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• 183: Roger Stone walks. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jul 14 2020

  (Photo: )Yale Law Library LM ZA F3495 1910, p2-3Femmes d'aujourd'hui : l'avocate Algocratine (Paris: Laboratoire Lancosme, [between 1910 and 1920?]; 30 x 18 cm. (folded to 18 x 15 cm.) Advertisement for the pain reliever Algocratine (Aspirin). Hicks classification: LM ZA F3495 1910. Call # Rare26 19-0052. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowRoger Stone walks.  @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/trump-spares-stone-from-imprisonment-sparking-howls-from-amnesiac-democrats/ ...more

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• 183: Three Obama-appointed judges sign on to the Resistance and defy the DOJ. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  (Photo: Yale Law Library FollowLM ZA M612 1910 Map CaseMlle Miropolsky à la "conference des avocats." [Paris: Editions P. LaFitte, 1910?]; 35 x 27 cm. Illustration removed from the French magazin Femina portrays Mile Miropolsky speaking in a competiton before the Paris Bar. Hicks classification: LM ZA M612 1910 Map Case. Call # Rare Map Case 0049. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowThree Obama-appointed judges sign on to the Resistance and defy the DOJ. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/corner/another-obama-judge-delays-execution-of-capital-defendant/ ...more

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• 165: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost String of Paleolithic Ornament Shells from 120,000 BCE in Northern Israel. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  (Photo: Garry Todd, public domain.Paleolithic diorama of cave life National Museum: China Through the Ages, exhibit 1. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost String of Paleolithic Ornament Shells from 120,000 BCE in Northern Israel.  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_preshttps://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/humans-used-string-for-their-bling-over-120,000-years-ago ...more

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• 165: No one claims credit for the explosions, fires, destructions across Iran to military and nuclear facilities. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  (Photo: Title: Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851Year: 1882 (1880s)Authors:  Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894Subjects:  Nineveh (Extinct city) Babylon (Extinct city) Middle East -- Description and travelPublisher:  London : J. MurrayContributing Library:  University of California LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  MSN.Text Appearing Before Image:ought from the forestsof Lebanon by Sardanapalus. After a lapse of nearly threethousand years, it had retained its original fragrance. Manyother such beams were discovered.f The whole superstruc-ture, as well as the roof and floor of the building, like thoseof the temple and palace of Solomon, may have been ofthis precious material. About one hundred feet to the east of the building lastdescribed, and on the very edge of the artificial platform, Idiscovered a second temple, apparently dedicated to theAssyrian goddess, Beltis. Its principal entrance faced thesouth, and was on the same level as the north-west palace.This gateway was formed by two colossal lions with extendedjaws, gathered-up lips and nostrils, and flowing manes. Theheads, though to a certain extent conventional in form, weredesigned with that vigour and spirit so remarkably displayedby the Assyrian sculptor in the delineation of animals. The * Chamber c. Plan IT. p. 34. \ Scvcial specimens are now in the British Museum.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/scheduleshttp://johnbatchelorshow.com/blogTwitter: @BatchelorShowNo one claims credit for the explosions, fires, destructions across Iran to military and nuclear facilities. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_preshttps://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-will-react-decisively-if-foreign-gov-involved-in-natanz-explosion-634904 ...more

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• 182: Roger Stone is not dangerous. @johnfund @DavidMDrucker

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  Image:   Stone with President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush in 1982 John Fund, NRO, & David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, in re: Roger Stone, a Republican prankster; the flap over the commutation of his sentence.  Democrats say, “corrupt”; Republicans say, “hoax.” Trump would have fared better had he commuted the sentence after the election.  Many Republicans like Trump’s policies but ask why he’s surrounded himself with people having questionable ethics.  The Trump base has shrunk to the low forties.   ...more

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• 182: The Cancel Culture at the voting booth. @DavidMDrucker @johnfund

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  Image:  New York polling place circa 1900, showing voting booths on the left.E. Benjamin Andrews - Andrews, E. Benjamin. History of the United States, volume V. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1912. A New York polling place, showing booths on the left. Public Domain File:1900 New York polling place.jpg Created: 1 January 1912 . David M Drucker, Washington Examiner, & John Fund, NRO, in re: Vice-president Pence spoke with David Drucker. “The difference between President Trump and Joe Biden is that Trump will do something about it, whereas Biden will not.”  The debate at Harper’s magazine. The castigation of J K Rowling.    The defenestration [metaphorically] of an editor.  Cancel culture and unrest won't help the president in the November election unless . . .    Public confidence and comfort [or lack of it] at re-entering the society and economy . . .  ...more

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• 181: Whistleblower virologist from Hong Kong reports on PRC virus cover-up. @GordonGChang

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  Jul 14 2020

  Image:  Martinus Beijerinck, a Dutch microbiologist and botanist who was one of the founders of virology and environmental microbiology; in his laboratory, 12 May 1921 on the back in his sister's handwriting; taken just before he retired on 21 June 1921, and left Delft for good. From the Delft School of Microbiology Archives Sean Lin, former lab director of the viral disease branch of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in re: Li-Meng Yan:  A whistleblower virologist from Hong Kong reports on PRC virus cover-up . She personifies the cover-up: speaks of her own experience.  She first found the virus in December; in January, was told to be silent and threatened and followed.  She expected to be “disappeared.” Apparently was given a drug two days before she fled, which she did at the end of April.  Her charges are extraordinary; she’s distinctly credible.   . . . The cover-up shamefully extended to health professionals in Hong Kong.  They concealed information. China keeps changing its story about the timeline of the virus.  https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinese-virologist-coronavirus-cover-up-flee-hong-kong-whistleblower ...more

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• 181: Hong Kongers vote in overwhelming numbers in defiance of the PRC. @Michael_Yon , @GordonGChang

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  Image:  Possibly the earliest painting of Hong Kong Island, showing the waterfront settlement which became Victoria City Michal Yon, Far East reporter, and Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: Six hundred thousand [610,000] vote in Hong Kong despite fears under the new law:  a stunning turnout; shows Beijing that Hong Kongers will not be intimidated.  About 110,00 were expected. The Great Firewall is closing down HK. Feisty populace. This is a true insurgency, and will not go away. Legco [pron: ledge-co] elections in September.  https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/asia/hong-kong-democratic-primary-election-intl-hnk/index.html ...more

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• 181: The CIA analyst Sarah Carlson recognized that Benghazi was an Al Qaeda operation. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Image:  Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1Year: 1894 (1890s)Authors:  Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942Subjects:  BiographyPublisher:  New York : Selmar HessContributing Library:  Kelly - University of TorontoText Appearing Before Image:n it down theriver, while the other followed along the banks, fighting its way through succes-sive Indian armies. At length, having reached the ocean, he ordered Nearchus,the commander of the fleet, to sail thence to the Persian Gulf, while he himselfstruck inland with one division of his army, in order to return home throughGedrosia (Beluchistan). During this march his forces suffered fearfully fromwant of food and water. Of all the troops which had set out with Alexander,little more than a fourth part arrived with him in Persia (325 b. c). At Susa he married Stateira, the daughter of Darius, and he bestowed pres-ents on those Macedonians (some ten thousand in number) who had marriedPersian women, his design being to unite the two nations. He also distributedliberal rewards among his soldiers. Soon afterward he was deprived, by death,of his favorite Hephestion. His grief was unbounded, and he interred the deadman with kingly honors. As he was returning from Ecbatana to Babylon, it isText Appearing After Image:ALEXANDER THE GREAT 13 said that the Magi foretold that the latter city would prove fatal to him ; but hedespised their warnings. On the way, he was met by ambassadors from all partsof the world—Libya, Italy, Carthage, Greece, the Scythians, Celts, and Iberians.At Babylon he was busy with gigantic plans for the future, both of conquestand civilization, when he was suddenly taken ill after a banquet, and died elevendays later, 323 B.C., in the thirty-second year of his age, and the thirteenth ofhis reign. His body was deposited in a golden coffin at Alexandria, by Ptole-meeus, and divine honors were paid to him, not only in Egypt, but in other coun-tries. He had appointed no heir to his immense dominions; but to the questionof his friends, Who should inherit them ? he replied, The most worthy.After many disturbances, his generals recognized as Kings the weak-minded Aridajus a son of Philip by Philinna. the dancer—and Alexanders posthumous son by Roxana, Alexander JEgus, while they Generation Jihad Ep. 17 – The CIA in Libya Former CIA Officer Sarah Carlson discusses her career as a counterterrorism analyst, the jihadist scene in Libya and the U.S. evacuation from Tripoli in 2014. ...more

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• 181: The Taliban again deny that Al Qaeda is an ally in Afghanistan. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Image:  Regional security risks and levels of opium poppy cultivation in 2007–2008. Public domain.  United Nations Department of Safety and Security . Taliban again denies Al Qaeda is in Afghanistan This time, the Taliban denied a Department of Defense report that Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent cooperates with the Taliban by claiming AQIS isn't inside the country.Uzbek jihadist group claims capture of Afghan militiamen Katibat Imam al-Bukhari, a Taliban-loyal Uzbek group that operates in both Afghanistan and Syria, again promotes its Afghanistan operations. This comes as the Taliban has attempted to deny the presence of foreign fighters inside the country. ...more

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• 180: Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul:4of4: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty Hardcover – January 5, 2012

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  Image Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul:4of4:  Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty Hardcover – January 5, 2012 https://www.amazon.com/Roger-Williams-Creation-American-Soul/dp/0670023051/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America.  For four hundred years, Americans have wrestled with and fought over two concepts that define the nature of the nation: the proper relation between church and state and between a free individual and the state. These debates began with the extraordinary thought and struggles of Roger Williams, who had an unparalleled understanding of the conflict between a government that justified itself by "reason of state"-i.e. national security-and its perceived "will of God" and the "ancient rights and liberties" of individuals. This is a story of power, set against Puritan America and the English Civil War. Williams's interactions with King James, Francis Bacon, Oliver Cromwell, and his mentor Edward Coke set his course, but his fundamental ideas came to fruition in America, as Williams, though a Puritan, collided with John Winthrop's vision of his "City upon a Hill." Acclaimed historian John M. Barry explores the development of these fundamental ideas through the story of the man who was the first to link religious freedom to individual liberty, and who created in America the first government and society on earth informed by those beliefs. The story is essential to the continuing debate over how we define the role of religion and political power in modern American life....more

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• 180: Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul:3of4: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty Hardcover – January 5, 2012

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  ImageImage from page 169 of "The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" (1920) Identifier: historyofstateof04bick Title: The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Year: 1920 (1920s) Authors:  Bicknell, Thomas Williams, 1834-1925 Subjects:  Rhode Island -- History Rhode Island -- Biography Publisher:  New York, The American Historical Society Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation  Text Appearing Before Image:three sharpletters, upbraiding him for his letter to George Fox. In one of theseletters he advises Williams to provide an armor of proof as Goliath did,for George Fox is furnished with the armour that thou hast no skill tomake use of ; having also the sword of the spirit to cut down they vainimaginings. Palfrey writes of Mr. Williams restless career. The endto which this discussion leads after a painstaking examination of allavailable records and evidence is that Roger Williams did not become areligious leader at Providence; that a Baptist Church was not organizedand founded except as stated by Callender; that on Mr. Williams returnfrom England in 1644, he took up his residence at Narragansett and ac-cording to Palfrey (Vol. I, p. 345), went into partnership with one Wil-cox, in trade with the Narragansett Indians, expecting thereby to becomerich. Here he remained until his vo>age to I_x)ndon with Dr. John Clarkein 1652-53. From his adoption of Seekerism, Mr. Williams ceased to be Text Appearing After Image:LOCATION OF FIRST SLXDAV SCHOOL IX AMFKUANow Occuiiic-d by I.fe lUiildiiig. Pawtuckct RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES 577 an influential factor in the religious life of Rhode Island. The story ofthe bickerings, the alienations and the breaking up of the company offirst settlers at Providence is too pathetic to be told in detail, and servesto show that to Mr. Williams never can be accorded the title of a religiousleader, or of a founder even of a religious society, to say nothing of theincredible relations of a pastor of a Baptist church, the first in America. That the Baptist Church of Providence is entitled to be called thefirst in the town, there can be no question. The date of its organizationas a church will never be solved, for the town records are absolutely silenton matters of church or religious history, and a diligent search forchurch records for two centuries has been in vain. One of the ministersof the First Baptist Church, Rev. John Stamford, about 1785, made dili-gent search for old Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul:3of4:  Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty Hardcover – January 5, 2012 https://www.amazon.com/Roger-Williams-Creation-American-Soul/dp/0670023051/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America.  For four hundred years, Americans have wrestled with and fought over two concepts that define the nature of the nation: the proper relation between church and state and between a free individual and the state. These debates began with the extraordinary thought and struggles of Roger Williams, who had an unparalleled understanding of the conflict between a government that justified itself by "reason of state"-i.e. national security-and its perceived "will of God" and the "ancient rights and liberties" of individuals. This is a story of power, set against Puritan America and the English Civil War. Williams's interactions with King James, Francis Bacon, Oliver Cromwell, and his mentor Edward Coke set his course, but his fundamental ideas came to fruition in America, as Williams, though a Puritan, collided with John Winthrop's vision of his "City upon a Hill." Acclaimed historian John M. Barry explores the development of these fundamental ideas through the story of the man who was the first to link religious freedom to individual liberty, and who created in America the first government and society on earth informed by those beliefs. The story is essential to the continuing debate over how we define the role of religion and political power in modern American life....more

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• 180: Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul:2of4: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty Hardcover – January 5, 2012

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  Image: Title: Image from page 170 of "United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present day.." (1893) Identifier: unitedstateshist00ridp Title: United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present day.. Year: 1893 (1890s) Authors:  Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900 Subjects:  Publisher:  Boston, New York, The United States history co. Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation  Text Appearing Before Image:gs of the gospel. When arraigned for these baddoctrines, he crowned his offences by telling the court that a test ofchurch-membership in a voter or a public officer was as ridiculous as theselection of a doctor of physic or the pilot of a ship on account of his skillin theology. These assertions raised such a storm in court that Williams wascondemned for heresy and banished from the colony. In the dead ofwinter he left home and became an exile in the desolate forest. For four-teen weeks he wandered on through the snow, sleeping at night on theground or in a hollow tree, living on parched corn, acorns and roots. He MASS A < JfFSETTS.—SETTLEMENT. 129 carried with him one precious treasure—a private letter from GovernorWinthrop, giving him words of cheer and encouragement. Nor did theIndians fail to show their gratitude to the man who had so nobly de-fended their rights. In the country of the Wampanoags he was kindlyentertained. Massasoit invited him to his cabin at Pokanoket, and Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul:2of4:  Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty Hardcover – January 5, 2012 https://www.amazon.com/Roger-Williams-Creation-American-Soul/dp/0670023051/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America.  For four hundred years, Americans have wrestled with and fought over two concepts that define the nature of the nation: the proper relation between church and state and between a free individual and the state. These debates began with the extraordinary thought and struggles of Roger Williams, who had an unparalleled understanding of the conflict between a government that justified itself by "reason of state"-i.e. national security-and its perceived "will of God" and the "ancient rights and liberties" of individuals. This is a story of power, set against Puritan America and the English Civil War. Williams's interactions with King James, Francis Bacon, Oliver Cromwell, and his mentor Edward Coke set his course, but his fundamental ideas came to fruition in America, as Williams, though a Puritan, collided with John Winthrop's vision of his "City upon a Hill." Acclaimed historian John M. Barry explores the development of these fundamental ideas through the story of the man who was the first to link religious freedom to individual liberty, and who created in America the first government and society on earth informed by those beliefs. The story is essential to the continuing debate over how we define the role of religion and political power in modern American life....more

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• 180: Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul:1of4: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty Hardcover – January 5, 2012

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  Image: Alonzo Chappel (1828–1887) was an American painter, best known for paintings depicting personalities and events from the American Revolution and early 19th-century American history.The Landing of Roger Williams in 1636 Object type | painting Date | 1857 Dimensions | Height: 50.8 cm (20 in) ; Width: 61.3 cm (24.1 in)  Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul:1of4:  Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty Hardcover – January 5, 2012 https://www.amazon.com/Roger-Williams-Creation-American-Soul/dp/0670023051/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America.  For four hundred years, Americans have wrestled with and fought over two concepts that define the nature of the nation: the proper relation between church and state and between a free individual and the state. These debates began with the extraordinary thought and struggles of Roger Williams, who had an unparalleled understanding of the conflict between a government that justified itself by "reason of state"-i.e. national security-and its perceived "will of God" and the "ancient rights and liberties" of individuals. This is a story of power, set against Puritan America and the English Civil War. Williams's interactions with King James, Francis Bacon, Oliver Cromwell, and his mentor Edward Coke set his course, but his fundamental ideas came to fruition in America, as Williams, though a Puritan, collided with John Winthrop's vision of his "City upon a Hill." Acclaimed historian John M. Barry explores the development of these fundamental ideas through the story of the man who was the first to link religious freedom to individual liberty, and who created in America the first government and society on earth informed by those beliefs. The story is essential to the continuing debate over how we define the role of religion and political power in modern American life....more

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• 179: Lincoln Unbound: 2of2: How an Ambitious Young Railsplitter Saved the American Dream--and How We Can Do It AgainHardcover – June 11, 2013

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  Image Title: Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slaveryYear: 1914 (1910s)Authors:  Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903Subjects:  Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents Slaves SlaveryPublisher:  New York : G.P. Putnam's SonsContributing Library:  Lincoln Financial Foundation CollectionDigitizing Sponsor:  State of Indiana through the Indiana State LibraryView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:Years afterward, when her hus-band had become President, she did not fail to remindhim that her advice, when he was wavering, had restrainedhim from throwing himself away on a distant terri-torial governorship. The bait held out to Lincoln atthat time was that Oregon would soon come into theUnion as a State and that he could probably return asa United States Senator. This glittering prospect madehim pause until his wifes opposition determined him. Itis a curious coincidence that, when Lincoln was President,Edward D. Baker, who was Lincolns friend and his suc-cessor in Congress, went to Oregon from California andwas elected United States Senator from that State. During Lincolns term in Congress, lasting from Decem-ber, 1847, to March, 1849, ne retained his home in Spring-field, his wife being in Washington with him only on briefvisits. Their eldest son, Robert Todd, was born August1, 1843; the second, Edward Baker, was born March 10,1846; the third? William Wallace, December 21, 1850;Text Appearing After Image:LINCOLNS SONS. 117 and the fourth, Thomas, April 4, 1853. Of these, thesecond died in infancy ; the third died while his father wasPresident ; the fourth survived his father, dying at the ageof nineteen. The eldest, Robert, Secretary of War underGarfield and under Arthur, is the sole survivor of thefamily. When Lincoln returned to Springfield fromCongress, he found his law practice fallen away, so that,to use his own expression, he had to begin all over again.But he had gained reputation during his congressionalterm, and he rebuilt his practice with ready skill and un-tiring industry. He had bought a house and lot inSpringfield, and there established himself and his familyunder a roof of his own, which he was never to leave untilhe left it for the last time, when he went to take up hisresidence in the White House at Washington. We aretold that it was a pleasant and sunny home where loveand order reigned. In the society of his children Lincolntook great delight. It cannot be said that Lincoln Unbound: 2of2: How an Ambitious Young Railsplitter Saved the American Dream--and How We Can Do It AgainHardcover – June 11, 2013 https://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Unbound-Ambitious-Railsplitter-Dream/dp/0062123785/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=rich+lowry+lincoln&qid=1594603527&s=audible&sr=8-1Lincoln Unbound is a thoughtful mix of history and politics from Rich Lowry, the New York Times bestselling author and editor of National Review, which traces Abraham Lincoln’s ambitious climb from provincial upstart to political powerhouse. Revered across the political spectrum, President Lincoln believed in a small but active government in a nation defined by aspiration. He embraced the market and the amazing transportation and communications revolutions beginning to take hold. He helped give birth to the modern industrial economy.Abraham Lincoln’s vision of an upwardly mobile society that rewards and supports individual striving was wondrously realized. Now, it is under threat. To meet these challenges, conservative columnist Rich Lowry draws us back to the lessons of Lincoln. It is imperative, he argues, to preserve a fluid economy that makes it possible for individuals to thrive and live the American dream...more

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• 179: Lincoln Unbound: 1of2: How an Ambitious Young Railsplitter Saved the American Dream--and How We Can Do It AgainHardcover – June 11, 2013

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  Image: Abraham Lincoln resided in Springfield for 24 years Original work: Thomas Hicks (1823-1890, artist) Leopold Grozelier (1830-1865, lithographer) W. William Schaus (publisher) J.H. Bufford's Lith. (printer) Restoration: Adam Cuerden - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID pga.00380. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. "Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Republican candidate for the presidency, 1860" - Lithograph by Leopold Grozelier, et al, showing the young Abraham Lincoln, before he grew his iconic beard. According to the Library of Congress, "Thomas Hicks painted a portrait of Lincoln at his office in Springfield specifically for this lithograph." This painting is in the collections of the Chicago Historical Society. Permission details Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file must have an additional copyright tag indicating the copyright status in the source country.View more Public Domainview terms File:Thomas Hicks - Leopold Grozelier - Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln 1860 - cropped to lithographic plate.jpg Created: 1 January 1860 Lincoln Unbound: 1of2: How an Ambitious Young Railsplitter Saved the American Dream--and How We Can Do It AgainHardcover – June 11, 2013 https://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Unbound-Ambitious-Railsplitter-Dream/dp/0062123785/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=rich+lowry+lincoln&qid=1594603527&s=audible&sr=8-1Lincoln Unbound is a thoughtful mix of history and politics from Rich Lowry, the New York Times bestselling author and editor of National Review, which traces Abraham Lincoln’s ambitious climb from provincial upstart to political powerhouse. Revered across the political spectrum, President Lincoln believed in a small but active government in a nation defined by aspiration. He embraced the market and the amazing transportation and communications revolutions beginning to take hold. He helped give birth to the modern industrial economy.Abraham Lincoln’s vision of an upwardly mobile society that rewards and supports individual striving was wondrously realized. Now, it is under threat. To meet these challenges, conservative columnist Rich Lowry draws us back to the lessons of Lincoln. It is imperative, he argues, to preserve a fluid economy that makes it possible for individuals to thrive and live the American dream...more

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• 178: Fierce Patriot: 8of8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman Audible Audiobook – Unabridged/ Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Image:The Burning of Columbia, South Carolina (1865) by William Waud for Harper's Weekly William Waud (d. 1878) for Harper's Weekly. - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3c33068. 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. The burning of Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865, by General Sherman's troops. Permission details This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.View more Public Domainview terms File:The burning of Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865.jpg Created: 8 April 1865 Fierce Patriot: 8of8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged/  Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Robert-O-Connell-audiobook/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1594601042&sr=1-4-catcorrWith a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy", Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, and instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny". From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman, bolstered both by contemporary journalists and by the work of modern historians. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential 19th-century American. Robert O' Connell worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History....more

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  Image:Sherman's burning of McPhersonville, South Carolina, illustrated by William Waud (March 4, 1865) William Waud - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.21756. 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. Sherman's March Through South Carolina – Burning of McPhersonville, February 1, 1865. Published in: Harper's Weekly, March 4, 1865, p. 136. Public Domain File:William Waud - Burning of McPhersonville 1865 - final Harper's Weekly version.jpg Created: 1 February 1865 Fierce Patriot: 7of8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged/  Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Robert-O-Connell-audiobook/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1594601042&sr=1-4-catcorrWith a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy", Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, and instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny". From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman, bolstered both by contemporary journalists and by the work of modern historians. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential 19th-century American. Robert O' Connell worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History....more

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  Image:Image from page 436 of "Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .." (1891) Identifier: lifedeedsofgener02nort Title: Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. Year: 1891 (1890s) Authors:  Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909 Subjects:  Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891Generals Publisher:  Philadelphia, National publishing co Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation   Fierce Patriot: 6of8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged/  Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Robert-O-Connell-audiobook/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1594601042&sr=1-4-catcorrWith a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy", Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, and instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny". From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman, bolstered both by contemporary journalists and by the work of modern historians. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential 19th-century American. Robert O' Connell worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History....more

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• 178: Fierce Patriot: 5of8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman Audible Audiobook – Unabridged/ Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Image:Year: 1891 (1890s)Authors:  Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909Subjects:  Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891Publisher:  Boston, Mass., Providence, R.I., Gately & O'GormanContributing 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 context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:?;i, iiW-MflWWAiW\;r .r SJI/iText Appearing After Image:BEFOKE THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. 193Note 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 | 1891Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14589532530/Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/lifedeedsofgener01nort/lifedeedsofgener01nort#page/n209/mode/1upAuthor | Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909Permission(Reusing this file) | At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.Flickr tags | bookid:lifedeedsofgener01nortbookyear:1891bookdecade:1890bookcentury:1800bookauthor:Northrop__Henry_Davenport__1836_1909booksubject:Sherman__William_T___William_Tecumseh___1820_1891bookpublisher:Boston__Mass___Providence__R_I___Gately___O_Gormanbookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congressbooksponsor:Sloan_Foundationbookleafnumber:209bookcollection:library_of_congressbookcollection:americanaFlickr posted date | 29 July 2014 Fierce Patriot: 5of8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged/  Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Robert-O-Connell-audiobook/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1594601042&sr=1-4-catcorrWith a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy", Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, and instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny". From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman, bolstered both by contemporary journalists and by the work of modern historians. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential 19th-century American. Robert O' Connell worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History....more

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  Image:Title: Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ..Year: 1891 (1890s)Authors:  Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909Subjects:  Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 GeneralsPublisher:  Philadelphia, National publishing coContributing 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 context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:'Text Appearing After Image:^^mmNote 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 | 1891Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14598313757/Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/lifedeedsofgener02nort/lifedeedsofgener02nort#page/n175/mode/1upAuthor | Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909 Fierce Patriot: 4of8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged/  Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Robert-O-Connell-audiobook/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1594601042&sr=1-4-catcorrWith a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy", Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, and instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny". From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman, bolstered both by contemporary journalists and by the work of modern historians. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential 19th-century American. Robert O' Connell worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History....more

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• 178: Fierce Patriot: 3of8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman Audible Audiobook – Unabridged/ Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Image:Title: Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ..Year: 1891 (1890s)Authors:  Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909Subjects:  Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 GeneralsPublisher:  Philadelphia, National publishing coContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  Sloan FoundationText Appearing Before Image:St. Louis, Co-lumbus, the Gibraltar of the ■West, is ours and Kentucky )is free. Thanks to the bril-liant strategy of the campaign iby which the enemys centre (was pierced at Forts Henry jand Donelson, his wings iso- •lated from each other and (turned, compelling thus the ievacuation of his stronghold of Bowling Green first, land now Columbus. Driven from all these strongholds, it became neces- ^sary for the Confederates to select some defensiveposition farther to the south. In obedience to in-structions from Richmond, Polk fell back some miles,still clinging to the shores of the Mississippi, and es-tablished himself at Island No. lo and at New Madrid.Attack on Island ^NTo. lO.These places, although fortified with great strength,Island No. lo particularly having had the special at-tention of General Beauregard and being deemed themost impregnable of all the posts on the Mississippi,the Confederates were compelled in succession tcevacuate, The attack on Island No, lo reflected the Fierce Patriot: 3of8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged/  Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Robert-O-Connell-audiobook/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1594601042&sr=1-4-catcorrWith a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy", Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, and instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny". From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman, bolstered both by contemporary journalists and by the work of modern historians. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential 19th-century American. Robert O' Connell worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History....more

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• 178: Fierce Patriot: 2of8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman Audible Audiobook – Unabridged/ Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Image:Title: Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ..Year: 1891 (1890s)Authors:  Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909Subjects:  Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 GeneralsPublisher:  Philadelphia, National publishing coContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  Sloan FoundationText Appearing Before Image:sition againstthe Confederates, who they were certain were attheir heels. Sherman about this time had trouble withsome of his ninety-day men, who wanted to returnhome. Mr. Lincoln visited the camp one day, whenone of the officers stepped up to the Presidents car-riage, in which Sherman was seated with him, andsaid: Mr. President I have a cause of erievance.This morning I went to speak to Colonel Sherman,and he threatened to shoot me. Mr. Lincoln repeatedinterrogatively the words, Threatened to shootyou ? — Yes, sir, he threatened to shoot me. Mr.Lincoln looked at him and then at Sherman, andbending his tall, spare form toward the officer, said tohim in a loud stage-whisper, that could be easily heardat some distance, Well, if I were you, and he threat-ened to shoot, I would not trust him, for I believe hewould do it. The officer disappeared amid thelaughter of all who were around. During the anxious August days after the battle ofBull Run, while Sherman was drilling and discipliningText Appearing After Image:GENERAL SHERMAN AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR. 18( 186 GENERAL SHERMAN. the raw regiments under him and getting ready to dohis part in repulsing the attack that was almost hourlyexpected, he received a note from General Robert An-derson asking him to call on him in Washington.Anderson explained that the Administration was be-coming alarmed about Kentucky, where matters wererapidly approaching a grave crisis. The Legislaturewas in session, and was ready, as soon as supportedby the General Government, to take measures thatwould keep the State in the Union. It had been de-termined, therefore, to organize a new military depart-ment, to be known as the Department of the Cum-berland, and to embrace Kentucky, Tennessee, etc. Critical Situation in Kentucky. Anderson said he had been offered the command,had accepted it, and wanted help. The Presidentagreed that he should select four of the brigadiers,and he wanted Sherman to be one of them and to behis right-hand man. Anderson had been the captai Fierce Patriot: 2of8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged/  Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Robert-O-Connell-audiobook/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1594601042&sr=1-4-catcorrWith a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy", Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, and instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny". From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman, bolstered both by contemporary journalists and by the work of modern historians. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential 19th-century American. Robert O' Connell worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History....more

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• 178: Fierce Patriot: 1of8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman Audible Audiobook – Unabridged/ Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Image:English: Picture a young William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) in military uniform.Français : Image du jeune William Tecumseh Sherman en uniforme militaire.Datum | Published November 1907Quelle | The Generals of the American Civil WarUrheber | Autor unbekannt Fierce Patriot: 1of8: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged/  Robert O'Connell (Author), Andrew Garman (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Patriot-Robert-O-Connell-audiobook/dp/B00LH07TI8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1594601042&sr=1-4-catcorrWith a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often paradoxical, easily caricatured character of General William T. Sherman for the most well-rounded portrait of the man yet written. There were many Shermans, according to O'Connell. Most prominently was Sherman the military strategist (indeed, one of the greatest strategists of all time), who gained an appreciation of geography from early campaigns out west and applied it to his famed Civil War march. Then there was "Uncle Billy", Sherman's popular persona, the charismatic and beloved leader of the Army of the West, and instrumental in the achievement of the transcontinental railroad in his post-war years. This Sherman, as O'Connell writes, was "the human embodiment of manifest destiny". From north to south and east to west, Sherman dedicated his life to keeping the United States united. Finally, there was Sherman the family man, whose tempestuous relationship with his wife (and stepsister!) Ellen is out of a Dickens novel. Throughout, O'Connell breaks down the misperceptions about Sherman, bolstered both by contemporary journalists and by the work of modern historians. O'Connell makes a compelling case that Sherman's march through the south was not a campaign of unmitigated destruction, but a necessary piece of strategy and the perceived chaos has been overblown. O'Connell's Sherman is ultimately a complicated and quintessential 19th-century American. Robert O' Connell worked as Senior Analyst at the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency's Foreign Science and Technology Center and was a contributing editor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History....more

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• 178: The Founders at Home: 4of4: The Building of America, 1735-1817. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Myron Magnet (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Image: Printmakers include Asher B. Durand, Henry Bryan Hall, George Hayward, J.B. Longacre, Max Rosenthal. Draughtsmen include David McNeely Stauffer.Title from Calendar of the Emmet Collection.Citation/reference : EM691Date | 1783Source | https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-31b3-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99Author | Scan by NYPL The Founders at Home: 4of4: The Building of America, 1735-1817.  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Myron Magnet (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/The-Founders-at-Home-Myron-Magnet-audiobook/dp/B00I8921J8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Why the American Revolution, of all the great revolutions, was the only enduring success. Through the Founders' own voices - and in the homes they designed and built to embody the ideal of domestic happiness they fought to achieve - we come to understand why the American Revolution, of all great revolutions, was the only enduring success. The Founders were vivid, energetic men, with sophisticated worldviews, and this magnificent reckoning of their successes draws liberally from their own eloquent writings on their actions and well-considered intentions.  Richly illustrated with America's historical and architectural treasures, this volume also considers the houses the Founders built with such care and money to reflect their vision for the fledgling nation. That so many great thinkers - Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, John Jay, the Lees of Stratford Hall, and polemicist William Livingston - came together to accomplish what rightly seemed to them almost a miracle is a standing historical mystery, best understood by pondering the men themselves and their profound and world-changing ideas.  Through impressive research and an intimate understanding of these iconic patriots, award-winning author Myron Magnet offers fresh insight into why the American experiment resulted in over two centuries of unexampled freedom and prosperity....more

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• 178: The Founders at Home: 3of4: The Building of America, 1735-1817. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Myron Magnet (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Image: itle: Illustrated New York city and surroundings. A descriptive guide to places of interestYear: 1889 (1880s)Authors:  Hobbs, Charles WSubjects: Publisher:  New York, C.W. Hobbs & co.Contributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  Sloan FoundationText Appearing Before Image:FROM BUILDINO. College op Physicians and Surgeons. At 93d Street is the Methodist Episcopal Church Home. At 105th Streetis the Home for Aged Hebrews. At 116th Street is the Bloomingdale In-sane Asylum. Jnst above 127th Street is the Depot of the Cable Jvoad ; goin at the centre entrance, down one short flight of stairs, and view the pon-derous machinery that moves the cable ; it is worth seeing. The elegantlarge building at 136th Street is the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, and oppositeis the pumping station of the New Aqueduct. The old mansion on the northeast corner of 141st Street and ConventAvenue was formerly the home of Alexander Hamilton, of Revolutionaryfame. It formerly stood about 300 feet to the northwest of its present site.The 13 Elms planted by him occupy their original position. At 143d Street is the Colored Orphan Asylum, and from 153d to 155thStreets, is the Trinity Cemetery. At 173d Street is the High Bridge Res-ervoir.Text Appearing After Image:46 Illustrated Guide to New York City. At 175th Street is the New York Juvenile Asylum, a fine stone edifice, ahome and reformatory for neglected children. The asylum, by its charter,becomes the legal guardian of all such children as may be committed to itby the voluntary act of their parents or by the precept of a police magis-trate. The institution owes its originto Dr. J. D. Russ, of this city, so favor-ably known for his exertions in estab-lishing the New York Institution forthe Blind. It occupies 20 acres ofground, which is in part cultivated bythe children, who, during their stay inthe asylum, are instructed in all thebranches of a common school education.The institution has a House ofReception for 200 children, atNo. 71 West 13th Street. Allchildren, when first committed,must remain in this house tendays, to afford their parents anopportunity to reclaim them. Just beyond at181st Street isthe elegant newbridge across theHarlem River. The mass ofbroken stone seen on either side o The Founders at Home: 3of4: The Building of America, 1735-1817.  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Myron Magnet (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/The-Founders-at-Home-Myron-Magnet-audiobook/dp/B00I8921J8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Why the American Revolution, of all the great revolutions, was the only enduring success. Through the Founders' own voices - and in the homes they designed and built to embody the ideal of domestic happiness they fought to achieve - we come to understand why the American Revolution, of all great revolutions, was the only enduring success. The Founders were vivid, energetic men, with sophisticated worldviews, and this magnificent reckoning of their successes draws liberally from their own eloquent writings on their actions and well-considered intentions.  Richly illustrated with America's historical and architectural treasures, this volume also considers the houses the Founders built with such care and money to reflect their vision for the fledgling nation. That so many great thinkers - Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, John Jay, the Lees of Stratford Hall, and polemicist William Livingston - came together to accomplish what rightly seemed to them almost a miracle is a standing historical mystery, best understood by pondering the men themselves and their profound and world-changing ideas.  Through impressive research and an intimate understanding of these iconic patriots, award-winning author Myron Magnet offers fresh insight into why the American experiment resulted in over two centuries of unexampled freedom and prosperity....more

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• 178: The Founders at Home: 2of4: The Building of America, 1735-1817. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Myron Magnet (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Image: Title: Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present: Year: 1868 (1860s) Authors:  Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885. [from old catalog] Howe, Henry, 1816-1893, [from old catalog] joint author Subjects:  New Jersey -- History. [from old catalog] New Jersey -- Description and travel. [from old catalog] New Jersey -- History, Local. [from old catalog] Publisher:  New Haven, Conn., J. W. Barber Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation   Text Appearing Before Image:electedhis succes.sor, who remained here till 1801. He was succeeded byDr. Beasley, who left the parish in 1803; and was succeeded by Mr r^tir;dtl;?2H Th T M 1>^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^rctued m 1826. The Rev. Mr. Pyne was elected in 1820, and re- ri ^ Vf ^- ^^^- ^^- ^>bl« -- elected in 1829, ancrr;tMl183.J 1 he present rector, Rev. R. C. Moore, was settled in 1834. Ihe ^econd Presbyterian church was organized in 1819, and it-first and present minister is the Rev. Dr. Magie. The Methodist church was first organizedin 1785. The RevThomas Morrell, one of the fathers of the Methodist church inAmerica, preached for many years at Elizabethtown. He was amajor m the revolutionary army, and distinguished himself on va-rious occa.sions. In June, 1780, he began to preach as a localpreacher a this place, and in the following year commenced ridingas a travelling preacher. He was a man ofgreat energy and fervent piety. He died here in 1838, in the 91st year of his a^^e 21 162 ESSEX COUNTY. Text Appearing After Image:View of the Livingston Mansion, EUznhethtown. The above is a representation of the Mansion House formerlythe seat of William Livingston, LL. D., Gov. of New Jersey, and asigner of the Declaration of Independence. This house, now theresidence of John Kean,Esq., is situated about a mile northward ofthe village. Gov. Livingston ^ ^^ Cfi-u Facsimile of Gov. Livingstones Signature in 174L He afterwards be- was descended from a Scotchfamily which settled in the cityof New York, (where he wasborn, about the year 1723.) andwas graduated at Yale Collegecame a distinguished lawyer, and, upon his removal to New .Jer-sey, was chosen a member of the tirst congress in 1774—havmgpreviously signalized himself by his writings against the encroach-ments of Britain. When the inhabitants of New Jersey had de-posed Gov. Franklin, and formed a new constitution, in July, 1776,Mr. Livingston was elected their first governor, and continued tobe annuaUy re-elected till his death. He was a delegate to theconv The Founders at Home: 2of4: The Building of America, 1735-1817.  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Myron Magnet (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/The-Founders-at-Home-Myron-Magnet-audiobook/dp/B00I8921J8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Why the American Revolution, of all the great revolutions, was the only enduring success. Through the Founders' own voices - and in the homes they designed and built to embody the ideal of domestic happiness they fought to achieve - we come to understand why the American Revolution, of all great revolutions, was the only enduring success. The Founders were vivid, energetic men, with sophisticated worldviews, and this magnificent reckoning of their successes draws liberally from their own eloquent writings on their actions and well-considered intentions.  Richly illustrated with America's historical and architectural treasures, this volume also considers the houses the Founders built with such care and money to reflect their vision for the fledgling nation. That so many great thinkers - Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, John Jay, the Lees of Stratford Hall, and polemicist William Livingston - came together to accomplish what rightly seemed to them almost a miracle is a standing historical mystery, best understood by pondering the men themselves and their profound and world-changing ideas.  Through impressive research and an intimate understanding of these iconic patriots, award-winning author Myron Magnet offers fresh insight into why the American experiment resulted in over two centuries of unexampled freedom and prosperity....more

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• 178: The Founders at Home: 1of4: The Building of America, 1735-1817. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Myron Magnet (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Image: Late residence of Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Va.Name | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826Topics | Houses; Homes and hauntsUUID | d15ece00-c605-012f-f163-58d385a7bc34imageID | 420350NYPL catalog ID (B-number) | b14547333Collection | Emmet Collection of Manuscripts Etc. Relating to American History.Collection UUID | 510d47da-258e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99RLIN/OCLC | NYPG96-F3Hades struc ID | 166193Printmakers include H.B. Hall, Albert Rosenthal, Max Rosenthal. Draughtsman is David McNeely Stauffer.Title from Calendar of Emmet Collection.EM1093Date | between circa 1850 and circa 1890 Source | https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-258e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99Author | Scan by NYPL The Founders at Home: 1of4: The Building of America, 1735-1817.  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Myron Magnet (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/The-Founders-at-Home-Myron-Magnet-audiobook/dp/B00I8921J8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Why the American Revolution, of all the great revolutions, was the only enduring success. Through the Founders' own voices - and in the homes they designed and built to embody the ideal of domestic happiness they fought to achieve - we come to understand why the American Revolution, of all great revolutions, was the only enduring success. The Founders were vivid, energetic men, with sophisticated worldviews, and this magnificent reckoning of their successes draws liberally from their own eloquent writings on their actions and well-considered intentions.  Richly illustrated with America's historical and architectural treasures, this volume also considers the houses the Founders built with such care and money to reflect their vision for the fledgling nation. That so many great thinkers - Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, John Jay, the Lees of Stratford Hall, and polemicist William Livingston - came together to accomplish what rightly seemed to them almost a miracle is a standing historical mystery, best understood by pondering the men themselves and their profound and world-changing ideas.  Through impressive research and an intimate understanding of these iconic patriots, award-winning author Myron Magnet offers fresh insight into why the American experiment resulted in over two centuries of unexampled freedom and prosperity....more

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• 177: A Wicked War: 4of4: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico Kindle Edition. by Amy S. Greenberg (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Jul 12 2020

  ImageTitle: The Mexican war: a history of its origin, and a detailed account of the victories which terminated in the surrender of the capital; with the official despatches of the generals. To which is added, the treaty of peace, and valuable tables of the strength and losses of the United States armyYear: 1850 (1850s)Authors:  Mansfield, Edward Deering, 1801-1880Subjects:  United States. Army Mexican War, 1846-1848Publisher:  New York, A.S. Barnes Cincinnati, H.W. DerbyContributing Library:  Lincoln Financial Foundation CollectionDigitizing Sponsor:  The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA GrantText Appearing Before Image:'Text Appearing After Image:THE MEXICAN WAR: HISTORY OF ITS ORIGIN. a detailed account of the victories which terminateii ih the surrender of the capital; with the officlvl despatches of the generals. TO WHICH IS ADDED, THE TREATY OF PEACE, AND VALUABLE TAULES OF THE STRENGTH AND LOSSES OF THE UNITEDSTATES ARMY. BY EDWARD D. MANSFIELD, GRADUATE OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY. TENTH EDITION. NEW YORKPUBLISHED BY A. S. BARNES (fe CO. No. 51 JOHN-STREET. CINCINNATI:-H. W. DERBY & CO. 185 0. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, By a. S. BARNES & Co., in tiie Clerks OflBce of the District Court for the Southern Distnci ofNew York. Stereotyped by RICHARD C. VALENTJNK, New York. C. A. ALVORD, Printer,Corner of John and Dutch sticeik PREFACE. It has been wisely remarked by a distinguishedAmerican statesman, that the commencementof the Mexican War was the opening of a newvolume of American history. Nations, hke individuals, are often borne alongin their progress, without pausing to cons A Wicked War: 4of4: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico Kindle Edition. by Amy S. Greenberg  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Wicked-War-Lincoln-Invasion-Mexico-ebook/dp/B0082XLYX4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1594521956&sr=1-1Often forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg’s skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship bring this American war for empire to life with memorable characters, plotlines, and legacies.   When President James K. Polk compelled a divided Congress to support his war with Mexico, it was the first time that the young American nation would engage another republic in battle. Caught up in the conflict and the political furor surrounding it were Abraham Lincoln, then a new congressman; Polk, the dour president committed to territorial expansion at any cost; and Henry Clay, the aging statesman whose presidential hopes had been frustrated once again, but who still harbored influence and had one last great speech up his sleeve. Beyond these illustrious figures, A Wicked War follows several fascinating and long-neglected characters: Lincoln’s archrival John Hardin, whose death opened the door to Lincoln’s rise; Nicholas Trist, gentleman diplomat and secret negotiator, who broke with his president to negotiate a fair peace; and Polk’s wife, Sarah, whose shrewd politicking was crucial in the Oval Office.This definitive history of the 1846 conflict paints an intimate portrait of the major players and their world. It is a story of Indian fights, Manifest Destiny, secret military maneuvers, gunshot wounds, and political spin. Along the way it captures a young Lincoln mismatching his clothes, the lasting influence of the Founding Fathers, the birth of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and America’s first national antiwar movement. A key chapter in the creation of the United States, it is the story of a burgeoning nation and an unforgettable conflict that has shaped American history.  ...more

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• 177: A Wicked War: 3of4: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico Kindle Edition. by Amy S. Greenberg (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Image: Attack on Chapultepec, Sept. 13th 1847--Mexicans routed with great lossDate | 1847 or 1848 A Wicked War: 3of4: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico Kindle Edition. by Amy S. Greenberg  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Wicked-War-Lincoln-Invasion-Mexico-ebook/dp/B0082XLYX4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1594521956&sr=1-1Often forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg’s skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship bring this American war for empire to life with memorable characters, plotlines, and legacies.   When President James K. Polk compelled a divided Congress to support his war with Mexico, it was the first time that the young American nation would engage another republic in battle. Caught up in the conflict and the political furor surrounding it were Abraham Lincoln, then a new congressman; Polk, the dour president committed to territorial expansion at any cost; and Henry Clay, the aging statesman whose presidential hopes had been frustrated once again, but who still harbored influence and had one last great speech up his sleeve. Beyond these illustrious figures, A Wicked War follows several fascinating and long-neglected characters: Lincoln’s archrival John Hardin, whose death opened the door to Lincoln’s rise; Nicholas Trist, gentleman diplomat and secret negotiator, who broke with his president to negotiate a fair peace; and Polk’s wife, Sarah, whose shrewd politicking was crucial in the Oval Office.This definitive history of the 1846 conflict paints an intimate portrait of the major players and their world. It is a story of Indian fights, Manifest Destiny, secret military maneuvers, gunshot wounds, and political spin. Along the way it captures a young Lincoln mismatching his clothes, the lasting influence of the Founding Fathers, the birth of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and America’s first national antiwar movement. A key chapter in the creation of the United States, it is the story of a burgeoning nation and an unforgettable conflict that has shaped American history. ...more

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• 177: A Wicked War: 2of4: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico Kindle Edition. by Amy S. Greenberg (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  ImageEnglish: Print shows a scene from the Battle of Monterrey, led by General Zachary Taylor and General William J. Worth, during the Mexican-American War.1855. Library of Congress.Date | 1855Source | http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/grant-mexican-american-war/Author | Library of Congress A Wicked War: 2of4: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico Kindle Edition. by Amy S. Greenberg  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Wicked-War-Lincoln-Invasion-Mexico-ebook/dp/B0082XLYX4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1594521956&sr=1-1Often forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg’s skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship bring this American war for empire to life with memorable characters, plotlines, and legacies.   When President James K. Polk compelled a divided Congress to support his war with Mexico, it was the first time that the young American nation would engage another republic in battle. Caught up in the conflict and the political furor surrounding it were Abraham Lincoln, then a new congressman; Polk, the dour president committed to territorial expansion at any cost; and Henry Clay, the aging statesman whose presidential hopes had been frustrated once again, but who still harbored influence and had one last great speech up his sleeve. Beyond these illustrious figures, A Wicked War follows several fascinating and long-neglected characters: Lincoln’s archrival John Hardin, whose death opened the door to Lincoln’s rise; Nicholas Trist, gentleman diplomat and secret negotiator, who broke with his president to negotiate a fair peace; and Polk’s wife, Sarah, whose shrewd politicking was crucial in the Oval Office.This definitive history of the 1846 conflict paints an intimate portrait of the major players and their world. It is a story of Indian fights, Manifest Destiny, secret military maneuvers, gunshot wounds, and political spin. Along the way it captures a young Lincoln mismatching his clothes, the lasting influence of the Founding Fathers, the birth of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and America’s first national antiwar movement. A key chapter in the creation of the United States, it is the story of a burgeoning nation and an unforgettable conflict that has shaped American history. ...more

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• 177: A Wicked War: 1of4: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico Kindle Edition. by Amy S. Greenberg (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Image: "Battle of Churubusco--Fought near the city of Mexico 20th of August 1847 / J. Cameron." Hand tinted lithographDate | 1847Source | Library of Congress[1]Author | John Cameron (artist), Nathaniel Currier (lithographer and publisher)Other versions | Partially restored version of File:Battle of Churubusco.jpg. Rotated. Perspective crop. Dirt and stains removed. No other changes. Brightness adjusted. Partial desaturation to border area. Edges sharpened and contrast enhanced at caption. Histogram adjusted. See also File:Battle of Churubusco1.tif (partial restoration) and File:Battle of Churubusco2.tif (full restoration, uncompressed). A Wicked War: 1of4: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico Kindle Edition. by Amy S. Greenberg  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Wicked-War-Lincoln-Invasion-Mexico-ebook/dp/B0082XLYX4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1594521956&sr=1-1Often forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg’s skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship bring this American war for empire to life with memorable characters, plotlines, and legacies.   When President James K. Polk compelled a divided Congress to support his war with Mexico, it was the first time that the young American nation would engage another republic in battle. Caught up in the conflict and the political furor surrounding it were Abraham Lincoln, then a new congressman; Polk, the dour president committed to territorial expansion at any cost; and Henry Clay, the aging statesman whose presidential hopes had been frustrated once again, but who still harbored influence and had one last great speech up his sleeve. Beyond these illustrious figures, A Wicked War follows several fascinating and long-neglected characters: Lincoln’s archrival John Hardin, whose death opened the door to Lincoln’s rise; Nicholas Trist, gentleman diplomat and secret negotiator, who broke with his president to negotiate a fair peace; and Polk’s wife, Sarah, whose shrewd politicking was crucial in the Oval Office.This definitive history of the 1846 conflict paints an intimate portrait of the major players and their world. It is a story of Indian fights, Manifest Destiny, secret military maneuvers, gunshot wounds, and political spin. Along the way it captures a young Lincoln mismatching his clothes, the lasting influence of the Founding Fathers, the birth of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and America’s first national antiwar movement. A key chapter in the creation of the United States, it is the story of a burgeoning nation and an unforgettable conflict that has shaped American history. ...more

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• 176: 1781: 2of2:The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert Tonsetic (Author), Noah Michael Levine (Narrator), & 1 more

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  ImageEnglish: Eugène Louis Lami (12 January 1800 – 19 December 1890) was a French painter, watercolorist, lithographer, illustrator and designer. He was a painter of fashionable Paris during the period of the July Monarchy and the Second French Empire and also made history paintings and illustrations for books such as Gil Blas and Manon Lescaut.American storming of redoubt #10 during the Siege of Yorktown.Date | 1840Source | Sandleaders 1781: 2of2:The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Robert Tonsetic (Author), Noah Michael Levine (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/1781-Decisive-Revolutionary-War-audiobook/dp/B00BOWGJTO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The Treaty of Paris, in 1783, formally ended the American Revolutionary War, but it was the pivotal campaigns and battles of 1781 that decided the final outcome. 1781 was one of those rare years in American history when the future of the nation hung by a thread, and only the fortitude, determination, and sacrifice of its leaders and citizenry ensured its survival. By 1781, America had been at war with the world's strongest empire for six years with no end in sight. British troops occupied key coastal cities, from New York to Savannah, and the Royal Navy prowled the waters off the American coast. The remaining Patriot forces hunkered down in the hinterland, making battle only at opportunities when British columns ventured near.  But after several harsh winters and the failure of the nascent government to adequately supply the troops, the American army was fast approaching the breaking point. The number of Continental soldiers had shrunk to less than 10,000, and the three-year enlistments of many of those remaining were about to expire. Mutinies began to emerge in George Washington's ranks, and it was only the arrival of French troops that provided a ray of hope for the American cause.  In a shift of strategy, the British began to prioritize the south. After shattering the American army under Horatio Gates at Camden, South Carolina, the British army, under Lord Cornwallis, appeared unstoppable, and was poised to regain the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia for the Crown. However, when General Nathaniel Greene arrived to take command of Patriot forces in the South, he was able to gradually turn the tables. By dividing his own forces, he forced the British to divide theirs, dissipating their juggernaut and forcing Cornwallis to confront a veritable hydra of resistance.  1781 was a year of battles, as the Patriot Morgan defeated the notorious Tarleton and his Loyal legion at Cowpens. Then Greene suffered defeat at Guilford Courthouse, only to rally his forces and continue to fight on. While luring Cornwallis north, Greene was able to gather new strength and launch a counterattack, until it was Cornwallis who felt compelled to seek succor in Virginia. He marched his main army to Yorktown on the Peninsula, upon which the French fleet, the British fleet, Greene, Washington, and the French army under Rochambeau all converged. On October 19, 1781, Cornwallis surrendered his weary and bloodied army.  In this audiobook, Robert Tonsetic provides a detailed analysis of the key battles and campaigns of 1781, supported by numerous eyewitness accounts from privates to generals in the American, French, and British armies. He also describes the diplomatic efforts underway in Europe during 1781, as well as the Continental Congress's actions to resolve the immense financial, supply, and personnel problems involved in maintaining an effective fighting army in the field. ...more

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• 165: The Captain Who Burned His Ships: 1of2: Captain Thomas Tingey, USN, 1750-1829 Kindle Edition. by Gordon Brown (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Jul 12 2020

  Image:English: British Burning WashingtonDate | 1816Source | This illustration is from the 1816 book, The History of England, from the Earliest Periods, Volume 1 by Paul M. Rapin de Thoyras. The source holder, of this book, is the U.S. Library of Congress.Author | Book: Paul M. Rapin de Thoyras The Captain Who Burned His Ships: 1of2: Captain Thomas Tingey, USN, 1750-1829 Kindle Edition. by Gordon Brown (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Captain-Who-Burned-His-Ships-ebook/dp/B00DKMWNFA/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=Captain+who+burned+ships&qid=1594522316&s=digital-text&sr=1-4This is the first biography of Captain Thomas Tingey, who was a key figure in the development of the early U.S. Navy. Having come to America after a short service in the Royal Navy, Tingey contributed importantly to the growth of the American Navy, but was then obliged to burn the Washington Navy Yard in 1814 to prevent it from falling into the hands of British invaders. This is at the same time a history of the first quarter-century of the Washington Navy Yard, which Tingey commanded for that period, and of the transition of the young Navy from an object of partisan discord to an honored defender of a growing and increasingly self-confident nation. The book looks at Tingey's contributions to navy yard procedures and practices, his civic role in the budding city of Washington, the dramatic events of 1814, and the rebuilding of the yard as a major technical center for the navy. ...more

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• 176: 1781: 1of2: The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert Tonsetic (Author), Noah Michael Levine (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jul 12 2020

  ImageFrançais : Général de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau (1750-1812) ("Tenues des Troupes du Corps Expéditionnaire de Saint-Domingue. 1801-1804.")Date | 19th century Source | Musée de l'Armée (Paris)Author | H. Boisselier 1781: 1of2: The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Robert Tonsetic (Author), Noah Michael Levine (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/1781-Decisive-Revolutionary-War-audiobook/dp/B00BOWGJTO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The Treaty of Paris, in 1783, formally ended the American Revolutionary War, but it was the pivotal campaigns and battles of 1781 that decided the final outcome. 1781 was one of those rare years in American history when the future of the nation hung by a thread, and only the fortitude, determination, and sacrifice of its leaders and citizenry ensured its survival. By 1781, America had been at war with the world's strongest empire for six years with no end in sight. British troops occupied key coastal cities, from New York to Savannah, and the Royal Navy prowled the waters off the American coast. The remaining Patriot forces hunkered down in the hinterland, making battle only at opportunities when British columns ventured near.  But after several harsh winters and the failure of the nascent government to adequately supply the troops, the American army was fast approaching the breaking point. The number of Continental soldiers had shrunk to less than 10,000, and the three-year enlistments of many of those remaining were about to expire. Mutinies began to emerge in George Washington's ranks, and it was only the arrival of French troops that provided a ray of hope for the American cause.  In a shift of strategy, the British began to prioritize the south. After shattering the American army under Horatio Gates at Camden, South Carolina, the British army, under Lord Cornwallis, appeared unstoppable, and was poised to regain the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia for the Crown. However, when General Nathaniel Greene arrived to take command of Patriot forces in the South, he was able to gradually turn the tables. By dividing his own forces, he forced the British to divide theirs, dissipating their juggernaut and forcing Cornwallis to confront a veritable hydra of resistance.  1781 was a year of battles, as the Patriot Morgan defeated the notorious Tarleton and his Loyal legion at Cowpens. Then Greene suffered defeat at Guilford Courthouse, only to rally his forces and continue to fight on. While luring Cornwallis north, Greene was able to gather new strength and launch a counterattack, until it was Cornwallis who felt compelled to seek succor in Virginia. He marched his main army to Yorktown on the Peninsula, upon which the French fleet, the British fleet, Greene, Washington, and the French army under Rochambeau all converged. On October 19, 1781, Cornwallis surrendered his weary and bloodied army.  In this audiobook, Robert Tonsetic provides a detailed analysis of the key battles and campaigns of 1781, supported by numerous eyewitness accounts from privates to generals in the American, French, and British armies. He also describes the diplomatic efforts underway in Europe during 1781, as well as the Continental Congress's actions to resolve the immense financial, supply, and personnel problems involved in maintaining an effective fighting army in the field. ...more

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• 175: #Federals: The US Citizenship and Immigration service fees dry up, laying off thousands. @FRoseDC

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  Jul 12 2020

  Image:Title: A home geography of New York cityYear: 1905 (1900s)Authors:  Straubenmuller, GustaveSubjects:  New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel New York (N.Y.) -- HistoryPublisher:  Boston, New York (etc) Ginn & companyContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  Sloan FoundationText Appearing Before Image:time a fort ? It was builtfor the defense of the city,and stood on an island; adrawbridg;e connected the island with Manhattan. Later the fortwas changed to a place of amusement, and named Castle Garden.For thirty-five years Castle Garden was used as an opera houseand concert hall. Large public meetings and receptions were alsoheld there. THE SITE OF FORT AMSTERDAM BUILT IN 1626. WITHIN THE FORTIFICATIONS WAS ERECTED THE FIRST SUBSTANTIAL CHURCH EDIFICE ON THE ISLAND OF MANHATTAN IN 1787 THE FORT WAS DEMOLISHED AND THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE BUILT UPON THIS SITE. THIS TABLET IS PLACED HERE BY THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK. SEPTEMBER, 1890. Tablet on a Building torn down to makeRoom for the New Custom House 190 HOME GEOGRAPHY OF NEW YOKK CITY When places of amusement were built farther uptown CastleGarden was used as the New York state immigrant depot. It wasthe landing place for the immigrants until the United States tookcharge of immigration and established the new depot on Ellis island#Federals: The US Citizenship and Immigration service fees dry up, laying off thousands.  @FRoseDCLayoffs at Citizenship and Immigration Serviceshttps://govmatters.tv/uscis-furloughs-13400-employees-in-light-of-budget-shortfall/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/more-than-13000-federal-workers-face-a-possible-furlough-of-30-days-or-longer/2020/06/23/d9bd5332-b596-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html ...more

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• 175: #HotelMars: Roscosmos turns to reusability for the next gen heavy lift Angara booster; and Orel manned capsule due mid 20s. Anatoly Zak @RussianSpaceWeb David Livingston SpaceShow.com

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  Jul 12 2020

  Image: public domainEnglish: Backdropped by a blanket of clouds, the Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft departs from the International Space Station carrying astronaut William S. (Bill) McArthur Jr., Expedition 12 commander and NASA space station science officer; Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Valery I. Tokarev, flight engineer; and Brazilian Space Agency astronaut Marcos C. Pontes. Undocking occurred at 2:48 p.m. (CDT) on April 8.Deutsch: Sojus TMA-7 beim Verlassen der Internationalen Raumstation (ISS) am 8. April 2006.Date | 8 April 2006Source | http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-12/html/iss012e24218.htmlAuthor | NASAPermission(Reusing this file) | PD-USGov-NASA#HotelMars: Roscosmos turns to reusability for the next gen heavy lift Angara booster; and Orel manned capsule due mid 20s. Anatoly Zak @RussianSpaceWeb David Livingston SpaceShow.comhttp://www.russianspaceweb.com/protected/angara-reuse.html ...more

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• 175: #PacificWatch: Disneyland reopens with Baby Yoda masks; and the Bullet Train is the undead. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss

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  Image#PacificWatch: Disneyland reopens with Baby Yoda masks; and the Bullet Train is the undead. Jeff Bliss @JCBlisshttps://www.shopdisney.com/adult-large-star-wars-cloth-face-masks-4-pack-set-pre-order-420221228678.html?CMP=KNC-DSSCNX&efc=DSI1004364&szredirectid=EAIaIQobChMIiOLbmMbG6gIVB7zACh3L_wCuEAQYASABEgJ9fPD_BwE

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• 175: Mars probe InSight struggles with the unsolved Martian soil Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com.

