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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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  Jul 05 2020

  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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  Jul 05 2020

  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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  Jul 05 2020

  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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  Jul 05 2020

  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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  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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  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/research-and-data/regional-economy/business-outlook-surveyBuilder Confidence Surges in June as Housing Rebound is Underway  http://nahbnow.com/2020/06/builder-confidence-surges-in-june-as-housing-rebound-is-underway/May Industrial Production / Capacity Utilizationhttps://www.ftportfolios.com/Commentary/EconomicResearch/2020/6/16/industrial-production-increased-1.4percent-in-maySBA and Treasury Announce New EZ and Revised Full Forgiveness Applications for the Paycheck Protection Programhttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/sba-treasury-announce-ez-revised-131900299.htmlThis is how small businesses affected by looting can get the insurance money they deservehttps://www.inquirer.com/business/small-business/small-business-insurance-looting-damage-recovery-philadelphia-20200616.html...more

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• 49: The completely innocent bystander, Svetlana Lokhova. @DevinNunes @RealSLokhova

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  Jun 20 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 | 1920 Devin Nunes, CA-22, in re:  As of 4 Jan 2017, the FBI concluded that there was no use at all to continuing the investigation into General Flynn—except for the Stefan Halper narrative.  Svetlana Lokhova is a British citizen whose name was dragged through mud by Halper, a free-lance spy with alliances to various alphabet agencies and other organizations, and with major questions on his character. . . . Will all the current investigations become public in the coming year? Probably; and I’m willing to wait to see it done correctly.   ...more

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• 48: Suddenly: face masks in California. @DevinNunes

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  Jun 20 2020

  Image: Diver wearing a lightweight full face mask . . . Public domainDevin Nunes, CA-22, in re:  California governor has done a volta face and decreed that everyone must wear a mask at all times outside of one’s home.  But weren’t we originally told that was for a different purpose?  And what about all the Valley agricultural workers who weren't allowed to take time off because we’re “the breadbasket of the universe”?  People are growing quite annoyed.

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• 47: The single source of API in America is the single source of the virus America. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch

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  Jun 20 2020

  Photo: College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York CityPublic domain. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe single source of API in America is the single source of the virus America.  @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch http://www.henrymillermd.org/24274/china-coronavirus-induced-paralysis-threatens-us

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• 47: Puzzling discoveries of the virus and the asymptomatic patients. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch

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  Jun 20 2020

  Photo: The College of Physicians (Microcosm of London, plate 20 public domain) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPuzzling discoveries of the virus and the asymptomatic patients. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0965-6  https://apnews.com/89d963958b042cc921e64ab3eff5a74d

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• 47: Hotel Mars: Target rich KBO opportunity for New Horizons. @AlanStern @NewHorizons2015 David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  Jun 20 2020

  Photo: The uniform color and composition of Arrokoth’s surface shows the Kuiper Belt object formed from a small, uniform, cloud of material in the solar nebula, rather than a mishmash of matter from more separated parts of the nebula. The former supports the idea that Arrokoth formed in a local collapse of a cloud in the solar nebula.Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Roman Tkachenko http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHotel Mars: Target rich KBO opportunity for New Horizons. @AlanStern @NewHorizons2015 David Livingston, SpaceShow.com"Using detailed data gathered during the record-setting flyby of #Arrokoth, the New Horizons team has made a significant advance in understanding planetesimals, reshaping our understanding of how planetary bodies form in solar systems across the universe." https://go.nasa.gov/2SqeADohttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-team-uncovers-a-critical-piece-of-the-planetary-formation-puzzle ...more

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• 47: Hotel Mars: New Horizons achieves the first interstellar parallax: Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359. @AlanStern @NewHorizons2015 David Livingston SpaceShow.com

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  Jun 20 2020

  Photo: Stars closest to the Sun, including Proxima CentauriNASA/Penn State University - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18003 (image link) Welcome to the Sun's Neighborhood - This diagram illustrates the locations of the star systems closest to the sun. The year when the distance to each system was determined is listed after the system's name. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, found two of the four closest systems: the binary brown dwarf WISE 1049-5319 and the brown dwarf WISE J085510.83-071442.5. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope helped pin down the location of the latter object. The closest system to the sun is a trio of stars that consists of Alpha Centauri, a close companion to it and Proxima Centauri. Public Domain File:PIA18003-NASA-WISE-StarsNearSun-20140425-2.png Created: 1 January 2014 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHotel Mars: New Horizons achieves the first interstellar parallax:  Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359. @AlanStern @NewHorizons2015 David Livingston SpaceShow.comhttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-new-horizons-conducts-the-first-interstellar-parallax-experiment ...more

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• 47: Ivanka Trump at Pittsburgh and George Washington at Fort Necessity. @SalenaZito @DCExaminer

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  Jun 20 2020

  Photo: An engraving depicting the evening council of George Washington at Fort NecessityIrving, Washington (1783-1859) - The Darlington Collection of Engravings at the University of Pittsburgh An engraving by artist John McNevin, Artist and engraver Henry Bryan Hall (1808-1884) depicting the evening council of George Washington at Fort Necessity issued in 1856. Public Domain File:The Night Council At Fort Necessity from the Darlington Collection of Engravings.PNG Created: 31 December 1855 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIvanka Trump at Pittsburgh and George Washington at Fort Necessity. @SalenaZito @DCExaminerhttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ivanka-trump-to-salena-zito-i-think-healing-needs-to-happen-in-the-countryhttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/an-unknown-monument-pivotal-to-our-history-is-safe-from-historical-purges ...more

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• 47: The Undead Export-Import Bank of Boeing and Ethiopia. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus

