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War. When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler's armies were on the run and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace - but instead set the stage for a 44-year division of Europe into Soviet and western spheres of influence.  After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was rapidly fracturing. By the time the leaders met again in Potsdam in July 1945, Russians and Americans were squabbling over the future of Germany and Churchill was warning about an "iron curtain" being drawn down over the Continent.  These six months witnessed some of the most dramatic moments of the 20th century: the cataclysmic battle for Berlin, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, Churchill's electoral defeat, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. While their armies linked up in the heart of Europe, the political leaders maneuvered for leverage: Stalin using his nation's wartime sacrifices to claim spoils, Churchill doing his best to halt Britain's waning influence, FDR trying to charm Stalin, Truman determined to stand up to an increasingly assertive Soviet superpower.  Six Months in 1945 brilliantly captures this momentous historical turning point, chronicling the geopolitical twists behind the descent of the iron curtain, while illuminating the aims and personalities of larger-than-life political giants. It is a vividly rendered story of individual and national interests in fierce competition at a seminal moment in history....more

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• Six Months in 1945: 2 of 4: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman - from World War to Cold War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Dobbs (Author), Bob Walter (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: 日本語: 空襲により焦土と化した東京。両国駅付近上空から南に向かい撮影。画面一番下が国鉄両国駅、中央右の大きなドーム状の建物は旧両国国技館（現在は両国シティコアとなっており、新国技館の位置とは異なる）、その前を左右に走るのは京葉道路、右奥が隅田川、見えている橋は手前からトラス橋時代の新大橋（一部は博物館明治村にて保存）と吊り橋時代の清洲橋。Date | Taken on 10 March 1945Source | http://www.kmine.sakura.ne.jp/kusyu/kuusyu.htmlAuthor | 米軍撮影This photograph is in the public domain in Japan because its copyright has expired according to Article 23 of the 1899 Copyright Act of Japan (English translation) and Article 2 of Supplemental Provisions of Copyright Act of 1970. This is when the photograph meets one of the following conditions: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Six Months in 1945: 2 of 4: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman - from World War to Cold War  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Michael Dobbs (Author), Bob Walter (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Six-Months-1945-Stalin-Churchill/dp/B009RFH28M/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1564707819&sr=1-1 From the author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight, a riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War. When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler's armies were on the run and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace - but instead set the stage for a 44-year division of Europe into Soviet and western spheres of influence.  After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was rapidly fracturing. By the time the leaders met again in Potsdam in July 1945, Russians and Americans were squabbling over the future of Germany and Churchill was warning about an "iron curtain" being drawn down over the Continent.  These six months witnessed some of the most dramatic moments of the 20th century: the cataclysmic battle for Berlin, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, Churchill's electoral defeat, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. While their armies linked up in the heart of Europe, the political leaders maneuvered for leverage: Stalin using his nation's wartime sacrifices to claim spoils, Churchill doing his best to halt Britain's waning influence, FDR trying to charm Stalin, Truman determined to stand up to an increasingly assertive Soviet superpower.  Six Months in 1945 brilliantly captures this momentous historical turning point, chronicling the geopolitical twists behind the descent of the iron curtain, while illuminating the aims and personalities of larger-than-life political giants. It is a vividly rendered story of individual and national interests in fierce competition at a seminal moment in history....more

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• Six Months in 1945: 3 of 4: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman - from World War to Cold War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Dobbs (Author), Bob Walter (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Aerial view of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin 1945-46Date | 28 May 2012 (original upload date)Source | https://web.archive.org/web/20161025072302/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/72818780Author | tormentor4555his file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.Attribution: tormentor4555You are free:to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the workto remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions:attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Six Months in 1945: 3 of 4: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman - from World War to Cold War  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Michael Dobbs (Author), Bob Walter (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Six-Months-1945-Stalin-Churchill/dp/B009RFH28M/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1564707819&sr=1-1 From the author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight, a riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War. When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler's armies were on the run and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace - but instead set the stage for a 44-year division of Europe into Soviet and western spheres of influence.  After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was rapidly fracturing. By the time the leaders met again in Potsdam in July 1945, Russians and Americans were squabbling over the future of Germany and Churchill was warning about an "iron curtain" being drawn down over the Continent.  These six months witnessed some of the most dramatic moments of the 20th century: the cataclysmic battle for Berlin, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, Churchill's electoral defeat, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. While their armies linked up in the heart of Europe, the political leaders maneuvered for leverage: Stalin using his nation's wartime sacrifices to claim spoils, Churchill doing his best to halt Britain's waning influence, FDR trying to charm Stalin, Truman determined to stand up to an increasingly assertive Soviet superpower.  Six Months in 1945 brilliantly captures this momentous historical turning point, chronicling the geopolitical twists behind the descent of the iron curtain, while illuminating the aims and personalities of larger-than-life political giants. It is a vividly rendered story of individual and national interests in fierce competition at a seminal moment in history....more

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• Six Months in 1945: 4 of 4: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman - from World War to Cold War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael Dobbs (Author), Bob Walter (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo:  British and Russian soldiers on the balcony of the ruined Chancellery in Berlin, 5 July 1945.British and Russian soldiers on the balcony of the Chancellery, the spot from which Hitler made many of his speeches.Dátum1939 és 1945 között Forráshttp://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//39/media-39749/large.jpgThis is photograph BU 8635 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.SzerzőNo 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Malindine E G (Capt)Engedély(Fájl újrafelhasználása)This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. This image was catalogued as taken by the Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU) which operated between 1942—1946.[1] The AFPU was composed of members of the forces during their active service, so their works are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation.Part ofWar Office Second World War Official CollectionThis work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Six Months in 1945: 4 of 4: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman - from World War to Cold War  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Michael Dobbs (Author), Bob Walter (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Six-Months-1945-Stalin-Churchill/dp/B009RFH28M/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1564707819&sr=1-1 From the author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight, a riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War. When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler's armies were on the run and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace - but instead set the stage for a 44-year division of Europe into Soviet and western spheres of influence.  After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was rapidly fracturing. By the time the leaders met again in Potsdam in July 1945, Russians and Americans were squabbling over the future of Germany and Churchill was warning about an "iron curtain" being drawn down over the Continent.  These six months witnessed some of the most dramatic moments of the 20th century: the cataclysmic battle for Berlin, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps, Churchill's electoral defeat, and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. While their armies linked up in the heart of Europe, the political leaders maneuvered for leverage: Stalin using his nation's wartime sacrifices to claim spoils, Churchill doing his best to halt Britain's waning influence, FDR trying to charm Stalin, Truman determined to stand up to an increasingly assertive Soviet superpower.  Six Months in 1945 brilliantly captures this momentous historical turning point, chronicling the geopolitical twists behind the descent of the iron curtain, while illuminating the aims and personalities of larger-than-life political giants. It is a vividly rendered story of individual and national interests in fierce competition at a seminal moment in history....more

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• Tested by Zion: 1 of 4: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Hardcover – January 14, 2013 by Elliott Abrams (Author)

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  Photo: Haganah ship Jewish State at Haifa Port (1947)Unknown - Unknown Hagana Ship - Jewish State at Haifa Port Permission details This work or image is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired in Israel (details). According to Israel's copyright statute from 2007 (translation), a work is released to the public domain on 1 January of the 71st year after the author's death (paragraph 38 of the 2007 statute) with the following exceptions: A photograph taken on 24 May 2008 or earlier — the old British Mandate act applies, i.e. on 1 January of the 51st year after the creation of the photograph (paragraph 78(i) of the 2007 statute, and paragraph 21 of the old British Mandate act). If the copyrights are owned by the State, not acquired from a private person, and there is no special agreement between the State and the author — on 1 January of the 51st year after the creation of the work (paragraphs 36 and 42 in the 2007 statute). See also category: PD Israel & British Mandate. العربية | Deutsch | English | עברית | հայերեն | македонски | русский | Ελληνικά | 中文 | 中文（简体）‎ | +/−View more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Tested by Zion: 1 of 4: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Hardcover – January 14, 2013 by Elliott Abrams  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Tested-Zion-Administration-Israeli-Palestinian-Conflict/dp/1107031192 This book tells the full inside story of the Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Written by a top National Security Council officer who worked at the White House with Bush, Cheney, and Rice and attended dozens of meetings with figures like Sharon, Mubarak, the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and Palestinian leaders, it brings the reader inside the White House and the palaces of Middle Eastern officials. How did 9/11 change American policy toward Arafat and Sharon's tough efforts against the Second Intifada? What influence did the Saudis have on President Bush? Did the American approach change when Arafat died? How did Sharon decide to get out of Gaza, and why did the peace negotiations fail? In the first book by an administration official to focus on Bush and the Middle East, Elliott Abrams brings the story of Bush, the Israelis, and the Palestinians to life....more

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• Tested by Zion: 2 of 4: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Hardcover – January 14, 2013 by Elliott Abrams (Author)

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  Photo: Marching Jewish troops in the British army (1942) Zoltan Kluger - This is available from National Photo Collection of Israel, Photography dept. Goverment Press Office (link), under the digital ID D817-121. 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. JEWISH SOLIDERS IN THE BRITISH ARMY MARCHING ON "PETAH TIKVA" ROAD IN TEL AVIV ON "JEWISH SOLDIERS DAY". יום החייל היהודי. בצילום, מצעד של חיילים יהודים המשרתים בצבא הבריטי, עובר בדרך פתח תקוה בתל אביב. Public Domain File:JEWISH SOLIDERS IN THE BRITISH ARMY MARCHING ON "PETAH TIKVA" ROAD IN TEL AVIV ON "JEWISH SOLDIERS DAY". יום החייל היהודי. בצילום, מצעד של חיילים יהודD817-121.jpg Created: 26 September 1942 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Tested by Zion: 2 of 4: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Hardcover – January 14, 2013 by Elliott Abrams  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Tested-Zion-Administration-Israeli-Palestinian-Conflict/dp/1107031192 This book tells the full inside story of the Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Written by a top National Security Council officer who worked at the White House with Bush, Cheney, and Rice and attended dozens of meetings with figures like Sharon, Mubarak, the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and Palestinian leaders, it brings the reader inside the White House and the palaces of Middle Eastern officials. How did 9/11 change American policy toward Arafat and Sharon's tough efforts against the Second Intifada? What influence did the Saudis have on President Bush? Did the American approach change when Arafat died? How did Sharon decide to get out of Gaza, and why did the peace negotiations fail? In the first book by an administration official to focus on Bush and the Middle East, Elliott Abrams brings the story of Bush, the Israelis, and the Palestinians to life....more

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• Tested by Zion: 3 of 4: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Hardcover – January 14, 2013 by Elliott Abrams (Author)

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  Photo: GENERAL VIEW OF BNEI BRAK NORTH OF TEL AVIV. בני ברק.Date | 30 April 1933Source |  | This is available from National Photo Collection of Israel, Photography dept. Goverment Press Office (link), under the digital ID D27-048.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThis work or image is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired in Israel (details). According to Israel's copyright statute from 2007 (translation), a work is released to the public domain on 1 January of the 71st year after the author's death (paragraph 38 of the 2007 statute) with the following exceptions: Tested by Zion: 3 of 4: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Hardcover – January 14, 2013 by Elliott Abrams  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Tested-Zion-Administration-Israeli-Palestinian-Conflict/dp/1107031192 This book tells the full inside story of the Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Written by a top National Security Council officer who worked at the White House with Bush, Cheney, and Rice and attended dozens of meetings with figures like Sharon, Mubarak, the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and Palestinian leaders, it brings the reader inside the White House and the palaces of Middle Eastern officials. How did 9/11 change American policy toward Arafat and Sharon's tough efforts against the Second Intifada? What influence did the Saudis have on President Bush? Did the American approach change when Arafat died? How did Sharon decide to get out of Gaza, and why did the peace negotiations fail? In the first book by an administration official to focus on Bush and the Middle East, Elliott Abrams brings the story of Bush, the Israelis, and the Palestinians to life....more

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• Tested by Zion: 4 of 4: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Hardcover – January 14, 2013 by Elliott Abrams (Author)

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  Photo: WOODEN HUTS AND BARRACKS OF NEW IMMIGRANTS IN THE NORDIA QUARTER IN TEL AVIV. צריפים לעולים חדשים בתל אביב.Date | 30 September 1930Source |  | This is available from National Photo Collection of Israel, Photography dept. Goverment Press Office (link), under the digital ID D24-070.This work or image is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired in Israel (details). According to Israel's copyright statute from 2007 (translation), a work is released to the public domain on 1 January of the 71st year after the author's death (paragraph 38 of the 2007 statute) with the following exceptions: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Tested by Zion: 4 of 4: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Hardcover – January 14, 2013 by Elliott Abrams  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Tested-Zion-Administration-Israeli-Palestinian-Conflict/dp/1107031192 This book tells the full inside story of the Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Written by a top National Security Council officer who worked at the White House with Bush, Cheney, and Rice and attended dozens of meetings with figures like Sharon, Mubarak, the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and Palestinian leaders, it brings the reader inside the White House and the palaces of Middle Eastern officials. How did 9/11 change American policy toward Arafat and Sharon's tough efforts against the Second Intifada? What influence did the Saudis have on President Bush? Did the American approach change when Arafat died? How did Sharon decide to get out of Gaza, and why did the peace negotiations fail? In the first book by an administration official to focus on Bush and the Middle East, Elliott Abrams brings the story of Bush, the Israelis, and the Palestinians to life....more

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• In a Time Machine to the original Pennsylvania Station before NYC destroyed it, 1963. Richard Hough.

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  Photo: Looking south at Greyhound Bus Terminal, 33rd and 34th Streets between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, Manhattan. Source: Changing New York / Berenice Abbott : http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/?col_id=160 Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. No known copyright restrictions1936-07-14. Uploaded 2008-12-15 05:19:18Source | Flickr: Greyhound Bus Terminal, 33rd and 34th Streets between Sevent... New York Public LibraryBerenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991),[2] née Bernice Alice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th century cultural figures, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation in the 1940s to 1960s.This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1924, and if not then due to lack of notice or renewal. See this page for further explanation. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIn a Time Machine to the original Pennsylvania Station before NYC destroyed it, 1963. Richard Hough.https://archpaper.com/2017/11/preservation-group-rebuild-old-penn-station/#gallery-0-slide-0 Only a few days before New York City’s Penn Station fills to capacity with Thanksgiving commuters, preservation group Rebuild Penn Station has begun an ad campaign that they hope will build popular support for their plan to reconstruct the original McKim, Mead & White station demolished in 1964. While their proposal is already ambitious in scope, it butts up directly against the $1.6 billion, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)-designed redevelopment that Governor Cuomo unveiled in July. Rebuild Penn Station, a project of the National Civic Art Society, has plastered posters on trains arriving to Penn Station from New Jersey, and has been handing out fliers to Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road commuters there since Monday. Filled with renderings of a “new old” Penn Station, the leaflets offer glimpses of “civilized arrivals” and “the station we deserve”. The group’s $3 to $3.5 billion plan would relocate Madison Square Garden, an action deemed prohibitively expensive by the governor’s office, and faithfully re-create the original Penn Station using modern construction techniques. “[…] Modern panelization technology will allow the station to be built with just one-fifth of the original stone,” according to the frequently asked questions section on Rebuild Penn Station’s website. A complicating factor in this grand vision is that work on SOM’s renovation broke ground earlier this August. Instead of moving Madison Square Garden, the James A. Farley Building on 34th Street and Eighth Avenue also designed by McKim, Mead & White, will be converted from a former post office into a transit hub and extension of Penn Station. The Farley Building’s new Moynihan Train Hall will add retail, restaurants, and nine platforms with 17 tracks. A 92-foot-high skylight will also be built over the Farley Building’s exposed steel trusses, echoing the cavernous glass ceiling of the original Penn Station. ...more

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• The Birth of the West: 1 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014. by Paul Collins (Author)

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  Photo: The Battle of San Romano, c. 1450s, one of three panels. Egg tempera with walnut oil and linseed oil on poplar. 181.6 x 320 cm. Uffizi. Paolo Uccello - Own work, VivaItalia1974, 2012-09-29 09:40:33 after the 2012 restoration CC BY-SA 3.0 File:Uccello Battle of San Romano Uffizi.jpg Created: between 1436 and 1440 date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1436-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1440-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Birth of the West: 1 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014.  by Paul Collins  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Birth-West-Germany-Creation-Century/dp/1610393686A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth century in Europe…. Collins presents chaotic upheaval across Europe in an organized and riveting fashion.” —Kirkus (starred review)The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. The stability once provided by Imperial Rome had dissolved, leaving a perilous landscape behind. Yet the story of the tenth century is the story of our culture's birth. This was the moment that civilization emerged from the Dark Ages into the light of day.The Birth of the West tells the story of a transformation from chaos to order, exploring the alien landscape of Europe in transition. It thoroughly renovates older conceptions of feudalism and what medieval life was actually like. The result is a wholly-new vision of how civilization sprang from the unlikeliest of origins, and proof that our tenth-century ancestors are not as remote as we might think.“The Birth of the West is a re-making of what we think we know about the end of the Dark Ages. It is also the gate to the utterly unexpected cosmos of European forebears.… The characters who people The Birth of the West are as familiar as relatives—as indeed they are—groping their way to a cohesive Western culture. The Birth of the West is thus the tale of our birth, and Collins tells it with a narrative grace and elegance which will make readers cherish it.” —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark ...more

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• The Birth of the West: 2 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014. by Paul Collins (Author)

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  Photo: Family portrait in an opulent interior, 1663 Pieter de Hooch - 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 File:Pieter de Hooch 019.jpg Created: 1663date QS:P571,+1663-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Birth of the West: 2 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014.  by Paul Collins  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Birth-West-Germany-Creation-Century/dp/1610393686A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth century in Europe…. Collins presents chaotic upheaval across Europe in an organized and riveting fashion.” —Kirkus (starred review)The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. The stability once provided by Imperial Rome had dissolved, leaving a perilous landscape behind. Yet the story of the tenth century is the story of our culture's birth. This was the moment that civilization emerged from the Dark Ages into the light of day.The Birth of the West tells the story of a transformation from chaos to order, exploring the alien landscape of Europe in transition. It thoroughly renovates older conceptions of feudalism and what medieval life was actually like. The result is a wholly-new vision of how civilization sprang from the unlikeliest of origins, and proof that our tenth-century ancestors are not as remote as we might think.“The Birth of the West is a re-making of what we think we know about the end of the Dark Ages. It is also the gate to the utterly unexpected cosmos of European forebears.… The characters who people The Birth of the West are as familiar as relatives—as indeed they are—groping their way to a cohesive Western culture. The Birth of the West is thus the tale of our birth, and Collins tells it with a narrative grace and elegance which will make readers cherish it.” —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark ...more

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• The Birth of the West: 3 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014. by Paul Collins (Author)

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  Photo:  Hamlet: Act IV, Scene V (Ophelia Before the King and Queen)Object typepaintingDate1792-01-01/1792-12-31MediumEnglish: Oil on canvasDimensionsEnglish: w387.4 x h276.9 cmThis 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.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Birth of the West: 3 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014.  by Paul Collins  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Birth-West-Germany-Creation-Century/dp/1610393686A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth century in Europe…. Collins presents chaotic upheaval across Europe in an organized and riveting fashion.” —Kirkus (starred review)The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. The stability once provided by Imperial Rome had dissolved, leaving a perilous landscape behind. Yet the story of the tenth century is the story of our culture's birth. This was the moment that civilization emerged from the Dark Ages into the light of day.The Birth of the West tells the story of a transformation from chaos to order, exploring the alien landscape of Europe in transition. It thoroughly renovates older conceptions of feudalism and what medieval life was actually like. The result is a wholly-new vision of how civilization sprang from the unlikeliest of origins, and proof that our tenth-century ancestors are not as remote as we might think.“The Birth of the West is a re-making of what we think we know about the end of the Dark Ages. It is also the gate to the utterly unexpected cosmos of European forebears.… The characters who people The Birth of the West are as familiar as relatives—as indeed they are—groping their way to a cohesive Western culture. The Birth of the West is thus the tale of our birth, and Collins tells it with a narrative grace and elegance which will make readers cherish it.” —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark ...more

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• The Birth of the West: 4 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014. by Paul Collins (Author)

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  Photo: h: Discovery of the Mississippi by De SotoObject typepaintingDescriptionWilliam H. Powell was the last artist to be commissioned by the Congress for a painting in the Rotunda. His dramatic and brilliantly colored canvas shows Spanish conqueror and explorer Hernando DeSoto, riding a white horse, the first European to view the Mississippi River, in 1541. As De Soto and his troops approach, the Native Americans in front of their tepees watch, and a chief holds out a peace pipe. In the foreground is a jumble of weapons and soldiers, suggesting the attack they had suffered shortly before. To the right, a monk prays as a crucifix is set in the ground.Powell (1823–1879) was born in New York and raised in Ohio. He studied art in Italy and worked on the painting in Paris. He also painted The Battle of Lake Erie, which hangs in the east Senate Grand Staircase in the Capitol. The dimensions of this oil painting on canvas are 365.76 cm by 548.64 cm (144.00 in by 216.00 in).Date1853Powell is known for a painting of the Battle of Lake Erie, of which one copy hangs in the Ohio state capitol building and the other, in the United States Capitol. Powell has a second piece of artwork displayed in the United States Capitol Rotunda, the Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto A.D. 1541.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Birth of the West: 4 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014.  by Paul Collins  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Birth-West-Germany-Creation-Century/dp/1610393686A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth century in Europe…. Collins presents chaotic upheaval across Europe in an organized and riveting fashion.” —Kirkus (starred review)The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. The stability once provided by Imperial Rome had dissolved, leaving a perilous landscape behind. Yet the story of the tenth century is the story of our culture's birth. This was the moment that civilization emerged from the Dark Ages into the light of day.The Birth of the West tells the story of a transformation from chaos to order, exploring the alien landscape of Europe in transition. It thoroughly renovates older conceptions of feudalism and what medieval life was actually like. The result is a wholly-new vision of how civilization sprang from the unlikeliest of origins, and proof that our tenth-century ancestors are not as remote as we might think.“The Birth of the West is a re-making of what we think we know about the end of the Dark Ages. It is also the gate to the utterly unexpected cosmos of European forebears.… The characters who people The Birth of the West are as familiar as relatives—as indeed they are—groping their way to a cohesive Western culture. The Birth of the West is thus the tale of our birth, and Collins tells it with a narrative grace and elegance which will make readers cherish it.” —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark ...more

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• The Birth of the West: 5 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014. by Paul Collins (Author)

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  Photo: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus after Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pieter Bruegel the Elder - manosuelta.files.wordpress.com Public Domain File:Bruegel, Pieter de Oude - De val van icarus - hi res.jpg Created: circa 1558 date QS:P571,+1558-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Birth of the West: 5 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014.  by Paul Collins  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Birth-West-Germany-Creation-Century/dp/1610393686A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth century in Europe…. Collins presents chaotic upheaval across Europe in an organized and riveting fashion.” —Kirkus (starred review)The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. The stability once provided by Imperial Rome had dissolved, leaving a perilous landscape behind. Yet the story of the tenth century is the story of our culture's birth. This was the moment that civilization emerged from the Dark Ages into the light of day.The Birth of the West tells the story of a transformation from chaos to order, exploring the alien landscape of Europe in transition. It thoroughly renovates older conceptions of feudalism and what medieval life was actually like. The result is a wholly-new vision of how civilization sprang from the unlikeliest of origins, and proof that our tenth-century ancestors are not as remote as we might think.“The Birth of the West is a re-making of what we think we know about the end of the Dark Ages. It is also the gate to the utterly unexpected cosmos of European forebears.… The characters who people The Birth of the West are as familiar as relatives—as indeed they are—groping their way to a cohesive Western culture. The Birth of the West is thus the tale of our birth, and Collins tells it with a narrative grace and elegance which will make readers cherish it.” —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark ...more

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• The Birth of the West: 6 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014. by Paul Collins (Author)

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  Photo: Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665), considered a Vermeer masterpiece Johannes Vermeer - Copied from Mauritshuis website, resampled and uploaded by Crisco 1492 (talk · contribs), October 2014 Public Domain File:Meisje met de parel.jpg Created: 31 December 1664 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Birth of the West: 6 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014.  by Paul Collins  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Birth-West-Germany-Creation-Century/dp/1610393686A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth century in Europe…. Collins presents chaotic upheaval across Europe in an organized and riveting fashion.” —Kirkus (starred review)The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. The stability once provided by Imperial Rome had dissolved, leaving a perilous landscape behind. Yet the story of the tenth century is the story of our culture's birth. This was the moment that civilization emerged from the Dark Ages into the light of day.The Birth of the West tells the story of a transformation from chaos to order, exploring the alien landscape of Europe in transition. It thoroughly renovates older conceptions of feudalism and what medieval life was actually like. The result is a wholly-new vision of how civilization sprang from the unlikeliest of origins, and proof that our tenth-century ancestors are not as remote as we might think.“The Birth of the West is a re-making of what we think we know about the end of the Dark Ages. It is also the gate to the utterly unexpected cosmos of European forebears.… The characters who people The Birth of the West are as familiar as relatives—as indeed they are—groping their way to a cohesive Western culture. The Birth of the West is thus the tale of our birth, and Collins tells it with a narrative grace and elegance which will make readers cherish it.” —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark ...more

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• The Birth of the West: 7 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014. by Paul Collins (Author)