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  Jul 12 2020

  Image Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechMars probe InSight struggles with the unsolved Martian soil Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com.https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/insights-mole-is-bouncing-again/

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• 175: Slowly slowly Boeing Starliner to manned Earth orbit. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  InageSlowly slowly Boeing Starliner to manned Earth orbit.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-completes-starliner-review-finds-more-issues/ 

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• 175: The immediate chaos of student Visas & What is to be done? Dan Griswold @Mercatus

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  ImageThe immediate chaos of student Visas & What is to be done? Dan Griswold @Mercatushttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53346006

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• 165: The Captain Who Burned His Ships: 2of2: Captain Thomas Tingey, USN, 1750-1829 Kindle Edition. by Gordon Brown (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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  Image:Engraving depicting capture of Washington, D.C., by the British during the War of 1812.Date | Published 1814 Oct. 14. The Captain Who Burned His Ships: 2of2: Captain Thomas Tingey, USN, 1750-1829 Kindle Edition. by Gordon Brown (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Captain-Who-Burned-His-Ships-ebook/dp/B00DKMWNFA/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=Captain+who+burned+ships&qid=1594522316&s=digital-text&sr=1-4This is the first biography of Captain Thomas Tingey, who was a key figure in the development of the early U.S. Navy. Having come to America after a short service in the Royal Navy, Tingey contributed importantly to the growth of the American Navy, but was then obliged to burn the Washington Navy Yard in 1814 to prevent it from falling into the hands of British invaders. This is at the same time a history of the first quarter-century of the Washington Navy Yard, which Tingey commanded for that period, and of the transition of the young Navy from an object of partisan discord to an honored defender of a growing and increasingly self-confident nation. The book looks at Tingey's contributions to navy yard procedures and practices, his civic role in the budding city of Washington, the dramatic events of 1814, and the rebuilding of the yard as a major technical center for the navy....more

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• 165: #NewAmericanCivilWar: The elitist Never-Trumpers (Trotskyists/Neo-Conservatives) denounce Republicanism as inauthentic. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis.

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  Image: American Civil War Photos > us-cavalry-at-sudley-spring-1st-battle-of-bull-run (23/63) #NewAmericanCivilWar: The elitist Never-Trumpers (Trotskyists/Neo-Conservatives) denounce Republicanism as inauthentic.  Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis.

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• 165: #NewAmericanCivilWar: Self-denunciations by the elite Church of Woke. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis.

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  Image:Ruins of Henry House, First Battle of Bull Run Original Caption: Ruins of Henry House, first battle of Bull Run  U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 111-B-1575  From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record Group 111)  Photographer: Brady, Mathew, 1823 (ca.) - 1896  Coverage Dates: ca. 1860 - ca. 1865 Subjects:American Civil War, 1861-1865Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington, D.C.)  Persistent URL: catalog.archives.gov/id/525780 #NewAmericanCivilWar: Self-denunciations by the elite Church of Woke. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis.https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/its-come-to-this-we-must-defend-matt-yglesias/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=first https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/...more

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• 174: The pell-mell pursuit of the vaccine by the risk-takers among us; and farewell and well done to John Paulson. @Gzuckerman @WSJ

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  Image: Cartoon of J. P. Morgan seizing control of banks.[n 7] Frank Arthur Nankivell - Puck Magazine, Cover Illustration, cropped from version available at Library of Congress [1] A cartoon on the cover of en:Puck (magazine) titled: "The Central Bank--Why should Uncle Sam establish one, when Uncle Pierpont is already on the job?" Public Domain File:The Central Bank Morgan cartoon-1.png Created: 2 February 1910 The pell-mell pursuit of the vaccine by the risk-takers among us; and farewell and well done to John Paulson. @Gzuckerman @WSJhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-moderna-the-covid-vaccine-front-runner-with-no-track-record-and-an-unsparing-ceo-11593615205?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=3https://www.wsj.com/articles/vaccine-stock-soars-rewarding-investors-big-bet-11594294901?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1https://www.wsj.com/articles/hedge-fund-star-john-paulson-calls-it-quits-11593637778?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=2 ...more

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• 174: #TheScalaReport: The Sino-American decoupling of software, hardware, currency, expectations. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE

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  Image:English: Historical postcard of ChinaDate | circa 1900 Source | Historical postcardAuthor | Unknown author#TheScalaReport: The Sino-American decoupling of software, hardware, currency, expectations.  Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS  @STRATACACHEhttps://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/China-up-close/China-talks-of-US-decoupling-and-a-divided-worldhttps://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/07/11/tiktok-and-the-sino-american-tech-split

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• 174: Washington corruption persecutes Michael Flynn and threatens to undermine trust without a resolution of the Russiagate abuse of power. @DevinNunes

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  Image:English: Back reads "The Shoreham, Washington, D. C. Located at 15th and H Street, N.W., one of Washington's most famous Hotels." Published by The Washington News Company, Washington, D.C. Colorchrome. A history of a newer hotel that uses the Shoreham's name says, "The hotel’s name was taken from a previous Shoreham Hotel in Washington (built in 1889 by Levi P. Morton, Vice President of the United States under Benjamin Harrison), which was named for Morton’s hometown of Shoreham, Vt., which was founded in the early 1700s and named for Shoreham, England."Date | 1910s Source | Self-scannedAuthor | Unknown authorWashington corruption persecutes Michael Flynn and threatens to undermine trust without a resolution of the Russiagate abuse of power.  @DevinNunes...more

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• 174: The San Joaquin Valley is restless for fireworks and Costco and is done with the arbitrary Sacramento lockdowns. @DevinNunes CA-22

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  Image:: Exterior view of the Santa Fe Depot building in Fresno, ca.1910Photograph of an exterior view of the Santa Fe Depot building in Fresno, ca.1910. The adobe-like building is shown at center; to the left, an open air arcade offers benches for waiting passengers, while to the right a two- and then a three-story section of the depot is visible, each roof covered with terra cotta tile. A sign on the outside of the arcade reads "Fresno". Railcar tracks can be seen embedded in the street in the foreground.Date | circa 1910 Source | http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/7024Author | Unknown authorThe San Joaquin Valley is restless for fireworks and Costco  and is done with the arbitrary Sacramento lockdowns. @DevinNunes CA-22...more

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• 173: #SmallBusinessAmerica: What about making employees wear masks and takes regular tests? @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Image: Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington, D.C., during the influenza pandemic of 1918."Date | 1918Source | Library of Congress[1]Author | National Photo Company#SmallBusinessAmerica: What about making employees wear masks and takes regular tests? @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirerFor small business owners, the pandemic proves it: millennials were righthttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jul/05/small-business-owners-working-home-millennials-covidAs mask mandate begins, small business-owners resist enforcement https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/as-mask-mandate-begins-small-business-owners-resist-enforcementEmployers Find Testing Employees More Trouble Than It’s Worthhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/employers-find-testing-employees-more-trouble-than-its-worth/ar-BB16nYOo?ocid=stDemand for employee surveillance software soars https://www.zdnet.com/article/demand-for-employee-surveillance-software-soars/ Does your small business need a receptionist?https://www.inquirer.com/business/small-business/small-business-automation-calls-trek-receptionist-virtualpbx-grasshopper-ringcentral-20200709.htmlNASA is funding small-business ideas ranging from AI medicine to plumbing for the moon.https://www.geekwire.com/2020/nasa-funds-small-business-ideas-ranging-plumbing-moon-ai-medicine-mars/ VEGAN STARTUP RAISES $300 MILLION TO MAKE HIGH-TECH DAIRY WITHOUT THE COWhttps://vegnews.com/2020/7/vegan-startup-raises-300-million-to-make-high-tech-dairy-without-the-cow...more

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• 173: #SmallBusinessAmerica: How to watch for signs of the recovery; and don't overlook S B A 7(a). @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  ImagePossibilities of the motor truck: Remarkable strength and excellent speed characterize motor trucks like that in the above illustration (Duplex, Lansing, Michigan). The wooden wheels are feats of engineering, no less than the powerful motor and rigid frame. The maximum load that may be carried is measured by bulk rather than by pounds. Title: American forestryIdentifier: americanforestry251919amer (find matches)Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)Authors: American Forestry AssociationSubjects: Forests and forestryPublisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry AssociationContributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical GardenDigitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical GardenText Appearing Before Image: 850 AMERICAN FORESTRY of the country is a conspicuous one. A special make of wagon has been provided for the baker, butcher, grocer, huckster, ice cream vender, fishmonger, flower seller, and a list of others almost interminable. Most of these are specialized in bodies rather than in gear. Each has its boxes, shelving, and compartments built to meet the user's peculiar needs. Much pine, fir, cedar, spruce, hemlock, cypress, and redwood are worked into such tops and bodies. Accompanying these softwoods, and used in the same way, are cottonwood, basswood, gum, poplar, elm, sycamore, hackberry, beech, buckeye, and other hardwoods. Much ash and some hickory are em- now as they supplied it before railroads captured the long-distance travel. No one man invented the vehicle, but many a man has made improvements on models already existing. Patents by thousands have been placed on record, nearly three thousand patents for springs alone. There are patents on hubs, axles, tops, and on nearly every other piece and parcel of a vehicle. These indicate growth and develop- ment, though the first vehicle made by man was so long ago that no record of it exists. Some of the ancients used sleds when they could not make wheels strong enough to carry the loads, and it was dry sledding in the deserts ofText Appearing After Image:  #SmallBusinessAmerica: How to watch for signs of the recovery; and don't overlook S B A 7(a). @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirerEconomic downturn? Not if you're smarthttps://www.accountingtoday.com/opinion/economic-downturn-not-if-youre-a-smart-financial-advisorHow will we know the US economy is recovering? Here's what I'm watchinghttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jul/10/us-economy-recovery-small-business-gene-marksReports: Minority small business owners struggle in 2020https://www.livingstonparishnews.com/breaking_news/reports-minority-small-business-owners-struggle-in-2020/article_212d2022-bbb8-11ea-8b8f-474d5a280dd6.htmlIf small businesses are suffering so much, why is $130 billion in Paycheck Protection money still available?https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/506533-if-small-businesses-are-suffering-so-much-why-is-130-billion-in-paycheckKanye West? Tim McGraw? Khloe Kardashian? All got PPP loanshttps://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/07/08/kanye-west-tim-mcgraw-khloe-kardashian-all-got-ppp-loans/...more

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• 173: Mysterious explosions and fires over Iran cannot be explained by Occam's razor "accidents." Benham ben Taleblu, @FDD.

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  Image:Title: Essay on barbers' razors, razor hones, razor strops and razor honing .. Year: 1895 (1890s) Authors: Le Blanc, Napoleon. [from old catalog] Subjects:  Text Appearing Before Image: ail smoothly and evenly take a half dozen short, light strokes,making the letter X with thin lather, (if you are using lather, but if you are usingoil, add a few drops more and if you are using water hone, add water to finish).Then wet the end of your finger on your tongue until sensitive and draw over theedge, noticing whether it adheres evenly, smoothly and keenly. If not, draw a fewmore very short strokes and try again in the same manner. Care should betaken toavoid over honing. It is better to stop before it is quite done, than to over hone.Barbers who are unable to feel the keenness of the fine edge, will have better suc-cess by using water hones, but to them I would recommend the Eclipse, the Star,the Finest Grit and the Japanese hones. Fifth. When honing a very dull razor begin by rubbing four or five strokes, toand fro, the full length of the blade, from C to D, without turning the razor, (see cutNo. 2), resting the thumb and fingers of the left hand on the end of the blade to Mysterious explosions and fires over Iran cannot be explained by Occam's razor "accidents." Benham ben Taleblu, @FDD.https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2020/07/09/fortify-the-iran-sanctions-wall/ ...more

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• 173: America is ready for the contest of the 4th of July GOP vs the Gloomy Democrats

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  Imagenglish: Beverly Bennett Dobbs (1868–1937)[1] was a photographer and filmmaker in the Pacific Northwestand Alaska.[2] The University of Washington has his work in their collection.[3] He was born near Marshall, Missouri. He moved with his family to Lincoln, Nebraska when he was eight.[4] In 1888, Dobbs moved to Bellingham, Washington and partnered with F. F. Fleming[5] at Dobbs & Fleming between 1890–1891. Dobbs had a photography studio in Bellingham for 12 years until 1900 when he moved to Nome, Alaska. He took a small schooner from Seattle to try and film the emergence of islands in the Bogoslof group.[6] In Nome he photographed the town, the Seward Peninsula, and Inuit people. He also reportedly prospected for gold. He partnered with A. B. Kinne to form Dobbs & Kinne in Nome.[7]Fourth of July celebration on Front Street, Nome, Alaska, between 1901 and 1911Description | English:Caption on image: 4th of July at Nome. Dobbs Photo 55. PH Coll 323.50Inupiaq Eskimos camped for centuries in the Nome area before Russia claimed Alaska as its own. In the 18th century, Russians established a settlement at St. Michael, 125 miles to the southeast. Fur traders and whales from many countries also worked the area coastline. A few church missions were established beginning in the 1880s, and trainers from Lapland (Norway) introduced reindeer herding to the Eskimos through the U.S. Government and missionaries. Gold was discovered in the Nome area in 1898 by three Swedes, prompting formation of the Cape Nome Mining District. When gold was found on the beaches of Nome the following summer, word spread rapidly, and by August 1900 there were 20,000 people in Nome. There are still 44 gold dredges in the Nome area and gold mining continues today. The oldest first-class city in Alaska, Nome was incorporated in 1901. By the 1920s, the boom town had shrunk to about 820 people. A fire in September 1934 destroyed most of the business district. Nome boomed again during World War II, when the federal government built an air base and support facilities. Thousands of aircraft and supplies moved through Nome under the Lend Lease program, supplying the Soviet Union for the Eastern Front. During the war, a number of Eskimos and other civilians came to Nome to work. [Source: http://www.inalaska.com/d/nome/history.htmlSubjects (LCTGM): Fourth of July celebrations--Alaska--Nome; Parades & processions--Alaska--Nome; Streets--Alaska--Nome; Wooden buildings--Alaska--Nome; Flags--Alaska--NomeSubjects (LCSH): Front Street (Nome, Alaska); Tortoni Restaurant (Nome, Alaska);; Nome (Alaska)--Buildings, structures, etc.Depicted place | Nome, AlaskaDate | circa 1906America is ready for the contest of the 4th of July GOP vs the Gloomy Democrats.https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-fourth-of-july-election-11594250125 ...more

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• 172: Just like Tom Clancy: US exercises airborne takeover of Guam fallen into the hands of the PRC. Tyler Rogoway @TheWarZone @TheDrive

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  Image: public domainOriginal caption "South Sea cruise 1899-1900, Ladrone Islands, Guam, main street of Agana"Date | 30 September 2005, 08:11:39Source | http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/fish7630.htmAuthor | Archival Photographer Stefan Claesson, NOAAJust like Tom Clancy: US exercises airborne takeover of Guam fallen into the hands of the PRC. Tyler Rogoway @TheWarZone @TheDrivehttps://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/34536/c-17s-packed-with-paratroopers-just-practiced-a-sudden-long-range-invasion-of-guam ...more

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• 172: DoD fortifies Wake Island to defend the Pacific from the PLA Navy. Tyler Rogoway @theWarZone @TheDrive.

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  Image Commander E. D. Taussig, USN, of the gunboat USS Bennington (PG-4), having called all present to witness that Uncle Sam took possession of Wake Island, ordered Old Glory to be hoisted by Ensign WettengelDate | 14 May 1899Source | "How Old Glory was Raised on Wake Island", Los Angeles Herald, May 14, 1899, page 14Author | Unknown authorDoD fortifies Wake Island to defend the Pacific from the PLA Navy. Tyler Rogoway @theWarZone @TheDrive.https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/34404/big-airfield-expansion-on-wake-island-seen-by-satellite-as-u-s-preps-for-pacific-fight ...more

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• 171: Despite the USMCA, AMLO of Mexico ("hugs not bullets") is losing to the gunplay of the New Generation Jalisco Cartel. @MaryAnastasiaOG

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  Image: Title: Municipal organizations in Latin America. Mexico CityYear: 1909 (1900s)Authors:  International Bureau of the American RepublicsSubjects: Publisher:  Washington, D.C., Govt. print. off.Contributing 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:rstone of this building was laid by President Diaz on September 14, 1902, and it was openedto the public in 1907. The cost was $l,500,OCO and it was erected in accordance with the plans ofthe Italian architect, Adamo Boari. The post-office occupies a central location, and covers an areaof about 40,000 square feet. In the District of Columbia the residents have no vote upon anyquestion nor any voice whatever in the government, while in theMexican Federal District they elect many of the minor officials andhave considerable weight in the management of local affairs. In theDistrict of Columbia the final determination of affairs of consequenceis in the Senate and House Committees on the District, while inMexico it is with the President of the Eepublic. The organic act,article 19, says: The political government and municipal administrative of the District shallbe in charge of the Executive of the Union, through three officials, who shall bedependent upon the Department of the Interior, etc.Despite the USMCA, AMLO of Mexico ("hugs not bullets") is losing to the gunplay of the New Generation Jalisco Cartel. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/amlos-hugs-wont-end-mexican-mayhem-11593973617?st=t25ekfnff1dwfey&reflink=article_copyURL_share ...more

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• 171: Speaker Pelosi aims to bail-out the inadequate Amtrak and Post Office again & What is to be done? @VerodeRugy @Mercatus

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  Image: Post Office, Philadelphia, Pa. Date1900 - 1901collectionsIn CollectionsPennsylvania Postcards, 1900sPennsylvania Postcards The Detroit Publishing CompanyplaceNew York Public Librarylinkhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic DomainSpeaker Pelosi aims to bail-out the inadequate Amtrak and Post Office again & What is to be done? @VerodeRugy @Mercatushttps://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/moving-forward-act-nonstarter

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• 170: What about Durham before November? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  ImageConstruction of the Northwest Court of the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress What about Durham before November?  @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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• 170: SCOTUS throws the Democrats backwards in their chase of POTUS taxes. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jul 10 2020

  Imagedentifier: courseincivilgov00thor (find matches)Title: A course in civil governmentYear: 1894 (1890s)Authors:  Thorpe, Francis Newton, 1857- (from old catalog)Subjects: Publisher:  Philadelphia, Eldredge & brotherContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  The Library of CongressText Appearing Before Image:feriorcourts of the United States. It may modify its own de-cisions, but its judgment is final. 219. Inferior Courts of the United States.—TheConstitution empowers Congress to establish United Statescourts inferior to the Supreme Court. Under this author-ity it has established sixty-three District Courts, nineCircuit Courts, nine Appellate Courts, the court of the Dis-trict of Columbia, Territorial Courts, the Court of Claimsand Consular Courts.* * The sixty-three districts are—Alabama, New York, Texas, three each;Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri,North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and Wiscon-sin, two each ; other States, one each. The nine circuits are— 1. Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. 2. Vermont, Connecticut and New York. 3. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. 4. Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. 5. Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.SCOTUS throws the Democrats backwards in their chase of POTUS taxes. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/supreme-courts-rulings-on-trump-subpoenas-ho-hum/  ...more

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• 170: Is Biden trying to skip the debates? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Image: Old Post Office, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States. Designed by James H. Windrim, it was built in 1890-1894 and razed in 1930.Date | 1911Source | postcardAuthor | Scranton News Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States.Is Biden trying to skip the debates? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/opinion/biden-trump-debate.html

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• 170: The American history bashers are students of Cold War Soviet disinformation. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  ImageEnglish: V. I. Lenin (1870 - 1924), Soviet revolutionary leader of proletariat with group of commanders in the Red Square, May 25, 1919. He inspects the Vseobuch troops.Русский: Ленин на параде частей Всеобуча в Москве, 1919, 25 маяData | 25 matg 1919Funtauna | Lehtikuva, Сергей Александрович Морозов. Творческая фотография. М.:Изд-во «Планета», 3-е изд., 1989, ISBN 5-85250-029-1Autur | English: Smirnov_N.Русский: Смирнов Н.The American history bashers are students of Cold War Soviet disinformation. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst...more

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• 169: Hamas now possesses long-range missiles; and what is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_Pres

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  Image:  A soldier using an early model of the crossbow. Malcolm Hoenlein, in re:  The UN reports on Iran [and nothing happens].  SC 2231. Khobar Towers. PA excoriates not only Jews, but Christians. World history starts with Islamic conquest of the land.  Long-range missiles.  Fatah-Hamas partnership pledge orchestrated by Qatar.  Hagia Sophia. 

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• 169: The explosion at Natanz sets Iranian nukes back by years. Ronan Bergman @ronenbergman

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  Image:    A painting on the wall of the Chel-Sooton Palace in Isfahan of Shah Abbas at war.Ronan Bergman, in re: Whoever blew up Natanz had exquisite intelligence and operational abilities.  Truly not clear who did it.  Whoever may have done it, the fact is that the regime was unable to prevent it.   Dr. Ronen Bergman is senior correspondent for military and intelligence affairs for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s largest circulated daily newspaper, and a Contributing Writer for The New York Times. Dr. Bergman is author of, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations, named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York times.  . ●        https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-cant-be-stopped-in-nuke-bid-but-can-be-deterred-says-former-mossad-chief/ ●        https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/1594213363-iran-vows-to-bolster-syria-s-air-defenses-official ●        https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/world/middleeast/iran-Natanz-nuclear-damage.html ●        https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-launches-reconnaissance-satellite-into-space/ ...more

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• 169: BDS fails on American campuses. Dani Dayan @AmbDaniDayan

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  Image:  Brown University poster, 1914. Dani Dayan, in re: Review of the last several years. BDS is failing.  As of August 2016, Dani Dayan officially assumed the post of Consul General of Israel in New York. As Consul General, he has represented the State of Israel to communities from throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Delaware. Dayan was Chairman of the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria from July 2007 until January 2013. He then acted for two additional years as the Council’s Chief Foreign Envoy. His role included advocacy trips to the major seats of government worldwide as well as regular meetings with foreign diplomats and journalists based in Israel to explain the facts on the ground. ...more

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• 169: Anti-Semitism in the twenty-first century. Elan Carr @USEAntiSemitism

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  Image:  Jewish martyrdom depicted in a woodcut from 1493 Elan Carr, in re: Anti-Semitism in the twenty-first century; not the same as i the last century.  Those of the far left, far right, and militant Islam, is being practiced by sovereign states.  Promulgated by the Internet.  These three forces are driving the increase, with blinding speed, luring young people into the venomous [maelstrom].   Islamic Republic of Iran, esp its proxies. The Palestinian Authority, a quasi-state actor.  Blood libel with the virus.  Disinformation sources: primary, Iran; plus others using bots.  The three sources are dissimilar but share tactics.    . . .  Pres Trump said: If you are a university and promote or allow anti-Semitism, you’ll lost a lot of money.   Every university and college president heard that.   Elan S. Carr serves as the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. As Special Envoy, he advises the Secretary of State and is responsible for directing U.S. policies and projects aimed at countering anti-Semitism throughout the world. ●        https://www.jns.org/us-house-subcommittee-approves-360-million-for-nonprofit-security-grant-program/ ●        https://www.jns.org/deputy-anti-semitism-envoy-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories-are-a-modern-day-blood-libel/ ●        https://www.conferenceofpresidents.org/news/press/2020/jul9/conference-presidents-calls-zero-tolerance-face ...more

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• 168: California rises and falls in 92 years since Laurel & Hardy. Lee Ohanian @HooverInst @lee_ohanian

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  Image:  Postcard view of California oil fields c.1940s Lee Ohanian, Hoover & UCLA, in re: The California of yesteryear; then, the Golden State.  Laurel & Hardy movie: in the distance, can see only one or two houses.  Ninety-two years later, analysis of the budget from Sacramento: spending three times more per resident than in 1990. California once was the promised land, with weather, beaches, and a welcoming government.  It grew from a tiny populat0n to having 12% of the national population. It's gone off the rails.  Car owners pay $3,000 more per year than do drivers in other states: no money left in the budget to fix roads. Potholes to take out your rear axle.  Over 90% of budget is K-12 and health and human services.  A billion paid to ineligible Medicaid recipients.  Madly expensive prison system. Can’t even change light bulbs in DMV.  It’s the low-income households that pay the price of broken axles, bad schools, astounding traffic jams with highest gas prices.  Population shifting to Texas, Nevada, and other business-friendly states.  Will Godot ever show up?   https://www.hoover.org/research/california-legislators-spend-200-billion-and-taxpayers-get-less-and-less?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=4df6205600-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_07_06_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-4df6205600-72527561California rises and falls in 92 years since Laurel & Hardy. Lee Ohanian  @HooverInst    @lee_ohanian ...more

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• 167: The POTUS Trump vs the American-history bashers. @ConradMBlack @NRO

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  Image: A model at the site depicting Mount Rushmore's intended final design ("before funding ran out").Conrad Black, author, Flight of the Eagle, & publisher; in re:  President Trump’s Mt Rushmore  speech was the greatest of his career; both content and delivery were excellent.  The American system produces leaders that it absolutely needs when it needs them: Lincoln; FDR.  Trump has reversed a slight decline in the country and returned it to its ethos: if you work hard, you can succeed.  . . .  The president reminded us that we all came from different sources and have a right to live without [reference to] our ancestors. Black Lives Matter boasts about its Marxist founders.  Canadians find Trump heavy going, but are appalled at how the protests turned into orgies of violence and looting.  The Squad and Sanders say that the whole system is rotten— rather what Trump said four years ago. https://amgreatness.com/2020/07/06/point-of-no-return/ ...more

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• 166: What about reparations to Japanese-Americans? What about reparations to Holocaust survivors? @RichardAEpstein

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  Image:  A Japanese-American unfurled this banner in Oakland, California the day after the Pearl Harbor attack. This Dorothea Lange photograph was taken in March 1942, just prior to the man's internment. Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, and Hoover; in re:  What about the reparations to Japanese-Americans?  What about the reparations to Holocaust survivors?  Nicole Hannah Jones, head of New York Times 1619 Project.  The 1944 case before SCOTUS, and German government reparations to Jews.    https://www.hoover.org/research/should-cops-get-qualified-immunity ...more

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• 166: The case for reparations to descendants of American slave families, 1619-1865. @RichardAEpstein

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  Image:  Slaves on a South Carolina plantation (The Old Plantation, c. 1790) Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, and Hoover; in re:  The case for reparations to descendants of American slave families, 1619-1865.  https://www.hoover.org/research/should-cops-get-qualified-immunity

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• 165: Australia is on offense with arms and intelligence to fend off PRC threats and provocations. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Image: No known copyright Federal camp, Canberra, [ca. 1910s].[between 1910 and 1920] Condition: Good.; Part of the collection: Frank H. Boland collection. The surveyors' camp on Camp Hill. Persistent URLnla.gov.au/nla.pic-an23753932 Australia is on offense with arms and intelligence to fend off PRC threats and provocations. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs  "Essentially, the new approach would move the Australian Defence Force (ADF) struc-ture away from coalition, expeditionary operational focus to a capacity — largely driven by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) — toward a new approach of containing any power projection of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to Australia’s north. The new approach would also help offset the delay and uncertainties surrounding the RAN’s troubled 12-vessel new submarine program, the product of the previous Government of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, which will not see a new operational submarine for the RAN for dec-ades." ...more

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• 164: The last gamble of Xi Jinping is aggression. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Image:Public domainTraditional Chinese funeral marchDate | 24 June 1900Source | LOCAuthor | new york tribuneThe last gamble of Xi Jinping is aggression.  Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs"Now, PRC Pres. Xi Jinping was being forced by a range of circumstances — a declining economy, the socio-economic impact of the coronavirus epidemic, and a range of natu-ral and demographic disasters and trends — to take precipitate military action before the final window on the path toward global dominance closed for the PRC. "...more

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• 164: Happy 85th birthday to his Holiness the Dalai Lama, while the PRC plots more brutality in Tibet. Bhuchung Tsering, vice president of International Campaign for Tibet.

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  Image: Entitled: Kampa Dzong, Tibet [1904] John C. White [RESTORED] The image was nearly perfect to begin with. I smoothed out the clouds, got rid of some minor spot and scratch problems, evened the tones and added a bit more contrast. (I had previously wrongly attributed this image to John Baptist Noel, one of White's contemporaries in the region and another historical photography figure in his own right; my humble apologies to all viewers for the glaring error.)"British amateur photographer, who served in the Indian Public Works Department from 1876 and as political agent for Sikkim, Bhutan, and Tibetan affairs 1905–8. White accompanied the Younghusband Mission to Tibet in 1903–4 and during the campaign made a series of mainly landscape photographs, including a number of impressive panoramas. A selection of these was later issued in two photogravure volumes by the Calcutta photographers Johnston & Hoffmann as Tibet and Lhasa (1906). Owing to political sensitivities regarding the accompanying text, they were subsequently withdrawn, and are now extremely rare. A memoir, Sikhim and Bhutan: Experiences of Twenty Years on the North‐Eastern Frontier of India, appeared in 1909, and many of White's photographs accompany the articles on Sikkim and Bhutan which he later wrote for the National Geographic Magazine."Quoted from: John Claude White Biography - (1853–1918), Tibet and Lhasa <a href="http://arts.jrank.org/pages/11649/John-Claude-White.html#ixzz0rWQ9hPl7" rel="nofollow">arts.jrank.org/pages/11649/John-Claude-White.html#ixzz0rW...Kampa Dzong (trad. Khamber Jong; also Khampa Dzong), also referred to as the Tibetan hamlet of Gamba, sits just north of the point where Nepal, India (Sikkim) and Bhutan currently abuts the Chinese border. Tibet sat on the crossroads of history in the early 1900's, with a British force seeking to secure the northern border of its subcontinent possessions against incursion. Britain was alarmed that China was reportedly allowing unopposed Russian access to Tibet, thus putting another colonial power immediately north of India. As a prelude to that conflict, the British regional authorities attempted to negotiate with both Tibet and China and seek agreements with both governments. The meeting place was supposed to be at Kampa Dzong, see below:"The causes of the war are obscure, and it seems to have been primarily provoked by rumours circulating amongst the Calcutta-based British administration (Delhi was made imperial capital of India in 1911) that the Chinese government, (who nominally controlled Tibet), were planning to turn it over to the Russians, thus providing Russia with a direct route to British India and breaking the chain of semi-independent, mountainous buffer-states which separated India from the Russian Empire to the north. These rumours were seemingly supported by the facts of Russian exploration of Tibet. Russian explorer Gombojab Tsybikov was the first photographer of Lhasa, residing in it in 1900—1901 with the aid of the thirteenth Dalai Lama's Russian courtier Agvan Dorjiyev.In view of the rumors, the Viceroy, Lord Curzon in 1903 sent a request to the governments of China and Tibet for negotiations to be held at Khampa Dzong (Khamber Jong), a tiny Tibetan village north of Sikkim to establish trade agreements. The Chinese were willing, and ordered the thirteenth Dalai Lama to attend. However, the Dalai Lama refused, and also refused to provide transportation to enable the amban (the Chinese official based in Lhasa), You Tai, to attend. Curzon concluded that China had no power or authority to compel the Tibetan government, and gained approval from London to send a military expedition, led by Colonel Francis Younghusband, to Khampa Dzong. When no Tibetan or Chinese officials met them there, Younghusband advanced, with some 1,150 soldiers, 10,000 porters and laborers, and thousands of pack animals, to Tuna, fifty miles beyond the border. After waiting more months there, hoping in vain to be met by negotiators, the expedition received orders (in 1904) to continue toward Lhasa.Tibet's government, guided by the Dalai Lama was understandably unhappy about the presence of a large acquisitive foreign power dispatching a military mission to its capital, and began marshalling its armed forces. The government was fully aware that no help could be expected from the Chinese government, and so intended to use their arduous terrain and mountain-trained army to block the British path. The British authorities had also thought of the trials mountain fighting would pose, and so dispatched a force heavy with Gurkha and Pathan troops, who came from mountainous regions of British India. The entire British force numbered just over 3,000 fighting men and was accompanied by 7,000 sherpas, porters and camp followers. Permission for the operation was received from London, but it is not clear that the Balfour government was fully aware of the scale of the operation, or of the Tibetan intention to resist it."Source: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/British_expedition_to_Tibet" rel="nofollow">www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/British_expedition_to_TibetDate | 1904, 2009-11-07 11:42:19Source | Flickr: Kampa Dzong, Tibet [1904 John C. White [RESTORED]]Author | John Claude White, ralph repoHappy 85th birthday to his Holiness the Dalai Lama, while the PRC plots more brutality in Tibet. Bhuchung Tsering, vice president of International Campaign for Tibet. https://savetibet.org/us-bans-chinese-officials-under-tibet-access-law/https://nationalinterest.org/feature/china-has-plan-crush-tibetan-diaspora-164171...more

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• 164: Evidence that the supply chain is moving back from the PRC while the Trade Deal Phase 1 hesitates. Alan Tonelson, t @AlanTonelson.

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  Image: Identifier: greatsmallgameof1900lyde (find matches)Title: The great and small game of India, Burma, & TibetYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915Subjects:  Hunting Hunting Hunting MammalsPublisher:  London : R. WardContributing Library:  Boston Public LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  Boston Public LibraryText Appearing Before Image:animal is almost invariably called bison—atitle properly belonging to Bos bonasiis of Lithuania and the Caucasus.Questions are sometimes asked in sporting newspapers whether theapplication of the term bison to the gaur is legitimate. The answeris very simple, namely, that it is not. Domesticated oxen (togetherwith their extinct wild progenitors), gaur and gayal, bison, yak,and buffaloes collectively constitute the ox tribe. And since thedomesticated ox is the type of the whole group, they may all, in ageneral sense, be classed as oxen. Had the bison of Europe been madethe typical representative of the group, then that term might likewisehave been employed in the same general sense, and the gaur termeda bison as it now is an ox. But as matters stand, such a usage is totallyindefensible. The true domesticated oxen form one division of the group.Next to this comes a second and nearly allied section of the group com-prising the gaur, the gayal, and the banting ; all the members of whichText Appearing After Image:h 42 Great and Small Game of India, etc. are characterised by their elevated withers, short hair, and white-stockinged limbs. The third section includes the European andAmerican bisons (the former commonly miscalled aurochs, and the latterbuffalo), with which the yak may perhaps be included, all these havinglong hair on some part of the body, uniformly dark limbs, and lacking theridge-like hump of the second section. Lastly, there are the buffaloes,differing from all the others by the peculiar form of their horns. Eachsectional group is perfectly well defined, and it would be just as logical tocall the gaur a buffalo as to dub it a bison. But since there are few thingsmore difficult to amend than popular misapplications of names, a bison itwill probably remain among sportsmen for many years to come. Of the general characteristics of the ox tribe but little need be saidhere. With the exception of a few stunted island forms, the members ofthe group are large and heavily-built animals, wEvidence that the supply chain is moving back from the PRC while the Trade Deal Phase 1 hesitates. Alan Tonelson, t @AlanTonelson. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump/trump-weighs-executive-orders-on-china-manufacturing-immigration-aide-says-idUSKBN2471JV...more

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• 163: Drone surveillance aircraft learn to communicate 5G to other Drones; and solving the Shoe Bomber. Douglas Smith, Plymouth Rock Techologies.

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  ImagePlymouth Rock House, Cole's Hill, Portico over Plymouth RockDateUnknown dateSourcehttps://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/nby_teich/id/23421AuthorUnknown authorPermission(Reusing this file)The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to the following terms and conditions: https://www.newberry.org/rights-and-reproductionsollectionDetroit Publishing Company CollectionDecade1910/1919PlaceMassachusetts--PlymouthCityPlymouthSubjectHistoric sites ArchitectureSubcategoryHistoric, Other--Landmarks Architecture--Misc.Public Bldg.Production NumberDPC81394Drone surveillance aircraft learn to communicate 5G to other Drones; and solving the Shoe Bomber. Douglas Smith, Plymouth Rock Techologies.https://www.plyrotech.comDOUGLAS SMITH ChairmanDouglas has spent the last 25 years serving at the highest levels of government in national security and the private sector. and is a serial entrepreneur having helped start numerous companies. Smith brings to Kent over two decades of global experience in government relations, business development, communications, coalition building, public policy, and creating and managing public-private partnerships among Federal, State and local governments, and private industry. He has managed large-scale special projects and initiatives both within and outside of government.Douglas was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as the Assistant Secretary for the Private Sector at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).  In this role, Douglas advised the Secretary on the impact of the Department's policies, regulations, and processes globally on millions of private sector companies, universities, and not-for-profits institutions. Douglas was responsible for coordinating seamless private sector engagement across all 22 of DHS’s divisions including the Secret Service, Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Smith served as the Department's representative on the President's Travel and Tourism Advisory and Export Promotion Boards, the White House Business Council, the President’s Job Council and the World Economic Forum Risk Officers Community.  Under his leadership, the office has dramatically expanded its global footprint resulting in Assistant Secretary Smith leading delegations throughout the United States and to over 20 countries in support of strengthening the global supply chain and promoting the Department’s position of “global security equalling economic security”.  In the wake of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Assistant Secretary Smith headed an interagency team coordinating emergency response and supporting international commerce to keep the global supply chain moving.Prior to his appointment at DHS, Douglas was the Managing Partner of T Street Partners, where he provided clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to philanthropic and not-for-profit organizations with strategic counsel and public affairs consulting. During his time with T Street, Douglas successfully managed the winning campaign for the City of Chicago to be the U.S. Designate City for the 2016 Olympics.Douglas came to T Street Partners from Leo Burnett Worldwide, where as a Vice President and account manager, he managed the then-new "Army of One" public relations/public affairs account for the U.S. Army.During the Clinton-Gore Administration, Douglas served in a variety of positions including as Deputy Press Secretary as well as Director of Special Projects for Secretary Andrew Cuomo at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and then as the traveling Press Secretary for Secretary Rodney Slater at the Department of Transportation. He was also responsible for helping to manage the 50th Anniversary of NATO in Washington, D.C.Douglas began his career in Thailand where he started an import/export company and was a frequent contributing author to Thai business magazines.Douglas is a graduate of Beloit College where he received a bachelor's degree in international relations and Asian studies. While at Beloit, he also earned a degree from the School for International Training in Chiang Mai, Thailand.Douglas is a frequent public speaker both domestically and internationally and regularly appears on national television as an expert on national security and crisis management....more

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• 163: The timeless Prosperity, Pennsylvania: "Sit yourself down and visit awhile." Salena Zito SalenaZito.com

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  ImageEnglish: Post office in Prosperity, PASource | Own workAuthor | Niteshift36I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: | 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.  | This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic 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. The timeless Prosperity, Pennsylvania: "Sit yourself down and visit awhile." Salena Zito SalenaZito.com https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-way-to-prosperity-has-many-paths ...more

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• 163: Energy is all of the above starting with coal. SalenaZito.com

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  ImageA small local mine in West Virginia in 1908.Hine, Lewis Wickes - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/nclc.01055 Entrance to a W. Va. coal mine: a "drift" mine. The live-wire was only shoulder -high in places inside, and unprotected. Location: West Virginia. Permission details PD-USGovView more Public Domainview terms File:W. Va. coal mine 1908.jpg Created: 1 September 1908 Energy is all of the above starting with coal. SalenaZito.comhttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-future-still-lies-in-coal-oil-and-nuclear ...more

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• 163: Rocket science blows up now and again. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Image:Frontispiece illustration Caption: "I was progressing in great leaps and bounds" Claude Allin Shepperson - Internet Archive identifier Frontispiece of H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon, 1st hardcover edition, published by George Newnes in 1901. Caption: "I was progressing in great leaps and bounds" Public Domain File:First Men in the Moon (1901) frontispiece.jpg Created: 1 January 1901 Rocket science blows up now and again. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-launch-failure/ ...more

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• 163: Minimum minimum in 200 years continues. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Image:x Mission: Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Target: Sun Instrument: Atmosphere Imaging Assembly (AIA) Views: 1,978 Full-Res TIFF: PIA22242.tif Full-Res JPG: PIA22242.jpg Image credit: NASA/GSFC/Solar Dynamics Observatory Minimum minimum in 200 years continues. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/sunspot-update-more-evidence-of-an-upcoming-weak-maximum/

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• 162: Azerbaijan is a model secular republic; why is the EU speaking out yet the US remains quiet on the annexation of Nagorno-Karabakh? Adelle Nazarian @AdelleNaz

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  Image:European Commission building EmDee - Own work Belgique - Bruxelles - Schuman - Berlaymont - Siège de la Commission européenne CC BY-SA 4.0 File:Belgique - Bruxelles - Schuman - Berlaymont - 01.jpg Created: 2019-09-14 14:06:31 .Azerbaijan is a model secular republic; why is the EU speaking out yet the US remains quiet on the annexation of Nagorno-Karabakh?  Adelle Nazarian @AdelleNaz  Adelle Nazarian  senior media fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy in Washington, D.C.https://www.arabnews.com/node/1701256 Adelle Nazarian, Gold Institute senior media Fellow; @AdelleNaz, @GabrFoundation, in re: Nagorno-Karabakh, finally being discussed by EU and its Eastern Partnership.  Nagorno-Karabakh is currently in ruins.  Terrible ceasefire violation.  Armenia has demanded that it be in control of what it labels “the Republic of Artsakh.”  EU speaks of territorial integrity,   Why do US lawmakers have a double standard?  EU has condemned the annexation by Armenia.  Btw, it's used for illicit transit to Iran.  Azerbaijan is a model for a secular republic with a majority Muslim population. In Nagorno-Karabakh, there are mosques in which Armenians have housed pigs. ...more

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• 161: YouGov polling shows that Joe Biden's biggest challenge is to win moderate Democrats. David Brady, @RealClearPolitics @HooverInst

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  Image:  This image has become iconic of the consequences of bad polling data: November 3, 1948: President Harry S. Truman, shortly after being elected as President, smiles as he holds up a copy of the Chicago Tribune issue prematurely announcing his electoral defeat. YouGov polling shows that Joe Biden's biggest challenge is to win moderate Democrats.  David Brady, @RealClearPolitics @HooverInst Dave Brady, Hoover and RealClearPolitcs;  in re: How to interpret the polling?    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/07/07/yougov_polling_biden_skeptics_are_moderate_democrats_143640.html?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=4df6205600-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_07_06_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-4df6205600-72527561 YouGov Polling: Biden Skeptics Are Moderate Democrats by David Brady, Brett Parker via Real Clear Politics At the end of March, President Trump was on a roll: Having been acquitted by the Senate in February, he was taking credit for a coronavirus lockdown that “saved 2 million lives,” in his estimate, and was an odds-on favorite to win the 2020 election (a plus-seven-point margin in the RealClearPolitics betting average). RCP’s polling average placed his job approval rating at 47.4%, with over 50% approved of his handling of the COVID-19 crisis. ...more

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• 160: State of the City, the State, the Union: Shootings rise as the NYPD bows to budget cuts: Requesting the force hang on till November 2021 and a new mayor. John Catsimatidis, @JCats13 @CatsRoundtable

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  Image:  One of the many New York City slum photographs of Jacob Riis (ca 1890). Squalor can be seen in the streets, washed clothes hanging between buildings. John Catsimatidis, Cats Roundtable, and Red Apple Media, in re: New York must reopen and recover soon, or confidence will dwindle and the city will not recover.  Thousands of criminals were released from Riker’s Island are out shooting children, and breaking into stores, including Chanel and Macy’s. We have only fifteen months left till the mayoral election; may the police hold on till then. Disbanding the Anti-Crime Unit is a crime in itself.   We must put the criminals back in Riker’s. Walking Manhattan streets at night no longer feels safe. Thirty years ago, JAC moved into a Fifth Avenue apartment that had not only a doorman but armed security in the lobby.  JB: In Riverside Park, there were encampments of homeless people. I was mugged at twilight.  JAC : I want the police to stay till Novembere 2021, when we can win back our city—if we fail, that will change not only New York City but the entire country. https://nypost.com/2020/07/08/gov-cuomo-blames-inmates-releases-lax-das-for-nyc-crime-spike/ ...more

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• 159: India deploys cyber nationalism to blunt PRC aggression. @CleoPaskal @FDD

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  Image:  PLA marching into Lhasa in October 1951India deploys cyber nationalism to blunt PRC aggression.  @CleoPaskal @FDD Cleo Paskal, non-resident senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, @CleoPaskal, in re: Eastern Ladakh, China invades India.  China normally does fur steps forward, three steps back; but India [no longer is playing].  India has banned 59 Chinese apps: turns out they're espionage devised to monitor location, payment, et al. Can be used for blackmail and industrial espionage. Also China needs metadata for its military AI development. Effect is economic really huge: banned TikTok, removing $6 billion valuation, and=s well as allows development in India. Very smart and quick!  It'd be excellent if the US did the same thing, which it’s contemplating.  China doesn’t let Facebook or even Wikipedia into China.  . . . Decoupling the US and China—get the Chinese out of our society.  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-pompeo-united-states-weighing-ban-chinese-social-media-apps/ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/us-mulling-tiktok-ban-indias-digital-strike-to-hurt-more-than-what-china-expected/videoshow/76838104.cms  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-pompeo-united-states-weighing-ban-chinese-social-media-apps/ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/us-mulling-tiktok-ban-indias-digital-strike-to-hurt-more-than-what-china-expected/videoshow/76838104.cms   ...more

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• 159: The Great Firewall closes down Hong Kong communication. @Michael_Yon

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  Image:  The Great Wall in 1907 Michael Yon, Far East reporter based in Thailand, @Michael_Yon , in re: Office for Safeguarding National Security, China’s boot in Hong Kong.  The Great Firewall has descended; few communications today.  The Iron Curtain has fallen on HK.  More brutal than the old Soviet methods.  To be behind the Great Firewall means you can't access many websites without a VPN, which, itself, can be shut off.  If it is, Hong Kong will no longer be a global financial center, but merely like Shenzen or Shanghai.  Everyone knew this day was coming; that’s why everyone was on the streets. This was the Alamo.  They were desperate to stop it.  Did previous Washington administrations understand the power [and brutality] of Beijing?  No.  Safe for a European citizen to travel to HK to do business?  Depends on the person—neither Gordon nor I should.  All we can do now is apply political and economic pressure     ...more

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• 159: American investor class will solve the virus and make a profit in it. @johntamny

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  Image: Major investors; here:  Andrew Carnegie sold his steel company to J.P. Morgan in 1901 John Tamny, RealClearMarkets, The End of Work,@johntamny , in re: John Rockefeller donated $430 mil of his $500 mil to healthcare [and forbad medical doctors to prescribe anything having to do with diet or food].    . . . Collective action is doing what’s known. Entrepreneurs search for what’s unknown.  We want the craziest inventors to attack problems.  Profit motive is essential.  It's individuals who’ve created the wealth.  When a government invests in business, it inevitably fails.  Govt can't take a reputational risk. https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/07/06/dear_david_brooks_theres_no_we_nor_is_there_humiliation_498153.html ...more

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• 159: North Americans must move together to shed the China supply chain risk. Lt-Gen H R McMaster (ret.), Hoover Institution Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow; @HooverInst

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  Image:  Title: Where to spend the winter months. A birdseye view of a trip to Mexico, via HavanaYear: 1880 (1880s)Authors:  Wineburgh, M. (Michael)Subjects: Publisher:  New York, M. Wineburgh & co.Contributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  The Library of CongressText Appearing Before Image:plow their indolent way to the capital; for fivehundred years it has served as a conduit to feed the population of Mexicocity. On it the boats are propelled by hand ; we see flat boats loaded withtruck, fruits, hay and oats, pleasure boats well patronized ply the waters, it isalmost a Venice. These canals have villages along tlieir banks, some of whichrise to the dignity of the towns. Among the curiosities peculiar to Mexico, the Floating Gardens are notthe least interesting, these singular formations of ground that float in thecanals at irregular intervals form truckgardens, which yield vegetables andfruit the year around ; of course the perfect irrigation of these gardensneed not be questioned. The statue of the graceful Montezuma is still in the quarries, but asthe Aztecs are not yet extinct, and in view of the fact that the last Presidentwas a pure Aztec, as are many of the present leaders in Mexico, we mayhope to see even at this late day a statue to that renowned monarch. It isText Appearing After Image:45 safe to say that few persons will in that case he able to criticise the likeness.After we have seen Mexico, a visit to some of the principal cities in itsvicinity will be found very interesting and without which one can never knowwhat Mexico or its people are. The first place to visit, will be CUERNVACA^ situated from Mexico city in a south easterly direction ; we take the stagecoach, which leaves every day li-om the Hotel Itiirbide in the rear court yard.This city is a perfect garden of Eden ; the distance is short and the ride willbe found full of sights; elegant residences appear on the roadside, and we cansee the house which was once the resort of Carlotta and Maximilian, andalthough in decay is still full of rare luxuries. Vistas and trees and bowersand flowers, bananas, cocoa and other palms, oranges, lemons, mangos, coffeeand all manner of precious fruits abound. Cuernvaca can boast of one of thelargest and most interesting market places in Mexico, where may be hadfruit of e North Americans must move together to shed the China supply chain risk. Lt-Gen H  R  McMaster (ret.), Hoover Institution Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow; @HooverInst Lt-Gen H  R  McMaster (ret.), Hoover Institution Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow; @HooverInst  , in re: US-Mexico-Canada Agreement [Cameus].  Supply chain; a brutal  country aggressing against Hong Kong, India, Taiwan, the South and East China Seas.  The CCP and its economic aggressions; we’ve seen the dependence of supply chains.  Bob Leithauser.  ’Twas China that prevented Mexico from realizing many of its benefits from the old NAFTA, as China abused rules immediately on joining the WTO.   ATT10--the main cybrespionage program that engaged in the greatest theft in history.  Lopez-Obrador administration is not entirely on board with the new agreement.    . . .  Scott Atlas and I wrote an op-ed on pharmaceutical supply problems; India has awakened, too. The revised U.S.-Mexico-Canada pact will help post-Covid recovery and lure jobs back from China.https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-north-american-trade-dividend-11594076282?mod=opinion_lead_pos6&utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=4df6205600-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_07_06_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-4df6205600-72527561 ...more

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• 158: 4/8 Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776, by Richard R. Beeman.

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  Image: Continental Congress seal:  Drawing of a seal used by Thomas Mifflin as the President of the Continental Congress in 1783-4, which is a derivative of the Great Seal of the United States. It is possible the seal was used by all presidents of the Congress, but the seal apparently did not pass over to the federal government in 1789. The drawing was made in about 1885; it is not known if the artist (David McNeely Stauffer) worked from an actual wax impression or from earlier printed versions. Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776, by Richard R. Beeman.  1st Edition In 1768, the Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush stood before the empty throne of King George III, overcome with emotion as he gazed at the symbol of America’s connection with England. Eight years later, he became one of the fifty-six men to sign the Declaration of Independence, severing America forever from its mother country. Rush was not alone in his radical decision—many of those casting their votes in favor of independence did so with a combination of fear, reluctance, and even sadness.        In Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor, the acclaimed historian Richard R. Beeman examines the grueling twenty-two-month period between the meeting of the Continental Congress on September 5, 1774, and the audacious decision for independence in July of 1776. As late as 1774, American independence was hardly inevitable—indeed, most Americans found it neither desirable nor likely. When delegates from the thirteen colonies gathered in September, they were, in the words of John Adams, “a gathering of strangers.” Yet over the next two years, military, political, and diplomatic events catalyzed a change of unprecedented magnitude: the colonists’ rejection of their British identities in favor of American ones. In arresting detail, Beeman brings to life a cast of characters, including the relentless and passionate John Adams, Adams’ much-misunderstood foil John Dickinson, the fiery political activist Samuel Adams, and the relative political neophyte Thomas Jefferson; and with profound insight reveals their path from subjects of England to citizens of a new nation.        A vibrant narrative, Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor tells the remarkable story of how the delegates to the Continental Congress, through courage and compromise, came to dedicate themselves to the forging of American independence.   ...more

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• 158: 3/8 Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776, by Richard R. Beeman.

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  Image:  Portrait of Thomas Jefferson while in London in 1786 by Mather Brown Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776, by Richard R. Beeman.  1st Edition In 1768, the Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush stood before the empty throne of King George III, overcome with emotion as he gazed at the symbol of America’s connection with England. Eight years later, he became one of the fifty-six men to sign the Declaration of Independence, severing America forever from its mother country. Rush was not alone in his radical decision—many of those casting their votes in favor of independence did so with a combination of fear, reluctance, and even sadness.        In Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor, the acclaimed historian Richard R. Beeman examines the grueling twenty-two-month period between the meeting of the Continental Congress on September 5, 1774, and the audacious decision for independence in July of 1776. As late as 1774, American independence was hardly inevitable—indeed, most Americans found it neither desirable nor likely. When delegates from the thirteen colonies gathered in September, they were, in the words of John Adams, “a gathering of strangers.” Yet over the next two years, military, political, and diplomatic events catalyzed a change of unprecedented magnitude: the colonists’ rejection of their British identities in favor of American ones. In arresting detail, Beeman brings to life a cast of characters, including the relentless and passionate John Adams, Adams’ much-misunderstood foil John Dickinson, the fiery political activist Samuel Adams, and the relative political neophyte Thomas Jefferson; and with profound insight reveals their path from subjects of England to citizens of a new nation.        A vibrant narrative, Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor tells the remarkable story of how the delegates to the Continental Congress, through courage and compromise, came to dedicate themselves to the forging of American independence. ...more

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• 158: 2/8 Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776, by Richard R. Beeman.