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  Jun 20 2020

  Photo: An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner at Frankfurt Airport; permissions: see below.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Undead Export-Import Bank of Boeing and Ethiopia. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus https://www.mercatus.org/publications/covid-19-economic-recovery/difficult-path-state-bankruptcy..  ..  ..  An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner at Frankfurt Airport (FRA / EDDF)Date | 28 October 2012Source | http://www.airliners.net/photo/Ethiopian-Airlines/Boeing-787-8-Dreamliner/2181895/L/Author | Konstantin von WedelstaedtThis file comes from the Konstantin von Wedelstaedt collection and is copyrighted.Note: This permission only extends to photos taken by Konstantin von Wedelstaedt. It does not include any other content from airliners.net | Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 only as 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. | 1.2 only | This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not n...more

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• 46: Why does AMLO of Mexico invite unprepared Cuban medical workers for the virus crisis? Mary Anastasia O'Grady @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 19 2020

  Photo: Title: Facts and figures about Mexico and her great railroad, the Mexican CentralYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  Mexican Central Railway CoSubjects:  Mexico -- Description and travelPublisher:  MexicoContributing Library:  University of California LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNText Appearing After Image:all that can be desired ; the scenery is charming, although notgrand. One is constantly reminded of the New England hillcountry ; only the villages, the haciendas, the costumes and thecustoms of the people make the observer realize that he is inMexico. Says a lady who has just returned from a tour of obser-vation : I have traveled over four thousand miles in Mexico, andof all sections that I have seen I think the Lerma valley betweenLa Barca and Guadalajara is the most attractive. If I ever go toMexico to live, my home shall be somewhere in this section of thevalley, where I can take, with only a short journey, a look at theMexican Niagara, can have an occasional excursion on the Mexi-can Lake George, and can run often into the Mexican Paris.Nowhere else in the republic can one find such a variety of beau-tiful scenery, mountain, river and lake, so convenient to a largecity, as in the section which this lady mentions. Climate and scenery, however, will not suffice to provide for thelahttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhy does AMLO of Mexico invite unprepared Cuban medical workers for the virus crisis? Mary Anastasia O'Grady @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/cuban-medical-brigades-to-mexico-11592164194https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-n-and-human-trafficking-11580071750 ...more

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• 45: The unknowable Joe Biden after 40 years of shifting with the winds of Washington. @ConradMBlack @TheAmGreatness

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  Jun 19 2020

  Photo: Landscape with a Windswept Tree and Fishermen by Follower of Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Il Guercino, Italy, 17th century. Pen and brown ink on laid paper, 7 13/16 x 11 13/16 inches (198 x 300 mm). The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gilberto Munguia.Date | between 1591 and 1666 Source | http://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/140904Author | Follower of Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Il Guercinohttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe unknowable Joe Biden after 40 years of shifting with the winds of Washington. @ComradMBlack @TheAmGreatnesshttps://amgreatness.com/2020/06/15/the-biden-factor-is-difficult-to-calculate/ ...more

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• 44: POTUS confronted the PRC before America confronted the PRC. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Jun 19 2020

  Photo: e: The Long White Mountain : or, A journey in Manchuria; with some account of the history, people, administration and religion of that countryYear: 1888 (1880s)Authors:  James, H. Evan M. (Henry Evan Murchison), Sir, 1846-1923Subjects: Publisher:  London : LongmansContributing Library:  Robarts - University of TorontoDigitizing Sponsor:  University of Torontok.Text Appearing Before Image:d suicide, and thecapital of the province fell into the power of the invaders.On this occasion Nurhachu made all the inhabitantswho were well disposed to him shave their foreheadsand adopt, the Manchu queue. This was to preventdisloyal Chinese who joined his standard from beingmistaken by his own men for the enemy, and also toput a mark on them if they happened to return to theircountrymen. That such a precaution should have beennecessary is evidence of the strong family likeness whichboth Chinese and Manchus recognise in each other.All the country lying between Fu-shun and the Liaowas annexed, together with the capital, which Nurhachuspeedily converted into his own metropolis. The Chinese took vigorous measures to reconquertheir lost territory. Ting Pi was given command again,but a colleague was associated with him, who refusedto take advice, and frittered away the troops at theirdisposal in small detachments; and he was hampered byobstacles which intriguers at Peking put in his way.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPOTUS confronted the PRC before America confronted the PRC. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst...more

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• 44: Mysteries of Washington D.C. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Jun 19 2020

  Photo: Image from page 10 of "Washington, what to see, and how to see it. A sightseer's guide .." (1888)Identifier: washingtonwhatto00keim Title: Washington, what to see, and how to see it. A sightseer's guide .. Year: 1888 (1880s) Authors:  Keim, De B. Randolph (De Benneville Randolph), 1841-1914 Subjects:  Publisher:  Washington, D.C. Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMysteries of Washington D.C. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst...more

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• 43: New information of Nisman's assassination in Argentina. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 19 2020

  Photo: Market Place, from "Picturesque illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, consisting of twenty-four views: accompanied with descriptions of the scenery, and of the costumes, manners, &c., of the inhabitants of those cities and their environs". "The Market Place in Buenos Aires, Argentina is covered by shops on the sides of the piazza and is divided into different sections of fruits and vegetables, beef, poultry, and spirits. High society women did not enter the market and sent servants or trusted slaves to the market place."Date | 1820Source | http://www.library.miami.edu/specialcollections/collections/treasures/pages/books/picturesque1.htmlAuthor | Emeric Essex Vidal (1791-1861)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNew information of Nisman's assassination in Argentina. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_preshttps://en.mercopress.com/2020/06/14/new-version-of-nisman-s-death-supplied-by-ex-mossad-agent-directly-involves-cristina-fernandez ...more

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• 43: The Neo-Ottomanists dance with Russia, Iran, Syria and Libya. @BlaiseMisztal @HudsonInstitute