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  Photo:  The Court of Mantua. At the left, secretary Marsilio Andreasi o Raimondo Lupi,Ludovico II Gonzaga. Beside him his wife Barbara von Brandenburg and their siblings Ludovico Gonzaga, Paola Gonzaga and Rodolfo Gonzaga.Depicted peopleLudovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of MantuaBarbara of BrandenburgMarsilio AndreasiRaimondo LupiGianfrancesco GonzagaVittorino da FeltreAndrea Mantegna (UK: /mænˈtɛnjə/, US: /mɑːnˈteɪnjə/,[2][3] Italian: [anˈdrɛːa manˈteɲɲa]; c. 1431 – September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality. His flinty, metallic landscapes and somewhat stony figures give evidence of a fundamentally sculptural approach to painting. He also led a workshop that was the leading producer of prints in Venice before 1500.Date between 1465 and 1474This 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.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Birth of the West: 7 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014.  by Paul Collins  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Birth-West-Germany-Creation-Century/dp/1610393686A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth century in Europe…. Collins presents chaotic upheaval across Europe in an organized and riveting fashion.” —Kirkus (starred review)The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. The stability once provided by Imperial Rome had dissolved, leaving a perilous landscape behind. Yet the story of the tenth century is the story of our culture's birth. This was the moment that civilization emerged from the Dark Ages into the light of day.The Birth of the West tells the story of a transformation from chaos to order, exploring the alien landscape of Europe in transition. It thoroughly renovates older conceptions of feudalism and what medieval life was actually like. The result is a wholly-new vision of how civilization sprang from the unlikeliest of origins, and proof that our tenth-century ancestors are not as remote as we might think.“The Birth of the West is a re-making of what we think we know about the end of the Dark Ages. It is also the gate to the utterly unexpected cosmos of European forebears.… The characters who people The Birth of the West are as familiar as relatives—as indeed they are—groping their way to a cohesive Western culture. The Birth of the West is thus the tale of our birth, and Collins tells it with a narrative grace and elegance which will make readers cherish it.” —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark ...more

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• The Birth of the West: 8 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014. by Paul Collins (Author)

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  Photo: The Temptation of Saint Anthony: Antonius altar, left wing outsideNiklaus Manuel Deutsch (Niklaus Manuel, c. 1484 – 28 April 1530), of Bern, was a Swiss artist, writer, mercenary and Reformed politician.: ausgeführt für die Antoniterkirche (Bern)Source/Photographer | The Yorck Project (2002)  10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.  ISBN:  3936122202.ausgeführt für die Antoniterkirche (Bern)Source/Photographer | The Yorck Project (2002)  10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.  ISBN:  3936122202. Permission(Reusing this file) | [1]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. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Birth of the West: 8 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014.  by Paul Collins  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Birth-West-Germany-Creation-Century/dp/1610393686A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth century in Europe…. Collins presents chaotic upheaval across Europe in an organized and riveting fashion.” —Kirkus (starred review)The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. The stability once provided by Imperial Rome had dissolved, leaving a perilous landscape behind. Yet the story of the tenth century is the story of our culture's birth. This was the moment that civilization emerged from the Dark Ages into the light of day.The Birth of the West tells the story of a transformation from chaos to order, exploring the alien landscape of Europe in transition. It thoroughly renovates older conceptions of feudalism and what medieval life was actually like. The result is a wholly-new vision of how civilization sprang from the unlikeliest of origins, and proof that our tenth-century ancestors are not as remote as we might think.“The Birth of the West is a re-making of what we think we know about the end of the Dark Ages. It is also the gate to the utterly unexpected cosmos of European forebears.… The characters who people The Birth of the West are as familiar as relatives—as indeed they are—groping their way to a cohesive Western culture. The Birth of the West is thus the tale of our birth, and Collins tells it with a narrative grace and elegance which will make readers cherish it.” —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark ...more

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• The Birth of the West: 9 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014. by Paul Collins (Author)

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  Photo: Vincenzo Catena  (1470–1531)  TitlePortrait of a WomanDatecirca 1520 MediumpaintingThis 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. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Birth of the West: 9 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014.  by Paul Collins  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Birth-West-Germany-Creation-Century/dp/1610393686A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth century in Europe…. Collins presents chaotic upheaval across Europe in an organized and riveting fashion.” —Kirkus (starred review)The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. The stability once provided by Imperial Rome had dissolved, leaving a perilous landscape behind. Yet the story of the tenth century is the story of our culture's birth. This was the moment that civilization emerged from the Dark Ages into the light of day.The Birth of the West tells the story of a transformation from chaos to order, exploring the alien landscape of Europe in transition. It thoroughly renovates older conceptions of feudalism and what medieval life was actually like. The result is a wholly-new vision of how civilization sprang from the unlikeliest of origins, and proof that our tenth-century ancestors are not as remote as we might think.“The Birth of the West is a re-making of what we think we know about the end of the Dark Ages. It is also the gate to the utterly unexpected cosmos of European forebears.… The characters who people The Birth of the West are as familiar as relatives—as indeed they are—groping their way to a cohesive Western culture. The Birth of the West is thus the tale of our birth, and Collins tells it with a narrative grace and elegance which will make readers cherish it.” —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark ...more

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• The Birth of the West: 10 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014. by Paul Collins (Author)

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  Aug 01 2019

  Photo: Luca Signorelli  (–1523)   TitleDeutsch: Fresken im Dom zu Orvieto, Szene: Die VerdammtenDate1499-1505MediumfrescoCollectionDeutsch: Dom, Brizio-KapelleCurrent locationDeutsch: OrvietoSource/PhotographerThe Yorck Project (2002)  10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.  ISBN:  3936122202. Permission(Reusing this file)[1]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. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Birth of the West: 10 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014.  by Paul Collins  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Birth-West-Germany-Creation-Century/dp/1610393686A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth century in Europe…. Collins presents chaotic upheaval across Europe in an organized and riveting fashion.” —Kirkus (starred review)The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. The stability once provided by Imperial Rome had dissolved, leaving a perilous landscape behind. Yet the story of the tenth century is the story of our culture's birth. This was the moment that civilization emerged from the Dark Ages into the light of day.The Birth of the West tells the story of a transformation from chaos to order, exploring the alien landscape of Europe in transition. It thoroughly renovates older conceptions of feudalism and what medieval life was actually like. The result is a wholly-new vision of how civilization sprang from the unlikeliest of origins, and proof that our tenth-century ancestors are not as remote as we might think.“The Birth of the West is a re-making of what we think we know about the end of the Dark Ages. It is also the gate to the utterly unexpected cosmos of European forebears.… The characters who people The Birth of the West are as familiar as relatives—as indeed they are—groping their way to a cohesive Western culture. The Birth of the West is thus the tale of our birth, and Collins tells it with a narrative grace and elegance which will make readers cherish it.” —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark ...more

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• The Birth of the West: 11 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014. by Paul Collins (Author)

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  Aug 01 2019

  Photo: Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532 – 16 November 1625), also known as Sophonisba Angussolaor Anguisciola,[1][2] was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a relatively poor noble family. She received a well-rounded education, that included the fine arts, and her apprenticeship with local painters set a precedent for women to be accepted as students of art. As a young woman, Anguissola traveled to Rome where she was introduced to Michelangelo, who immediately recognized her talent, and to Milan, where she painted the Duke of Alba. The Spanish queen, Elizabeth of Valois, was a keen amateur painter and in 1559 Anguissola was recruited to go to Madrid as her tutor, with the rank of lady-in-waiting. She later became an official court painter to the king, Philip II, and adapted her style to the more formal requirements of official portraits for the Spanish court. After the queen's death, Philip helped arrange an aristocratic marriage for her. She moved to Sicily, and later Pisa and Genoa, where she continued to practice as a leading portrait painterhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMuzeum Zamet w Lancucie, Lancut.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. The Birth of the West: 11 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014.  by Paul Collins  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Birth-West-Germany-Creation-Century/dp/1610393686A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth century in Europe…. Collins presents chaotic upheaval across Europe in an organized and riveting fashion.” —Kirkus (starred review)The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. The stability once provided by Imperial Rome had dissolved, leaving a perilous landscape behind. Yet the story of the tenth century is the story of our culture's birth. This was the moment that civilization emerged from the Dark Ages into the light of day.The Birth of the West tells the story of a transformation from chaos to order, exploring the alien landscape of Europe in transition. It thoroughly renovates older conceptions of feudalism and what medieval life was actually like. The result is a wholly-new vision of how civilization sprang from the unlikeliest of origins, and proof that our tenth-century ancestors are not as remote as we might think.“The Birth of the West is a re-making of what we think we know about the end of the Dark Ages. It is also the gate to the utterly unexpected cosmos of European forebears.… The characters who people The Birth of the West are as familiar as relatives—as indeed they are—groping their way to a cohesive Western culture. The Birth of the West is thus the tale of our birth, and Collins tells it with a narrative grace and elegance which will make readers cherish it.” —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark ...more

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• The Birth of the West: 12 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014. by Paul Collins (Author)

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  Aug 01 2019

  Photo: paintingDescription | English: Gentile_Bellini_Madonna_and_Child_Enthroned_late_15th_centuryDate | late 15th century Dimensions | Height: 121.9 cm (47.9 ″); Width: 82.6 cm (32.5 ″)NG3911 (National Gallery)References | described at URL:  http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/gentile-bellini-the-virgin-and-child-enthronedArt UKSource/Photographer | National GalleryThis 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. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Birth of the West: 12 of 12: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century Paperback – March 4, 2014.  by Paul Collins  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Birth-West-Germany-Creation-Century/dp/1610393686A lively, full-to-bursting history of the turbulent tenth century in Europe…. Collins presents chaotic upheaval across Europe in an organized and riveting fashion.” —Kirkus (starred review)The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. The stability once provided by Imperial Rome had dissolved, leaving a perilous landscape behind. Yet the story of the tenth century is the story of our culture's birth. This was the moment that civilization emerged from the Dark Ages into the light of day.The Birth of the West tells the story of a transformation from chaos to order, exploring the alien landscape of Europe in transition. It thoroughly renovates older conceptions of feudalism and what medieval life was actually like. The result is a wholly-new vision of how civilization sprang from the unlikeliest of origins, and proof that our tenth-century ancestors are not as remote as we might think.“The Birth of the West is a re-making of what we think we know about the end of the Dark Ages. It is also the gate to the utterly unexpected cosmos of European forebears.… The characters who people The Birth of the West are as familiar as relatives—as indeed they are—groping their way to a cohesive Western culture. The Birth of the West is thus the tale of our birth, and Collins tells it with a narrative grace and elegance which will make readers cherish it.” —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark ...more

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• Churchill's Bomb: 1 of 8: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Graham Farmelo (Author), Clive Chafer (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 31 2019

  Photo: James Chadwick (left), the head of the British Mission, with Major General Leslie R. Groves Jr., the director of the Manhattan Project; Richard C. Tolman, his scientific advisor; and Henry DeWolf Smyth United States Army Signal Corps - HD.3A.007 Scientific advisories consult with Major General Leslie R. Groves, Officer in Charge of Manhattan Engineer District. Public Domain File:James Chadwick, Leslie Groves, Richard Tolman, & Henry deWolf Smyth.jpg Created: 31 December 1944 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Churchill's Bomb: 1 of 8: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Graham Farmelo (Author), Clive Chafer (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Bomb-Overtook-Britain-Nuclear/dp/B00FEJ7BRM/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=farmelo+churchill&qid=1564540433&s=audible&sr=1-1Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet, the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of research into nuclear weapons at the beginning of World War II.  As award-winning biographer and science writer Graham Farmelo describes in Churchill's Bomb, the British set out to investigate the possibility of building nuclear weapons before their American colleagues. But when scientists in Britain first discovered a way to build an atomic bomb, Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not make the most of his country's lead and was slow to realize the bomb's strategic implications. This was odd - he prided himself on recognizing the military potential of new science and, in the 1920's and 1930's, had repeatedly pointed out that nuclear weapons would likely be developed soon. In developing the bomb, however, he marginalized some of his country's most brilliant scientists, and also failed to capitalize on Franklin Roosevelt's generous offer to work jointly on the bomb - and ultimately ceded Britain's initiative to the Americans, whose successful development and deployment of the bomb placed the United States in a position of supreme power at the dawn of the nuclear age. Churchill came to be terrified by the possibility of thermonuclear war and emerged as a pioneer of détente in the early stages of the Cold War.  Contrasting Churchill's often inattentive leadership with Franklin Roosevelt's decisiveness, Churchill's Bomb reveals the secret history of the weapon that transformed modern geopolitics....more

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• Churchill's Bomb: 2 of 8: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Graham Farmelo (Author), Clive Chafer (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 31 2019

  Photo:  Gamma building, Tech Area, Los AlamosDate | circa 1945 Source | Manhattan District History Edith C. Truslow, with Kasha V. Thayer, ed., Manhattan Engineer District: Nonscientific Aspects of Los Alamos Project Y, 1942 through 1946 (Los Alamos, NM: Manhattan Engineer District, ca. 1946; first printed by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory as LA-5200, March 1973; reprinted in 1997 by the Los Alamos Historical Society).Author | United States Army Corps of Engineershttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Churchill's Bomb: 2 of 8: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Graham Farmelo (Author), Clive Chafer (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Bomb-Overtook-Britain-Nuclear/dp/B00FEJ7BRM/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=farmelo+churchill&qid=1564540433&s=audible&sr=1-1Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet, the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of research into nuclear weapons at the beginning of World War II.  As award-winning biographer and science writer Graham Farmelo describes in Churchill's Bomb, the British set out to investigate the possibility of building nuclear weapons before their American colleagues. But when scientists in Britain first discovered a way to build an atomic bomb, Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not make the most of his country's lead and was slow to realize the bomb's strategic implications. This was odd - he prided himself on recognizing the military potential of new science and, in the 1920's and 1930's, had repeatedly pointed out that nuclear weapons would likely be developed soon. In developing the bomb, however, he marginalized some of his country's most brilliant scientists, and also failed to capitalize on Franklin Roosevelt's generous offer to work jointly on the bomb - and ultimately ceded Britain's initiative to the Americans, whose successful development and deployment of the bomb placed the United States in a position of supreme power at the dawn of the nuclear age. Churchill came to be terrified by the possibility of thermonuclear war and emerged as a pioneer of détente in the early stages of the Cold War.  Contrasting Churchill's often inattentive leadership with Franklin Roosevelt's decisiveness, Churchill's Bomb reveals the secret history of the weapon that transformed modern geopolitics....more

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• Churchill's Bomb: 3 of 8: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Graham Farmelo (Author), Clive Chafer (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 31 2019

  Photo: Building P, Tech Area, Los AlamosDate | circa 1945 Source | Manhattan District History Edith C. Truslow, with Kasha V. Thayer, ed., Manhattan Engineer District: Nonscientific Aspects of Los Alamos Project Y, 1942 through 1946 (Los Alamos, NM: Manhattan Engineer District, ca. 1946; first printed by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory as LA-5200, March 1973; reprinted in 1997 by the Los Alamos Historical Society).Author | United States Army Corps of Engineershttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Churchill's Bomb: 3 of 8: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Graham Farmelo (Author), Clive Chafer (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Bomb-Overtook-Britain-Nuclear/dp/B00FEJ7BRM/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=farmelo+churchill&qid=1564540433&s=audible&sr=1-1Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet, the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of research into nuclear weapons at the beginning of World War II.  As award-winning biographer and science writer Graham Farmelo describes in Churchill's Bomb, the British set out to investigate the possibility of building nuclear weapons before their American colleagues. But when scientists in Britain first discovered a way to build an atomic bomb, Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not make the most of his country's lead and was slow to realize the bomb's strategic implications. This was odd - he prided himself on recognizing the military potential of new science and, in the 1920's and 1930's, had repeatedly pointed out that nuclear weapons would likely be developed soon. In developing the bomb, however, he marginalized some of his country's most brilliant scientists, and also failed to capitalize on Franklin Roosevelt's generous offer to work jointly on the bomb - and ultimately ceded Britain's initiative to the Americans, whose successful development and deployment of the bomb placed the United States in a position of supreme power at the dawn of the nuclear age. Churchill came to be terrified by the possibility of thermonuclear war and emerged as a pioneer of détente in the early stages of the Cold War.  Contrasting Churchill's often inattentive leadership with Franklin Roosevelt's decisiveness, Churchill's Bomb reveals the secret history of the weapon that transformed modern geopolitics....more

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• Churchill's Bomb: 4 of 8: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Graham Farmelo (Author), Clive Chafer (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 31 2019

  Photo:  Trinity Test. Explosive stack of the 100 Ton Test.To help in preparing the instrumentation for the Trinity shot the 100 Ton Test was fired on 7 May 1945. This test detonated 108 tons of TNT stacked on a wooden platform 800 yards from Trinity ground zero. The pile of high explosive was threaded with tubes containing 1000 curies of reactor fission products. This is the largest instrumented explosion conducted up to this date. The test allowed the calibration of instruments to measure the blast wave, and gave some indication of how fission products might be distributed by the explosion.Français : Trinity (essai atomique). Empilement d'explosifs pour le 100 Ton Test. Pour calibrer les instruments de mesures et les divers appareils photographiques, une explosion de 108 tonnes de TNT mélangé à du RDX fut déclenchée le 7 mai 1945. L'amas d'explosif était empilé sur une plateforme en bois à environ 700 mètres de l'hypocentre de Trinity. À l'intérieur du cube explosif se trouvaient des tubes avec environ 1 000 curies de produits radioactifs, dans le but d'analyser leur dispersion et d'évaluer les risques de contamination.Date | May 1945Source | HG.4D.020Author | Federal government of the United Stateshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Churchill's Bomb: 4 of 8: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Graham Farmelo (Author), Clive Chafer (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Bomb-Overtook-Britain-Nuclear/dp/B00FEJ7BRM/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=farmelo+churchill&qid=1564540433&s=audible&sr=1-1Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet, the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of research into nuclear weapons at the beginning of World War II.  As award-winning biographer and science writer Graham Farmelo describes in Churchill's Bomb, the British set out to investigate the possibility of building nuclear weapons before their American colleagues. But when scientists in Britain first discovered a way to build an atomic bomb, Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not make the most of his country's lead and was slow to realize the bomb's strategic implications. This was odd - he prided himself on recognizing the military potential of new science and, in the 1920's and 1930's, had repeatedly pointed out that nuclear weapons would likely be developed soon. In developing the bomb, however, he marginalized some of his country's most brilliant scientists, and also failed to capitalize on Franklin Roosevelt's generous offer to work jointly on the bomb - and ultimately ceded Britain's initiative to the Americans, whose successful development and deployment of the bomb placed the United States in a position of supreme power at the dawn of the nuclear age. Churchill came to be terrified by the possibility of thermonuclear war and emerged as a pioneer of détente in the early stages of the Cold War.  Contrasting Churchill's often inattentive leadership with Franklin Roosevelt's decisiveness, Churchill's Bomb reveals the secret history of the weapon that transformed modern geopolitics....more

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• Churchill's Bomb: 5 of 8: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Graham Farmelo (Author), Clive Chafer (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 31 2019

  Photo: Entrance to the Tech Area, Los AlamosDate | circa 1945 Source | Manhattan District History Edith C. Truslow, with Kasha V. Thayer, ed., Manhattan Engineer District: Nonscientific Aspects of Los Alamos Project Y, 1942 through 1946 (Los Alamos, NM: Manhattan Engineer District, ca. 1946; first printed by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory as LA-5200, March 1973; reprinted in 1997 by the Los Alamos Historical Society).Author | United States Army Corps of Engineershttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Churchill's Bomb: 5 of 8: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Graham Farmelo (Author), Clive Chafer (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Bomb-Overtook-Britain-Nuclear/dp/B00FEJ7BRM/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=farmelo+churchill&qid=1564540433&s=audible&sr=1-1Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet, the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of research into nuclear weapons at the beginning of World War II.  As award-winning biographer and science writer Graham Farmelo describes in Churchill's Bomb, the British set out to investigate the possibility of building nuclear weapons before their American colleagues. But when scientists in Britain first discovered a way to build an atomic bomb, Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not make the most of his country's lead and was slow to realize the bomb's strategic implications. This was odd - he prided himself on recognizing the military potential of new science and, in the 1920's and 1930's, had repeatedly pointed out that nuclear weapons would likely be developed soon. In developing the bomb, however, he marginalized some of his country's most brilliant scientists, and also failed to capitalize on Franklin Roosevelt's generous offer to work jointly on the bomb - and ultimately ceded Britain's initiative to the Americans, whose successful development and deployment of the bomb placed the United States in a position of supreme power at the dawn of the nuclear age. Churchill came to be terrified by the possibility of thermonuclear war and emerged as a pioneer of détente in the early stages of the Cold War.  Contrasting Churchill's often inattentive leadership with Franklin Roosevelt's decisiveness, Churchill's Bomb reveals the secret history of the weapon that transformed modern geopolitics....more

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• Churchill's Bomb: 6 of 8: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Graham Farmelo (Author), Clive Chafer (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 31 2019

  Photo: Technical PX, right outside of the Tech Area, Los AlamosDate | circa 1945 Source | Manhattan District History Edith C. Truslow, with Kasha V. Thayer, ed., Manhattan Engineer District: Nonscientific Aspects of Los Alamos Project Y, 1942 through 1946 (Los Alamos, NM: Manhattan Engineer District, ca. 1946; first printed by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory as LA-5200, March 1973; reprinted in 1997 by the Los Alamos Historical Society).Author | United States Army Corps of Engineershttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Churchill's Bomb: 6 of 8: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Graham Farmelo (Author), Clive Chafer (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Bomb-Overtook-Britain-Nuclear/dp/B00FEJ7BRM/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=farmelo+churchill&qid=1564540433&s=audible&sr=1-1Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet, the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of research into nuclear weapons at the beginning of World War II.  As award-winning biographer and science writer Graham Farmelo describes in Churchill's Bomb, the British set out to investigate the possibility of building nuclear weapons before their American colleagues. But when scientists in Britain first discovered a way to build an atomic bomb, Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not make the most of his country's lead and was slow to realize the bomb's strategic implications. This was odd - he prided himself on recognizing the military potential of new science and, in the 1920's and 1930's, had repeatedly pointed out that nuclear weapons would likely be developed soon. In developing the bomb, however, he marginalized some of his country's most brilliant scientists, and also failed to capitalize on Franklin Roosevelt's generous offer to work jointly on the bomb - and ultimately ceded Britain's initiative to the Americans, whose successful development and deployment of the bomb placed the United States in a position of supreme power at the dawn of the nuclear age. Churchill came to be terrified by the possibility of thermonuclear war and emerged as a pioneer of détente in the early stages of the Cold War.  Contrasting Churchill's often inattentive leadership with Franklin Roosevelt's decisiveness, Churchill's Bomb reveals the secret history of the weapon that transformed modern geopolitics....more

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• Churchill's Bomb: 7 of 8: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Graham Farmelo (Author), Clive Chafer (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 31 2019

  Photo: Bridge over the Rio Grande, Los Alamos -- Santa Fe Highway. Showing beautiful background of the Jemez Mountains File name: 06_10_015694  Title: Bridge over the Rio Grande, Los Alamos -- Santa Fe Highway. Showing beautiful background of the Jemez Mountains  Created/Published: Alfred Mc Garr Adv. Ser., Albuquerque, N. M.  Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate)  Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.  Genre: Postcards   Subjects: Roads; Mountains Notes:   Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection  Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department  Rights: No known restrictions http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Churchill's Bomb: 7 of 8: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Graham Farmelo (Author), Clive Chafer (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Bomb-Overtook-Britain-Nuclear/dp/B00FEJ7BRM/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=farmelo+churchill&qid=1564540433&s=audible&sr=1-1Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet, the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of research into nuclear weapons at the beginning of World War II.  As award-winning biographer and science writer Graham Farmelo describes in Churchill's Bomb, the British set out to investigate the possibility of building nuclear weapons before their American colleagues. But when scientists in Britain first discovered a way to build an atomic bomb, Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not make the most of his country's lead and was slow to realize the bomb's strategic implications. This was odd - he prided himself on recognizing the military potential of new science and, in the 1920's and 1930's, had repeatedly pointed out that nuclear weapons would likely be developed soon. In developing the bomb, however, he marginalized some of his country's most brilliant scientists, and also failed to capitalize on Franklin Roosevelt's generous offer to work jointly on the bomb - and ultimately ceded Britain's initiative to the Americans, whose successful development and deployment of the bomb placed the United States in a position of supreme power at the dawn of the nuclear age. Churchill came to be terrified by the possibility of thermonuclear war and emerged as a pioneer of détente in the early stages of the Cold War.  Contrasting Churchill's often inattentive leadership with Franklin Roosevelt's decisiveness, Churchill's Bomb reveals the secret history of the weapon that transformed modern geopolitics....more

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• Churchill's Bomb: 8 of 8: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Graham Farmelo (Author), Clive Chafer (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 31 2019

  Photo: Building A, Tech Area, Los AlamosDate | circa 1945 Source | Manhattan District History Edith C. Truslow, with Kasha V. Thayer, ed., Manhattan Engineer District: Nonscientific Aspects of Los Alamos Project Y, 1942 through 1946 (Los Alamos, NM: Manhattan Engineer District, ca. 1946; first printed by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory as LA-5200, March 1973; reprinted in 1997 by the Los Alamos Historical Society).Author | United States Army Corps of Engineershttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Churchill's Bomb: 8 of 8: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Graham Farmelo (Author), Clive Chafer (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Bomb-Overtook-Britain-Nuclear/dp/B00FEJ7BRM/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=farmelo+churchill&qid=1564540433&s=audible&sr=1-1Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet, the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of research into nuclear weapons at the beginning of World War II.  As award-winning biographer and science writer Graham Farmelo describes in Churchill's Bomb, the British set out to investigate the possibility of building nuclear weapons before their American colleagues. But when scientists in Britain first discovered a way to build an atomic bomb, Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not make the most of his country's lead and was slow to realize the bomb's strategic implications. This was odd - he prided himself on recognizing the military potential of new science and, in the 1920's and 1930's, had repeatedly pointed out that nuclear weapons would likely be developed soon. In developing the bomb, however, he marginalized some of his country's most brilliant scientists, and also failed to capitalize on Franklin Roosevelt's generous offer to work jointly on the bomb - and ultimately ceded Britain's initiative to the Americans, whose successful development and deployment of the bomb placed the United States in a position of supreme power at the dawn of the nuclear age. Churchill came to be terrified by the possibility of thermonuclear war and emerged as a pioneer of détente in the early stages of the Cold War.  Contrasting Churchill's often inattentive leadership with Franklin Roosevelt's decisiveness, Churchill's Bomb reveals the secret history of the weapon that transformed modern geopolitics....more