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  2/8   Samuel Adams: A stern, middle-aged man with gray hair wearing a dark red suit.  In this c. 1772 portrait by John Singleton Copley, Adams points at the Massachusetts Charter, which he viewed as a constitution that protected the peoples' rights.Image: Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776, by Richard R. Beeman.  1st Edition In 1768, the Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush stood before the empty throne of King George III, overcome with emotion as he gazed at the symbol of America’s connection with England. Eight years later, he became one of the fifty-six men to sign the Declaration of Independence, severing America forever from its mother country. Rush was not alone in his radical decision—many of those casting their votes in favor of independence did so with a combination of fear, reluctance, and even sadness.        In Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor, the acclaimed historian Richard R. Beeman examines the grueling twenty-two-month period between the meeting of the Continental Congress on September 5, 1774, and the audacious decision for independence in July of 1776. As late as 1774, American independence was hardly inevitable—indeed, most Americans found it neither desirable nor likely. When delegates from the thirteen colonies gathered in September, they were, in the words of John Adams, “a gathering of strangers.” Yet over the next two years, military, political, and diplomatic events catalyzed a change of unprecedented magnitude: the colonists’ rejection of their British identities in favor of American ones. In arresting detail, Beeman brings to life a cast of characters, including the relentless and passionate John Adams, Adams’ much-misunderstood foil John Dickinson, the fiery political activist Samuel Adams, and the relative political neophyte Thomas Jefferson; and with profound insight reveals their path from subjects of England to citizens of a new nation.        A vibrant narrative, Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor tells the remarkable story of how the delegates to the Continental Congress, through courage and compromise, came to dedicate themselves to the forging of American independence. ...more

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• 157: 1/8 Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776, by Richard R. Beeman

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  Image: The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777 by John Trumbull, Dr. Benjamin Rush and General George Washington enter from the background, with Captain William Leslie, shown on the right, mortally wounded        Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776, by Richard R. Beeman.  1st Edition In 1768, the Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush stood before the empty throne of King George III, overcome with emotion as he gazed at the symbol of America’s connection with England. Eight years later, he became one of the fifty-six men to sign the Declaration of Independence, severing America forever from its mother country. Rush was not alone in his radical decision—many of those casting their votes in favor of independence did so with a combination of fear, reluctance, and even sadness.        In Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor, the acclaimed historian Richard R. Beeman examines the grueling twenty-two-month period between the meeting of the Continental Congress on September 5, 1774, and the audacious decision for independence in July of 1776. As late as 1774, American independence was hardly inevitable—indeed, most Americans found it neither desirable nor likely. When delegates from the thirteen colonies gathered in September, they were, in the words of John Adams, “a gathering of strangers.” Yet over the next two years, military, political, and diplomatic events catalyzed a change of unprecedented magnitude: the colonists’ rejection of their British identities in favor of American ones. In arresting detail, Beeman brings to life a cast of characters, including the relentless and passionate John Adams, Adams’ much-misunderstood foil John Dickinson, the fiery political activist Samuel Adams, and the relative political neophyte Thomas Jefferson; and with profound insight reveals their path from subjects of England to citizens of a new nation.        A vibrant narrative, Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor tells the remarkable story of how the delegates to the Continental Congress, through courage and compromise, came to dedicate themselves to the forging of American independence.   ...more

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• 156: Genoa reopens carefully. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundtation.

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  Jul 08 2020

  Image: [Piazza Acquaverde (Green Water Plaza), Genoa, Italy] (LOC)[Piazza Acquaverde (Green Water Plaza), Genoa, Italy] [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. "8545".Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites in Italy in the Photochrom print collection. Subjects:Italy--Genoa.  Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900.  Rights Info: No known restrictions on reproduction.  Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print   Part Of: Views of architecture and other sites in Italy (DLC) 2001700650 More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz   Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.06515   Call Number: LOT 13434, no. 087 [item] Genoa reopens carefully. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundtation....more

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• 156: No longer secure for Americans to travel to Hong Kong. Christian Whiton, Center for National Interest.

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  Jul 08 2020

  Image:1899年英國在大埔舉行接管新界儀式 Description: New Territory Hong Kong. Location: Hong Kong Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/446. This image is part of the Colonial Office photographic collection held at The National Archives. Feel free to share it within the spirit of the Commons. Please use the comments section below the pictures to share any information you have about the people, places or events shown. We have attempted to provide place information for the images automatically but our software may not have found the correct location. For high quality reproductions of any item from our collection please contact our image library. The National Archives UK - Flickr: CO 1069-446-52 Permission details This work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain. This is because it is one of the following: It is a photograph taken prior to 1 June 1957; or It was published prior to 1970; or It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created prior to 1970. HMSO has declared that the expiry of Crown Copyrights applies worldwide (ref: HMSO Email Reply) More information. See also Copyright and Crown copyright artistic works.View more Public Domainview terms File:British take over the New Territories.jpg Created: 16 April 1899 No longer secure for Americans to travel to Hong Kong. Christian Whiton, Center for National Interest. ...more

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• 155: The plan to discard the Electoral College. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Image: https://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/printable/elections.htmlAuthor | United States Geological SurveyThe plan to discard the Electoral College. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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• 155: Defunding the Police and the rule of law. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Image: George CatlinTitle | Five PointsDate | 1827Medium | oilDefunding the Police and the rule of law. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/washington-vs-violent-crime/

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• 153: #NewWorld: The IRGC colonizes Caracas & What is to be done? Joseph Humire @jmhumire @securefreesoc; Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal @MariaFdaCabal #NewWorld

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  Jul 08 2020

  Image:Español: Parque Los Caobos en Caracas - Venezuela hacia 1940Date | 1940Source | Postal sobre el Parque Los Caobos en Caracas Venezuela producida por el National Tourist of Venezuela en 1940Author | National Tourist of Venezuela#NewWorld: The IRGC colonizes Caracas & What is to be done? Joseph Humire @jmhumire @securefreesoc; Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal @MariaFdaCabal #NewWorldhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/iranian-military-owned-conglomerate-sets-up-shop-in-venezuela-11593972015

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• 153: #NewWorld: Coronavirus corruption cases spread across Latin America. Joseph Humire @jmhumire @securefreesoc; Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal @MariaFdaCabal #NewWorld

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  Image: Guayaquil's waterfront around 1920.Unknown author - Scanned from original stero card in User:Infrogmation's own collection; previously uploaded to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:GuyaquilWaterfront1920.jpg Guyaquil Waterfront, c. 1920, from Stereopticon card Permission details Published in USA early 20th century with no notice of copyright; public domain.View more Public Domainview terms File:GuyaquilWaterfront1920.jpg Created: circa 1920 date QS:P,+1920-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 #NewWorld: Coronavirus corruption cases spread across Latin America. Joseph Humire @jmhumire @securefreesoc; Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal @MariaFdaCabal #NewWorldhttps://www.ft.com/content/94c87005-7eb1-47c4-9698-5afb2b12ab54 ...more

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• 153: Why would anyone behead Christopher Columbus in Waterbury, Connecticut? @LizPeek

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  Image: Christopher Columbus at the gates of the monastery of Santa María de la Rábida with his son Diego, by Benet Mercadé Benet Mercadé - [2] Christopher Columbus at the gates of the monastery of Santa Maria de la Rabida with his son Diego. Painting by Benito Mercade y Fabregas. Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domainwork of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.View more Public Domainview terms File:Christopher Columbus at the gates of the monastery of Santa Maria de la Rabida with his son Diego.jpg Created: 1 January 1858 Why would anyone behead Christopher Columbus in Waterbury, Connecticut? @LizPeekhttps://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-hits-totalitarian-left-rushmore-speech-liz-peek ...more

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• 153: The Springtime governors lose authority as the Summertime trucking economy gains supremacy. @LizPeek @TheHill

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  Image:Standard Oil/Crown Gasoline General Motors truck Model K 52, replaced by Model T40 - 1925.Digital ID: 480988Source: Photographs of General Motors and Chrysler car and truck models, 1902 - 1938. / General Motors Truck Company, Pontiac, Michigan, 1936, photographs - specifications (more info)Repository: The New York Public Library. Science, Industry and Business Library. General Collection Division.See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery. Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?480988Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here)Date | 3 June 2009, 10:02Source | Model K 52, replaced by Model T40 - 1925.Author | New York Public LibraryPermission(Reusing this file) | New York Public Library @ Flickr CommonsThe Springtime governors lose authority as the Summertime trucking economy gains supremacy. @LizPeek @TheHillhttps://3wnews.org/uncategorised/2248472/trending-news-corona-impact-on-specialized-freight-trucking-market-2020-globally-market-size-research-business-growthanalysis-share-and-forecast-to-2025-american-rail-center-logistics-ceva-l/ ...more

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• 154: London grows accustomed to life with the virus. Joseph Sternberg: @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion

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  Image:  Richard Blome's map of London (1673). The development of the West End had recently begun to accelerate. Joseph Sternberg, WSJ, in re: London grows accustomed to life with the virus.   

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• 154: Hong Kong falls. Joseph Sternberg: @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion

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  Image:   Joseph Sternberg, WSJ, in re: Hong Kong falls.  

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• 153: The positives are up and the death rate is down. @henryimiller

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  Image:  Morbity and Mortality report: cover page of MMWR of July 3, 1981. Considered to be the first major public info regarding (what later became known as) AIDS Henry Miller, Pacific Research Center, in re: https://time.com/5863564/hospitals-capacity-coronavirus-surge/

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• 153: Accelerating Operation Warp Speed; and what is to be done? @henryimiller

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  Image:   Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh where he developed the first polio vaccine. Henry Miller, Pacific Research Center, in re:  https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-commits-2-billion-for-covid-19-vaccine-drug-supplies-11594132175?st=3piwx83kovu0zpf&reflink=article_email_share

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• 152: Vicksburg: 8of8: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Donald L. Miller (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)

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  Image:Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USAThe original uploader was The Mystery Man at English Wikipedia. - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpbh.01058. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensingfor more information.Gen. U.S. Grant - Category:Images of people of the American Civil War Public Domain File:GenUSGrant.jpg Created: circa 1862 date QS:P,+1862-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 Vicksburg: 8of8: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Donald L. Miller (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Vicksburg-Donald-L-Miller-audiobook/dp/B07QFFGZQ5/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Donald+L+Miller+Vicksburg&qid=1594089149&s=audible&sr=1-1 Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York's Fletcher Pratt Literary Award. Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize.  Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award.   "A superb account" (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war. Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled Midwest and New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The Union navy tried to take Vicksburg, which sat on a high bluff overlooking the river, but couldn't do it. It took Grant's army and Admiral David Porter's navy to successfully invade Mississippi and lay siege to Vicksburg, forcing the city to surrender. In this "elegant...enlightening...well-researched and well-told" (Publishers Weekly) work, Donald L. Miller tells the full story of this year-long campaign to win the city "with probing intelligence and irresistible passion" (Booklist). He brings to life all the drama, characters, and significance of Vicksburg, a historic moment that rivals any war story in history. In the course of the campaign, tens of thousands of slaves fled to the Union lines, where more than 20,000 became soldiers, while others seized the plantations they had been forced to work on, destroying the economy of a large part of Mississippi and creating a social revolution. With Vicksburg "Miller has produced a model work that ties together military and social history" (Civil War Times). Vicksburg solidified Grant's reputation as the Union’s most capable general. Today no general would ever be permitted to fail as often as Grant did, but ultimately he succeeded in what he himself called the most important battle of the war - the one that all but sealed the fate of the Confederacy....more

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• 152: Vicksburg: 7of8: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Donald L. Miller (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)

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  Image: TITLE: Siege of Vicksburg--13, 15, & 17 Corps, Commanded by Gen. U.S. Grant, assisted by the Navy under Admiral Porter--Surrender, July 4, 1863, by Kurz and AllisonKurz and Allison - Source: Library of Congress Public Domain File:Battle of Vicksburg, Kurz and Allison.png Created: circa 1888 date QS:P,+1888-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 Vicksburg: 7of8: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Donald L. Miller (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Vicksburg-Donald-L-Miller-audiobook/dp/B07QFFGZQ5/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Donald+L+Miller+Vicksburg&qid=1594089149&s=audible&sr=1-1 Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York's Fletcher Pratt Literary Award. Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize.  Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award.   "A superb account" (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war. Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled Midwest and New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The Union navy tried to take Vicksburg, which sat on a high bluff overlooking the river, but couldn't do it. It took Grant's army and Admiral David Porter's navy to successfully invade Mississippi and lay siege to Vicksburg, forcing the city to surrender. In this "elegant...enlightening...well-researched and well-told" (Publishers Weekly) work, Donald L. Miller tells the full story of this year-long campaign to win the city "with probing intelligence and irresistible passion" (Booklist). He brings to life all the drama, characters, and significance of Vicksburg, a historic moment that rivals any war story in history. In the course of the campaign, tens of thousands of slaves fled to the Union lines, where more than 20,000 became soldiers, while others seized the plantations they had been forced to work on, destroying the economy of a large part of Mississippi and creating a social revolution. With Vicksburg "Miller has produced a model work that ties together military and social history" (Civil War Times). Vicksburg solidified Grant's reputation as the Union’s most capable general. Today no general would ever be permitted to fail as often as Grant did, but ultimately he succeeded in what he himself called the most important battle of the war - the one that all but sealed the fate of the Confederacy....more

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• 152: Vicksburg: 6of8: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Donald L. Miller (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)

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  Jul 07 2020

  Image: en:Battle of Champion Hill. Sketched by Mr. Theodore R. Davis. Theodore Russel Davis - Source Harper's Weekly, Volume: 1863, Issue: 06/20, Page Range: 0393ad-0393ad Public Domain File:Battle of Champion Hill.png Created: 1 January 1863 Vicksburg: 6of8: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Donald L. Miller (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Vicksburg-Donald-L-Miller-audiobook/dp/B07QFFGZQ5/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Donald+L+Miller+Vicksburg&qid=1594089149&s=audible&sr=1-1 Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York's Fletcher Pratt Literary Award. Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize.  Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award.   "A superb account" (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war. Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled Midwest and New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The Union navy tried to take Vicksburg, which sat on a high bluff overlooking the river, but couldn't do it. It took Grant's army and Admiral David Porter's navy to successfully invade Mississippi and lay siege to Vicksburg, forcing the city to surrender. In this "elegant...enlightening...well-researched and well-told" (Publishers Weekly) work, Donald L. Miller tells the full story of this year-long campaign to win the city "with probing intelligence and irresistible passion" (Booklist). He brings to life all the drama, characters, and significance of Vicksburg, a historic moment that rivals any war story in history. In the course of the campaign, tens of thousands of slaves fled to the Union lines, where more than 20,000 became soldiers, while others seized the plantations they had been forced to work on, destroying the economy of a large part of Mississippi and creating a social revolution. With Vicksburg "Miller has produced a model work that ties together military and social history" (Civil War Times). Vicksburg solidified Grant's reputation as the Union’s most capable general. Today no general would ever be permitted to fail as often as Grant did, but ultimately he succeeded in what he himself called the most important battle of the war - the one that all but sealed the fate of the Confederacy....more

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• 152: Vicksburg: 5of8: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Donald L. Miller (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)

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  Image: Union gunboats bombard Confederate positions during the Battle of Grand Gulf.F.H. Schell and Thomas Hogan. A list of artists and engravers can be found on p. 23 of the PDF. - This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library.  View image on Flickr   View all images from book   View catalogue entry for book.  Public Domain File:Battle of Grand Gulf second position.jpg Created: 1 January 1887 Vicksburg: 5of8: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Donald L. Miller (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Vicksburg-Donald-L-Miller-audiobook/dp/B07QFFGZQ5/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Donald+L+Miller+Vicksburg&qid=1594089149&s=audible&sr=1-1 Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York's Fletcher Pratt Literary Award. Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize.  Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award.   "A superb account" (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war. Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled Midwest and New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The Union navy tried to take Vicksburg, which sat on a high bluff overlooking the river, but couldn't do it. It took Grant's army and Admiral David Porter's navy to successfully invade Mississippi and lay siege to Vicksburg, forcing the city to surrender. In this "elegant...enlightening...well-researched and well-told" (Publishers Weekly) work, Donald L. Miller tells the full story of this year-long campaign to win the city "with probing intelligence and irresistible passion" (Booklist). He brings to life all the drama, characters, and significance of Vicksburg, a historic moment that rivals any war story in history. In the course of the campaign, tens of thousands of slaves fled to the Union lines, where more than 20,000 became soldiers, while others seized the plantations they had been forced to work on, destroying the economy of a large part of Mississippi and creating a social revolution. With Vicksburg "Miller has produced a model work that ties together military and social history" (Civil War Times). Vicksburg solidified Grant's reputation as the Union’s most capable general. Today no general would ever be permitted to fail as often as Grant did, but ultimately he succeeded in what he himself called the most important battle of the war - the one that all but sealed the fate of the Confederacy....more

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• 151: Vicksburg: 4of8: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Donald L. Miller (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)

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  Image Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA Mathew Brady (1823–1896) - The Photography Book, Phaidon Press, London 1997. ISBN 0714836346http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/Assets/Still/1999/DoD/HD-SN-99-01784.JPEGhttp://www.archives.gov/research/civil-war/photos/images/civil-war-176.jpg Verwendung in der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 525970. Public Domain File:William-Tecumseh-Sherman.jpg Vicksburg: 4of8: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Donald L. Miller (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Vicksburg-Donald-L-Miller-audiobook/dp/B07QFFGZQ5/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Donald+L+Miller+Vicksburg&qid=1594089149&s=audible&sr=1-1 Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York's Fletcher Pratt Literary Award. Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize.  Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award.   "A superb account" (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war. Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled Midwest and New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The Union navy tried to take Vicksburg, which sat on a high bluff overlooking the river, but couldn't do it. It took Grant's army and Admiral David Porter's navy to successfully invade Mississippi and lay siege to Vicksburg, forcing the city to surrender. In this "elegant...enlightening...well-researched and well-told" (Publishers Weekly) work, Donald L. Miller tells the full story of this year-long campaign to win the city "with probing intelligence and irresistible passion" (Booklist). He brings to life all the drama, characters, and significance of Vicksburg, a historic moment that rivals any war story in history. In the course of the campaign, tens of thousands of slaves fled to the Union lines, where more than 20,000 became soldiers, while others seized the plantations they had been forced to work on, destroying the economy of a large part of Mississippi and creating a social revolution. With Vicksburg "Miller has produced a model work that ties together military and social history" (Civil War Times). Vicksburg solidified Grant's reputation as the Union’s most capable general. Today no general would ever be permitted to fail as often as Grant did, but ultimately he succeeded in what he himself called the most important battle of the war - the one that all but sealed the fate of the Confederacy....more

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• 151: Vicksburg: 3of8: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Donald L. Miller (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)

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  ImageThe Chickasaw bluffs as seen from General M. L. Smith's position Harry Fenn. A list of artists and engravers can be found on p. 23 of the PDF. - This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library.  View image on Flickr   View all images from book   View catalogue entry for book.  A view of the bluffs that were the site of the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, as seen from General M. L. Smith's position. Public Domain File:Chickasaw Bayou and Vicksburg Bluffs.jpg Created: 1 January 1887 Vicksburg: 3of8: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Donald L. Miller (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Vicksburg-Donald-L-Miller-audiobook/dp/B07QFFGZQ5/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Donald+L+Miller+Vicksburg&qid=1594089149&s=audible&sr=1-1 Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York's Fletcher Pratt Literary Award. Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize.  Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award.   "A superb account" (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war. Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled Midwest and New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The Union navy tried to take Vicksburg, which sat on a high bluff overlooking the river, but couldn't do it. It took Grant's army and Admiral David Porter's navy to successfully invade Mississippi and lay siege to Vicksburg, forcing the city to surrender. In this "elegant...enlightening...well-researched and well-told" (Publishers Weekly) work, Donald L. Miller tells the full story of this year-long campaign to win the city "with probing intelligence and irresistible passion" (Booklist). He brings to life all the drama, characters, and significance of Vicksburg, a historic moment that rivals any war story in history. In the course of the campaign, tens of thousands of slaves fled to the Union lines, where more than 20,000 became soldiers, while others seized the plantations they had been forced to work on, destroying the economy of a large part of Mississippi and creating a social revolution. With Vicksburg "Miller has produced a model work that ties together military and social history" (Civil War Times). Vicksburg solidified Grant's reputation as the Union’s most capable general. Today no general would ever be permitted to fail as often as Grant did, but ultimately he succeeded in what he himself called the most important battle of the war - the one that all but sealed the fate of the Confederacy....more

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• 152: Vicksburg: 2of8: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Donald L. Miller (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)

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  Image: Porter's flotilla arrives; General Sherman is going in a yawl to the flagship, USS Benton (1861).Julian Oliver Davidson. A list of artists and engravers can be found on p. 23 of the PDF. - This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library.  View image on Flickr   View all images from book   View catalogue entry for book.  Admiral Porter's flotilla of gunships and transports arrives below Vicksburg on 16 April 1863. General W. T. Sherman is rowing out to the flagship, USS Benton, in a yawl. Public Domain File:Porter's flotilla below Vicksburg.jpg Vicksburg: 2of8: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Donald L. Miller (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Vicksburg-Donald-L-Miller-audiobook/dp/B07QFFGZQ5/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Donald+L+Miller+Vicksburg&qid=1594089149&s=audible&sr=1-1 Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York's Fletcher Pratt Literary Award. Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize.  Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award.   "A superb account" (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war. Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled Midwest and New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The Union navy tried to take Vicksburg, which sat on a high bluff overlooking the river, but couldn't do it. It took Grant's army and Admiral David Porter's navy to successfully invade Mississippi and lay siege to Vicksburg, forcing the city to surrender. In this "elegant...enlightening...well-researched and well-told" (Publishers Weekly) work, Donald L. Miller tells the full story of this year-long campaign to win the city "with probing intelligence and irresistible passion" (Booklist). He brings to life all the drama, characters, and significance of Vicksburg, a historic moment that rivals any war story in history. In the course of the campaign, tens of thousands of slaves fled to the Union lines, where more than 20,000 became soldiers, while others seized the plantations they had been forced to work on, destroying the economy of a large part of Mississippi and creating a social revolution. With Vicksburg "Miller has produced a model work that ties together military and social history" (Civil War Times). Vicksburg solidified Grant's reputation as the Union’s most capable general. Today no general would ever be permitted to fail as often as Grant did, but ultimately he succeeded in what he himself called the most important battle of the war - the one that all but sealed the fate of the Confederacy....more

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• 152: Vicksburg: 1of8: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Donald L. Miller (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)

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  Image: View of Vicksburg vicinity and fortifications, 1863View author information Public Domain File:View of Vicksburg.jpg Uploaded: 2007-08-02 23:57:35 Vicksburg: 1of8: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Donald L. Miller (Author), Rick Adamson (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Vicksburg-Donald-L-Miller-audiobook/dp/B07QFFGZQ5/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Donald+L+Miller+Vicksburg&qid=1594089149&s=audible&sr=1-1 Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York's Fletcher Pratt Literary Award. Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize.  Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award.   "A superb account" (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war. Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled Midwest and New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The Union navy tried to take Vicksburg, which sat on a high bluff overlooking the river, but couldn't do it. It took Grant's army and Admiral David Porter's navy to successfully invade Mississippi and lay siege to Vicksburg, forcing the city to surrender. In this "elegant...enlightening...well-researched and well-told" (Publishers Weekly) work, Donald L. Miller tells the full story of this year-long campaign to win the city "with probing intelligence and irresistible passion" (Booklist). He brings to life all the drama, characters, and significance of Vicksburg, a historic moment that rivals any war story in history. In the course of the campaign, tens of thousands of slaves fled to the Union lines, where more than 20,000 became soldiers, while others seized the plantations they had been forced to work on, destroying the economy of a large part of Mississippi and creating a social revolution. With Vicksburg "Miller has produced a model work that ties together military and social history" (Civil War Times). Vicksburg solidified Grant's reputation as the Union’s most capable general. Today no general would ever be permitted to fail as often as Grant did, but ultimately he succeeded in what he himself called the most important battle of the war - the one that all but sealed the fate of the Confederacy. ...more

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• 159: 8/8 Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo.

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  Image: General Pickett's famous charge at Gettysburg.. The principal part of the Federal army was on the north side of the Chickahominy Hills division. Confederate forces met this large force with impetuous courage. Some of his brigades were broken. The national forces were steadily gaining ground. Jackson had not arrived. It was a critical moment. Three brigades under Wilcox were ordered forward against the Federal left flank, to make a diversion in favor of the attacking columns. Pickett’s brigade, making an independent diversion on the left of these brigades, developed the strong position and force of the Federals in Longstreet’s front. The latter at once resolved to change the feint into an attack, and orders for a general advance were issued. At this moment, Stonewall Jackson arrived, and the air was rent with shouts. Pickett’s brigade, supported by part of Anderson’s brigade, swept on to the charge with fierce grandeur. Along the whole Confederate line the troops pressed steadily forward.  Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo.   Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher).   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CQAUZ7U/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i4 From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history–the most intimate and richly readable account we have had–of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced the greatest battle of the Civil War, and one of the greatest in human history. Of the half-dozen full-length histories of the battle of Gettysburg written over the last century, none dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights, and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the lay of the land, the fences and the stone walls, the gunpowder clouds that hampered movement and vision; the armies that caroused, foraged, kidnapped, sang, and were so filthy they could be smelled before they could be seen; the head-swimming difficulties of marshalling massive numbers of poorly trained soldiers, plus thousands of animals and wagons, with no better means of communication than those of Caesar and Alexander. What emerges is an untold story, from the trapped and terrified civilians in Gettysburg’s cellars to the insolent attitude of artillerymen; from the taste of gunpowder cartridges torn with the teeth to the sounds of marching columns, their tin cups clanking like an anvil chorus. Guelzo depicts the battle with unprecedented clarity, evoking a world where disoriented soldiers and officers wheel nearly blindly through woods and fields toward their clash, even as poetry and hymns spring to their minds with ease in the midst of carnage. Rebel soldiers look to march on Philadelphia and even New York, while the Union struggles to repel what will be the final invasion of the North. One hundred fifty years later, the cornerstone battle of the Civil War comes vividly to life as a national epic, inspiring both horror and admiration. ...more

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• 158: 7/8 Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo.

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  Image: John L. Burns, veteran of the War of 1812, civilian who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg with Union troops, standing with bayoneted musket. Mathew Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, photographer. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of CongressGettysburg: The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo.   Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher).   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CQAUZ7U/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i4 From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history–the most intimate and richly readable account we have had–of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced the greatest battle of the Civil War, and one of the greatest in human history. Of the half-dozen full-length histories of the battle of Gettysburg written over the last century, none dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights, and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the lay of the land, the fences and the stone walls, the gunpowder clouds that hampered movement and vision; the armies that caroused, foraged, kidnapped, sang, and were so filthy they could be smelled before they could be seen; the head-swimming difficulties of marshalling massive numbers of poorly trained soldiers, plus thousands of animals and wagons, with no better means of communication than those of Caesar and Alexander. What emerges is an untold story, from the trapped and terrified civilians in Gettysburg’s cellars to the insolent attitude of artillerymen; from the taste of gunpowder cartridges torn with the teeth to the sounds of marching columns, their tin cups clanking like an anvil chorus. Guelzo depicts the battle with unprecedented clarity, evoking a world where disoriented soldiers and officers wheel nearly blindly through woods and fields toward their clash, even as poetry and hymns spring to their minds with ease in the midst of carnage. Rebel soldiers look to march on Philadelphia and even New York, while the Union struggles to repel what will be the final invasion of the North. One hundred fifty years later, the cornerstone battle of the Civil War comes vividly to life as a national epic, inspiring both horror and admiration. ...more

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• 157: 6/8 Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo.

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  Image: "The Harvest of Death": Union dead on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, photographed July 5 or July 6, 1863, by Timothy H. O'SullivanGettysburg: The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo.   Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher).   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CQAUZ7U/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i4 From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history–the most intimate and richly readable account we have had–of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced the greatest battle of the Civil War, and one of the greatest in human history. Of the half-dozen full-length histories of the battle of Gettysburg written over the last century, none dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights, and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the lay of the land, the fences and the stone walls, the gunpowder clouds that hampered movement and vision; the armies that caroused, foraged, kidnapped, sang, and were so filthy they could be smelled before they could be seen; the head-swimming difficulties of marshalling massive numbers of poorly trained soldiers, plus thousands of animals and wagons, with no better means of communication than those of Caesar and Alexander. What emerges is an untold story, from the trapped and terrified civilians in Gettysburg’s cellars to the insolent attitude of artillerymen; from the taste of gunpowder cartridges torn with the teeth to the sounds of marching columns, their tin cups clanking like an anvil chorus. Guelzo depicts the battle with unprecedented clarity, evoking a world where disoriented soldiers and officers wheel nearly blindly through woods and fields toward their clash, even as poetry and hymns spring to their minds with ease in the midst of carnage. Rebel soldiers look to march on Philadelphia and even New York, while the Union struggles to repel what will be the final invasion of the North. One hundred fifty years later, the cornerstone battle of the Civil War comes vividly to life as a national epic, inspiring both horror and admiration. ...more

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• 156: 5/8 Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo.

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  Image:  L. Prang & Co. print of the painting, Hancock at Gettysburg, by Thure de Thulstrup, showing Pickett's Charge. Restoration by Adam Cuerden. Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo.   Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher).   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CQAUZ7U/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i4 From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history–the most intimate and richly readable account we have had–of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced the greatest battle of the Civil War, and one of the greatest in human history. Of the half-dozen full-length histories of the battle of Gettysburg written over the last century, none dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights, and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the lay of the land, the fences and the stone walls, the gunpowder clouds that hampered movement and vision; the armies that caroused, foraged, kidnapped, sang, and were so filthy they could be smelled before they could be seen; the head-swimming difficulties of marshalling massive numbers of poorly trained soldiers, plus thousands of animals and wagons, with no better means of communication than those of Caesar and Alexander. What emerges is an untold story, from the trapped and terrified civilians in Gettysburg’s cellars to the insolent attitude of artillerymen; from the taste of gunpowder cartridges torn with the teeth to the sounds of marching columns, their tin cups clanking like an anvil chorus. Guelzo depicts the battle with unprecedented clarity, evoking a world where disoriented soldiers and officers wheel nearly blindly through woods and fields toward their clash, even as poetry and hymns spring to their minds with ease in the midst of carnage. Rebel soldiers look to march on Philadelphia and even New York, while the Union struggles to repel what will be the final invasion of the North. One hundred fifty years later, the cornerstone battle of the Civil War comes vividly to life as a national epic, inspiring both horror and admiration. ...more

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• 155: 4/8 Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo.

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  Image: Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, CSAGettysburg: The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo.   Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher).   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CQAUZ7U/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i4 From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history–the most intimate and richly readable account we have had–of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced the greatest battle of the Civil War, and one of the greatest in human history. Of the half-dozen full-length histories of the battle of Gettysburg written over the last century, none dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights, and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the lay of the land, the fences and the stone walls, the gunpowder clouds that hampered movement and vision; the armies that caroused, foraged, kidnapped, sang, and were so filthy they could be smelled before they could be seen; the head-swimming difficulties of marshalling massive numbers of poorly trained soldiers, plus thousands of animals and wagons, with no better means of communication than those of Caesar and Alexander. What emerges is an untold story, from the trapped and terrified civilians in Gettysburg’s cellars to the insolent attitude of artillerymen; from the taste of gunpowder cartridges torn with the teeth to the sounds of marching columns, their tin cups clanking like an anvil chorus. Guelzo depicts the battle with unprecedented clarity, evoking a world where disoriented soldiers and officers wheel nearly blindly through woods and fields toward their clash, even as poetry and hymns spring to their minds with ease in the midst of carnage. Rebel soldiers look to march on Philadelphia and even New York, while the Union struggles to repel what will be the final invasion of the North. One hundred fifty years later, the cornerstone battle of the Civil War comes vividly to life as a national epic, inspiring both horror and admiration. ...more

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• 154: 3/8 Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo.

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  Jul 07 2020

  Image: Union breastworks on Culp's HillGettysburg: The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo.   Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher).   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CQAUZ7U/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i4 From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history–the most intimate and richly readable account we have had–of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced the greatest battle of the Civil War, and one of the greatest in human history. Of the half-dozen full-length histories of the battle of Gettysburg written over the last century, none dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights, and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the lay of the land, the fences and the stone walls, the gunpowder clouds that hampered movement and vision; the armies that caroused, foraged, kidnapped, sang, and were so filthy they could be smelled before they could be seen; the head-swimming difficulties of marshalling massive numbers of poorly trained soldiers, plus thousands of animals and wagons, with no better means of communication than those of Caesar and Alexander. What emerges is an untold story, from the trapped and terrified civilians in Gettysburg’s cellars to the insolent attitude of artillerymen; from the taste of gunpowder cartridges torn with the teeth to the sounds of marching columns, their tin cups clanking like an anvil chorus. Guelzo depicts the battle with unprecedented clarity, evoking a world where disoriented soldiers and officers wheel nearly blindly through woods and fields toward their clash, even as poetry and hymns spring to their minds with ease in the midst of carnage. Rebel soldiers look to march on Philadelphia and even New York, while the Union struggles to repel what will be the final invasion of the North. One hundred fifty years later, the cornerstone battle of the Civil War comes vividly to life as a national epic, inspiring both horror and admiration. ...more

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• 153: 2/8 Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo.

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  Image: A Harper's Weekly illustration showing Confederate troops escorting captured African American civilians south into slavery. En route to Gettysburg, the Army of Northern Virginia kidnapped approximately 40 black civilians and sent them south into slaveryGettysburg: The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo.   Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher).   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CQAUZ7U/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i4 From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history–the most intimate and richly readable account we have had–of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced the greatest battle of the Civil War, and one of the greatest in human history. Of the half-dozen full-length histories of the battle of Gettysburg written over the last century, none dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights, and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the lay of the land, the fences and the stone walls, the gunpowder clouds that hampered movement and vision; the armies that caroused, foraged, kidnapped, sang, and were so filthy they could be smelled before they could be seen; the head-swimming difficulties of marshalling massive numbers of poorly trained soldiers, plus thousands of animals and wagons, with no better means of communication than those of Caesar and Alexander. What emerges is an untold story, from the trapped and terrified civilians in Gettysburg’s cellars to the insolent attitude of artillerymen; from the taste of gunpowder cartridges torn with the teeth to the sounds of marching columns, their tin cups clanking like an anvil chorus. Guelzo depicts the battle with unprecedented clarity, evoking a world where disoriented soldiers and officers wheel nearly blindly through woods and fields toward their clash, even as poetry and hymns spring to their minds with ease in the midst of carnage. Rebel soldiers look to march on Philadelphia and even New York, while the Union struggles to repel what will be the final invasion of the North. One hundred fifty years later, the cornerstone battle of the Civil War comes vividly to life as a national epic, inspiring both horror and admiration. ...more

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• 152: 1/8 Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo.

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  Image: This 1863 oval-shaped map depicts Gettysburg Battlefield during July 1–3, 1863, showing troop and artillery positions and movements, relief hachures, drainage, roads, railroads, and houses with the names of residents at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg.Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo.   Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher).   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CQAUZ7U/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i4 From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history–the most intimate and richly readable account we have had–of the climactic, three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts the combination of personalities and circumstances that produced the greatest battle of the Civil War, and one of the greatest in human history. Of the half-dozen full-length histories of the battle of Gettysburg written over the last century, none dives down so closely to the experience of the individual soldier, or looks so closely at the sway of politics over military decisions, or places the battle so firmly in the context of nineteenth-century military practice. Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights, and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the lay of the land, the fences and the stone walls, the gunpowder clouds that hampered movement and vision; the armies that caroused, foraged, kidnapped, sang, and were so filthy they could be smelled before they could be seen; the head-swimming difficulties of marshalling massive numbers of poorly trained soldiers, plus thousands of animals and wagons, with no better means of communication than those of Caesar and Alexander. What emerges is an untold story, from the trapped and terrified civilians in Gettysburg’s cellars to the insolent attitude of artillerymen; from the taste of gunpowder cartridges torn with the teeth to the sounds of marching columns, their tin cups clanking like an anvil chorus. Guelzo depicts the battle with unprecedented clarity, evoking a world where disoriented soldiers and officers wheel nearly blindly through woods and fields toward their clash, even as poetry and hymns spring to their minds with ease in the midst of carnage. Rebel soldiers look to march on Philadelphia and even New York, while the Union struggles to repel what will be the final invasion of the North. One hundred fifty years later, the cornerstone battle of the Civil War comes vividly to life as a national epic, inspiring both horror and admiration. ...more

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• 150: LIFE LINCOLN: 4of4: An Intimate Portrait Hardcover – October 14, 2014. by The Editors of LIFE (Author). Allen Guelzo.

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  Jul 06 2020

  Image::Harrisburg PA: Funeral train of A. LincolnUnknown author - http://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2015/04/19/Harrisburg-to-observe-Lincoln-funeral-train-on-Tuesday/stories/201504190067 Public Domain File:Abraham-Lincoln-funeral-train Harrisburg.jpg LIFE LINCOLN: 4of4: An Intimate Portrait Hardcover – October 14, 2014. by The Editors of LIFE (Author). Allen Guelzo. https://www.amazon.com/LIFE-LINCOLN-Intimate-Portrait-Editors/dp/1618930729/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Lincoln+intimate+portrait+life+Editors&qid=1593995165&s=audible&sr=1-1 On the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the editors of LIFE bring readers everything that has been left to us from the life of one of history's most iconic figures. His pictures, actions, words in his speeches and his private letters are analyzed and pointed inward toward the person, to help us understand the man: the heart and soul of the man. This book is about the artifacts that are left us all these years later (letters, speeches and particularly pictures) — things that LIFE can show that allow us to know this man more intimately. And so we, with help from experts and several famous commentators, will show them in our pages, and lead the reader to the clues about Lincoln's essence.Includes chapters such as: "Lincoln Pictured," an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A narrative by Allen C. Guelzo, explaining the man and his image — how the image reflects the true man "Who Was Mathew Brady?" — the famous photographer, his life and times, his truths and deceptions (before and after shots from the Gettysburg battlefield, detailing how he moved things around — even bodies — for dramatic impact) The words of Lincoln, in an artifact presentation with removable letters and speeches on archival paper that bring the reader back to the times "The Camera and the White House" — A fascinating chapter on American Presidents and their visual image — Thomas McAvoy's secret snaps of FDR, FDR hiding his legs, JFK's manipulation of photography taken of him, etc. The "book within a book" — the likes of David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Norton Smith, Walter Isaacson, Jon Meachem, Macklemore, Brad Pitt, Maya Angelou, Zadie Smith, Gay Talese, Tom Wolf and more in answer to the question "When you see Lincoln's face, what do you see?" ...more

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• 147: LIFE LINCOLN: 3of4: An Intimate Portrait Hardcover – October 14, 2014. by The Editors of LIFE (Author). Allen Guelzo.

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  ImagePresident Lincoln's funeral procession in New York CityPhotographed by Brady - Harper's Weekly, May 13, 1865, p. 296-297 URL source from the Library of Congress Permission details PD-OldView more Public Domainview terms File:Lincoln funeral in New York City.jpg LIFE LINCOLN: 3of4: An Intimate Portrait Hardcover – October 14, 2014. by The Editors of LIFE (Author). Allen Guelzo. https://www.amazon.com/LIFE-LINCOLN-Intimate-Portrait-Editors/dp/1618930729/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Lincoln+intimate+portrait+life+Editors&qid=1593995165&s=audible&sr=1-1 On the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the editors of LIFE bring readers everything that has been left to us from the life of one of history's most iconic figures. His pictures, actions, words in his speeches and his private letters are analyzed and pointed inward toward the person, to help us understand the man: the heart and soul of the man. This book is about the artifacts that are left us all these years later (letters, speeches and particularly pictures) — things that LIFE can show that allow us to know this man more intimately. And so we, with help from experts and several famous commentators, will show them in our pages, and lead the reader to the clues about Lincoln's essence.Includes chapters such as: "Lincoln Pictured," an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A narrative by Allen C. Guelzo, explaining the man and his image — how the image reflects the true man "Who Was Mathew Brady?" — the famous photographer, his life and times, his truths and deceptions (before and after shots from the Gettysburg battlefield, detailing how he moved things around — even bodies — for dramatic impact) The words of Lincoln, in an artifact presentation with removable letters and speeches on archival paper that bring the reader back to the times "The Camera and the White House" — A fascinating chapter on American Presidents and their visual image — Thomas McAvoy's secret snaps of FDR, FDR hiding his legs, JFK's manipulation of photography taken of him, etc. The "book within a book" — the likes of David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Norton Smith, Walter Isaacson, Jon Meachem, Macklemore, Brad Pitt, Maya Angelou, Zadie Smith, Gay Talese, Tom Wolf and more in answer to the question "When you see Lincoln's face, what do you see?" ...more

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• 147: LIFE LINCOLN: 2of4: An Intimate Portrait Hardcover – October 14, 2014. by The Editors of LIFE (Author). Allen Guelzo.

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  Jul 06 2020

  Image:East Room of White HouseHarper's Weekly, May 6, 1865 - https://ladailymirror.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/funeral_lincoln1.jpg?w=624&h=430 East Room of White House Funeral of Abraham Lincoln Public Domain File:Funeral lincoln1.jpg LIFE LINCOLN: 2of4: An Intimate Portrait Hardcover – October 14, 2014. by The Editors of LIFE (Author). Allen Guelzo. https://www.amazon.com/LIFE-LINCOLN-Intimate-Portrait-Editors/dp/1618930729/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Lincoln+intimate+portrait+life+Editors&qid=1593995165&s=audible&sr=1-1 On the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the editors of LIFE bring readers everything that has been left to us from the life of one of history's most iconic figures. His pictures, actions, words in his speeches and his private letters are analyzed and pointed inward toward the person, to help us understand the man: the heart and soul of the man. This book is about the artifacts that are left us all these years later (letters, speeches and particularly pictures) — things that LIFE can show that allow us to know this man more intimately. And so we, with help from experts and several famous commentators, will show them in our pages, and lead the reader to the clues about Lincoln's essence.Includes chapters such as: "Lincoln Pictured," an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A narrative by Allen C. Guelzo, explaining the man and his image — how the image reflects the true man "Who Was Mathew Brady?" — the famous photographer, his life and times, his truths and deceptions (before and after shots from the Gettysburg battlefield, detailing how he moved things around — even bodies — for dramatic impact) The words of Lincoln, in an artifact presentation with removable letters and speeches on archival paper that bring the reader back to the times "The Camera and the White House" — A fascinating chapter on American Presidents and their visual image — Thomas McAvoy's secret snaps of FDR, FDR hiding his legs, JFK's manipulation of photography taken of him, etc. The "book within a book" — the likes of David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Norton Smith, Walter Isaacson, Jon Meachem, Macklemore, Brad Pitt, Maya Angelou, Zadie Smith, Gay Talese, Tom Wolf and more in answer to the question "When you see Lincoln's face, what do you see?" ...more

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• 147: LIFE LINCOLN: 1of4: An Intimate Portrait Hardcover – October 14, 2014. by The Editors of LIFE (Author). Allen Guelzo.

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  Image:Lincoln's funeral train Unknown author - http://www.hearse.com/funeral_ceremonies/us.presidents/people/lincoln_president_abraham.html The "Old Nashville." The locomotive pulled the funeral train of President Abraham Lincoln from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illinois. Public Domain File:LincolnTrain.jpeg Created: circa 1860 date QS:P,+1860-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902s LIFE LINCOLN: 1of4: An Intimate Portrait Hardcover – October 14, 2014. by The Editors of LIFE (Author). Allen Guelzo. https://www.amazon.com/LIFE-LINCOLN-Intimate-Portrait-Editors/dp/1618930729/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Lincoln+intimate+portrait+life+Editors&qid=1593995165&s=audible&sr=1-1 On the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the editors of LIFE bring readers everything that has been left to us from the life of one of history's most iconic figures. His pictures, actions, words in his speeches and his private letters are analyzed and pointed inward toward the person, to help us understand the man: the heart and soul of the man. This book is about the artifacts that are left us all these years later (letters, speeches and particularly pictures) — things that LIFE can show that allow us to know this man more intimately. And so we, with help from experts and several famous commentators, will show them in our pages, and lead the reader to the clues about Lincoln's essence.Includes chapters such as: "Lincoln Pictured," an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A narrative by Allen C. Guelzo, explaining the man and his image — how the image reflects the true man "Who Was Mathew Brady?" — the famous photographer, his life and times, his truths and deceptions (before and after shots from the Gettysburg battlefield, detailing how he moved things around — even bodies — for dramatic impact) The words of Lincoln, in an artifact presentation with removable letters and speeches on archival paper that bring the reader back to the times "The Camera and the White House" — A fascinating chapter on American Presidents and their visual image — Thomas McAvoy's secret snaps of FDR, FDR hiding his legs, JFK's manipulation of photography taken of him, etc. The "book within a book" — the likes of David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Richard Norton Smith, Walter Isaacson, Jon Meachem, Macklemore, Brad Pitt, Maya Angelou, Zadie Smith, Gay Talese, Tom Wolf and more in answer to the question "When you see Lincoln's face, what do you see?" ...more

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• 151: 2/2 My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, by Nora Titone.

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• 151: 1/2 My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, by Nora Titone.

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  Image:  Portrait of Edwin Booth by John Singer Sargent, 1890, which hung at The Players clubhouse. Now in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, by Nora Titone.   John B. Lloyd (Narrator), Doris Kearns Goodwin (introduction and notes), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  https://www.amazon.com/My-Thoughts-Be-Bloody-Rivalry/dp/B0047TB0J0/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593989210&sr=1-1 My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln's death. Edwin Booth, John Wilkes's older brother by four years, was in his day the biggest star of the American stage. He won his celebrity at the precocious age of 19, before the Civil War began, when John Wilkes was a schoolboy. Without an account of Edwin Booth, the author Nora Titone argues, the real story of Lincoln's assassin has never been told. Using an array of private letters, diaries, and reminiscences of the Booth family, Titone has uncovered a hidden history that reveals the reasons why John Wilkes Booth became this country's most notorious assassin.  The details of the conspiracy to kill Lincoln have been well documented elsewhere. My Thoughts Be Bloody tells a new story, one that explains for the first time why Lincoln's assassin decided to conspire against the president in the first place, and sets that decision in the context of a bitterly divided family—and nation. By the end of this rivetting journey, listeners will see Abraham Lincoln's death less as the result of the war between the North and South and more as the climax of a dark struggle between two brothers who never wore the uniform of soldiers, except on stage. ...more

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• 149: 8/8 Lincoln's Selected Writings, by Abraham Lincoln. David S. Reynolds, editor

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  Jul 06 2020

  Image:  The Last Hours of Abraham Lincoln, designed by John B. Bachelder and painted by Alonzo Chappel (1868), depicting together those who visited the dying president throughout the night and early morning of April 14–15, 1865.Lincoln's Selected Writings, by Abraham Lincoln.  David S. Reynolds (Editor); First Edition (Norton Critical Editions)   https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Selected-Writings-Critical-Editions-dp-0393921794/dp/0393921794/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1593988862 The Bancroft Prize–winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings―from his earliest days through his last. Lincoln’s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations.  Lincoln’s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln―including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman.  “Modern Views” presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincoln’s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton.  A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included. ...more

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• 148: 7/8 Lincoln's Selected Writings, by Abraham Lincoln. David S. Reynolds, editor

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  Image:  Horace Greeley restoredLincoln's Selected Writings, by Abraham Lincoln.  David S. Reynolds (Editor); First Edition (Norton Critical Editions)   https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Selected-Writings-Critical-Editions-dp-0393921794/dp/0393921794/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1593988862 The Bancroft Prize–winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings―from his earliest days through his last. Lincoln’s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations.  Lincoln’s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln―including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman.  “Modern Views” presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincoln’s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton.  A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included. ...more

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• 147: 6/8 Lincoln's Selected Writings, by Abraham Lincoln. David S. Reynolds, editor

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  Image:  Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Alanson Fisher, 1853 (National Portrait Gallery) Lincoln's Selected Writings, by Abraham Lincoln.  David S. Reynolds (Editor); First Edition (Norton Critical Editions)   https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Selected-Writings-Critical-Editions-dp-0393921794/dp/0393921794/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1593988862 The Bancroft Prize–winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings―from his earliest days through his last. Lincoln’s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations.  Lincoln’s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln―including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman.  “Modern Views” presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincoln’s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton.  A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included. ...more

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• 146: 5/8 Lincoln's Selected Writings, by Abraham Lincoln. David S. Reynolds, editor

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  Image:  Abraham Lincoln (1860) by Mathew Brady, taken the day of the Cooper Union speechLincoln's Selected Writings, by Abraham Lincoln.  David S. Reynolds (Editor); First Edition (Norton Critical Editions)   https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Selected-Writings-Critical-Editions-dp-0393921794/dp/0393921794/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1593988862 The Bancroft Prize–winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings―from his earliest days through his last. Lincoln’s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations.  Lincoln’s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln―including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman.  “Modern Views” presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincoln’s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton.  A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included. ...more

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• 145: 4/8 Lincoln's Selected Writings, by Abraham Lincoln. David S. Reynolds, editor

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  Image:  Lincoln and Johnson campaign posterLincoln's Selected Writings, by Abraham Lincoln.  David S. Reynolds (Editor); First Edition (Norton Critical Editions)   https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Selected-Writings-Critical-Editions-dp-0393921794/dp/0393921794/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1593988862 The Bancroft Prize–winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings―from his earliest days through his last. Lincoln’s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations.  Lincoln’s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln―including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman.  “Modern Views” presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincoln’s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton.  A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included. ...more

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• 145: 3/8 Lincoln's Selected Writings, by Abraham Lincoln. David S. Reynolds, editor

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  Image: "Running the 'Machine' ": An 1864 political cartoon takes a swing at Lincoln's administration—featuring William Fessenden, Edwin Stanton, William Seward, Gideon Welles, Lincoln and others.Lincoln's Selected Writings, by Abraham Lincoln.  David S. Reynolds (Editor); First Edition (Norton Critical Editions)   https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Selected-Writings-Critical-Editions-dp-0393921794/dp/0393921794/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1593988862 The Bancroft Prize–winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings―from his earliest days through his last. Lincoln’s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations.  Lincoln’s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln―including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman.  “Modern Views” presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincoln’s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton.  A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included. ...more

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• 144: 2/8 Lincoln's Selected Writings, by Abraham Lincoln. David S. Reynolds, editor

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  Image:  Photograph showing the March 4, 1861, inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in front of U.S. Capitol BuildingLincoln's Selected Writings, by Abraham Lincoln.  David S. Reynolds (Editor); First Edition (Norton Critical Editions)   https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Selected-Writings-Critical-Editions-dp-0393921794/dp/0393921794/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1593988862 The Bancroft Prize–winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings―from his earliest days through his last. Lincoln’s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations.  Lincoln’s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln―including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman.  “Modern Views” presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincoln’s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton.  A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included. ...more

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• 144: 1/8 Lincoln's Selected Writings, by Abraham Lincoln. David S. Reynolds, editor

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  Image: Lincoln Lincoln's Selected Writings, by Abraham Lincoln.  David S. Reynolds (Editor); First Edition (Norton Critical Editions)  https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Selected-Writings-Critical-Editions-dp-0393921794/dp/0393921794/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1593988862 The Bancroft Prize–winning scholar David S. Reynolds edits and introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln’s writings―from his earliest days through his last. Lincoln’s Selected Writings includes a rich selection of his public and private letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses (including the First and Second Inaugurals), and more. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, a detailed preface, a note on the texts, and a list of abbreviations.  Lincoln’s writings are followed by contemporary responses to him in poems, songs, and articles; representations of Lincoln in modern imaginative and nonfiction writing; and selections from recent cross-disciplinary studies of Lincoln―including discussions of his literary techniques and oratorical style as well as examinations of his political evolution in new cultural and social contexts. Among the many contributors are Horace Greeley, Jesse Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, and Walt Whitman.  “Modern Views” presents sixteen major interpretations of Lincoln’s life, work, and legacy carefully chosen to promote discussion. The contributors are Carl Sandburg, Allen C. Guelzo, James Oakes, Gillian Silverman, Richard N. Current, Harold Holzer, Sean Wilentz, Eric Foner, Manisha Sinha, Robert A. Ferguson, Gabor Boritt, James McPherson, Stephen Cushman, Faith Barrett, David S. Reynolds, and Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton.  A chronology, selected bibliography, and index are also included. ...more

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• 143: Lincoln's Code: 4of4: The Laws of War in American History Hardcover – September 4, 2012 by John Fabian Witt (Author)

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  Jul 05 2020

  Image:The 1865 execution of convicted Civil War war criminal Henry Wirz near the U.S. Capitol moments after the trap door was sprung. Alexander Gardner - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpb.04196. 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. The execution of Henry Wirz, commandant of the (Confederate) Andersonville Prison, near the US Capitol moments after the trap door was sprung. Washington, D.C. Soldier springing the trap; men in trees and Capitol dome beyond Permission details Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.View more Public Domainview terms File:Execution of Henry Wirz.jpg Created: 10 November 1865date QS:P571,+1865-11-10T00:00:00Z/11 Lincoln's Code: 4of4: The Laws of War in American History Hardcover – September 4, 2012 by John Fabian Witt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Code-Laws-American-History/dp/1416569839/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=witt+lincoln%27s+code&qid=1593913678&s=books&sr=1-1In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for US armies. It announced standards of conduct in wartime—concerning torture, prisoners of war, civilians, spies, and slaves—that shaped the course of the Civil War. By the twentieth century, Lincoln’s code would be incorporated into the Geneva Conventions and form the basis of a new international law of war.In this deeply original book, John Fabian Witt tells the fascinating history of the laws of war and its eminent cast of characters—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Lincoln—as they crafted the articles that would change the course of world history. Witt’s engrossing exploration of the dilemmas at the heart of the laws of war is a prehistory of our own era. Lincoln’s Code reveals that the heated controversies of twenty-first-century warfare have roots going back to the beginnings of American history. It is a compelling story of ideals under pressure and a landmark contribution to our understanding of the American experience....more

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• 143: Lincoln's Code: 3of4: The Laws of War in American History Hardcover – September 4, 2012 by John Fabian Witt (Author)

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  Image:Half stereo detail of Lt George Chancellor [Co E 9th Virginia Cavalry] on the Wilderness Battlefield, standing at some Confederate breastworks near Palmer's field on the Orange Turnpike – George Oscar Brown, 1866 G.O. Brown (Life time: Died before 1900) - Original publication: 1866 Immediate source: Library of Congress P&P Detail, Half stereoview of George Chancellor on the Wilderness Battlefield, standing at some Confederate breastworks near Palmer's field on the Orange Turnpike - George Oscar Brown, 1866 (LOC B8184-5009) PD-US-expired File:Confederate breastworks at edge of woods, Palmer's field.jpg Lincoln's Code: 3of4: The Laws of War in American History Hardcover – September 4, 2012 by John Fabian Witt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Code-Laws-American-History/dp/1416569839/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=witt+lincoln%27s+code&qid=1593913678&s=books&sr=1-1In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for US armies. It announced standards of conduct in wartime—concerning torture, prisoners of war, civilians, spies, and slaves—that shaped the course of the Civil War. By the twentieth century, Lincoln’s code would be incorporated into the Geneva Conventions and form the basis of a new international law of war.In this deeply original book, John Fabian Witt tells the fascinating history of the laws of war and its eminent cast of characters—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Lincoln—as they crafted the articles that would change the course of world history. Witt’s engrossing exploration of the dilemmas at the heart of the laws of war is a prehistory of our own era. Lincoln’s Code reveals that the heated controversies of twenty-first-century warfare have roots going back to the beginnings of American history. It is a compelling story of ideals under pressure and a landmark contribution to our understanding of the American experience....more

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• 143: Lincoln's Code: 2of4: The Laws of War in American History Hardcover – September 4, 2012 by John Fabian Witt (Author)

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  Image:Skulls remaining on the field and trees destroyed at the Battle of the Wilderness, 1864.Possibly G. O. Brown - File from The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Three, The Decisive Battles. The Review of Reviews Co., New York. 1911. p. 21. Skulls remaining on the field and trees destroyed at the Battle of the Wilderness, 1864. Lincoln's Code: 2of4: The Laws of War in American History Hardcover – September 4, 2012 by John Fabian Witt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Code-Laws-American-History/dp/1416569839/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=witt+lincoln%27s+code&qid=1593913678&s=books&sr=1-1In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for US armies. It announced standards of conduct in wartime—concerning torture, prisoners of war, civilians, spies, and slaves—that shaped the course of the Civil War. By the twentieth century, Lincoln’s code would be incorporated into the Geneva Conventions and form the basis of a new international law of war.In this deeply original book, John Fabian Witt tells the fascinating history of the laws of war and its eminent cast of characters—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Lincoln—as they crafted the articles that would change the course of world history. Witt’s engrossing exploration of the dilemmas at the heart of the laws of war is a prehistory of our own era. Lincoln’s Code reveals that the heated controversies of twenty-first-century warfare have roots going back to the beginnings of American history. It is a compelling story of ideals under pressure and a landmark contribution to our understanding of the American experience....more