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  Jun 19 2020

  Photo:The Surname-I Hümayun (Imperial Festival Book) were albums that commemorated celebrations in the Ottoman Empire in pictorial and textual detail. Here, musicians and dancers entertain the crowds, found in the Surname of 1720.Date | circa 1720 -32Source/Photographer | Surname-I Hümayun http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Neo-Ottomanists dance with Russia, Iran, Syria and Libya.  @BlaiseMisztal @HudsonInstituteBlaise Misztal is a fellow at Hudson Institute. His research program focuses on the Middle East, Europe, and strategic competition. Most recently, Misztal served as the Executive Director of the Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States, a congressionally mandated project convened by the U.S. Institute of Peace. Prior to that, he was director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s national security program.Relevant articles:·         https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-turkey-shunned-russian-gas-its-companies-amassed-debt-11592216429 ·         https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/irans-zarif-went-to-turkey-to-push-close-relations-631517 ·         https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/turkish-plan-to-invade-greece-leaked-in-secret-reveal-report-631641 ·         https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/18/world/middleeast/18reuters-turkey-blast.html ·         https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/06/turkey-strikes-pkk-kurdistan-iraq-sinjar-erdogan-hdp-akp.html ...more

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• 43: Syria descends again. @JonathanSpyer Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 19 2020

  Photo: British Library digitised image from page 127 of "The Lan of Israel; a journal of Travels in Palestine, undertaken with a special reference to its physical character [With illustrations.]"Image taken from:  Title: "The Lan of Israel; a journal of Travels in Palestine, undertaken with a special reference to its physical character [With illustrations.]" Author(s): Tristram, H. B. (Henry Baker), 1822-1906 [person] British Library shelfmark: "Digital Store 10077.c.29" Page: 127 (scanned page number - not necessarily the actual page number in the publication) Place of publication: London (England) Date of publication: 1876 Edition: Third edition, revised Type of resource: Monograph Language(s): English http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSyria descends again. @JonathanSpyer Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presJonathan Spyer is a Middle East analyst, author and journalist specializing in the Levant and Iraq. He is the director of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis (MECRA), a Research Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Strategy and Security and a Fellow at the Middle East Forum. Related articles●        https://jonathanspyer.com/2020/06/12/assads-woes/ ●        https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/11/assad-syria-collapse-313276 ●        https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-caesar-act-comes-into-force-part-1-increasing-the-assad-regimes-isolati ●        https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-caesar-act-comes-into-force-part-2-pressuring-hezbollah-in-lebanon ...more

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• 43: Is Israel properly armed for the coming risks? Charles Wald, USAF (ret) Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 19 2020

  Photo: Israel from "Bible Lands, with glimpses of Europe and Egypt, etc" http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIs Israel properly armed for the coming risks? Charles Wald, USAF (ret) Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presGeneral Charles Wald, USAF (ret.), former Deputy Commander of United States European Command (EUCOM) – General Charles Wald is a proven leader who specializes in global military strategy and development. As EUCOM Deputy Commander he was responsible for developing the air campaign in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Gen. Wald has also served as the Director of Strategic Planning and Policy at USAF Headquarters, Chief of USAF Combat Terrorism Center, and Deputy Chief of Staff for Air and Space Operations at the Pentagon. In 35 years as a USAF command pilot, Gen. Wald accumulated more than 3,600 flying hours and 430 combat hours. ●        https://www.jns.org/defense-experts-raise-alarm-on-critical-shortfall-of-us-weapons-stockpile-in-israel/ ●        https://jinsa.org/jinsa_report/report-anchoring-the-u-s-israel-alliance-rebuilding-americas-arms-stockpile-in-israel/ ●        https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israel-precision-guided-missiles/ ...more

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• 42: PRC tangles with its neighbors and nationals & What is to be done? @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst

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  Jun 19 2020

  Photo: itle: Life and work in India; an account of the conditions, methods, difficulties, results, future prospects and reflex influence of missionary labor in India, especially in the Punjab mission of the United Presbyterian Church of North AmericaYear: 1899 (1890s)Authors:  Stewart, Robert, 1839-1915Subjects:  United Presbyterian Church of North America Missions -- IndiaPublisher:  Philadelphia : Pearl Pub. Co.Contributing Library:  University of California LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  Internet ArchiveText Appearing Before Image:ng eastward, it erected boundary pillars as far asthe Pamirs. The first four years of the period under special review were there-fore years of anxiety for us. This reached its climax in the spring of1885, when tlie incident at Penjdeh, as it is called—that is, aquarrel and a skirmish between the Russian and Afghan forces—occurred, and fears were entertained that war between the two greatcontending powers had already begun. All through the winter of1884-85 great military activity was displayed in India. Preparationswere made for forwarding troops. Soldiers were subjected to constantdrill. Sham battles (to give experience) were fought near the variouscantonments. The writers own residence at Sialkot was often in thecentre of such contests and once, at least, made the figurative objectof attack. A similar but less violent scare also occurred in the spring of 1887. What we missionaries dreaded most was the confusion which wouldinevitably arise in the course of a contest for supremacy.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPRC tangles with its neighbors and nationals & What is to be done? @MichaelAuslin @HooverInstMichael Auslin, Payson R. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia, discusses his newly released book by Hoover Institution Press, Asia’s New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific.https://www.hoover.org/news/book-qa-michael-r-auslin-asias-new-geopolitics-essays-reshaping-indo-pacific ...more

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• 42: The Sino-American War of 2025 was accidentally purposeful. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst

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  Jun 19 2020

  Photo: itle: Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitantsYear: 1851 (1850s)Authors:  Sears, Robert, 1810-1892Subjects: Publisher:  New York, R. SearsContributing Library:  Robarts - University of TorontoDigitizing Sponsor:  University of TorontoText Appearing Before Image:of the cities of Pe-che-le, the emperorpaid great attention to the improvement of his army ; and made a law, thatno soldier should be promoted to command, until he had written a treatiseon the art of war, and given proofs of his skill in horsemanship and archery.Several of his successors, although they were sometimes obliged to makeexpeditions against the formidable foes by whom the northern districts wereheld in perpetual terror, preferred keeping at peace, and were even contentto purchase temporary cessations from war by the payment of tribute ; a planthat was pursued by the Saxon king of England at that very time, in orderto keep off the invasion of the Danes ; and in both cases it proved equallyineffectual. In the meanwhile the great mass of the people were quietlyengaged in their ordinary pursuits ; for there w^ere no signs of warfare inany other part of the country ; and they felt no inconvenience elsewherefrom what was passing in the north. . Literature was promoted by the aidhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Sino-American War of 2025 was accidentally purposeful. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInsthttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/us-china-conflict-how-accidental-war-could-break-out-in-2025/?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=043e745ebc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_15_05_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-043e745ebc-72527561 ...more