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• JFK and the Reagan Revolution: 1 of 2: A Secret History of American Prosperity Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Lawrence Kudlow (Author), Brian Domitrovic (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Photo: Image Right: Dr. Wernher von Braun, center, explains the Saturn launch system to President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 16, 1963, at Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA Deputy Administrator Robert Seamans is at left of von Braun. Image provided by James B. Hill, audiovisual archivist at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library in Boston, Mass. NASA Photohttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow JFK and the Reagan Revolution: 1 of 2:  A Secret History of American Prosperity Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Lawrence Kudlow (Author), Brian Domitrovic (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Reagan-Revolution-American-Prosperity/dp/B01KP95AAA/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= The little-known story of how JFK pioneered supply-side economics.  Who invented supply-side economics - the idea that cutting tax rates can result in more growth, more prosperity at all income levels, and even more tax revenue flowing into the IRS? Most people would credit the economic team that advised Ronald Reagan in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But in fact supply-side economics came of age two decades earlier. And the first president who embraced it was one of the biggest icons of the Democratic Party - John F. Kennedy.  As Larry Kudlow and Brian Domitrovic explain, this is an inconvenient fact for both parties. Liberals hate the idea that JFK successfully pioneered an economic principle that has become a core part of the GOP platform. And conservatives hate to admit that their hero, Reagan, grabbed one of his most successful policies not merely from a Democrat but from a Kennedy. So neither side has much incentive to talk about the tax battles inside the Kennedy administration.  In a blow-by-blow narrative of those years, the authors reveal how JFK assembled Keynesian advisors, only to reject their plans for loose money and big spending. Instead Kennedy embraced ideas advanced by the non-Keynesians on his team of rivals and drew upon his own deep reading of history to opt for tax cuts and a recommitment to the gold standard.  Here we meet a fascinating cast of Kennedy administration characters, especially Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, the token Republican in JFK's cabinet. Dillon's opponents, such as liberal economists Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow, and James Tobin, strove to stifle the push to bring down the high tax rates - including an astonishing 91 percent top rate on the wealthiest earners - that were damaging the economy. Once JFK became convinced of the power of tax cuts, he held his ground against the Keynesians. And as Kennedy made his case for the tax cut, the economy took off. After the assassination, Lyndon Johnson finally signed the tax-cut law, in February 1964. The subsequent economic boom delivered the greatest prosperity the nation had ever seen.  JFK and the Reagan Revolution is an eye-opening look at one of the most important yet least understood episodes in American economic history. It reveals the low-tax tradition within the Democratic Party, one that the Republicans at last made their own only with Reagan....more

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• JFK and the Reagan Revolution: 2 of 2: A Secret History of American Prosperity Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Lawrence Kudlow (Author), Brian Domitrovic (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Photo: President John F. Kennedy signing the act Cecil W. Stoughton - JFK Library  President John F. Kennedy signs the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Center Construction Act. Looking on (L-R): Representative Leo W. O’Brien of New York; Representative Edith Green of Oregon; Representative Albert Thomas of Texas; Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C. Public Domain File:John F. Kennedy Signs the Community Mental Health Act - ST-C376-2-63.jpg Created: 30 October 1963 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow JFK and the Reagan Revolution: 2 of 2:  A Secret History of American Prosperity Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Lawrence Kudlow (Author), Brian Domitrovic (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Reagan-Revolution-American-Prosperity/dp/B01KP95AAA/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= The little-known story of how JFK pioneered supply-side economics.  Who invented supply-side economics - the idea that cutting tax rates can result in more growth, more prosperity at all income levels, and even more tax revenue flowing into the IRS? Most people would credit the economic team that advised Ronald Reagan in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But in fact supply-side economics came of age two decades earlier. And the first president who embraced it was one of the biggest icons of the Democratic Party - John F. Kennedy.  As Larry Kudlow and Brian Domitrovic explain, this is an inconvenient fact for both parties. Liberals hate the idea that JFK successfully pioneered an economic principle that has become a core part of the GOP platform. And conservatives hate to admit that their hero, Reagan, grabbed one of his most successful policies not merely from a Democrat but from a Kennedy. So neither side has much incentive to talk about the tax battles inside the Kennedy administration.  In a blow-by-blow narrative of those years, the authors reveal how JFK assembled Keynesian advisors, only to reject their plans for loose money and big spending. Instead Kennedy embraced ideas advanced by the non-Keynesians on his team of rivals and drew upon his own deep reading of history to opt for tax cuts and a recommitment to the gold standard.  Here we meet a fascinating cast of Kennedy administration characters, especially Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, the token Republican in JFK's cabinet. Dillon's opponents, such as liberal economists Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow, and James Tobin, strove to stifle the push to bring down the high tax rates - including an astonishing 91 percent top rate on the wealthiest earners - that were damaging the economy. Once JFK became convinced of the power of tax cuts, he held his ground against the Keynesians. And as Kennedy made his case for the tax cut, the economy took off. After the assassination, Lyndon Johnson finally signed the tax-cut law, in February 1964. The subsequent economic boom delivered the greatest prosperity the nation had ever seen.  JFK and the Reagan Revolution is an eye-opening look at one of the most important yet least understood episodes in American economic history. It reveals the low-tax tradition within the Democratic Party, one that the Republicans at last made their own only with Reagan. ...more

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• Vanished: 1 of 4: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Wil S. Hylton (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Jul 30 2019

  Photo: Women fishing with nets, Chuuk (1899–1900)Archival Photographer Stefan Claesson / NOAA / US Government - http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/brs/hfind69.htm South Sea cruise 1899-1900, Caroline Chain, Truk Lagoon, native women fishing with hand and nets near Moen Island. Note that this image is cropped and tones rebalanced.http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/fish7629.htm Public Domain File:Women fishing with nets, Truk (1899-1900).jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Vanished: 1 of 4: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Wil S. Hylton (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Vanished-Sixty-Year-Search-Missing-World/dp/B00GG0CWKO/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=vanished+hylton&qid=1564441510&s=audible&sr=1-1 In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow water - but when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn't there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet the airmen were never seen again. Some of their relatives whispered that they had returned to the United States in secret and lived in hiding. But they never explained why.  For sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the islands for clues. They trolled the water with side-scan sonar, conducted grid searches on the seafloor, crawled through thickets of mangrove and poison trees, and flew over the islands in small planes to shoot infrared photography. With every clue they found, the mystery only deepened.  Now, in a spellbinding narrative, Wil S. Hylton weaves together the true story of the missing men, their final mission, the families they left behind, and the real reason their disappearance remained shrouded in secrecy for so long. This is a story of love, loss, sacrifice, and faith - of the undying hope among the families of the missing, and the relentless determination of scientists, explorers, archaeologists, and deep-sea divers to solve one of the enduring mysteries of World War II....more

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• Vanished: 2 of 4: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Wil S. Hylton (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Jul 30 2019

  Photo: Map of the Federated States of Micronesia. Palau is to the west of the map.View author information Public Domain File:Caroline Islands-map.gif Uploaded: 2010-06-19 17:07:00 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Vanished: 2 of 4: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Wil S. Hylton (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Vanished-Sixty-Year-Search-Missing-World/dp/B00GG0CWKO/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=vanished+hylton&qid=1564441510&s=audible&sr=1-1 In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow water - but when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn't there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet the airmen were never seen again. Some of their relatives whispered that they had returned to the United States in secret and lived in hiding. But they never explained why.  For sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the islands for clues. They trolled the water with side-scan sonar, conducted grid searches on the seafloor, crawled through thickets of mangrove and poison trees, and flew over the islands in small planes to shoot infrared photography. With every clue they found, the mystery only deepened.  Now, in a spellbinding narrative, Wil S. Hylton weaves together the true story of the missing men, their final mission, the families they left behind, and the real reason their disappearance remained shrouded in secrecy for so long. This is a story of love, loss, sacrifice, and faith - of the undying hope among the families of the missing, and the relentless determination of scientists, explorers, archaeologists, and deep-sea divers to solve one of the enduring mysteries of World War II....more

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• Vanished: 3 of 4: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Wil S. Hylton (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Jul 30 2019

  Photo: US Navy Hellcats on Espiritu Santo island in February 1944U.S. Navy - U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.7185.001 U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcats of Fighting Squadron 40 (VF-40) on the ground at Turtle Bay fighter strip on Espiritu Santo island in February 1944. In colonial New Hebrides (present day Vanuatu) during the Solomon Islands Campaign of WWII. Public Domain File:F6F-3 Hellcats of VF-40 at Espiritu Santo 1944.jpg Created: 31 January 1944 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Vanished: 3 of 4: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Wil S. Hylton (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Vanished-Sixty-Year-Search-Missing-World/dp/B00GG0CWKO/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=vanished+hylton&qid=1564441510&s=audible&sr=1-1 In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow water - but when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn't there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet the airmen were never seen again. Some of their relatives whispered that they had returned to the United States in secret and lived in hiding. But they never explained why.  For sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the islands for clues. They trolled the water with side-scan sonar, conducted grid searches on the seafloor, crawled through thickets of mangrove and poison trees, and flew over the islands in small planes to shoot infrared photography. With every clue they found, the mystery only deepened.  Now, in a spellbinding narrative, Wil S. Hylton weaves together the true story of the missing men, their final mission, the families they left behind, and the real reason their disappearance remained shrouded in secrecy for so long. This is a story of love, loss, sacrifice, and faith - of the undying hope among the families of the missing, and the relentless determination of scientists, explorers, archaeologists, and deep-sea divers to solve one of the enduring mysteries of World War II....more

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• Vanished: 4 of 4: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Wil S. Hylton (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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  Photo: Transfer of sovereignty at Yap in the Western Caroline Islands (1899)Unknown - Unknown Übergabe der Westkarolinen und Palauinseln von Spanien an das Deutsche Reich am 3. November 1899 auf der Insel Yap. Public Domain File:Übergabe Westkarolinen.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Vanished: 4 of 4: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Wil S. Hylton (Author), Chris Sorensen (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Vanished-Sixty-Year-Search-Missing-World/dp/B00GG0CWKO/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=vanished+hylton&qid=1564441510&s=audible&sr=1-1 In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow water - but when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn't there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet the airmen were never seen again. Some of their relatives whispered that they had returned to the United States in secret and lived in hiding. But they never explained why.  For sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the islands for clues. They trolled the water with side-scan sonar, conducted grid searches on the seafloor, crawled through thickets of mangrove and poison trees, and flew over the islands in small planes to shoot infrared photography. With every clue they found, the mystery only deepened.  Now, in a spellbinding narrative, Wil S. Hylton weaves together the true story of the missing men, their final mission, the families they left behind, and the real reason their disappearance remained shrouded in secrecy for so long. This is a story of love, loss, sacrifice, and faith - of the undying hope among the families of the missing, and the relentless determination of scientists, explorers, archaeologists, and deep-sea divers to solve one of the enduring mysteries of World War II....more

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• Sprout Lands: 1 of 4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. William Bryant Logan (Author), Paul Boehmer (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Birds and Flowers of Spring and Summer, Kanō Einō  Kano Eino (1631 - 1697) – Painter (Japan) Born in Kyoto. Dead in Kyoto. Details of artist on Google Art Project - HAH419XvUJ6XRw at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level Public Domain File:Kano Eino - Birds and Flowers of Spring and Summer - Google Art Project.jpg Created: Edo period (latter half of 17th century) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Sprout Lands: 1 of 4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  William Bryant Logan (Author), Paul Boehmer (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Sprout-Lands-Tending-Endless-Trees/dp/B07RGR4QKK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sproutland&qid=1564441773&s=audible&sr=1-1Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again.  Pruning the trees didn't destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. He offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach....more

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• Sprout Lands: 2 of 4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. William Bryant Logan (Author), Paul Boehmer (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Illustrated history of the Panama Railroad; together with a traveler's guide and business man's hand-book for the Panama Railroad and its connections with Europe, the United States, the north and south Atlantic and Pacific coasts, China, Australia, and Japan, by sail and steamYear: 1862 (1860s)Authors:  Otis, Fessenden N. (Fessenden Nott), 1825-1900Subjects:  Panama Railroad CoPublisher:  New York, HarperContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  The Library of CongressView 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:, and eleven miles fromthe city of Panama. Simultaneously with the operations toward the Pacific, alarge force was established at Panama, under the superin-tendence of Mr. J. Young, one of the Companys most ef-ficient and energetic officers, and the road was pushed rapid-ly onward, over the plains of Panama, through the swampsof Corrisal and Correndeu, and up the valley of the EioGrande, to meet the advancing work from the Atlanticside; and on the 27th day of January, 1855, at midnight,in darkness and rain, the last rail was laid, and on the fol-lowing day a locomotive passed from ocean to ocean. The entire length of the road was 47 miles 3.020 feet,with a maximum grade of sixty feet to the mile. The sum-mit grade was 258^nr feet above the assumed grade at theAtlantic, and 242-jV above the assumed grade at the Pacificterminus, being 263^^ feet above the mean tide of the At-lantic Ocean, and the summit-ridge two hundred and eighty-seven feet above the same level. Commencing at the cityhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Sprout Lands: 2 of 4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  William Bryant Logan (Author), Paul Boehmer (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Sprout-Lands-Tending-Endless-Trees/dp/B07RGR4QKK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sproutland&qid=1564441773&s=audible&sr=1-1Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again.  Pruning the trees didn't destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. He offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach....more

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• Sprout Lands: 3 of 4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. William Bryant Logan (Author), Paul Boehmer (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jul 30 2019

  Photo: Image from page 152 of "The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacifi Identifier: pacifictouristwi01will Title: The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... Year: 1878 (1870s) Authors:  Williams, Henry T Subjects:  Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company Publisher:  New York : H.T. Williams Contributing Library:  Northeastern University, Snell Library Digitizing Sponsor:  Northeastern University, Snell Library http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Sprout Lands: 3 of 4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  William Bryant Logan (Author), Paul Boehmer (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Sprout-Lands-Tending-Endless-Trees/dp/B07RGR4QKK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sproutland&qid=1564441773&s=audible&sr=1-1Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again.  Pruning the trees didn't destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. He offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach....more

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• Sprout Lands: 4 of 4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. William Bryant Logan (Author), Paul Boehmer (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jul 30 2019

  Photo: Publisher:  London : SeeleyContributing Library:  University of California LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  Internet ArchiveView 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:wn wood in a forest when he pleased, and to have his owneyries of hawks, sparrow-hawks, falcons, eagles and herons. It grantedpermission to drive pigs and cattle through the forest, and let themspend a night on the kings land, with other privileges, which wereprobably the origin of many forest rights now claimed in thedistrict. Are we then to conclude that the hardships suffered by theinhabitants of the Ytene, the Saxon name of the New Forest, werelimited to such as were incidental to the enforcement of forest laws ?Such a consolinganswer can scarcely be given. In spite of the inaccuraciesof the form in which it has come down to us, the tradition of thewasting of this particular forest and the confiscation of land^ are toounanimous to be disregarded. Freeman quotes an instance of confiscation from Dcmesday. The sons of GodricRalf hold under the King at Minstrad. Their father had three hides and a half ofland. Now his sons have only half a hide. The rest of the ground is in the forest.Text Appearing After Image:lo THE NEW FOREST The stiffness and cruelty of such a course are too much inkeeping with the character of the king, who turned into a desertthe whole district between the Humber and the Tees. The forestwas perfectly suited by site and soil for Williams purpose, and itis difficult to doubt that in its afforestation hardships were inflicted,which were remembered long after the general hatred of the Normanshad died away. But it must not be forgotten that thouo;h the rigours of the forestlaws as a means of preserving game relaxed, the protection given bythem to the woods was never withdrawn, and it is to them that weowe the preservation of the ancient timber until the present day.When laxly administered, as in the days of Charles I. and the Common-wealth, the woods have been invariably destroyed ; when enforced, asby James I. and later in the days of William III. the trees have increased,and descended to us as one of the finest national inheritances. Thepresent management of the forest, uNote 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 | 1903http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Sprout Lands: 4 of 4: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  William Bryant Logan (Author), Paul Boehmer (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Sprout-Lands-Tending-Endless-Trees/dp/B07RGR4QKK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sproutland&qid=1564441773&s=audible&sr=1-1Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again.  Pruning the trees didn't destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. He offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach. ...more

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• Climate change: “Mountain passes are higher in the tropics,” 1 of 2: or, the Prospects of Tropical Climate Change. Kenneth J. Feeley. @fairchildgarden

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  Jul 30 2019

  Photo: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects Year: 1874 (1870s) Authors:  Subjects:  Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, OrnamentalGardening Publisher:  London : [Gardeners Chronicle] Contributing Library:  UMass Amherst Libraries Digitizing Sponsor:  Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Climate change: “Mountain passes are higher in the tropics,” 1 of 2: or, the Prospects of Tropical Climate Change. Kenneth J. Feeley. @fairchildgardenhttp://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6280/1392.full “Summary: Early Victorian naturalists marveled at the profusion of diversity they encountered as they traveled from temperate to tropical latitudes. The inverse relationship between latitude and species richness that these naturalists first observed is now referred to as the latitudinal diversity gradient. Various ecological and evolutionary explanations have been proposed for the latitudinal diversity gradient. Of these, perhaps none are more relevant to contemporary conservation issues than Janzen's hypothesis of latitudinal differences in species' climatic tolerances and thermal selectivity (1). On page 1437 of this issue, Chan et al. (2) advance Janzen's early theories by elucidating some of the potential selective pressures imposed by climate and climate variability…” ...more

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• Climate Change: “Mountain passes are higher in the tropics,” 2 of 2: or, the Prospects of Tropical Climate Change. Kenneth J. Feeley. @fairchildgarden

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  Jul 30 2019

  Photo: The three presidencies of India: a history of the rise and progress of the British Indian possessions, from the earliest records to the present time. With an account of their government, religion, manners, customs, education, etc., etc. Illustrated by numerous engravings, and a map by WyldYear: 1853 (1850s)Authors:  Capper, John, 1814?-1898Subjects: Publisher:  London Ingram, CookeContributing Library:  Robarts - University of TorontoDigitizing Sponsor:  University of Torontohttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Climate Change: “Mountain passes are higher in the tropics,” 2 of 2: or, the Prospects of Tropical Climate Change. Kenneth J. Feeley. @fairchildgardenhttp://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6280/1392.full “Summary: Early Victorian naturalists marveled at the profusion of diversity they encountered as they traveled from temperate to tropical latitudes. The inverse relationship between latitude and species richness that these naturalists first observed is now referred to as the latitudinal diversity gradient. Various ecological and evolutionary explanations have been proposed for the latitudinal diversity gradient. Of these, perhaps none are more relevant to contemporary conservation issues than Janzen's hypothesis of latitudinal differences in species' climatic tolerances and thermal selectivity (1). On page 1437 of this issue, Chan et al. (2) advance Janzen's early theories by elucidating some of the potential selective pressures imposed by climate and climate variability…”  ...more

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• Atlantis in the Aegean: 1 of 2: Charles Pellegrino @CharlesPellegri author “Unearthing Atlantis.”

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  Jul 29 2019

  Photo: Carl Graeb - View of Athens -  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Atlantis in the Aegean: 1 of 2: Charles Pellegrino @CharlesPellegri author “Unearthing Atlantis.”https://www.amazon.com/Unearthing-Atlantis-Archaeological-Charles-Pellegrino-dp-0679734074/dp/0679734074/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= There is one historic event that fits Plato’s tale remarkably well. It’s the story of the eruption of the volcano Thera (now called Santorini) in 1650BC. Archaeologists in recent decades have uncovered the remains of an ancient settlement there belonging to the then remarkably advanced Minoan civilisation. Among the ruins they found a map. It shows a palace on an island in the middle of volcanic caldera. The fallout of the eruption, and its subsequent tsunamis, are believed to have triggered the collapse of the entire civilisation as it engulfed much of northern Crete. Into the ruins marched tribes of Greeks - the predecessors of the great nations of Sparta, Corinth and Athens. So the idea that the disaster that destroyed the Minoans may have somehow wound its way through the centuries down to Plato certainly seems enticing. Though unsubstantiated.http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/has-james-cameron-found-atlantis/news-story/ad7e5e9dcde35c0a8fc769dffef14670 ...more

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• Atlantis in the Aegean: 2 of 2: Charles Pellegrino @CharlesPellegri author “Unearthing Atlantis.”

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  Jul 29 2019

  Photo: Johann Michael Wittmer  (1802–1880)  TitleView of Athens from the river IlissosObject typewatercolor paintingDate1833MediumwatercolorSource/Photographerscan from A Guide to the Benaki Museum, by Angelos Delivorriashttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Atlantis in the Aegean: 2 of 2: Charles Pellegrino @CharlesPellegri author “Unearthing Atlantis.”https://www.amazon.com/Unearthing-Atlantis-Archaeological-Charles-Pellegrino-dp-0679734074/dp/0679734074/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= There is one historic event that fits Plato’s tale remarkably well. It’s the story of the eruption of the volcano Thera (now called Santorini) in 1650BC. Archaeologists in recent decades have uncovered the remains of an ancient settlement there belonging to the then remarkably advanced Minoan civilisation. Among the ruins they found a map. It shows a palace on an island in the middle of volcanic caldera. The fallout of the eruption, and its subsequent tsunamis, are believed to have triggered the collapse of the entire civilisation as it engulfed much of northern Crete. Into the ruins marched tribes of Greeks - the predecessors of the great nations of Sparta, Corinth and Athens. So the idea that the disaster that destroyed the Minoans may have somehow wound its way through the centuries down to Plato certainly seems enticing. Though unsubstantiated.http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/has-james-cameron-found-atlantis/news-story/ad7e5e9dcde35c0a8fc769dffef14670 ...more

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• Japan 1941: 1 of 8: Countdown to Infamy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Eri Hotta (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 29 2019

  Photo: 日本語: ラジオ放送。右はラジオドラマ収録中の粟島すみ子（中央）、東栄子（その左）など松竹蒲田撮影所の映画俳優ら。左は演奏中の新橋芸者たち。Date | 1930Source | 『大東京写真帖』1930Author | 大東京写真帖 | This photograph is in the public domain in Japan  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Japan 1941: 1 of 8: Countdown to Infamy  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Eri Hotta (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Japan-1941-Countdown-to-Infamy/dp/B00FW49PNM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose. Availing herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questions overlooked by historians in the seventy years since: Why did these men - military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor - put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start?  Introducing us to the doubters, bluffers, and schemers who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a Japan never before glimpsed - eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, blinded by traditional notions of pride and honor, nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable....more

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• Japan 1941: 2 of 8: Countdown to Infamy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Eri Hotta (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 29 2019

  Photo: 日本語: 東京駅前 左に東京駅舎Date | 1930Source | 『大東京写真帖』1930Author | 大東京写真帖 | This photograph is in the public domain in Japan  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Japan 1941: 2 of 8: Countdown to Infamy  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Eri Hotta (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Japan-1941-Countdown-to-Infamy/dp/B00FW49PNM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose. Availing herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questions overlooked by historians in the seventy years since: Why did these men - military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor - put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start?  Introducing us to the doubters, bluffers, and schemers who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a Japan never before glimpsed - eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, blinded by traditional notions of pride and honor, nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable....more

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• Japan 1941: 3 of 8: Countdown to Infamy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Eri Hotta (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 29 2019

  Photo:  Tokyo Underground Railway Building circa 1930日本語: 1930年頃の東京地下鉄道ビルDate | circa 1930 Source | English: Japanese book "Series of Japanese geography and folk culture: Vol.2" published by Shinkosha.日本語: 新光社「日本地理風俗大系 第2巻」より。Author | Unknown Notes :  English: This file was scanned and edited by the uploader, Abasaa. 日本語: ファイルはあばさーによりスキャンおよび編集されました。 | This photograph is in the public domain in Japan  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Japan 1941: 3 of 8: Countdown to Infamy  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Eri Hotta (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Japan-1941-Countdown-to-Infamy/dp/B00FW49PNM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose. Availing herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questions overlooked by historians in the seventy years since: Why did these men - military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor - put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start?  Introducing us to the doubters, bluffers, and schemers who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a Japan never before glimpsed - eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, blinded by traditional notions of pride and honor, nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable....more

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• Japan 1941: 4 of 8: Countdown to Infamy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Eri Hotta (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 29 2019

  Photo:  Tokyo Underground Railway Building circa 1930日本語: 1930年頃の東京地下鉄道ビルDate | circa 1930 Source | English: Japanese book "Series of Japanese geography and folk culture: Vol.2" published by Shinkosha.日本語: 新光社「日本地理風俗大系 第2巻」より。Author | Unknown Notes :  English: This file was scanned and edited by the uploader, Abasaa. 日本語: ファイルはあばさーによりスキャンおよび編集されました。 | This photograph is in the public domain in Japan  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Japan 1941: 4 of 8: Countdown to Infamy  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Eri Hotta (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Japan-1941-Countdown-to-Infamy/dp/B00FW49PNM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose. Availing herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questions overlooked by historians in the seventy years since: Why did these men - military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor - put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start?  Introducing us to the doubters, bluffers, and schemers who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a Japan never before glimpsed - eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, blinded by traditional notions of pride and honor, nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable....more

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• Japan 1941: 5 of 8: Countdown to Infamy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Eri Hotta (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 29 2019

  Photo: Arizona's launch, 19 June 1915 Unknown or not provided - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Japan 1941: 5 of 8: Countdown to Infamy  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Eri Hotta (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Japan-1941-Countdown-to-Infamy/dp/B00FW49PNM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose. Availing herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questions overlooked by historians in the seventy years since: Why did these men - military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor - put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start?  Introducing us to the doubters, bluffers, and schemers who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a Japan never before glimpsed - eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, blinded by traditional notions of pride and honor, nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable....more

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• Japan 1941: 6 of 8: Countdown to Infamy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Eri Hotta (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 29 2019

  Photo: AL246_010 Honolulu StadiumFrom and Album (AL-246) which belonged to Mr. Saphr and shows scenes from Hawaii circa 1930.  Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Japan 1941: 6 of 8: Countdown to Infamy  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Eri Hotta (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Japan-1941-Countdown-to-Infamy/dp/B00FW49PNM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose. Availing herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questions overlooked by historians in the seventy years since: Why did these men - military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor - put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start?  Introducing us to the doubters, bluffers, and schemers who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a Japan never before glimpsed - eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, blinded by traditional notions of pride and honor, nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable....more

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• Japan 1941: 7 of 8: Countdown to Infamy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Eri Hotta (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo:  View of Honolulu in 1930s日本語: 1930年代のホノルル市街写真Date | 1930s Source | English: American book(Japanese version) "PICTORIAL HAWAII" published by Nippu-Jijisha.日本語: 日布時事社「布哇紹介写真帖」より。Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Japan 1941: 7 of 8: Countdown to Infamy  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Eri Hotta (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Japan-1941-Countdown-to-Infamy/dp/B00FW49PNM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose. Availing herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questions overlooked by historians in the seventy years since: Why did these men - military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor - put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start?  Introducing us to the doubters, bluffers, and schemers who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a Japan never before glimpsed - eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, blinded by traditional notions of pride and honor, nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable....more

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• Japan 1941: 8 of 8: Countdown to Infamy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Eri Hotta (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Aerial view of Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (USA), in 1930. The U.S. Army Luke Field is on the left, the Naval Air Station on the lower right.Date | 1930Source | U.S. Navy Naval Aviation News October 1965 [1]Author | USN | This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Japan 1941: 8 of 8: Countdown to Infamy  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged..Eri Hotta (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Japan-1941-Countdown-to-Infamy/dp/B00FW49PNM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose. Availing herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questions overlooked by historians in the seventy years since: Why did these men - military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor - put their country and its citizens in harm's way? Why did they make a decision that was doomed from the start?  Introducing us to the doubters, bluffers, and schemers who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a Japan never before glimpsed - eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, blinded by traditional notions of pride and honor, nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable....more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Super Conducting Magnetic Levitation (SCMAGLEV) in Japan will transform surface transportation: 1 of 2: Yutaka Hatano, General Manager, Yamanashi MAGLEV Center. Tomoaki Seki, General Manager, MAGLEV Systems Development Division.