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• 143: Lincoln's Code: 1of4: The Laws of War in American History Hardcover – September 4, 2012 by John Fabian Witt (Author)

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  Image:United States Old Capitol Prison, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865 Alternate Photograph: :Image:Capitolprison2.gif War Department. Office of the Chief Signal Officer - National Archives and Records Administration (https://www.archives.gov/) (NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-111-B-2292) - image link Public Domain Lincoln's Code: 1of4: The Laws of War in American History Hardcover – September 4, 2012 by John Fabian Witt  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Code-Laws-American-History/dp/1416569839/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=witt+lincoln%27s+code&qid=1593913678&s=books&sr=1-1In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for US armies. It announced standards of conduct in wartime—concerning torture, prisoners of war, civilians, spies, and slaves—that shaped the course of the Civil War. By the twentieth century, Lincoln’s code would be incorporated into the Geneva Conventions and form the basis of a new international law of war.In this deeply original book, John Fabian Witt tells the fascinating history of the laws of war and its eminent cast of characters—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Lincoln—as they crafted the articles that would change the course of world history. Witt’s engrossing exploration of the dilemmas at the heart of the laws of war is a prehistory of our own era. Lincoln’s Code reveals that the heated controversies of twenty-first-century warfare have roots going back to the beginnings of American history. It is a compelling story of ideals under pressure and a landmark contribution to our understanding of the American experience....more

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• 143: James Madison: 2of2: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Brookhiser (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Image:English: James Madison by a French artist ("Excessively rareǃ") Identifier: unequalledcollec00henk (find matches)Title: The unequalled collection of engraved portraits of the Presidents of the United States, belonging to Hon. James T. Mitchell : embracing rare portraits of George Washington, the unique collections of portraits of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison and Andrew Jackson ; and, the largest and most important collection of Abraham LincolnYear: 1907 (1900s)Authors:  Henkels, S. V. (Stanislaus Vincent), 1854-1926Subjects:  Mitchell, James T. (James Tyndale), 1834-1915 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Portraits Presidents Portraits, AmericanPublisher:  Philadelphia, Pa. : M.H. Power, printerContributing Library:  Lincoln Financial Foundation CollectionDigitizing Sponsor:  State of Indiana through the Indiana State LibraryView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:alnut St., Philada. Size 18 6-16 x16 12-16. Only copy known. 20s TH. JEFFERSON. Full bust, head to left. Oval in a rect-angle. Wood engraving. Henry Wolfe. India proof. Size9 13-16 X 8 2-16. 206 THOMAS JEFFERSON. Virginia. Full bust, head to rightVignette. Original water-color painting. Size 6 2-16 x 5 2-16. Original contemporary ivater-color painting by a French artist.Beautifully executed. 206 y2 THOMAS JEFFERSON. President of the United States.Full bust, head to left Oval, over the top of which is an eaglewith stars. Woodcut. Size 3 1-16x27-16. JAMES MADISON. SULLY TYPE. 207 JAMES MADISON. President of the United States. Fulllength, head slightly to left, standing in front of an arm chairto the right cf a table, upon which the right hand is restingupon a partly opened scroll, entitled The Constitution of theUnited States, the left hand resting on the arm of the chair.Rectangle. Stipple. D. Edwin, Fecit Size 19 12-16 x 13 2-16. First state of the plate not inentio7ied in Fielding. /Text Appearing After Image:JA^TKS ^lADl^ 0)H. REDUCED FACSIMtLE OF LOT NO 238 23 208 JAMES MADISON. President of the United States. Fulllength. Fully described in the preceding print. Rectangle.Stipple. T. Sully, Del. D. Edwin, Fecit. Published by W.H. Morgan, Philadf Fielding 126. Size 19 10-16 x 13. STUART TYPE. 209 Half length, head slightly to right, seated to the right of a table,upon which the right arm is resting. Rectangle. Photogravure.Remarque proof on India paper. Size 19 10-16 x 16 8-16. From the art gallery of Bozudoin College. 210 THE SAME. Small plate. Size 11 3-16 x 8 11-16. 211 JAMES MADISON. President of the United States. Fullbust, head to right. Rectangle. Line. Bond, Del. Parte, Sc.Size 7 4-16 X 6 3-16. Very rare. 212 JAMES MADISON. President of the United States ofAmerica. Half length, head to right, seated, the right armresting on the chair. Rectangle. Stipple. Stewart, PinxfEdwin, Sculp! Painted by C. P. Harrison, Baltimore. Pub-lished Jan? 1809, by C. Boyle, No. i. Copyright securedacco James Madison: 2of2:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Richard Brookhiser (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006KZ8ETI/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i1A vivid portrait of the "Father of the Constitution"James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his story--although all too often overshadowed by his more celebrated contemporaries--is integral to that of the nation. Madison helped to shape our country as perhaps no other Founder: collaborating on the Federalist Papers and the Bill of Rights, resisting government overreach by assembling one of the nation's first political parties (the Republicans, who became today's Democrats), and taking to the battlefield during the War of 1812, becoming the last president to lead troops in combat. In this penetrating biography, eminent historian Richard Brookhiser presents a vivid portrait of the "Father of the Constitution," an accomplished yet humble statesman who nourished Americans' fledgling liberty and vigorously defended the laws that have preserved it to this day....more

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• 143: James Madison: 1of2: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Brookhiser (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Image:Image from page 521 of "A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents" (1911) Identifier: messagespapersof01unit Title: A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors:  United States. President United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing Richardson, James D. (James Daniel), 1843-1914 Subjects:  United States -- Politics and government United States -- History Sources Publisher:  [New York] : Bureau of national literature Contributing Library:  University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor:  MSN    View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book  Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.  Text Appearing Before Image:then and there to deliberate on such communications as shall be made to you. TH: JEFFERSON. James Madison March 4, 1809, to March 4, 1817 ! i SEE VOLUME XI. 1 Volume eleven is not only an index to the other volumes, not only a key that unlocks the treasures of the entire publication, but it is in itself an alphabetically arranged brief history or story of the great controlling events constituting the His-! tory of the United States. . ,, . , , Under its proper alphabetical classification the story is told of every great sub- . iect referred to bv anv of the Presidents in their official Messages, and at the end of1 each story the official utterances of the Presidents themselves are cited tipon theI subject, so that you may readily turn to the page in the body of the work itself tor this original information. u^^^ I Next to the possession of knowledge is the abihty to turn at will to where ; knowledge is to be found. MOaiQAteste ni Isnlgiio to ^qoo moit bsveieno lisitioq lsl3l¥fo lUiW Text Appearing After Image:JAMES MADISON with ofYlcial portrait engraved from copy of original in steel James Madison: 1of2:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Richard Brookhiser (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006KZ8ETI/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i1A vivid portrait of the "Father of the Constitution"James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his story--although all too often overshadowed by his more celebrated contemporaries--is integral to that of the nation. Madison helped to shape our country as perhaps no other Founder: collaborating on the Federalist Papers and the Bill of Rights, resisting government overreach by assembling one of the nation's first political parties (the Republicans, who became today's Democrats), and taking to the battlefield during the War of 1812, becoming the last president to lead troops in combat. In this penetrating biography, eminent historian Richard Brookhiser presents a vivid portrait of the "Father of the Constitution," an accomplished yet humble statesman who nourished Americans' fledgling liberty and vigorously defended the laws that have preserved it to this day....more

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• 143: The Nile: 4of4: Travelling Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present: The Vintage Departures Series Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Toby Wilkinson (Author), Peter Ganim (Narrator), Blackstone Publishing (Publisher)

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  Jul 05 2020

  Image:Identifier: nilenotesfortrav95budg (find matches)Title: The Nile : notes for travellers in EgyptYear: 1895 (1890s)Authors:  Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934Subjects: Publisher:  London : T. CookContributing Library:  University of Connecticut LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  University of Connecticut LibrariesText Appearing After Image:W. * A.i. Jolmston.EdinVurfli i.- Loudo iB ABEAH SERVICE OS THE NILE ^ THE NILE. $okB for Crabi^llers hx (B^n^i THE NILE. ;^0tis fnr i^rafct^lkrs in CB^^pt it.^// BY E. A. WALLIS ^UDGE, Litt.D., F.S.A., KEEPER OF EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES, BRITISH MUSEUM. FOURTH EDITION. WITH A MAP, FLANS, 6^6. LONDON : THOS. COOK & SON (EGYPT), Ltd., LUDGATE CIRCUS. CA IR 0 :THOS. COOK & SON (EGYPT), Ltd. 1895. (Entered at Stationers Hall ) HARRISON AND SONS, Pi?INTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY, ST. martins LANK, LONDON. INTRODUCTION, Having for some years felt the insufficiency ofthe information given by Dragomans to travellerson the Nile, and finding with one or two strikingexceptions how limited is their knowledge of factsrelating to the history of the antiquities in UpperEgypt, Messrs. Thos. Cook and Son have arrangedwith Dr. E. A. Wallis Budge to compile the followingpages, which they have much pleasure in presentingto every passenger under their Nile arrangements ontheir Touris The Nile: 4of4: Travelling Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present: The Vintage Departures Series  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Toby Wilkinson (Author), Peter Ganim (Narrator), Blackstone Publishing (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Nile-Travelling-Downriver-Through-Departures/dp/B081G6HGRD/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593828344&sr=1-1The Nile, like all of Egypt, is both timeless and ever-changing. In this audio, renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey downriver that is both history and travelogue. We begin at the First Nile Cataract, close to the modern city of Aswan. From there, Wilkinson guides us through the illustrious nation birthed by this great river. We see Thebes, with its Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, and Luxor Temple. We visit the fertile Fayum, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and finally, the pulsing city of Cairo, where the Arab Spring erupted on the bridges over the water. Along the way, Wilkinson introduces us to the gods, pharaohs, and emperors who joined their fate to the Nile and gained immortality; and to the adventurers, archaeologists, and historians who have all fallen under its spell. Peerlessly erudite, vividly told, The Nile brings the course of this enduring river into stunning view....more

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• 143: The Nile: 3of4: Travelling Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present: The Vintage Departures Series Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Toby Wilkinson (Author), Peter Ganim (Narrator), Blackstone Publishing (Publisher)

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  Jul 05 2020

  ImageCairo, fleet of boats on the Nile, ca. 1910Egyptian views; Cairo (Masr). Fleet of native boats of the Nile. Dry plate stereograph by the American Colony Jerusalem Photo Department, approximately 1900 to 1920. Taken from the Eric and Edith Matson Collection at the U.S. Library of Congress.  [PD] This picture is in the public domain. The Nile: 3of4: Travelling Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present: The Vintage Departures Series  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Toby Wilkinson (Author), Peter Ganim (Narrator), Blackstone Publishing (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Nile-Travelling-Downriver-Through-Departures/dp/B081G6HGRD/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593828344&sr=1-1The Nile, like all of Egypt, is both timeless and ever-changing. In this audio, renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey downriver that is both history and travelogue. We begin at the First Nile Cataract, close to the modern city of Aswan. From there, Wilkinson guides us through the illustrious nation birthed by this great river. We see Thebes, with its Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, and Luxor Temple. We visit the fertile Fayum, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and finally, the pulsing city of Cairo, where the Arab Spring erupted on the bridges over the water. Along the way, Wilkinson introduces us to the gods, pharaohs, and emperors who joined their fate to the Nile and gained immortality; and to the adventurers, archaeologists, and historians who have all fallen under its spell. Peerlessly erudite, vividly told, The Nile brings the course of this enduring river into stunning view....more

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• 143: The Nile: 2of4: Travelling Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present: The Vintage Departures Series Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Toby Wilkinson (Author), Peter Ganim (Narrator), Blackstone Publishing (Publisher)

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  Jul 05 2020

  Image:On the NileSanford Robinson Gifford (July 10, 1823 – August 29, 1880) was an American landscapepainter and one of the leading members of the Hudson River School. Gifford's landscapes are known for their emphasis on light and soft atmospheric effects, and he is regarded as a practitioner of Luminism, an offshoot style of the Hudson River School.Object type | painting Genre | landscape art Date | 2008 (upload date)Source/Photographer | http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=2030Permission(Reusing this file) | Author died more than 70 years ago - public domain The Nile: 2of4: Travelling Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present: The Vintage Departures Series  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Toby Wilkinson (Author), Peter Ganim (Narrator), Blackstone Publishing (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Nile-Travelling-Downriver-Through-Departures/dp/B081G6HGRD/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593828344&sr=1-1The Nile, like all of Egypt, is both timeless and ever-changing. In this audio, renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey downriver that is both history and travelogue. We begin at the First Nile Cataract, close to the modern city of Aswan. From there, Wilkinson guides us through the illustrious nation birthed by this great river. We see Thebes, with its Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, and Luxor Temple. We visit the fertile Fayum, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and finally, the pulsing city of Cairo, where the Arab Spring erupted on the bridges over the water. Along the way, Wilkinson introduces us to the gods, pharaohs, and emperors who joined their fate to the Nile and gained immortality; and to the adventurers, archaeologists, and historians who have all fallen under its spell. Peerlessly erudite, vividly told, The Nile brings the course of this enduring river into stunning view....more

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• 143: The Nile: 1of4: Travelling Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present: The Vintage Departures Series Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Toby Wilkinson (Author), Peter Ganim (Narrator), Blackstone Publishing (Publisher)

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  Jul 05 2020

  Image:English: Postcard showing British barracks on the Nile c. 1910, built during the British occupation of Egypt.Date | circa 1910 Source | eBay.comAuthor | Publisher: Lichtenstern & Harari, Cairo The Nile: 1of4: Travelling Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present: The Vintage Departures Series  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Toby Wilkinson (Author), Peter Ganim (Narrator), Blackstone Publishing (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Nile-Travelling-Downriver-Through-Departures/dp/B081G6HGRD/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593828344&sr=1-1The Nile, like all of Egypt, is both timeless and ever-changing. In this audio, renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey downriver that is both history and travelogue. We begin at the First Nile Cataract, close to the modern city of Aswan. From there, Wilkinson guides us through the illustrious nation birthed by this great river. We see Thebes, with its Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, and Luxor Temple. We visit the fertile Fayum, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and finally, the pulsing city of Cairo, where the Arab Spring erupted on the bridges over the water. Along the way, Wilkinson introduces us to the gods, pharaohs, and emperors who joined their fate to the Nile and gained immortality; and to the adventurers, archaeologists, and historians who have all fallen under its spell. Peerlessly erudite, vividly told, The Nile brings the course of this enduring river into stunning view....more

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• 143: Sun Tzu at Gettysburg:4of4: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Bevin Alexander (Author), Edoardo Ballerini (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jul 05 2020

  image:Image from page 17 of "Gettysburg; the story of the battle of Gettysburg and the field, described as it is on the fiftieth anniversary, 1863-1913" (1913) Identifier: gettysburgstoryo01penn Title: Gettysburg; the story of the battle of Gettysburg and the field, described as it is on the fiftieth anniversary, 1863-1913 Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors:  Pennsylvania Railroad Subjects:  Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 Publisher:  [Philadelphia?] Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation  Text Appearing Before Image:Lutheran Theological Seminary. The old building used as hospital 15 Text Appearing After Image:Buford ReynoJds 2d Maine Battery Chambersburg Pike, McPherson Ridge Appreciating the importance of getting into thewoods first, Merediths troops, popularly known asthe Iron Brigade, under the command of ColonelMorrow, of the 24th Michigan, were ordered forward onthe double quick. They were filled with enthusiasm,calling out to Doubleday, as they passed him: *If wecant hold the woods, where will you find the men thatcan: Archers Brigade crossed Willoughby Run and madefor the woods just as the Iron Brigade entered it.The fighting was bitter. Reynolds, with his staff, was viewing it from a pointjust on the edge of the woods nearest the town, whena bullet from one of the enemys sharpshooters struckhim in the back of the head, as he turned to watch thereserve posted between the woods and the ridge. Thebullet passed clear through the skull and came out nearhis eye. He fell dead, almost instantly, without a word, i6 and the Union forces were without a commander. Gen-eral Doubleday, as the ra Sun Tzu at Gettysburg:4of4: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Bevin Alexander (Author), Edoardo Ballerini (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Tzu-Gettysburg-Ancient-Military/dp/B0053ET46E/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593913242&sr=1-2Ten major battles or campaigns that could have been won by using the principles of The Art of War.  Imagine the impact on world history if Robert E. Lee had listened to General Longstreet at Gettysburg and withdrawn to higher ground instead of sending Pickett uphill against the entrenched Union line. Or if Napolon, at Waterloo, had avoided mistakes he'd never made before. The advice that would have changed the outcome of these crucial battles is found in a book on strategy written centuries before Christ was born.  Lee, Napoleon, and Adolf Hitler never read Sun Tzu's The Art of War; the book only became widely available in the West in the mid-20th century. But as Bevin Alexander shows, Sun Tzu's maxims often boil down to common sense, in a particularly pure and clear form. The lessons of contemporary military practice, or their own experience, might have guided these commanders to success. It is stunning to see, however, the degree to which the precepts laid down 2,400 years ago apply to warfare of the modern era....more

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• 143: Sun Tzu at Gettysburg:3of4: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Bevin Alexander (Author), Edoardo Ballerini (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  image: Sun Tzu at Gettysburg:3of4: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Bevin Alexander (Author), Edoardo Ballerini (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Tzu-Gettysburg-Ancient-Military/dp/B0053ET46E/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593913242&sr=1-2Ten major battles or campaigns that could have been won by using the principles of The Art of War.  Imagine the impact on world history if Robert E. Lee had listened to General Longstreet at Gettysburg and withdrawn to higher ground instead of sending Pickett uphill against the entrenched Union line. Or if Napolon, at Waterloo, had avoided mistakes he'd never made before. The advice that would have changed the outcome of these crucial battles is found in a book on strategy written centuries before Christ was born.  Lee, Napoleon, and Adolf Hitler never read Sun Tzu's The Art of War; the book only became widely available in the West in the mid-20th century. But as Bevin Alexander shows, Sun Tzu's maxims often boil down to common sense, in a particularly pure and clear form. The lessons of contemporary military practice, or their own experience, might have guided these commanders to success. It is stunning to see, however, the degree to which the precepts laid down 2,400 years ago apply to warfare of the modern era....more

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• 143: Sun Tzu at Gettysburg:2of4: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Bevin Alexander (Author), Edoardo Ballerini (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  image:Title: Annual reports to the secretary of warYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  United States. Gettysburg national military park commission. (from old catalog)Subjects:  Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863Publisher:  Washington, Govt. print. off.Contributing 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 context in a browseable online version of this book.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. Sun Tzu at Gettysburg:2of4: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Bevin Alexander (Author), Edoardo Ballerini (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Tzu-Gettysburg-Ancient-Military/dp/B0053ET46E/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593913242&sr=1-2Ten major battles or campaigns that could have been won by using the principles of The Art of War.  Imagine the impact on world history if Robert E. Lee had listened to General Longstreet at Gettysburg and withdrawn to higher ground instead of sending Pickett uphill against the entrenched Union line. Or if Napolon, at Waterloo, had avoided mistakes he'd never made before. The advice that would have changed the outcome of these crucial battles is found in a book on strategy written centuries before Christ was born.  Lee, Napoleon, and Adolf Hitler never read Sun Tzu's The Art of War; the book only became widely available in the West in the mid-20th century. But as Bevin Alexander shows, Sun Tzu's maxims often boil down to common sense, in a particularly pure and clear form. The lessons of contemporary military practice, or their own experience, might have guided these commanders to success. It is stunning to see, however, the degree to which the precepts laid down 2,400 years ago apply to warfare of the modern era....more

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• 143: Sun Tzu at Gettysburg:1of4: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Bevin Alexander (Author), Edoardo Ballerini (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  image:Title: mage from page 57 of "Gettysburg : the story of the Battle of Gettysburg and the field described as it is on the fiftieth anniversary, 1863-1913" (1913) Identifier: gettysburgstory00penn Title: Gettysburg : the story of the Battle of Gettysburg and the field described as it is on the fiftieth anniversary, 1863-1913 Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors:  Pennsylvania Railroad Subjects:  Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 Historic sites Publisher:  [Philadelphia, Pa.] : [Pennsylvania Railroad] Contributing Library:  Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection Digitizing Sponsor:  The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant  Text Appearing Before Image:et-scarred treesand old entrenchments, and down to Spanglers Spring,where it joins East Confederate Avenue.58 The latter avenue, running from East Middle Street,marks the position of Ewells line around the east baseof Culps Hill. From this position the assaults on EastCemetery Hill and Culps Hill were made. Severalother avenues reach other points of interest on thesouth slope of Culps Hill, Geary Avenue leading throughthe scene of the bitter fight between Johnsons andGearys men on July 3, in the morning. There are several ways to reach the scene of Long-streets attack on Sickles line and the Round Tops. The Emmitsburg Road, branching off from BaltimoreStreet at the southern end of the town, leads directly tothe Peach Orchard, lying just beyond the WheatfieldRoad. One may walk or drive completely around thePeach Orchard on Birney Avenue. What is known as Sickles Excelsior line is reachedby taking Sickles Avenue from its junction with theEmmitsburg Road south of the Codori House. United Sun Tzu at Gettysburg:1of4: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Bevin Alexander (Author), Edoardo Ballerini (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Tzu-Gettysburg-Ancient-Military/dp/B0053ET46E/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593913242&sr=1-2Ten major battles or campaigns that could have been won by using the principles of The Art of War.  Imagine the impact on world history if Robert E. Lee had listened to General Longstreet at Gettysburg and withdrawn to higher ground instead of sending Pickett uphill against the entrenched Union line. Or if Napolon, at Waterloo, had avoided mistakes he'd never made before. The advice that would have changed the outcome of these crucial battles is found in a book on strategy written centuries before Christ was born.  Lee, Napoleon, and Adolf Hitler never read Sun Tzu's The Art of War; the book only became widely available in the West in the mid-20th century. But as Bevin Alexander shows, Sun Tzu's maxims often boil down to common sense, in a particularly pure and clear form. The lessons of contemporary military practice, or their own experience, might have guided these commanders to success. It is stunning to see, however, the degree to which the precepts laid down 2,400 years ago apply to warfare of the modern era....more

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• 142: New York at War: 4of4: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham 1st Edition. by Steven H. Jaffe (Author)

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  Jul 04 2020

  Image:(w), photographer.Title | [Untitled] (additional information in italics from Lower Manhattan seen from the S.S. Coamo leaving New York, see below)Date | December 1941 [between 1935 and 1942]Medium | 1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm. New York at War: 4of4: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham 1st Edition.  by Steven H. Jaffe  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/New-York-War-Centuries-Intrigue-dp-0465036422/dp/0465036422/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1593834185Stretching from the colonial era to 9/11 and beyond, New York at War is that most rare of books: a work of history that is at once local and international, timely and timeless. Bringing a unique lens to bear on the world's most celebrated and contested city, Jaffe reveals the unimaginable ways the city has changed—and how it has stubbornly endured—under threats both external and internal....more

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• 142: New York at War: 3of4: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham 1st Edition. by Steven H. Jaffe (Author)

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  Image:sonContributorsEno, Amos F. (1836-1915), CollectorMüller, Théodore (1819-1879), LithographerImprimerie Lemercier et cie, PublisherSimpson, ArtistcollectionsIn CollectionsNYPL Collection of American Historical PrintsNew YorkAssorted New York Collection. createSourceNew York Public LibrarylinkLinkhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain New York at War: 3of4: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham 1st Edition.  by Steven H. Jaffe  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/New-York-War-Centuries-Intrigue-dp-0465036422/dp/0465036422/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1593834185Stretching from the colonial era to 9/11 and beyond, New York at War is that most rare of books: a work of history that is at once local and international, timely and timeless. Bringing a unique lens to bear on the world's most celebrated and contested city, Jaffe reveals the unimaginable ways the city has changed—and how it has stubbornly endured—under threats both external and internal....more

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• 142: New York at War: 2of4: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham 1st Edition. by Steven H. Jaffe (Author)

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  Jul 04 2020

  Image:Plan of the City of New York, with the recent and intended Improvements, Drawn from actual survey by William Bridges City Surveyor; AD 1807.Description | English: An interesting and unusual map, this is William Bridges’ 1807 revival or the failed 1801 Mangin-Goerck Plan. Those who know New York’s shoreline will pause at the perfect blocks and ridged angles of this plan no more accurate today than it was in 1801 when Mangin first presented it. Mangin, a talented French architect, and Goerck, an established New York Surveyor, were commissioned by the Common Council of New York to prepare a new regulatory map of the city. Though Goerck passed away before the plan could be completed, Mangin finished the plan on a grand scale, re-envisioning New York City in his own image. Mangin even added streets such as Mangin Street and Goerck Street which would have been submerged under the East River had they actually existed (as a side note another of Mangin’s Street’s, South Street, did eventually appear). The Mangin-Goerck plan went far beyond the Common Council’s dreams of an administrative plan and, due to its inclusion of “intended improvements”, new streets, and idealized block structure, enjoyed a short lifespan. It is curious then that in 1807 William Bridges, the talented City Surveyor who, in 1811, laid New York’s famous grid structure, resurrected and pirated the Mangin-Goerck Plan, attaching his own name to it. It was a private venture that led Bridges to piracy. He was commissioned by Dr. Samuel Mitchell to provide a map to illustrate Mitchell’s Picture of New York , a travel guide intended for foreign tourist. Perhaps Bridges chose the Mangin plan simply because, as a failed city plan, there were few obstacles to his use of it, but we do pity the hapless tourists who leapt into the east river in pursuit of Mangin Street. Though originally issued in 1807 for S. Mitchell’s Picture of New York , this example is a reissue prepared by John Hardy, Clerk of the Common Council, for the 1871 edition of the Manual of the Corporation of New York .Date | 1807 (1871 reissue)Dimensions | Height: 12.5 in (31.7 cm); Width: 13 in (33 cm) Accession number | Geographicus link:  NewYork-bridges-1871Source/Photographer | Hardy, John, Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, 1871.  Also in: Mitchell, S. L., The Picture of New-York, or The Traveller's Guide, 1807. New York at War: 2of4: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham 1st Edition.  by Steven H. Jaffe  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/New-York-War-Centuries-Intrigue-dp-0465036422/dp/0465036422/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1593834185Stretching from the colonial era to 9/11 and beyond, New York at War is that most rare of books: a work of history that is at once local and international, timely and timeless. Bringing a unique lens to bear on the world's most celebrated and contested city, Jaffe reveals the unimaginable ways the city has changed—and how it has stubbornly endured—under threats both external and internal....more

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• 142: New York at War: 1of4: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham 1st Edition. by Steven H. Jaffe (Author)

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  Jul 04 2020

  Image:-1700 - 1798personContributorsEno, Amos F. (1836-1915), CollectorBurgis, William (fl. 1716-1731), ArtistcollectionsIn CollectionsNYPL Collection of American Historical PrintsNew AmsterdamNew Amsterdam. New York City. New Orange.createSourceNew York Public LibrarylinkLinkhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain New York at War: 1of4: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham 1st Edition.  by Steven H. Jaffe  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/New-York-War-Centuries-Intrigue-dp-0465036422/dp/0465036422/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1593834185Stretching from the colonial era to 9/11 and beyond, New York at War is that most rare of books: a work of history that is at once local and international, timely and timeless. Bringing a unique lens to bear on the world's most celebrated and contested city, Jaffe reveals the unimaginable ways the city has changed—and how it has stubbornly endured—under threats both external and internal....more

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• 141: The Third Coast: 4of4: When Chicago Built the American Dream Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Thomas Dyja (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jul 04 2020

  ImageChicago Lakefront, 1938Date | 1938Source | Photographic vista by Kaufmann & Fabry via [1]Author | Kaufmann & FabryPermission(Reusing this file) | Copyright deposit; Kaufmann & Fabry; October 10, 1938. Not renewed per Library of Congress. The Third Coast: 4of4: When Chicago Built the American Dream  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Thomas Dyja (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/The-Third-Coast-Thomas-Dyja-audiobook/dp/B00C6B9FZM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593829745&sr=1-1Though today it can seem as if all American culture comes out of New York and Los Angeles, much of what defined the nation as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop there, and this flow of people and commodities made it America’s central clearinghouse, laboratory, and factory. Between the end of World War II and 1960, Mies van der Rohe’s glass-and-steel architecture became the face of corporate America, Ray Kroc’s McDonald’s changed how people eat, Hugh Hefner unveiled Playboy, and the Chess brothers supercharged rock and roll with Chuck Berry. At the University of Chicago, the atom was split and Western civilization was packaged into the Great Books.  Yet even as Chicago led the way in creating mass-market culture, its artists pushed back in their own distinct voices. In literature, it was the outlaw novels of Nelson Algren (then carrying on a passionate affair with Simone de Beauvoir), the poems of Gwendolyn Brooks, and Studs Terkel’s oral histories. In music, it was the gospel of Mahalia Jackson, the urban blues of Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, and the trippy avant-garde jazz of Sun Ra. In performance, it was the intimacy of Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, the “Chicago School” of television, and the improvisational comedy troupe Second City whose famous alumni are now everywhere in American entertainment.  Despite this diversity, racial divisions informed virtually every aspect of life in Chicago. The chaos - both constructive and destructive - of this period was set into motion by the second migration north of African Americans during World War II. As whites either fled to the suburbs or violently opposed integration, urban planners tried to design away "blight" with projects that marred a generation of American cities. The election of Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1955 launched a frenzy of new building that came at a terrible cost - monolithic housing projects for the black community and a new kind of self-satisfied provincialism that sped up the end of Chicago’s role as America’s meeting place.  In luminous prose, Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America....more

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• 141: The Third Coast: 3of4: When Chicago Built the American Dream Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Thomas Dyja (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jul 04 2020

  ImageUnion Stockyards John Vachon - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID fsa.8c19586. 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. The maze of livestock pens and walkways at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois, USA Public Domain File:Livestock chicago 1947.jpg Created: 1 July 1941 The Third Coast: 3of4: When Chicago Built the American Dream  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Thomas Dyja (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/The-Third-Coast-Thomas-Dyja-audiobook/dp/B00C6B9FZM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593829745&sr=1-1Though today it can seem as if all American culture comes out of New York and Los Angeles, much of what defined the nation as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop there, and this flow of people and commodities made it America’s central clearinghouse, laboratory, and factory. Between the end of World War II and 1960, Mies van der Rohe’s glass-and-steel architecture became the face of corporate America, Ray Kroc’s McDonald’s changed how people eat, Hugh Hefner unveiled Playboy, and the Chess brothers supercharged rock and roll with Chuck Berry. At the University of Chicago, the atom was split and Western civilization was packaged into the Great Books.  Yet even as Chicago led the way in creating mass-market culture, its artists pushed back in their own distinct voices. In literature, it was the outlaw novels of Nelson Algren (then carrying on a passionate affair with Simone de Beauvoir), the poems of Gwendolyn Brooks, and Studs Terkel’s oral histories. In music, it was the gospel of Mahalia Jackson, the urban blues of Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, and the trippy avant-garde jazz of Sun Ra. In performance, it was the intimacy of Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, the “Chicago School” of television, and the improvisational comedy troupe Second City whose famous alumni are now everywhere in American entertainment.  Despite this diversity, racial divisions informed virtually every aspect of life in Chicago. The chaos - both constructive and destructive - of this period was set into motion by the second migration north of African Americans during World War II. As whites either fled to the suburbs or violently opposed integration, urban planners tried to design away "blight" with projects that marred a generation of American cities. The election of Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1955 launched a frenzy of new building that came at a terrible cost - monolithic housing projects for the black community and a new kind of self-satisfied provincialism that sped up the end of Chicago’s role as America’s meeting place.  In luminous prose, Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America....more

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• 141: The Third Coast: 2of4: When Chicago Built the American Dream Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Thomas Dyja (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Jul 04 2020

  Image A Glimpse Of Skyline From Soldier Field, Grant Park, ChicagoDate | Unknown dateSource | https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/nby_teich/id/415953Author | Unknown authorPermission(Reusing this file) | The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to the following terms and conditions: https://www.newberry.org/rights-and-reproductionsArchival Collection | Grant Schmalgemeier Century of Progress CollectionDecade | 1930/1939Place | Illinois--ChicagoCity | ChicagoSubject | Century of Progress International ExpositionSubcategory | Century Of Progress--Chicagoland ViewProduction Number | COP978 The Third Coast: 2of4: When Chicago Built the American Dream  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Thomas Dyja (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/The-Third-Coast-Thomas-Dyja-audiobook/dp/B00C6B9FZM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593829745&sr=1-1Though today it can seem as if all American culture comes out of New York and Los Angeles, much of what defined the nation as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop there, and this flow of people and commodities made it America’s central clearinghouse, laboratory, and factory. Between the end of World War II and 1960, Mies van der Rohe’s glass-and-steel architecture became the face of corporate America, Ray Kroc’s McDonald’s changed how people eat, Hugh Hefner unveiled Playboy, and the Chess brothers supercharged rock and roll with Chuck Berry. At the University of Chicago, the atom was split and Western civilization was packaged into the Great Books.  Yet even as Chicago led the way in creating mass-market culture, its artists pushed back in their own distinct voices. In literature, it was the outlaw novels of Nelson Algren (then carrying on a passionate affair with Simone de Beauvoir), the poems of Gwendolyn Brooks, and Studs Terkel’s oral histories. In music, it was the gospel of Mahalia Jackson, the urban blues of Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, and the trippy avant-garde jazz of Sun Ra. In performance, it was the intimacy of Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, the “Chicago School” of television, and the improvisational comedy troupe Second City whose famous alumni are now everywhere in American entertainment.  Despite this diversity, racial divisions informed virtually every aspect of life in Chicago. The chaos - both constructive and destructive - of this period was set into motion by the second migration north of African Americans during World War II. As whites either fled to the suburbs or violently opposed integration, urban planners tried to design away "blight" with projects that marred a generation of American cities. The election of Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1955 launched a frenzy of new building that came at a terrible cost - monolithic housing projects for the black community and a new kind of self-satisfied provincialism that sped up the end of Chicago’s role as America’s meeting place.  In luminous prose, Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America....more

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• 141: The Third Coast: 1of4: When Chicago Built the American Dream Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Thomas Dyja (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Image  A bird's-eye view of Chicago from elevation 700 ft. above Lake Michigan.Date | 1911Source | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.[1]Author | Copyright by Kaufmann, Weimer & Fabry Co, Chicago.Permission(Reusing this file) | Public Domain (first published in the United States prior to 1923)Other versions | Derivative works of this file:  Chicago Michigan Avenue 1911-straightened.jpg The Third Coast: 1of4: When Chicago Built the American Dream  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Thomas Dyja (Author), David Drummond (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/The-Third-Coast-Thomas-Dyja-audiobook/dp/B00C6B9FZM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593829745&sr=1-1Though today it can seem as if all American culture comes out of New York and Los Angeles, much of what defined the nation as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop there, and this flow of people and commodities made it America’s central clearinghouse, laboratory, and factory. Between the end of World War II and 1960, Mies van der Rohe’s glass-and-steel architecture became the face of corporate America, Ray Kroc’s McDonald’s changed how people eat, Hugh Hefner unveiled Playboy, and the Chess brothers supercharged rock and roll with Chuck Berry. At the University of Chicago, the atom was split and Western civilization was packaged into the Great Books.  Yet even as Chicago led the way in creating mass-market culture, its artists pushed back in their own distinct voices. In literature, it was the outlaw novels of Nelson Algren (then carrying on a passionate affair with Simone de Beauvoir), the poems of Gwendolyn Brooks, and Studs Terkel’s oral histories. In music, it was the gospel of Mahalia Jackson, the urban blues of Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, and the trippy avant-garde jazz of Sun Ra. In performance, it was the intimacy of Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, the “Chicago School” of television, and the improvisational comedy troupe Second City whose famous alumni are now everywhere in American entertainment.  Despite this diversity, racial divisions informed virtually every aspect of life in Chicago. The chaos - both constructive and destructive - of this period was set into motion by the second migration north of African Americans during World War II. As whites either fled to the suburbs or violently opposed integration, urban planners tried to design away "blight" with projects that marred a generation of American cities. The election of Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1955 launched a frenzy of new building that came at a terrible cost - monolithic housing projects for the black community and a new kind of self-satisfied provincialism that sped up the end of Chicago’s role as America’s meeting place.  In luminous prose, Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America....more

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• 140: Commercial space confounds and transforms Big Space in the US and overseas. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 04 2020

  ImageThe projectile, as pictured in an engraving from the 1872 Illustrated Edition. Henri de Montaut - http://jv.gilead.org.il/rpaul/De%20la%20terre%20%C3%A0%20la%20lune/ An illustration from the novel "From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne drawn by Henri de Montaut. Public Domain File:'From the Earth to the Moon' by Henri de Montaut 39.jpg Created: 31 July 1868 Commercial space confounds and transforms Big Space in the US and overseas.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/defense-department-cancels-small-rocket-contract-awards/Announcement: 10th Anniversary Fund-Raising Drive for Behind the Black July 1, 2020 at 12:15 amRobert Zimmerman ReadersEvery July, to celebrate the anniversary of the start of Behind the Black in 2010, I hold a month-long fund-raising campaign to make it possible for me to continue my work here for another year. This year’s fund-raising drive however is more significant in that it is also the 10th anniversary of this website’s founding. It is hard to believe, but I have been doing this for a full decade, during which I have written more than 22,000 posts, of which more than 1,000 were essays and almost 2,600 were evening pauses.This year’s fund drive is also more important because of the growing intolerance of free speech and dissent in American culture. Increasingly people who don’t like what they read are blatantly acting to blackball sites like mine. I have tried to insulate myself from this tyrannical effort by not depending on Google advertising or cross-posts on Facebook or Twitter. Though this prevents them from having a hold on me, it also acts to limit my exposure.I therefore am entirely dependent on the generous support of my readers, which has been growing steadily and sometimes exponentially in the past six years (which is about when I gave up on advertising to go directly to my readers). While asking for voluntary donations is a harder way to make money, it sets me free to say and write anything I wish. No one has a hold on me. No one tells me what to write. From me you will always get my honest perspective on space, science, culture, and politics.I therefore ask you to please consider donating to Behind the Black, either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription, as outlined in the tip jar below or in the column to the right. You can also consider buying my books, all of which are available in the boxes scattered throughout the webpage. You will have my eternal gratitude, and you will help me continue my work.This announcement will remain at the top of the webpage for the next month. Scroll down for new posts....more

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• 140: Perseverance delayed again. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 04 2020

  ImageMars 2020 Rover Is Roving https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA23499 In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, engineers observed the first driving test for NASA's Mars 2020 rover on Dec. 17, 2019. Scheduled to launch as early as July 2020, the Mars 2020 mission will search for signs of past microbial life, characterize Mars' climate and geology, collect samples for future return to Earth, and pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet. It is scheduled to land in an area of Mars known as Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. JPL is building and will manage operations of the Mars 2020 rover for NASA. NASA's Launch Services Program, based at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is responsible for launch management. For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/.NASA/JPL-Caltech - https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images/largesize/PIA23499_hires.jpg Public Domain File:PIA23499-Mars2020Rover-FirstTestDrive-20191217a.jpg Created: 17 December 2019 Perseverance delayed again. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/perseverance-launch-delayed-to-july-30-2020/Announcement: 10th Anniversary Fund-Raising Drive for Behind the Black July 1, 2020 at 12:15 amRobert Zimmerman ReadersEvery July, to celebrate the anniversary of the start of Behind the Black in 2010, I hold a month-long fund-raising campaign to make it possible for me to continue my work here for another year. This year’s fund-raising drive however is more significant in that it is also the 10th anniversary of this website’s founding. It is hard to believe, but I have been doing this for a full decade, during which I have written more than 22,000 posts, of which more than 1,000 were essays and almost 2,600 were evening pauses.This year’s fund drive is also more important because of the growing intolerance of free speech and dissent in American culture. Increasingly people who don’t like what they read are blatantly acting to blackball sites like mine. I have tried to insulate myself from this tyrannical effort by not depending on Google advertising or cross-posts on Facebook or Twitter. Though this prevents them from having a hold on me, it also acts to limit my exposure.I therefore am entirely dependent on the generous support of my readers, which has been growing steadily and sometimes exponentially in the past six years (which is about when I gave up on advertising to go directly to my readers). While asking for voluntary donations is a harder way to make money, it sets me free to say and write anything I wish. No one has a hold on me. No one tells me what to write. From me you will always get my honest perspective on space, science, culture, and politics.I therefore ask you to please consider donating to Behind the Black, either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription, as outlined in the tip jar below or in the column to the right. You can also consider buying my books, all of which are available in the boxes scattered throughout the webpage. You will have my eternal gratitude, and you will help me continue my work.This announcement will remain at the top of the webpage for the next month. Scroll down for new posts....more

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• 140: What does it mean that the NSA dissented from the CIA report on Russia and the Taliban? Larry Johnson, Sic Semper Tyrannis

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  Jul 04 2020

  Image: Третья годовщина! 25 окт. [Изоматериал] : [Плакат] / худож. Н. Н. Купреянов. - Кострома : Костр. РОСТА ; Костр. ГСХМ, [1920]. - 1 л. : Цв. литогр.; 71 [ 49 см.Date | 1920Source | https://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01006702423#?page=1What does it mean that the NSA dissented from the CIA report on Russia and the Taliban? Larry Johnson, Sic Semper Tyrannishttps://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2020/07/bounties-for-taliban-the-new-big-russia-lie-by-larry-c-johnson.html

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• 140: Reawakening jobs and reopening the economy without more stimulus packages. @VerodeRug @Mercatus.

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  Jul 04 2020

  Image:English: Painting by Vincent van Gogh, 1888Nederlands: Schilderij van Vincent van Gogh, 1888Date | 1888Medium | Nederlands: olieverf op doekDimensions | Height: 73 cm (28.7 in) ; Width: 92 cm (36.2 in) Reawakening jobs and reopening the economy without more stimulus packages.  @VerodeRug @Mercatus.

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• 140: Boris Johnson calls upon his Inner FDR to lead the UK recovery. @ConradMBlack @TheSpectator.

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  Jul 04 2020

  Image:Arthur RothsteinRecord creator | Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945Title | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill in Quebec, CanadaDate | 12 September 1944Boris Johnson calls upon his Inner FDR to lead the UK recovery.  @ConradMBlack @TheSpectator.

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• 138: #TheScalaReport: Recalling the first indications of the pandemic. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE

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  Jul 04 2020

  Image:English: Historical postcard of ChinaDate | circa 1900 Source | Historical postcardAuthor | Unknown author#TheScalaReport: Recalling the first indications of the pandemic.  Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS  @STRATACACHEhttps://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3044723/six-more-hong-kong-patients-hospitalised-over

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• 140: #TheScalaReport: Virus air travel adapts to risk, limits, air hubs, profit, the middle seat. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE

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  Image:No copyright. 1930s#TheScalaReport: Virus air travel adapts to risk, limits, air hubs, profit, the middle seat.  Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS  @STRATACACHEhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/airlines-latest-woe-diverging-coronavirus-rates-across-the-atlantic-11593781795

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• 130: Is it Uncle Joe or Grandpa Joe? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Jul 03 2020

  Image: George Inness's 1855 landscape, The Lackawanna Valley, depicted Scranton and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's roundhouse. George Inness - 4wGd1bMbGQExhQ at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level Public Domain File:George Inness - The Lackawanna Valley - Google Art Project.jpg Created: circa 1856 date QS:P571,+1856-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 Is it Uncle Joe or Grandpa Joe? @SebGorka #AmericaFirsthttps://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-leads-he-still-faces-four-big-tasks-11593441587 ...more

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• 139: POTUS rides the reopening recovery to the Election. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Jul 03 2020

  Image: The Last Spike, by Thomas Hill (1881) Thomas Hill (1829–1908) - Here The painting depicts the ceremony of the driving of the "Last Spike" at Promontory Summit, UT, on May 10, 1869, joining the rails of the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad. Public Domain File:The Last Spike 1869.jpg Created: 1881date QS:P571,+1881-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 POTUS rides the reopening recovery to the Election. @SebGorka #AmericaFirsthttps://www.wsj.com/articles/june-jobs-report-coronavirus-2020-11593651420?mod=hp_lead_pos1 ...more

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• 138: Cosa Nostra in Asia Minor: Turkey vs Russia and Iran in Syria; and everyone vs US. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Image:Image from page 59 of "Syria from the saddle" (1896) Identifier: syriafromsaddle00terh Title: Syria from the saddle Year: 1896 (1890s) Authors:  Terhune, Albert Payson, 1872-1942 Subjects:  Publisher:  New York : Silver, Burdett and Co. Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  The Library of Congress   Text Appearing Before Image:city where they live — to bake thedough kneaded at their own hovels in the public ovens. Near Jerusalem a leper hospital has been founded.Here, by the payment of a ridiculously small sum,lepers are maintained and their lives made as easyas possible. Few, however, take advantage of this.Knowing they can hope for no final cure, and hatingthe system of cleanliness and diet enforced in suchan institution, they prefer to live by begging. The Naaman House of Lepers at Damascus is nota public institution, but is merely a place where Mos-lem lepers are allowed to lodge, being forced to liveby individual charities. 54 SYRIA FROM THE SADDLE. These facts I had learned before I visited the Naa-man House, and I did not look forward to my after-noon jaunt with much pleasure. We started directlyafter lunch, passed through the Street that is calledStraight; out of the eastern gate; along an ill-keptroad with an orchard wall on one side and on theother a ditch where lay the skeleton of a camel, and Cosa Nostra in Asia Minor: Turkey vs Russia and Iran in Syria; and everyone vs US.  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_preshttps://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/erdogan-putin-rouhani-to-hold-syria-talks-kremlin-156155 ...more

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• 130: Iran's supremacy breaks down. @MichaelRubin1971 @AEI Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jul 03 2020

  Image:Title: The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and PersiaYear: 1862 (1860s)Authors:  Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902Subjects:  Mauritius Export Development and Investment Authority History, AncientPublisher:  London, J. MurrayContributing Library:  Boston Public LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  Internet ArchiveText Appearing Before Image:No. 2.Text Appearing After Image:a. Sun-dried brick under head. b. Copper bowl. c. Small cylinder of meteoric stone; remainsof thread going round arm-bone. (1. Pieces of cylindrical meteoric stone. e. Pieces of bamboo. /. Jars and utensils for food and water,made of baked clay; remains of date-stonesin the shallow dish. and at Tel~el-Lalim/ is almost as eccentric as the pre-ceding. Two large open-mouthed jars (ri and b),shaped like the largest of the water-jars at present inuse at Baghdad, are taken, and the body is disposed Journal of the Asiatic Society, vol. xv. pp. 413, 414. 112 : THE FIKST MONARCHY. Chap. V. inside them with the usual accompaniments of dishes,vases, and ornaments. The jars average from twoand a half feet to three feet in depth, and have adiameter of about two feet; so that they would readilycontain a full-sized corpse if it was slightly bent at a Chaldsean jar-coffin. the knees. Sometimes the two jars are of equal size,and ar€ simply united at their mouths by a layer ofbitumen (dd), but more cIran's supremacy breaks down. @MichaelRubin1971 @AEI Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presMichael Rubin is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he specializes in Iran, Turkey, and the broader Middle East. He also regularly teaches classes at sea about Middle East conflicts, culture, terrorism, and the Horn of Africa to deployed US Navy and Marine units.Relevant articles:·         https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/06/19/the-caesar-act-and-a-pathway-out-of-conflict-in-syria/ ·         https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/lebanon-ambassador-hezbollah-shea-media-ban/2020/06/28/15adec2a-b89f-11ea-9a1d-d3db1cbe07ce_story.html ·         https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-iraq-s-leadership-is-finally-setting-limits-on-iranian-intervention-1.8962450 ...more

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• 138: Unearthing the Persian Administration of Jerusalem, 6th Century BCE. Ze’ev Orenstein is the Director of International Affairs for the City of David Foundation. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jul 03 2020

  Image:James Tissot, The Flight of the Prisoners. James Tissot - https://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/26577-the-flight-of-the-prisoners Jacques Joseph Tissot The Flight of the Prisoners, c. 1896-1902 , gouache on board, 8 15/16 x 11 5/8 in. (22.7 x 29.7 cm), Jewish Museum, New York, NY. Public Domain File:Tissot The Flight of the Prisoners.jpg Created: between circa 1896 and circa 1902 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1896-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1902-00- Unearthing the Persian Administration of Jerusalem, 6th Century BCE. Ze’ev Orenstein is the Director of International Affairs for the City of David Foundation. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presZe’ev Orenstein is the Director of International Affairs for the City of David Foundation, where he is responsible for strengthening awareness of and support for the City of David – the place where Jerusalem began and the historic site of Biblical Jerusalem – among those shaping public policy and opinion. To that end, Ze’ev works closely with government officials, faith leaders, NGOs, and members of the media.    Ze’ev moved to Israel in 2003, and today lives with his family in Ma’aleh Adumim, Israel. Related articles●        https://www.timesofisrael.com/2500-year-old-seals-may-show-jews-rebuilding-jerusalem-after-1st-temple-exile/ ●        https://www.timesofisrael.com/year-2-of-freedom-ancient-coin-from-bar-kochba-revolt-found-near-temple-mount/ ...more

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• 138: Mysterious explosions and fires across Iran, including the nuclear facility at Natanz. Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jul 03 2020

  Image:Rekonstruktion von Persepolis durch Charles Chipiez (1884)Charles Chipiez Bird-eye reconstruction of Persepolis by Chipiez Gemeinfrei File:Persepolis vue d'oiseau Chipiez.jpg Hochgeladen: 2006-11-10 06:59:35 Mysterious explosions and fires across Iran, including the nuclear facility at Natanz. Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres Related articles●        https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2020/06/30/time-to-support-extension-iran-arms-embargo/ ●        https://en.radiofarda.com/a/what-iranian-authorities-hid-about-the-big-explosion-in-east-tehran/30693889.html ●        https://www.timesofisrael.com/russia-iran-turkey-say-israeli-strikes-in-syria-are-destabilizing/ ●        https://www.syriahr.com/en/172213/  ...more

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• 138: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Planning recovery with taxes, debt, health and prices. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Jul 03 2020

  Image:General store interior. Moundville, Alabama, USA Packaged and loose goods are stacked on shelves and the floor. Items visible on the walls include a calendar showing "July 1936" and a Coca-Cola advertisement. Visible items for sale include loose dishes, lanterns, dustpans, padlocks, rope, Mason jars, boxed soaps, boxes of shot-gun shells, canned goods, bags of self-rising flour. Rolls of butcher-paper visible at left. A safe is at center, partially behind bags of flour.Date | July 1936#SmallBusinessAmerica: Planning recovery with taxes, debt, health and prices. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer Is it time to delay your small-business tax filing?https://www.inquirer.com/news/business-taxes-deadlines-delay-july-15-20200629.htmlA little known clause in the CARES Act can mean big savings for some small businesses https://www.inquirer.com/business/small-business/small-business-sba-7a-loans-savings-cares-act-ppp-covid-coronavirus-20200622.html How your accounts reflect coronavirus could affect your business's health https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/18/coronavirus-small-business-financial-accounts Why many small businesses are to blame for rising coronavirus caseshttps://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/505011-why-many-small-businesses-are-to-blame-for-rising-coronavirus-cases?rnd=1593444086 Is it ethical for businesses to raise prices amid Covid-19? Of course it ishttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/30/restaurants-coronavirus-covid-19-small-business ...more

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• 138: Employment jumps again & What is to be done? . @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Jul 03 2020

  Image:nglish: Assembly line at the Overman Wheel Company, 1891. From Scientific American magazine, May 2, 1891.Date | 2 May 1891Source | https://archive.org/stream/scientific-american-1891-05-02/scientific-american-v64-n18-1891-05-02#page/n0/mode/2upAuthor | Scientific American, May 2, 1891, page 1Employment jumps again & What is to be done? . @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirerPrivate sector employment increased https://adpemploymentreport.com/2020/June/NER/docs/ADP-NATIONAL-EMPLOYMENT-REPORT-June2020-Final-Press-Release.pdf Construction spending decreased in May https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/pdf/release.pdfISM Manufacturing grewhttps://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2020/07/ism-manufacturing-index-increased-to.htmlTexas manufacturing grewhttps://www.dallasfed.org/research/surveys/tmos/2020/2006.aspx Chemical activity barometer falls slightly https://www.americanchemistry.com/Media/PressReleasesTranscripts/ACC-news-releases/Chemical-Activity-Barometer-Falls-Slightly-In-June.html  https://www.americanchemistry.com/CAB-vs-Industrial-Production/PPP gets extended, may be repurposedhttps://www.thinkadvisor.com/2020/06/30/mnuchin-senators-in-talks-to-repurpose-unused-ppp-funds/ ...more

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• 138: POTUS choice to renovate the Inter-America Development Bank vs Moscow, Havanna, Cacacas, Beijing and Pat Leahy. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion

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  Jul 03 2020

  Image: English: Café Vista Alegre. San Lazaro y Belaquain. Havana Cuba_1920sDate | 1920Source | http://secretoscuba.cultureforum.net/t14434p480-fotos-de-cuba-solamentes-de-antes-del-1958Author | Unknown authorPOTUS choice to renovate the Inter-America Development Bank vs Moscow, Havanna, Cacacas, Beijing and Pat Leahy. @MaryAnastasiaOG @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/leahys-yankee-imperialism-11593375704?st=yuim1m9w15zu555&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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• 138: #PacificWatch: California hesitates reopening; and the singing Golden Gate Bridge. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss

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  Jul 03 2020

  Image More details An early plan for the chain bridge over the Menai Strait near Bangor, Wales, completed in 1826  Unknown author - This image is available from the National Library of Wales You can view this image in its original context on the NLW Catalogue 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 fewer. 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, 1925. 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:A plan & view of a chain bridge - erecting over the menai at Bangor Ferry 1820.jpeg Created: 1820date QS:P571,+1820-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 #PacificWatch: California hesitates reopening; and the singing Golden Gate Bridge. Jeff Bliss @JCBliss https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/gov-newsoms-bar-closure-order-mostly-hits-nunes-mccarthy-districts/ttps://www.sfgate.com/living-in-sf/article/San-Francisco-Golden-Gate-Bridge-singing-fix-15379759.php ...more

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• 137: New nuke arms race and the nuke arsenal difference between Trump and Biden. Peter Huessy, director of Strategic Deterrent Studies of the Mitchell Institute of the Air Force Association. @GordonGChang

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  Jul 03 2020

  Image:Gilda, the 23-kiloton air-deployed nuclear weapon detonated on July 1, 1946 during Crossroads Able.Navy[1] Able, atomic bomb detonated in 1946 by the US Army as part of Operation Crossroads. Photo by US Public Domain File:Able crossroads.jpg Created: 1 January 1946 New nuke arms race and the nuke arsenal difference between Trump and Biden.  Peter Huessy, director of Strategic Deterrent Studies of the Mitchell Institute of the Air Force Association. @GordonGChanghttps://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/06/20/the-clock-is-ticking-for-nuclear-arms-control ...more

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• 133: India and China escalate along the Himalayan frontier & What is to be done?. @CleoPaskal @FDD.