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• 42: Retired generals talk loosely of POTUS and the Constitution. @VDHanson @HooverInst

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  Jun 19 2020

  Photo: "Famous whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania", an illustration from Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country by R. M. Devens (Springfield, Mass, 1882).Date | 1880Source | New York Public Library Digital GalleryAuthor | Illustrator unknown to uploaderhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRetired generals talk loosely of POTUS and the Constitution.  @VDHanson @HooverInst...more

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• 42: The Jacobins combine with the Red Guards. @VDHanson @HooverInst

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  Jun 19 2020

  Photo: Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois chassé du club des Jacobins, le soir du 8 thermidor an II. Gravure d'Alfred Johannot, XIX siècle.Date | before 1837http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Jacobins combine with the Red Guards. @VDHanson @HooverInsthttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/how-cultural-revolutions-die-or-not/#slide-1

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• 41: North Korea provokes #in-the-time-of-the-virus. @DavidMaxwell161 @FDD

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  Jun 19 2020

  Photo: British Library digitised image from page 35 of "Korea and the Sacred White Mountain ... with an account of an ascent of the White Mountain by Captain H. E. Goold-Adams. With ... illustrations and ... maps"Image taken from:  Title: "Korea and the Sacred White Mountain ... with an account of an ascent of the White Mountain by Captain H. E. Goold-Adams. With ... illustrations and ... maps" Author(s): Cavendish, Alfred Edward John [person] ; Adams, Henry Edward Fane Goold [person] British Library shelfmark: "Digital Store 10057.d.3" Page: 35 (scanned page number - not necessarily the actual page number in the publication) Place of publication: London (England) Date of publication: 1894 Publisher: G. Philip Type of resource: Monograph Language(s): English Physical description: 224 pages (8°) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNorth Korea provokes #in-the-time-of-the-virus. @DavidMaxwell161 @FDD https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/north-korea-blows-strategic-building-try-blackmail-u-s-south-ncna1231220https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-korea-south-korea-kim-threat-send-troops-demilitarized-zone-after-blowing-up-liaison-office/...more

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• 41: Clubbing to death in the Himalayas despite sub-zero temperatures and oxygen deprivation. @CleoPaskal @FDD

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  Jun 19 2020

  Photo: Title: Shooting in the Himalayas. A journal of sporting adventures and travel in Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet, Cashmere, &cYear: 1854 (1850s)Authors:  Markham, FrederickSubjects:  Hunting -- Himalaya mountains Himalaya Mountains -- Description and travelPublisher:  London, R. BentleyContributing Library:  University of California LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNText Appearing Before Image:the Chenab. 220 KOKSUK. On the 8th, we halted on the Spitee side ofan enormous glacier, and had to send theoxen back, as they could not cross safely. Itwas the most difficult and dangerous of anyI had seen, and extends down to the river,which has cleared a passage for itself. Theglacier is about four miles in breadth. Therewas no wood where we encamped ; but wehad brought enough for our own use, and themen contrived with a few sphnters and somesheeps dung to cook for themselves. On the 11th we reached Koksur, on theright bank of the Chenab, where there is agood rope-bridge, by which the numerousflocks of sheep, that feed on these hills, crossto change their pasture. The shepherds in-formed us, that there was no game on the sidewe had come down (the left bank), but thatwild animals were abundant on the other.The village was destitute of male inhabitants,they having gone with another party towardsLadak. Here we had a meeting with Birtwhistle, ofmy regiment, who remained with me until wehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowClubbing to death  in the Himalayas despite sub-zero temperatures and oxygen deprivation. @CleoPaskal @FDDhttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-china-border-standoff-live-updates/liveblog/76454838.cms ...more

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• 41: The new China Hand at State once escaped from the PRC. @BillGertz @WashingtonTimes

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  Jun 19 2020

  Photo: Title: Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitantsYear: 1851 (1850s)Authors:  Sears, Robert, 1810-1892Subjects: Publisher:  New York, R. SearsContributing Library:  Robarts - University of TorontoDigitizing Sponsor:  University of TorontoText Appearing Before Image:ire. A tradition certainly existed, that at some remote period these islandshad been conquered by a Chinese warrior, who became the founder of theJapanese monarchy, and whose descendants still occupied the throne.Powerful princes are not always very particular about making a good titleto the territories they covet, wherefore the emperor might have thought it asufficient reason for his assumption of superiority, that the first prince ofJapan was a subject of China. The Japanese, however, made a successfulresistance ; and by the help of a storm, which destroyed the greater part ofthe Tartar fleet, they were fortunate enough to preserve that independencewhich they have maintained to this very day. The Tartar conquest produced no alteration in the manners and customsof the native Chinese, which indeed, as before observed, appear not to havebeen aflected by any of the revolutions that have taken place in the country;all the national festivals being observed as in former times, and the samehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe new China Hand at State once escaped from the PRC. @BillGertz @WashingtonTimeshttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/15/miles-yu-mike-pompeo-adviser-helps-form-china-poli/ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/15/miles-yu-mike-pompeo-adviser-discusses-reagan-insp/...more

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• 41: End of the soft PRC news at VOA. @BillGertz @WashingtinTimes

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  Jun 19 2020

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow End of the soft PRC news at VOA. @BillGertz @WashingtinTimes https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/15/top-voa-officials-resign-trump-appointee-takes-cha/