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  Photo: L0 Series maglev train at Yamanashi track Saruno Hirobano - Own work A JR Central L0 series 5-car maglev train on the Yamanashi Track CC BY-SA 3.0 File:Series L0.JPG Created: 2013-09-05 15:17:59 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Super Conducting Magnetic Levitation (SCMAGLEV) in Japan will transform surface transportation: 1 of 2: Yutaka Hatano, General Manager, Yamanashi MAGLEV Center. Tomoaki Seki, General Manager, MAGLEV Systems Development Division. Yoki Minato, Interpreter.https://www.japan-rail-pass.com/japan-by-rail/travel-tips/maglev-tokyo-osaka ...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Super Conducting Magnetic Levitation (SCMAGLEV) in Japan will transform surface transportation: 2 of 2: Yutaka Hatano, General Manager, Yamanashi MAGLEV Center. Tomoaki Seki, General Manager, MAGLEV Systems Development Division.

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  Photo: MLX01 maglev train Superconducting magnet bogie No machine-readable author provided. Yosemite~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims). - No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims). MLX01 maglev train Superconducting magnet Bogie. Photo by Yosemite. CC BY-SA 3.0 File:JR Maglev-Model-truck.JPG Created: 22 November 2005 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Super Conducting Magnetic Levitation (SCMAGLEV) in Japan will transform surface transportation: 2 of 2: Yutaka Hatano, General Manager, Yamanashi MAGLEV Center. Tomoaki Seki, General Manager, MAGLEV Systems Development Division. Yoki Minato, Interpreter.https://www.japan-rail-pass.com/japan-by-rail/travel-tips/maglev-tokyo-osaka ...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: SCMAGLEV in America will transform the BOSNYWASH Corridor: 1 of 2: Less than one hour NYC to DC. Torkel L. Patterson, Director, Central Japan Railway Company.

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  Photo:  This astronaut photograph includes every metropolitan area in the Atlantic Seaboard Conurbation (ASC) except for Boston (located off the image to the north-east). This night image highlights the position and extent of each metropolitan area through urban lighting patterns. Two other large metropolitan areas are visible in the image—Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia, at image lower left—but neither is considered part of the ASC. In contrast to the city lights along the sea coast and interior, the Atlantic Ocean appears as a featureless dark region filling the lower right quarter of the image.Date6 April 2011SourceNASA Earth ObservatoryAuthorISS Expedition 27 crewCamera location39° 00′ 00″ N, 76° 00′ 00″ W View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google EarthThis image or video was catalogued by Johnson Space Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: ISS027-E-20129.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.________________________________беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ | български | català | čeština | Deutsch | English | español | فارسی | français | galego | magyar | Հայերեն | Bahasa Indonesia | italiano | 日本語 | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | polski | português | русский | sicilianu | Türkçe | українська‎ | 中文 | 中文（简体）‎ | +/−Image acquired with a Nikon D3S digital camera using an 80 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.Licensing[edit]This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: SCMAGLEV in America will transform the BOSNYWASH Corridor: 1 of 2: Less than one hour NYC to DC. Torkel L. Patterson, Director, Central Japan Railway Company.https://northeastmaglev.com ...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: SCMAGLEV in America will transform the BOSNYWASH Corridor: 2 of 2: Less than one hour NY to DC. Torkel L. Patterson, Director, Central Japan Railway Company.

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  Photo: Population-density map of the Northeast megalopolis, also knows as Boston–Washington megalopolis or BosWash.DateMay 2009SourceOwn workAuthorBill Rankin — Citynoise (talk · contribs)Permission(Reusing this file)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 #2009121110011259.If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard.Ticket link: https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber=2009121110011259I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.You are free:to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the workto remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions:attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: SCMAGLEV in America will transform the BOSNYWASH Corridor: 2 of 2: Less than one hour NY to DC. Torkel L. Patterson, Director, Central Japan Railway Company.https://northeastmaglev.com ...more

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• Daughters of the Samurai: 1 of 4: A Journey from East to West and Back Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Janice P. Nimura (Author), Emily Zeller (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Un adolescent Emperador Meiji amb representants estrangers al final de la Guerra Boshin, 1868-1870.Anonymous Japanese - "Samourai et Kamikaze" Constantin Parvulesco p.55 Teenager_Meiji_Emperor_with_foreign_representatives_1868_1870. Domini públic File:Teenager Meiji Emperor with foreign representatives 1868 1870.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Daughters of the Samurai: 1 of 4:  A Journey from East to West and Back Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Janice P. Nimura (Author), Emily Zeller (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Daughters-Samurai-Journey-East-West/dp/B0136E4F7K/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=daughters+of+the+samurai&qid=1564190771&s=audible&sr=1-1In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors - Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda - grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco, they became celebrities, their travels and traditional clothing exclaimed over by newspapers across the nation. As they learned English and Western customs, their American friends grew to love them for their high spirits and intellectual brilliance. The passionate relationships they formed reveal an intimate world of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later they returned to Japan - a land grown foreign to them - determined to revolutionize women's education. Based on in-depth archival research in Japan and in the United States, including decades of letters from between the three women and their American host families, Daughters of the Samurai is beautifully, cinematically written, a fascinating lens through which to view an extraordinary historical moment. ...more

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• Daughters of the Samurai: 2 of 4: A Journey from East to West and Back Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Janice P. Nimura (Author), Emily Zeller (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Emperador Meiji traslladant-se de Kyoto a TokioView author information Domini públic File:MeijiJoukyou.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Daughters of the Samurai: 2 of 4:  A Journey from East to West and Back Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Janice P. Nimura (Author), Emily Zeller (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Daughters-Samurai-Journey-East-West/dp/B0136E4F7K/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=daughters+of+the+samurai&qid=1564190771&s=audible&sr=1-1In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors - Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda - grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco, they became celebrities, their travels and traditional clothing exclaimed over by newspapers across the nation. As they learned English and Western customs, their American friends grew to love them for their high spirits and intellectual brilliance. The passionate relationships they formed reveal an intimate world of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later they returned to Japan - a land grown foreign to them - determined to revolutionize women's education. Based on in-depth archival research in Japan and in the United States, including decades of letters from between the three women and their American host families, Daughters of the Samurai is beautifully, cinematically written, a fascinating lens through which to view an extraordinary historical moment. ...more

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• Daughters of the Samurai: 3 of 4: A Journey from East to West and Back Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Janice P. Nimura (Author), Emily Zeller (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: A Mirror of Japan’s Nobility: The Emperor Meiji, His Wife, and Prince Haru (Fūsō kōki kagami)This portrait of the imperial family was a form of propaganda that aimed to demonstrate the cultural authority of the newly established emperor as the head of state. Crown Prince Haru (1879–1925) would eventually ascend to the Chrysanthemum Throne, but he suffered from severe health and learning disabilities, and his responsibilities were delegated to regents. Chikanobu shows the imperial family with various manifestations of Western culture.Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu (Japanese, 1838–1912)Meiji period (1868–1912)http://www.metmuseum.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain Dedication (CC0) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Daughters of the Samurai: 3 of 4:  A Journey from East to West and Back Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Janice P. Nimura (Author), Emily Zeller (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Daughters-Samurai-Journey-East-West/dp/B0136E4F7K/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=daughters+of+the+samurai&qid=1564190771&s=audible&sr=1-1In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors - Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda - grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco, they became celebrities, their travels and traditional clothing exclaimed over by newspapers across the nation. As they learned English and Western customs, their American friends grew to love them for their high spirits and intellectual brilliance. The passionate relationships they formed reveal an intimate world of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later they returned to Japan - a land grown foreign to them - determined to revolutionize women's education. Based on in-depth archival research in Japan and in the United States, including decades of letters from between the three women and their American host families, Daughters of the Samurai is beautifully, cinematically written, a fascinating lens through which to view an extraordinary historical moment. ...more

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• Daughters of the Samurai: 4 of 4: A Journey from East to West and Back Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Janice P. Nimura (Author), Emily Zeller (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Chronicle of the Imperial Restoration (Kōkoku isshin kenbunshi)The Metropolitan Museum of ArtlinkLinkhttp://www.metmuseum.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain Dedication (CC0) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Daughters of the Samurai: 4 of 4:  A Journey from East to West and Back Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Janice P. Nimura (Author), Emily Zeller (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Daughters-Samurai-Journey-East-West/dp/B0136E4F7K/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=daughters+of+the+samurai&qid=1564190771&s=audible&sr=1-1In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors - Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda - grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco, they became celebrities, their travels and traditional clothing exclaimed over by newspapers across the nation. As they learned English and Western customs, their American friends grew to love them for their high spirits and intellectual brilliance. The passionate relationships they formed reveal an intimate world of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later they returned to Japan - a land grown foreign to them - determined to revolutionize women's education. Based on in-depth archival research in Japan and in the United States, including decades of letters from between the three women and their American host families, Daughters of the Samurai is beautifully, cinematically written, a fascinating lens through which to view an extraordinary historical moment. ...more

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• The Sakura Obsession: 1 of 4: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Naoko Abe (Author), Ellen Archer (Narrator), Nicholas Guy Smith (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Sakura Obsession: 1 of 4:  The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  Naoko Abe (Author), Ellen Archer (Narrator), Nicholas Guy Smith (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Sakura-Obsession-Incredible-Hunter-Blossoms/dp/B07P75P8YK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=naoko+abe&qid=1564190542&s=audible&sr=1-1Collingwood Ingram - known as "Cherry" for his defining passion - was born in 1880 and lived until he was a hundred, witnessing a fraught century of conflict and change. Visiting Japan in 1902 and again in 1907, he fell in love with the country's distinctive cherry blossoms, or sakura, and brought back hundreds of cuttings with him to England, where he created a garden of cherry varieties.  On a 1926 trip to Japan to search for new specimens, Ingram was shocked to find a dramatic decline in local cherry diversity. A cloned variety was taking over the landscape and becoming the symbol of Japan's expansionist ambitions, while the rare and spectacular Taihaku, or "Great White Cherry", had disappeared entirely.  But thousands of miles away, at Ingram's country estate, the Taihaku still prospered. After returning to Britain, the amateur botanist buried a living cutting from his own collection into a potato and repatriated it to Japan via the Trans-Siberian Express. Over the decades that followed, Ingram became one of the world's leading cherry experts and shared the joy of sakura both nationally and internationally, sending more than a hundred varieties of cherry tree to new homes around the globe, from Auckland, New Zealand to Washington, DC.  As much a history of the cherry blossom in Japan as it is the story of one remarkable man, The Sakura Obsession follows the flower from its significance as a symbol of the imperial court, through the dark days of the Second World War, and up to the present-day worldwide fascination with this iconic blossom....more

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• The Sakura Obsession: 2 of 4: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Naoko Abe (Author), Ellen Archer (Narrator), Nicholas Guy Smith (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Sakura Obsession: 2 of 4:  The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  Naoko Abe (Author), Ellen Archer (Narrator), Nicholas Guy Smith (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Sakura-Obsession-Incredible-Hunter-Blossoms/dp/B07P75P8YK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=naoko+abe&qid=1564190542&s=audible&sr=1-1Collingwood Ingram - known as "Cherry" for his defining passion - was born in 1880 and lived until he was a hundred, witnessing a fraught century of conflict and change. Visiting Japan in 1902 and again in 1907, he fell in love with the country's distinctive cherry blossoms, or sakura, and brought back hundreds of cuttings with him to England, where he created a garden of cherry varieties.  On a 1926 trip to Japan to search for new specimens, Ingram was shocked to find a dramatic decline in local cherry diversity. A cloned variety was taking over the landscape and becoming the symbol of Japan's expansionist ambitions, while the rare and spectacular Taihaku, or "Great White Cherry", had disappeared entirely.  But thousands of miles away, at Ingram's country estate, the Taihaku still prospered. After returning to Britain, the amateur botanist buried a living cutting from his own collection into a potato and repatriated it to Japan via the Trans-Siberian Express. Over the decades that followed, Ingram became one of the world's leading cherry experts and shared the joy of sakura both nationally and internationally, sending more than a hundred varieties of cherry tree to new homes around the globe, from Auckland, New Zealand to Washington, DC.  As much a history of the cherry blossom in Japan as it is the story of one remarkable man, The Sakura Obsession follows the flower from its significance as a symbol of the imperial court, through the dark days of the Second World War, and up to the present-day worldwide fascination with this iconic blossom....more

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• The Sakura Obsession: 3 of 4: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Naoko Abe (Author), Ellen Archer (Narrator), Nicholas Guy Smith (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Sakura Obsession: 3 of 4:  The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  Naoko Abe (Author), Ellen Archer (Narrator), Nicholas Guy Smith (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Sakura-Obsession-Incredible-Hunter-Blossoms/dp/B07P75P8YK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=naoko+abe&qid=1564190542&s=audible&sr=1-1Collingwood Ingram - known as "Cherry" for his defining passion - was born in 1880 and lived until he was a hundred, witnessing a fraught century of conflict and change. Visiting Japan in 1902 and again in 1907, he fell in love with the country's distinctive cherry blossoms, or sakura, and brought back hundreds of cuttings with him to England, where he created a garden of cherry varieties.  On a 1926 trip to Japan to search for new specimens, Ingram was shocked to find a dramatic decline in local cherry diversity. A cloned variety was taking over the landscape and becoming the symbol of Japan's expansionist ambitions, while the rare and spectacular Taihaku, or "Great White Cherry", had disappeared entirely.  But thousands of miles away, at Ingram's country estate, the Taihaku still prospered. After returning to Britain, the amateur botanist buried a living cutting from his own collection into a potato and repatriated it to Japan via the Trans-Siberian Express. Over the decades that followed, Ingram became one of the world's leading cherry experts and shared the joy of sakura both nationally and internationally, sending more than a hundred varieties of cherry tree to new homes around the globe, from Auckland, New Zealand to Washington, DC.  As much a history of the cherry blossom in Japan as it is the story of one remarkable man, The Sakura Obsession follows the flower from its significance as a symbol of the imperial court, through the dark days of the Second World War, and up to the present-day worldwide fascination with this iconic blossom....more

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• The Sakura Obsession: 4 of 4: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Naoko Abe (Author), Ellen Archer (Narrator), Nicholas Guy Smith (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Sakura Obsession: 4 of 4:  The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  Naoko Abe (Author), Ellen Archer (Narrator), Nicholas Guy Smith (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Sakura-Obsession-Incredible-Hunter-Blossoms/dp/B07P75P8YK/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=naoko+abe&qid=1564190542&s=audible&sr=1-1Collingwood Ingram - known as "Cherry" for his defining passion - was born in 1880 and lived until he was a hundred, witnessing a fraught century of conflict and change. Visiting Japan in 1902 and again in 1907, he fell in love with the country's distinctive cherry blossoms, or sakura, and brought back hundreds of cuttings with him to England, where he created a garden of cherry varieties.  On a 1926 trip to Japan to search for new specimens, Ingram was shocked to find a dramatic decline in local cherry diversity. A cloned variety was taking over the landscape and becoming the symbol of Japan's expansionist ambitions, while the rare and spectacular Taihaku, or "Great White Cherry", had disappeared entirely.  But thousands of miles away, at Ingram's country estate, the Taihaku still prospered. After returning to Britain, the amateur botanist buried a living cutting from his own collection into a potato and repatriated it to Japan via the Trans-Siberian Express. Over the decades that followed, Ingram became one of the world's leading cherry experts and shared the joy of sakura both nationally and internationally, sending more than a hundred varieties of cherry tree to new homes around the globe, from Auckland, New Zealand to Washington, DC.  As much a history of the cherry blossom in Japan as it is the story of one remarkable man, The Sakura Obsession follows the flower from its significance as a symbol of the imperial court, through the dark days of the Second World War, and up to the present-day worldwide fascination with this iconic blossom....more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces contain threat on the sea, in the sky, in orbit and in alliance with the US: 1 of 2: Admiral Fumio Ota, (rtd) Former Director Defense Intelligence Headquarters.

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  Photo: 161111-N-OI810-0772.JPGPhoto By: (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan Burke) Related Stories: Reagan Strike Group, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Conduct Air Defense Training during Keen Sword 0PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - In this file photo, a B-1 bomber from the 34th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron leads a formation with fighters in front of U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships during exercise Keen Sword 17, which took place Oct. 30 to Nov. 11, 2016, in the Pacific Ocean. Keen Sword is a bilateral exercise between the Japanese Self-Defense Force and the United States designed to strengthen the Japan-U.S. alliance and increase combined combat readiness within the framework of the alliance. DOWNLOAD PHOTO (0.75 MB) This photograph is considered public domain and has been cleared for release. If you would like to republish please give the photographer appropriate credit. Further, any commercial or non-commercial use of this photograph or any other DoD image must be made in compliance with guidance found athttp://www.dimoc.mil/resources/limitations.html , which pertains to intellectual property restrictions (e.g., copyright and trademark, including the use of official emblems, insignia, names and slogans), warnings regarding use of images of identifiable personnel, appearance of endorsement, and related matters.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces contain threat on the sea, in the sky, in orbit and in alliance with the US: 1 of 2: Admiral Fumio Ota, (rtd) Former Director Defense Intelligence Headquarters....more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces contain threat on the sea, in the sky, in orbit and in alliance with the US: 2 of 2: Admiral Fumio Ota, (rtd) Former Director Defense Intelligence Headquarters.

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  Photo: March 11, 2008JPEG March 11, 2008TIFF Google Earth - March 11, 2008KML A thick swath of smog and/or dust swept over the Sea of Japan on March 11, 2008. This image, captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite, shows the plume blowing off the coasts of China, North Korea, and South Korea, and heading toward Japan. The plume is a translucent, dingy gray, contrasting with the bright white clouds to the east. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data obtained from the Goddard Land Processes data archives (LAADS). Caption by Michon Scott.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces contain threat on the sea, in the sky, in orbit and in alliance with the US: 2 of 2: Admiral Fumio Ota, (rtd) Former Director Defense Intelligence Headquarters....more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Brave robot Hayabusa2: 2 of 2: is soon heading home with treasures. Yoshikawa Makoto, Hayabusa2 Mission Manager, JAXA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

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  Jul 27 2019

  Photo: The inner Solar System, from the Sun to Jupiter. Also includes the asteroid belt (the white donut-shaped cloud), the Hildas (the orange "triangle" just inside the orbit of Jupiter), the Jupiter trojans (green), and the near-Earth asteroids. The group that leads Jupiter are called the "Greeks" and the trailing group are called the "Trojans" (Murray and Dermott, Solar System Dynamics, pg. 107)This image is based on data found in the en:JPL DE-405 ephemeris, and the en:Minor Planet Center database of asteroids (etc) published 2006 Jul 6. The image is looking down on the en:ecliptic plane as would have been seen on 2006 August 14. It was rendered by custom software written for Wikipedia. The same image without labels is also available at File:InnerSolarSystem.png.Date | 1 September 2006 (original upload date)Source | Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.Author | Mdf at English Wikipediahttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Brave robot Hayabusa2: 2 of 2:  is soon heading home with treasures. Yoshikawa Makoto, Hayabusa2 Mission Manager, JAXA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency....more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Japan's "80-50" aging challenge & What is to be done? Tomohiko Taniguchi, Special Adviser to the Cabinet of the Prime Minister.

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  Jul 27 2019

  Photo: THE GEISHA'S GRANDPARENTS -- A Loving Japanese Couple in Old Age ......Respect for the Aged Day (敬老の日 Keirō no Hi) is a Japanese holiday celebrated annually to honor elderly citizens. It started in 1966 as a national holiday and was held on every September 15. After 2003, the Respect for the Aged Day is held on the 3rd Monday of September due to the Happy Monday System.   It started out as Old Folks' Day (Toshiyori no Hi) in 1947. Its popularity spread nationwide, and in 1966 it took its present name and status. Annually, Japanese media take the opportunity to feature the elderly, reporting on the population and highlighting the oldest people in the country......" --- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respect_for_the_Aged_Day http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Japan's "80-50" aging challenge & What is to be done? Tomohiko Taniguchi, Special Adviser to the Cabinet of the Prime Minister.https://www.japantimes.co.jp/2019/06/27/special-supplements/supporting-aging-populations-agriculture/#.XTsUny-ZMWo ...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Iran IRGC running guns into Lebanon & What is to be done? Tony Badran @FDD MALCOLM HOENLEIN @CONF_OF_PRES

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  Jul 27 2019

  Photo: UnknownArchive descriptionDescription provided by the archive when the original description is incomplete or wrong. You can help by reporting errors and typos at Commons:Bundesarchiv/Error reports.Nordafrika, Marokko.- Fremdenlegionäre, Maschinengewehr-StellungTitleMarokko, Fremdenlegionäre Original captionFor documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. FremdenlegionäreDepicted placeMarokkoDate1920CollectionGerman Federal Archives   Current locationAktuelle-Bilder-Centrale, Georg Pahl (Bild 102)Accession numberBild 102-00723 SourceThis image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project. The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation only using the originals (negative and/or positive), resp. the digitalization of the originals as provided by the Digital Image Archive.Schweres Maschinengewehr Hotchkiss mle 1914http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Iran IRGC running guns into Lebanon & What is to be done? Tony Badran @FDD MALCOLM HOENLEIN @CONF_OF_PRESTony Badran is a research fellow at FDD, where he focuses on Lebanon, Hezbollah, Syria, and the geopolitics of the Levant. Born and raised in Lebanon, Tony has testified to the House of Representatives on several occasions regarding U.S. policy toward Iran, Syria, and Lebanon. His research currently focuses on the relationship between Iran’s Hezbollah model and regional states, as well as the history of and future scenarios for Israel-Hezbollah wars. His writings have appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal,  The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The New York Post, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and The Weekly Standard. He is a columnist and Levant analyst for Tablet magazine. ●     http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/266388 ●     https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinians-protest-lebanon-crackdown-on-unlicensed-foreign-workers/ ●     https://www.jewishpress.com/news/global/africa/ugandan-mossad-expose-hezbollah-agent-involved-in-international-terrorist-plot/2019/07/23/ ●     https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinians-protest-lebanon-crackdown-on-unlicensed-foreign-workers/ ...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: : Hezbollah is an existential threat to Argentina's government. Joseph Humire. SFS. Exec Director @SecureFreeSoc | Fellow @meforum @GatestoneInst | Advancing freedom & security worldwide!