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  Jul 03 2020

  Image:6 October 2016Source | https://unsplash.com/photos/T6Dnhiw23PY ImageGalleryAuthor | Omendra Singh omiUnsplash title | NoneCategories | cloudsEXIF | exposure_time: 1/4000 · make: LG · iso: 100 · focal_length: 4 · aperture: 2.5 · model: Nexus 5Place | LEH LADAKH (NORTHERN RANGE TREK N TOUR), Ladakh, IndiaIndia and China escalate along the Himalayan frontier & What is to be done?. @CleoPaskal @FDD.https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/pakistani-troop-movement-in-ladakh-sources-say-china-in-talks-with-pak-terror-groups-1695712-2020-07-01 ...more

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• 137: USN aircraft carrier to answer the 21st Century threats from the PRC and Russia? @JerryHendrixII @NRO

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  Jul 03 2020

  Image:Original Caption: Three Marines from the front coming along a seashore road at Chonito Cliff with Adelup point shown in background. The wrecked house on the summit may be seen. The entire rocky point is honey combed with caves in which the Japanese were still hiding when this picture was taken. It took a day to smoke them out from inner recesses. July 22, 1944. (USMC # 90,864).Source: http://www.npswapa.org/gallery/album10/B0585_mar_searden:Category:Images of Guamen:Category:United States Marine Corps imagesDate | 5 May 2007 (original upload date)Source | Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.Author | The original uploader was Palm dogg at English Wikipedia.USN aircraft carrier to answer the 21st Century threats from the PRC and Russia? @JerryHendrixII @NROhttps://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/07/06/the-aircraft-carrier-we-need/#slide-1 ...more

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• 137: What cannot be solved about the troubled USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)? @JerryHendrixII

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  Image: A Japanese kamikaze aircraft explodes after crashing into Essex’s (CV-9) flight deck amidships on 25 November 1944.U.S. Navy, photographed from USS Langley (CVL-27). - =Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-273032 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9) is hit on the flight deck amidships by a Japanese Kamikaze, during operations off the Philippines, 25 November 1944. Public Domain File:USS Essex (CV-9) is hit by a Kamikaze off the Philippines on 25 November 1944.jpg Created: 25 November 1944 What cannot be solved about the troubled USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)? @JerryHendrixIIhttps://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/07/06/the-aircraft-carrier-we-need/#slide-1 ...more

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• 137: Chief Justice John Roberts is the new swing vote. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Jul 03 2020

  Image:1925 photo of the justices serving in the United States Supreme CourtStanding (left to right) - Edward Sanford, George Sutherland, Pierce Butler, Harlan Fiske StoneSeated (left to right) - James Clark McReynolds, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,William Howard Taft, Willis Van Devanter, Louis BrandeisDate | 1925Source | US GovernmentAuthor | US GovernmentChief Justice John Roberts is the new swing vote. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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• 137: "Qualified immunity" for public officials and its discontents. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Jul 03 2020

  Photo:Municipal and Metropolitan policemen fight each other in front of the New York City Hall for control over the police force in the New York City Police Riot of 1857. The newly formed New York City Metropolitan Police replaced the former Municipal Police in 1857.Valerian Gribayedoff - https://books.google.com/books?id=b6IXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA21&dq=%22Metropolitan+and+Municipal+police%22&lr=#PPA59,M1 An illustration of fighting at City Hall between Municipal and Metropolitan police officers during the Police Riot of 1857 from "Recollections of a New York Chief of Police" (1887) by George W. Walling. Uploaded per request at w:WP:IFU "Qualified immunity" for public officials and its discontents. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/should-cops-get-qualified-immunity ...more

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• 136: Western Pennsylvanians have not changed their votes since 2016 and Eastern Pennsylvanians are still counting their votes from 2020. SalenaZito.com

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  Jul 02 2020

  ImageScene on Rouzersville Mountain, Sunshine Trail Highway, Route 16, near Waynesboro, Pa.Subjects: RoadsPlaces: Pennsylvania > Franklin (county) > WaynesboroNotes: Title from item.Extent: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.Accession #: 06_10_018504Date | between circa 1930 and circa 1945 Source | Boston Public Library Tichnor Brothers collection #70005Author | Pub. by John Myerly Company, Hagerstown, Md.Western Pennsylvanians have not changed their votes since 2016 and Eastern Pennsylvanians are still counting their votes from 2020. SalenaZito.comhttps://papost.org/2020/06/29/trump-campaign-sues-pennsylvania-over-mail-in-voting-and-other-election-issues/ ...more

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• 135: The miracle of Lordstown, Ohio rising from the rust to build EV trucks. SalenaZito.com

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  Jul 02 2020

  Image:Coming out of the smoke : newspaper cartoon depicting the steel strike, New York World, 1919 October 11Kirby - New York World newspaper cartoon depicting 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 fewer. 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:Coming out of the smoke.jpg Created: 11 October 1919 The miracle of Lordstown, Ohio rising from the rust to build EV trucks. SalenaZito.comhttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/in-lordstown-an-old-auto-plant-reopens-with-a-new-place?utm_source=Salena+Zito&utm_campaign=4e885137ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_25_03_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_06ac76b2f8-4e885137ef-11447385 ...more

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• 134: Westward with the 12 Madonnas of the Trail, ten feet tall, with children and rifle. SalenaZito.com

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  Jul 02 2020

  Image: Edward Joseph HolslagDescription | English: Postcard of one of the twelve Santa Fe Trail murals by Edward HolslagSource/Photographer | http://paris-of-the-plains.blogspot.com/2014_11_01_archive.htmlWestward with the 12 Madonnas of the Trail, ten feet tall, with children and rifle. SalenaZito.com https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/madonna-of-the-trail-defies-statue-toppling-culture?utm_source=Salena+Zito&utm_campaign=2a7acc0872-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_28_01_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_06ac76b2f8-2a7acc0872-11447385...more

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• 133: Speaking of the pandemic uncertainties including infection flare-ups and serology testing. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch

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  Jul 02 2020

  Image:Typist wearing mask, New York City, October 16, 1918, during the "Spanish flu" influenza pandemic. The flu prevented day-to-day operations from going smoothly. Officials advised all persons to wear face masks, even indoors. Many believed that a person could contract the disease by handling documents and equipment. Record held at: National Archives at College Park, MD. Record number 165-WW-269B-16.Date | 16 October 1918Source | 1918 photograph; photographer uncredited. Via archives.gov at [1]Author | UncreditedPermission(Reusing this file) | Copyright expired.Speaking of the pandemic uncertainties including infection flare-ups and serology testing. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearchhttps://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/politics/fauci-redford-testimony-senate-coronavirus/index.html ...more

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• 132: The FDA proclaims guidelines for a successful Covid-19 vaccine. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch

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  Jul 02 2020

  Image: Policemen in Seattle wearing masks made by the Red Cross, during the influenza epidemic. December 1918.Date | December 1918Source | Taken from https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/influenza-epidemic/records-list.htmlAuthor | The FDA proclaims guidelines for a successful Covid-19 vaccine. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearchhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-to-issue-guidance-on-covid-19-vaccine-approval-11593516090

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• 132: USMCA begins with doubts in virus-damaged Mexico and certainty in confident Canada. @DanielGriswold @Mercatus

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  Jul 02 2020

  Image: Windsor Station, Montreal, Canada.Français : Gare Windsor, Montréal, Canada.Date | circa/vers 1900USMCA begins with doubts in virus-damaged Mexico and certainty in confident Canada. @DanielGriswold @Mercatushttps://thehill.com/opinion/finance/440821-usmca-is-a-needed-respite-from-trump-induced-uncertainty#.XMTONcde6EA.twitter

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• 132: State of the City, the State, the Union: The NYC leadership defunds the police & What is to be done? John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable

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  Jul 02 2020

  Image: Aqueduct police station (LOC)Bain News Service,, publisher. Aqueduct police station [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes:Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).  Format: Glass negatives.  Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.  Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print  General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain   Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.15344   Call Number: LC-B2- 2976-15 State of the City, the State, the Union: The NYC leadership defunds the police & What is to be done? John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/us/new-york-budget-nypd-1-billion-cut-trnd/index.html ...more

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• 131: Reporting the documented "demographic genocide" of the Uyghur peoples by Beijing CCP. @NuryTurkel, Uyghur Human Rights Project.

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  Jul 02 2020

  Image: Qing-era painting depicting a Chinese campaign against Jahangir Khoja's forces in Xinjiang, 1828Unknown author - http://www.battle-of-qurman.com.cn/e/hist.htm A scene of the Chinese Campaign against Rebels in the East turkestan, 1828 Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. 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.The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. {{PD-Art}} template without license parameter: please specify why the underlying work is public domain in both the source country and the United States (Usage: {{PD-Art|1=|deathyear=''year of author's death''|country=''source country''}}, where parameter #1 can be PD-old-auto, PD-old-auto-expired, PD-old-auto-1996, PD-old-100 or similar. See Commons:Multi-license copyright tags for more information.)View more Public Domainview terms File:Battle at Kor-p'ing.jpg Created: 19th century date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 Reporting the documented "demographic genocide" of the Uyghur peoples by Beijing CCP. @NuryTurkel, Uyghur Human Rights Project.Nury Turkel is the co-founder of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, on this: https://apnews.com/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c ...more

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• 131: The PRC crushes Hong Kong's future & What is to be done? @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang

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  Image: View of Canton c. 1800.Date | circa 1800 Source | http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_04/gallery_places/pages/cwC_1800c_E79708_Panorama.htmAuthor | Unknown Chinese artistThe PRC crushes Hong Kong's future  & What is to be done? @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang

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• 131: The closing of the closed mind of the American universities. John Yoo, @HooverInst.

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  Jul 02 2020

  ImageEnglish: Kyes and Woodbury (John F. Kyes, dates unknown, and Charles Herbert Woodbury, 1864-1940), Untitled [Aerial view of Princeton University campus], 1895. Lithograph. Published by George S. Harris and Sons, and reproduced in Harper’s Weekly on January 26, 1895. GC047 Princetoniana Collection. *Note: Kyes is correct, not Keyes as is sometimes seen.Date | 8 May 2007, 19:17:51Source | Princeton UniversityAuthor | Kyes and WoodburyThe closing of the closed mind of the American universities.  John Yoo, @HooverInst.https://www.city-journal.org/pushing-back-cancel-culture?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=82f2bf2bf9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_29_06_55&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-82f2bf2bf9-72527561Robert J. Delahunty is the Laurence and Jean LeJeune Distinguished Chair and Professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. John Yoo is Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of Defender-in-Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power, to be published next month ...more

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• 131: The threatened court-packing plan of 2020 is the same as the failed court-packing plan of 1937. John Yoo, @HooverInst

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  Image:English: A photo of the United States Supreme Court by Erich Salomon. Salomon faked a broken arm and hid the camera in his cast.Date | 1937-xx-xxSource | Digital reproduction posted to Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/9cfutd/illegal_picture_taken_inside_the_us_supreme_court/The threatened court-packing plan of 2020 is the same as the failed court-packing plan of 1937. John Yoo, @HooverInsthttps://dailycaller.com/2020/06/26/yoo-expanding-the-supreme-court-will-only-make-it-another-partisan-political-body/?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=82f2bf2bf9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_29_06_55&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-82f2bf2bf9-72527561 ...more

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• 130: 2/2: The cosmology problem with not knowing how much of the heavy element Oxygen is in our Sun. Ken Croswell, Knowable Magazine.

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  Jul 02 2020

  Photo:NASA STEREO Captures Huge Eruptive Prominence 304 April13NASA image acquired April 12-13, 2010 To view a video of the prominence go to: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4526619234/  STEREO Captures Largest Prominence Eruption in 15 Years The STEREO (Ahead) spacecraft caught this spectacular eruptive prominence in extreme UV light as it blasted away from the Sun (Apr. 12-13, 2010). This was certainly among the largest prominence eruptions seen by either the STEREO or SOHO missions. The length of the prominence appears to stretch almost halfway across the sun, about 500,000 miles. Prominences are cooler clouds of plasma that hover above the Sun’s surface, tethered by magnetic forces. They are notoriously unstable and commonly erupt as this one did in a dramatic fashion. The video clip shows about 19 hours of activity. To learn more or donwload the high res files go to: stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/item.php?id=selects&iid=122   NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe. 2/2: The cosmology problem with not knowing how much of the heavy element Oxygen is in our Sun. Ken Croswell, Knowable Magazine.  https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2020/elemental-problem-sun https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neutrinos-sun-core-nuclear-fusion-reactions-borexino . ...more

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• 130: 1/2: The cosmology problem with not knowing how much of the heavy element Oxygen is in our Sun. Ken Croswell, Knowable Magazine.

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  Jul 02 2020

  Photo:This sequence of nine images taken by the Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows the sun rising on the morning of the lander's 101st Martian day after landing. The images were taken on Sept. 5, 2008. The local solar times at the landing site for the nine images were between 1:23 a.m. and 1:41 a.m. The landing site is on far-northern Mars, and the mission started in late northern spring. For nearly the entire first 90 Martian days of the mission, the sun never set below the horizon. As the amount of sunshine each day declined steadily after that, so has the amount of electricity available for the solar-powered spacecraft. The Phoenix Mission is led by the University of Arizona, Tucson, on behalf of NASA. Project management of the mission is by JPL, Pasadena, Calif. Spacecraft development was by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&M University 1/2: The cosmology problem with not knowing how much of the heavy element Oxygen is in our Sun. Ken Croswell, Knowable Magazine.  https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2020/elemental-problem-sun https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neutrinos-sun-core-nuclear-fusion-reactions-borexino . ...more

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• 129: Mall-shopping in the UK with social distancing or not. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Photo:High Street, Exeter, England, ca. 1895Datum | c:a 1890 till 1900Mall-shopping in the UK with social distancing or not. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinionhttps://www.ft.com/content/ac304b99-0e93-40c0-b807-e06b3deb0f93

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• 129: Regional virus "flare-ups" in the UK lockdown Leicester as London blossoms? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Photo: Leicester Belgrave Road railway stationDate | 1900s Source | Old postcardAuthor | W.D. & S. LtdRegional virus "flare-ups" in the UK lockdown Leicester as London blossoms? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinionhttps://www.france24.com/en/20200630-britain-imposes-local-lockdown-in-city-of-leicester-after-covid-19-flare-up

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• 129: Renaming the Woodrow Wilson School for George Shultz, Princeton '42. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Jul 02 2020

  Photo:Princeton University, 1906. Hand-colored engraving after a watercolor by Richard Rummell (1848-1924). Commissioned and published by Littig and Company. GC047 Princetoniana Collection. Rummell made a number of watercolors of Princeton University (see also below), which were reproduced in full color, sepia, and/or black and white prints.Date | 8 May 2007, 19:20:20Source | Princeton UniversityAuthor | Richard RummellThis media file is in the public domain in the United States.Renaming the Woodrow Wilson School for George Shultz, Princeton '42. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst https://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2020/06/28/now-that-woodrow-must-go-heres-princetons-replacement/ ...more

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• 129: After the virus, driving California's Autobahns in an EV Tesla. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Jul 01 2020

  Photo:Orange County Archives State Highway, west of Orange, circa 1940View of the State Highway (101), near Chapman Ave. and "the Santa Ana Boulevard., in Orange. There are no known copyright restrictions on this image. All future uses of this photo should include the courtesy line, "Photo courtesy Orange County Archives." After the virus, driving California's Autobahns in an EV Tesla. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/do-californias-future-travel-plans-include-planes-trains-and-more-automobiles...more

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• 128: Biden protects Washington, Jefferson and Christopher Columbus, not Lee or the CSA generals. No mention of Grant. @WJMCGurn @WSJOpinion

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  Jul 01 2020

  Photo:Junius Brutus Stearns (born Lucius Sawyer Stearns, June 2, 1810 – September 17, 1885) was an American painter best known for his five-part Washington Series (1847–1856).[1]The Life of George Washington: The FarmerDescription | English: Washington standing among African-American field workers; Mt. Vernon in background. Hand-colored lithograph by Régnier (lithographer), 18.25 x 24.25 inches, after a painting by Junius Brutus Stearns (1810-1885). Printed by Lemercier, Paris (printer), c1853. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs DivisionDate | circa 1853Biden protects Washington, Jefferson and Christopher Columbus, not Lee or the CSA generals.  No mention of Grant. @WJMCGurn @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/speak-up-mr-biden-11593469991?st=fli1j75x92qci6z&reflink=article_copyURL_share ...more

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• 128: "Maybe 70% of the unemployed will go back to the jobs they had before..." Michael Boskin, @HooverInst

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  Jul 01 2020

  Photo:Financial district, 1920sNone credited. - postcard published by E. C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee. Scanned by Infrogmation New Orleans postcard, "Financial District, The Carondelet Canyon". View of Carondelet Street up from Canal Street, with high-rises including the Hibernia Bank building and 1920s automobiles visible. Text on back of card: "More money is involved in the gigantic transactions which take place in the buildings shown in this picture, the Carondelet Canyon of New Orleans, than in any other center of the South. The buildings on the right are (reading from the foreground backward) -- Federal Reserve Branch, Canal-Commercial Bank (New Orlean's [sic] biggest), Marine Bank, Cotton Exchange and Hibernia Bank." Permission details This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.View more Public Domainview terms File:CarondeletCanyonPostcard.jpg Created: Not dated. Looks like 1920s. The Hibernia Bank Tower and the new Cotton Exchange Building visible were both completed in 1921. "Maybe 70% of the unemployed will go back to the jobs they had before..." Michael Boskin, @HooverInsthttps://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/america-economic-recovery-requires-stronger-work-incentives-by-michael-boskin-2020-06?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=457f0ab443-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_26_07_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-457f0ab443-72527561 ...more

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• 127: #NewWorld: Venezuela's major money-launderer, Alex Saab, is interrupted at the Cape Verde airport & What is to be done? @jmhumire Secure Free Society. Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal, @MariaFdaCabal, Bogota.

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  Jul 01 2020

  Photo:Português: Postal de Cabo VerdeDate | 1900s Source | Colecção Jill Rosemary Dias, em Memórias de África e do OrienteAuthor | unknown/unstated at the source#NewWorld: Venezuela's major money-launderer, Alex Saab, is interrupted at the Cape Verde airport & What is to be done? @jmhumire Secure Free Society. Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal,  @MariaFdaCabal, Bogota.https://www.securefreesociety.org/research/who-is-alex-saab/

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• 127: #NewWorld: The virus spreads into Latin America through the open-air produce markets. @jmhumire Secure Free Society. Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal, Congress of Colombia @MariaFdaCabal.

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  Jul 01 2020

  Photo:itle: Municipal organizations in Latin America. Mexico CityYear: 1909 (1900s)Authors:  International Bureau of the American RepublicsSubjects: Publisher:  Washington, D.C., Govt. print. off.Contributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  The Library of CongressText Appearing Before Image:'Text Appearing After Image:MUlSriCIPAL ORGANIZATION IN LATIN-AMERICAN CAPITALS. 211 Prior to 1903 the form of government in the Federal District wassomewhat similar to the territorial government in force in the Dis-trict of Columbia about thirty-odd years ago. The organic act for the government of the Federal District wasapproved March 26,1903, and went into effect July 1 of the same year. Under its provisions the immediate government of the District isin the hands of three officials who, together, compose the SuperiorCouncil of District Government. These officials are the Governor ofthe Federal District, the President of the Superior Health Board, andthe Director-General of Public Works. This form of government bears a marked resemblance to that atpresent in force in the District of Columbia. This resemblance isj,however, more superficial than real.#NewWorld: The virus spreads into Latin America through the open-air produce markets. @jmhumire Secure Free Society. Senator Maria Fernanda Cabal, Congress of Colombia  @MariaFdaCabal.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/17/coronavirus-latin-america-markets-mexico-brazil-peru ...more

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• 126: Joe Biden says he’s “constantly tested” for cognitive problems; no record thereof; puzzling. @LizPeek

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  Image:  A page from the American Phrenological JournalLiz Peek, @LizPeek, TheHill and Fox News, in re:  Joe Biden asked about cognitive issues. Everyone lucky enough to grow older becomes absent-minded; but Biden said he’s regularly tested, of which there’s no record.  First time in 88 days he’d faced the press. He also speaks for three minutes at fundraisers and leaves all the talk to others. His wife is doing as many as he is. Strange behavior for someone who clearly does not have an enthusiastic response from Democrats (e.g., 58% in Kentucky).  He’s being heavily protected.  He also has not made a case for what he intends to do as president.  “Constantly tested” – interested to see the results.  ...more

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• 126: In the first man-made recession, we seem to be doing better than expected. @LizPeek

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  Image:  A historic farmhouse. Liz Peek, @LizPeek, TheHill and Fox News, in re: We’ve ended Q2: the strangest on record.  In February, sparkling news; then in March, catastrophe.  So far, it’s better than expected.  May jobs number was huge; now, May consumer confidence reading is high: 91.  Very important to hiring.  Stock market recovery had a salubrious effect on spending.  Housing: May numbers pending home sales up 44%, biggest ever recorded. New homes: 690,000 units. House prices up about 5%.  We’ve never had a man-made recession before.  We’ve spent only half of the funds from the CARES program.  Barry Lyndon: the dinner tables were very far apart; in recent years in New York, getting too close and cramped.   ...more

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• 125: Two super-Earths in the habitable zone of a non-flaring Red Dwarf 11 lights years out. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 01 2020

  Photo: Comparison of sizes of planets with different compositions[69]  Planetsizes.jpg: Marc Kuchner/NASA GSFC derivative work: Henrykus (talk) - Planetsizes.jpg Size comparison of planets differently composed Public Domain File:Planet sizes.svg Created: 2010-10-17 14:05 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler: @BatchelorShowTwitter: @BatchelorShowTwo super-Earths in the habitable zone of a non-flaring Red Dwarf 11 lights years out. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-super-earths-found-orbiting-nearby-red-dwarf-star/ ...more

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• 125: Roscosmos cuts Angara prices to compete with SpaceX. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jul 01 2020

  Photo: Soviet R-1 on Vidal carrier (1948)Mil.ru The first A4 rocket (from German stocks) is transported to the launch site on a truck trailer. It was launched on 18 October 1947 from the Kapustin Yar test site. It flew 206.7 km and deviated left for 30 km. CC BY 4.0 File:Автопоезд с ракетой Р-1.jpg Created: 1 January 1947 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler: @BatchelorShowTwitter: @BatchelorShowRoscosmos cuts Angara  prices  to compete with SpaceX. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/russia-to-lower-launch-price-of-new-angara-rocket/ ...more

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• 124: “Xi must ensure that Trump is not re-elected.” Gregory R Copley

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  Jul 01 2020

  Image:  The Forbidden City as depicted in a Ming dynasty painting View author information Public Domain File:Verbotene-Stadt1500.jpg Uploaded: 2006-02-28 16:06:41 .   Gregory R Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, and author, The New Total War of the Twenty-first Century, in re: China’s aggression in South and East China Seas, in Hong Kong; in the US, an election year: does it suit the US to keep China at arm’s length? Yes.                    Behooves the US to see the PRC suffer economic and strategic decline under virus and military circumstance.  Xi must ensure that Trump is not re-elected.  PRC has its factories working, but nowhere to sell; and massive flooding from Three Gorges Dam.  We may be seeing the structural failure of the dam. Were that to happen, would affect 300 million people.          Joe Biden observed that China would “never beat the US,” but he has a more accommodating position vis-à-vis China.  Biden would persist with the Clinton and Obama policies: ample room to get away with its economic and other policies; Belt and Road is about how do you exert control over areas of the world?    Britain goes with the Commonwealth and perhaps France in confronting the PRC, but the EU is increasingly dependent on China, is beholden to Beijing. Would leave Western Europe leaderless against Beijing. ...more

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• 124: China’s aggression alarms neighbors. Can it revive its economy to challenge the rest of the world? Gregory R Copley

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  Image:  Territorial claims in the South China Sea on (based on outdated / unofficial documents / maps) Gregory R Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, and author, The New Total War of the Twenty-first Century, in re:  China’s amazingly ham-handed methods have created upset and panic among many of the PRC’s trading partners. China is pushing against India to show strength. Last year Modi put a million troops in Jammu and Kashmir, abrogating a treaty. Part of Kashmir is occupied by India, part by China, part by Pakistan, the last providing the land bridge from China to Pakistan, letting it ship goods to Indian Ocean ports. Beijing has created an anti-PRC coalition.         Xi has made a few significant gains in the Pacific: e.g., Kiribas changed ties from Taiwan to Beijing.  Trying to intimidate ASEAN countries; having a little success in Burma/Myanmar. However, China can't bld a sufficient strategic reach to challenge the US and the West, or to resuscitate its economy – if, of course, the West recovers. ...more

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• 123: Poverty strikes the south of Italy hardest because of tourist downturn. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation, Genoa

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  Jul 01 2020

  Image: Vesuvius overlooking Sorrento and the Bay of Naples.Poverty strikes the south of Italy hardest because of the  tourist downturn.  Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation, Genoa  

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• 123: Firearms sales boom especially for first-time gun owners. @DavidMDrucker

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  Jul 01 2020

  Image: A flintlock pistol circa 1700–1730 Firearms sales boom especially for first-time gun owners. @DavidMDrucker

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• 122: What of a DC retrocession to Maryland? @johnfund

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  Jul 01 2020

  Image:What of a DC retrocession to Maryland?  @johnfund

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• 122: DeBlasiotown 2020 vs Bloombergville 2011. @harrysiegel

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  Jul 01 2020

  Image: New Yrk City shantytown, 1880DeBlasiotown 2020 vs Bloombergville 2011. @harrysiegel

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• 121: The complicity of POTUS Obama and VPOTUS Biden in the NSC Principals Plus 1 meeting, January 5, 2017. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jun 30 2020

  Photo: An illustration by Pietro Fabris in Hamilton's Campi Phlegraei Pietro Fabris - Campi Phlegraei. Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, as they have been communicated to the Royal Society of London. Neapel 1776-79. Eruption of Vesuvius 1760-1761 Permission details out of copyright as the author died more than 70 years agoView more Public Domainview terms File:Hamilton-Campi Phlegraei.jpg Created: between 1776 and 1779 date QS:P,+1776-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1776-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1779-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler: @BatchelorShowTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe complicity of POTUS Obama and VPOTUS Biden in the NSC Principals Plus 1 meeting, January 5, 2017. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ag-barr-confirms-strzok-notes-are-for-january-5-white-house-meeting/ ...more

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• 121: "Defund the Police" aims to replace the "Broken Windows" policy of the last 30 years. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jun 30 2020

  Photo: public domainhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/5084037282TVL1970  10y The man in the photograph is Alfred P. Lane, Olympic shooter and gold medalist who was hired by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) in 1914 to train police officers how to shoot. Lane competed in two Olympics, winning three gold medals (50m Free Pistol, 50m Team Free Pistol, and 50m Rapid Fire Pistol) in the 1912 Olympic Games (Stockhom), plus a bronze medal (50m Free Pistol) and two more gold medals (50m Team Free Pistol, 50m Rapid Fire Pistol) in the 1920 Olympic Games (Antwerp). Lane would later be among the first inducted into the United States International Shooters Hall of Fame in 1991.Also of interest in this photograph is the pistol Lane is shooting. It is a Colt Model 1908 Hammerless Pistol (Colt M1908), designed by John Moses Browning, and manufactured by Colt. It is noteworthy because during this period the NYPD became one of the few police departments of the era to have adopted a semi-automatic pistol as an issued firearm (in this case for its detectives.) However, the M1908's career in the NYPD was short lived, and it was withdrawn from NYPD service by 1918 (thought to be because of accidental/negligent discharges by some of the officers it was issued to). The NYPD would not authorize the widespread issue of semi-automatic pistols again until 1993. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler: @BatchelorShowTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Defund the Police" aims to replace the "Broken Windows" policy of the last 30 years. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/police-reform-and-the-making-of-a-racism-narrative/ ...more

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• 120: BLITZ: 2of2: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win Hardcover – June 2, 2020 by David Horowitz (Author)

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  Jun 30 2020

  Photo: A portrait of Stalin by Isaak Brodsky. Isaak Brodsky - http://www.hrono.info/biograf/bio_s/stalin_foto.html Stalin Public Domain File:Isaak Brodsky stalin02.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler: @BatchelorShowTwitter: @BatchelorShow BLITZ: 2of2: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win Hardcover – June 2, 2020 by David Horowitz  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Blitz-Trump-Will-Smash-Left/dp/1630061387/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr="'BLITZ, Trump Will Smash the Left and Win', by David Horowitz. Amazon #1 Bestseller. Hot book, great author!" — President Donald J. Trump “We love David Horowitz. He thinks Trump is gonna win in a landslide in November, and he gives reasons why in the book, and he says Republicans are gonna be singing 'Happy Days Are Here Again' once November comes and the election is over and the votes are counted.” — Rush Limbaugh “If you’re interested in debating deranged liberals with facts, you won’t want to miss this latest book.” — Donald Trump, Jr. “BLITZ is a MUST-read for those who want to better understand what is really happening in the ‘idea war’ for the soul of America.” — Governor Mike Huckabee BLITZ reveals the attacks made against Trump have been the most brutal ever mounted against a sitting president of the United States. Blinded by deep-seated hatred of his person and his policies, the left even desperately tried to oust Trump in a failed impeachment bid. Horowitz shows that their very attacks—targeting a man whose mission has been to “Drain the Swamp” and “Make America Great Again” backfired, turning Trump himself into a near martyrwhile igniting the fervor of his “base.” With the 2020 election upon us, New York Times bestselling author David Horowitz chronicles the brutal battles, bitter backlash, and leftwing lies Trump has faced as Democrats repeatedly try to sabotage his presidency. You’ll discover the left’s terrifying socialist and, in some cases, communist agendas as you’ve never seen them before. Trump’s response? In the meantime, he’s going to steamroll this opposition in November using the same playbook he has used to win before. In BLITZ you will find shocking revelations: The 9 biggest dangers to America the left poses—their agenda will blow your mind. Show me the money: naming the billionaires and fat cats really out to get Trump. How patriotism suddenly became “white nationalism” linking Trump to Hitler and the KKK . The growing secularism of the left and how the hate pushed against Christians will backfire. Why every effort to demonize Trump and his supporters is failing like crazy. Obama’s agenda: how the former president casts a much greater shadow over Trump’s political woes than you ever imagined. The Genius: how Trump’s brilliant strategy has worked and will continue to work, making him president again in 2021! The effort to remove and destroy our duly elected President may be the greatest challenge America has faced since the Civil War, explains Horowitz. For the first time BLITZ exposes the left’s strategy to take down Trump, and how Trump not only beat them at their own game, but how he’s turning the tables on them to achieve a stunning reelection win come November. “An indispensable book—BLITZ— explaining why today’s Democrats are so dangerous and why President Trump is their nemesis.” — Mark R. Levin, New York Times bestselling author of Unfreedom of the Press “BLITZ is the latest must-read from Horowitz: insightful, hard-hitting, controversial, and uncompromising. Ignore him at your peril.” — Peter Schweizer, New York Times bestselling author of Clinton Cash and Profiles in Corruption “This is the book your anti-Trump relatives and friends should read...as clear a moral indictment of the anti-Trump left as has been written.” — Dennis Prager, President of PragerU and New York Times bestselling author “Unparalleled insight into the current political climate, how we got here and what it means for 2020 elections.” — Sean Spicer, Host of Spicer & Co., Newsmax TV “Horowitz understands the left's malevolent goals and how to stop them. This is a must read-book!” — Charlie Kirk, New York Times bestselling author of The MAGA Doctrine ...more

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• 120: BLITZ: 1of2: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win Hardcover – June 2, 2020 by David Horowitz (Author)

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  Photo: Isaak Brodsky, Lenin in Smolny (1930), living up to the title of "realism" more than most works of the style. Isaak Brodsky - Tretyakov Gallery "В.И. Ленин в Смольном в 1917 году". 1930 г. Бердянский художественный музей имени И.И. Бродского, Третьяковская галерея. Lenin in Smolniy in 1917 Public Domain File:Brodski lenin.jpg Created: 1930date QS:P571,+1930-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler: @BatchelorShowTwitter: @BatchelorShow BLITZ: 1of2: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win Hardcover – June 2, 2020 by David Horowitz  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Blitz-Trump-Will-Smash-Left/dp/1630061387/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr="'BLITZ, Trump Will Smash the Left and Win', by David Horowitz. Amazon #1 Bestseller. Hot book, great author!" — President Donald J. Trump “We love David Horowitz. He thinks Trump is gonna win in a landslide in November, and he gives reasons why in the book, and he says Republicans are gonna be singing 'Happy Days Are Here Again' once November comes and the election is over and the votes are counted.” — Rush Limbaugh “If you’re interested in debating deranged liberals with facts, you won’t want to miss this latest book.” — Donald Trump, Jr. “BLITZ is a MUST-read for those who want to better understand what is really happening in the ‘idea war’ for the soul of America.” — Governor Mike Huckabee BLITZ reveals the attacks made against Trump have been the most brutal ever mounted against a sitting president of the United States. Blinded by deep-seated hatred of his person and his policies, the left even desperately tried to oust Trump in a failed impeachment bid. Horowitz shows that their very attacks—targeting a man whose mission has been to “Drain the Swamp” and “Make America Great Again” backfired, turning Trump himself into a near martyrwhile igniting the fervor of his “base.” With the 2020 election upon us, New York Times bestselling author David Horowitz chronicles the brutal battles, bitter backlash, and leftwing lies Trump has faced as Democrats repeatedly try to sabotage his presidency. You’ll discover the left’s terrifying socialist and, in some cases, communist agendas as you’ve never seen them before. Trump’s response? In the meantime, he’s going to steamroll this opposition in November using the same playbook he has used to win before. In BLITZ you will find shocking revelations: The 9 biggest dangers to America the left poses—their agenda will blow your mind. Show me the money: naming the billionaires and fat cats really out to get Trump. How patriotism suddenly became “white nationalism” linking Trump to Hitler and the KKK . The growing secularism of the left and how the hate pushed against Christians will backfire. Why every effort to demonize Trump and his supporters is failing like crazy. Obama’s agenda: how the former president casts a much greater shadow over Trump’s political woes than you ever imagined. The Genius: how Trump’s brilliant strategy has worked and will continue to work, making him president again in 2021! The effort to remove and destroy our duly elected President may be the greatest challenge America has faced since the Civil War, explains Horowitz. For the first time BLITZ exposes the left’s strategy to take down Trump, and how Trump not only beat them at their own game, but how he’s turning the tables on them to achieve a stunning reelection win come November. “An indispensable book—BLITZ— explaining why today’s Democrats are so dangerous and why President Trump is their nemesis.” — Mark R. Levin, New York Times bestselling author of Unfreedom of the Press “BLITZ is the latest must-read from Horowitz: insightful, hard-hitting, controversial, and uncompromising. Ignore him at your peril.” — Peter Schweizer, New York Times bestselling author of Clinton Cash and Profiles in Corruption “This is the book your anti-Trump relatives and friends should read...as clear a moral indictment of the anti-Trump left as has been written.” — Dennis Prager, President of PragerU and New York Times bestselling author “Unparalleled insight into the current political climate, how we got here and what it means for 2020 elections.” — Sean Spicer, Host of Spicer & Co., Newsmax TV “Horowitz understands the left's malevolent goals and how to stop them. This is a must read-book!” — Charlie Kirk, New York Times bestselling author of The MAGA Doctrine ...more

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• 119: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Assyrian Copper-made Arrowheads, 2700 years ago. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jun 30 2020

  Photo: Assyrian archers taking aim, under the protection of a shield bearer. ChrisO (Own work) Relief depicting Assyrian archers attacking a besieged city, most likely in Mesopotamia. An Assyrian soldier holds a large shield to protect two archers as they take aim. From the Central Palace in Nimrud and now in the British Museum, London. Circa 728 BC. Permission details Public domainView more Public Domainview terms File:Assyrian archers.jpg Created: 14 September 2008 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler: @BatchelorShowTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Assyrian Copper-made Arrowheads, 2700 years ago. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://audioboom.com/posts/new?audio_clip%5Bdestination%5D%5Bchannel_id%5D=4002274 ...more

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• 119: Mystery of the fireball explosion at a missile depot East of Tehran. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Photo: Title: A ride to India across Persia and BaluchistanYear: 1891 (1890s)Authors:  De Windt, Harry, 1856-1933Subjects:  India -- Description and travel Iran -- Description and travel Balochistan (Pakistan) -- Description and travelPublisher:  London, Chapman and Hall, limitedContributing Library:  University of California LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNText Appearing Before Image:r collar, thickly studded with diamonds, rubies,and sapphires, hung round his neck. The stones,some of them of great size, were set indiscrimi-nately without any regard to pattern or design.Mir Khudadad wore no other jewels, with theexception of three small torquoise rings, all wornon the little finger of the left hand. He carriedno arms, but held in his right hand a large andvery dirty pocket-handkerchief of a bright yellowhue with large red spots, which somewhat de-tracted from his regal appearance. The Khan isa great snuff-taker, and during the audience con-tinually refreshed himself from the contents of asmall gold box carried by his son. Prince Azim,who was dressed in a green silk jacket and loosemagenta-coloured trousers, is a pleasant-manneredlad of about twenty. He is of much lighter com-plexion than his father and has a strong Jewishcast of feature. A huge cabochon emerald ofgreat value, suspended from the neck, was Azimssole ornament. A conversation now commenced, carried onhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler: @BatchelorShowTwitter: @BatchelorShowMystery of the fireball explosion at a missile depot East of Tehran. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.foxnews.com/world/satellite-image-iran-blast-near-suspected-missile-site ...more

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• 119: State "knows what Pakistan is but refuses to call it what it really truly is. Which is a state sponsor of terrorism." @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Jun 30 2020

  Photo: An 1879 map of Hindu Kush and its passes by Royal Geographic Society. Kabul is in lower left, Kashmir in lower right.Royal Geographical Society - http://dl.wdl.org/475.png Gallery: http://www.wdl.org/en/item/475/ This map originally appeared in the February 1879 issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography in connection with an article by C.R. Markham entitled “The Upper Basin of the Kabul River.” The Hindu Kush is a range of high mountains that extends some 800 kilometers in a northeast-to-southwest direction from the Pamir Mountains near the Pakistan-China border, through Pakistan, and into western Afghanistan. The range forms the drainage divide between two great river systems, the Amu Darya to the northwest, and the Indus to the southeast. The ancient Greeks called the Amu Darya the Oxus, the name used on this map. The passes through the Hindu Kush historically have been of great military significance. Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) crossed these mountains with his army in 329 BC, most likely over the Khawak Pass, during a campaign to suppress a revolt against his authority in Bactria, an eastern province of the Persian Empire. Hindu Kush Mountains http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler: @BatchelorShowTwitter: @BatchelorShowState "knows what Pakistan is but refuses to call it what it really truly is. Which is a state sponsor of terrorism." @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDDhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/06/pakistan-a-safe-haven-for-terror-groups-u-s-state-department.php ...more

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• 119: Graveyard of fallen monuments; and what is to be done? Markos Kounalakis @KounalakisM @HooverInst

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  Image: A Stalin Monument and pedestal (not in Russia).  Public domain.Graveyard of fallen monuments; and what is to be done?  Markos Kounalakis @KounalakisM @HooverInst Markos Kounalakis, Hoover, in re: Graveyard of fallen monuments; and what is to be done?  Gorky Park, graveyard of monuments; a park central in Moscow; in one corner is the graveyard to fallen monuments, where they went after they were torn down. Felix Dzerzhinsky, “the Iron Pole,” who basically founded the KGB.  The gulag stories In the basement where the executions were. No flowers; grass grown through the plinth. A period of total bloodthirstiness.  How will we look at our history?  Budapest: Memento Park, monuments of huge scale.  As we grapple with the dark history of our own.  Czech Republic, once Czechoslovakia: The Pink Tank.  Tanks used in the Prague Spring; Soviets were ruthless.  1986:Velvet Revolution.  To defang this potent symbol, citizens doused the whole tank in hot ink. Statue of Reagan stands next to a plinth; remains because f Soviet treaty; continued between Russia and Hungary.  To honor Reagan . .  . The Smithsonian should take over the task of what to do with former Confederate statues.   https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/article243812472.html?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=457f0ab443-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_26_07_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-457f0ab443-72527561 ...more

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• 118: President for Life Putin. @PaulR_Gregory

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  Jun 30 2020

  Image:  Putin receives Barack Obama at his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo Paul Gregory, Hoover, in re: Putin looks to extend his presidency indefinitely. Coronavirus threw his scheduled referendum off, till 1 July.  Calls for Putin’s slate t e wiped clean so e can stay till 2036, when he’ll be 83 (or older).  Below the surface: evidence of Putin’s only known opponent, Novalny, on a Sunday show.  Voter turnout—two worries: need a good turnout (not 48%, e.g.) and for the yes vote.  In outer regions, you have a week to vote (or you get a visit . . . ).  Last polls, from early June, show that it may be all right for Putin. The big question is, how much voter fraud will have to be used?  Russian people are alert to electoral fraud. Putin fatigue. Trust measure: down to about 32%, was at 70% or so. Too dangerous to be an ex-president.  https://thehill.com/opinion/international/504657-putins-best-laid-plans-for-lifetime-rule?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=457f0ab443-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_26_07_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-457f0ab443-72527561 ...more

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• 117: "...that's all speculative. Nobody really knows that the Russians paid for all of the attacks." @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Jun 30 2020

  Photo: Title: Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pagesYear: 1895 (1890s)Authors:  Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900Subjects:  World history Ethnology World historyPublisher:  Boston : Balch Bros.Contributing Library:  UMass Amherst LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  Boston Library Consortium Member LibrariesText Appearing Before Image:'Text Appearing After Image:41 HUZAREH TYPES—Afridis Attacking English 1 hoops.—Drawn by Emile Bayard. 634 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. The Yusufzais live in a hill tract northof Peshawer, where they maintain asemi-independence. They are regardedby the Afghan chiefs as among the mostturbulent race with whom they have todeal The Kakars, also in Southeastern In several parts of Afghanistan wan-dering colonies of Persians known asKizilbashis have settled. Distribution and They bear the character character of theof Persianized Turks, and the Persian language. They arefound chiefly inthe towns, wherethey maintainthemselves asmerchants, phy-sicians, andscribes. Manyof them are en-rolled in the Af-ghan cavalry andin the Indianregiments of theEnglish army.The Huzar ehdwell in themountain coun-try, in the north-west of Afghan-istan, among thespurs of Hindu-Kush. Theirdwellings arefrequently foundas much as tenthousand feetabove the levelof the sea. _ It isevident that thetribe has beeninfected with^Mongolian influ-e n c ehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler: @BatchelorShowTwitter: @BatchelorShow"...that's all speculative. Nobody really knows that the Russians paid for all of the attacks." @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDDhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html  ...more

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• 116: India and China escalate along the Himalayan frontier. @CleoPaskal @GordonGChang

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  Jun 30 2020

  Image:  Greater Himalayas as seen from the ISS. Cleo Paskal, non-resident senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, in re:  The latest in India.  A wide front on Himalayan frontier: a major Chinese deployment across the Line of Actual Control.  China has declared about four different lines; from 1962, China has advanced much past that line.  Definitely China creating the situation; escalation can stop if China withdraws back to originally-agreed line.  Incursions in prior years; this time is different, much grimmer.  Probably more than China can deal with, since it’s also taking on six countries in the South China Sea plus the US Navy.   India is a democracy where they care about the twenty-nine whom China killed on the border.  Universally discussed among all Indians. China does not know how to handle a defeat.  The transgressions are so clear; this is a volatile, complex situation.  Talk of how to build up the Quad. Japan needs to bolster its capabilities, interoperability.  India wants C130s, weapons to [intimidate] China at the border, but because of the Wuhan flu, India is broke. US needs to do lend-lease to India. Concerned about corruption in Delhi, might buy wrong weapons systems, e.g., from Russia, which is close to China.   China’s taking on everybody makes no sense, so it must be to distract Chinese people from domestic matters.  https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/ladakh-standoff-indias-allies-pitching-in-with-weapons-ammunition/articleshow/76680551.cms ...more

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• 115: The last days of Hong Kong freedoms. Michael_Yon and @GordonGChang

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  Jun 30 2020

  Image:  The PLA Honor Guard in Beijing, 2007 Michael Yon, East Asia reporter based in Thailand, and Gordon Chang, Daily Beast, in re: Hong Kong's National Security Law.  Beijing will take action against Hong Kongers who are guilty of “egregious conduct.”  The Draft National Security Law for Hong Kong—written up by Reuters in Beijing.  The National Peoples Congress in China bypasses the HK Legislative Council, since it’s extremely unpopular there; so Beijing is ramming it down people’s throats.  The patriots in HK are very concerned. Deleting twitter and other accounts to sterilize it as much as possible.  Going underground.   The law probably will be enacted tomorrow; Beijing can immediately grab patriots and haul them into [realistically: prison and torture, never to be heard of again] on Mainland.  This tears families in half. Many tragic stories already.  This is an escalation of bad relations between Beijing and  Washington.  Hong Kong’s longer-term future will not be as a global financial center, as it will not be under the rule of law. Expect New York and London to receive the [overflow]. Millions of videos have been made over the several years, so no way to hide.   Thailand cooperates with China and people have been kidnapped from here.  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-hongkong-china-mofa/china-to-impose-visa-restrictions-on-us-individuals-over-hong-kong-idUSKBN2400P2 ...more

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• 114: 4/4 Fighting for Macarthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines, by John Gordon.

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  Jun 30 2020

  Image: A long column of men on horseback moving down a road. A tank is parked beside the road. 26th Cavalry (Philippine Scouts) move into Pozorrubio past an M3 Stuart tank.     Fighting for Macarthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines, by John Gordon.  Hardcover – October 15, 2011.  1/4       xhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/1612510574/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 “ Fighting for MacArthur is a welcome addition to the scholarship on the Pacific War. Gordon makes extensive use of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps archives and interviews with veterans of the Philippine campaign. This is a well-written, engaging treatment of the steadily deteriorating position of the defenders in the Philippines."--Michigan War Studies Review. For the first time the story of the Navy and Marine Corps in the 1941­–42 Philippine campaign is told in a single volume. Drawing on a rich collection of both U.S. and recently discovered Japanese sources as well as official records and wartime diaries, Gordon chronicles the Americans' desperate defense of the besieged islands. Gordon offers updated information about the campaign during which the Navy and Marines, fighting in what was largely an Army operation, performed some of their most unusual missions of the entire Pacific War. He also explains why the Navy's relationship with Gen. Douglas MacArthur became strained during this campaign, and remained so for the rest of the war. As a result of Gordon's extensive primary source research, Fighting for MacArthur presents the most complete account of the dramatic efforts by elements of the Navy and Marine Corps to support the U.S. Army's ill-fated defense of the Philippines. ...more

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• 113: 3/4 Fighting for Macarthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines, by John Gordon.

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  Jun 30 2020

  Image:  Boeing B-17E Flying Fortresses Fighting for Macarthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines, by John Gordon.  Hardcover – October 15, 2011.  1/4       xhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/1612510574/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 “ Fighting for MacArthur is a welcome addition to the scholarship on the Pacific War. Gordon makes extensive use of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps archives and interviews with veterans of the Philippine campaign. This is a well-written, engaging treatment of the steadily deteriorating position of the defenders in the Philippines."--Michigan War Studies Review. For the first time the story of the Navy and Marine Corps in the 1941­–42 Philippine campaign is told in a single volume. Drawing on a rich collection of both U.S. and recently discovered Japanese sources as well as official records and wartime diaries, Gordon chronicles the Americans' desperate defense of the besieged islands. Gordon offers updated information about the campaign during which the Navy and Marines, fighting in what was largely an Army operation, performed some of their most unusual missions of the entire Pacific War. He also explains why the Navy's relationship with Gen. Douglas MacArthur became strained during this campaign, and remained so for the rest of the war. As a result of Gordon's extensive primary source research, Fighting for MacArthur presents the most complete account of the dramatic efforts by elements of the Navy and Marine Corps to support the U.S. Army's ill-fated defense of the Philippines. ...more

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• 112: 2/4 Fighting for Macarthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines, by John Gordon.

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  Jun 30 2020

  Image: Portrait of Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Yamashita led Japanese forces during the invasion of Malaya and Battle of Singapore, with his accomplishment of conquering Malaya and Singapore in 70 days earning him the sobriquet The Tiger of Malaya Fighting for Macarthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines, by John Gordon.  Hardcover – October 15, 2011.  1/4       xhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/1612510574/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 “ Fighting for MacArthur is a welcome addition to the scholarship on the Pacific War. Gordon makes extensive use of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps archives and interviews with veterans of the Philippine campaign. This is a well-written, engaging treatment of the steadily deteriorating position of the defenders in the Philippines."--Michigan War Studies Review. For the first time the story of the Navy and Marine Corps in the 1941­–42 Philippine campaign is told in a single volume. Drawing on a rich collection of both U.S. and recently discovered Japanese sources as well as official records and wartime diaries, Gordon chronicles the Americans' desperate defense of the besieged islands. Gordon offers updated information about the campaign during which the Navy and Marines, fighting in what was largely an Army operation, performed some of their most unusual missions of the entire Pacific War. He also explains why the Navy's relationship with Gen. Douglas MacArthur became strained during this campaign, and remained so for the rest of the war. As a result of Gordon's extensive primary source research, Fighting for MacArthur presents the most complete account of the dramatic efforts by elements of the Navy and Marine Corps to support the U.S. Army's ill-fated defense of the Philippines. ...more

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• 111: 1/4 Fighting for Macarthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines, by John Gordon.

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  Jun 30 2020

  Image: A painting of a godlike General MacArthur in his peaked cap, staring into the rising sun. MacArthur became a symbol of Allied resistance to the Japanese.   Public domain. Fighting for Macarthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines, by John Gordon.  Hardcover – October 15, 2011.  1/4       xhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/1612510574/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 “ Fighting for MacArthur is a welcome addition to the scholarship on the Pacific War. Gordon makes extensive use of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps archives and interviews with veterans of the Philippine campaign. This is a well-written, engaging treatment of the steadily deteriorating position of the defenders in the Philippines."--Michigan War Studies Review. For the first time the story of the Navy and Marine Corps in the 1941­–42 Philippine campaign is told in a single volume. Drawing on a rich collection of both U.S. and recently discovered Japanese sources as well as official records and wartime diaries, Gordon chronicles the Americans' desperate defense of the besieged islands. Gordon offers updated information about the campaign during which the Navy and Marines, fighting in what was largely an Army operation, performed some of their most unusual missions of the entire Pacific War. He also explains why the Navy's relationship with Gen. Douglas MacArthur became strained during this campaign, and remained so for the rest of the war. As a result of Gordon's extensive primary source research, Fighting for MacArthur presents the most complete account of the dramatic efforts by elements of the Navy and Marine Corps to support the U.S. Army's ill-fated defense of the Philippines. ...more

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• 108: The Vicksburg Campaign: 2of2: Strategy, Battles and Key Figures by Kevin Dougherty (Author)

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  Jun 29 2020

  Photo: Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, USAThe original uploader was The Mystery Man at English Wikipedia. - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpbh.01058. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensingfor more information. Gen. U.S. Grant - Category:Images of people of the American Civil War Public Domain File:GenUSGrant.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Vicksburg Campaign: 2of2: Strategy, Battles and Key Figures by Kevin Dougherty (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Vicksburg-Campaign-Strategy-Battles-Figures/dp/0786497971/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Vicksburg+dougherty&qid=1593394465&s=books&sr=1-1The Union victory at Gettysburg is widely considered the turning point of the Civil War but many scholars consider the capture of Vicksburg the decisive action. Building on a well-established body of literature--including the author's previous work--this book provides a comprehensive narrative and single-volume reference work on the Vicksburg Campaign. The action is traced from Farragut's failed navy-only efforts to bypass the city, through Grant's botched series of canal schemes, to his brilliant series of maneuvers that left Pemberton and his garrison besieged for more than 40 days. Key Union and Confederate players are identified and the strategic circumstances that made Vicksburg the lynchpin of the Western Theater are described. Appendices include information about Vicksburg National Military Park, the Federal and Confederate Orders of Battle and the Medal of Honor at Vicksburg....more

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• 108: The Vicksburg Campaign: 1of2: Strategy, Battles and Key Figures by Kevin Dougherty (Author)

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  Jun 29 2020

  Photo: :Battle of Champion Hill. Sketched by Mr. Theodore R. Davis. Theodore Russel Davis - Source Harper's Weekly, Volume: 1863, Issue: 06/20, Page Range: 0393ad-0393ad Public Domain File:Battle of Champion Hill.png Created: 1 January 1863 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Vicksburg Campaign: 1of2: Strategy, Battles and Key Figures by Kevin Dougherty (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Vicksburg-Campaign-Strategy-Battles-Figures/dp/0786497971/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Vicksburg+dougherty&qid=1593394465&s=books&sr=1-1The Union victory at Gettysburg is widely considered the turning point of the Civil War but many scholars consider the capture of Vicksburg the decisive action. Building on a well-established body of literature--including the author's previous work--this book provides a comprehensive narrative and single-volume reference work on the Vicksburg Campaign. The action is traced from Farragut's failed navy-only efforts to bypass the city, through Grant's botched series of canal schemes, to his brilliant series of maneuvers that left Pemberton and his garrison besieged for more than 40 days. Key Union and Confederate players are identified and the strategic circumstances that made Vicksburg the lynchpin of the Western Theater are described. Appendices include information about Vicksburg National Military Park, the Federal and Confederate Orders of Battle and the Medal of Honor at Vicksburg....more

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• 110: 2/2 Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West—One Meal at a Time, by Stephen Fried

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  Image: Judy Garland in a scene from The Harvey Girls.  Public domain. Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West—One Meal at a Time, by Stephen Fried    Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged   https://www.amazon.com/Appetite-America-Harvey-Business-Civilizing/dp/B083KN9C4G/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=stephen+fried+harvey+girls&qid=1593391864&s=audible&sr=1-1 Appetite for America is the incredible real-life story of Fred Harvey,told in depth for the first time ever. As a young immigrant, Fred Harvey worked his way up from dishwasher to household name: He was Ray Kroc before McDonald's, J. Willard Marriott before Marriott Hotels, Howard Schultz before Starbucks. His eating houses and hotels along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad (including historic lodges still in use at the Grand Canyon) were patronized by princes, presidents, and countless ordinary travelers looking for the best cup of coffee in the country. Harvey's staff of carefully screened single young women—the celebrated Harvey Girls—were the country's first female workforce and became genuine Americana, even inspiring an MGM musical starring Judy Garland.  With the verve and passion of Fred Harvey himself, Stephen Fried tells the story of how this visionary built his business from a single lunch counter into a family empire whose marketing and innovations we still encounter in myriad ways. Inspiring, instructive, and hugely entertaining, Appetite for America is historical biography that is as richly rewarding as a slice of fresh apple pie—and every bit as satisfying. ...more

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• 109: 1/2 Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West—One Meal at a Time, by Stephen Fried

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  Image:  The Hotel Castañeda, Las Vegas, New Mexico, as seen in 2007. An early mission revival style Harvey House (1899) and sister hotel to the Alvarado in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West—One Meal at a Time, by Stephen Fried    Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher).  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged   https://www.amazon.com/Appetite-America-Harvey-Business-Civilizing/dp/B083KN9C4G/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=stephen+fried+harvey+girls&qid=1593391864&s=audible&sr=1-1 Appetite for America is the incredible real-life story of Fred Harvey,told in depth for the first time ever. As a young immigrant, Fred Harvey worked his way up from dishwasher to household name: He was Ray Kroc before McDonald's, J. Willard Marriott before Marriott Hotels, Howard Schultz before Starbucks. His eating houses and hotels along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad (including historic lodges still in use at the Grand Canyon) were patronized by princes, presidents, and countless ordinary travelers looking for the best cup of coffee in the country. Harvey's staff of carefully screened single young women—the celebrated Harvey Girls—were the country's first female workforce and became genuine Americana, even inspiring an MGM musical starring Judy Garland.  With the verve and passion of Fred Harvey himself, Stephen Fried tells the story of how this visionary built his business from a single lunch counter into a family empire whose marketing and innovations we still encounter in myriad ways. Inspiring, instructive, and hugely entertaining, Appetite for America is historical biography that is as richly rewarding as a slice of fresh apple pie—and every bit as satisfying. ...more

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• 108: William Henry Harrison: 2of2: The American Presidents Series: The 9th President, 1841Hardcover – January 17, 2012. by Gail Collins (Author), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Editor), Sean Wilentz (Editor)

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  Photo: Harrison on Indiana statehood stamp, Issue of 1950 United States Post Office Department - Smithsonian Stamp Museum -- https://arago.si.edu/category_2028905.html U.S. Commemortve stamp, featuring William Henry Harrison and indiana Statehood This Indiana Territory Issue stamp commemorates the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Indiana Territory. The Indiana Territory was the first area formed out of the Northwest Territory. The stamp features a portrait of the territory’s first governor, William Henry Harrison, and an image of the First Indiana Capitol Building in Vincennes, Indiana. Public Domain File:William Henry Harrison. Indiana statehood stamp, 1950 issue.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler: @BatchelorShowTwitter: @BatchelorShow William Henry Harrison: 2of2: The American Presidents Series: The 9th President, 1841Hardcover – January 17, 2012. by Gail Collins  (Author), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Editor), Sean Wilentz (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/William-Henry-Harrison-Presidents-President/dp/0805091181/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593393893&sr=1-1-catcorrWilliam Henry Harrison died just thirty-one days after taking the oath of office in 1841. Today he is a curiosity in American history, but as Gail Collins shows in this entertaining and revelatory biography, he and his career are worth a closer look. The son of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Harrison was a celebrated general whose exploits at the Battle of Tippecanoe and in the War of 1812 propelled him into politics, and in time he became a leader of the new Whig Party, alongside Daniel Webster and Henry Clay. But it was his presidential campaign of 1840 that made an indelible mark on American political history.  Collins takes us back to that pivotal year, when Harrison's "Log Cabin and Hard Cider" campaign transformed the way candidates pursued the presidency. It was the first campaign that featured mass rallies, personal appearances by the candidate, and catchy campaign slogans like "Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too." Harrison's victory marked the coming-of-age of a new political system, and its impact is still felt in American politics today. It may have been only a one-month administration, but we're still feeling the effects....more

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• 108: William Henry Harrison: 1of2: The American Presidents Series: The 9th President, 1841Hardcover – January 17, 2012. by Gail Collins (Author), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Editor), Sean Wilentz (Editor)

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  Photo: Engraved portrait print of Harrison at age 27 as a delegate member of the House of Representatives from the Northwest Territory, c. 1800 by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin.[38][39] Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin - A Child Of the Revolution by Hendrick Booraem V Portrait of William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the Northwest Territory's At-large. Public Domain File:W.H. Harrison ca. 1800.jpg Created: published 1800 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesParler: @BatchelorShowTwitter: @BatchelorShow William Henry Harrison: 1of2: The American Presidents Series: The 9th President, 1841Hardcover – January 17, 2012. by Gail Collins  (Author), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Editor), Sean Wilentz (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/William-Henry-Harrison-Presidents-President/dp/0805091181/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593393893&sr=1-1-catcorrWilliam Henry Harrison died just thirty-one days after taking the oath of office in 1841. Today he is a curiosity in American history, but as Gail Collins shows in this entertaining and revelatory biography, he and his career are worth a closer look. The son of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Harrison was a celebrated general whose exploits at the Battle of Tippecanoe and in the War of 1812 propelled him into politics, and in time he became a leader of the new Whig Party, alongside Daniel Webster and Henry Clay. But it was his presidential campaign of 1840 that made an indelible mark on American political history.  Collins takes us back to that pivotal year, when Harrison's "Log Cabin and Hard Cider" campaign transformed the way candidates pursued the presidency. It was the first campaign that featured mass rallies, personal appearances by the candidate, and catchy campaign slogans like "Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too." Harrison's victory marked the coming-of-age of a new political system, and its impact is still felt in American politics today. It may have been only a one-month administration, but we're still feeling the effects....more

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• 108: James Madison: 2of2: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Brookhiser (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Title: Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousinsYear: 1857 (1850s)Authors:  Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888Subjects:  Randolph County (W. Va.) -- Description and travel Virginia -- Social life and customsPublisher:  New York : Harper & brothersContributing Library:  New York Public LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNText Appearing Before Image:red the glade. It wasalive with trout; and half an hour after, a hundred of the smallfry were served up at supper with the biscuit and bacon. It wasa meal that a monarch might envy. A good bed of hemlockbranches was duly spread, the fire replenished with larger logs,and the weary party disposed itself to sleep as best it might, pil-lowed on log or knapsack. The excitement produced by the nov-elty of the situation kept X. awake. The gloom of the forestaround was intense; the .camp-fire blazed in the centre of a groupof four lofty firs, whose straight and mast-like trunks were illu-minated by its light for a hundred feet without the interruj^tionof a limb, and whose tops interlaced and formed a lofty and al-most impervious covering over the sleepers. X. raised himselfupon his elbow and broke the silence: What a picturesque scene! What a couch! What a cano-py! What sublime bed-posts! 26 THE VIRGINIAN CANAAN. Go to sleep, poet, growled a drowsy fellow, or youll be sor-ry for it to-morrow.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow James Madison: 2of2:   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Brookhiser (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) 1https://www.amazon.com/James-Madison-Richard-Brookhiser-audiobook/dp/B006KZ8ETI/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593394623&sr=1-1James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his story--although all too often overshadowed by his more celebrated contemporaries--is integral to that of the nation. Madison helped to shape our country as perhaps no other Founder: collaborating on the Federalist Papers and the Bill of Rights, resisting government overreach by assembling one of the nation's first political parties (the Republicans, who became today's Democrats), and taking to the battlefield during the War of 1812, becoming the last president to lead troops in combat. In this penetrating biography, eminent historian Richard Brookhiser presents a vivid portrait of the "Father of the Constitution," an accomplished yet humble statesman who nourished Americans' fledgling liberty and vigorously defended the laws that have preserved it to this day....more

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• 108: James Madison: 1of2: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Brookhiser (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Image from page 186 of "Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins" (1857) Identifier: virginiaillustra00stro Title: Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins Year: 1857 (1850s) Authors:  Strother, David Hunter, 1816-1888 Subjects:  Randolph County (W. Va.) -- Description and travel Virginia -- Social life and customs Publisher:  New York : Harper & brothers Contributing Library:  New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor:  MSN Text Appearing Before Image:THE NATURAL BIUDGE. point above on the stream, from whence the view is equally linewith that first obtained from the descending 2^atli on the oppositeside. This picture exhibits the turn of the arch to greater ad-vantage. Then the flanking row of embattled cliffs, their sideswreathed with dark foliage, and their bases washed by the stream,forms a noble addition to the scene. ^ THE NATURAL BRIDGE. ISl http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow James Madison: 1of2:   Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Brookhiser (Author), Norman Dietz (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) 1https://www.amazon.com/James-Madison-Richard-Brookhiser-audiobook/dp/B006KZ8ETI/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1593394623&sr=1-1James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his story--although all too often overshadowed by his more celebrated contemporaries--is integral to that of the nation. Madison helped to shape our country as perhaps no other Founder: collaborating on the Federalist Papers and the Bill of Rights, resisting government overreach by assembling one of the nation's first political parties (the Republicans, who became today's Democrats), and taking to the battlefield during the War of 1812, becoming the last president to lead troops in combat. In this penetrating biography, eminent historian Richard Brookhiser presents a vivid portrait of the "Father of the Constitution," an accomplished yet humble statesman who nourished Americans' fledgling liberty and vigorously defended the laws that have preserved it to this day....more

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• 107: 4/4 The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America, by Scott Weidensaul

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  Image:  Hannah Duston (December 23, 1657 – March 6, 1736) was a colonial Massachusetts Puritan mother of nine[Note 1] who was taken captive by Abenaki people from Québec during King William's War, with her newborn daughter, during the Raid on Haverhill in 1697, in which 27 colonists were killed. While detained on an island in the Merrimack River in present-day Boscawen, New Hampshire, she killed and scalped ten of the Native American family members holding them hostage, with the assistance of two other captives. She claimed the Abenaki had killed her baby during the journey to the island. The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America, by Scott Weidensaul    Paul Boehmer (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A123TK0/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i0 Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier—the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans. Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time when the land between the Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested ground—when radically different societies adopted and adapted the ways of the other, while struggling for control of what all considered to be their land.  The First Frontier traces two and a half centuries of history through poignant, mostly unheralded personal stories, like that of a Harvard-educated Indian caught up in seventeenth-century civil warfare, a mixed-blood interpreter trying to straddle his white and Native heritage, and a Puritan woman wielding a scalping knife whose bloody deeds still resonate uneasily today. It is the first book in years to paint a sweeping picture of the Eastern frontier, combining vivid storytelling with the latest research to bring to life modern America’s tumultuous, uncertain beginnings. ...more

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• 106: 3/4 The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America, by Scott Weidensaul

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  Image:  Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck (estimated 1644 – 1666) was the first American Indian to be graduated from Harvard University.       This photo is of a painting of Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck by Stephen E. Coit. It was commissioned as part of the Harvard Foundation Portraiture Project, a diversity initiative to recognize Harvard faculty, administrators, and others who have served the University. Image used with the written permission of the artist, Stephen Coit. All rights reserved. Permission: fair use.  The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America, by Scott Weidensaul    Paul Boehmer (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A123TK0/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i0 Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier—the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans. Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time when the land between the Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested ground—when radically different societies adopted and adapted the ways of the other, while struggling for control of what all considered to be their land.  The First Frontier traces two and a half centuries of history through poignant, mostly unheralded personal stories, like that of a Harvard-educated Indian caught up in seventeenth-century civil warfare, a mixed-blood interpreter trying to straddle his white and Native heritage, and a Puritan woman wielding a scalping knife whose bloody deeds still resonate uneasily today. It is the first book in years to paint a sweeping picture of the Eastern frontier, combining vivid storytelling with the latest research to bring to life modern America’s tumultuous, uncertain beginnings. ...more

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• 105: 2/4 The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America, by Scott Weidensaul

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  Image:  Pilgrims Going to Church by George Henry Boughton (1867) The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America, by Scott Weidensaul    Paul Boehmer (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A123TK0/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i0 Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier—the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans. Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time when the land between the Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested ground—when radically different societies adopted and adapted the ways of the other, while struggling for control of what all considered to be their land.  The First Frontier traces two and a half centuries of history through poignant, mostly unheralded personal stories, like that of a Harvard-educated Indian caught up in seventeenth-century civil warfare, a mixed-blood interpreter trying to straddle his white and Native heritage, and a Puritan woman wielding a scalping knife whose bloody deeds still resonate uneasily today. It is the first book in years to paint a sweeping picture of the Eastern frontier, combining vivid storytelling with the latest research to bring to life modern America’s tumultuous, uncertain beginnings. ...more

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• 104: 1/4 The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America, by Scott Weidensaul

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  Image:  Indigenous people of the Northeast woodlands:  Three Delaware or Lenape people, painting by George Catlin. The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America, by Scott Weidensaul    Paul Boehmer (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A123TK0/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i0 Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier—the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans. Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time when the land between the Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested ground—when radically different societies adopted and adapted the ways of the other, while struggling for control of what all considered to be their land.  The First Frontier traces two and a half centuries of history through poignant, mostly unheralded personal stories, like that of a Harvard-educated Indian caught up in seventeenth-century civil warfare, a mixed-blood interpreter trying to straddle his white and Native heritage, and a Puritan woman wielding a scalping knife whose bloody deeds still resonate uneasily today. It is the first book in years to paint a sweeping picture of the Eastern frontier, combining vivid storytelling with the latest research to bring to life modern America’s tumultuous, uncertain beginnings. ...more

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• 98: Fresh contradictions in the notes on the Obama-Biden-Comey plan to pursue Flynn, dated January 5, 2017 & What is to be done? Larry Johnson, Sic Semper Tyrannis.