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• 40: "Spygate Exposed." 4of4: by Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova

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  Jun 18 2020

  Photo: Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrationsYear: 1912 (1910s)Authors:  Gray, Arthur, 1852-1940Subjects:  University of Cambridge Universities and colleges -- England HistoryPublisher:  London : MethuenContributing Library:  OISE - University of TorontoDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:fortof decaying Gothic and the erection of the first chapelat Cambridge designed after the new Italian pattern.The change in architectural taste was indicative ofa profounder change of ideas which penetrated theUniversity after 1660. From indigenous English senti-ment and the continuous tradition of centuries it brokeaway. Henceforth the freemason builder disappearsfrom Cambridge, and his place is taken by the travelledarchitect who borrows his designs from the palacesof Italian nobles. The squires or parsons son,familiar with the darkness and inconvenience ofhis Gothic home, had little comfort in the cold re-finement of his new college chamber, and the superiorelegance of the foreign architecture did not reconcilehis father to the loss of old, homely associations. Sothe spirit of the University, like its architecture,ceased to be national ; and, when the life that informedthe foreign art ebbed out in the course of the eighteenthcentury, the pulse of Cambridge beat very faintlyindeed. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Spygate Exposed." 4of4: by Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova https://www.spygate-exposed.com...more

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• 40: "Spygate Exposed." 3of4: by Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova

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  Photo: : Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrationsYear: 1912 (1910s)Authors:  Gray, Arthur, 1852-1940Subjects:  University of Cambridge Universities and colleges -- England HistoryPublisher:  London : MethuenContributing Library:  OISE - University of TorontoText Appearing Before Image:ace, should becomefoul and dangerous. Though Caius is more town-bound and its population has grown more intensely,perhaps, than that of other colleges, the foundersdirection is piously and wisely observed to this day.The example of a three-sided court, in design, at least,foreign to the earlier colleges, was copied at Sidney andEmmanuel, and in Nevilles Court at Trinity. On the east of the college, towards Trinity Street,Dr. Caius purchased from Trinity a large site whichat first was left vacant, but in the next century wasused for the erection of Tree Court. The ancientgate of Gonville Hall, in Saint Michaels Lane, remaineduntil the eighteenth century, but Caius made entrancesto the new part of his college on its eastern and southernsides. In the High Street stood the Gate of Humility,which did not then open on a court. An avenue oftrees conducted from it to the interior college portal,variously styled the Gate of Virtue or the Gate ofWisdom. A third gate, of an enriched and charminghttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Spygate Exposed." 3of4: by Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova https://www.spygate-exposed.com...more

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• 40: "Spygate Exposed." 2of4: by Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova

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  Photo: : Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrationsYear: 1912 (1910s)Authors:  Gray, Arthur, 1852-1940Subjects:  University of Cambridge Universities and colleges -- England HistoryPublisher:  London : MethuenContributing Library:  OISE - University of TorontoDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:ace, should becomefoul and dangerous. Though Caius is more town-bound and its population has grown more intensely,perhaps, than that of other colleges, the foundersdirection is piously and wisely observed to this day.The example of a three-sided court, in design, at least,foreign to the earlier colleges, was copied at Sidney andEmmanuel, and in Nevilles Court at Trinity. On the east of the college, towards Trinity Street,Dr. Caius purchased from Trinity a large site whichat first was left vacant, but in the next century wasused for the erection of Tree Court. The ancientgate of Gonville Hall, in Saint Michaels Lane, remaineduntil the eighteenth century, but Caius made entrancesto the new part of his college on its eastern and southernsides. In the High Street stood the Gate of Humility,which did not then open on a court. An avenue oftrees conducted from it to the interior college portal,variously styled the Gate of Virtue or the Gate ofWisdom. A third gate, of an enriched and charminghttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Spygate Exposed." 2of4: by Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova https://www.spygate-exposed.com...more

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• 40: "Spygate Exposed." 1of4: by Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova

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  Photo: Image from page 553 of "The Cambridge natural history" (1900) Title: The Cambridge natural history Identifier: cambridgenatural09harm Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Harmer, S. F. (Sidney Frederic), Sir, 1862-; Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927 Subjects: Zoology; Zoologia Geral Publisher: [London, Macmillan and co. , limited; New York, The Macmillan company Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Spygate Exposed." 1of4: by Svetlana Lokhova @TheRealSLokhova https://www.spygate-exposed.com...more

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• 39: The Oxygen of Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 18 2020

  Photo: Martian sunset by Spirit rover at Gusev crater (May, 2005).NASA's Mars Exploration Rover - http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050610a/sunset_a489_gamma_2sub_800.jpg linked from http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050610a.html; losslessly cropped to 2486 pixels wide by 720 pixels high, cropped image data unchanged Martian sunset: Spirit at Gusev crater. Permission details Use of NASA logos, insignia and emblems is restricted per U.S. law 14 CFR 1221. The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain. Materials based on Hubble Space Telescope data may be copyrighted if they are not explicitly produced by the STScI.[1] See also {{PD-Hubble}} and {{Cc-Hubble}}. The SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use. [2] Images featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day(APOD) web site may be copyrighted. [3] The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) site has been known to host copyrighted content. Its photo gallery FAQ states that all of the images in the photo gallery are in the public domain "Unless otherwise noted."View more Public Domainview terms File:MarsSunset losslesscrop.jpg Created: 19 May 2005 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Oxygen of Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/trace-gas-orbiter-detects-oxygen-layer-in-martian-atmosphere/ ...more

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• 39: "When SLS launches..." Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo: H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" image http://www.alaska.faa.gov/fai/afss/AcftPhoto-List.htmhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/49487266@N07/7881222436 Permission details This image or file is a work of a Federal Aviation Administration employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States.View more Public Domainview terms File:H-4 Hercules 2.jpg Created: 2012-08-24 12:14:28 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"When SLS launches..."  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-coming-final-flight-of-the-shuttles-solid-rocket-booster-segments/ ...more

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• 39: Italy opens for EU visitors with social distancing and sun-blessed plazas. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation.