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  Jul 27 2019

  Photo: Español: Estación Del Parque del Ferrocarril Oeste de Buenos Aires, Argentina.English: Del Parque station of Buenos Aires Southern Railway (then "Ferrocarril del Oeste"). It was the first station built by a British company in Argentina.Fecha | hacia 1870 o 1880 Fuente | Arquitecturas Ausentes, Ediciones El Artenauta-CEDODAL, 2008, ISBN 978-987-24435-0-4Autor | Christiano Juniorhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: : Hezbollah is an existential threat to Argentina's government. Joseph Humire. SFS. Exec Director @SecureFreeSoc | Fellow @meforum @GatestoneInst | Advancing freedom & security worldwide! Joseph M. Humire is the SFS Executive Director. A global security expert specializing on transnational threats in the Western Hemisphere, he provides regular briefings on international terrorism, transnational organized crime, Islamism and Iran’s influence Latin America to various entities within the U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence community, as well as prominent think tanks and universities around the world. He testifies frequently before the U.S. Congress on national security issues and has also testified before the European, Canadian, and Andean Parliament, as well as the Argentine and Peruvian Congress. In 2016, Mr. Humire served as an expert witness in an important terrorism trial in Lima, Peru. ●     https://www.meforum.org/58965/argentina-latin-americas-new-leader-in-counterterrorism ●     https://www.state.gov/secretary-of-state-michael-r-pompeo-at-the-counterterrorism-ministerial-opening-event/ ●     https://time.com/5630430/us-sanctions-hezbollah-iran/ ...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Erdogan wants everything: S-400 plus F-35. @Blaize Mista Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCott

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  Jul 27 2019

  Photo: In the Ankara book of the Turkey Guide authored by Hüseyin Orak, the wide and green garden of the Turkish Grand National Assembly is depicted briefly: The Assembly Park is also the garden of the Grand National Assembly. Being one of the oldest parks in Ankara, it is a well-kept recreational area which is visited often by people due to its accessibility. During the years when these words were written, Ankara stood out with its beautiful parks: Youth Park, Park of the Ministry of Finance, İnönü Hisar Park, City Park, Hacettepe Park, Samanpazarı (Hay Market) Park, Emniyet (Security) Park, Kızılay (Red Crescent) Park, Zafer (Victory) Park, Kocatepe (Grandhill) Park, Sıhhıye (Health) Park, Rose Garden are some of them. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Erdogan wants everything: S-400 plus F-35. @Blaize Mista Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotterBlaise Misztal is a fellow at Hudson Institute. His research program focuses on the Middle East, Europe, and strategic competition. Most recently, Misztal served as the Executive Director of the Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States, a congressionally mandated project convened by the U.S. Institute of Peace. Prior to that, he was director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s national security program where he managed a team responsible for researching and developing policy recommendations concerning a variety of national security issues, including Iran and its nuclear program, U.S.-Turkey relations, cybersecurity, countering extremism, and state fragility. He has testified before Congress and published widely—including op-eds in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, and Roll Call. Related articles●     https://nypost.com/2019/07/16/turkeys-turn-against-the-west-and-how-to-reverse-it/ ●     https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/07/25/report-trump-pushes-back-against-republican-senators-on-turkey-sanctions/ ●     https://ahvalnews.com/recep-tayyip-erdogan/erdogan-facing-growing-threats-within-ruling-akp-haaretz ...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Dangerous Neighborhood. Tomohiko Taniguchi, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister

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  Jul 27 2019

  Photo: 日本語: 明治時代の横浜港日付 | 1910年原典 | Japan to-day作者 | 望月小太郎ライセンス | 日本を本国とするこの写真画像は、以下の条件のいずれかに合致するため、日本の旧著作権法（明治32年法律第39号）第23条及び著作権法（昭和45年5月6日法律第48号）附則第2条の規定により、日本での著作権の保護期間が満了しています。1956年（昭和31年）12月31日までに公表（発行）された。1946年（昭和21年）以前に撮影（製作）された。 | アップロードする方へ: 画像の出典と公表日の明記をお願いします。写真が美術上の著作物の複製物である場合は、旧著作権法第23条により、原著作物と同一期間保護されます。Commons:When to use the PD-Art tagも参照してください。 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Dangerous Neighborhood.  Tomohiko Taniguchi, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Brave robot Hayabusa2: 1 of 2: is soon heading home with treasures. Yoshikawa Makoto, Hayabusa2 Mission Manager, JAXA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

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  Jul 27 2019

  Photo: New results from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Explorer, or WISE, reveal that the Jovian Trojans -- asteroids that lap the sun in the same orbit as Jupiter -- are uniformly dark with a hint of burgundy color, and have matte surfaces that reflect little sunlight. The results are illustrated in this artist's concept, showing both the leading and trailing packs of Trojans in orbit with Jupiter. Observations from WISE also confirmed the previous suspicion that there are more asteroids in the leading pack of Trojans (seen in the distance) than the trailing bunch. The results are helping astronomers fill in missing pieces of the ongoing Jupiter Trojan puzzle: how and when did these asteroids form?  The data for this research come from the asteroid-hunting portion of the WISE survey, called NEOWISE. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages, and operated WISE for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The spacecraft was put into hibernation mode after it scanned the entire sky twice, completing its main objectives. Edward Wright is the principal investigator and is at UCLA. The mission was selected competitively under NASA's Explorers Program managed by the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The science instrument was built by the Space Dynamics Laboratory in Logan, Utah. The spacecraft was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo. Science operations and data processing take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.  More information is online at http://www.nasa.gov/wise and http://wise.astro.ucla.edu. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Brave robot Hayabusa2: 1 of 2:  is soon heading home with treasures. Yoshikawa Makoto, Hayabusa2 Mission Manager, JAXA, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency....more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Iran remains a direct threat to Boris Johnson's new government. Michael Singh. Managing Director at the Washington Institute.

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  Jul 26 2019

  Photo: Indonesian Arab of TaliseUnknown - http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ojLHNq2cVLg/VBgzFNZ9dVI/AAAAAAAADgg/YPiVX0AnJhA/s1600/Orang%2BArab%2Bdi%2BTalise%2B1920.%2BKoleksi%2BHet%2BGeheugen%2Bvan%2BNederland..jpg arab people in Talise (Menado, Indonesia), circa 1920 Public Domain File:Orang Arab di Talise 1920. Koleksi Het Geheugen van Nederland.jpg Created: 15 September 2004 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Iran remains a direct threat to Boris Johnson's new government. Michael Singh.  Managing Director at the Washington Institute.Michael Singh is the Lane-Swig Senior Fellow and managing director at The Washington Institute and a former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council. During his tenure at the White House from 2005 to 2008, Mr. Singh was responsible for devising and coordinating U.S. national security policy toward the region stretching from Morocco to Iran, with a particular emphasis on Iran’s nuclear and regional activities, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Syria, and security cooperation in the broader Middle East. Previously, Mr. Singh served as special assistant to secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell and at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv. Related articles●     https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/irans-response-to-britains-tanker-seizure ●     https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/the-us-europe-and-iran-have-sharply-different-views-on-security-patrols-in-the-persian-gulf/2019/07/24/8fd8973a-ad55-11e9-9411-a608f9d0c2d3_story.html?utm_term=.7e3f3402d97b ●     https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-iran-europe-exclusive-idUSKCN1UI2C9 ●     https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-iran-europe-exclusive/exclusive-britain-wins-early-european-support-for-hormuz-naval-mission-idUSKCN1UI2C9 ●     https://jewishinsider.com/2019/07/robert-malley-met-with-irans-foreign-minister-in-nyc ...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Barr, Durham and Horowitz aim to answer the hard questions about Spygate. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Jul 26 2019

  Photo: Siege of Strasbourg, 1870Original drawing by William Simpson (1823-1899) redrawn by Arthur Hopkins (1848-1930). - Illustrated London News "The [Franco-Prussian] War: Fall of Strasbourg - Departure of French Prisoners" Public Domain File:StrasbourgSiege.png Created: 14 October 1870 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Barr, Durham and Horowitz aim to answer the hard questions about Spygate. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Mueller does not or cannot answer the hard questions about Spygate. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Jul 26 2019

  Photo: Image from page 5 of "The search for the spy; the adventures of an American boy at the outbreak of the war" (1914) Identifier: searchforspyadve00kayr Title: The search for the spy; the adventures of an American boy at the outbreak of the war Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors:  Kay, Ross Subjects:  Publisher:  New York, Barse & Hopkins Contributing Library:  New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor:  MSN http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Mueller does not or cannot answer the hard questions about Spygate. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/with-collusion-collapse-public-loses-interest-in-mueller-theatrics/ ...more

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• The End of the Asian Century: 1 of 4: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael R. Auslin (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 26 2019

  Photo: junk from "Through Unexplored Asia ... Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman. [With maps.]" http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The End of the Asian Century: 1 of 4: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Michael R. Auslin (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/End-Asian-Century-Stagnation-Dynamic/dp/B01MS40HBY/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Michael+Auslin&qid=1564111624&s=audible&sr=1-1Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the "Asian Century". Today the world believes that century has arrived. Yet from China's slumping economy to war clouds over the South China Sea and from environmental devastation to demographic crisis, Asia's future is increasingly uncertain.  Historian and geopolitical expert Michael Auslin argues that far from being a cohesive powerhouse, Asia is a fractured region threatened by stagnation and instability. Here he provides a comprehensive account of the economic, military, political, and demographic risks that bedevil half of our world, arguing that Asia, working with the United States, has a unique opportunity to avert catastrophe - but only if it acts boldly.  Bringing together firsthand observations and decades of research, Auslin's provocative reassessment of Asia's future will be a must-listen for industry and investors, as well as politicians and scholars, for years to come...more

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• The End of the Asian Century: 2 of 4: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael R. Auslin (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 26 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The End of the Asian Century: 2 of 4: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Michael R. Auslin (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/End-Asian-Century-Stagnation-Dynamic/dp/B01MS40HBY/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Michael+Auslin&qid=1564111624&s=audible&sr=1-1Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the "Asian Century". Today the world believes that century has arrived. Yet from China's slumping economy to war clouds over the South China Sea and from environmental devastation to demographic crisis, Asia's future is increasingly uncertain.  Historian and geopolitical expert Michael Auslin argues that far from being a cohesive powerhouse, Asia is a fractured region threatened by stagnation and instability. Here he provides a comprehensive account of the economic, military, political, and demographic risks that bedevil half of our world, arguing that Asia, working with the United States, has a unique opportunity to avert catastrophe - but only if it acts boldly.  Bringing together firsthand observations and decades of research, Auslin's provocative reassessment of Asia's future will be a must-listen for industry and investors, as well as politicians and scholars, for years to come...more

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• The End of the Asian Century: 3 of 4: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael R. Auslin (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 26 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The End of the Asian Century: 3 of 4: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Michael R. Auslin (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/End-Asian-Century-Stagnation-Dynamic/dp/B01MS40HBY/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Michael+Auslin&qid=1564111624&s=audible&sr=1-1Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the "Asian Century". Today the world believes that century has arrived. Yet from China's slumping economy to war clouds over the South China Sea and from environmental devastation to demographic crisis, Asia's future is increasingly uncertain.  Historian and geopolitical expert Michael Auslin argues that far from being a cohesive powerhouse, Asia is a fractured region threatened by stagnation and instability. Here he provides a comprehensive account of the economic, military, political, and demographic risks that bedevil half of our world, arguing that Asia, working with the United States, has a unique opportunity to avert catastrophe - but only if it acts boldly.  Bringing together firsthand observations and decades of research, Auslin's provocative reassessment of Asia's future will be a must-listen for industry and investors, as well as politicians and scholars, for years to come...more

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• The End of the Asian Century: 4 of 4: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Michael R. Auslin (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 26 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The End of the Asian Century: 4 of 4: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Michael R. Auslin (Author), Dan Woren (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/End-Asian-Century-Stagnation-Dynamic/dp/B01MS40HBY/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Michael+Auslin&qid=1564111624&s=audible&sr=1-1Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the "Asian Century". Today the world believes that century has arrived. Yet from China's slumping economy to war clouds over the South China Sea and from environmental devastation to demographic crisis, Asia's future is increasingly uncertain.  Historian and geopolitical expert Michael Auslin argues that far from being a cohesive powerhouse, Asia is a fractured region threatened by stagnation and instability. Here he provides a comprehensive account of the economic, military, political, and demographic risks that bedevil half of our world, arguing that Asia, working with the United States, has a unique opportunity to avert catastrophe - but only if it acts boldly.  Bringing together firsthand observations and decades of research, Auslin's provocative reassessment of Asia's future will be a must-listen for industry and investors, as well as politicians and scholars, for years to come...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Restoring traditional woodlands (Satoyama) to the extremely modern Japanese landscape. 1 of 2: Professor Noboru Kuramoto, Meiji University. Natsuko Muramatsu, interpreter.

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  Jul 26 2019

  Photo: Kuroda Seiki, study for Talk on Ancient Romance (Composition II), 1897, Kuroda Memorial Hall, Tokyohttp://www.tobunken.go.jp/kuroda/gallery/english/mukasi01.html Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by User:BanyanTree using CommonsHelper.Painting by Kuroda Seiki. (painting from before 1900 - I'm guessing probably public domain)Public Domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Restoring traditional woodlands (Satoyama) to the extremely modern Japanese landscape. 1 of 2: Professor Noboru Kuramoto, Meiji University. Natsuko Muramatsu, interpreter.At the Metropolitan Sakuragaoka Park. ...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Restoring traditional woodlands (Satoyama) to the extremely modern Japanese landscape. 2 of 2: Professor Noboru Kuramoto, Meiji University. Natsuko Muramatsu, interpreter.

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  Jul 26 2019

  Photo: Kuroda Seiki, study for Talk on Ancient Romance (Composition II), 1897, Kuroda Memorial Hall, Tokyohttp://www.tobunken.go.jp/kuroda/gallery/english/mukasi01.html Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by User:BanyanTree using CommonsHelper. Painting by Kuroda Seiki. (painting from before 1900 - I'm guessing probably public domain)Public Domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Restoring traditional woodlands (Satoyama) to the extremely modern Japanese landscape. 2 of 2: Professor Noboru Kuramoto, Meiji University. Natsuko Muramatsu, interpreter.At the Metropolitan Sakuragaoka Park. ...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: The Robots are Coming! The Robots are Coming! Tokyo Olmpics 2020 & What is to be done? Lou Ann Hammond @Drivingthenat

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  Jul 26 2019

  Photo: Left-right:Bennett, Graef, DilleyAssociated Press - [1] LG18 1964 Wire Photo DILLEY GRAEF BENNETT Tokyo OLYMPIC MEDALISTS US Swimmers Permission details This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1924 and 1977 without a copyright notice. See Commons:Hirtle chart for further explanation. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.View more Public Domainview terms File:Bob Bennett, Jed Graef, Gary Dilley 1964.jpg Created: 12 October 1964 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: The Robots are Coming! The Robots are Coming! Tokyo Olmpics 2020 & What is to be done? Lou Ann Hammond @Drivingthenat...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Crowded seas of hostiles in East Asia: Russia, China, North Korea vs US, Japan and South Korea. James Holmes, @NavalWarCollege

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  Jul 26 2019

  Photo: The coastal waters along China’s Jiangsu province are brown all year round due to the large volume of suspended sediment that flows out from the Yangtze, Yellow, and other rivers. But every winter, an even larger tongue of sediment emerges over the Great Yangtze Bank and extends hundreds of kilometers into the East China Sea. These winter plumes are prominent features in satellite imagery for a few months, before fading away in the spring. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image of a plume over the Great Yangtze Bank on November 9, 2017. Remote sensing scientists find the feature perplexing and have advanced several theories about the causes. Some have argued that the plume is a product of currents moving sediment-laden river water eastward from the coast. Others have argued that it is caused by tides lifting up sediment that was deposited on the bottom of the Great Yangtze Bank hundreds of years ago. A new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans makes the case for the latter option. After gathering data on waves, sediments, and currents as observed in January 2016 (when the sediment plume was visible in satellite imagery), researchers developed a model that simulated conditions in this part of the ocean. They ran a series of computational experiments that showed that the energy of tides is strong enough to stir up bottom sediment from the Yangtze Bank. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Crowded seas of hostiles in East Asia: Russia, China, North Korea vs US, Japan and South Korea.  James Holmes, @NavalWarCollege...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: The Japan-US alliance grows stronger and more critical for peace in East Asia: 1 of 2: & What is to be done? Taro Kono, Foreign Minister of Japan.

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  Jul 25 2019

  Photo: Cherry Trees Along a Canal in Japan by Adolf de Meyer ca 1900-1910Date | 1 April 2012Source | https://www.metmuseum.org/search-results?ft=adolf+de+meyer&x=0&y=0Author | Adolf de Meyerhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: The Japan-US alliance grows stronger and more critical for peace in East Asia: 1 of 2: & What is to be done? Taro Kono, Foreign Minister of Japan.https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/07/24/Bolton-underscores-efforts-by-US-Japan-South-Korea-in-Seoul-visit/8111563973053/ ...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: The Japan-US alliance grows stronger and more critical for peace in East Asia: 2 of 2: & What is to be done? Taro Kono, Foreign Minister of Japan.

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  Jul 25 2019

  Photo: Cherry Blossoms Small Bridge over Creek by Adolf de Meyer 1900-1910Date | 1 April 2012Source | https://www.metmuseum.org/search-results?ft=adolf+de+meyer&x=0&y=0Author | Adolf de Meyerhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: The Japan-US alliance grows stronger and more critical for peace in East Asia: 2 of 2: & What is to be done? Taro Kono, Foreign Minister of Japan.https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/07/24/Bolton-underscores-efforts-by-US-Japan-South-Korea-in-Seoul-visit/8111563973053/ ...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Hong Kong destabilizes without leadership or solutions to Beijing threats. Mark Clifford, former editor of the South China Morning Post. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jul 25 2019

  Photo:  1910年的香港Date | 1910http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Hong Kong destabilizes without leadership or solutions to Beijing threats. Mark Clifford, former editor of the South China Morning Post.  @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast 

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Japanese players in American Major League Baseball then and now. Masaaki Harukawa, Yomiuri Giants. InterpreterYoki Minato.

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  Jul 25 2019

  Photo: Akira OhgiDate | 1 January 1955Source | ベースボール・マガジン社『ベースボール・マガジン』第10巻1号(1955)よりAuthor | ベースボール・マガジン社 撮影者不明http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Japanese players in American Major League Baseball then and now. Masaaki Harukawa, Yomiuri Giants. InterpreterYoki Minato.

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Nippon Professional Baseball Association (especially the Yomiuri Giants) compared to the traditions of American Major League Baseball. Masaaki Harukawa, Yomiuri Giants. InterpreterYoki Minato.

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  Jul 25 2019

  Photo: Poster for the tour, showing Babe Ruth.Unknown - https://jaa2100.org/entry/detail/045183.html Poster for the 1934 Japan Tour with American All-Stars, including Babe Ruth. Public Domain File:1934 tour poster.png Created: 31 December 1933 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Nippon Professional Baseball Association (especially the Yomiuri Giants) compared to the traditions of American Major League Baseball. Masaaki Harukawa, Yomiuri Giants. InterpreterYoki Minato....more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: "The Whole World is Watching" may inhibit Beijing from attacking Hong Kong directly with 6000 combat soldiers. Rose Tang. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jul 25 2019

  Photo: Governor of Hong Kong reading Act of Annexing Kaloon [i.e., Kowloon] Other Title: Governor of Hong Kong reading Act of Annexing Kowloon Date Created/Published: [between 1875 and 1910?] Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Governor and line of men in long robes. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-97800 (b&w film copy neg.) Call Number: LOT 6374, p. 2 <item> [P&P] Subjects: Annexations--China--Kowloon--1870-1910. Rites & ceremonies--China--Hong Kong--1870-1910. Format: Photographic prints--1870-1910. Collections: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand Bookmark This Record: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/89713985/ http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: "The Whole World is Watching" may inhibit Beijing from attacking Hong Kong directly with 6000 combat soldiers.  Rose Tang. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast  Rose Tang, a student activist during the 1989 Tiananmen protests, on the death of Li Peng: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49081449 ....more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: #TheScalaReport: The long tail of the supply chain gets much shorter. #TheScalaReport:. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE ⁦@ScalaInc⁩

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  Jul 25 2019

  Photo: Photograph showing guests at Lo Wu at opening of KCR on 1 October 1910Date | 1910Source | Hong Kong Public RecordsAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: #TheScalaReport: The long tail of the supply chain gets much shorter. #TheScalaReport:. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE  ⁦@ScalaInc⁩ https://www.economist.com/special-report/2019/07/11/supply-chains-are-undergoing-a-dramatic-transformation ...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: PRC threatens military action in Hong Kong & What is to be done? Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jul 25 2019

  Photo: After 1923 (year of construction of The Cenotaph)The Peninsula Hotel, opened in December 1928, is visible in the background.日付 | 2005年12月11日 (当初のアップロード日)原典 | zh.wikipedia からコモンズに移動されました。作者 | オリジナルのアップロード者は中国語版ウィキペディアのKevinhksouthさんhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: PRC threatens military action in Hong Kong & What is to be done?  Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Hong-Kong-protests/Beijing-hints-it-can-deploy-troops-in-Hong-Kong-if-requested ...more

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• The Uyghurs of Central Asia are an ancient peoples who are surviving Beijing brutality: 2 of 2: Frederick Starr, Central Asia and Caucasus Institute American Foreign Policy Council

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  Jul 25 2019

  Photo: A monumental Sogdian wall mural of Samarkand, dated c. 650 AD, known as the Ambassordors' Painting, found in the hall of the ruin of an aristocratic house in Afrasiab, commissioned by the Sogdian king of Samarkand, Varkhuman  anonymous - Own work The Ambassordors' Painting, found in the hall of the ruin of an aristocratic house in Afrasiab, commissioned by the king of Samarkand, Varkhuman Description from http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/afrasiab-ii-wall-paintings-2 :"The wall painting shows four geese and, more remarkably, an un-mounted horse, accompanied by men wearing the padām, the traditional face mask of Mazdean priests, and two men with sacrificial maces, sitting atop a camel. This scene could be interpreted as a parade of priests and sacrificial animals, which is, moreover, followed by a larger horse with a large rider." Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Uyghurs of Central Asia are an ancient peoples who are surviving Beijing brutality: 1 of 2: Frederick Starr, Central Asia and Caucasus Institute American Foreign Policy Council...more

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• The Uyghurs of Central Asia are an ancient peoples who are surviving Beijing brutality: 1 of 2: Frederick Starr, Central Asia and Caucasus Institute American Foreign Policy Council

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  Jul 25 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 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Uyghurs of Central Asia are an ancient peoples who are surviving Beijing brutality: 2 of 2: Frederick Starr, Central Asia and Caucasus Institute American Foreign Policy Council...more

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• Big Pharma price transparency: 1 of 2: & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Jul 25 2019

  Photo: Circular of information concerning the School of PharmacyYear: 1912 (1910s)Authors:  Purdue University. School of PharmacySubjects:  Purdue University. School of PharmacyPublisher:  Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue UniversityContributing Library:  University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignDigitizing Sponsor:  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaignhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBig Pharma price transparency: 1 of 2:  & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/drug-pricing-made-easy...more

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• Big Pharma price transparency: 2 of 2: & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Jul 25 2019

  Photo: Circular of information concerning the School of PharmacyYear: 1912 (1910s)Authors:  Purdue University. School of PharmacySubjects:  Purdue University. School of PharmacyPublisher:  Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue UniversityContributing Library:  University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignDigitizing Sponsor:  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaignhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBig Pharma price transparency: 2 of 2:  & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/drug-pricing-made-easy...more

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• What does Washington see to exploit in Silicon Valley? David Blumberg, Blumberg Capital.

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  Jul 24 2019

  Photo: : Photograph by Edith Irvine of large two-story building with wrap-around porch called the "Baldwin Hotel." There are twelve men in the photograph surrounding the building. A man sitting in a chair on the porch is identified as Uncle Charles Guardella; the man between pots of foliage on the porch is identified as Armando Gardella; Grandfather Carlo is in the front row; man on extreme right is identified as Uncle Louie Gardella; others not identified. Located at Mokelumne Hill in California.Date | January 1900Source | Courtesy Edith Irvine Collection, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602Author | Edith Irvinehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: What does Washington see to exploit in Silicon Valley? David Blumberg, Blumberg Capital.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-to-open-broad-new-antitrust-review-of-big-tech-companies-11563914235?mod=hp_lead_pos1 ...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Japanese investor class working with American VC class in search of start-ups. David Blumberg, Blumberg Capital

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  Jul 24 2019

  Photo: Shiba Tokyo, Japan, Meiji period, 1880-1900, albumen print, Honolulu Museum of Art, accession 2016-45-03aDate | between 1880 and 1900 Source | Own workAuthor | Anonymoushttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Japanese investor class working with  American VC class in search of start-ups. David Blumberg, Blumberg Capital

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Does Joe Biden have a foreign policy that doesn't please Hollywood pleasing China? @LizPeek

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  Jul 24 2019

  Photo: Horsecar (horse-drawn streetcar) in Prague in 1876, operated by Pražská tramway corporation.Date | 11 February 1876Source | Světozor, year 1876, issue 6, digitized by Czech Academy of SciencesAuthor | František Štraybl (1853 - 1935)Permission(Reusing this file) | Biographical data of František Štraybl: See detail or overview of artists related to Central Bohemiahttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Does Joe Biden have a foreign policy that doesn't please Hollywood pleasing China? @LizPeek...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: IMF raises US growth estimate while high end housing (CA) slumps & What is to be done? @LizPeek

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  Jul 24 2019

  Photo:  "A Street Railway in New York" - 1876 engraving showing a railway suspended above the ground on a narrow wooden track above a road, held up by Y-shaped beamsDate | 17 June 1876Source | The Illustrated London NewsAuthor | UnknownOther versions | Derivative works of this file: A Street Railway in New York - 1876 engraving cropped.jpghttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: IMF raises US growth estimate while high end housing (CA) slumps &amp; What is to be done? @LizPeekhttps://www.marketwatch.com/story/imf-cuts-its-global-growth-forecasts-again-2019-07-23 ...more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Rumors of Peace in Ukraine and War in East Asia. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Jul 24 2019

  Photo: Krestchatik, (i.e., Kreshchatik), street, Kiev, Russia, (i.e., Ukraine)Date | between 1890 and 1900 Dimensions | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.Accession number | LCCN2001697433http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Rumors of Peace in Ukraine and War in East Asia. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.https://112.international/ukraine-top-news/western-partners-were-against-my-call-to-putin-zelensky-41808.html ...more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: Rumors of Peace in Ukraine and War in East Asia. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  Jul 24 2019

  Photo: Palais de Justice and Pantelimon Church, Odessa, Russia, (i.e., Ukraine)Date | between 1890 and 1900 Dimensions | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.Accession number | LCCN2001697467http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: Rumors of Peace in Ukraine and War in East Asia. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.https://112.international/ukraine-top-news/western-partners-were-against-my-call-to-putin-zelensky-41808.html ...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: The Flower Association of Japan: 1 of 2: and the care for the might Sakura (cherry trees):Hiroyuki Wada,arborist; Natsuko Muramatsu, interprter.

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  Jul 24 2019

  Photo: Noge Yama Cherry Blossoms by Tamamura Kōzaburō, 1880-1900, albumen print, Honolulu Museum of Art, accession 2016-45-13bDate | between 1880 and 1900 Source | Own workAuthor | Tamamura Kōzaburōhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: The Flower Association of Japan: 1 of 2:  and the care for the might Sakura (cherry trees):Hiroyuki Wada,arborist; Natsuko Muramatsu, interprter. 

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• On the Road to Tokyo: The Flower Association of Japan: 2 of 2: and the care for the might Sakura (cherry trees): Hiroyuki Wada,arborist; Natsuko Muramatsu, interprter.

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  Jul 24 2019

  Photo: Garden Cherry Blossoms Kofukuji Nara, South octogonal hall by Adolf de Meyer 1900-1910Date | 1 April 2012Source | https://www.metmuseum.org/search-results?ft=adolf+de+meyer&x=0&y=0Author | Adolf de Meyerhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: The Flower Association of Japan: 2 of 2:  and the care for the might Sakura (cherry trees): Hiroyuki Wada,arborist; Natsuko Muramatsu, interprter. 