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  Photo: Aaron Burr. 3rd vice president of the United States.Date | Early 1800'sSource | The World Book of KnowledgeAuthor | Fom the New York Historical Societyhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFresh contradictions in the notes on the Obama-Biden-Comey plan to pursue Flynn, dated January 5, 2017 & What is to be done? Larry Johnson, Sic Semper Tyrannis.https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/larry-johnson/

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• 98: The criminal justice system's severe backlog #in-the-time-of-the-virus. Center for Growth and Opportunity's, Judge Kevin Allen

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  Photo:  History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors:  Sawyer, Joseph Dillaway, b. 1849 Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928 Subjects:  Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) Puritans Massachusetts -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Publisher:  New York, Century History 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:—:i . William Brewster, who had succeeded his father as post at Scrooby, lost thisposition after twenty yearsservice, because of his re-ligious belief. He hastenedthe departure of the Separa-tists from a land fast lapsinginto dire and chronic perse-cution. A vessel bound forHolland and to sail from^^1 Boston - on - the -Witham in Courtesy of~Bosi^ni^ubTu^ Library. Ldncolnshirc had bceu chaTt- A PIECE OF THE BAR RAIL BEFORE ercd by Brcwstct and Brad- WHICH PILGRIMS WERE TRIED. -^ THE SEPARATISTS IN ENGLAND 141 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe criminal justice system's severe backlog #in-the-time-of-the-virus.  Center for Growth and Opportunity's, Judge Kevin Allen https://news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar-and-criminal-law/insight-a-second-wave-is-coming-to-our-criminal-justice-system...more

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• 98: #NewAmericanCivilWar: 2of2: Three professors contemplating American Apocalypse. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Photo: Cover of Bezbozhnik, 1920s-1930s Soviet atheist magazineBezbozhnik u stanka - The October Revolution stands already in the courtyard,Date | 1931Source | New York Public LibraryAuthor | staff of BezbozhnikPermission(Reusing this file) | PDhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: 2of2: Three professors contemplating American Apocalypse. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisishttps://spectator.us/revolution-historians-russia-ukraine/# ...more

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• 98: #NewAmericanCivilWar: 1of2: Three professors contemplating American Apocalypse. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  Photo: : Through the Russian RevolutionYear: 1921 (1920s)Authors:  Williams, Albert Rhys, 1883-1962Subjects:  Communism CommunismePublisher:  New York, Boni and LiverightContributing Library:  Internet ArchiveDigitizing Sponsor:  Internet ArchiveText Appearing Before Image:e established by setting up telephono-graph apparatus. The Yunkers turn the bridges,cutting off the working-class districts; the Kronstadtsailors close them again. The offices of the Com-munist papers are locked and sealed, cutting offthe flow of news; the Red Guards break the sealsand set the presses running again. Attempt is made to suppress the Revolution byforce of arms. Kerensky begins calling depend-able troops into the city; that is, troops that maybe depended upon to shoot down the rising workers.Among these are the Zenith Battery and the CyclistsBattalion. Along the highroads on which theseunits are advancing into the city the Revolutionposts its forces. They attack the enemy, not withguns but with ideas. They subject these troops toa withering fire of arguments and pleas. Result:these troops that are being rushed to the city tocrush the Revolution enter instead to aid and abet it. To these zealots of the Communist faith, all sol-diers succumb, even the Cossacks. Brother Cos-http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: 1of2: Three professors contemplating American Apocalypse. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisishttps://spectator.us/revolution-historians-russia-ukraine/# ...more

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• 103: Midnight Rising: 2of2: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tony Horwitz (Author), Dan Oreskes (Narrator), Macmillan Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 28 2020

  Photo:Submission is an illustration in a biography of John BrownDate | before 1860 Source | The Life of Captain John Brown by James RedpathAuthor | old engraving, impossible for me to read name of artist http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Midnight Rising: 2of2: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Tony Horwitz (Author), Dan Oreskes (Narrator), Macmillan Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Rising-Tony-Horwitz-audiobook/dp/B005Z9GNSY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ...more

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• 102: Midnight Rising: 1of2: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tony Horwitz (Author), Dan Oreskes (Narrator), Macmillan Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 28 2020

  Photo:  A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources ..Year: 1860 (1860s)Authors:  (Sears, Robert), 1810-1892. (from old catalog)Subjects: Publisher:  New York, R. SearsContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  Sloan FoundationText Appearing Before Image:l Washington. The road issomewhat intricate, and has but few in-habitants ; so that the stranger, unless hegoes in a steamboat, will need to makecareful inquiries. The house stands onan eminence, looking down upon thePotomac. The buildings which projectfrom each end are deformities, whichgreatly mar the effect. The key of the bastile of Paris ishung up in the hall; and a miniatureportrait of Washington, from an earthenpitcher, is preserved, which is consid-ered by the family the best likeness ofhim ever made. A beautiful lawn, partlyshaded by trees, extends from the frontof the mansion to the verge of the preci-pice which overhangs the Potomac, andaffords a delightful view upon the riverand a tract of hilly country above andbelow. This is the place to which Washing-ton retired after he had accomplishedthe independence of his country, andagain when he had presided at the con-solidation of the government—volun-tarily resigning the stations he had con-sented to accept, and the power hehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Midnight Rising: 1of2: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Tony Horwitz (Author), Dan Oreskes (Narrator), Macmillan Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Rising-Tony-Horwitz-audiobook/dp/B005Z9GNSY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=...more

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• 101: 2/2 Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre, by Heather Cox Richardson.

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  Image:  Brothers, (left to right) White Lance, Joseph Horn Cloud, and Dewey Beard, Wounded Knee survivors; Miniconjou Lakota Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre, by Heather Cox Richardson.   Jonathan Davis (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  https://www.amazon.com/Wounded-Knee-Heather-Cox-Richardson-audio/dp/B00435J6US/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=richardson+wounded+knee&qid=1593307138&s=audible&sr=1-1 On December 29, 1890, American troops opened fire with howitzers on hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, killing nearly 300 Sioux. As the acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson shows in Wounded Knee, the massacre grew out of a set of political forces all too familiar to us today: fierce partisanship, heated political rhetoric, and an irresponsible, profit-driven media.  Richardson tells a dramatically new story about the Wounded Knee massacre, revealing that its origins lay not in the West but in the corridors of political power back East. Politicians in Washington, Democrat and Republican alike, sought to set the stage for mass murder by exploiting an age-old political tool: fear.  Assiduously researched and beautifully written, Wounded Knee will be the definitive account of an epochal American tragedy.   ...more

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• 100: 1/2 Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre, by Heather Cox Richardson.

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  Image:  A depiction of the Ghost Dance Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre, by Heather Cox Richardson.   Jonathan Davis (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  https://www.amazon.com/Wounded-Knee-Heather-Cox-Richardson-audio/dp/B00435J6US/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=richardson+wounded+knee&qid=1593307138&s=audible&sr=1-1 On December 29, 1890, American troops opened fire with howitzers on hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, killing nearly 300 Sioux. As the acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson shows in Wounded Knee, the massacre grew out of a set of political forces all too familiar to us today: fierce partisanship, heated political rhetoric, and an irresponsible, profit-driven media.  Richardson tells a dramatically new story about the Wounded Knee massacre, revealing that its origins lay not in the West but in the corridors of political power back East. Politicians in Washington, Democrat and Republican alike, sought to set the stage for mass murder by exploiting an age-old political tool: fear.  Assiduously researched and beautifully written, Wounded Knee will be the definitive account of an epochal American tragedy.   ...more

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• 99: 2/2 Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War, by Tony Horwitz. Dan Oreskes (Narrator), Macmillan Audio (Publisher).

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  Jun 28 2020

  Image:  An 1851 poster warning the "colored people of Boston" about policemen acting as slave catchers. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War, by Tony Horwitz.  Dan Oreskes (Narrator), Macmillan Audio (Publisher).  https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Rising-Tony-Horwitz-audiobook/dp/B005Z9GNSY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= The best-selling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war. Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. Few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising portrays Brown's uprising in vivid color, revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict.  Brown, the descendant of New England Puritans, saw slavery as a sin against America's founding principles. Unlike most abolitionists, he was willing to take up arms, and in 1859 he prepared for battle at a hideout in Maryland, joined by his teenage daughter, three of his sons, and a guerrilla band that included former slaves and a dashing spy. On October 17, the raiders seized Harpers Ferry, stunning the nation and prompting a counterattack led by Robert E. Lee. After Brown's capture, his defiant eloquence galvanized the North and appalled the South, which considered Brown a terrorist. The raid also helped elect Abraham Lincoln, who later began to fulfill Brown's dream with the Emancipation Proclamation, a measure he called "a John Brown raid, on a gigantic scale." Tony Horwitz's riveting book travels antebellum America to deliver both a taut historical drama and a telling portrait of a nation divided—a time that still resonates in ours. ...more

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• 98: 1/2 Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War, by Tony Horwitz. Dan Oreskes (Narrator), Macmillan Audio (Publisher).

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  Image:   Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War, by Tony Horwitz.  Dan Oreskes (Narrator), Macmillan Audio (Publisher).  https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Rising-Tony-Horwitz-audiobook/dp/B005Z9GNSY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= The best-selling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war. Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. Few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising portrays Brown's uprising in vivid color, revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict.  Brown, the descendant of New England Puritans, saw slavery as a sin against America's founding principles. Unlike most abolitionists, he was willing to take up arms, and in 1859 he prepared for battle at a hideout in Maryland, joined by his teenage daughter, three of his sons, and a guerrilla band that included former slaves and a dashing spy. On October 17, the raiders seized Harpers Ferry, stunning the nation and prompting a counterattack led by Robert E. Lee. After Brown's capture, his defiant eloquence galvanized the North and appalled the South, which considered Brown a terrorist. The raid also helped elect Abraham Lincoln, who later began to fulfill Brown's dream with the Emancipation Proclamation, a measure he called "a John Brown raid, on a gigantic scale." Tony Horwitz's riveting book travels antebellum America to deliver both a taut historical drama and a telling portrait of a nation divided—a time that still resonates in ours. ...more

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• 97: Edward Bancroft: 2of2: Scientist, Author, SpyHardcover – March 29, 2011. by Thomas J. Schaeper (Author)

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  Photo: British Library digitised image from page 661 of "Paris à travers les siècles. Histoire nationale de Paris et des Parisiens depuis la fondation de Lutèce jusqu'à nos jours, etc"Image taken from:  Title: "Paris à travers les siècles. Histoire nationale de Paris et des Parisiens depuis la fondation de Lutèce jusqu'à nos jours, etc" Author(s): Gourdon De Genouillac, Nicolas Jules Henri [person] British Library shelfmark: "Digital Store 10168.m.14" Page: 661 (scanned page number - not necessarily the actual page number in the publication) Place of publication: Paris Date of publication: 1879 Publisher: Sceaux Type of resource: Monograph Language(s): French Physical description: 5 tomes (8°)  Explore this item in the British Library’s catalogue:  001476975 (physical copy) and 014866810 (digitised copy)(numbers are British Library identifiers) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Edward Bancroft: 2of2: Scientist, Author, SpyHardcover – March 29, 2011.  by Thomas J. Schaeper  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Edward-Bancroft-Scientist-Author-Spy/dp/0300118422/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Edward+bancroft&qid=1593307613&s=audible&sr=1-1-catcorrA man of as many names as motives, Edward Bancroft is a singular figure in the history of Revolutionary America. Born in Massachusetts in 1745, Bancroft moved to England as a young man in the 1760s and began building a respectable résumé as both a scientist and a man of letters. In recognition of his works in natural history, Bancroft was unanimously elected to the Royal Society, and while working to secure French aid for the American Revolution, he became a close associate of such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and John Adams. Though lauded in his time as a staunch American patriot, when the British diplomatic archives were opened in the late nineteenth century, it was revealed that Bancroft led a secret life as a British agent acting against French and American interests. In this book, the first complete biography of Bancroft, historian Thomas J. Schaeper reveals the full extent of the agent's deception during the crucial years of the American Revolution. Operating under aliases, working in ciphers, and leaving coded messages in the trees of Paris's Tuileries Gardens, Bancroft filtered information from unsuspecting figures including Franklin and Deane back to his contacts in Britain, navigating a complicated web of political allegiances. Through Schaeper's keen analysis of Bancroft's correspondence and diplomatic records, this biography reveals whether Bancroft should ultimately be considered a traitor to America or a patriot to Britain....more

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• 97: Edward Bancroft: 1of2: Scientist, Author, SpyHardcover – March 29, 2011. by Thomas J. Schaeper (Author)

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  Photo: Le Grand Châtelet à Paris, vers 1780.855 - 1863personContributorsMéryon, Charles (1821-1868), ArtistcreateSourceNew York Public LibrarylinkLinkhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Edward Bancroft: 1of2: Scientist, Author, SpyHardcover – March 29, 2011.  by Thomas J. Schaeper  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Edward-Bancroft-Scientist-Author-Spy/dp/0300118422/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Edward+bancroft&qid=1593307613&s=audible&sr=1-1-catcorrA man of as many names as motives, Edward Bancroft is a singular figure in the history of Revolutionary America. Born in Massachusetts in 1745, Bancroft moved to England as a young man in the 1760s and began building a respectable résumé as both a scientist and a man of letters. In recognition of his works in natural history, Bancroft was unanimously elected to the Royal Society, and while working to secure French aid for the American Revolution, he became a close associate of such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and John Adams. Though lauded in his time as a staunch American patriot, when the British diplomatic archives were opened in the late nineteenth century, it was revealed that Bancroft led a secret life as a British agent acting against French and American interests. In this book, the first complete biography of Bancroft, historian Thomas J. Schaeper reveals the full extent of the agent's deception during the crucial years of the American Revolution. Operating under aliases, working in ciphers, and leaving coded messages in the trees of Paris's Tuileries Gardens, Bancroft filtered information from unsuspecting figures including Franklin and Deane back to his contacts in Britain, navigating a complicated web of political allegiances. Through Schaeper's keen analysis of Bancroft's correspondence and diplomatic records, this biography reveals whether Bancroft should ultimately be considered a traitor to America or a patriot to Britain....more

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• 96: Soon enough a Private Property Space Station in low Earth orbit. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 27 2020

  Photo: Interior view of an O'Neill cylinder, showing alternating land and window stripesNASA/Rick Guidice - https://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/70sArtHiRes/70sArt/art.html (image link) Color-corrected version of Image:Spacecolony3.jpeg. NASA Ames Research Center space colony image from the NASA Ames Research Center Public Domain File:Spacecolony3edit.jpeg Created: 3 December 2004 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSoon enough a Private Property Space Station in low Earth orbit. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/axiom-hires-european-company-to-help-build-private-iss-module/ ...more

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• 96: Counting down Perseverance to Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 27 2020

  Photo: The Mars Helicopter, visible in lower center of the image, was attached to the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover at Kennedy Space Center on April 6, 2020. The helicopter will be deployed onto the Martian surface about two-and-a-half months after Perseverance lands.Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCounting down Perseverance to Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/perseverance-launch-delayed-two-days/ ...more

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• 96: "The seeds of the 'Cancel Culture' and 'Anti-History.'" @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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  Photo: View of the New Jersey College at Princeton, New JerseygeDate1808 - 1889createSourceNew York Public Libraryhttp://digitalcollections.nypl.org/copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"The seeds of the 'Cancel Culture' and 'Anti-History.'" @DanHenninger @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/smiley-face-liberalism-11593039389

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• 96: Pacific Watch: Disneyland retreats from the July reopening while the SF Giants will reopen with cut-out fans. Jeff Bliss.

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  Jun 27 2020

  Photo: Orange County Archives Disneyland entrance, Anaheim, circa 1960There are no known copyright restrictions on this image. All future uses of this photo should include the courtesy line, "Photo courtesy Orange County Archiveshttps://www.flickr.com/photos/ocarchives/3024930111/ http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPacific Watch: Disneyland retreats from the July reopening while the SF Giants will reopen with cut-out fans. Jeff Bliss.https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/media/disneyland-reopening-postponed/index.html ...more

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• 96: Flynn accusations: "It also seems to be direct evidence not only that the White House knew, but also that the White House was directing this..." @DevinNunes CA-22

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  Jun 27 2020

  Photo: The parsonage in Salem Village, as photographed in the late 19th centuryHenrietta D. Kimball - "Witchcraft Illustrated" by Henrietta D. Kimball, Geo. A. Kimball, Publisher, Boston, 1892. "The House Where Witchcraft Started, Now Danvers, Mass.", photographer unknown Permission details Public DomainView more Public Domainview terms File:HouseWhereWitchcraftStarted.png Created: 1 January 1892 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFlynn accusations: "It also seems to be direct evidence not only that the White House knew, but also that the White House was directing this..." @DevinNunes CA-22 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/strzok-comey-obama-biden-flynn-case...more

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• 96: A searching podcast conversation about policing, officer morale and fresh recruiting in the time of "Defund the Police" West Coast and East Coast. @DevinNunes CA-22

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  Jun 27 2020

  Photo: A company of Massachusetts Militia await assignment to police duty during the strike United States. President; Richardson, James D. (James Daniel), 1843-1914, comp - https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14597556799/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/compilationofmesv18unit/compilationofmesv18unit#page/n420/mode/1up A company of Massachusetts Militia await assignment to police duty during the 1919 Boston Police Strike.I. 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:A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents, 1789-1897. (1896) (14597556799).jpg Created: 1 January 1896 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowA searching podcast conversation about policing, officer morale and fresh recruiting in the time of "Defund the Police" West Coast and East Coast. @DevinNunes CA-22...more

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• 96: #TheScalaReport: A second wave of layoffs as Big Retail reimagines itself during and after the virus. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE

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  Jun 27 2020

  Photo: 1907, public domain.Macy's Bldg. & Herald Square, New York City, 1907. Irving Underhill - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3c23584. 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. Permission details This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.View more Public Domainview terms File:Macy's Herald Square LC-USZ62-123584 crop.jpg Created: copyrighted 1907 Location: 40° 44′ 58.6″ N, 73° 59′ 15.7″ W http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow #TheScalaReport: A second wave of layoffs as Big Retail reimagines itself during and after the virus.   Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS  @STRATACACHEhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/macys-to-cut-3-900-corporate-jobs-11593086793?st=xisz6c8vkw08eok&reflink=article_copyURL_share ...more

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• 96: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Veterans Administration in the 21st Century and Mental Health for the DOD Active Duty. @FRoseDC

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  Jun 27 2020

  Photo: Prussian artillery during the siegeBundesarchiv, Bild 183-H26707 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Deutsch-französischer Krieg 1870/71 Preußische Batterie vor Paris CC BY-SA 3.0 de File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H26707, Deutsch-französischer Krieg 1870-71, Paris, Belagerung.jpg Created: 1870date QS:P571,+1870-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#SmallBusinessAmerica: Veterans Administration in the 21st Century and Mental Health for the DOD Active Duty. @FRoseDCCIO visibility at the Department of Veterans Affairshttps://govmatters.tv/modernizing-it-at-the-department-of-veterans-affairs/ https://govmatters.tv/the-psychological-impact-of-the-coronavirus/# ...more

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• 95: John Bolton's "desired outcomes" misapprehends POTUS's preference for a "negotiating position."

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  Photo: "The War: Defence of Paris—Students Going to Man the Fortifications". From the Illustrated London News of 1 October 1870; perhaps one of the more iconic scenes from the Franco-Prussian War. Fred Barnard - Illustrated London News "The [Franco-Prussian] War: Defence of Paris-Students Going to Man the Fortifications" One of the iconic images of the Franco-Prussian War. After the surrender of Napoleon III, the French Republic refused the German settlement terms, and the war was forced to continue. Paris was besieged, and people of all walks of life entered into its defence. Permission details This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. 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, 1925. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.View more Public Domainview terms File:Franco-Prussian War - Students Going to Man the Barricades - Illustrated London News Oct 1 1870.jpg Created: 1 October 1870 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowJohn Bolton's "desired outcomes" misapprehends POTUS's preference for a "negotiating position."...more

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• 95: Old generals not only fight the last war, but also they miss out on the "new amorphous" war-fighting of the 21st Century. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affair

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  Jun 27 2020

  Photo: Victor-Jean Adam (1801-1866)Title | The Signing of the Treaty of Mortefontaine, 30th September 1800Notes | Italiano: Descrizione storica dell'immagine: Il 30 settembre 1800 nel Castello di Mortefontaine venne firmato l'omonimo trattato che pose fine al conflitto navale tra Francia e USA, passato alla storia come la "Quasi-Guerra". La delegazione francese, composta dal console Giuseppe Bonaparte e dai consiglieri di stato Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu e Pierre-Louis Roederer e la delegazione statunitense, composta dal presidente della Corte Suprema Oliver Ellsworth, dal governatore della Carlolina del Nord Guillaume Richardson Davie e dall'ambasciatore Guillaume Vans Murray, un tempo siglato l'accordo, diedero inizio al grande ballo previsto per i festeggiamenti, cui parteciparono 1200 invitati, tra i quali Carolina e Paolina Bonaparte.Source/Photographer | Unknown sourcehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOld generals not only fight the last war, but also they miss out on the "new amorphous" war-fighting of the 21st Century. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affair"The arrival of the US Donald Trump Administration following the November 2016 elec-tions saw many “old hands” sense opportunity. They saw an “outsider in the White House”, crude and unlettered in the ways of Washington. They could help him, mould him, “take charge”. Little did they understand that they were yesterday’s men, and that the incoming Presi-dent intuitively grasped strategic reality far more comprehensively and realistically in the new era than did they. Because the grand strategic framework had, predictably, shifted, and the “new total war” framework of the 21st Century had, in fact, emerged...". ...more

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• 95: Bostock v. Clayton County. Part 2: "How it is that you read a statue that is arguably ambiguous?" @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Jun 27 2020

  Photo: Paris in 1897 - Boulevard Montmartre, by Camille Pissarro, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia Camille Pissarro - Hermitage Torrent (.torrent with info-hash) Depicted place: boulevard Montmartre Public Domain File:Camille Pissarro - Boulevard Montmartre - Eremitage.jpg Created: 1897date QS:P571,+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBostock v. Clayton County. Part 2: "How it is that you read a statue that is arguably ambiguous?"  @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/gorsuch-legal-alchemy?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=f29992231f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_23_06_49&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-f29992231f-72527561...more

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• 95: Bostock v. Clayton County. Part 1: Alito vs Gorsuch, or, Deriding politely a majority decision as "legislation." @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Jun 27 2020

  Photo: Title: An address to the good sense and candour of the people, in behalf of the dealers in corn: with some few observations on a late trial for regratingYear: 1800 (1800s)Authors:  Turton, Thomas, Sir, bart., 1764-1844Subjects:  Grain trade -- Great Britain Food supply -- Great Britain Corn laws (Great Britain)Publisher:  London : T. Egerton (etc.)Contributing Library:  University of California LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNText Appearing Before Image:years afterwards, life was extremely lax in Frenchprisons ; so long as the prisoners were safe within thewalls but little heed was taken of what they did orwhere they were ; it was sufficient that they were heldfast. It is, therefore, highly probable that the otherprisoners, with La Comans among them, may haveobtained a view of the man, and it is possible that itwas thus that the woman may have seen him malvetu, though this is not altogether certain, since hisclothes were supposed to have been torn off his backby the crowd when he was arrested the moment afterthe assassination. The story of his crime, however,would have reached their ears, since there was often acertain amount of good-fellowship between the wardersand the prisoners, even down to the days of the Revolu-tion ; in some way the news of the murder would havecertainly filtered through the walls and have aroused adesire in those prisoners, who were often harmless, un-fortunate people, to see so horrible a culprit. But as 302http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBostock v. Clayton County. Part 1: Alito vs Gorsuch, or, Deriding politely a majority decision as "legislation."  @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/gorsuch-legal-alchemy?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=f29992231f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_23_06_49&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-f29992231f-72527561...more

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• 95: What is to be done to protect the nursing homes from Covid-19? Phil Kerpen, President of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity

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  Jun 27 2020

  Photo:  PunchYear: 1841 (1840s)Authors:  Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1816-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen, 1861-1936Subjects:  English wit and humor English wit and humor, PictorialPublisher:  (London) : (Punch Publications Ltd., etc.)Contributing Library:  Lincoln Financial Foundation CollectionDigitizing Sponsor:  The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA GrantText Appearing Before Image:r running there wasnothing, after all, like a good three-year old. Excuse me, Sir,said a mildewy-looking youth, who had the stamp of a swindler printedon his face, with No Effects written boldly across it, but I willventure to back one of my three-months bills against it. Why, Sir,I will give you my word, I started a three-months bill not less thanfive years ago, and by Jove! it hasnt ceased running yet!—and this,Sir, in spite of its having fifty pounds to carry! I believe that at lastit will be a dead heat between that bill and Colleen Bawn—for I defyDr. Gumming himself to say which, eventually, will beat the other inrunning. A NEW USE EOR THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH-WIRE. Stretch it for M. Blondin to return to the United States upon. Itsthe only return the Shareholders are ever likely to get for their outlay. Postscript to a Sea-Side Letter.— The Sea is as smooth, andclear, as a looking-glass. The oysters might see to shave in it. 256 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. (June 22, 1861,http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat is to be done to protect the nursing homes from Covid-19?  Phil Kerpen, President of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity https://www.foxnews.com/media/states-failed-most-basic-test-covid-nursing-homesCOVID-19: The Nursing Home DiseasePhil Kerpen, President of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity   Testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on CoronavirusJune 11, 2020...more

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• 95: Covid-19 has devastated the unprotected nursing homes of the USA, Canada, Scotland and the UK. Phil Kerpen, President of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity

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  Jun 27 2020

  Photo: Frans Hals - Portrait of an Elderly Lady The author died in 1666, so this work is in the public domain Portrait of a Woman.Object type | painting Genre | portrait Date | 1633 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCovid-19 has devastated the unprotected nursing homes of the USA, Canada, Scotland and the UK. Phil Kerpen, President of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity https://www.foxnews.com/media/states-failed-most-basic-test-covid-nursing-homesCOVID-19: The Nursing Home DiseasePhil Kerpen, President of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity   Testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on CoronavirusJune 11, 2020 The majority of the COVID-19 disease burden in the United States is in long-term care facilities....more

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• 94: The dry lakes and old volcanoes of the Earth twin, Titan of the Saturn System. Dr. Linda Spilker JPL Principal Research Scientist David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  Jun 27 2020

  Photo: Titanhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe dry lakes and old volcanoes of the Earth twin, Titan of the Saturn System. Dr. Linda Spilker JPL Principal Research Scientis.  David Livingston, SpaceShow.comhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bright-patches-saturns-largest-moon-are-dried-lake-beds-180975121/Dr. Linda Spilker JPL Principal Research ScientistDiscipline Program ManagerCassini Project Scientist/CIRS Co-InvestigatorNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,  California Institute of Technology...more

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• 94: Titan backs away from Saturn approximately 4 inches per year, and what it means for planetary formation. Dr. Linda Spilker JPL Principal Research Scientist David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  Jun 27 2020

  Photo:  As depicted in this illustration, Cassini will plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15, 2017. Using its attitude control thrusters, the spacecraft will work to keep its antenna pointed at Earth while it sends its final data, including the composition of Saturn's upper atmosphere. The atmospheric torque will quickly become stronger than what the thrusters can compensate for, and after that point, Cassini will begin to tumble. When this happens, its radio connection to Earth will be severed, ending the mission. Following loss of signal, the spacecraft will burn up like a meteor in Saturn's upper atmosphere.The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.Date | 4 April 2017 (published)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTitan backs away from Saturn approximately 4 inches per year, and what it means for planetary formation.  Dr. Linda Spilker JPL Principal Research Scientist  David Livingston, SpaceShow.comhttps://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7673Dr. Linda Spilker JPL Principal Research ScientistDiscipline Program ManagerCassini Project Scientist/CIRS Co-InvestigatorNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,  California Institute of Technology...more

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• 94: The nonsense disorder of toppling US Grant in San Francisco. @ConradMBlack @NRO

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  Jun 27 2020

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe nonsense disorder of toppling US Grant in San Francisco. @ConradMBlack @NROhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/the-fight-against-statues-is-a-fight-against-civilization/#slide-1

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• 94: John Bolton and the intelligence failure of Venezuela. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 26 2020

  Photo: Title: With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessionsYear: 1907 (1900s)Authors:  Moore, J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton), 1864-1950Subjects:  Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926Publisher:  Philadelphia, The Book printContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  The Library of CongressText Appearing Before Image:Guaira to Caracas pays $8 a ton. Thetariffs imposed by A^enezuela are enough to stifle mostindustries. Shoes, for instance, pay a tariff of $2.40 apound. That is prohibitive. On the other hand, agricultureis suffering. There are no large operations. The farmeris getting along from hand to mouth. Coffee, the greatstaple, is bringing poor prices, and the planter fears to goahead. Tariffs, therefore, are the principal revenue pro-ducers. And vet the country is rich. Xature has givenus resources, the end of which no man can tell. We cantdevelop them without foreign labor and foreign capital,and neither will come without protection. The heat in the little car was becoming oppressive, andas )\Ir. ^loffat, the consul, was coming my way, I asked: Does it ever get cold up here in the mountains? Oh, yes, very cold. How cold? Well, came the answer, very deliberately, sometimesas low as 70 degrees. The farther we went on the La Guaira and CaracasRailwav, the more inspiring became the scenery. Wehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowJohn Bolton and the intelligence failure of Venezuela. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/boltons-warmed-over-venezuelan-dish-11592770404?st=nxdvn85wcqidyda&reflink=article_copyURL_share...more

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• 93: Joe Biden implicated in the Flynn persecution & What is to be done? @SebGorka

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  Jun 26 2020

  Photo: Ox-team days on the Oregon Trail /by Ezra Meeker ; revised and edited by Howard R. DriggsYear: 1922 (1920s)Authors:  Meeker, Ezra 1830-1928Subjects:  Overland journeys to the Pacific Oregon TrailPublisher:  Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York: World Book Company, 1922Contributing Library:  Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsDigitizing Sponsor:  Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsText Appearing Before Image:'Text Appearing After Image:Carrie sees a big cat sharpening its claws. CHAPTER TWENTY MAKING A PERMANENT HOME IN THE WILDS The days that followed our venture in the gold field weremore peaceful and prosperous. Soon after the Indian Warwe had moved to a new claim. We began now to realize tothe full our dream of earlier days, to settle on a farm andbuild a home. Three neighbors were all we had, and the nearest livednearly two miles away. Two of them kept bachelors hall.The thick, high timber made it impossible for us to see anyof our neighbors houses. We could reach only one by aroad; to the others we might go by a trail. Under such courditions we could not have a public school. This, however,did not keep us from having a school of our own. One day one of our farther-off neighbors, who lived morethan four miles away, came to visit us. Naturally thechildren flocked around him to hear his stories in broadScotch and to ply him with questions. In his turn, hebegan to ask them questions. One of these was, When doyou ehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowJoe Biden implicated in the Flynn persecution & What is to be done? @SebGorka...more

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• 93: Trump begins the rallying of MAGA. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Jun 26 2020

  Photo: "Oregon Trail (Campfire)"Object type | painting Genre | landscape art Date | 1863http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTrump begins the rallying of MAGA. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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• 92: Discovering Iran's secret solid fuel depot. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 26 2020

  Photo:  Pavilion of Persia in Expo 1900, ParisDate | 1900Source | http://www.tehranprojects.com/Early-Iranian-Pavilions-at-the-World-ExposAuthor | Unknown authorhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDiscovering Iran's secret solid fuel depot.  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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• 92: Christian United for Israel rally virtually #in-the-time-of-the-virus. @PastorJohnHagee Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 26 2020

  Photo: Identifier: greatsanantonioc00high (find matches)Title: Great San Antonio, the city of destiny and of your destinationYear: 1918 (1910s)Authors:  (Higher publicity league of Texas), San Antonio. (from old catalog)Subjects: Publisher:  (San Antonio, Higher publicity league of TexasContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  Sloan FoundationText Appearing Before Image:^-^rr .,,,^^ .,..-.,,, Typical Highland Park Homes. -38— EESIDENTIAL SAN ANTONIOText Appearing After Image:Typical Homes at Los Angeles Heights. —39— RESIDENTIAL SAN ANTONIOhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowChristian United for Israel rally virtually #in-the-time-of-the-virus. @PastorJohnHagee Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres Pastor John C. Hagee is the founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas and in February 2006, Pastor Hagee founded Christians United for Israel, a national grassroots movement focused on the support of Israel. With more than 8 million members, Christians United for Israel is the largest pro-Israel organization in the United States and one of the leading Christian grassroots movements in the world. CUFI spans all fifty states and reaches millions with its educational message.  Related articles●        https://www.jns.org/2020-cufi-annual-summit-to-be-held-virtually-due-to-coronavirus-pandemic/ ●        https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/06/07/congress-grassroots-effort-to-make-never-again-resound-in-classrooms-across-america/ ●        https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-america-israel-sovereignty-trump-israel-west-bank-annexation-1.8936308 ...more

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• 92: The UN moves a "blacklist" against the US and Israel. @HillelNeuer Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 26 2020

  Photo: A view of Geneva by Frances Elizabeth Wynne, 4 August 1858 Frances Elizabeth Wynne - This image is available from the National Library of Wales You can view this image in its original context on the NLW Catalogue Examples of artwork on a variety of subjects and in a variety of styles by Francis Elizabeth Wynne from a sketchbook (ca. 420 drawings): mixed media, including watercolour, wash and, pen and ink.Permission details   This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.View more CC0view terms File:DV307 no.80 From Vile Rousean, Geneva Aug 4 1858.png Created: between 1854 and 1864 date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1854-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1864-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 Permission http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe UN moves a "blacklist" against the US and Israel. @HillelNeuer Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presHillel Neuer is an international lawyer, diplomat, writer and activist, and the Executive Director of UN Watch, a human rights NGO in Geneva, Switzerland.        https://www.conferenceofpresidents.org/news/press/2020/jun11/jewish-leaders-applaud-executi ●        https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/unhrc-members-call-for-annual-updates-to-settlement-black-list-631593 ●        https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/06/09/will-icc-launch-war-crimes-investigation-against-israel ●        https://unwatch.org/100-ngos-urge-who-to-remove-china-tvs-james-chau-as-goodwill-ambassador/ ●        https://www.newsweek.com/who-must-drop-its-pro-beijing-goodwill-ambassador-opinion-1504961 ...more

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• 92: IDF watches the Iran operations in Syria and Lebanon. Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, IDF. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 26 2020

  Photo: Romantic Illustration of Emesa, today's Homs/Syria by the great artist Louis Francois Cassas [1756-1827 ] during his journey into the Ottoman Empire 1784-1786. The artist is shown sketching the famous citadel of Emesa, surrounded by his guards and the inquisitive locals.Source | Louis Francois CassasAuthor | Louis Francois Cassashttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIDF watches the Iran operations in Syria and Lebanon. Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, IDF. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres As Head of the International Media Branch of the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus is the IDF's Spokesperson to the world. Lt. Col. Conricus is responsible for the public affairs and public diplomacy of the IDF in both traditional and social media and leads a team of more than 50 highly talented Israeli men and women. Lt. Col. Conricus has been serving in the IDF for 20 years in various capacities, including combat experience in Lebanon and Gaza as a Platoon and Company commander, while focusing the majority of his military service on international relations and military diplomacy.  ·         https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/syrian-air-defense-systems-activated-in-southern-syria-632547 ·         https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/idf-returning-to-capsule-systems-as-coronavirus-numbers-continue-to-rise-632378 ·         https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200623-hezbollah-threatens-israel-with-precision-guided-missiles/ ·         https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-how-israeli-annexation-may-trigger-a-multi-front-mideast-war-within-weeks-1.8919289 ...more

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• 91: Conservatives in Britain and conservatives in America seek freedom of speech for a new social media platform. John Matze, CEO Parler.com @ParlerCEO

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  Jun 26 2020

  Photo: Patrick Henry Arguing the Parson's Cause by George Cooke George Cooke - https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/media_player?mets_filename=evm00000541mets.xml Patrick Henry arguing the "Parson's Cause" http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowConservatives in Britain and conservatives in America seek freedom of speech for a new social media platform. John Matze, CEO Parler.com @ParlerCEOhttps://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/parler-app-mps-right-wing-twitter-katie-hopkins-a9579241.html ...more

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• 91: The legal US visa program is broken and unlikely to be mended in 2020. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus

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  Jun 26 2020

  Photo: Detroit Publishing Co. , copyright claimantTitle | Mulberry St., New York, N.Y.Date | circa 1900 .Medium | 1 negative : glassDimensions | 8 x 10 in.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe legal US visa program is broken and unlikely to be mended in 2020. @VerodeRugy @Mercatushttps://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/our-immigration-system-about-stall

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• 91: Trump's headwinds turning to tailwinds as the public reacts to the disorder. @VDHanson @HooverInst

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  Jun 26 2020

  Photo: Ein Theil von der Londner Brücke an der Thems. Kupferstich Ca. 26 x 42 cm.Date | circa 1750 Source | Galerie BassengeAuthor | „G. D. Heumann excudit Norimberg“http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTrump's headwinds turning to tailwinds as the public reacts to the disorder.  @VDHanson @HooverInst https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-presidential-campaign-simile-storm-tossed-galleon/https://amgreatness.com/2020/06/21/what-happens-when-the-madness-ends/ ...more

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• 91: Rise of the nationalist countryside and decline of the globalist city. @VDHanson @HooverInst

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  Jun 26 2020

  Photo: Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its placesYear: 1873 (1870s)Authors:  Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876Subjects: Publisher:  London : Cassell, Petter, & GalpinContributing Library:  University of California LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  Internet Archivebook.Text Appearing Before Image:, yellow wizened man, withone shoulder higher than the other. He was thehero of the populace, for the English people wereeager to carry on the war, and the Prince vvasagainst the impending peace which the new Tory streets at night for them. The Bishop of Salis-burys (Burnets) son is said to be of the gang.They are all Whigs. Thus writes the great Torychampion of the Whig bishops son. He, too, hadhis abode in Leicester Field in 1712, the year ofhis greatest literary activity. As we have already mentioned, Leicester Housewas the first element of the square, and as build-ings gradually grew up around, it formed the boun-dary on the north side. The house itself stood wellback, having a spacious courtyard in front as wellas an extensive garden in the rear. Northouckdescribes the house in 1773 as a large brickbuilding, with a wide courtyard before. There isextant a drawing of Leicester House by GeorgeVirtue, taken in 1748, shov/ing the sentries at the Leicester Square.) LEICESTER HOUSE. 163http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRise of the nationalist countryside and decline of the globalist city. @VDHanson @HooverInst https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/protests-urban-chaos-americans-will-seek-to-avoid-big-cities/...more

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• 90: The geopolitical risks during falling international trade. @ScottWHarold @GordonGChang

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  Jun 26 2020

  Photo: HMS Lion was the flagship of Rear Admiral David Beatty during the Battle of Dogger Bank on 24 January 1915. image: The British battlecruiser HMS Lion in action at sea, with large splashes in the water off her starboard side as a result of enemy fire. Another warship is visible in the background to the left.Burgess, Arthur J W - http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//140/media-140294/large.jpg This is photograph Art.IWM ART 5205 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Permission details This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation.View more Public Domainview terms File:HMS Lion was the flagship of Rear Admiral David Beatty during the Battle of Dogger Bank on 24 January 1915. Art.IWMART5205.jpg Created: 1 January 1915 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe geopolitical risks during falling international trade. @ScottWHarold @GordonGChangScott Harold, senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation.https://www.hoover.org/research/when-trade-wars-end-badlyhttps://www.rand.org/blog/2016/08/do-economic-ties-limit-the-prospect-of-conflict.html...more

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• 89: 8/8 Churchill: Walking with Destiny, by Andrew Roberts.

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  Jun 26 2020

  Image:  In the mid-1930s Churchill wrote a biography of his ancestor John Churchill, 1st Duke of MarlboroughChurchill: Walking with Destiny, by Andrew Roberts.   Stephen Thorne (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.   https://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Andrew-Roberts-audiobook/dp/B07K4DL8QP/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic, visionary war leader immune from the consensus of the day, who stood firmly for his beliefs when everyone doubted him. But how did young Winston become Churchill? What gave him the strength to take on the superior force of Nazi Germany when bombs rained on London and so many others had caved in? In Churchill, Andrew Roberts gives listeners the full and definitive Winston Churchill, from birth to lasting legacy, as personally revealing as it is compulsively listenable. Roberts gained exclusive access to extensive new material: transcripts of War Cabinet meetings, diaries, letters, and unpublished memoirs from Churchill's contemporaries. The Royal Family permitted Roberts—in a first for a Churchill biographer—to read the detailed notes taken by King George VI in his diary after his weekly meetings with Churchill during World War II. This treasure trove of access allows Roberts to understand the man in revelatory new ways, and to identify the hidden forces fueling Churchill's legendary drive. We think of Churchill as a hero who saved civilization from the evils of Nazism and warned of the grave crimes of Soviet communism, but Roberts's masterwork reveals that he has as much to teach us about the challenges leaders face today—and the fundamental values of courage, tenacity, leadership, and moral conviction. ...more

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• 88: 7/8 Churchill: Walking with Destiny, by Andrew Roberts.

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  Jun 26 2020

  Image: Churchill with Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, 10 February 1953.Churchill: Walking with Destiny, by Andrew Roberts.   Stephen Thorne (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.    https://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Andrew-Roberts-audiobook/dp/B07K4DL8QP/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic, visionary war leader immune from the consensus of the day, who stood firmly for his beliefs when everyone doubted him. But how did young Winston become Churchill? What gave him the strength to take on the superior force of Nazi Germany when bombs rained on London and so many others had caved in? In Churchill, Andrew Roberts gives listeners the full and definitive Winston Churchill, from birth to lasting legacy, as personally revealing as it is compulsively listenable. Roberts gained exclusive access to extensive new material: transcripts of War Cabinet meetings, diaries, letters, and unpublished memoirs from Churchill's contemporaries. The Royal Family permitted Roberts—in a first for a Churchill biographer—to read the detailed notes taken by King George VI in his diary after his weekly meetings with Churchill during World War II. This treasure trove of access allows Roberts to understand the man in revelatory new ways, and to identify the hidden forces fueling Churchill's legendary drive. We think of Churchill as a hero who saved civilization from the evils of Nazism and warned of the grave crimes of Soviet communism, but Roberts's masterwork reveals that he has as much to teach us about the challenges leaders face today—and the fundamental values of courage, tenacity, leadership, and moral conviction. ...more

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• 87: 6/8 Churchill: Walking with Destiny, by Andrew Roberts.

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  Jun 26 2020

  Image: Churchill with the American General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery at a meeting of NATO in October 1951, shortly before Churchill became Prime Minister for a second timeChurchill: Walking with Destiny, by Andrew Roberts.   Stephen Thorne (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.    https://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Andrew-Roberts-audiobook/dp/B07K4DL8QP/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=  When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic, visionary war leader immune from the consensus of the day, who stood firmly for his beliefs when everyone doubted him. But how did young Winston become Churchill? What gave him the strength to take on the superior force of Nazi Germany when bombs rained on London and so many others had caved in? In Churchill, Andrew Roberts gives listeners the full and definitive Winston Churchill, from birth to lasting legacy, as personally revealing as it is compulsively listenable. Roberts gained exclusive access to extensive new material: transcripts of War Cabinet meetings, diaries, letters, and unpublished memoirs from Churchill's contemporaries. The Royal Family permitted Roberts—in a first for a Churchill biographer—to read the detailed notes taken by King George VI in his diary after his weekly meetings with Churchill during World War II. This treasure trove of access allows Roberts to understand the man in revelatory new ways, and to identify the hidden forces fueling Churchill's legendary drive. We think of Churchill as a hero who saved civilization from the evils of Nazism and warned of the grave crimes of Soviet communism, but Roberts's masterwork reveals that he has as much to teach us about the challenges leaders face today—and the fundamental values of courage, tenacity, leadership, and moral conviction. ...more

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• 86: 5/8 Churchill: Walking with Destiny, by Andrew Roberts.

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  Jun 26 2020

  Image:  Churchill and his fiancée Clementine Hozier shortly before their marriage in 1908.Churchill: Walking with Destiny, by Andrew Roberts.   Stephen Thorne (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.   https://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Andrew-Roberts-audiobook/dp/B07K4DL8QP/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic, visionary war leader immune from the consensus of the day, who stood firmly for his beliefs when everyone doubted him. But how did young Winston become Churchill? What gave him the strength to take on the superior force of Nazi Germany when bombs rained on London and so many others had caved in? In Churchill, Andrew Roberts gives listeners the full and definitive Winston Churchill, from birth to lasting legacy, as personally revealing as it is compulsively listenable. Roberts gained exclusive access to extensive new material: transcripts of War Cabinet meetings, diaries, letters, and unpublished memoirs from Churchill's contemporaries. The Royal Family permitted Roberts—in a first for a Churchill biographer—to read the detailed notes taken by King George VI in his diary after his weekly meetings with Churchill during World War II. This treasure trove of access allows Roberts to understand the man in revelatory new ways, and to identify the hidden forces fueling Churchill's legendary drive. We think of Churchill as a hero who saved civilization from the evils of Nazism and warned of the grave crimes of Soviet communism, but Roberts's masterwork reveals that he has as much to teach us about the challenges leaders face today—and the fundamental values of courage, tenacity, leadership, and moral conviction. ...more

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• 86: North Korea's Kim siblings play Good Cop/Bad Cop with predictable provocations. Greg Scarlatoiu, executive director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. @GordonGChang

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  Jun 25 2020

  Photo: Title: KoreaYear: 1910 (1910s)Authors:  Coulson, Constance J. DSubjects:  Korea -- Social life and customsPublisher:  London : A. and C. BlackContributing Library:  New York Public LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNText Appearing Before Image:k. One reason for this is, naturally,the extreme poverty of the people in general,which forbids their spending money on anythingbeyond the actual necessities of life. Another isthe fact that almost every household is, to a greatextent, self-supplying. All Korean women can Korea spin and weave, and many of them do the tailoringand shoe making for the family ; while the menmanufacture the harness for the beasts, the housefurniture, and the rude implements of the farm.All these articles are, therefore, in little demand,and those who manufacture them are forced tosell at so small a profit that they cannot afford tospend much time over them. But even in themaking of pottery, which is entirely in the handsof the professional worker, there is displayed noneof that feeling for design and appropriate orna-ment which makes even the most ordinary speci-mens from China or Japan such a joy to everylover of the beautiful. The usual complaint ofthe tourist in Korea is that there is nothing tobuy. 64http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNorth Korea's Kim siblings play Good Cop/Bad Cop with predictable provocations. Greg Scarlatoiu, executive director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. @GordonGChang  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53146563...more

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• 85: Strzok's stark handwritten notes from the Obama National Security Council meeting January 2017. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jun 25 2020

  Photo: Photo of the cast for The Untouchables as seen on Desilu Playhouse: Only Robert Stack (third from left) and Abel Fernandez (second from right) were used in the actual television series. Keenan Wynn is seen here at the right of Robert Stack, Peter Leeds (who played LaMarr Kane, replaced in the series by Chuck Hicks) is to the right of Wynn, and TV's Kit Carson, Bill Williams as Marty Flaherty (replaced by Jerry Paris in the series), is on the far right. Actor Paul Dubov, who played Jack Rossman (replaced in the series by Steve London), is missing from this photo.[2] CBS Television - Original text : eBay front back archived links) Photo of the cast for the first showing of The Untouchables on Desilu Playhouse. From left: Bob Osterloh, Eddie Firestone, Robert Stack, Keenan Wynn, Peter Leeds, Abel Fernandez and Bill Williams. Keenan Wynn is the son of Ed Wynn; only Robert Stack and Abel Fernandez went on to the television series which aired on ABC. The item has no copyright markings on it as can be seen in the links above. United States Copyright Office page 2 "Visually Perceptible Copies The notice for visually perceptible copies should contain all three elements described below. They should appear together or in close proximity on the copies. 1 The symbol © (letter C in a circle); the word “Copyright”; or the abbreviation “Copr.” 2 The year of first publication. If the work is a derivative work or a compilation incorporating previously published material, the year date of first publication of the derivative work or compilation is sufficient. Examples of derivative works are translations or dramatizations; an example of a compilation is an anthology. The year may be omitted when a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work, with accompanying textual matter, if any, is reproduced in or on greeting cards, postcards, stationery, jewelry, dolls, toys, or useful articles. 3 The name of the copyright owner, an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of owner.1 Example © 2007 Jane Doe." Permission details Pre-1978 no markView more Public Domainview terms File:The Untouchables Desilu Playhouse 1959.jpg Created: 9 April 1959 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowStrzok's stark handwritten notes from the Obama National Security Council meeting January 2017. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness...more

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• 85: Setting Flynn Free 2-1 at the D.C.Circuit Court of Appeals. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jun 25 2020

  Photo:  Representation of the Netherlands destroyed by water and fire, while allegories of Truth and Virtue uncover a group of sodomites. On top, Justice looks at it from above, as does a figure holding a flaming sword and a scroll that reads "men, leaving the natural use of the woman" (Romans 1:27). The conveyed meaning is that Dutch sodomites will incur God's wrath, who, as a consequence, will destroy the Netherlands.Italiano: Incisione anonima che ritrae sullo sfondo l'Olanda distrutta dall'acqua e dal fuoco dall'ira divina per i peccati dei sodomiti, mentre in primo piano allegorie della Verità e della Virtù scoprono un gruppo di sodomiti dal velo di segretezza sotto cui si erano nascosti. Al di sopra veglia la Giustizia, con la spada in mano, che si prepara a colpire i sodomiti.Date | 1730Source | Gleich und Anders, Ed. Robert Aldrich 3-938017-81-3Author | Anonymoushttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSetting Flynn Free 2-1 at the D.C.Circuit Court of Appeals.  @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/federal-appeals-court-orders-judge-sullivan-to-dismiss-the-flynn-case/ ...more

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• 84: State of the City, the State, the Union: "Occupy City Hall" protesters demonstrate "Defund the Police" at NY City Hall. John Catsimatidis, @JCats13 @CatsRoundtable

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  Jun 25 2020

  Photo: Caption: "CITY HALL."Credit line: "Drawn by Dakin. Engraved by Dick."Text, pp. 13-5Date | Published 1831Source | Internet Archive: Fay, Theodore S. and Dakin, James H. Views in New-York and its environs, from accurate, characteristic & picturesque drawings, taken on the spot, expressly for this work (New York: Peabody & Co., 1831), Plate 5.Also at: Museum of the City of New York Digital Collections Image ID: 29.100.1877Author | Drawn by James H. Dakin. Engraved by Archibald L. Dick.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowState of the City, the State, the Union: "Occupy City Hall" protesters demonstrate "Defund the Police" at NY City Hall. John Catsimatidis, @JCats13 @CatsRoundtablehttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/occupy-city-hall-protest-manhattan-nypd-defund-police ...more

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• 84: SCOTUS rejects Trump’s rejection of the unconstitutional DACA. John Yoo: @BerkeleyLaw.