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  Jun 18 2020

  Photo: Gentile Bellini: Procession in the Piazza San Marco. This shows the piazza in 1496 Gentile Bellini and one more author 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:Accademia - Procession in piazza San Marco by Gentile Bellini.jpg Created: 1496date QS:P571,+1496-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 Location: 45° 25′ 52.39″ N, 12° 19′ 41.88″ E http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowItaly opens for EU visitors with social distancing and sun-blessed plazas. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation.https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/jun/17/tourists-return-to-venice-as-lockdown-eases-in-italy-in-pictures ...more

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• 39: State of the City, the State, the Union: NYPD broken-window policing has long been the security and prosperity of NYC. John Catsimatidis, @JCats13 @CatsRoundtable

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  Photo: The regulation uniforms of the Metropolitan Police in 1871Hatch & Co. - NYPL.org NY Metropolitan police uniforms, July 1871 Public Domain File:New York Metropolitan Police Uniforms 1871.jpg Created: 1 January 1871 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowState of the City, the State, the Union: NYPD broken-window policing has long been the security and prosperity of NYC. John Catsimatidis, @JCats13 @CatsRoundtablehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory ...more

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• 38: The skilled Democratic trial lawyers vs Senate Majority Leader McConnell. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Jun 18 2020

  Photo: Title: A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar S. Shumway ..Year: 1885 (1880s)Authors:  Lohr, Fr Shumway, Edgar Solomon, ed. (and) trSubjects:  Rome -- Antiquities Rome (city) -- Description and travelPublisher:  New York, Chautauqua pressContributing Library:  Robarts - University of TorontoDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNText Appearing After Image:u THE CARCER. 21 approaching from the eastern hills. The procession is headed bythe Senate, who, in festal robes, have received the conqueror and hisarmy at the gate of the city. Next come the trumpeters. Behindthese are creaking the wagons laden with booty ; and here andthere among them are seen, towering up boastfully, the litters withthe more precious pieces of booty carried on the shoulders ofsturdy men. As the wagons approach the crowd, every man stretches hisneck to read, from the tablets carried on high, what province hasbeen subdued, how much booty has been taken, and to whom thecostly weapons and coats-of-arms had formerly belonged. Thenoisy crowd becomes more silent on the approach of the priests,the bullock adorned with white ribbons in their midst; but loudshouts of joy break forth to greet the conqueror as he proceeds onhis way to the Capitol, clad in an embroidered toga, and borneupon a triumphal chariot, which is adorned with ivory, and drawn byfour horses. Joy and pridhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe skilled Democratic trial lawyers vs Senate Majority Leader McConnell. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/beware-tort-liability-covid-casesBut for diffuse injuries with the potential to affect a large number of people, direct administrative enforcement is more effective. That has long been the general rule with respect to public nuisances dating back to 1536, which only let people with “special damages” sue. Generalized losses suffered by large segments of the population, on the other hand, were covered by fines and related administrative actions to ensure wrongdoers did not escape for free....more

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• 38: The coming hullabaloo about liability #in-the-time-of-the-virus. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Jun 18 2020

  Photo: A trial by jury is unusual in almost all countries for non-criminal cases David Henry Friston - Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News Engraving of Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury. 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:Trial by Jury - Chaos in the Courtroom.png Created: 1 May 1875 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe coming hullabaloo about liability #in-the-time-of-the-virus. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/beware-tort-liability-covid-casesThe administrative costs of any COVID-related tort system would be unbearably large, as would the error rate for determinations of liability and damages. There is a constant risk that defendants who have taken all the right precautions will still be required to pay damages....more

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• 39: PRC boasts that it will win future tech with cash and aggression. Brandon Weichert. Weichert Report. @GordonGChang @WeTheBrandon

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  Jun 18 2020

  Photo: Image from page 190 of "1918 Griffith and Turner Co. : farm and garden supplies" (1918) Title: 1918 Griffith and Turner Co. : farm and garden supplies Identifier: 1918griffithturn1918grif Year: 1918 (1910s) Authors: Griffith and Turner Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection Subjects: Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Griffith and Turner Co. , 1918 Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPRC boasts that it will win future tech with cash and aggression. Brandon Weichert. Weichert Report. @GordonGChang @WeTheBrandonhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-trillion-dollar-campaign-fuels-a-tech-race-with-the-u-s-11591892854 ...more

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• 38: PRC pushes the reviled extradition law on the defenseless Hong Kong. @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang

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  Jun 18 2020

  Photo: Pedder_Street, Hong KongDate | Published London, 1873-1874Source | 'Illustrations of China and Its People'http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPRC pushes the reviled extradition law on the defenseless Hong Kong. @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3089386/breaking-hong-kong-national-security-law-could-get

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• 35: Chasing the Last Laugh: 4of4: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Zacks (Author), George Guidall (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 18 2020