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Millennial Start-up Success from Tokyo to Vietnam and Taiwan to Texas. 1 of 2: Miku Hirano (Cinnamon CEO)

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  Jul 24 2019

  Photo: Gaisen Road street, Tokyo 1922. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Millennial Start-up Success from Tokyo to Vietnam and Taiwan to Texas. 1 of 2:  Miku Hirano (Cinnamon CEO)http://cinnamon.is

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Millennial Start-up Success from Tokyo to Vietnam and Taiwan to Texas. 2 of 2: Miku Hirano (Cinnamon CEO)

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  Jul 24 2019

  Photo: Tonkin -- Hanoi Université, Rue Paul Bert, 1900-1908.New York Public Library http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Millennial Start-up Success from Tokyo to Vietnam and Taiwan to Texas. 2 of 2:  Miku Hirano (Cinnamon CEO)http://cinnamon.is

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• Armenia launches more provocations despite peace talks at the White House with John Bolton. Brenda Shaffer @ProfBShaffer @Georgetown

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  Jul 23 2019

  Photo: Русский: Кавказские горы с моряEnglish: Caucasus Mountains from the seaDate | 1899Source/Photographer | reproduction. Transferred from ru.wikipedia to Commons.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowArmenia launches more provocations despite peace talks at the White House with John Bolton. Brenda Shaffer @ProfBShaffer @Georgetownhttps://www.azernews.az/aggression/153899.html

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• Waiting for Mueller to say nothing new. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund

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  Jul 23 2019

  Photo: [Interior of Frances Benjamin Johnston's studio at 1332 V St. NW, Washington, D.C., showing a large camera mounted on wheels]01/01/1900personContributorsJohnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWaiting for Mueller to say nothing new. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund 

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Triad Bully Boys assault Hong Kong & What is to be done? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  Jul 23 2019

  Photo: : A popular market in Hong Kong once existed in Kowloon City, near the Kowloon Walled CityDate | 1900s Source | http://www.hkmemory.org/kowloonwalk/klnwalk_cn/klw_klnst.htmlAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Triad Bully Boys assault Hong Kong & What is to be done? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotterhttps://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/21/asia/hong-kong-protest-july-21-intl-hnk/index.htmlhttps://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/21/asia/hong-kong-protest-july-21-intl-hnk/index.html ...more

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• "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Stone Age village on the Jerusalem Road.

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  Jul 23 2019

  Photo: Man at a stone ship at Runsa. The stone ship, from Bronze or Iron Age, is one of the largest in Sweden. Format: Glass plate negativeSvenska: Man vid en skeppssättning vid Runsa. Skeppssättningen, från brons- eller järnåldern, är en av Sveriges största. | This is a picture of an archaeological site or a monument in Sweden, number Ed 1:1 in the RAÄ Fornsök database.  Date | circa 1900 Source | Stone ship at Runsa, Uppland, SwedenAuthor | unknown, Swedish National Heritage Board from SwedenPermission(Reusing this file) | Swedish National Heritage Board @ Flickr Commonshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Stone Age village on the Jerusalem Road.https://www.timesofisrael.com/vast-and-developed-9000-year-old-settlement-uncovered-near-jerusalem/ ...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Japan 2019 is ordered, rigorous, peaceful and vigilant. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  Jul 23 2019

  Photo: Ginza Street, looking north, Tokyo.te_rangeDate1921personContributorsNitseido Publishing Co. (Tokyo, Japan), PublishercreateSourceNew York Public Library http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowJapan 2019 is ordered, rigorous, peaceful and vigilant. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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• US Congress ready to condemn BDS as anti-semitism. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jul 23 2019

  Photo: Rare Agfacolor photo (invention from 1936) dated August 1944 taken in Warsaw, Poland in the Old Town Market Place (Zakrzewski's Side) during the fight of Poles against the German Nazis called the Warsaw Uprising. Author Ewa Faryaszewska was corporal in Polish Home Army and shot 31 color photos during the Warsaw Uprising. This photo was not colorized.Polski: Powstanie Warszawskie: Rynek Starego Miasta (strona Zakrzewskiego) w Warszawie w sierpniu 1944 roku podczas walk Polaków przeciwko Niemcom. Wyjątkowa kolorowa fotografia Agfacolor (wynalazek z 1936 roku) stanowi jedną z 31 fotografii wykonanych przez kapral Armii Krajowej Ewę Faryaszewską w czasie Powstania Warszawskiego. Ta fotografia nie została pokolorowana. Oryginalna kolekcja znajduje się w Muzeum Warszawy i została opublikowana w albumie „Fotografie ruin. Ruiny fotografii” w 2014 r. Fotografia barwna była w tamtych czasach rzadkością jednak w czasie Powstania Warszawskiego wykonano w sumie aż 4 klisze kolorowych zdjęć. W Muzeum Warszawy zachowała się powyższa kolekcja Faryaszewskiej oraz 16 kolorowych fotografii z Powstania Warszawskiego autorstwa austriackiego lekarza z Wehrmachtu Gerharda Wiechmana (te wyjątkowe i szokujące fotografie jeszcze nie zostały pokazane publicznie). Ponadto nieznany Niemiec wykonał 9 kolorowych fotografii w czasie Powstania Warszawskiego na których uwiecznił m.in. Kościół Świętego Krzyża, Zamek Królewski i Pałac Saski (fotografie te zostały już opublikowane w ilości 8 szt. w magazynie Stolica 40/1971 i 1 szt. przedstawiająca Kościół Wizytek w jednym z późniejszych numerów). Niestety opublikowano je w dość niskiej jakości natomiast oryginalne negatywy zaginęły po publikacji. Ostatnia kolekcja powstańczych kolorowych fotografii została wykonana przez Zbigniewa Borowczyka ale zaginęła w nieznanych okolicznościach (zachowały się tylko 3 kolorowe fotografie z wcześniejszego wydarzenia, z Powstania w Getcie Warszawskim (1943) Borowczyka na których widać kościół Św. A.Padewskiego przy ul.Senatorskiej i wielkie płomienie getta oraz 1 Karola Grabskiego z tego samego wydarzenia gdzie pokazano latarnię uliczną i czarny dym z getta i znajdują się one w Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich). Warto zobaczyć także: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warsaw_Uprising_12345.jpgDate | 1944Source | Museum of WarsawAuthor | Ewa Faryaszewska (1920-1944)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowUS Congress ready to condemn BDS as anti-semitism. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres...more

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• On The Road to Tokyo: The US Turns from Afghanistan and Pakistan. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD @LongWarJournal

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  Jul 23 2019

  Photo: Bunder RoadDate | 1900Source | http://www.historickarachi.com/1900's.htmAuthor | I. SequioriaPermission(Reusing this file) |  | This Pakistani work is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired according to the Copyright Ordinance, 1962 as amended by Copyright (Amendment) Ordinance, 2000(details).http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn The Road to Tokyo: The US Turns from Afghanistan and Pakistan.  @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD @LongWarJournal...more

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• On the Road to Tokyo: Welcome to the strongest horse alliance, Japan and the US. Ambassador Kanji Yamanouchi, Consul-General of Japan in New York.

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  Jul 23 2019

  Photo: Farquhar's catalogue of seeds 1900 : plants, bulbs tools fertilizers, sundries Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors:  R. & J. Farquhar Company Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection Subjects:  Nurseries (Horticulture) Massachusetts Boston CatalogsNursery stock Massachusetts Boston Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Massachusetts Boston Catalogs Flowers Seeds Massachusetts Boston Catalogs Aquatic plants Massachusetts Boston CatalogsTrees Massachusetts Boston Catalogs Publisher:  Boston, Mass. : R. &amp; J. Farquhar Contributing Library:  U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library Digitizing Sponsor:  U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library    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:IRIS K^EMPFER Sirs, — Please send . I grow largely for market, and used your seeds last year. success, and could not have been better satisfied. C— W— B—, Way land, Mass., May 19. / never had better 84 R. &amp; J. FARQUHAR &lt;^ CO.S SEED CATALOGUE Text Appearing After Image:LILIES. The increased production of many-varieties of these in Japan has greatlyreduced their cost, and in consequencetheir use has now become very general. It is our opinion that we should plantthe bulbs much deeper than we havedone heretofore. While travelling inJapan recently, we found that thebulbs of the wild Lilies were usuallytwelve to eighteen inches below the sur-face, and we gathered the finest flowersfrom specimens growing on mountainsof decaying lava where they had abund-ant rainfall and ample drainage. We be-lieve that varieties like Aurattim and Spec-iosum would be favored by being set tenor twelve inches deep and would be lessaffected by frost and drought. The bedsshould be thoroughly covered withleaves or litter during winter. Lilium Auratum. The following Lilies sent Each. Per Auratum {Golden-rayed Japanese Lily,)flowers 6 to 8 inches in width, purewhite with a wide band of gold runningthrough the centre of each petal andnumerous crimson spots 20 Auratum, extra large http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tokyo: Welcome to the strongest horse alliance, Japan and the US. Ambassador Kanji Yamanouchi, Consul-General of Japan in New York.https://www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp/en/html/index.html ...more

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• The Discovery of Middle Earth: 1 of 4: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts by Graham Robb

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  Jul 23 2019

  Photo: Myths and legends ; the Celtic raceYear: 1910 (1910s)Authors:  Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William), 1857-1920Subjects:  Celts Celts Celtic literature Legends, CelticPublisher:  Boston : NickersonContributing 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:Datho. Soon thehosts burst out through the doors of the dun and smoteand slew each other in the open field, until the Connachthost were put to flight. The hound of mac Dathopursued the chariot of King Ailell of Connacht till thecharioteer smote off^ its head, and so the cause of con-tention was won by neither party, and mac Datho losthis hound, but saved his lands and life. The Death of Ket The death of Ket is told in Keating*s History ofIreland. Returning from a foray in Ulster, he was over-taken by Conall at the place called the Ford of Ket, andthey fought long and desperately. At last Ket was slain,but Conall of the Victories was in little better case, andlay bleeding to death when another Connacht championnamed Bealcu* found him. Kill me, said Conallto him, that it be not said I fell at the hand of oneConnacht man. But Bealcu said : I will not slay aman at the point of death, but I will bring thee homeand heal thee, and when thy strength is come again * Pronounced Bay-al-koo.«44Text Appearing After Image:Forbay and Queen Maev 244 THE DEATH OF MAEV thou shalt fight with me in single combat. ThenBealcu put Conall on a litter and brought him home,and had him tended till his wounds were healed. The three sons of Bealcu, hov/ever, when they sawwhat the Ulster champion was like in all his might,resolved to assassinate him before the combat shouldtake place. By a stratagem Conall contrived that theyslew their own father instead ; and then, taking the headsof the three sons, he went back, victoriously as he waswont, to Ulster. The Death of Maev The tale of the death of Queen Maev is also preservedby Keating. Fergus mac Roy having been slain byAilell with a cast of a spear as he bathed in a lake withMaev, and Ailell having been slain by Conall, Maevretired to an island ^ on Loch Ryve, where she was wontto bathe early every morning in a pool near to the landing-place. Forbay son of Conor mac Nessa, having dis-covered this habit of the queens, found means one dayto go unperceived to the pool andhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Discovery of Middle Earth: 1 of 4: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts by Graham Robb https://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Middle-Earth-Mapping-World/dp/039308163X/ref=mthardcover?encoding=UTF8&amp;me=&amp;qid= A treasure hunt that uncovers the secrets of one of the world’s great civilizations, revealing dramatic proof of the extreme sophistication of the Celts, and their creation of the earliest accurate map of the world. Fifty generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched from the Black Sea to Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. In six hundred years, the Celts had produced some of the finest artistic and scientific masterpieces of the ancient world. In 58 BC, Julius Caesar marched over the Alps, bringing slavery and genocide to western Europe. Within eight years the Celts of what is now France were utterly annihilated, and in another hundred years the Romans had overrun Britain. It is astonishing how little remains of this great civilization....more

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• The Discovery of Middle Earth: 2 of 4: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts by Graham Robb

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  Photo: Myths and legends ; the Celtic raceYear: 1910 (1910s)Authors:  Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William), 1857-1920Subjects:  Celts Celts Celtic literature Legends, CelticPublisher:  Boston : NickersonContributing 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:he saw, nor had he askedthe meaning of it. He then rode forth again in questof other adventures, which he had in bewildering abund-ance, and which have no particular relation to the maintheme. The mystery of the castle is not revealed tillthe last pages of the story. The head in the silver dishwas that of a cousin of Peredurs. The lance was theweapon with which he was slain, and with which alsothe uncle of Peredur, the fisher-lord, had been lamed.Peredur had been shown these things to incite him toavenge the wrong, and to prove his fitness for the task.The nine sorceresses of Gloucester are said to havebeen those who worked these evils on the relatives ofPeredur. On learning these matters Peredur, with thehelp of Arthur, attacked the sorceresses, who were slainevery one, and the vengeance was accomplished. The Contc del Graal The tale of Chrestien de Troyes called the Contedel Graal * or Perceval le Gallois launched the storyin European literature. It was written about the year4°4 4Text Appearing After Image:The wailing and lamenting began even more loudly than before 404 THE CASTLE OF WONDERS 1180. It agrees in the introductory portion with Percdur/* the hero being here called Perceval. Heis trained in knightly accomplishments by an agedknight named Gonemans, who warns him againsttalking overmuch and asking questions. When hecomes to the Castle of Wonders the objects broughtinto the hall are a blood-dripping lance, a graal *accompanied by two double-branched candlesticks, thelight of which is put out by the shining of the graal, asilver plate and sword, the last of which is given toPerceval. The bleeding head of the Welsh story doesnot appear, nor are we told what the graal was. Nextday when Perceval rode forth he met a maiden whoupbraided him fiercely for not having asked the meaningof what he saw—had he done so the lame king (who ishere identical with the lord of the Castle of Wonders)would have been made whole again. PercevaFs sin inquitting his mother against her wish was the reasohttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Discovery of Middle Earth: 2 of 4: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts by Graham Robb https://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Middle-Earth-Mapping-World/dp/039308163X/ref=mthardcover?encoding=UTF8&amp;me=&amp;qid= A treasure hunt that uncovers the secrets of one of the world’s great civilizations, revealing dramatic proof of the extreme sophistication of the Celts, and their creation of the earliest accurate map of the world. Fifty generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched from the Black Sea to Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. In six hundred years, the Celts had produced some of the finest artistic and scientific masterpieces of the ancient world. In 58 BC, Julius Caesar marched over the Alps, bringing slavery and genocide to western Europe. Within eight years the Celts of what is now France were utterly annihilated, and in another hundred years the Romans had overrun Britain. It is astonishing how little remains of this great civilization....more

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• The Discovery of Middle Earth: 3 of 4: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts by Graham Robb

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  Photo: : Myths and legends ; the Celtic raceYear: 1910 (1910s)Authors:  Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William), 1857-1920Subjects:  Celts Celts Celtic literature Legends, CelticPublisher:  Boston : NickersonContributing 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:grandsons of the Dagda. Their nameswere MacCuill, MacCecht, and MacGren^, and theirwives were named respectively Banba, Fohla, and Eriu.The Celtic habit of conceiving divine persons in triadsis here illustrated. These triads represent one personeach, and the mythical character of that personage isevident from the name of one of them, MacGrene, Sonof the Sun. The names of the three goddesses haveeach at different times been applied to Ireland, but thatof the third, Eriu, has alone persisted, and in the dativeform, Erinn, is a poetic name for the country to thisday. That Eriu is the wife of MacGren6 means, as deJubainville observes, that the Sun-god, the god of Day,Life, and Science, has wedded the land and is reigningover it. Ith, on landing, finds that the Danaan king, Neit,has just been slain in a battle with the Fomorians, andthe three sons, MacCuill and the others, are at thefortress of Aileach, in Co. Donegal, arranging for adivision of the land among themselves. At first they132Text Appearing After Image:The Coming of the Sons of Miled 132 THE COMING OF THE MILESIANSwelcome Ith, and ask him to settle their inheritance.Ith gives his judgment, but, in concluding, his admira-tion for the newly discovered country breaks out:Act,** he says, according to the laws of justice, forthe country you dwell in is a good one, it is rich infruit and honey, in wheat and in fish ; and in heat andcold it is temperate. From this panegyric the Danaansconclude that 1th has designs upon their land, and theyseize him and put him to death. His companions,however, recover his body and bear it back with themin their ships to Spain ; when the children of Miledresolve to take vengeance for the outrage and prepareto invade Ireland. They were commanded by thirty-six chiefs, eachhaving his own ship with his family and his followers.Two of the company are said to have perished on theway. One of the sons of Miled, having climbed to themasthead of his vessel to look out for the coast ofIreland, fell into the sea and wahttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Discovery of Middle Earth: 3 of 4: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts by Graham Robb https://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Middle-Earth-Mapping-World/dp/039308163X/ref=mthardcover?encoding=UTF8&amp;me=&amp;qid= A treasure hunt that uncovers the secrets of one of the world’s great civilizations, revealing dramatic proof of the extreme sophistication of the Celts, and their creation of the earliest accurate map of the world. Fifty generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched from the Black Sea to Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. In six hundred years, the Celts had produced some of the finest artistic and scientific masterpieces of the ancient world. In 58 BC, Julius Caesar marched over the Alps, bringing slavery and genocide to western Europe. Within eight years the Celts of what is now France were utterly annihilated, and in another hundred years the Romans had overrun Britain. It is astonishing how little remains of this great civilization....more

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• The Discovery of Middle Earth: 4 of 4: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts by Graham Robb

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  Photo: Myths and legends ; the Celtic race Year: 1910 (1910s) Authors:  Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William), 1857-1920 Subjects:  Celts Celts Celtic literature Legends, Celtic Publisher:  Boston : Nickerson Contributing Library:  Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor:  Brigham Young University    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:spear, andCuchulain said: I am not bound to grant more thanone request on one day. But the satirist said: ThenI will revile Ulster for thy default, and Cuchulain flunghim the spear as before, and Ere now got it, and this timein flying back it struck the Grey of Macha with a mortalwound. Cuchulain drew out the spear from the horsesside, and they bade each other farewell, and the Greygalloped away with half the yoke hanging to its neck. And a third time Cuchulain flung the spear to a satirist,and Lewy took it again and flung it back, and it struckCuchulain, and his bowels fell out in the chariot, andthe remaining horse, Black Sainglend, broke away andleft him. I would fain go as far as to that loch-side to drink,said Cuchulain, knowing the end was come, and theysuff^ered him to go when he had promised to return tothem again. So he gathered up his bowels into his ^ It was a point of honour to refuse nothing to a bard; one kingis said to have given his eye when it was demanded of him.232 Text Appearing After Image:The Death of Cuchulain 232 DEATH OF CUCHULAIN breast and went to the loch-side, and drank, and bathedhimself, and came forth again to die. Now there wasclose by a tall pillar-stone that stood westwards of theloch, and he went up to it and slung his girdle over it andround his breast, so that he might die in his standingand not in his lying down ; and his blood ran down ina little stream into the loch, and an otter came out ofthe loch and lapped it. And the host gathered round,but feared to approach him while the life was still inhim, and the hero-light shone above his brow. Thencame the Grey of Macha to protect him, scattering hisfoes with biting and kicking. And then came a crow and settled on his shoulder. Lewy, when he saw this, drew near and pulled thehair of Cuchulain to one side over his shoulder,and with his sword he smote off his head ; and thesword fell from Cuchulains hand, and smote off thehand of Lewy as it fell. They took the hand ofCuchulain in revenge for this, and bore http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Discovery of Middle Earth: 4 of 4: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts by Graham Robb https://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Middle-Earth-Mapping-World/dp/039308163X/ref=mthardcover?encoding=UTF8&amp;me=&amp;qid= A treasure hunt that uncovers the secrets of one of the world’s great civilizations, revealing dramatic proof of the extreme sophistication of the Celts, and their creation of the earliest accurate map of the world. Fifty generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched from the Black Sea to Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. In six hundred years, the Celts had produced some of the finest artistic and scientific masterpieces of the ancient world. In 58 BC, Julius Caesar marched over the Alps, bringing slavery and genocide to western Europe. Within eight years the Celts of what is now France were utterly annihilated, and in another hundred years the Romans had overrun Britain. It is astonishing how little remains of this great civilization. ...more

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• 50 Years After: 1 of 2: Can the Cold War's Outer Space Treaty, 1967, be stretched to be useful another 50 years? @spacelawpolicy Michael Listner, SpaceLawSolutions.com

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  Photo: English: An illustration from the novel "From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne drawn by Henri de Montaut.Polski: Ilustracja powieści Juliusza Verne'a "Z Ziemi na Księżyc" autorstwa Henri de Montauta.Français : "De la Terre à la Lune", Henri de Montaut. | This file was uploaded with Commonist.Français : L’arrivée du projectile à Stone’s-HillDate | 31 July 1868Source | http://jv.gilead.org.il/rpaul/De%20la%20terre%20%C3%A0%20la%20lune/http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow50 Years After: 1 of 2: Can the Cold War's Outer Space Treaty, 1967, be stretched to be useful another 50 years? @spacelawpolicy Michael Listner, SpaceLawSolutions.com "The Outer Space Treaty represents the basic legal framework of international space law. Among its principles, it bars states party to the treaty from placing weapons of mass destruction in orbit of Earth, installing them on the Moon or any other celestial body, or otherwise stationing them in outer space. It exclusively limits the use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes and expressly prohibits their use for testing weapons of any kind, conducting military maneuvers, or establishing military bases, installations, and fortifications (Article IV). However, the Treaty does not prohibit the placement of conventional weapons in orbit and thus some highly destructive attack strategies such as kinetic bombardment are still potentially allowable. The treaty also states that the exploration of outer space shall be done to benefit all countries and that space shall be free for exploration and use by all the States. The treaty explicitly forbids any government from claiming a celestial resource such as the Moon or a planet.[3] Article II of the Treaty states that "outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means". However, the State that launches a space object retains jurisdiction and control over that object.[4] The State is also liable for damages caused by their space object.[5]" "Pragmatic Solutions to Address the Challenges of Developing the Final Frontier. As outer space development becomes more prolific so do the legal and policy issues that surround its use and exploitation. In the realm of new space, understanding the issues and their effect on both government and private sector space activities is critical...." http://www.spacelawsolutions.com ...more

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• 50 Years After:2 of 2: Can the Cold War's Outer Space Treaty, 1967, be stretched to be useful another 50 years? @spacelawpolicy Michael Listner, SpaceLawSolutions.com

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  Photo: An illustration from the novel "From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne drawn by Henri de Montaut.Polski: Ilustracja powieści Juliusza Verne'a "Z Ziemi na Księżyc" autorstwa Henri de Montauta.Français : "De la Terre à la Lune", Henri de Montaut. | This file was uploaded with Commonist.Français : Le train de projectiles pour la LuneDate | 31 July 1868Source | http://jv.gilead.org.il/rpaul/De%20la%20terre%20%C3%A0%20la%20lune/http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow50 Years After:2 of 2: Can the Cold War's Outer Space Treaty, 1967, be stretched to be useful another 50 years? @spacelawpolicy Michael Listner, SpaceLawSolutions.com "The Outer Space Treaty represents the basic legal framework of international space law. Among its principles, it bars states party to the treaty from placing weapons of mass destruction in orbit of Earth, installing them on the Moon or any other celestial body, or otherwise stationing them in outer space. It exclusively limits the use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes and expressly prohibits their use for testing weapons of any kind, conducting military maneuvers, or establishing military bases, installations, and fortifications (Article IV). However, the Treaty does not prohibit the placement of conventional weapons in orbit and thus some highly destructive attack strategies such as kinetic bombardment are still potentially allowable. The treaty also states that the exploration of outer space shall be done to benefit all countries and that space shall be free for exploration and use by all the States. The treaty explicitly forbids any government from claiming a celestial resource such as the Moon or a planet.[3] Article II of the Treaty states that "outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means". However, the State that launches a space object retains jurisdiction and control over that object.[4] The State is also liable for damages caused by their space object.[5]" "Pragmatic Solutions to Address the Challenges of Developing the Final Frontier. As outer space development becomes more prolific so do the legal and policy issues that surround its use and exploitation. In the realm of new space, understanding the issues and their effect on both government and private sector space activities is critical...." http://www.spacelawsolutions.com...more

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• Six hundred million year-old fossils and the perils of modern China. Host.