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  Jun 25 2020

  Image:  A stamp applied to the Mexican passport of a DACA recipient entering the United States with Advance Parole at John F. Kennedy International Airport in January 2017, with handwritten annotations indicating the passport holder was paroled into the United States by a Customs and Border Protection officer.  Public domain. John Yoo, Berkeley Law, NRO, AEI, Hoover; in re: Supreme Court 5-4 decision to turn away President Trump’s DACA intentions.  Pres Obama decreed it by Executive Order, used prosecutorial discretion.  Administrative Procedure Act takes a year at fastest. Court thereby requires a president to do an unconstitutional deed until it’s all been resolved, which is wrong.  Violation of separation of powers, as a president is thereby forced to continue a program initiated by a previous president.  Look for a boom and bust cycle on DACA; only Congress can create a stable program. ...more

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• 83: Butterfly and June Bug Nebulae: gorgeous giant cloud formations. Robert Zimmerman.

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  Jun 25 2020

  Image:  'Mystic Mountain' within the tempestuous Carina Nebula. NASA Robert Zimmerman, BehindheBlack.com, in re: Butterfly Nebula and June Bug Nebula:  giant cloud formations around stars; late in the life of a star.  Not known what forms planetary nebulae, but Hubble takes images of them and they’re ravishingly beautiful.  Perseverance, our next rover, will launch on 20 July at 9:15 AM.  Will depoloy Ingenuity, its helicopter, which will have thirty days to do its chore. If this works, future rovers will carry their own. Can a helo lift an object of the ground?        Asteroid hit Yucatan. Asteroid Bennu: 1 in 2700 chance that 170years from now, it might hit the Earth.     ...more

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• 82: Spaceport in Scotland at A'Mhoine. Robert Zimmerman

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  Jun 25 2020

  Image:  Ben Nevis, 1,344 metres, Scotland. Photograph taken from Banavie about 8 km north west. 18:55, 11 July 2005. The summit is beyond and to the left of the apparent highest point, Càrn Dearg North, 1,221 metres, (many Scottish mountains are called Càrn Dearg). Càrn Mòr Dearg, 1,223 metres, is to the left, connected to the Ben by the Càrn Mòr Dearg Arête at the head of Coire Leis (slightly in shadow). The pipelines of the Lochaber hydroelectric scheme are visible lower right. Robert Zimmerman, BehindheBlack.com, in re: A spaceport in Scotland, with Lockheed Martin and a UK firm.  Funding is not the problem; rather, environmental opposition to anything new.  Tedious, endless permitting process.  Threat to a peat bog; and if soil fell into the ocean it might hurt fish. At stake, 177 jobs.  The spaceport, to be called the Space Hub Sutherland, would be built at A'Mhoine on the Moine Peninsula in the county of Sutherland, a few miles from Scotland's Atlantic coast. This facility would enable vertical rockets to launch small satellites into low Earth polar and sun-synchronous orbits.       Astra, Vox, Virgin Orbit, Rocket Lab, all are players. ...more

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• 81: Delhi enraged by PRC predation on the Himalayan border. @CleoPaskal @FDD

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  Jun 25 2020

  Image:  South Annapurna Glacier in Himalayas.  Public domain.Delhi enraged by PRC predation on the Himalayan border.  @CleoPaskal @FDD Cleo Paskal, non-resident senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, in re: Altitude sickness as there’s not enough oxygen in the Himalaya.  There was a fight, apparently with clubs and rocks, between Chinese invaders and Indian forces. Happened well within Indian territory. Chinese immediately regretted and killed the Indian commanding officer, Col Babu, which totally enraged a billion Indians.  Govt structures now isolating China economically: China starts economically, asap becomes strategic.  Line of Actual Control:  Chinese troops are expanding and digging in on Indian territory.  Indian defense minister is in Russia asking for swift delivery of S400 missile system.  Kiribati goes pro-Beijing. US has no diplo representation in the region! Why? State Department has backed off, although Defense Department understands clearly. https://geopoliticalfutures.com/daily-memo-india-and-china-pull-back-from-the-brink/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-kiribati/kiribatis-pro-china-leader-wins-re-election-in-blow-to-taiwan-idUSKBN23U038 ...more

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• 80: PRC Wolf Warrior tries to intimidate Canadians. Charles Burton: @cburton001

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  Jun 25 2020

  Image:  Wolf Warriors poster, from a 2015 Chinese 3D war action film.  Fair use.  Charles Burton, senior Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, in re: Meng Wanzhou, who owns and is living in two enormous mansions in Vancouver, has been in Canadian legal custody for over a year; PM Trudeau acknowledges that there’s an obvious link between this detained CFO and the two Canadians arrested* and held for 500-plus days by China.  First time he hasn't bowed to China.  China cleaves to its Wolf Warrior mode; arrogance, hostility and belligerence.  Legal delays from Meng’s side; in court in 2024?  US extradition request probably cannot be denied.  Note also China’s imposition of tariff barriers, Uyghurs, Covid-19, et al.  * “Earlier Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on China to release the Canadians, saying they face ‘groundless’ charges of spying. The European Union said its leadership also raised its concerns over ‘the continued arbitrary detention’ of Kovrig and Spavor during a virtual bilateral summit with China Monday.”https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trudeau-says-china-made-obvious-link-between-meng-and-two-michaels-1.4994128 ...more

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• 79: Welcome to Gen Z GOP of Spencer, West Virginia. @SalenaZito

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  Jun 25 2020

  Image:  A view of the New River in West Virginia, the world's third-oldest river geologically. Public domain.  Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere column, Washington Examiner; CNN, New York Post;  in re:  Gen Z  nation. Reilly Keaton is a bright young man involved in politics for ten years and he’s now 22.  As a high school senior, ran as a delegate to the W Va House, lost by 28 votes. Spencer is a beautiful little town; the site of the seven-day siege of Spencer between Union soldiers and Confederate guerrillas, who constructed a fake cannon out of logs, but were discovered.   Stars and Bars was put atop the local privvy.   ...more

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• 78: Pennsylvania may still be counting the June 2 mail-in vote. @SalenaZito

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  Jun 25 2020

  Image:  No-excuse early voting in U.S. states, as of September, 2014.   Blue: in-person and postal ;  red:  in-person only   ; green:  postal only ;  gray:  none Public domain.Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere column, Washington Examiner; CNN, New York Post;  in re:  Senator Joe Manchin and defund the police, “Craziest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.”  He’s known for years that police activities among African-Americans needed improvement.  He won’t be leaving the Democratic party. The June 2 Pennsylvania vote with no official count yet—the problem is the Eastern counties: the Collar Counties.  Some voted twice.   ...more

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• 77: Churchill: 4of8: Walking with Destiny Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Andrew Roberts (Author), Stephen Thorne (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 25 2020

  Photo: Churchill on Budget Day with his wife Clementine and children Sarah and Randolph, 15 April 1929.Unknown author - http://www.winstonchurchill.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/churchill-on-budget-day.jpg Churchill on budget day with his wife Clementine and children Sarah and Randolph Permission details This work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain. This is because it is one of the following: It is a photograph taken prior to 1 June 1957; or It was published prior to 1970; or It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created prior to 1970. HMSO has declared that the expiry of Crown Copyrights applies worldwide (ref: HMSO Email Reply) More information. See also Copyright and Crown copyright artistic works.View more Public Domainview terms File:Churchill-on-budget-day.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowChurchill: 4of8: Walking with Destiny  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Andrew Roberts (Author), Stephen Thorne (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Andrew-Roberts-audiobook/dp/B07K4DL8QP/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic, visionary war leader immune from the consensus of the day, who stood firmly for his beliefs when everyone doubted him. But how did young Winston become Churchill? What gave him the strength to take on the superior force of Nazi Germany when bombs rained on London and so many others had caved? In Churchill, Andrew Roberts gives listeners the full and definitive Winston Churchill, from birth to lasting legacy, as personally revealing as it is compulsively listenable. Roberts gained exclusive access to extensive new material: transcripts of War Cabinet meetings, diaries, letters, and unpublished memoirs from Churchill's contemporaries. The Royal Family permitted Roberts - in a first for a Churchill biographer - to read the detailed notes taken by King George VI in his diary after his weekly meetings with Churchill during World War II. This treasure trove of access allows Roberts to understand the man in revelatory new ways, and to identify the hidden forces fueling Churchill's legendary drive. We think of Churchill as a hero who saved civilization from the evils of Nazism and warned of the grave crimes of Soviet communism, but Roberts's masterwork reveals that he has as much to teach us about the challenges leaders face today - and the fundamental values of courage, tenacity, leadership, and moral conviction....more

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• 77: Churchill: 3of8: Walking with Destiny Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Andrew Roberts (Author), Stephen Thorne (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 25 2020

  Photo: Churchill meets female workers at Georgetown's filling works near Glasgow in October 1918.Unknown author - http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//8/media-8655/large.jpg This is photograph Q 84077from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. War Industry in Britain during the First World War The Minister of Munitions Winston Churchill meets female workers at Georgetown's filling works near Glasgow during a visit on 9 October 1918. Permission details This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. The photograph was taken by a member of the forces during their active service duties in the First World War, and became covered by Crown Copyright provisions and so faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired after 50 years.View more Public Domainview terms File:War Industry in Britain during the First World War Q84077.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowChurchill: 3of8: Walking with Destiny  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Andrew Roberts (Author), Stephen Thorne (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Andrew-Roberts-audiobook/dp/B07K4DL8QP/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic, visionary war leader immune from the consensus of the day, who stood firmly for his beliefs when everyone doubted him. But how did young Winston become Churchill? What gave him the strength to take on the superior force of Nazi Germany when bombs rained on London and so many others had caved? In Churchill, Andrew Roberts gives listeners the full and definitive Winston Churchill, from birth to lasting legacy, as personally revealing as it is compulsively listenable. Roberts gained exclusive access to extensive new material: transcripts of War Cabinet meetings, diaries, letters, and unpublished memoirs from Churchill's contemporaries. The Royal Family permitted Roberts - in a first for a Churchill biographer - to read the detailed notes taken by King George VI in his diary after his weekly meetings with Churchill during World War II. This treasure trove of access allows Roberts to understand the man in revelatory new ways, and to identify the hidden forces fueling Churchill's legendary drive. We think of Churchill as a hero who saved civilization from the evils of Nazism and warned of the grave crimes of Soviet communism, but Roberts's masterwork reveals that he has as much to teach us about the challenges leaders face today - and the fundamental values of courage, tenacity, leadership, and moral conviction....more

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• 77: Churchill: 2of8: Walking with Destiny Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Andrew Roberts (Author), Stephen Thorne (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 25 2020

  Photo: Churchill in 1904.British Government - This is photograph Q 42037 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Winston Churchill in 1904. Permission details This work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain. This is because it is one of the following: It is a photograph taken prior to 1 June 1957; or It was published prior to 1970; or It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created prior to 1970. HMSO has declared that the expiry of Crown Copyrights applies worldwide (ref: HMSO Email Reply) More information. See also Copyright and Crown copyright artistic works.View more Public Domainview terms File:Churchill 1904 Q 42037.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowChurchill: 2of8: Walking with Destiny  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Andrew Roberts (Author), Stephen Thorne (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Andrew-Roberts-audiobook/dp/B07K4DL8QP/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic, visionary war leader immune from the consensus of the day, who stood firmly for his beliefs when everyone doubted him. But how did young Winston become Churchill? What gave him the strength to take on the superior force of Nazi Germany when bombs rained on London and so many others had caved? In Churchill, Andrew Roberts gives listeners the full and definitive Winston Churchill, from birth to lasting legacy, as personally revealing as it is compulsively listenable. Roberts gained exclusive access to extensive new material: transcripts of War Cabinet meetings, diaries, letters, and unpublished memoirs from Churchill's contemporaries. The Royal Family permitted Roberts - in a first for a Churchill biographer - to read the detailed notes taken by King George VI in his diary after his weekly meetings with Churchill during World War II. This treasure trove of access allows Roberts to understand the man in revelatory new ways, and to identify the hidden forces fueling Churchill's legendary drive. We think of Churchill as a hero who saved civilization from the evils of Nazism and warned of the grave crimes of Soviet communism, but Roberts's masterwork reveals that he has as much to teach us about the challenges leaders face today - and the fundamental values of courage, tenacity, leadership, and moral conviction....more

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• 77: Churchill: 1of8: Walking with Destiny Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Andrew Roberts (Author), Stephen Thorne (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 25 2020

  Photo: A painting of the young Churchill by Edwin Arthur Ward.Edwin Arthur Ward (1859 - 1933) - Sotheby's Winston Churchill as a young man oil on canvas 40.5 x 51 cm signed b.r.: E.A.W Public Domain File:Winston Churchill as a young man, by Edwin Arthur Ward (1859 - 1933).jpg Created: Unknown dateUnknown date http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowChurchill: 1of8: Walking with Destiny  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Andrew Roberts (Author), Stephen Thorne (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Andrew-Roberts-audiobook/dp/B07K4DL8QP/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic, visionary war leader immune from the consensus of the day, who stood firmly for his beliefs when everyone doubted him. But how did young Winston become Churchill? What gave him the strength to take on the superior force of Nazi Germany when bombs rained on London and so many others had caved? In Churchill, Andrew Roberts gives listeners the full and definitive Winston Churchill, from birth to lasting legacy, as personally revealing as it is compulsively listenable. Roberts gained exclusive access to extensive new material: transcripts of War Cabinet meetings, diaries, letters, and unpublished memoirs from Churchill's contemporaries. The Royal Family permitted Roberts - in a first for a Churchill biographer - to read the detailed notes taken by King George VI in his diary after his weekly meetings with Churchill during World War II. This treasure trove of access allows Roberts to understand the man in revelatory new ways, and to identify the hidden forces fueling Churchill's legendary drive. We think of Churchill as a hero who saved civilization from the evils of Nazism and warned of the grave crimes of Soviet communism, but Roberts's masterwork reveals that he has as much to teach us about the challenges leaders face today - and the fundamental values of courage, tenacity, leadership, and moral conviction....more

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• 76: In the year 2024 for the GOP. @HooverWhalen

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  Jun 24 2020

  Photo: Inside of the convention hallDoud, M. F., copyright claimant - Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/item/2012648397/ National Republican Convention, June 18, 1896, St. Louis, Mo Public Domain File:1896 RNC.jpg Created: 1 January 1896 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIn the year 2024 for the GOP. @HooverWhalen https://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2020/06/18/win-or-lose-this-fall-will-it-be-four-more-years-of-a-trump----obsession/#290cc7752819...more

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• 76: Beginning a Canadian trial for an anti-viral drug especially for nursing home Covid-19 patients and their caregivers, favipiravir. Armand Balboni, MD, PhD CEO Appili Therapeutics, Inc

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  Jun 24 2020

  Photo: Illustration par Henri Julien, à la page 22 du livre d'Honoré Beaugrand, La chasse-galerie - Légendes canadiennes, Montréal, 1900. La légende de l'illustration est Le rigodon chez Batissette Augé.Datehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBeginning a Canadian trial for an anti-viral drug especially for nursing home Covid-19 patients and their caregivers, favipiravir.  Armand Balboni, MD, PhD CEO Appili Therapeutics, Inchttps://www.appilitherapeutics.com/leadershipStock symbol in Canada: APLIStock symbol in the US: APLIF​Armand Balboni's career includes medical research and drug development experience in civilian, academic and military organizations, most recently as a partner at Bloom Burton & Co. where he was the firms senior advisor for regulatory and medical affairs. As an active duty military officer, Dr. Balboni served as a staff officer at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). He completed a military staff fellowship at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and went on to serve as the deputy director of clinical and regulatory affairs for the U.S. Army. Armand completed his doctoral work in the MD/PhD program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and earned his law degree at Brooklyn Law School.https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/health-canada-clears-appili-therapeutics-phase-2-clinical-trial-evaluating-favipiravir-as-a-prophylactic-agent-against-covid-19-outbreaks-/ ...more

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• 75: Detroit policing sure-footed and New York policing back-footed. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 24 2020

  Photo: New York City - "Doing the slums" - A scene in the Five Points / from a sketch by a staff artist.CALL NUMBER: Illus. in AP2.L52 1885 (Case Y) [P&P]REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-122660 (b&w film copy neg.)SUMMARY: Policeman leading upper class people through the Five Points neighborhood.MEDIUM: 1 print : wood engraving.CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1885.NOTES:Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 61, (1885 Dec. 5), p. 245.SUBJECTS:Police--New York (State)--New York--1880-1890. Poor persons--New York (State)--New York--1880-1890. Slums--New York (State)--New York--1880-1890. Upper class--New York (State)--New York--1880-1890.FORMAT:Periodical illustrations 1880-1890. Wood engravings 1880-1890.REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USADIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c22660 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c22660CARD #: 99400238Date | 5 December 1885http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDetroit policing sure-footed and New York policing back-footed. @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-wants-to-be-a-cop-11592865635?st=3vjch7bnuh2b72t&reflink=article_copyURL_share ...more

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• 75: Israeli law for Judea and Samaria after 53 years of hesitation. EVKontorovich @WSJOpinion @GeorgeMasonLaw

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  Jun 24 2020

  Photo:  Title: Road to Jericho, Jordan, etc. Wilderness of Judea.Abstract/medium: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph CollectionPhysical description: 1 negative :Date | 1900http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Israeli law for Judea and Samaria after 53 years of hesitation. EVKontorovich @WSJOpinion @GeorgeMasonLawhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/dont-buy-the-annexation-hype-11592932454

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• 72: #NewWorld: Medellin succeeds with the virus; widespread fraud #in-the-time-of-the-virus. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal.

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  Jun 24 2020

  Photo: Baile del Santiago (de Chile) antiguo. Oleo de Pedro SubercaseauxDate | Unknown dateSource | http://biblioteca.vitanet.cl/colecciones/700/770/bailes.jpghttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#NewWorld: Medeillin succeeds with the virus; widespread fraud #in-the-time-of-the-virus. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/world/americas/coronavirus-latin-america-corruption.html

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• 74: Our intolerant liberal arts colleges & What is to be done? @LizPeek

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  Jun 24 2020

  Image:  Yale University's four-oared crew team, posing with the 1876 Centennial Regatta trophy.Our intolerant liberal arts colleges & What i to be done?.  @LizPeek Elizabeth Peek, TheHill and Fox News; in re: Why are young people attracted to [chaos] in the public commons?  What alarms me is that the cancel culture refuses careful debate and demands [commonalty of thinking].  As for the elite schools that foster this, we should stop giving them money and tell them why. My friends do the first, but won’t say why out of fear of their own children not being given preference, or of their becoming unpopular with their associates. Woodrow Wilson segregated the military—appalling.  Talk of renaming Yale (Elihu Yale).  This is coming from a well of utter ignorance. Much of this has zero to do wit h Black Lives Matter, such as a Denver memorial of the Armenian genocide,  The effort to obliterate our history is to obliterate all that formed us. Note that people still seek to come here from all over the world.   ...more

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• 73: Unpredicted swift recovery metrics worldwide. @LizPeek

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  Jun 24 2020

  Image: Paralysis:  John Henry Fuseli, The NightmareUnpredicted swift recovery metrics worldwide.  @LizPeek Elizabeth Peek, TheHill and Fox News; in re: US and global economies. The market keeps going higher; NASDAQ is leading the Dow. Today’s housing number was the most recent in a series of better-than-expected, up 17% over April.  No one has any idea how this is happening because we’ve never done this before.  Right now, it's clearly a V-shaped recovery, also in the UK, EU and China.  Pent-up demand, esp in housing.  Company burdens itself with too much debt in a new landscape? The scars of the 2008-2009 recession were deep; lack of liquidity was prominent. What we’ve seen here is companies’ preparing for the worst.   Rates are near zero.  All their numbers were wrong; why should we have confidence?  They decided to err on the side of caution. I give them some slack; the question is, where do we go from here?  The shutdown was damaging on the health front, from suicides to cancer patients’ not getting treatment.   We won’t do a shutdown again.  The extra $600 per week on unemployment insurance has prevented many from seeking work.    ...more

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• 72: #NewWorld: More Alberto Nisman mysteries; John Bolton and the stalled Venezuelan rebellion. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal.

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  Jun 24 2020

  Photo:  El Jardín botánico de Buenos AiresIdentifier: eljardnbotni00buen (find matches)Year: 1910 (1910s)Authors: Buenos Aires (Argentina). Jardin botánico; Thays, Carlos, 1849-1934Subjects: Publisher: Buenos Aires : J. PeuserContributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignDigitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaignhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#NewWorld: More Alberto Nisman mysteries; John Bolton and the stalled Venezuelan rebellion. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal.https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-a-mossad-agent-a-hedge-fund-and-the-mysterious-death-of-an-argentinian-prosecutor-1.8913913https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/503279-bolton-book-trump-said-itd-be-cool-to-invade-venezuela-claims ...more

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• 71: Boris Johnson, suddenly the virus minister, may be looking at a V-shaped recovery. Joseph Sternberg: @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 24 2020

  Image:  Determining a one-meter distance:  Seal of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM). It represents an allegory of Science holding the new metre standard with its decimal division. Seated on either side of Science are Mercury, with implements of geodesy (map, globe, compass), and an allegory with distaff with implements of technology (hammer, anvil, gear). The Greek motto μέτρῳ χρῶ translates to "make use of the measure" (or "make use of the metre"). The seal was trademarked in January 2000.Joseph Sternberg, WSJ political economics column; in London; in re: Boris Johnson, who was elected for Brexit but has become the virus minister, has decided that two meters’ distance is no good for business; will use one meter.  Not much science on the topic.  Scientists said it’s a political question; pols said the needed scientific data.   We’ll have to accept a little more risk for an economy to function.  Traffic is picking up again; more people shopping wearing masks. Reduction of social distancing will help a lot—not just how many a store, but convenience.   Is the recovery V here?   Govt subsidized 80% of salary where the funds went through the employer to employee, maintaining the bond.  Brexit: are the EU and UK “whispering happily” to each other? Depends on whom you ask.  Can't predict how it’ll resolve at the end of this year.            ...more

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• 70: "Outrage hyperinflation" wearies the population, devaluing itself. Joseph Sternberg: @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 24 2020

  Image: Engraving of the Women's March on Versailles, 5 October 1789. Joseph Sternberg, WSJ political economics column; in London; in re: Protest in general, income inequality, safety.   Mass anger, twitter mob, Internet shaming, firing editors for wrong-think. Outrage has always been a source of political capital.  We have an outrage hyperinflation right now.  Each portion becomes worth less, so need more and more to maintain the level.  People trying to generate more outrage to cut through social media noise. Cancel culture, “wokeness” never takes yes for an answer.  Once Greenspan called a bubble “irrational exuberance.”  Are we in a bubble-bldg phase?  Yes, an outrage bubble.  People can leverage it into speaking contracts, publishing. TV appearances.    Now, there’s so much you have to tune some of it out.   Bubbles collapse when no one says it’ll go higher.  One way may be when people realize you can't buy anything with this money any more. Already won’t buy social peace.  When will companies stop giving in to twitter mobs?   ...more

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• 69: Congress can solve DACA but leaves it to the Executive and SCOTUS to solve. @DanielGriswold @mercatus

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  Jun 24 2020

  Image:  A Form I-797 Notice of Action issued by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services indicating that the addressee has been granted deferred action under the DACA program.Congress can solve DACA but leaves it to the Executive and SCOTUS to solve. @DanielGriswold   @mercatus Daniel Griswold, Mercatus Center,  in re:  Trade the money for the wall for DACA? Didn't. Little pieces of the pie.  Constitutional/Supreme Court ruling, and ___  .  I think the Court got it wrong; the Executive has the right to end the program since it was created by Executive order I fear that the bar is now set too high: an Executive order becomes almost a fiat. It’s Congress who needs to fix this issue.  Will Congress continue to refuse this?  Perhaps under current situation. Trump: “Does anyone really want to throw out accomplished young people, some of whom have served in the military?”  Unfortunately, some Republicans simply oppose it.  By definition, need to be in school with no felony conviction. Six or seven hundred thousand have applied; probably well over a million here.  We need them. By now, DACA children have their own children.  Comprehensive immigration reform. We need to do this piecemeal.  Two-thirds of Americans support legalizing them.   Stephen Miler and other advisors on the farther right are dead-set against it.    ...more

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• 68: Lockdowns: based on dead-wrong model from Imperial College. Economic and personal disasters. @davidrhenderson @HooverInst

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  Jun 24 2020

  Image:   David Henderson, Hoover and WSJ, in re: The lockdown: how was the calculation made of the expected benefits of $7.9 trillion?  The Imperial College of London analysis was filled with analytic and coding errors, and concerned mitigation, only; estimated that we’d save 1.76 million lives within months. Wrong.   Economists figure that there’s a value of a statistical life. Early on, Trump used the Imperial College numbers, product of a mistaken algorithm.  All the calculations have gone lower, incl the number of lives thought to be saved. Best study is from Berkeley: saved 76,000 lives.  Quarterly GDP estimate:  maybe 40% fall [diminution] for second quarter. I opposed the lockdowns from the start because it was all based on a model, not data. To reduce economic freedom for a few hundred million people for months based on a model is bad.  Cuomo issued an executive order in March requiring nursing homes to take in Covid-positive elders; 40% of the deaths were from there ...more

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• 67: Iran and Armenia fashion new cargo routes and provocations in the annexed Nagorno-Karabakh. @ProfBShaffer @FDD

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  Jun 24 2020

  Photo: Title: All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central AsiaYear: 1902 (1900s)Authors:  Norman, Henry, 1858-1939Subjects:  Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 Eastern question (Central Asia)Publisher:  New York, C. Seribner's sonsContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  The Library of CongressText Appearing Before Image:Mausoleum and Mosque of Shah Zindah. thanks, and to say that nowhere in the world could a visitingforeigner have pursued his way under happier conditions. Butthis reference to the club at Samarkand reminds me of a story.As I have said, I knew nobody, and the club was the onlyplace in the foreign settlement where a decent meal could be had.So, with my interpreter, a young Russian gentleman who ac-companied me everywhere, I made bold to call at the club, askfor the name of any officer who happened to be present, and SAMARKAND AND BEYOND 337 when a lieutenant who was playing billiards came out, to ex-plain to him who I was and what was my plight, and to begthat I might be permitted to use the club during my short stay.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIran and Armenia fashion new cargo routes and provocations in the annexed Nagorno-Karabakh. @ProfBShaffer @FDDhttps://warontherocks.com/2020/06/irans-latest-misadventure-destabilizes-the-caucasus/ ...more

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• 67: Big Energy recovers quickly as demand returns: natural gas the natural winner. ProfBShaffer @FDD

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  Jun 24 2020

  Photo: English: Niitsu Oil field in 1930s日本語: 1930年代の新津油田Date | 1930shttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBig Energy recovers quickly as demand returns: natural gas the natural winner. ProfBShaffer @FDDhttps://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Optimism-Has-Returned-To-Oil-Markets.html

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• 67: The arms embargo on Iran cannot survive the October UN Security Council. Behnam ben Talablu @FDD

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  Jun 24 2020

  Photo: The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empireYear: 1880 (1880s)Authors:  Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902Subjects:  Mauritius Export Development and Investment Text Appearing Before Image:ber or gallery, the true object of which still re-mains wholly unexplained. This gallery was 100 feet long. 12feet high, and no more than 6 feet broad. It was arched orvaulted at top, both the side walls and the vaulting being ofsun-dried brick. (PI. LIV., Fig. 2.) Its position was exactlyhalf-way between the towers northern and southern faces,and with these it ran parallel, its height in the tower beingsuch that its floor was exactly on a level with the top of the stonemasonry, which again was level with the terrace or platformwhereupon the Nimrud palaces stood. There was no trace ofany way by which the gallery was intended to be entered; itswalls showed no signs of inscription, sculpture, or other orna-ment; and absolutely nothing was found in it. Mr. Layard,prepossessed with an opinion derived from several confusednotices in the classical writers, ^ believed the tower to be asepulchral monun\ont, and the gallery to be the tomb in which -V^a> < Vol. I. \\ ^^^^ ft.0^^ Plate LV.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe arms embargo on Iran cannot survive the October UN Security Council. Behnam ben Talablu @FDDhttps://www.fdd.org/analysis/2020/06/19/us-right-to-push-extended-iran-arms-embargo/ ...more

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• 67: 2/2: Reading John Bolton for the top ten complaints, including Venezuela. @JedBabbin @AmSpectator

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  Jun 24 2020

  Photo: Image from page 352 of "The land of Bolivar; or, War, peace, and adventure in the Republic of Venezuela" (1878) Identifier: landofbolivarorw01spenuoft Title: The land of Bolivar; or, War, peace, and adventure in the Republic of Venezuela Year: 1878 (1870s) Authors:  Spence, James Mudie Subjects:  Venezuela Publisher:  London, Low  Text Appearing Before Image:ecial attention; floral arches, silken flags, and pictureswreathed with roses and laurels, decked the way. In the Plaza de San Pablo stood a grand triumphalarch, designed by Eamon Bolet, the first of its kindever raised in Venezuela. On this arch were picturesrepresenting the meeting of the dificrent contingentsof the grand army, the attack on the Cano de Guariapo,the Cano Amarillo, and the rout of the Blues atArauca. An inscription dedicated the arch to thevictorious army of the Apure and its leader. ThePresident on his approach to the capital sent for-ward the triumphal car prepared for him, and rodeinto the city on horseback. In response to the Chap, xviii.] SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT. Zl cheers of the people, he addressed them in words atonce earnest and impressive :... Venezuela is now-entering upon the true path of peace and progress,and the nation will quickly take her proper placeamongst the republics of the New World. To thisend I pledge my word, and to it I dedicate mystrenoth. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow2/2: Reading John Bolton for the top ten complaints, including Venezuela.  @JedBabbin @AmSpectator https://spectator.org/john-boltons-limp-revenge/...more

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• 67: 1/2: Reading John Bolton for the top ten complaints, including Venezuela. @JedBabbin @AmSpectator

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  Jun 24 2020

  Photo: Joseph Thomas (1800-1875)Venezuela"En la Vista de la ciudad de Caracas, del inglés Joseph Thomas - pintor que, según las investigaciones de Alfredo Boulton, entró y salió del país con bastante frecuencia entre los años 1837 y 1844 - podemos observar con relativa precisión, además de la grandiosidad del paisaje natural y sus inmensas proporciones, el emplazamiento general de la ciudad, las diferencias volumétricas y escala de las edificaciones. Su imagen de Caracas, la única obra artística que ha sido identificada con su nombre, es una de las más descriptivas de la extensión y la forma de la ciudad porque, aunque la mirada del autor se centra, como en las imágenes anteriores, en la grandiosidad natural, en ella también se observan detalles arquitectónicos y un registro de las residencias capitalinas más importantes; esto sigue un modelo tradicional europeo de las visiones topográficas donde, a modo de leyenda, se enumeraban las edificaciones o monumentos. La apariencia general sigue siendo ordenada, limpia y con una atmósfera serena, no del todo acorde con nuestro ambiente tropical. Es una diferencia que bien señala Palenzuela: "El grabado de Thomas está lleno de detalles: muros, casas, patios, iglesias, calles, palmeras, ruinas, la extraordinaria montaña y, por si fuera poco, algunos modales en el vestir citadino. Su atmósfera es propia de un clima frío. Las construcciones parecen sólidas. La vida se muestra apacible"" http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow1/2: Reading John Bolton for the top ten complaints, including Venezuela.  @JedBabbin @AmSpectator https://spectator.org/john-boltons-limp-revenge/...more

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• 67: Italy opens the Genoa beaches to the lucky few: the Europeans celebrate #in-the-time-of-the-virus. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation.

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  Jun 23 2020

  Photo:  Map of the battleground of the Battle of Meloria in 1284, with the uniforms and military costumes of the Genoese troops participating in it. Original description: "Tavola XXXVI (Battaglia della Meloria 6 Agosto 1284) BATTAGLIA DELLA MELORIA, Sinus Ligusticus, Mare Thyrrenum, Teatri delle ultime guerre tra Genova e Pisa. I combattenti per Genova: Balistari (Balestrieri) 1 di Janua (Genova), 2 di Saona (Savona), 4 di Varagine (Varazze), 5 di Naule (Noli), 6 di Finario (Finale), 7 di Albengana (Albenga), di S. Laurenti (San Lorenzo), 9 Porto Maurizio (Porto Maurizio), 10 di Ventimilia (Ventimiglia), 11 di … (…), 13 di Portae (Comp. genovese della Porta), 14 di Clavari (Chiavari), 15 di Luni (Sarzana), 16 di Rapalli (Rapallo), 17 di Porta Nova (de la comp. genovese di Porta Nuova), 18 di Burgi (della comp. genovese del Borgo). Fantes a lanciis longis (Fanti dalle lunghe lance), 3 di Stella, 12 di Gavio (Gavi), – 6 GOSTO 1284"Date | 1900s Source | Cropped from File:Italy. Genoa, 878-1684 (NYPL b14896507-1528881).tiffpublic domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowItaly opens the Genoa beaches to the lucky few: the Europeans celebrate #in-the-time-of-the-virus. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation. ...more

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• 67: Tammany Hall Never Sleeps: Successful politicians Mayor DeBlasio and Governor Cuomo blame politics. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNews

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  Jun 23 2020

  Photo: Tammany's treason, impeachment of Governor William Sulzer; the complete story written from behind the scenes, showing how Tammany plays the game, how men are bought, sold and deliveredYear: 1913 (1910s)Authors:  Forrest, Jay W Malcolm, James, of Albany, N. Y., joint authorSubjects:  Sulzer, William, 1863-1941 Tammany HallPublisher:  Albany, N.Y. (The Fort Orange Press)Contributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  Sloan FoundationText Appearing Before Image:is cited. There were aboutseventy employes to care for the building, with a payroll ofabout $4,300 to $4,500 a month under control of the statecommissioner of education. The Tammany men passed a bill during the session of 1913taking this from the control of the commissioner, and givingit to the superintendent of buildings, who was a politicalfollower of Patrick E. McCabe, clerk of the senate, and CharlesF. Murphys man in Albany county. Governor Sulzerpromptly vetoed the grab. With the expectation that thegovernor would sign the bill, the Murphy legislators hadinserted $60,000 for taking care of the building. The edu-cation department is keeping the building clean and in goodcondition for $43,000 to $45,000. Veto of the bill, a characteristic Tammany measure, broughtdown on his head the anathema of every job hunter in theTammany ring, from Charles F. Murphy down. He wasdenounced as traitor to the party and a wrecker of democracy. 100 Tammanys Treason WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT ?http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTammany Hall Never Sleeps: Successful politicians Mayor DeBlasio and Governor Cuomo blame politics. @HarrySiegel @NYDailyNewshttps://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-when-politicians-should-listen-and-learn-20200620-wrukb65vvzdr7nxquw3irui2pe-story.html ...more

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• 66: Election Countdown to the Barr-Durham report on the Russiagate abuses 2015-2020. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jun 23 2020

  Photo: Third St. in Tombstone, Arizona in 1909 from the roof of the Cochise County Courthouse. The O.K. Corral was located on Allen St., the first right turn off Third St. The white building at the center right is Schiefflin Hall on Fremont St.Unknown author - Tombstone 1909 1909 photo of Tombstone from the roof of the Cochise County Courthouse, looking up Third Street toward the north. Public Domain File:Tombstone1909.jpg Created: 1 January 1909 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowElection Countdown to the Barr-Durham report on the Russiagate abuses 2015-2020. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOJ7faIaeRI ...more

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• 66: Much ado about Attorney General Barr in the Southern District of New York. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jun 23 2020

  Photo: "Trolling for blue fish" lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1866Artist: Frances F. Palmer (1812-1876); Lithograph: Currier & Ives - Library of Congress[1] "Trolling for blue fish" lithograph Public Domain File:Trolling for bluefish2.jpg Created: 1 January 1866 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMuch ado about Attorney General Barr in the Southern District of New York. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/president-trump-fires-us-attorney-geoffrey-berman/ ...more

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• 65: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Fishing Hole of the Epipaleolithic: between 20,000 and 10,000 years ago. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jun 23 2020

  Photo: A Hupa man with his spear Edward S. Curtis - This image came from The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis. These images were published between 1907 and 1930. The digitization of this image was done by the Northwestern University Library, sponsored by the U.S. Library of Congress. Credits: Northwestern University Library, "The North American Indian": the Photographic Images, 2001. Hupa man with spear, 1923. A Hupa man with his spear. A smoky day at the Sugar Bowl--Hupa, c. 1923. Hupa man with spear, standing on rock midstream, in background, fog partially obscures trees on mountainsides. A smoky day at the Sugar Bowl Edward Curtis, photographer. Hupa fisherman. A Hupa fisherman—In the early 20th century, Edward Curtis traveled across America recording photographs of the disappearing lifestyle of American Indian tribes. A smoky day at the Sugar Bowl. Salvage ethnography (Hupa fisherman). Permission details According to the U.S. Library of Congress, they are in the public domain in the United States.View more Public Domainview terms File:A smoky day at the Sugar Bowl--Hupa.jpg Created: This image was copyrighted or originally published in 1923 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Fishing Hole of the Epipaleolithic:  between 20,000 and 10,000 years ago. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-archaeologists-find-fishing-spot-used-for-10-000-years-in-northern-israel-1.8938380 ...more

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• 65: Iran's economy vanishes as 193,000 Rials buys $1.00. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jun 23 2020

  Photo: Majnun in the wildernessUnknown author - Rozat-ol-Anwar (Khaju’s Collection) Golestan Palace (website) Story of Mejnūn - In the Wilderness Permission details PD-oldView more Public Domainview terms File:Story of Mejnun - in wilderness.jpg Created: 1 January 1507 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIran's economy vanishes as 193,000 Rials buys $1.00. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres@ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200622_01/ ...more

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• 65: Ocasio-Cortez spends aggressively in her NY Primary Election; Seattle's Mayor Durkhan shrinks from challenging disorder.. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund

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  Jun 23 2020

  Photo: Print shows women lining up at a ballot box. A man, on the far right, is holding a baby at the end of the line.Title from item.Entered according to Act of Congress AD. 1869, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0067Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 379.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOcasio-Cortez spends aggressively in her NY Primary Election; Seattle's Mayor Durkhan shrinks from challenging disorder.. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-primary-challenger-michelle-caruso-cabrera/ https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/seattle-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone-no-christiania/#slide-1 ...more

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• 65: The decided Enthusiasm Gap between Trump and Biden.@DavidMDrucker @JohnFund

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  Jun 23 2020

  Photo: Battery G Farewell Parade, Keene NH -1940TITLEBattery G Farewell Parade, Keene NH -1940 CREATOR SUBJECTParades & processions - NH - KeeneMilitary parades & ceremonies - NH - KeeneMarching - NH - KeeneMarching bands DESCRIPTIONPhotograph of the American Legion Band marching in the Battalion G, 197th Coast Artillery, NH National Guard Farewell Parade in Keene New Hampshire, 1940. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe decided Enthusiasm Gap between Trump and Biden.@DavidMDrucker @JohnFund https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/republicans-far-more-passionate-about-trump-than-democrats-are-about-biden-poll ...more

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• 64: Questions of the US-China trade deal Phase 1 #in-the-time-of-the-virus. @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang

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  Jun 23 2020

  Photo: Chinese suicide bomber putting on an explosive vest made out of Model 24 hand grenades to use in an attack on Japanese tanks at the Battle of Taierzhuang.World War II photographer - https://web.archive.org/web/20110709203351/http://numistamp.com/Taierzhuang-1938----Stalingrad-1942-%28Page-1%29.php A Chinese infantry soldier during the Battle of Taierzhuang putting on a explosive suicide vest made out of Model 24 hand grenades to use in a suicide bombing against a Japanese tank. Due to lack of anti-armor weaponry, Suicide bombing was also used against the Japanese. Chinese troops strapped explosives like grenade packs or dynamite to their bodies and threw themselves under Japanese tanks to blow them up.[1]Dynamite and grenades were strapped on by Chinese troops who rushed at Japanese tanks and blew themselves up.[2][3][4][5][6] During one incident at Taierzhuang, Chinese suicide bombers obliterated four Japanese tanks with grenade bundles.[7][8] 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 File:Chinese infantry soldier preparing a suicide vest of Model 24 hand grenades at the Battle of Taierzhuang against Japanese Tanks.jpg Created: 1 January 1938 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowQuestions of the US-China trade deal Phase 1 #in-the-time-of-the-virus.  @AlanTonelson @GordonGChangAlan Tonelson, independent economic policy analyst who blogs at RealityChek and tweets at @AlanTonelson, on these: https://alantonelson.wordpress.com/2020/01/20/whats-left-of-our-economy-lets-get-real-when-criticizing-trumps-china-trade-deal/https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3089765/china-step-us-agriculture-purchases-under-phase-one-trade ...more

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• 64: PRC boots crushing Hong Kong & What is to be done?. @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang

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  Jun 23 2020

  Photo: A Chinese propaganda poster depicting the National Revolutionary Army.Unknown author - http://www.360doc.com/content/090312/14/113568_2788190.html NRA anti-Japanese war poster. Permission details For background information, see the explanations on Non-U.S. copyrights. Note: This tag should not be used for sound recordings.View more Public Domainview terms File:NRA anti-Japanese war poster.jpg Created: 1930s date QS:P,+1930-00-00T00:00:00Z/8 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPRC boots crushing Hong Kong & What is to be done?. @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3089997/national-security-law-why-hong-kong-legal-experts-worry ...more

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• 64: Al Qaeda in the Islamc Maghreb grows stronger 8 years after Benghazi. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Jun 23 2020

  Photo: Title: The gateway to the Sahara; observations and experiences in TripoliYear: 1909 (1900s)Authors:  Furlong, Charles Wellington, 1874-Subjects:  Tripoli (Libya) -- Description and travelPublisher:  New York : C. Scribner's sonsContributing Library:  University of California LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNText Appearing Before Image:f per-spiration. Any day they might forsake theirpalm-thatched zerebas in the oasis for the junglesof the Sudan from whence they came. The simple white cotton clothes predominated,but many wore nondescript rags and garments ofcolored stripes which, with the bright notes of thered fezzes spotting here and there among theesparto hats, served to enhance the color settingof the scene. From the great heaps of loose esparto wherethe Arab pickers had deposited it, some of theBlacks with crude short-handled forks pitched itinto high windrows. Along these, in irregularorder, others sorted it into three qualities—hand-picked, average, and third, the qualities depend-ing on the length and condition of the grass; atthe same time all roots, stones, and foreign sub-stances were discarded. Then the grass whichhad been thoroughly dried was ready for baling.My use of sketch-book and camera caused someof the sorters to show an ugly disposition, andeven after I was joined by Signor Cortugna, who (162)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAl Qaeda in the Islamc Maghreb grows stronger 8 years after Benghazi. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDDhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/06/generation-jihad-ep-14-the-demise-of-an-al-qaeda-emir-in-mali.php ...more

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• 64: US leaving the Taliban and Al Qaeda falsehoods behind. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD.

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  Jun 23 2020

  Photo: Relief shown pictorially.Shows from Russian territory to Indus river valley.Mounted on cloth backing."Flags for sicking in this view, 6d. per packet."Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowUS leaving the Taliban and Al Qaeda falsehoods behind. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD.https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/06/analysis-taliban-is-caught-in-a-lie-by-denying-al-qaedas-presence-in-afghanistan.php ...more

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• 63: Ethan Allen: 2of2: His Life and Times Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Willard Sterne Randall (Author), Mark Whitten (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jun 23 2020

  Photo: Ruins at Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y., Officers' Quarters (exterior). http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Ethan Allen: 2of2: His Life and Times  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Willard Sterne Randall (Author), Mark Whitten (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Ethan-Allen-audiobook/dp/B00D9BKADE/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1592875204&sr=1-1On May 10, 1775, in the storm-tossed hours after midnight, Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary firebrand, was poised for attack. With only two boatloads of his scraggly band of Vermont volunteers having made it across the wind-whipped waters of Lake Champlain, he was waiting for the rest of his Green Mountain boys to arrive. But with the protective darkness quickly fading, Allen determined that he could hold off no longer. While Ethan Allen, a canonical hero of the American Revolution, has always been defined by his daring, predawn attack on the British-controlled Fort Ticonderoga, Willard Sterne Randall, the author of Benedict Arnold, now challenges our conventional understanding of this largely unexamined Founding Father.  Widening the scope of his inquiry beyond the Revolutionary War, Randall traces Allen’s beginning back to his modest origins in Connecticut, where he was born in 1738. Largely self-educated, emerging from a relatively impoverished background, Allen demonstrated his deeply rebellious nature early on through his attraction to Deism, his dramatic defense of smallpox vaccinations, and his early support of separation of church and state....more

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• 63: Ethan Allen: 1of2: His Life and Times Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Willard Sterne Randall (Author), Mark Whitten (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jun 23 2020

  Photo: publicImage from page 60 of "Summer homes among the green hills of Vermont, islands and shores of Lake Champlain, Adirondacks and Canada, reached by the popular Green Mountain route .." (1903)Taken circa 1903 Title: Summer homes among the green hills of Vermont, islands and shores of Lake Champlain, Adirondacks and Canada, reached by the popular Green Mountain route .. Year: 1903 (1900s) Authors:  Central Vermont railway company. [from old catalog] Subjects:  Publisher:  St Albans, Vt. Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Ethan Allen: 1of2: His Life and Times  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Willard Sterne Randall (Author), Mark Whitten (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Ethan-Allen-audiobook/dp/B00D9BKADE/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1592875204&sr=1-1On May 10, 1775, in the storm-tossed hours after midnight, Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary firebrand, was poised for attack. With only two boatloads of his scraggly band of Vermont volunteers having made it across the wind-whipped waters of Lake Champlain, he was waiting for the rest of his Green Mountain boys to arrive. But with the protective darkness quickly fading, Allen determined that he could hold off no longer. While Ethan Allen, a canonical hero of the American Revolution, has always been defined by his daring, predawn attack on the British-controlled Fort Ticonderoga, Willard Sterne Randall, the author of Benedict Arnold, now challenges our conventional understanding of this largely unexamined Founding Father.  Widening the scope of his inquiry beyond the Revolutionary War, Randall traces Allen’s beginning back to his modest origins in Connecticut, where he was born in 1738. Largely self-educated, emerging from a relatively impoverished background, Allen demonstrated his deeply rebellious nature early on through his attraction to Deism, his dramatic defense of smallpox vaccinations, and his early support of separation of church and state....more

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• 63: Grant's Final Victory: 2of2: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year by Charles Bracelen Flood (2012-10-09) Paperback – October 9, 2012. by Charles Bracelen Flood (Author)

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  Photo: Grant funeral (LOC)Bain News Service,, publisher. Grant funeral 1912 April 26 (date created or published later by Bain) 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Notes:Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.Photo shows funeral procession on April 26, 1912, for Major General Frederick Dent Grant (1850-1912), son of President Ulysses S. Grant, former New York City Police Commissioner and commander for the Eastern Division of the U.S. Army. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008 and New York Times, April 24, 1912)Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).  Format: Glass negatives.  Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.  Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print  General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Grant's Final Victory: 2of2: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year by Charles Bracelen Flood (2012-10-09) Paperback – October 9, 2012.  by Charles Bracelen Flood  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FIXE9GY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i5 ...more

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• 63: Grant's Final Victory: 1of2: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year by Charles Bracelen Flood (2012-10-09) Paperback – October 9, 2012. by Charles Bracelen Flood (Author)

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  Photo: US Grant funeral procession, NYC, - Grant's coffin pulled by a team of 24 black stallionsDate | 1885Source | https://collections.mcny.org/Collection/%5bGeneral-Grant's-funeral.%5d-2F3XC5IZ7Y8T.htmlMuseum of the City of New YorkAuthor | Unknown photographerhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Grant's Final Victory: 1of2: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year by Charles Bracelen Flood (2012-10-09) Paperback – October 9, 2012.  by Charles Bracelen Flood  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FIXE9GY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i5 ...more

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• 62: The Honored Dead: 2of2: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Joseph Braude (Author), Benson Simmonds (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 22 2020

  Photo:  : Le port de Casablanca en 1900.Date | 1900Source | http://www.mtpnet.gov.ma/Vpm/Maroc%20Maritime/ports/PortsAtlantiques/Casablanca/historique.htmAuthor | Unknown authorhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Honored Dead: 2of2: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Joseph Braude (Author), Benson Simmonds (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Honored-Dead-Friendship-Murder-Search/dp/B0055QAEUK/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The Arab Islamic world is known for religious extremism, ethnic conflicts, and, now, the overthrow of seemingly unshakable regimes. But if anything has become clear, it’s that our understanding of the region remains shrouded and incomplete. The seeds of revolution, radicalism, and—possibly—reform are buried in the individual stories of millions of people whose lives determine the fates of their societies, people whose motivations are as common, and as strange, as our own. Here is one of those stories—and the story of how this world is being transformed, one life at a time.  Joseph Braude is the first Western journalist ever to secure embed status with an Arab security force, assigned to a hardened unit of detectives in Casablanca who handle everything from busting al-Qaeda cells to solving homicides. One day, he’s given the file for a seemingly commonplace murder: a young guard at a warehouse killed in what appears to be a robbery gone wrong. Braude is intrigued by the details of the case: the sheer brutality of the murder; the identities of the accused—a soldier—and the victim, a shadowy migrant with links to a radical cleric; and the odd location: a warehouse owned by a wealthy member of one of the few thriving Jewish communities in the Arab world. After interviewing the victim’s best friend, who tearfully insists that the true story of the murder has been covered up by powerful interests, Braude commits to getting to the bottom of it.  Braude’s risky pursuit of the shocking truth behind the murder takes him from cosmopolitan Marrakesh to the proud Berber heartland, from the homes of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country to the backstreets of Casablanca, where migrants come to make fortunes, jihad, and trouble, but often end up just trying to survive with dignity.  The Honored Dead is a timely and riveting mystery about a society in transition, the power of the truth, and the irrepressible human need for justice....more

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• 62: The Honored Dead: 1of2: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Joseph Braude (Author), Benson Simmonds (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 22 2020

  Photo: Title: The land of the Moors; a comprehensive descriptionYear: 1901 (1900s)Authors:  Meakin, BudgettSubjects:  Morocco -- Description and travelPublisher:  London : S. Sonnenschein & co., lim. New York, The Macmillan companyContributing Library:  University of California LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNst here on May 24th, » For illustrations see The Moorish Empire^ pp. 107 and 114.t The inscriptions are translated in a note to p. 103 of The MoorishEmpire., where an illustration of one will be found. p. ^01. P- 83. Ri/NS OP SHELLA T77 1351, and Sept. i8th, 1349, respectively.* On accountof the sanctity of such a spot, until (juite recentl)ShcUa was closed against Christians and Jews, but nowits ruins provide a most pleasant spot for picnics, f PVom Rabat to Casablanca is 46 miles by sea, andabout 50 by land. * In the Raod cl Aaiids are given the names of several ameers whowere buried here, as Vaivub II., wlio died in liis new palace at Algecirasin 1286; his sou Viisef IV., assassinated at Tlemgen in 1307, and Anir(Abu Thabit) who died at Tangier in 1308. and that of one woman, Ummel Az—The Heloved Mother—in 1284. Those whose graves remainwere of Liter date than the work in question. t !^ee the Athciiuiim of Sept. 18 and Oct. 30. 1875. for an account byT. Black mo re. « p. 683.Text Appearing After Image:http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Honored Dead: 1of2: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Joseph Braude (Author), Benson Simmonds (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Honored-Dead-Friendship-Murder-Search/dp/B0055QAEUK/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=The Arab Islamic world is known for religious extremism, ethnic conflicts, and, now, the overthrow of seemingly unshakable regimes. But if anything has become clear, it’s that our understanding of the region remains shrouded and incomplete. The seeds of revolution, radicalism, and—possibly—reform are buried in the individual stories of millions of people whose lives determine the fates of their societies, people whose motivations are as common, and as strange, as our own. Here is one of those stories—and the story of how this world is being transformed, one life at a time.  Joseph Braude is the first Western journalist ever to secure embed status with an Arab security force, assigned to a hardened unit of detectives in Casablanca who handle everything from busting al-Qaeda cells to solving homicides. One day, he’s given the file for a seemingly commonplace murder: a young guard at a warehouse killed in what appears to be a robbery gone wrong. Braude is intrigued by the details of the case: the sheer brutality of the murder; the identities of the accused—a soldier—and the victim, a shadowy migrant with links to a radical cleric; and the odd location: a warehouse owned by a wealthy member of one of the few thriving Jewish communities in the Arab world. After interviewing the victim’s best friend, who tearfully insists that the true story of the murder has been covered up by powerful interests, Braude commits to getting to the bottom of it.  Braude’s risky pursuit of the shocking truth behind the murder takes him from cosmopolitan Marrakesh to the proud Berber heartland, from the homes of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country to the backstreets of Casablanca, where migrants come to make fortunes, jihad, and trouble, but often end up just trying to survive with dignity.  The Honored Dead is a timely and riveting mystery about a society in transition, the power of the truth, and the irrepressible human need for justice....more

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• 61: A Merciless Place: 2of2: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa Hardcover – August 11, 2011. by Emma Christopher (Author)

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  Jun 22 2020

  Photo: Fighting between one of Burke and Wills' rescue parties and Indigenous Australians at Bulla, Queensland in 1861William Oswald Hodgkinson - http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4189024-s46 Fighting between Burke and Wills' supply party and Indigenous Australians at Bulla, Queensland during 1861 Public Domain File:Bulla Queensland 1861.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow A Merciless Place: 2of2: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa Hardcover – August 11, 2011.  by Emma Christopher  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Merciless-Place-Emma-Christopher/dp/0199695938/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=In the wake of its most crushing defeat, the America War of Independence, the British Government began shipping its criminals to West Africa. Some were transported aboard ships going to pick up their other human cargo: African slaves. When they arrived at their destination, soldiers and even convicts were forced to work in the region's slave-trading forts guarding the human merchandise. In a few short years the scheme brought death, wholesale desertions, mutiny, piracy and even murder. Some of the most egregious crimes were not committed by the exported criminals but by those sent out to guard them. Acts of wanton desperation added to rash transgressions as those whom society had already thrown out realised that they had nothing left to lose. As jail and prison hulks overflowed, and as every other alternative settlement proved unsuitable, the British Government gambled and decided to send its criminals as far away as possible, to the great south land sighted years before by Captain James Cook. Out of the embers of the African debacle came the modern nation of Australia. The extraordinary tale is now being told for the first time - how a small band of good-for-nothing members of the British Empire spanned the world from America, to Africa, and on to Australia, profoundly if utterly unwittingly changing history....more

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• 61: A Merciless Place: 1of2: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa Hardcover – August 11, 2011. by Emma Christopher (Author)