  Photo: Mark Twain : Les Aventures de Huck Finn, illustrations Achille SirouyDate | 1886Source | Hennuyer, Paris, 1886http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Chasing the Last Laugh: 4of4: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Richard Zacks (Author), George Guidall (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Last-Laugh-Round-World/dp/B01DO8C9LM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation's worst investors. "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate," he wrote. "When he can't afford it and when he can." The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink. After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars back when a beer cost a nickel, he found himself neck-deep in debt. His heiress wife, Livy, took the setback hard. "I have a perfect horror and heart-sickness over it," she wrote. "I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace."  But Twain vowed to Livy he would pay back every penny. And so, just when the 59-year-old, bushy-browed icon imagined that he would be settling into literary lionhood, telling jokes at gilded dinners, he forced himself to mount the "platform" again, embarking on a round-the-world stand-up comedy tour. No author had ever done that. He cherry-picked his best stories - such as stealing his first watermelon and buying a bucking bronco - and spun them into a 90-minute performance.  Twain trekked across the American West and onward by ship to the faraway lands of Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, India, Ceylon, and South Africa. He rode an elephant twice and visited the Taj Mahal. He saw Zulus dancing and helped sort diamonds at the Kimberley mines. (He failed to slip away with a sparkly souvenir.) He played shuffleboard on cruise ships and battled captains for the right to smoke in peace. He complained that his wife and daughter made him shave and change his shirt every day.  The great American writer fought off numerous illnesses and travel nuisances to circle the globe and earn a huge payday and a tidal wave of applause. Word of his success, however, traveled slowly enough that one American newspaper reported that he had died penniless in London. That's when he famously quipped, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."  Throughout his quest, Twain was aided by cutthroat Standard Oil tycoon H. H. Rogers, with whom he had struck a deep friendship, and he was hindered by his own lawyer (and future secretary of state) Bainbridge Colby, whom he deemed "head idiot of this century".  In Chasing the Last Laugh, author Richard Zacks, drawing extensively on unpublished material in notebooks and letters from Berkeley's ongoing Mark Twain Project, chronicles a poignant chapter in the author's life - one that began in foolishness and bad choices but culminated in humor, hard-won wisdom, and ultimate triumph....more

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• 37: Chasing the Last Laugh: 3of4: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Zacks (Author), George Guidall (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 18 2020

  Photo: British Library digitised image from page 576 of "Life on the Mississippi. By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) ... With more than 300 illustrations, etc"Image taken from:  Title: "Life on the Mississippi. By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) ... With more than 300 illustrations, etc" Author(s): Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 [person] British Library shelfmark: "Digital Store 10410.s.4" Page: 576 (scanned page number - not necessarily the actual page number in the publication) Place of publication: Boston Date of publication: 1883 Publisher: J. R. Osgood Type of resource: Monograph Language(s): English Physical description: 624 pages (8°) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Chasing the Last Laugh: 3of4: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Richard Zacks (Author), George Guidall (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Last-Laugh-Round-World/dp/B01DO8C9LM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation's worst investors. "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate," he wrote. "When he can't afford it and when he can." The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink. After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars back when a beer cost a nickel, he found himself neck-deep in debt. His heiress wife, Livy, took the setback hard. "I have a perfect horror and heart-sickness over it," she wrote. "I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace."  But Twain vowed to Livy he would pay back every penny. And so, just when the 59-year-old, bushy-browed icon imagined that he would be settling into literary lionhood, telling jokes at gilded dinners, he forced himself to mount the "platform" again, embarking on a round-the-world stand-up comedy tour. No author had ever done that. He cherry-picked his best stories - such as stealing his first watermelon and buying a bucking bronco - and spun them into a 90-minute performance.  Twain trekked across the American West and onward by ship to the faraway lands of Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, India, Ceylon, and South Africa. He rode an elephant twice and visited the Taj Mahal. He saw Zulus dancing and helped sort diamonds at the Kimberley mines. (He failed to slip away with a sparkly souvenir.) He played shuffleboard on cruise ships and battled captains for the right to smoke in peace. He complained that his wife and daughter made him shave and change his shirt every day.  The great American writer fought off numerous illnesses and travel nuisances to circle the globe and earn a huge payday and a tidal wave of applause. Word of his success, however, traveled slowly enough that one American newspaper reported that he had died penniless in London. That's when he famously quipped, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."  Throughout his quest, Twain was aided by cutthroat Standard Oil tycoon H. H. Rogers, with whom he had struck a deep friendship, and he was hindered by his own lawyer (and future secretary of state) Bainbridge Colby, whom he deemed "head idiot of this century".  In Chasing the Last Laugh, author Richard Zacks, drawing extensively on unpublished material in notebooks and letters from Berkeley's ongoing Mark Twain Project, chronicles a poignant chapter in the author's life - one that began in foolishness and bad choices but culminated in humor, hard-won wisdom, and ultimate triumph....more

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• 37: Chasing the Last Laugh: 2of4: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Zacks (Author), George Guidall (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 18 2020

  Photo: Mark Twain's Sketches, New and OldPublisher | The American Publishing CompanyObject type | short story collection Language | EnglishPublication date | 1875Place of publication | Hartford et Chicagohttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Chasing the Last Laugh: 2of4: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Richard Zacks (Author), George Guidall (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Last-Laugh-Round-World/dp/B01DO8C9LM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation's worst investors. "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate," he wrote. "When he can't afford it and when he can." The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink. After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars back when a beer cost a nickel, he found himself neck-deep in debt. His heiress wife, Livy, took the setback hard. "I have a perfect horror and heart-sickness over it," she wrote. "I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace."  But Twain vowed to Livy he would pay back every penny. And so, just when the 59-year-old, bushy-browed icon imagined that he would be settling into literary lionhood, telling jokes at gilded dinners, he forced himself to mount the "platform" again, embarking on a round-the-world stand-up comedy tour. No author had ever done that. He cherry-picked his best stories - such as stealing his first watermelon and buying a bucking bronco - and spun them into a 90-minute performance.  Twain trekked across the American West and onward by ship to the faraway lands of Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, India, Ceylon, and South Africa. He rode an elephant twice and visited the Taj Mahal. He saw Zulus dancing and helped sort diamonds at the Kimberley mines. (He failed to slip away with a sparkly souvenir.) He played shuffleboard on cruise ships and battled captains for the right to smoke in peace. He complained that his wife and daughter made him shave and change his shirt every day.  The great American writer fought off numerous illnesses and travel nuisances to circle the globe and earn a huge payday and a tidal wave of applause. Word of his success, however, traveled slowly enough that one American newspaper reported that he had died penniless in London. That's when he famously quipped, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."  Throughout his quest, Twain was aided by cutthroat Standard Oil tycoon H. H. Rogers, with whom he had struck a deep friendship, and he was hindered by his own lawyer (and future secretary of state) Bainbridge Colby, whom he deemed "head idiot of this century".  In Chasing the Last Laugh, author Richard Zacks, drawing extensively on unpublished material in notebooks and letters from Berkeley's ongoing Mark Twain Project, chronicles a poignant chapter in the author's life - one that began in foolishness and bad choices but culminated in humor, hard-won wisdom, and ultimate triumph....more