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  Photo: Ordovician fossils of north China, by Amadeus W. Grabau, with plates I-IX and 20 text figures.Date | Source | https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/pageimage/23954451Author | Grabau, Amadeus W.Page ID | 23954451Item ID | 77376 (Find related Wikimedia Commons images)Title ID | 32980 (Find related Wikimedia Commons images)BHL Page URL | https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23954451DOI | 10.5962/bhl.title.32980Page type | Text IllustrationCredit | NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT | This file comes from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.Deutsch | English | español | français | italiano | македонски | Nederlands | polski | +/− | The categories of this image should be checked. Check them now!Remove redundant categories and try to put this image in the most specific category/categoriesRemove this template by clicking here (or on the first line)This image is in the public domain b http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSix hundred million year-old fossils and the perils of modern China. Host. These discoveries challenged the theory that virtually all major animal lineages emerged during the ‘Cambrian explosion’ some 540 million years ago1, 2. Microscopic fossils assumed to be embryos that were excavated from Doushantuo have, more recently, sparked debates over the origins of bilateral symmetry in animals. “We may never find a comparable site and may lose the chance to truly understand early animal evolution on Earth,” says Dave Bottjer, a palaeobiologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who estimates that just 5% of the site’s fossils have been recovered. “If nothing is done, it will be a great loss,” he says. On a visit to Doushantuo this month, palaeontologist Zhu Maoyan of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology was stunned to find a newer fossil site, opened in 2015, completely stripped of fossil-bearing sediment by phosphate mining. The locale that produced the area’s first fossils had been destroyed years ago. And a third key fossil-hunting area, which produced most of the new fossils found in the formation in the past 15 years, was buried by a landslide that had been triggered by mining in 2014. “It is really a disaster,” says Zhu. ...more

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• 'Mr. President': 1 of 4: George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Harlow Giles Unger (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 22 2019

  Photo: Back of the State House, Philadelphia.date_rangeDate1800personContributorsBirch, William Russell (1755-1834), ArtistcreateSourceNew York Public Library http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 'Mr. President': 1 of 4:  George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Harlow Giles Unger (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Officer-Spy-Novel/dp/B00HFX8BME/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= Although the framers gave the president little authority, George Washington knew whatever he did would set precedents for generations of future leaders. To ensure their ability to defend the nation, he simply ignored the Constitution when he thought it necessary. In a revealing new look at the birth of American government, “Mr. President” describes Washington's presidency in a time of continual crisis, as rebellion and attacks by foreign enemies threatened to destroy this new nation. Constantly weighing preservation of the Union against preservation of individual liberties and states' rights, Washington assumed more power with each crisis. In a series of brilliant but unconstitutional maneuvers he forced Congress to cede control of the four pillars of executive power: war, finance, foreign affairs, and law enforcement. Drawing on rare documents and letters, Unger shows how Washington combined political cunning and sheer genius to seize ever-widening powers, impose law and order while ensuring individual freedom, and shape the office of President of the United States ...more

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• 'Mr. President': 2 of 4: George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Harlow Giles Unger (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Library and Surgeons Hall, in Fifth Street Philadelphia.ContributorsBirch, William Russell (1755-1834), Artist http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 'Mr. President': 2 of 4:  George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Harlow Giles Unger (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Officer-Spy-Novel/dp/B00HFX8BME/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= Although the framers gave the president little authority, George Washington knew whatever he did would set precedents for generations of future leaders. To ensure their ability to defend the nation, he simply ignored the Constitution when he thought it necessary. In a revealing new look at the birth of American government, “Mr. President” describes Washington's presidency in a time of continual crisis, as rebellion and attacks by foreign enemies threatened to destroy this new nation. Constantly weighing preservation of the Union against preservation of individual liberties and states' rights, Washington assumed more power with each crisis. In a series of brilliant but unconstitutional maneuvers he forced Congress to cede control of the four pillars of executive power: war, finance, foreign affairs, and law enforcement. Drawing on rare documents and letters, Unger shows how Washington combined political cunning and sheer genius to seize ever-widening powers, impose law and order while ensuring individual freedom, and shape the office of President of the United States...more

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• 'Mr. President': 3 of 4: George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Harlow Giles Unger (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo:  "Preparation for WAR to defend Commerce," Birch's Views of Philadelphia, Published by W. Birch, Springland Cot. near Neshaminy Bridge on the Bristol Road; Pennsylvania. Decr. 31st 1800., Plate 29.Date | 1799Source | The City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania North America; as it appeared in the Year 1800, Plate 29.Author | Drawn and engraved by W. Birch & Son.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 'Mr. President': 3 of 4:  George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Harlow Giles Unger (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Officer-Spy-Novel/dp/B00HFX8BME/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= Although the framers gave the president little authority, George Washington knew whatever he did would set precedents for generations of future leaders. To ensure their ability to defend the nation, he simply ignored the Constitution when he thought it necessary. In a revealing new look at the birth of American government, “Mr. President” describes Washington's presidency in a time of continual crisis, as rebellion and attacks by foreign enemies threatened to destroy this new nation. Constantly weighing preservation of the Union against preservation of individual liberties and states' rights, Washington assumed more power with each crisis. In a series of brilliant but unconstitutional maneuvers he forced Congress to cede control of the four pillars of executive power: war, finance, foreign affairs, and law enforcement. Drawing on rare documents and letters, Unger shows how Washington combined political cunning and sheer genius to seize ever-widening powers, impose law and order while ensuring individual freedom, and shape the office of President of the United States...more

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• 'Mr. President': 4 of 4: George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Harlow Giles Unger (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 22 2019

  Photo:  "New Lutheran Church, in Fourth Street Philadelphia." Plate 6 from The City of Philadelphia as it appeared in the Year 1800. Published by W. Birch, Springland Cot. near Neshaminy Bridge on the Bristol Road; Pennsylvania. Decr. 31st 1800.Date | 1799Source | Birch's Views of Philadelphia, Plate 6.Author | Drawn & Engraved by W. Birch & Son.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 'Mr. President': 4 of 4:  George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Harlow Giles Unger (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Officer-Spy-Novel/dp/B00HFX8BME/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= Although the framers gave the president little authority, George Washington knew whatever he did would set precedents for generations of future leaders. To ensure their ability to defend the nation, he simply ignored the Constitution when he thought it necessary. In a revealing new look at the birth of American government, “Mr. President” describes Washington's presidency in a time of continual crisis, as rebellion and attacks by foreign enemies threatened to destroy this new nation. Constantly weighing preservation of the Union against preservation of individual liberties and states' rights, Washington assumed more power with each crisis. In a series of brilliant but unconstitutional maneuvers he forced Congress to cede control of the four pillars of executive power: war, finance, foreign affairs, and law enforcement. Drawing on rare documents and letters, Unger shows how Washington combined political cunning and sheer genius to seize ever-widening powers, impose law and order while ensuring individual freedom, and shape the office of President of the United States...more

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• An Officer and a Spy: 1 of 4: A Novel Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert Harris (Author), David Rintoul (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 22 2019

  Photo:  Bohemian Paris of to-dayYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  Morrow, William Chambers, 1853-1923 Cucuel, ÉdouardSubjects:  BohemianismPublisher:  Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott companyContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  The Library of Congresshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow An Officer and a Spy: 1 of 4: A Novel  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert Harris (Author), David Rintoul (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Officer-Spy-Novel/dp/B00HFX8BME/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= From Booklist Starred Review Harris’ instantly absorbing thriller reanimates the Dreyfus Affair of 1895 through Colonel Georges Picquart, who exposed the conspiracy to frame Dreyfus for supplying the Germans with French Army secrets. After serving as the minister of war’s observer at Dreyfus’ military trial, Picquart is promoted to lead the army’s espionage unit. Picquart immerses himself in the dark work and quickly discovers evidence of another soldier leaking information to the German attaché. When he’s denied permission to launch a sting operation, Picquart joins forces with a Sûreté (police) detective to gather evidence through an unofficial surveillance scheme. Convinced that the secret evidence that convicted Dreyfus implicates his current target instead, Picquart investigates further and finds a conspiracy originating in the army’s top ranks. In the anti-Semitic climate of this pivotal period in French society, Picquart’s insistence that Dreyfus “the Jew” may be innocent creates dangerous, powerful enemies. Harris combats the predictability that can haunt fictional accounts of well-known events by teasing out the tale through Picquart’s training in espionage and investigation, his unsanctioned detecting, and the complex intrigues he navigates to secure a reexamination of Dreyfus’ case. Great for fans of Ken Follett, John le Carré, Louis Bayard, Caleb Carr, and Martin Cruz Smith, all of whom also portray historical intrigues and investigations with intricate detail and literary skill. Also try Jason Matthews’ recently published Red Sparrow (2013). --Christine Tran Review "Many readers prize him as our supreme exponent of the “literary” thriller. His novels are not difficult -- they are whizzing page-turners… They also combine masterly suspense and mystery with historical insight and political shrewdness. His latest novel is no exception: it is a cracking read from start to finish… It offers a bravura display of Harris’s fictional skills. The first is sureness of historical touch. In both general and specific terms the period comes alive… There is no need to wait for the film: it can scarcely be more exciting than the book." --Sunday Times...more

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• An Officer and a Spy: 2 of 4: A Novel Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert Harris (Author), David Rintoul (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 22 2019

  Photo:  Bohemian Paris of to-dayYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  Morrow, William Chambers, 1853-1923 Cucuel, ÉdouardSubjects:  BohemianismPublisher:  Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott companyContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  The Library of Congresshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow An Officer and a Spy: 2 of 4: A Novel  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert Harris (Author), David Rintoul (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Officer-Spy-Novel/dp/B00HFX8BME/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= From Booklist Starred Review Harris’ instantly absorbing thriller reanimates the Dreyfus Affair of 1895 through Colonel Georges Picquart, who exposed the conspiracy to frame Dreyfus for supplying the Germans with French Army secrets. After serving as the minister of war’s observer at Dreyfus’ military trial, Picquart is promoted to lead the army’s espionage unit. Picquart immerses himself in the dark work and quickly discovers evidence of another soldier leaking information to the German attaché. When he’s denied permission to launch a sting operation, Picquart joins forces with a Sûreté (police) detective to gather evidence through an unofficial surveillance scheme. Convinced that the secret evidence that convicted Dreyfus implicates his current target instead, Picquart investigates further and finds a conspiracy originating in the army’s top ranks. In the anti-Semitic climate of this pivotal period in French society, Picquart’s insistence that Dreyfus “the Jew” may be innocent creates dangerous, powerful enemies. Harris combats the predictability that can haunt fictional accounts of well-known events by teasing out the tale through Picquart’s training in espionage and investigation, his unsanctioned detecting, and the complex intrigues he navigates to secure a reexamination of Dreyfus’ case. Great for fans of Ken Follett, John le Carré, Louis Bayard, Caleb Carr, and Martin Cruz Smith, all of whom also portray historical intrigues and investigations with intricate detail and literary skill. Also try Jason Matthews’ recently published Red Sparrow (2013). --Christine Tran Review "Many readers prize him as our supreme exponent of the “literary” thriller. His novels are not difficult -- they are whizzing page-turners… They also combine masterly suspense and mystery with historical insight and political shrewdness. His latest novel is no exception: it is a cracking read from start to finish… It offers a bravura display of Harris’s fictional skills. The first is sureness of historical touch. In both general and specific terms the period comes alive… There is no need to wait for the film: it can scarcely be more exciting than the book." --Sunday Times...more

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• An Officer and a Spy: 3 of 4: A Novel Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert Harris (Author), David Rintoul (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 22 2019

  Photo:  Bohemian Paris of to-dayYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  Morrow, William Chambers, 1853-1923 Cucuel, ÉdouardSubjects:  BohemianismPublisher:  Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott companyContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  The Library of Congresshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow An Officer and a Spy: 3 of 4: A Novel  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert Harris (Author), David Rintoul (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Officer-Spy-Novel/dp/B00HFX8BME/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= From Booklist Starred Review Harris’ instantly absorbing thriller reanimates the Dreyfus Affair of 1895 through Colonel Georges Picquart, who exposed the conspiracy to frame Dreyfus for supplying the Germans with French Army secrets. After serving as the minister of war’s observer at Dreyfus’ military trial, Picquart is promoted to lead the army’s espionage unit. Picquart immerses himself in the dark work and quickly discovers evidence of another soldier leaking information to the German attaché. When he’s denied permission to launch a sting operation, Picquart joins forces with a Sûreté (police) detective to gather evidence through an unofficial surveillance scheme. Convinced that the secret evidence that convicted Dreyfus implicates his current target instead, Picquart investigates further and finds a conspiracy originating in the army’s top ranks. In the anti-Semitic climate of this pivotal period in French society, Picquart’s insistence that Dreyfus “the Jew” may be innocent creates dangerous, powerful enemies. Harris combats the predictability that can haunt fictional accounts of well-known events by teasing out the tale through Picquart’s training in espionage and investigation, his unsanctioned detecting, and the complex intrigues he navigates to secure a reexamination of Dreyfus’ case. Great for fans of Ken Follett, John le Carré, Louis Bayard, Caleb Carr, and Martin Cruz Smith, all of whom also portray historical intrigues and investigations with intricate detail and literary skill. Also try Jason Matthews’ recently published Red Sparrow (2013). --Christine Tran Review "Many readers prize him as our supreme exponent of the “literary” thriller. His novels are not difficult -- they are whizzing page-turners… They also combine masterly suspense and mystery with historical insight and political shrewdness. His latest novel is no exception: it is a cracking read from start to finish… It offers a bravura display of Harris’s fictional skills. The first is sureness of historical touch. In both general and specific terms the period comes alive… There is no need to wait for the film: it can scarcely be more exciting than the book." --Sunday Times...more

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• An Officer and a Spy: 4 of 4: A Novel Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert Harris (Author), David Rintoul (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 22 2019

  Photo:  Bohemian Paris of to-dayYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  Morrow, William Chambers, 1853-1923 Cucuel, ÉdouardSubjects:  BohemianismPublisher:  Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott companyContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  The Library of Congresshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow An Officer and a Spy: 4 of 4: A Novel  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert Harris (Author), David Rintoul (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Officer-Spy-Novel/dp/B00HFX8BME/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= From Booklist Starred Review Harris’ instantly absorbing thriller reanimates the Dreyfus Affair of 1895 through Colonel Georges Picquart, who exposed the conspiracy to frame Dreyfus for supplying the Germans with French Army secrets. After serving as the minister of war’s observer at Dreyfus’ military trial, Picquart is promoted to lead the army’s espionage unit. Picquart immerses himself in the dark work and quickly discovers evidence of another soldier leaking information to the German attaché. When he’s denied permission to launch a sting operation, Picquart joins forces with a Sûreté (police) detective to gather evidence through an unofficial surveillance scheme. Convinced that the secret evidence that convicted Dreyfus implicates his current target instead, Picquart investigates further and finds a conspiracy originating in the army’s top ranks. In the anti-Semitic climate of this pivotal period in French society, Picquart’s insistence that Dreyfus “the Jew” may be innocent creates dangerous, powerful enemies. Harris combats the predictability that can haunt fictional accounts of well-known events by teasing out the tale through Picquart’s training in espionage and investigation, his unsanctioned detecting, and the complex intrigues he navigates to secure a reexamination of Dreyfus’ case. Great for fans of Ken Follett, John le Carré, Louis Bayard, Caleb Carr, and Martin Cruz Smith, all of whom also portray historical intrigues and investigations with intricate detail and literary skill. Also try Jason Matthews’ recently published Red Sparrow (2013). --Christine Tran Review "Many readers prize him as our supreme exponent of the “literary” thriller. His novels are not difficult -- they are whizzing page-turners… They also combine masterly suspense and mystery with historical insight and political shrewdness. His latest novel is no exception: it is a cracking read from start to finish… It offers a bravura display of Harris’s fictional skills. The first is sureness of historical touch. In both general and specific terms the period comes alive… There is no need to wait for the film: it can scarcely be more exciting than the book." --Sunday Times ...more

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• The Great Departure: 2 of 4: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tara Zahra (Author), Elizabeth Wiley (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jul 21 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Great Departure: 2 of 4: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tara Zahra (Author), Elizabeth Wiley (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Great-Departure-Migration-Eastern-Europe/dp/0393353729/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495300491&sr=1-1&keywords=ZAHRA+DEPARTUREBetween 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the "land of the free", yet more than a third returned home again. In a groundbreaking study, Tara Zahra brilliantly explores the deeper story of this unprecedented movement of people.  As villages emptied, some blamed traffickers in human labor, targeting Jewish emigration agents. Others saw opportunity: to seed colonies of migrants like the Polish community in Argentina or to gain economic advantage from an inflow of foreign currency or to reshape their populations by encouraging the emigration of minorities. These precedents would shape the Holocaust, the closing of the Iron Curtain, and tragedies of ethnic cleansing while also forming notions of social solidarity, human rights, and freedom - whether it be the freedom to move or the freedom to stay home....more

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• The Great Departure: 1 of 4: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tara Zahra (Author), Elizabeth Wiley (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jul 21 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Great Departure: 1 of 4: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tara Zahra (Author), Elizabeth Wiley (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Great-Departure-Migration-Eastern-Europe/dp/0393353729/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495300491&sr=1-1&keywords=ZAHRA+DEPARTUREBetween 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the "land of the free", yet more than a third returned home again. In a groundbreaking study, Tara Zahra brilliantly explores the deeper story of this unprecedented movement of people.  As villages emptied, some blamed traffickers in human labor, targeting Jewish emigration agents. Others saw opportunity: to seed colonies of migrants like the Polish community in Argentina or to gain economic advantage from an inflow of foreign currency or to reshape their populations by encouraging the emigration of minorities. These precedents would shape the Holocaust, the closing of the Iron Curtain, and tragedies of ethnic cleansing while also forming notions of social solidarity, human rights, and freedom - whether it be the freedom to move or the freedom to stay home....more

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• The Great Departure: 3 of 4: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tara Zahra (Author), Elizabeth Wiley (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jul 21 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Great Departure: 3 of 4: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tara Zahra (Author), Elizabeth Wiley (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Great-Departure-Migration-Eastern-Europe/dp/0393353729/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495300491&sr=1-1&keywords=ZAHRA+DEPARTUREBetween 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the "land of the free", yet more than a third returned home again. In a groundbreaking study, Tara Zahra brilliantly explores the deeper story of this unprecedented movement of people.  As villages emptied, some blamed traffickers in human labor, targeting Jewish emigration agents. Others saw opportunity: to seed colonies of migrants like the Polish community in Argentina or to gain economic advantage from an inflow of foreign currency or to reshape their populations by encouraging the emigration of minorities. These precedents would shape the Holocaust, the closing of the Iron Curtain, and tragedies of ethnic cleansing while also forming notions of social solidarity, human rights, and freedom - whether it be the freedom to move or the freedom to stay home....more

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• The Great Departure: 4 of 4: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tara Zahra (Author), Elizabeth Wiley (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jul 21 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Great Departure: 4 of 4: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tara Zahra (Author), Elizabeth Wiley (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Great-Departure-Migration-Eastern-Europe/dp/0393353729/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495300491&sr=1-1&keywords=ZAHRA+DEPARTUREBetween 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the "land of the free", yet more than a third returned home again. In a groundbreaking study, Tara Zahra brilliantly explores the deeper story of this unprecedented movement of people.  As villages emptied, some blamed traffickers in human labor, targeting Jewish emigration agents. Others saw opportunity: to seed colonies of migrants like the Polish community in Argentina or to gain economic advantage from an inflow of foreign currency or to reshape their populations by encouraging the emigration of minorities. These precedents would shape the Holocaust, the closing of the Iron Curtain, and tragedies of ethnic cleansing while also forming notions of social solidarity, human rights, and freedom - whether it be the freedom to move or the freedom to stay home....more

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• The Black Count: 1 of 4: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss.

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  Jul 21 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Black Count: 1 of 4: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss. https://www.amazon.com/Black-Count-Revolution-Betrayal-Cristo/dp/0307382478 Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2012: Generations have been enthralled by Alexandre Dumas' characters, especially the wronged hero in The Count of Monte Cristo and the daring swordsmen in The Three Musketeers. Yet few realize that these memorable characters were inspired by Dumas' father, General Alex Dumas, the son of a French count and a black Haitian slave. Tom Reiss brings the elder Dumas alive with previously unpublished correspondence and meticulous research, providing the context necessary to understand how exceptional his life as a mulatto general in a slave-owning empire truly was. From single-handedly holding a bridge in the Alps against 20 enemies to spending years held captive in a fortress, Alex Dumas is a fascinating character that not even his son's vivid imagination could have dreamed up. --Malissa Kent...more

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• The Black Count: 2 of 4: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss.

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  Jul 21 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Black Count: 2 of 4: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss. https://www.amazon.com/Black-Count-Revolution-Betrayal-Cristo/dp/0307382478 Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2012: Generations have been enthralled by Alexandre Dumas' characters, especially the wronged hero in The Count of Monte Cristo and the daring swordsmen in The Three Musketeers. Yet few realize that these memorable characters were inspired by Dumas' father, General Alex Dumas, the son of a French count and a black Haitian slave. Tom Reiss brings the elder Dumas alive with previously unpublished correspondence and meticulous research, providing the context necessary to understand how exceptional his life as a mulatto general in a slave-owning empire truly was. From single-handedly holding a bridge in the Alps against 20 enemies to spending years held captive in a fortress, Alex Dumas is a fascinating character that not even his son's vivid imagination could have dreamed up. --Malissa Kent...more

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• The Black Count: 3 of 4: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss.

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  Jul 21 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Black Count: 3 of 4: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss. https://www.amazon.com/Black-Count-Revolution-Betrayal-Cristo/dp/0307382478 Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2012: Generations have been enthralled by Alexandre Dumas' characters, especially the wronged hero in The Count of Monte Cristo and the daring swordsmen in The Three Musketeers. Yet few realize that these memorable characters were inspired by Dumas' father, General Alex Dumas, the son of a French count and a black Haitian slave. Tom Reiss brings the elder Dumas alive with previously unpublished correspondence and meticulous research, providing the context necessary to understand how exceptional his life as a mulatto general in a slave-owning empire truly was. From single-handedly holding a bridge in the Alps against 20 enemies to spending years held captive in a fortress, Alex Dumas is a fascinating character that not even his son's vivid imagination could have dreamed up. --Malissa Kent...more

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• The Black Count: 4 of 4: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss.

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  Jul 21 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Black Count: 4 of 4: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss. https://www.amazon.com/Black-Count-Revolution-Betrayal-Cristo/dp/0307382478 Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2012: Generations have been enthralled by Alexandre Dumas' characters, especially the wronged hero in The Count of Monte Cristo and the daring swordsmen in The Three Musketeers. Yet few realize that these memorable characters were inspired by Dumas' father, General Alex Dumas, the son of a French count and a black Haitian slave. Tom Reiss brings the elder Dumas alive with previously unpublished correspondence and meticulous research, providing the context necessary to understand how exceptional his life as a mulatto general in a slave-owning empire truly was. From single-handedly holding a bridge in the Alps against 20 enemies to spending years held captive in a fortress, Alex Dumas is a fascinating character that not even his son's vivid imagination could have dreamed up. --Malissa Kent ...more

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• General Relativity and the Milky Way. Ken Croswell @NewScientist

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  Jul 21 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGeneral Relativity and the Milky Way. Ken Croswell @NewScientisthttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2133830-general-relativity-passes-test-at-milky-ways-central-black-hole/ .

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• Troubled Refuge: 1 of 4: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Chandra Manning (Author), Bernadette Dunne (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 20 2019

  Photo:  The Virginia tourist Year: 1870 (1870s) Authors:  Pollard, Edward Alfred, 1831-1872 Subjects:  Publisher:  Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co. Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Troubled Refuge: 1 of 4: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Chandra Manning (Author), Bernadette Dunne (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Troubled-Refuge-Struggling-Freedom-Civil/dp/B01JB5L206/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=A fascinating and original portrait of the escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and black citizenship.  By the end of the Civil War, nearly half a million slaves had taken refuge behind Union lines in what became known as "contraband camps". These were crowded, dangerous places, yet some 12 to 15 percent of the Confederacy's slave population took almost unimaginable risks to reach them, and they became the first places Northerners came to know former slaves en masse.  Ranging from stories of individuals to those of armies on the move to the debates in Congress, Troubled Refuge probes what the camps were really like and how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united there. This alliance, which would outlast the war, helped to destroy slavery and ward off the surprisingly tenacious danger of reenslavement. But it also raised unsettling questions about the relationship between American civil and military authority and reshaped the meaning of American citizenship to the benefit as well as the lasting cost of African Americans....more

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• Troubled Refuge: 2 of 4: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Chandra Manning (Author), Bernadette Dunne (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 20 2019

  Photo: : The Virginia tourist Year: 1870 (1870s) Authors:  Pollard, Edward Alfred, 1831-1872 Subjects:  Publisher:  Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co. Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Troubled Refuge: 2 of 4: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Chandra Manning (Author), Bernadette Dunne (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Troubled-Refuge-Struggling-Freedom-Civil/dp/B01JB5L206/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=A fascinating and original portrait of the escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and black citizenship.  By the end of the Civil War, nearly half a million slaves had taken refuge behind Union lines in what became known as "contraband camps". These were crowded, dangerous places, yet some 12 to 15 percent of the Confederacy's slave population took almost unimaginable risks to reach them, and they became the first places Northerners came to know former slaves en masse.  Ranging from stories of individuals to those of armies on the move to the debates in Congress, Troubled Refuge probes what the camps were really like and how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united there. This alliance, which would outlast the war, helped to destroy slavery and ward off the surprisingly tenacious danger of reenslavement. But it also raised unsettling questions about the relationship between American civil and military authority and reshaped the meaning of American citizenship to the benefit as well as the lasting cost of African Americans....more

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• Troubled Refuge: 3 of 4: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Chandra Manning (Author), Bernadette Dunne (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 20 2019

  Photo: The Virginia tourist Year: 1870 (1870s) Authors:  Pollard, Edward Alfred, 1831-1872 Subjects:  Publisher:  Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co. Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Troubled Refuge: 3 of 4: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Chandra Manning (Author), Bernadette Dunne (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Troubled-Refuge-Struggling-Freedom-Civil/dp/B01JB5L206/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=A fascinating and original portrait of the escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and black citizenship.  By the end of the Civil War, nearly half a million slaves had taken refuge behind Union lines in what became known as "contraband camps". These were crowded, dangerous places, yet some 12 to 15 percent of the Confederacy's slave population took almost unimaginable risks to reach them, and they became the first places Northerners came to know former slaves en masse.  Ranging from stories of individuals to those of armies on the move to the debates in Congress, Troubled Refuge probes what the camps were really like and how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united there. This alliance, which would outlast the war, helped to destroy slavery and ward off the surprisingly tenacious danger of reenslavement. But it also raised unsettling questions about the relationship between American civil and military authority and reshaped the meaning of American citizenship to the benefit as well as the lasting cost of African Americans....more

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• Troubled Refuge: 4 of 4: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Chandra Manning (Author), Bernadette Dunne (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 20 2019

  Photo: Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 1016 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and index to points of interest. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 710/1; 710/2Title | Bird's eye view of the city of Wheeling, West Virginia 1870.Shelf ID | G3894.W6A3 1870 .R8Date | 1870Source | https://www.loc.gov/item/73694532/Author | [Ruger, A.]; Chicago Lithographing Co.; Ruger & Stonerhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Troubled Refuge: 4 of 4: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Chandra Manning (Author), Bernadette Dunne (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Troubled-Refuge-Struggling-Freedom-Civil/dp/B01JB5L206/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=A fascinating and original portrait of the escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and black citizenship.  By the end of the Civil War, nearly half a million slaves had taken refuge behind Union lines in what became known as "contraband camps". These were crowded, dangerous places, yet some 12 to 15 percent of the Confederacy's slave population took almost unimaginable risks to reach them, and they became the first places Northerners came to know former slaves en masse.  Ranging from stories of individuals to those of armies on the move to the debates in Congress, Troubled Refuge probes what the camps were really like and how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united there. This alliance, which would outlast the war, helped to destroy slavery and ward off the surprisingly tenacious danger of reenslavement. But it also raised unsettling questions about the relationship between American civil and military authority and reshaped the meaning of American citizenship to the benefit as well as the lasting cost of African Americans....more

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• American Phoenix: 1 of 4: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, A Man Who Turned Disaster Into Destiny Hardcover – October 16, 2012 by Sarah S. Kilborne (Author)