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  Jun 22 2020

  Photo: Detail of an artwork by the Port Jackson Painter that shows the spearing of Arthur Phillip, 1790Port Jackson Painter - Natural History Museum Detail of a painting that shows the spearing of Governor Arthur Phillip by Aborigines. 25.9 x 42.5 cm. Permission details Public domainView more Public Domainview terms File:Spearing of Arthur Phillip.jpg Created: circa 1790 date QS:P,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow A Merciless Place: 1of2: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa Hardcover – August 11, 2011.  by Emma Christopher  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Merciless-Place-Emma-Christopher/dp/0199695938/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=In the wake of its most crushing defeat, the America War of Independence, the British Government began shipping its criminals to West Africa. Some were transported aboard ships going to pick up their other human cargo: African slaves. When they arrived at their destination, soldiers and even convicts were forced to work in the region's slave-trading forts guarding the human merchandise. In a few short years the scheme brought death, wholesale desertions, mutiny, piracy and even murder. Some of the most egregious crimes were not committed by the exported criminals but by those sent out to guard them. Acts of wanton desperation added to rash transgressions as those whom society had already thrown out realised that they had nothing left to lose. As jail and prison hulks overflowed, and as every other alternative settlement proved unsuitable, the British Government gambled and decided to send its criminals as far away as possible, to the great south land sighted years before by Captain James Cook. Out of the embers of the African debacle came the modern nation of Australia. The extraordinary tale is now being told for the first time - how a small band of good-for-nothing members of the British Empire spanned the world from America, to Africa, and on to Australia, profoundly if utterly unwittingly changing history....more

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• 61: Patrick Henry: 2of2: First Among Patriots Hardcover – November 22, 2011. by Thomas S. Kidd (Author)

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  Jun 22 2020

  Photo: Image from page 199 of "Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools" (1907) Identifier: sadliersexcelsio00newy Title: Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools Year: 1907 (1900s) Authors:  Subjects:  Publisher:  New York, W. H. Sadlier Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation   Text Appearing Before Image:erted that theking had played the tyrant; and, alluding to the fate ofother tyrants, exclaimed, CcBsar had his Brutus, Charles Lhis Cromivell, and George IIl.^^—here pausing till the cry ofTreason! Treason! from several parts of the house hadended, he deliberately added— may profit hy their examples.If this be treason, make the most of it.^^ The third measure was the sending of troops to enforce thenew regulations. The 3Iutiny Act, as it was called, orderedthat the colonies should provide these soldiers with quartersand necessary supplies. 4. Effects of these Measures. —The coloniesdeclared that, as they w^ere not represented in Parliament,these acts were in violation of their rights, and that Taxa-tion WITHOUT representatiok IS ttran:n^y. The lawswere felt to be unjust, and were resisted in every possible 172 EXC¥7a&10R HISTOBY. way The houses of Brit-ish officials were mobbed.Prominent loyalists werehung in effigy. Stamps^eiQ seized, and the agentsforced to resign. People Text Appearing After Image:PATKICK HENRY ADDRESSING THBVIBGINIA ASSEMBLT. agreed not to use any articleof British manufacture. As-sociations called the Sonsof Liberty, were formed toresist the Stamp Act. Dele-gates from nine of the coloniesmet at New York and framed a Declaration of Eights, and a petition to the king and Par- THE STAMP ACT. 173 liament. The 1st of November, appointed for the law to gointo effect, was observed as a day of mourning. Bells weretolled, flags raised at half-mast, and business was suspended.Samuel and John Adams, Patrick Henry, and James Otis,aroused the people over the whole land by their stirring andpatriotic speeches. 5. The ]\Iutiny Act, especially, excited the deepestindignation. To be taxed was bad enough, but to shelterand feed their oppressors was unendurable. The New Yorkassembly, having refused to comply, was forbidden to passany legislative acts. The Massachusetts assembly sent acircular to the other colonies urging a union for redress ofgrievances. Parliament, in the name http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Patrick Henry: 2of2: First Among Patriots Hardcover – November 22, 2011.  by Thomas S. Kidd  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Patrick-Henry-First-Among-Patriots/dp/046500928X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Thomas+Kidd+Patrick+Henry&qid=1592791166&s=books&sr=1-1 Most Americans know Patrick Henry as a fiery speaker whose pronouncement “Give me liberty or give me death!” rallied American defiance to the British Crown. But Henry's skills as an orator—sharpened in the small towns and courtrooms of colonial Virginia—are only one part of his vast, but largely forgotten, legacy. As historian Thomas S. Kidd shows, Henry cherished a vision of America as a virtuous republic with a clearly circumscribed central government. These ideals brought him into bitter conflict with other Founders and were crystallized in his vociferous opposition to the U.S. Constitution.In Patrick Henry, Kidd pulls back the curtain on one of our most radical, passionate Founders, showing that until we understand Henry himself, we will neglect many of the Revolution's animating values....more

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• 61: Patrick Henry: 1of2: First Among Patriots Hardcover – November 22, 2011. by Thomas S. Kidd (Author)

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  Jun 22 2020

  Photo: Image from page 199 of "The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence .." (1881) Identifier: historyofourcountr00rich Title: The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence .. Year: 1881 (1880s) Authors:  Richardson, Abby Sage, 1837-1900 Subjects:  United States -- History Publisher:  Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company Contributing Library:  New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor:  MSN  Text Appearing Before Image:190 STORY OF OUR COUNTRY. without their consent was tyranny, there was a terrible struggleover their passage. During the debate Patrick Henry rose. Caesar had his Brutus, he cried, Charles the First his Crom-well, and George the Third — Here all the timid listeners who thought this sounded like athreat against the kings life, began to shout, Treason ! Treason ! Patrick Henry waited till they were quiet, and then he endedimpressively, and George the Third — may profit by their exam-ple. If that be treason, make the most of it. Text Appearing After Image:Pdtii;,k Henry before the Assembly. Benjamin Franklin had been sent to England from Philadelphia,to use his influence against taxation. He found a strong party onhis side in England. William Pitt, the great English statesman ;Colonel Barre, who had fought here in the French wars; EdmundBurke, the great jurist and orator ; the lord mayor, and many ofthe citizens of London, all sympathized with the colonies. Pittmade a speech in which he said, We are told America is obstinate;America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has re-sisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all feelings of liberty,^as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instru-ments to make slaves of all the rest. When Mr. Charles Townsend asked in the English parliament, Will these Americans, children planted by our care, nourishedby our indulgence, and protected by our arms, will they grudge their MORE OPPRESSION. 191 mite to relieve us from the heavy weight of the burden wliich welie u http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Patrick Henry: 1of2: First Among Patriots Hardcover – November 22, 2011.  by Thomas S. Kidd  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Patrick-Henry-First-Among-Patriots/dp/046500928X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Thomas+Kidd+Patrick+Henry&qid=1592791166&s=books&sr=1-1 Most Americans know Patrick Henry as a fiery speaker whose pronouncement “Give me liberty or give me death!” rallied American defiance to the British Crown. But Henry's skills as an orator—sharpened in the small towns and courtrooms of colonial Virginia—are only one part of his vast, but largely forgotten, legacy. As historian Thomas S. Kidd shows, Henry cherished a vision of America as a virtuous republic with a clearly circumscribed central government. These ideals brought him into bitter conflict with other Founders and were crystallized in his vociferous opposition to the U.S. Constitution.In Patrick Henry, Kidd pulls back the curtain on one of our most radical, passionate Founders, showing that until we understand Henry himself, we will neglect many of the Revolution's animating values....more

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• 61: Columbus: 2of2: The Four Voyages Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Laurence Bergreen (Author), Tim Jerome (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 22 2020

  Photo: Image from page 17 of "The voyage of Columbus. [Poem]" (1903) Identifier: voyageofcolumbus00tabe Title: The voyage of Columbus. [Poem] Year: 1903 (1900s) Authors:  Taber, Charles Austin Mendell, 1824-1911. [from old catalog] Subjects:  Columbus, Christopher Publisher:  Boston, Press of D. Clapp & son Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation  Text Appearing Before Image:esting sliowingcan be seen to advantage from the vessel while sailing towards thehigh islands during the occasional clearness of the atmosphere of thatregion. The tapering peak of Pico with an altitude of nearly seventhousand feet can plainly be seen from an approaching ship with lessthan one-tenth of the mountain appearing aljove the horzion. So theobserver while sailing towards it sees the distant island gradually as-suming a greater height and base as the distance decreases. Withsuch obvious facts confronting Columbus while sailing the seas of thismountainous archipelago, he must have seen that the views advancedby cosmographers in regard to the spherical form of the earth Averetrue. With this impression in mind the great discoverer being unable toascertain the superior size of the globe, probably supposed that thelands that he had discovered were a part of the remote territorialregions of Asia, but on his third voyage he thought that he had dis-covered a new continent. June, 1903. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Columbus: 2of2: The Four Voyages  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Laurence Bergreen (Author), Tim Jerome (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Columbus-Laurence-Bergreen-audiobook/dp/B005OA2S9M/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1592791016&sr=8-1 Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity.  These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous, but they revealed Columbus's uncanny sense of the sea, his mingled brilliance and delusion, and his superb navigational skills. In all these exploits he almost never lost a sailor. By their conclusion, however, Columbus was broken in body and spirit. If the first voyage illustrates the rewards of exploration, the latter voyages illustrate the tragic costs - political, moral, and economic.  In rich detail Laurence Bergreen re-creates each of these adventures as well as the historical background of Columbus's celebrated, controversial career. Written from the participants' vivid perspectives, this breathtakingly dramatic account will be embraced by readers of Bergreen's previous biographies of Marco Polo and Magellan and by fans of Nathaniel Philbrick, Simon Winchester, and Tony Horwitz....more

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• 61: Columbus: 1of2: The Four Voyages Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Laurence Bergreen (Author), Tim Jerome (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 22 2020

  Photo: Christopher Columbus in poetry, history and artYear: 1917 (1910s)Authors:  Ryan, Sara AgnesSubjects:  Columbus, ChristopherPublisher:  Chicago, The Mayer and Miller 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 context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:lor. Wit may mock thy soul that sees the land,And hopeless at the helm may droop the weak and weary hand;Yet ever, ever to the West, for there the coast must lie.And dim it dawns and glimmering dawns before thy reasons eye;Yea, trust the guiding God, and go along the floating grave.Though hid till now, yet now behold the New World oer the wave!With Genius, Nature ever stands in solemn union still.And ever what the one foretells the other shall fulfill. . . —Friedrich von Schiller. —Translated by E. Bulwer Lytton. Heroic guide! whose wings are never furled, By thee Spains voyager sought another world; What but poetic impulse could sustain That dauntless pilgrim on the dreary main? Day after day his mariners protest, And gaze with dread along the pathless West; Beyond that realm of waves untracked before, Thy fairy pencil traced the promised shore; Through weary storms and factions fiercer rage.The scoffs of ingrates and the chills of age,Thy voice renewed his earnestness of aim, 90Text Appearing After Image:Ooluinl)Us on l)<ck of the Santa ^fa;•ia fiUly The Great Voyage. And whispered pledges of eternal fame;Thy cheering smile atoned for fortunes frown,And made his fetters garlands of renown.—Henry T. Tuckerman. *Westward Columbus steered, while, day by day.On Toscanellis chart he traced the wayAcross the Sea of Darkness, to Cathay. Sure of his goal where others dimly guessed,No doubt disturbed him in his certain questFor the known Orient in the unknown West. If Asia girds the solid globe around, With its vast bulk, somewhere its Eastern boundBeyond the untracked Ocean must be found. His day-dream this, through all the weary strainOf hope deferred and succor sought in vain,The slights of sovereigns and the worlds dis-dain. No day-dream now; Santa Marias keelPloughs the main sea to shores that shall revealNew realms for Christ, Columbus, and Castile. There, at his touch, shall Indias gates unfold. As in the tale that Marco Polo told, The Magis wealth of spices, gems, and gold. 91 Chttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Columbus: 1of2: The Four Voyages  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Laurence Bergreen (Author), Tim Jerome (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Columbus-Laurence-Bergreen-audiobook/dp/B005OA2S9M/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1592791016&sr=8-1 Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity.  These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous, but they revealed Columbus's uncanny sense of the sea, his mingled brilliance and delusion, and his superb navigational skills. In all these exploits he almost never lost a sailor. By their conclusion, however, Columbus was broken in body and spirit. If the first voyage illustrates the rewards of exploration, the latter voyages illustrate the tragic costs - political, moral, and economic.  In rich detail Laurence Bergreen re-creates each of these adventures as well as the historical background of Columbus's celebrated, controversial career. Written from the participants' vivid perspectives, this breathtakingly dramatic account will be embraced by readers of Bergreen's previous biographies of Marco Polo and Magellan and by fans of Nathaniel Philbrick, Simon Winchester, and Tony Horwitz....more

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• 60: 2/2 And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, by Charles J. Shields. Fred Berman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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  Jun 22 2020

  Image:  Cover of Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. First edition, Delacorte Press And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, by Charles J. Shields.  Fred Berman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged The New York Times best-selling author and biographer Charles J. Shields crafts this fascinating portrait of the literary icon Kurt Vonnegut. The first authorized biography of the influential American writer, And So It Goes examines Vonnegut’s life, from his childhood to his death in 2007, and explores how the author changed the conversation of American literature. ...more

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• 59: 1/2 And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, by Charles J. Shields. Fred Berman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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  Jun 22 2020

  Image:  Kurt Vonnegut in 1972 And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, by Charles J. Shields.  Fred Berman (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher). Audible Audiobook – UnabridgedThe New York Times best-selling author and biographer Charles J. Shields crafts this fascinating portrait of the literary icon Kurt Vonnegut. The first authorized biography of the influential American writer, And So It Goes examines Vonnegut’s life, from his childhood to his death in 2007, and explores how the author changed the conversation of American literature. ...more

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• 58: 2/2 Knights of the Sea: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812, by David Hanna

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  Jun 22 2020

  Image:  Enterprise and Boxer. Knights of the Sea: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812, by David Hanna   Paperback – February 5, 2013  On a September day in 1813, as citizens watched from the rocky shore of Pemaquid, Maine, two of the last and bravest military sailing commanders engaged in a battle that would change the course of the War of 1812… Samuel Blyth was the youthful commander of His Britannic Majesty’s brig Boxer, and William Burrows, younger still, commanded the USS Enterprise. Both men valued honor above all, and on this day their commitment would be put to the ultimate test. Though it lasted less than an hour, the battle between the Boxer and the Enterprise was a brutal contest whose outcome was uncertain. When the cannon smoke cleared, good men had been lost, and the U.S. Navy’s role in the war had changed. In Knights of the Sea, David Hanna brings to life a lost era, paying tribute to the young commanders who considered it the highest honor to harness the wind to meet their foes, and would be immortalized by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The only major naval battle of the War of 1812, the battle between the Boxer and the Enterprise came to represent not only a military turning point, but a maritime era that would soon be gone forever. ...more

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• 57: 1/2 Knights of the Sea: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812, by David Hanna

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  Jun 22 2020

  Image:  Enterprise and Boxer; from Twenty-Six Historic Ships, by Fredrick Hill  (copyright expired). Knights of the Sea: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812, by David Hanna   Paperback – February 5, 2013  On a September day in 1813, as citizens watched from the rocky shore of Pemaquid, Maine, two of the last and bravest military sailing commanders engaged in a battle that would change the course of the War of 1812… Samuel Blyth was the youthful commander of His Britannic Majesty’s brig Boxer, and William Burrows, younger still, commanded the USS Enterprise. Both men valued honor above all, and on this day their commitment would be put to the ultimate test. Though it lasted less than an hour, the battle between the Boxer and the Enterprise was a brutal contest whose outcome was uncertain. When the cannon smoke cleared, good men had been lost, and the U.S. Navy’s role in the war had changed. In Knights of the Sea, David Hanna brings to life a lost era, paying tribute to the young commanders who considered it the highest honor to harness the wind to meet their foes, and would be immortalized by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The only major naval battle of the War of 1812, the battle between the Boxer and the Enterprise came to represent not only a military turning point, but a maritime era that would soon be gone forever. ...more

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• 56: 4/4 More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy, by Thai Jones @thai_jones

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  Jun 22 2020

  Image:  Andrew Carnegie's philanthropy. Puck magazine cartoon by Louis Dalrymple, 1903 More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy, by Thai Jones   Paperback – June 3, 2014   In 1914 the United States was on the verge of revolution: industrial depression in the east, striking coal miners in Colorado, and increasingly tense relations with Mexico. In New York, the trouble began in January when a crushing winter caused homeless shelters to overflow. By April, anarchists paraded past industrialists' mansions, and tens of thousands filled Union Square demanding “Bread or Revolution.” Then, on July 4, a detonation destroyed a Harlem tenement in the largest explosion the city had ever seen. Among the dead were three bomb-makers—incited by anarchist Alexander Berkman—who were preparing to dynamite the estate of John D. Rockefeller Jr., widely vilified for a massacre of his company's striking workers that spring. More Powerful Than Dynamite charts how anarchist anger, progressive idealism, and plutocratic influence converged in that July explosion. Its cast includes celebrated figures such as Emma Goldman, Upton Sinclair, and Andrew Carnegie and the fascinating but heretofore little-known, including Frank Tannenbaum, a teenager who insisted churches provide shelter for the homeless; police inspector Max Schmittberger, too honest for his department and too crooked for everyone else; and Becky Edelsohn, a young anarchist known for her red tights and for spitting in millionaires' faces. The historian and journalist Thai Jones creates a fascinating portrait of a city on the edge of chaos coming to terms with modernity.   ...more

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• 55: 3/4 More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy, by Thai Jones @thai_jones

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  Jun 22 2020

  Image:  Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman (circa 1917–1919) More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy, by Thai Jones   Paperback – June 3, 2014   In 1914 the United States was on the verge of revolution: industrial depression in the east, striking coal miners in Colorado, and increasingly tense relations with Mexico. In New York, the trouble began in January when a crushing winter caused homeless shelters to overflow. By April, anarchists paraded past industrialists' mansions, and tens of thousands filled Union Square demanding “Bread or Revolution.” Then, on July 4, a detonation destroyed a Harlem tenement in the largest explosion the city had ever seen. Among the dead were three bomb-makers—incited by anarchist Alexander Berkman—who were preparing to dynamite the estate of John D. Rockefeller Jr., widely vilified for a massacre of his company's striking workers that spring. More Powerful Than Dynamite charts how anarchist anger, progressive idealism, and plutocratic influence converged in that July explosion. Its cast includes celebrated figures such as Emma Goldman, Upton Sinclair, and Andrew Carnegie and the fascinating but heretofore little-known, including Frank Tannenbaum, a teenager who insisted churches provide shelter for the homeless; police inspector Max Schmittberger, too honest for his department and too crooked for everyone else; and Becky Edelsohn, a young anarchist known for her red tights and for spitting in millionaires' faces. The historian and journalist Thai Jones creates a fascinating portrait of a city on the edge of chaos coming to terms with modernity. ...more

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• 54: 2/4 More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy, by Thai Jones @thai_jones

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  Jun 22 2020

  Image:  A sympathetic engraving by Walter Crane of the executed anarchists of Chicago after the Haymarket affair, which is generally considered the most significant event for the origin of international May Day observances More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy, by Thai Jones   Paperback – June 3, 2014   In 1914 the United States was on the verge of revolution: industrial depression in the east, striking coal miners in Colorado, and increasingly tense relations with Mexico. In New York, the trouble began in January when a crushing winter caused homeless shelters to overflow. By April, anarchists paraded past industrialists' mansions, and tens of thousands filled Union Square demanding “Bread or Revolution.” Then, on July 4, a detonation destroyed a Harlem tenement in the largest explosion the city had ever seen. Among the dead were three bomb-makers—incited by anarchist Alexander Berkman—who were preparing to dynamite the estate of John D. Rockefeller Jr., widely vilified for a massacre of his company's striking workers that spring. More Powerful Than Dynamite charts how anarchist anger, progressive idealism, and plutocratic influence converged in that July explosion. Its cast includes celebrated figures such as Emma Goldman, Upton Sinclair, and Andrew Carnegie and the fascinating but heretofore little-known, including Frank Tannenbaum, a teenager who insisted churches provide shelter for the homeless; police inspector Max Schmittberger, too honest for his department and too crooked for everyone else; and Becky Edelsohn, a young anarchist known for her red tights and for spitting in millionaires' faces. The historian and journalist Thai Jones creates a fascinating portrait of a city on the edge of chaos coming to terms with modernity. ...more

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• 53: 1/4 More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy, by Thai Jones @thai_jones

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  Jun 22 2020

  Image:  Streets in New York City in a slightly previous blizzard. Many overhead wires broke and presented a hazard to city dwellers. More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy, by Thai Jones   Paperback – June 3, 2014   In 1914 the United States was on the verge of revolution: industrial depression in the east, striking coal miners in Colorado, and increasingly tense relations with Mexico. In New York, the trouble began in January when a crushing winter caused homeless shelters to overflow. By April, anarchists paraded past industrialists' mansions, and tens of thousands filled Union Square demanding “Bread or Revolution.” Then, on July 4, a detonation destroyed a Harlem tenement in the largest explosion the city had ever seen. Among the dead were three bomb-makers—incited by anarchist Alexander Berkman—who were preparing to dynamite the estate of John D. Rockefeller Jr., widely vilified for a massacre of his company's striking workers that spring. More Powerful Than Dynamite charts how anarchist anger, progressive idealism, and plutocratic influence converged in that July explosion. Its cast includes celebrated figures such as Emma Goldman, Upton Sinclair, and Andrew Carnegie and the fascinating but heretofore little-known, including Frank Tannenbaum, a teenager who insisted churches provide shelter for the homeless; police inspector Max Schmittberger, too honest for his department and too crooked for everyone else; and Becky Edelsohn, a young anarchist known for her red tights and for spitting in millionaires' faces. The historian and journalist Thai Jones creates a fascinating portrait of a city on the edge of chaos coming to terms with modernity. ...more

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• 52: #NewAmericanCivilWar: 2of2: The spiritual war between the Church of Woke and the Redeemer Nation. Michael Vlahos, @JHUWorldCrisis.

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  Jun 21 2020

  Photo: NO KNOWN COPYRIGHT Image from page 19 of "Report of the reunion of the Grant family association at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ulysses Simpson Grant in Washington, D.C., April 27, 1922, and of the exercises at New York city and Point Pleasant, O Identifier: cu31924089054708 Title: Report of the reunion of the Grant family association at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ulysses Simpson Grant in Washington, D.C., April 27, 1922, and of the exercises at New York city and Point Pleasant, Ohio Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors:  Grant Family Association Grant, Frank, 1850-   Text Appearing After Image:THE CAVALRY GROUP (NORTH OF CENTER) View Looking East GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT ULYSSES S. GRANT was born April 27, 1822, at Point Pleasant, Ohio,of Scottish ancestry, the eldest child of Jesse R. Grant and his wife,Hannah Simpson. His boyhood days were spent assisting his fatheron the farm in the summer and attending the village school during thewinter. He received his appointment as cadet in the United States MilitaryAcademy in 1839, being then 17 years of age. He graduated from theAcademy in 1843, and was assigned as second lieutenant to the FourthRegiment of Infantry, stationed at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis. Therehe met Miss Julia Dent, whom he won from many an ardent admirer, andwho became his devoted lifelong companion. Pending troubles with Mexico took the Fourth Regiment to Texas in 1844,and at the initial battle of the Mexican War in 1846 at Palo Alto Grant foughtunder General Taylor. Subsequently the regiment in which LieutenantGrant was serving was assigned to Scotts forc  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: 2of2: The spiritual war between the Church of Woke and the Redeemer Nation.  Michael Vlahos, @JHUWorldCrisis. ...more

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• 52: #NewAmericanCivilWar:1of2: The spiritual war between the Church of Woke and the Redeemer Nation. Michael Vlahos, @JHUWorldCrisis.

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  Jun 21 2020

  Photo: Unknown artistPUBLIC DOMAINTitle | Genl. Francis Scott Key's statue, Golden Gate, San Francisco.Date | Coverage: 1860?-1910?. Source Imprint: 1860?-1910?.Digital item published 8-31-2005; updated 2-12-2009.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar:1of2: The spiritual war between the Church of Woke and the Redeemer Nation.  Michael Vlahos, @JHUWorldCrisis.

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• 52: Prepping Starship. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 21 2020

  Photo: Map of the Moon by Johannes Hevelius (1647) Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687) - http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/160524 Map of the Moon from Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio (1647) 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 fewer. 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:Hevelius Map of the Moon 1647.jpg Created: 1 January 1647 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPrepping Starship. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/three-starship-prototypes-in-line-for-testing/ ...more

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• 52: The non-transparent and unforthcoming Yuto-2 from the copycat PRC.

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  Jun 21 2020

  Photo: "Lunar Day", from the book Recreations in Astronomy by H. D. Warren D. D., 1879. Later study showed that the surface features are much more rounded due to a long history of impacts.This image is a flatbed scan from the book Recreations in Astronomy by H. D. Warren D. D., published in 1879. *Width: 519 *Height: 771 The figure was named "Lunar Day", and it represents a historical concept of the lunar surface appearance. Robotic missions to the Moon later demonstrated that the surface features are much more rounded due to a long history of impacts. Public Domain File:Old view moon.jpg Created: 1 January 1879 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe non-transparent and unforthcoming Yuto-2 from the copycat PRC. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/yutu-2-to-resume-travels-after-day-of-rest/ ...more

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• 52: Coolidge; 4of4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Amity Shlaes (Author), Terence Aselford (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Jun 21 2020

  Photo: Image from page 13 of "I'm from Boston : scenes from the living past, illustrated by picture and story" (1920) Identifier: imfrombostonscen01howe Title: I'm from Boston : scenes from the living past, illustrated by picture and story Year: 1920 (1920s) Authors:  Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960 Subjects:  Historic buildings -- Massachusetts Boston Publisher:  Boston : The Atlantic Monthly Press Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation Text Appearing Before Image:ton Massacre occurred March 5, 1770. The firstanniversary of the event was celebrated with great solemnity inBoston. Bells were tolled from noon to one oclock, and at nightfrom nine to ten; a public oration was delivered—and Paul Revereon his own account made a telling commemoration of the localtragedy. This was the designing and execution of three transpar-encies, displayed on the night of the anniversary in the upper win-dows of his house. Two of them represented scenes of the **Mas-sacre, the third a female figure of America, with her foot on thehead of a fallen Grenadier. **The spectators, in the words of acontemporaneous description, **were struck with solemn silenceand their countenances were covered with a melancholy glow. Here is a scene on which the imaginative visitor to the PaulRevere House may exercise his imagination with little difficultyand with large results in the visualizing of an impressive spectacle. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Coolidge; 4of4:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Amity Shlaes (Author), Terence Aselford (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Coolidge-Amity-Shlaes-audiobook/dp/B00B296P5W/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=amity+sshlaes+coolidge&qid=1592703825&s=audible&sr=1-1-spellCalvin Coolidge, president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls, and history has remembered the decade in which he served as an extravagant period predating the Great Depression. Now Amity Shlaes provides a fresh look at the 1920s and its elusive president, showing that the mid-1920s was in fact a triumphant period that established our modern way of life: The nation electrified, Americans drove their first cars, and the federal deficit was replaced with a surplus.  Coolidge is an eye-opening biography of the little-known president behind that era of remarkable growth and national optimism. Coolidge's trademark discipline and composure, Shlaes reveals, represented not weakness but strength, and he proved unafraid to take on the divisive issues of this crucial period: reining in public-sector unions, unrelentingly curtailing spending, and rejecting funding for new interest groups. He reduced the federal budget even as the economy grew, wages rose, taxes fell, and unemployment dropped.  In this magisterial biography, Amity Shlaes captures the remarkable story of Calvin Coolidge and the decade of extraordinary prosperity that grew from his leadership....more

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• 52: Coolidge; 3of4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Amity Shlaes (Author), Terence Aselford (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Jun 21 2020

  Photo:  I'm from Boston : scenes from the living past, illustrated by picture and storyYear: 1920 (1920s)Authors:  Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960Subjects:  Historic buildings -- Massachusetts BostonPublisher:  Boston : The Atlantic Monthly PressContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  Sloan FoundationText Appearing Before Image:sermon preached in1750 by one of them, the Rev. Jonathan May hew, indignantlyrepudiating King Charles I as ** Saint and Martyr, has often J been called *the morning gun of the Revolution. In the Pref- ^ ace to this sermon he wrote: L * * People have no security against bein g unmercifully priest-riddeny T but by keeping all imperious BISHOPS and other CLERGYMEN 1^who love to *lord it over Gods heritage from getting their footinto the stirrup at all. Let them be once fairly mounted, and their ^ * beasts, the laity, may prance and flounce about to no purpose: ^ and they will at length be so jaded and hackd by these reverend J jockies, that they will not even have spirits enough to complain J that their backs are galled; or, like Balaams ass, to * rebuke the J madness of the prophet. t u ^ The irony of it is that in 1852 Mayhews grandson, Jonathan ^ Mayhew Wainwright, was consecrated Bishop http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Coolidge; 3of4:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Amity Shlaes (Author), Terence Aselford (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Coolidge-Amity-Shlaes-audiobook/dp/B00B296P5W/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=amity+sshlaes+coolidge&qid=1592703825&s=audible&sr=1-1-spellCalvin Coolidge, president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls, and history has remembered the decade in which he served as an extravagant period predating the Great Depression. Now Amity Shlaes provides a fresh look at the 1920s and its elusive president, showing that the mid-1920s was in fact a triumphant period that established our modern way of life: The nation electrified, Americans drove their first cars, and the federal deficit was replaced with a surplus.  Coolidge is an eye-opening biography of the little-known president behind that era of remarkable growth and national optimism. Coolidge's trademark discipline and composure, Shlaes reveals, represented not weakness but strength, and he proved unafraid to take on the divisive issues of this crucial period: reining in public-sector unions, unrelentingly curtailing spending, and rejecting funding for new interest groups. He reduced the federal budget even as the economy grew, wages rose, taxes fell, and unemployment dropped.  In this magisterial biography, Amity Shlaes captures the remarkable story of Calvin Coolidge and the decade of extraordinary prosperity that grew from his leadership....more

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• 52: Coolidge; 2of4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Amity Shlaes (Author), Terence Aselford (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Jun 21 2020

  Photo: Title: I'm from Boston : scenes from the living past, illustrated by picture and storyYear: 1920 (1920s)Authors:  Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960Subjects:  Historic buildings -- Massachusetts BostonPublisher:  Boston : The Atlantic Monthly PressContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  Sloan FoundationText Appearing Before Image:usiness^ was to carry up slates for the roof; and one day, when he was ^ at the far end of the building, the bell was rung a few minutes earlier than usual. The workmen, who were all in the secret,^ rushed to the tower and then to the stah-s, when Patrick looked ^ round and instantly guessed their intention. But determined not ^ to be last, he squatted down on a loose piece of slate and fear- ^ lessly slid off the roof into the burying-place, where he happened ^ to light; with the slate under him, in a sitting position, between 1 two gravestones, and wholly uninjured. I He sprang upon his feet and ran to the church door, where he met the conspirators at the foot of the stairs and triumphantlyclaimed his treat as usual. In the days that have come this early aviator and his triumphprovide refreshing thoughtshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Coolidge; 2of4:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Amity Shlaes (Author), Terence Aselford (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Coolidge-Amity-Shlaes-audiobook/dp/B00B296P5W/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=amity+sshlaes+coolidge&qid=1592703825&s=audible&sr=1-1-spellCalvin Coolidge, president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls, and history has remembered the decade in which he served as an extravagant period predating the Great Depression. Now Amity Shlaes provides a fresh look at the 1920s and its elusive president, showing that the mid-1920s was in fact a triumphant period that established our modern way of life: The nation electrified, Americans drove their first cars, and the federal deficit was replaced with a surplus.  Coolidge is an eye-opening biography of the little-known president behind that era of remarkable growth and national optimism. Coolidge's trademark discipline and composure, Shlaes reveals, represented not weakness but strength, and he proved unafraid to take on the divisive issues of this crucial period: reining in public-sector unions, unrelentingly curtailing spending, and rejecting funding for new interest groups. He reduced the federal budget even as the economy grew, wages rose, taxes fell, and unemployment dropped.  In this magisterial biography, Amity Shlaes captures the remarkable story of Calvin Coolidge and the decade of extraordinary prosperity that grew from his leadership....more

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• 52: Coolidge: 1of4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Amity Shlaes (Author), Terence Aselford (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Jun 21 2020

  Photo: public domainBrattle Street, Boston, Massachusetts, ca.1920Date | circa 1920 Source | Boston Public Library, Print DepartmentAuthor | Author unknown http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Coolidge: 1of4:  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Amity Shlaes (Author), Terence Aselford (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Coolidge-Amity-Shlaes-audiobook/dp/B00B296P5W/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=amity+sshlaes+coolidge&qid=1592703825&s=audible&sr=1-1-spellCalvin Coolidge, president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls, and history has remembered the decade in which he served as an extravagant period predating the Great Depression. Now Amity Shlaes provides a fresh look at the 1920s and its elusive president, showing that the mid-1920s was in fact a triumphant period that established our modern way of life: The nation electrified, Americans drove their first cars, and the federal deficit was replaced with a surplus.  Coolidge is an eye-opening biography of the little-known president behind that era of remarkable growth and national optimism. Coolidge's trademark discipline and composure, Shlaes reveals, represented not weakness but strength, and he proved unafraid to take on the divisive issues of this crucial period: reining in public-sector unions, unrelentingly curtailing spending, and rejecting funding for new interest groups. He reduced the federal budget even as the economy grew, wages rose, taxes fell, and unemployment dropped.  In this magisterial biography, Amity Shlaes captures the remarkable story of Calvin Coolidge and the decade of extraordinary prosperity that grew from his leadership....more

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• 52: Grand Central: 2of2: How a Train Station Transformed America Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Sam Roberts (Author, Narrator), Pete Hamill (foreword) (Author), Hachette Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 21 2020

  Photo: public domain "Exterior view of the south side of Grand Central Terminal with the Helmsley Building (formerly the New York Central Building) in the background."Date | 1944Source | https://collections.mcny.org/Collection/Grand%20Central%20Station%20exterior-2F3XC5Q0SK4.html, https://www.vintag.es/2017/04/the-new-york-grand-central-terminal-one.htmlAuthor | Office of War Informationhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Grand Central: 2of2: How a Train Station Transformed America  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Sam Roberts (Author, Narrator), Pete Hamill (foreword) (Author), Hachette Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Central-audiobook/dp/B00HI13FKQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=sam+Roberts+Grand+central&qid=1592702934&s=audible&sr=1-1A rich, illustrated - and entertaining - history of the iconic Grand Central Terminal, from one of New York City's favorite writers, just in time to celebrate the train station's 100th fabulous anniversary.  In the winter of 1913, Grand Central Station was officially opened and immediately became one of the most beautiful and recognizable Manhattan landmarks. In this celebration of the 100-year-old terminal, Sam Roberts of The New York Times looks back at Grand Central's conception, amazing history, and the far-reaching cultural effects of the station that continues to amaze tourists and shuttle busy commuters.  Along the way, Roberts will explore how the Manhattan transit hub truly foreshadowed the evolution of suburban expansion in the country, and fostered the nation's westward expansion and growth via the railroad.  Featuring quirky anecdotes and behind-the-scenes information, this book will allow listeners to peek into the secret and unseen areas of Grand Central - from the tunnels, to the command center, to the hidden passageways.  With stories about everything from the famous movies that have used Grand Central as a location to the celestial ceiling in the main lobby (including its stunning mistake) to the homeless denizens who reside in the building's catacombs, this is a fascinating and, exciting look at a true American institution...more

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• 52: Grand Central: 1of2: How a Train Station Transformed America Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Sam Roberts (Author, Narrator), Pete Hamill (foreword) (Author), Hachette Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 21 2020

  Photo: Grand Central StationObject type | paintingDate | 1909Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr. (March 8, 1856 – November 6, 1937) was an American Impressionist painter, perhaps most renowned for his architectural paintings, especially of skyscrapers in New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. An avid traveler, he was also known for his paintings of European and Asian landmarks, as well as natural landscapes, portraits, florals, and interiors. In addition to being a painter, he was also a teacher and writer. His first wife, Emma Lampert Cooper, was also a highly regarded painter.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Grand Central: 1of2: How a Train Station Transformed America  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Sam Roberts (Author, Narrator), Pete Hamill (foreword) (Author), Hachette Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Central-audiobook/dp/B00HI13FKQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=sam+Roberts+Grand+central&qid=1592702934&s=audible&sr=1-1A rich, illustrated - and entertaining - history of the iconic Grand Central Terminal, from one of New York City's favorite writers, just in time to celebrate the train station's 100th fabulous anniversary.  In the winter of 1913, Grand Central Station was officially opened and immediately became one of the most beautiful and recognizable Manhattan landmarks. In this celebration of the 100-year-old terminal, Sam Roberts of The New York Times looks back at Grand Central's conception, amazing history, and the far-reaching cultural effects of the station that continues to amaze tourists and shuttle busy commuters.  Along the way, Roberts will explore how the Manhattan transit hub truly foreshadowed the evolution of suburban expansion in the country, and fostered the nation's westward expansion and growth via the railroad.  Featuring quirky anecdotes and behind-the-scenes information, this book will allow listeners to peek into the secret and unseen areas of Grand Central - from the tunnels, to the command center, to the hidden passageways.  With stories about everything from the famous movies that have used Grand Central as a location to the celestial ceiling in the main lobby (including its stunning mistake) to the homeless denizens who reside in the building's catacombs, this is a fascinating and, exciting look at a true American institution...more

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• 52: 1493: 4of4: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created Audible Audiobook– Unabridged. Charles C. Mann (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 21 2020

  Photo: Title: The life of Christopher Columbus, from his own letters and journals and other documents of his timeYear: 1891 (1890s)Authors:  Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909Subjects:  Columbus, ChristopherPublisher:  Chicago, HoweContributing Library:  Robarts - University of TorontoDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNText Appearing Before Image:rst expedition, the second, on a scale somuch larger, was ready for sea. CHAPTER VIII. THE SECOND EXPEDITION SAILS FROM CADIZ TOUCHES AT CANARY ISLANDS DISCOVERY OF DOMINICA AND GUADELOUPE SKIRMISHES WITH THE CARIES PORTO RICO DISCOVERED HISPANIOLA THE FATE OF THE COLONY AT LA NAVIDAD. There is not in history a sharper contrast, orone more dramatic, than that between the firstvoyage of Columbus and the second. In thefirst voyage, three little ships left the port of Palos,most of the men of their crews unwilling, afterinfinite difficulty in preparation, and in the midstof the fears of all who stayed behind. In the second voyage, a magnificent fleet, equip-ped with all that the royal service could command,crowded with eager adventurers who are excitedby expectations of romance and of success, goeson the very same adventure. In the first voyage, Columbus has but justturned the corner after the struggles and failuresof eight years. He is a penniless adventurer who 140 THE EMBARKATION. 141http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 1493: 4of4: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created  Audible Audiobook– Unabridged.  Charles C. Mann (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/1493-New-World-Columbus-audiobook/dp/B005GIH22A/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans. The Columbian Exchange, as researchers call it, is the reason there are tomatoes in Italy, oranges in Florida, chocolates in Switzerland, and chili peppers in Thailand. More important, creatures the colonists knew nothing about hitched along for the ride. Earthworms, mosquitoes, and cockroaches; honeybees, dandelions, and African grasses; bacteria, fungi, and viruses; rats of every description - all of them rushed like eager tourists into lands that had never seen their like before, changing lives and landscapes across the planet.  Eight decades after Columbus, a Spaniard named Legazpi succeeded where Columbus had failed. He sailed west to establish continual trade with China, then the richest, most powerful country in the world. In Manila, a city Legazpi founded, silver from the Americas, mined by African and Indian slaves, was sold to Asians in return for silk for Europeans. It was the first time that goods and people from every corner of the globe were connected in a single worldwide exchange. Much as Columbus created a new world biologically, Legazpi and the Spanish empire he served created a new world economically. As Charles C. Mann shows, the Columbian Exchange underlies much of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest research by ecologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the creation of this worldwide network of exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Mexico City - where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted - the center of the world. In such encounters, he uncovers the germ of today’s fiercest political disputes, from immigration to trade policy to culture wars. In 1493, Charles Mann gives us an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination. ...more

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• 52: 1493: 3of4: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created Audible Audiobook– Unabridged. Charles C. Mann (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: The life of Christopher Columbus, from his own letters and journals and other documents of his timeYear: 1891 (1890s)Authors:  Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909Subjects:  Columbus, ChristopherPublisher:  Chicago, HoweContributing Library:  Robarts - University of TorontoDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNText Appearing Before Image:f, behaved with magnanimity,and made no complaint. Bobadilla asked him tobid his brother return to San Domingo, and hecomplied. He begged his brother to submit tothe authority of the sovereigns, and Bartholomewimmediately did so. On his arrival in San Do-mingo he was also put in irons, as his brotherDiego had been, and was confined on board acaravel. As soon as a set of charges could bemade up to send to Spain with Columbus, thevessels, with the prisoners, set sail. The master of the caravel, Martin, was pro-foundly grieved by the severe treatment to whichthe great navigator was subjected. He wouldgladly have taken off his irons, but Columbuswould not consent. I was commanded by theking and queen, he said, to submit to whateverBobadilla should order in their name. He has putthese chains on me by their authority. I will wearthem until the king and queen bid me take themoff. I will preserve them afterwards as relics andmemorials of the reward of my services/ His SENT HOME IN CHAINS. 223http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 1493: 3of4: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created  Audible Audiobook– Unabridged.  Charles C. Mann (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/1493-New-World-Columbus-audiobook/dp/B005GIH22A/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans. The Columbian Exchange, as researchers call it, is the reason there are tomatoes in Italy, oranges in Florida, chocolates in Switzerland, and chili peppers in Thailand. More important, creatures the colonists knew nothing about hitched along for the ride. Earthworms, mosquitoes, and cockroaches; honeybees, dandelions, and African grasses; bacteria, fungi, and viruses; rats of every description - all of them rushed like eager tourists into lands that had never seen their like before, changing lives and landscapes across the planet.  Eight decades after Columbus, a Spaniard named Legazpi succeeded where Columbus had failed. He sailed west to establish continual trade with China, then the richest, most powerful country in the world. In Manila, a city Legazpi founded, silver from the Americas, mined by African and Indian slaves, was sold to Asians in return for silk for Europeans. It was the first time that goods and people from every corner of the globe were connected in a single worldwide exchange. Much as Columbus created a new world biologically, Legazpi and the Spanish empire he served created a new world economically. As Charles C. Mann shows, the Columbian Exchange underlies much of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest research by ecologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the creation of this worldwide network of exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Mexico City - where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted - the center of the world. In such encounters, he uncovers the germ of today’s fiercest political disputes, from immigration to trade policy to culture wars. In 1493, Charles Mann gives us an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination. ...more

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• 52: 1493: 2of4: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created Audible Audiobook– Unabridged. Charles C. Mann (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 21 2020

  Photo: The Life of Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of AmericaYear: 1840 (1840s)Authors: Subjects:  Columbus, ChristopherPublisher:  Boston, B. H. GreeneContributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  Sloan FoundationText Appearing Before Image:ecurity for their kindness. Co-lumbus caused them to be kindly treated andclothed, and when they sent them back gave themmany presents. The girls did tiot appear to beafraid of any thing they saw on board the ship. At this place, at another time, when Bartholo-mew was going ashore, several of the Indianswaded out to the water, and took him on theirshoulders and carried him to a grassy bank wherethey seated him. He carried with him a man towrite down such information as he should getabout the country. Having found out somethingwhich he wished to remember, he desired theclerk to write it down. He took out his pen andink to do so, when the Indians all ran away ingreat fright, thinking it must be something whichwould bewitch them. They came back, throwingin the air some sweet smelling powder, probablyto take away the evil which they thought thesefrightful instruments, the pen and ink, would dothem. The Spaniards, though they ought to haveknown better, were a little afraid that this powderhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 1493: 2of4: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created  Audible Audiobook– Unabridged.  Charles C. Mann (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/1493-New-World-Columbus-audiobook/dp/B005GIH22A/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans. The Columbian Exchange, as researchers call it, is the reason there are tomatoes in Italy, oranges in Florida, chocolates in Switzerland, and chili peppers in Thailand. More important, creatures the colonists knew nothing about hitched along for the ride. Earthworms, mosquitoes, and cockroaches; honeybees, dandelions, and African grasses; bacteria, fungi, and viruses; rats of every description - all of them rushed like eager tourists into lands that had never seen their like before, changing lives and landscapes across the planet.  Eight decades after Columbus, a Spaniard named Legazpi succeeded where Columbus had failed. He sailed west to establish continual trade with China, then the richest, most powerful country in the world. In Manila, a city Legazpi founded, silver from the Americas, mined by African and Indian slaves, was sold to Asians in return for silk for Europeans. It was the first time that goods and people from every corner of the globe were connected in a single worldwide exchange. Much as Columbus created a new world biologically, Legazpi and the Spanish empire he served created a new world economically. As Charles C. Mann shows, the Columbian Exchange underlies much of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest research by ecologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the creation of this worldwide network of exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Mexico City - where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted - the center of the world. In such encounters, he uncovers the germ of today’s fiercest political disputes, from immigration to trade policy to culture wars. In 1493, Charles Mann gives us an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination. ...more

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• 52: 1493: 1of4: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created Audible Audiobook– Unabridged. Charles C. Mann (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 21 2020

  Photo: The life of Christopher Columbus, from his own letters and journals and other documents of his timeYear: 1891 (1890s)Authors:  Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909Subjects:  Columbus, ChristopherPublisher:  Chicago, HoweContributing Library:  Robarts - University of TorontoDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNandwith the search for gold. He sent out expeditions of discovery to openrelations with the natives, and to find the bestplaces for washing and mining for gold.Melchior Meldonado commanded three hundredmen, in the first of these expeditions. Theycame to a good harbor at the mouth of a river,where they saw a fine house, which they sup-posed might be the home of Guacanagari. Theymet an armed party of one hundred Indians ;but these men put away their weapons whensignals of peace were made, and brought pre-sents in token of good-will. The house to which they went was round,with a hemispherical roof or dome. It was thirty-two paces in diameter, divided by wicker workinto different rooms. Smaller houses, for personsof rank lower than the chiefs, surrounded it. Thenatives told the explorers that Guacanagarihimself had retired to the hills. On receiving the report of these explorersColumbus sent out Ojeda with a hundred men,and Corvalan with a similar party in different WASHING FOR GOLD. 171http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 1493: 1of4: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created  Audible Audiobook– Unabridged.  Charles C. Mann (Author), Robertson Dean (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/1493-New-World-Columbus-audiobook/dp/B005GIH22A/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans. The Columbian Exchange, as researchers call it, is the reason there are tomatoes in Italy, oranges in Florida, chocolates in Switzerland, and chili peppers in Thailand. More important, creatures the colonists knew nothing about hitched along for the ride. Earthworms, mosquitoes, and cockroaches; honeybees, dandelions, and African grasses; bacteria, fungi, and viruses; rats of every description - all of them rushed like eager tourists into lands that had never seen their like before, changing lives and landscapes across the planet.  Eight decades after Columbus, a Spaniard named Legazpi succeeded where Columbus had failed. He sailed west to establish continual trade with China, then the richest, most powerful country in the world. In Manila, a city Legazpi founded, silver from the Americas, mined by African and Indian slaves, was sold to Asians in return for silk for Europeans. It was the first time that goods and people from every corner of the globe were connected in a single worldwide exchange. Much as Columbus created a new world biologically, Legazpi and the Spanish empire he served created a new world economically. As Charles C. Mann shows, the Columbian Exchange underlies much of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest research by ecologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the creation of this worldwide network of exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Mexico City - where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted - the center of the world. In such encounters, he uncovers the germ of today’s fiercest political disputes, from immigration to trade policy to culture wars. In 1493, Charles Mann gives us an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination. ...more

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• 52: US begins testing the security of a 5G network that can function despite PRC Huawei spying. @DefTechPat

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  Jun 21 2020

  Photo:  by James Gillray, published 14 September 1792."A caricature on Lord Macartney's Embassy to China and on the little which the Ambassador and his government are presumed to have known of the manners and tastes of the people they wanted to conciliate (the purpose of the visit was to propose the creation of a permanent English mission to the court of Peking). Chinese etiquette is, that extreme prostrations should be made before the Emperor, which it was intimated Lord Macartney would not conform to. The whole contour of the Emperor is indicative of cunning and contempt and his indifference to the numerous gifts displaying the skill of British manufacturing, is evident. The German face bringing in the cage is Mr Huttner of the Foreign Office, who acted as an interpreter and published his own account of the visit. As soon as Lord Macartney had declined to make the required prostrations, only going down on one knee, he was dismissed from the presence of the Emperor. He was later ordered to quit Peking within two days and was given a letter addressed to George III wherein the Emperor states that,'As your Ambassador can see for himself, we possess all things. I set no value on objects strange or ingenious, and have no use for your country's manufactures'. An attache, Aeneas Anderson, later recalled that "we entered Pekin like Paupers, remained in it like Prisoners and departed from it like Vagrants".Date | 14 September 1792http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowUS begins testing the security of a 5G network that can function despite PRC Huawei spying.  @DefTechPathttps://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/05/new-air-ops-software-get-5g-test-outside-las-vegas/165763/?oref=d-river https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/05/how-pandemic-helping-military-prep-world-war-iii/165656/?oref=d-river...more

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• 52: Trumps rearms Ukraine; Putin rearms tactical nukes; Learning from the policing of Iraq. Patrick Tucker @DefTechPat @DefenseOne.

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  Jun 21 2020

  Photo:  Cossack fairy tales and folk-talesYear: 1902 (1900s)Authors:  Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet), 1854-1909 Mitchell, E. W. illustratorSubjects:  Fairy tales Tales -- UkrainePublisher:  London : A. H. BullenContributing Library:  New York Public LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNText Appearing Before Image:e backagain ? He had scarcely uttered the words whenthe Iron Wolf came running up, and said to him : Ill collect and drive back all these cattle into theegg again, and Ill patch the egg up so that it willbecome quite whole. But in return for that, con-tinued the Iron Wolf, whenever thou dost sit downon the bridal bench,1 Ill come and eat thee.— Well,thought the servant to himself, a lot of things may-happen before I sit down on the bridal bench and hecomes to eat me, and in the meantime I shall get allthese cattle. Agreed, then, said he. So the IronWolf immediately collected all the cattle, and drovethem back into the egg, and patched up the eggand made it whole just as it was before. The servant went home to the village where helived, made him a cattle-pen stronger than strong,went inside it and broke the egg, and immediatelythat cattle-pen was as full of cattle as it could hold. 1 Posad, or posag, a bench covered with white cloth on whichthe bride and bridegroom sat down together.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTrumps rearms Ukraine; Putin rearms tactical nukes; Learning from the policing of Iraq. Patrick Tucker @DefTechPat @DefenseOne.https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/06/us-will-send-ukraine-another-250m-weapons-gear-and-other-aid/166088/?oref=d-river https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/06/russia-puts-defensive-face-its-nuclear-doctrine-ahead-arms-control-negotiations/165974/?oref=d-riverhttps://www.defenseone.com/politics/2020/06/what-iraq-war-can-teach-us-about-better-policing/165916/?oref=d-river...more

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• 50: #TheScalaReport: Baidu (the PRC Google) drops out of US Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (PAI) and what it means for the AI competition. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE

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  Jun 20 2020

  Photo: Poster of a robot standing in front of a futuristic urban skylineSource (WP:NFCC#4) Three-sheet poster for the 1927 German film Metropolis depicting the Maschinenmensch (Machine-person) in front of the titular dystopian city of the future. This version of the poster accompanied its world premiere and domestic theatrical release in Germany. An international version of the same poster (which can be seen at MoMA.org) used the same illustration and design without the German-language credits. Fair use File:Metropolis (German three-sheet poster).jpg Uploaded: 2020-03-11 22:46:51 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow #TheScalaReport:  Baidu (the PRC Google) drops out of US Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (PAI) and what it means for the AI competition.  Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHEhttps://www.wired.com/story/baidu-breaks-ai-alliance-strained-us-china-ties/ ...more

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• 50: Meet the Federal IT workforce building with private enterprise, same as the Pentagon's partnership with Silicon Valley. @FRoseDC

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  Jun 20 2020

  Photo:  1860 view of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., United States, looking southeast toward the unfinished U.S. Capitol. The National Hotel (now demolished), at 6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, is on left.Date | 1860Source | https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004662334/Author | A. Meyer, artisthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMeet the Federal IT workforce building with private enterprise, same as the Pentagon's partnership with Silicon Valley. @FRoseDC https://govmatters.tv/cio-councils-recommendations-for-the-it-workforce/ https://govmatters.tv/lessons-learned-from-previous-emergency-relief-efforts/ ...more

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• 51: Portland topples George Washington; San Francisco hides Columbus; Ventura County targets Junípero Serra. Jeff Bliss: #PacificWatch

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  Jun 20 2020

  Image:  Junípero Serra. See five-second video: https://twitter.com/shane_bauer/status/1274182715068133377 Jeff Bliss, Pacific Watch, in re: A statue of George Washington has been pushed over and had graffiti scrawled on it in Portland, Oregon.  Who dunnit?  Was one of many across the country. Sprayed: Genocidal, Colonist, You’re on Native Land! In Ventura County, Father Junípero Serra established missions along California in the Eighteenth Century, each one a day’s travel from the previous.  The missions converted people, and held some as slaves.  Municipalities are so tied up with what’s going on now, no time for advance planning.  The salad robot: Chow ___s.  Least am9ount of human contact (and can reduce staff).  In Las Vegas, a bar with an iPad instead of a waiter, a perfectly-poured drink every time.  A fire sale in Long Beach: $200,000  cash.  Literally—the house had burned. ...more

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• 50: The New New Exodus from the Big City. @DanHenninger

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  Jun 20 2020

  Image: Rome: A View of The ColosseumCaspar van Wittel or Gaspar van Wittel (born Jasper Adriaensz van Wittel; 1652 or 1653 – September 13, 1736), known in Italian as Gaspare Vanvitelli (IPA: [ˈɡaspare vaɱviˈtɛlli]) or Gasparo degli Occhiali (IPA: [ˈɡasparo deʎʎ okˈkjaːli]), was a Dutch painter and draughtsman who had a long career in Rome. He played a pivotal role in the development of the genre of topographical painting known as veduta.[1] He is credited with turning topography into a painterly specialism in Italian art.[2] Dan Henninger, WSJ, Wonder Land, in re:  I think we’re on the cusp of a great population shift in the US, from city to suburbia and countryside. A huge political failure; intellectually incoherent with protests and riots. What emerged: de-fund the police, The average family in a city looks at that and leaves. Steady exodus out of urban centers as people look for more stability. ...more

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• 47: #SmallBusinessAmerica: The reluctant employees invited back to work & What is to be done?

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  Jun 20 2020

  Photo: Caption: "United States Bank at Philadelphia" Text: "The central office of the United States Bank, was a Philadelphia, and a fine marble building was devoted to its use. This bank, which ceased by limitation of its charter, in 1836, to be a national institution, was rechartered by the state of Pennsylvania as a state institution. Thus deprived of the main elements of its strength, and being imprudently managed, it was involved in the bankruptcy which, at the period we are speaking of, spread over the country. The building above alluded to, which is still one of the ornaments of the city of Philadelphia, is now used for the Custom House of this city."Date | 1875Source | Goodrich, S. G. (1875). A Pictorial History of the United States. Philadelphia: J. H. Butler & Co., 389.Author | S. G. Goodrichhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#SmallBusinessAmerica: The reluctant employees invited back to work & What is to be done? Coronavirus has exposed the myth of the fiercely independent entrepreneurhttps://thehill.com/opinion/finance/503163-coronavirus-has-exposed-the-myth-of-the-fiercely-independent-entrepreneur?rnd=1592410270How your accounts reflect coronavirus could affect your business's healthhttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/18/coronavirus-small-business-financial-accountsIt’s time to reopen – but your employees are scared to return. What should you do? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/14/us-small-business-reopen-coronavirus-employees-health-safety ...more

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• 47: #SmallBusinessAmerica:The reawakening from the bottom accelerates & What is to be done? @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Jun 20 2020

  Photo: Title: The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach themYear: 1876 (1870s)Authors: Subjects:  Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)Publisher:  Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co.Contributing Library:  The Library of CongressDigitizing Sponsor:  The Library of CongressText Appearing Before Image:THE BEAR-PITS—ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN. are already well stocked, and are constantly receiving fresh accessions.The Garden was first opened to the public in July, 1874, and hasalready become one of the most popular features of the Park. Theprice of admission is 25 cents for adults, and 10 cents for children. Visitors reach the Garden by the cars of the Girard Avenue line,which run near the entrance, and with which the various lines runningnorth and south connect by exchange tickets; price, nine cents. Thesteamers on the Schuylkill River also land passengers near the entranceto the Garden. 11http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#SmallBusinessAmerica:The reawakening from the bottom accelerates & What is to be done? @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirerConference Board Leading Economic Index Sees Partial Recovery in May  https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2020/06/18/conference-board-leading-economic-index-sees-partial-recovery-in-may?Philly Fed Manufacturing Index: Improvement in Junehttps://www.philadelphiafed.org/re