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  Jul 20 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow American Phoenix: 1 of 4: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, A Man Who Turned Disaster Into Destiny Hardcover – October 16, 2012 by Sarah S. Kilborne  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/American-Phoenix-Remarkable-William-Disaster/dp/1451671792/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=kilbourne+american+phoenix&qid=1563590783&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmr1In 1845 a young, penniless William Skinner sailed in steerage class on a boat that took him from the slums of London to the United States. Endowed with rare knowledge in the art of dyeing and an uncanny business sense, he acquired work in a fledgling silk mill in Massachusetts, quickly rising to prominence in the nation’s new luxury industry. Soon he opened his own factory and began turning out one of the bestselling silk brands in the country. Skinner was lauded as a pioneer in the textile industry and a manufacturer who knew no such word as fail. His business grew to sustain a bustling community filled with men, women, and children, living and working in the mill village of “Skinner-ville,” producing the country’s most glamorous, fashionable thread. Then, in 1874, disaster struck. Hundreds of millions of gallons of water burst through a nearby dam, destroying everything in its path, including Skinnerville. Within fifteen minutes, Skinner’s entire life’s work was swept away, and he found himself one of the central figures in the worst industrial disaster the nation had yet known. In this gripping narrative history, Skinner’s great-great-granddaughter, Sarah S. Kilborne, tells an inspiring, unforgettable American story—of a town devastated by unimaginable catastrophe; an industry that had no reason to succeed except for the perseverance of a few intrepid entrepreneurs; and a man who had nothing—and everything—to lose as he struggled to rebuild his life a second time. None of Skinner’s peers who lost their factories in the Mill River Flood withstood the shock of their losses, but Skinner went on to stage one of the greatest comebacks in the annals of American industry. As a result of his efforts to survive, he became one of the leading silk manufacturers in the world, leaving an indelible imprint on the history of American fashion and style. More striking still, this achievement would never have been possible if Skinner hadn’t been ruined by the flood and forced, at age forty-nine, to start all over again, rebuilding everything with just one asset: the knowledge in his head. With masterful skill Kilborne brings to life an era when fabric was fashion, silk was supreme, factories were beacons of American success, and immigrants like Skinner with the secrets of age-old European arts possessed knowledge worth gold to Americans. Here is a story of ambition and desire, resilience and faith, disaster and survival. It is about making it, losing it, and then making it again despite the odds. An enthralling tale, American Phoenix offers a new twist on the American dream, reminding us that just when we thought the dream was over, it may have only just begun....more

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• American Phoenix: 2 of 4: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, A Man Who Turned Disaster Into Destiny Hardcover – October 16, 2012 by Sarah S. Kilborne (Author)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow American Phoenix: 2 of 4: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, A Man Who Turned Disaster Into Destiny Hardcover – October 16, 2012 by Sarah S. Kilborne  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/American-Phoenix-Remarkable-William-Disaster/dp/1451671792/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=kilbourne+american+phoenix&qid=1563590783&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmr1In 1845 a young, penniless William Skinner sailed in steerage class on a boat that took him from the slums of London to the United States. Endowed with rare knowledge in the art of dyeing and an uncanny business sense, he acquired work in a fledgling silk mill in Massachusetts, quickly rising to prominence in the nation’s new luxury industry. Soon he opened his own factory and began turning out one of the bestselling silk brands in the country. Skinner was lauded as a pioneer in the textile industry and a manufacturer who knew no such word as fail. His business grew to sustain a bustling community filled with men, women, and children, living and working in the mill village of “Skinner-ville,” producing the country’s most glamorous, fashionable thread. Then, in 1874, disaster struck. Hundreds of millions of gallons of water burst through a nearby dam, destroying everything in its path, including Skinnerville. Within fifteen minutes, Skinner’s entire life’s work was swept away, and he found himself one of the central figures in the worst industrial disaster the nation had yet known. In this gripping narrative history, Skinner’s great-great-granddaughter, Sarah S. Kilborne, tells an inspiring, unforgettable American story—of a town devastated by unimaginable catastrophe; an industry that had no reason to succeed except for the perseverance of a few intrepid entrepreneurs; and a man who had nothing—and everything—to lose as he struggled to rebuild his life a second time. None of Skinner’s peers who lost their factories in the Mill River Flood withstood the shock of their losses, but Skinner went on to stage one of the greatest comebacks in the annals of American industry. As a result of his efforts to survive, he became one of the leading silk manufacturers in the world, leaving an indelible imprint on the history of American fashion and style. More striking still, this achievement would never have been possible if Skinner hadn’t been ruined by the flood and forced, at age forty-nine, to start all over again, rebuilding everything with just one asset: the knowledge in his head. With masterful skill Kilborne brings to life an era when fabric was fashion, silk was supreme, factories were beacons of American success, and immigrants like Skinner with the secrets of age-old European arts possessed knowledge worth gold to Americans. Here is a story of ambition and desire, resilience and faith, disaster and survival. It is about making it, losing it, and then making it again despite the odds. An enthralling tale, American Phoenix offers a new twist on the American dream, reminding us that just when we thought the dream was over, it may have only just begun....more

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• American Phoenix: 4 of 4: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, A Man Who Turned Disaster Into Destiny Hardcover – October 16, 2012 by Sarah S. Kilborne (Author)

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  Photo: A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrationsYear: 1890 (1890s)Authors:  Nason, Elias, 1811-1887 Varney, George J. (George Jones), 1836-1901Subjects:  Massachusetts -- GazetteersPublisher:  Boston : B.B. RussellContributing Library:  Boston Public LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  Boston Public Libraryhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow American Phoenix: 4 of 4: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, A Man Who Turned Disaster Into Destiny Hardcover – October 16, 2012 by Sarah S. Kilborne  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/American-Phoenix-Remarkable-William-Disaster/dp/1451671792/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=kilbourne+american+phoenix&amp;qid=1563590783&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1-fkmr1In 1845 a young, penniless William Skinner sailed in steerage class on a boat that took him from the slums of London to the United States. Endowed with rare knowledge in the art of dyeing and an uncanny business sense, he acquired work in a fledgling silk mill in Massachusetts, quickly rising to prominence in the nation’s new luxury industry. Soon he opened his own factory and began turning out one of the bestselling silk brands in the country. Skinner was lauded as a pioneer in the textile industry and a manufacturer who knew no such word as fail. His business grew to sustain a bustling community filled with men, women, and children, living and working in the mill village of “Skinner-ville,” producing the country’s most glamorous, fashionable thread. Then, in 1874, disaster struck. Hundreds of millions of gallons of water burst through a nearby dam, destroying everything in its path, including Skinnerville. Within fifteen minutes, Skinner’s entire life’s work was swept away, and he found himself one of the central figures in the worst industrial disaster the nation had yet known. In this gripping narrative history, Skinner’s great-great-granddaughter, Sarah S. Kilborne, tells an inspiring, unforgettable American story—of a town devastated by unimaginable catastrophe; an industry that had no reason to succeed except for the perseverance of a few intrepid entrepreneurs; and a man who had nothing—and everything—to lose as he struggled to rebuild his life a second time. None of Skinner’s peers who lost their factories in the Mill River Flood withstood the shock of their losses, but Skinner went on to stage one of the greatest comebacks in the annals of American industry. As a result of his efforts to survive, he became one of the leading silk manufacturers in the world, leaving an indelible imprint on the history of American fashion and style. More striking still, this achievement would never have been possible if Skinner hadn’t been ruined by the flood and forced, at age forty-nine, to start all over again, rebuilding everything with just one asset: the knowledge in his head. With masterful skill Kilborne brings to life an era when fabric was fashion, silk was supreme, factories were beacons of American success, and immigrants like Skinner with the secrets of age-old European arts possessed knowledge worth gold to Americans. Here is a story of ambition and desire, resilience and faith, disaster and survival. It is about making it, losing it, and then making it again despite the odds. An enthralling tale, American Phoenix offers a new twist on the American dream, reminding us that just when we thought the dream was over, it may have only just begun....more

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• American Phoenix: 3 of 4: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, A Man Who Turned Disaster Into Destiny Hardcover – October 16, 2012 by Sarah S. Kilborne (Author)

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  Photo:  A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrationsYear: 1890 (1890s)Authors:  Nason, Elias, 1811-1887 Varney, George J. (George Jones), 1836-1901Subjects:  Massachusetts -- GazetteersPublisher:  Boston : B.B. RussellContributing Library:  Boston Public LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  Boston Public Libraryhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow American Phoenix: 3 of 4: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, A Man Who Turned Disaster Into Destiny Hardcover – October 16, 2012 by Sarah S. Kilborne  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/American-Phoenix-Remarkable-William-Disaster/dp/1451671792/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=kilbourne+american+phoenix&amp;qid=1563590783&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1-fkmr1In 1845 a young, penniless William Skinner sailed in steerage class on a boat that took him from the slums of London to the United States. Endowed with rare knowledge in the art of dyeing and an uncanny business sense, he acquired work in a fledgling silk mill in Massachusetts, quickly rising to prominence in the nation’s new luxury industry. Soon he opened his own factory and began turning out one of the bestselling silk brands in the country. Skinner was lauded as a pioneer in the textile industry and a manufacturer who knew no such word as fail. His business grew to sustain a bustling community filled with men, women, and children, living and working in the mill village of “Skinner-ville,” producing the country’s most glamorous, fashionable thread. Then, in 1874, disaster struck. Hundreds of millions of gallons of water burst through a nearby dam, destroying everything in its path, including Skinnerville. Within fifteen minutes, Skinner’s entire life’s work was swept away, and he found himself one of the central figures in the worst industrial disaster the nation had yet known. In this gripping narrative history, Skinner’s great-great-granddaughter, Sarah S. Kilborne, tells an inspiring, unforgettable American story—of a town devastated by unimaginable catastrophe; an industry that had no reason to succeed except for the perseverance of a few intrepid entrepreneurs; and a man who had nothing—and everything—to lose as he struggled to rebuild his life a second time. None of Skinner’s peers who lost their factories in the Mill River Flood withstood the shock of their losses, but Skinner went on to stage one of the greatest comebacks in the annals of American industry. As a result of his efforts to survive, he became one of the leading silk manufacturers in the world, leaving an indelible imprint on the history of American fashion and style. More striking still, this achievement would never have been possible if Skinner hadn’t been ruined by the flood and forced, at age forty-nine, to start all over again, rebuilding everything with just one asset: the knowledge in his head. With masterful skill Kilborne brings to life an era when fabric was fashion, silk was supreme, factories were beacons of American success, and immigrants like Skinner with the secrets of age-old European arts possessed knowledge worth gold to Americans. Here is a story of ambition and desire, resilience and faith, disaster and survival. It is about making it, losing it, and then making it again despite the odds. An enthralling tale, American Phoenix offers a new twist on the American dream, reminding us that just when we thought the dream was over, it may have only just begun....more

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• Mission to Paris:1 of 2: A Novel Hardcover – June 12, 2012. by Alan Furst (Author)

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  Photo: The gare Saint-Lazare (Paris) around the track #26 in the 1930sFrançais : La gare Saint-Lazare autour de la voie 26 dans les années 1930Date | circa 1930 Source | http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memoire_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_1=REF&VALUE_1=AP43LE01164Author | Noël Le Boyer http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Mission to Paris:1 of 2: A Novel Hardcover – June 12, 2012. by Alan Furst  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Paris-Novel-Alan-Furst/dp/1400069483/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=alan+furst+mission+to+paris&amp;qid=1563590263&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-2It is the late summer of 1938, Europe is about to explode, the Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie for Paramount France. The Nazis know he’s coming—a secret bureau within the Reich Foreign Ministry has for years been waging political warfare against France, using bribery, intimidation, and corrupt newspapers to weaken French morale and degrade France’s will to defend herself. For their purposes, Fredric Stahl is a perfect agent of influence, and they attack him. What they don’t know is that Stahl, horrified by the Nazi war on Jews and intellectuals, has become part of an informal spy service being run out of the American embassy in Paris. From Alan Furst, the bestselling author, often praised as the best spy novelist ever, comes a novel that’s truly hard to put down. Mission to Paris includes beautifully drawn scenes of romance and intimacy, and the novel is alive with extraordinary characters: the German Baroness von Reschke, a famous hostess deeply involved in Nazi clandestine operations; the assassins Herbert and Lothar; the Russian film actress and spy Olga Orlova; the Hungarian diplomat and spy, Count Janos Polanyi; along with the French cast of Stahl’s movie, German film producers, and the magnetic women in Stahl’s life, the socialite Kiki de Saint-Ange and the émigré Renate Steiner. But always at the center of the novel is the city of Paris, the heart and soul of Europe—its alleys and bistros, hotels grand and anonymous, and the Parisians, living every night as though it was their last. As always, Alan Furst brings to life both a dark time in history and the passion of the human hearts that fought to survive it....more

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• Mission to Paris:2 of 2: A Novel Hardcover – June 12, 2012. by Alan Furst (Author)

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  Photo: Français : Une rame de la ligne 7 du métro de Paris, France, à la station Porte d'ItalieDate | circa 1960 Source | Scan personnel (own work)Author | Inconnu (unknown)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Mission to Paris:2 of 2: A Novel Hardcover – June 12, 2012. by Alan Furst  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Paris-Novel-Alan-Furst/dp/1400069483/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=alan+furst+mission+to+paris&qid=1563590263&s=books&amp;sr=1-2It is the late summer of 1938, Europe is about to explode, the Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie for Paramount France. The Nazis know he’s coming—a secret bureau within the Reich Foreign Ministry has for years been waging political warfare against France, using bribery, intimidation, and corrupt newspapers to weaken French morale and degrade France’s will to defend herself. For their purposes, Fredric Stahl is a perfect agent of influence, and they attack him. What they don’t know is that Stahl, horrified by the Nazi war on Jews and intellectuals, has become part of an informal spy service being run out of the American embassy in Paris. From Alan Furst, the bestselling author, often praised as the best spy novelist ever, comes a novel that’s truly hard to put down. Mission to Paris includes beautifully drawn scenes of romance and intimacy, and the novel is alive with extraordinary characters: the German Baroness von Reschke, a famous hostess deeply involved in Nazi clandestine operations; the assassins Herbert and Lothar; the Russian film actress and spy Olga Orlova; the Hungarian diplomat and spy, Count Janos Polanyi; along with the French cast of Stahl’s movie, German film producers, and the magnetic women in Stahl’s life, the socialite Kiki de Saint-Ange and the émigré Renate Steiner. But always at the center of the novel is the city of Paris, the heart and soul of Europe—its alleys and bistros, hotels grand and anonymous, and the Parisians, living every night as though it was their last. As always, Alan Furst brings to life both a dark time in history and the passion of the human hearts that fought to survive it....more

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• The Sea and Civilization: 1 of 8: A Maritime History of the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Lincoln Paine (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 19 2019

  Photo: World's oldest depiction of a stern-mounted steering rudder (c. 1420 BC) Maler der Grabkammer des Menna - The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202.  Author | Gaston Braun (1845-1928)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Sea and Civilization: 1 of 8: A Maritime History of the World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Lincoln Paine (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/B078TMZJYC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.  Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era....more

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• The Sea and Civilization: 2 of 8: A Maritime History of the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Lincoln Paine (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 19 2019

  Photo: The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolutionYear: 1911 (1910s)Authors:  Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944Subjects:  Ships ShipbuildingPublisher:  Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company London, Seeley and co., limitedContributing Library:  Boston College LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  Boston Library Consortium Member Librarieshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Sea and Civilization: 2 of 8: A Maritime History of the World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Lincoln Paine (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/B078TMZJYC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.  Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era....more

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• The Sea and Civilization: 4 of 8: A Maritime History of the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Lincoln Paine (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 19 2019

  Photo: Legend: "The great ships full of boys and girls sent in search of the immortal medicine (Hôraizan) by the Chinese Emperor Shih Huang Ti (Shikôtei), c. 219 BCE". A 19th century ukiyo-e by Kuniyoshi depicting the ships of the great sea expedition sent around 219 BC by the first Chinese Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, to find the legendary home of the immortals, the Mount Penglai, and retrieve the elixir of immortality. Utagawa Kuniyoshi - Museum of Fine Arts Boston Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Sea and Civilization: 4 of 8: A Maritime History of the World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Lincoln Paine (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/B078TMZJYC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.  Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era....more

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• The Sea and Civilization: 3 of 8: A Maritime History of the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Lincoln Paine (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 19 2019

  Photo: Depiction of the Expedition to Suez led by João de Castro in 1541, showing the main types of Portuguese ships that operated in the Indian Ocean in the 16th century, including two carracks, a galleon, two galleys and a round square caravel.D. João de Castro (1540) - Tábuas dos Roteiros da Índia - Roteiro do Mar Roxo, 1540 (held by Universidade de Coimbra - a 16th copy also held by British Library) Portuguese Carracks, galleon, round square caravel and galleys, in the Routemap of the Red Sea, depicted by João de Castro during the Portuguese expedition to Suez - Egypt, in 1541. 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 70 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. Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Jamaica has 95 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Côte d'Ivoire has a general copyright term of 99 years and Honduras has 75 years, but they do implement the rule of the shorter term. Copyright may extend on works created by French who died for France in World War II (more information), Russians who served in the Eastern Front of World War II (known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia) and posthumously rehabilitated victims of Soviet repressions (more information). 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:Galleon, Carracks, Galley and Galeota- Routemap of the Red Sea-1540  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Sea and Civilization: 3 of 8: A Maritime History of the World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Lincoln Paine (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/B078TMZJYC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.  Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era....more

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• The Sea and Civilization: 5 of 8: A Maritime History of the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Lincoln Paine (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 19 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Sea and Civilization: 5 of 8: A Maritime History of the World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Lincoln Paine (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/B078TMZJYC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.  Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era....more

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• The Sea and Civilization: 6 of 8: A Maritime History of the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Lincoln Paine (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 19 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Sea and Civilization: 6 of 8: A Maritime History of the World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Lincoln Paine (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/B078TMZJYC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.  Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era....more

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• The Sea and Civilization: 7 of 8: A Maritime History of the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Lincoln Paine (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 19 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Sea and Civilization: 7 of 8: A Maritime History of the World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Lincoln Paine (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/B078TMZJYC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.  Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era....more

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• The Sea and Civilization: 8 of 8: A Maritime History of the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Lincoln Paine (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Sea and Civilization: 8 of 8: A Maritime History of the World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Lincoln Paine (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Civilization-Maritime-History-World/dp/B078TMZJYC/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world's waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.  Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors' first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post-Cold War era....more

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• Rise of Bojo and the No-Deal Hard-Brexit. 1 of 2: Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Photo:  T. D. Skidmore's 1922 Cosmopolitan illustration for P. G. Wodehouse short story "Bertie Gets Even"Date | 1922Source | https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000544108Author | P. G. Wodehouse, T. D. Skidmorehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRise of Bojo and the No-Deal Hard-Brexit. 1 of 2: Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs.Meanwhile, the battle for the leadership of the UK’s governing Conservative Party has highlighted only short-term threats from the proposed UK withdrawal from the European Union (Brexit). Those opposing Brexit allege the prospects of massive economic disruption — without supporting evidence — and ignore the reality of a flat to declining European Union (EU) economic prospect which could offer a far worse longer-term strategic outlook for the UK.   The UK survived two world wars and the Cold War in the 20th Century, but the “remain” proponents argue that getting out of the EU could be something the UK would not easily survive. The result, however, is that, if former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was to win the leadership contest and emerges as UK Prime Minister, then a “hard” or “no deal” Brexit was probable, and would give the UK its best opportunity to rebuild its strategic viability.  What is already evident is the reality that the UK has begun planning for greater national efforts in the development of defense industry and technology in the post-Brexit environment, bearing in mind the considerable, positive impact which UK defense and aerospace technology has had on the UK’s economic and technological base over recent decades. The UK defense sector has already also begun to resurge in the marketplace with its new Type 26 frigate program, with export orders from Canada and Australia. The major hurdle now facing the incoming Prime Minister is the reality that Parliament has voted that the UK could not exit from the EU without a “deal”, and yet the same Parliament has thrice rejected the only “deal” which the EU would accept. And there was insufficient remaining time for a new “deal” to be negotiated between London and Brussels. It would be difficult for the incoming Prime Minister to allow the UK to terminate its EU membership without prior ratification from Parliament, and yet the clock could just run out, if the Prime Minister can prevent a new parliamentary vote, providing a de factowithdrawal on October 31, 2019. ...more

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• Rise of Bojo and the No-Deal Hard-Brexit. 2 of 2: Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  Photo: 1923 Strand Magazine illustration by A. Wallis Mills for the short story "Jeeves Takes Charge" by P. G. Wodehouse, featuring the characters Florence Craye, Sir Willoughby, and Bertie Wooster.Date | April 1923Source | The Strand Magazine, in Londonhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRise of Bojo and the No-Deal Hard-Brexit. 2 of 2: Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs.Meanwhile, the battle for the leadership of the UK’s governing Conservative Party has highlighted only short-term threats from the proposed UK withdrawal from the European Union (Brexit). Those opposing Brexit allege the prospects of massive economic disruption — without supporting evidence — and ignore the reality of a flat to declining European Union (EU) economic prospect which could offer a far worse longer-term strategic outlook for the UK.   The UK survived two world wars and the Cold War in the 20th Century, but the “remain” proponents argue that getting out of the EU could be something the UK would not easily survive. The result, however, is that, if former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was to win the leadership contest and emerges as UK Prime Minister, then a “hard” or “no deal” Brexit was probable, and would give the UK its best opportunity to rebuild its strategic viability.  What is already evident is the reality that the UK has begun planning for greater national efforts in the development of defense industry and technology in the post-Brexit environment, bearing in mind the considerable, positive impact which UK defense and aerospace technology has had on the UK’s economic and technological base over recent decades. The UK defense sector has already also begun to resurge in the marketplace with its new Type 26 frigate program, with export orders from Canada and Australia. The major hurdle now facing the incoming Prime Minister is the reality that Parliament has voted that the UK could not exit from the EU without a “deal”, and yet the same Parliament has thrice rejected the only “deal” which the EU would accept. And there was insufficient remaining time for a new “deal” to be negotiated between London and Brussels. It would be difficult for the incoming Prime Minister to allow the UK to terminate its EU membership without prior ratification from Parliament, and yet the clock could just run out, if the Prime Minister can prevent a new parliamentary vote, providing a de factowithdrawal on October 31, 2019. ...more

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• #TheScalaReport: Surprising decline of High Net Worth Individuals in the Asia-Pacific as China dips. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE ⁦@ScalaInc⁩

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  Jul 18 2019

  Photo: A man working as a combination letter-writer and fortune-teller and a man working as a barber in the same street, Shanghai, Shanghai Shi, China, ca.1900-1919 "Shanghai, but a common sight in China: a combination letter-writer and fortune-teller. Note the long gown and long sleeves, denoting a man who earned his living by literary, not manual, labor. Note the barber down the street who has just given a customer a very clean shave!"; 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. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: Surprising decline of High Net Worth Individuals in the Asia-Pacific as China dips. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE  ⁦@ScalaInc⁩ https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-sheds-millionaires-as-slowdown-shaves-fortunes-11562644802 ...more

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• Notes on keeping the peace in East Asia. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jul 18 2019

  Photo: Prince Qing with some royal cabinet members百楽兎 - Scanning 清·皇族內閣 Permission details To uploader: Please provide where the image was first published and who created it or held its copyright.View more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNotes on keeping the peace in East Asia.  @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast 

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• No movement expected in the China US trade negotiations. @AlanTonelson RealityChek

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  Jul 18 2019

  Photo: Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908), who personified the conservative Qing court and controlled court politics for 47 years, halted the attempt of her nephew, the Guangxu Emperor (1871–1908), the penultimate Qing emperor, to institute reforms in 1898. Hubert Vos - Seed, John, Hubert Vos, Court Painter of Empres Dowager Cixi, Arts of Asia, Jan/Feb 2015Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNo movement expected in the China US trade negotiations. @AlanTonelson RealityChekhttps://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/12/peter-navarro-dont-believe-anything-you-read-in-the-chinese-or-us-press-about-trade-negotiations.html ...more

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• China is an existential threat says the JCS. Peter Huessy, Mitchell Institute of the Air Force Association.

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  Jul 18 2019

  Photo: Nanjing Road during Xinhai Revolution [1] through [w:Xinhai Revolution in Shanghai.jpg] 原名"上海庆祝民国改元"，载《东方杂志》第八卷第十一号 Permission details To uploader: Please provide where the image was first published and who created it or held its copyright.View more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowChina is an existential threat says the JCS.  Peter Huessy, Mitchell Institute of the Air Force Association. https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/politics/mark-milley-us-military-china-intl-hnk/index.html ...more

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• Google AI goes to China & What is to be done? BrandonWeichert Brandon Weichert @WeTheBrandon

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  Jul 18 2019

  Photo: China Centenary Missionary Conference records ; Held at Shanghai, April 25 to May 8, 1907Year: 1907 (1900s)Authors:  China Centenary Missionary Conference (1907 : Shanghai)Subjects:  Missionaries MissionsPublisher:  Shanghai : Centenary Conference CommitteeContributing Library:  Cornell University LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGoogle AI goes to China & What is to be done? BrandonWeichert Brandon Weichert @WeTheBrandon https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/17/ex-white-house-advisor-richard-clarke-thiel-right-on-google-and-china.html ...more

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• China aggressively in the Caribbean & What is to be done? @MPPregent @Hudson

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  Jul 18 2019

  Photo: The storied West Indies Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors:  Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion), 1849-1913 Subjects:  Publisher:  New York, D. Appleton and company Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  The Library of Congress http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowChina aggressively in the Caribbean & What is to be done? @MPPregent @Hudson https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-28/u-s-china-rivalry-offers-caribbean-rare-opportunity. ...more

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• Shortening the long tail of the supply chain: 1 of 2: & What is to be done. VIJAY V. VAITHEESWARAN US Business Editor, @TheEconomist @vvvchina

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  Jul 18 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowShortening the long tail of the supply chain: 1 of 2:  & What is to be done. VIJAY V. VAITHEESWARAN US Business Editor, @TheEconomist  @vvvchinahttps://www.economist.com/special-report/2019/07/11/supply-chains-are-undergoing-a-dramatic-transformation

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• Fifty Years After the Moon-Landing is an all commercial space show. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 18 2019

  Photo: The iconic image of the Man in the Moon Georges Méliès - Roger-Viollet Screenshot from Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902) Permission details Public domainView more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFifty Years After the Moon-Landing is an all commercial space show. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/apollo-landing-tapes-for-sale/ ...more

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• Hayabusa 2 reveals that carbonaceous chondrite asteroids are unlikely to survive entry to the atmosphere.

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  Jul 18 2019

  Photo: OSIRIS-REx Arrives at BennuAfter traveling through space for more than two years and over two billion miles, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft arrived at its destination, asteroid Bennu, on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. The spacecraft will spend almost a year surveying the asteroid with five scientific instrum