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• 37: Chasing the Last Laugh: 1of4: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Richard Zacks (Author), George Guidall (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 18 2020

  Photo: British Library digitised image from page 176 of "A Tramp Abroad. By Mark Twain"Image taken from:  Title: "A Tramp Abroad. By Mark Twain" Author(s): Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 [person] ; Brown, Walter Francis [person] British Library shelfmark: "Digital Store 10107.e.8" Page: 176 (scanned page number - not necessarily the actual page number in the publication) Place of publication: London (England) Date of publication: 1880 Publisher: Chatto & Windus Edition: Another edition, Illustrated by W. Frames Brown, True Williams, B. Day and other artists-with also three or four pictures made by the author of this book, By Mark Twain, Samuel L. Clemens Type of resource: Monograph http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Chasing the Last Laugh: 1of4: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Richard Zacks (Author), George Guidall (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Last-Laugh-Round-World/dp/B01DO8C9LM/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation's worst investors. "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate," he wrote. "When he can't afford it and when he can." The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink. After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars back when a beer cost a nickel, he found himself neck-deep in debt. His heiress wife, Livy, took the setback hard. "I have a perfect horror and heart-sickness over it," she wrote. "I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace."  But Twain vowed to Livy he would pay back every penny. And so, just when the 59-year-old, bushy-browed icon imagined that he would be settling into literary lionhood, telling jokes at gilded dinners, he forced himself to mount the "platform" again, embarking on a round-the-world stand-up comedy tour. No author had ever done that. He cherry-picked his best stories - such as stealing his first watermelon and buying a bucking bronco - and spun them into a 90-minute performance.  Twain trekked across the American West and onward by ship to the faraway lands of Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, India, Ceylon, and South Africa. He rode an elephant twice and visited the Taj Mahal. He saw Zulus dancing and helped sort diamonds at the Kimberley mines. (He failed to slip away with a sparkly souvenir.) He played shuffleboard on cruise ships and battled captains for the right to smoke in peace. He complained that his wife and daughter made him shave and change his shirt every day.  The great American writer fought off numerous illnesses and travel nuisances to circle the globe and earn a huge payday and a tidal wave of applause. Word of his success, however, traveled slowly enough that one American newspaper reported that he had died penniless in London. That's when he famously quipped, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."  Throughout his quest, Twain was aided by cutthroat Standard Oil tycoon H. H. Rogers, with whom he had struck a deep friendship, and he was hindered by his own lawyer (and future secretary of state) Bainbridge Colby, whom he deemed "head idiot of this century".  In Chasing the Last Laugh, author Richard Zacks, drawing extensively on unpublished material in notebooks and letters from Berkeley's ongoing Mark Twain Project, chronicles a poignant chapter in the author's life - one that began in foolishness and bad choices but culminated in humor, hard-won wisdom, and ultimate triumph....more

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• 36: The US submarine fleet of Virginia Class Attack Boats and Columbia Class Boomers present global supremacy. Admiral Gary Roughead, USN (ret.), @HooverInst

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  Jun 17 2020

  Photo: Drawing showing three U.S. Navy submarines: a World War II fleet submarine, commissioned 1941-1945: length 95 m, ca. 2,500 t displacement submerged;the first nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus (SSN-571), commissioned 1954: 98 m, 4,100 t;the first ballistic missile submarine USS George Washington (SSBN-598), commissioned 1959: 116 m, 6,800 t.Date | 1967Source | U.S. Navy All Hands magazine September 1967, p. 35.Author | USNhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe US submarine fleet of Virginia Class Attack Boats and Columbia Class Boomers present global supremacy. Admiral Gary Roughead, USN (ret.), @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/hasc_seapower_-_roughead_4_june_20201.pdf ...more

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• 36: Twenty-first Century risks and threats for the US Navy. Admiral Gary Roughead, USN (ret.). @HooverInst

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  Jun 17 2020

  Photo: Kansas sails ahead of Vermont as the fleet leaves Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 16 December 1907.View author information Public Domain File:Us-atlantic-fleet-1907.jpg Uploaded: 2005-09-08 08:23:19 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTwenty-first Century risks and threats for the US Navy. Admiral Gary Roughead, USN (ret.). @HooverInsthttps://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/hasc_seapower_-_roughead_4_june_20201.pdf ...more

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• 36: The shoppers return to Oxford Street and the sun returns to Regent's Park. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 17 2020

  Photo: L.LEVY LL No.81 Postcard c.1910 STREET SCENE THE STRAND LONDONDate | between 1910 and 1911 Source | ebayAuthor | Léon & Lévyhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe shoppers return to Oxford Street and the sun returns to Regent's Park.  @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinionhttps://www.ft.com/content/4bed398d-36bd-48cb-b227-a11607147c61

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• 36: London: Boris Johnson pronounces "biggest breakthrough yet" for a virus remediation but none such for Brexit. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 17 2020

  Photo: London Bridge, London, United Kingdom, 1901Date | circa 1910 Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/8623220@N02/3477959489/Author | Library of Congresshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLondon: Boris Johnson pronounces "biggest breakthrough yet" for a virus remediation but none such for Brexit. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinionhttps://www.ft.com/content/25496bd1-8664-4674-abeb-c95dfe478156

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• 35: The return of Richard Nixon's "silent majority" in the aftermath of the virus followed by the disorder. @LizPeek @theHill

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  Jun 17 2020

  Photo: Prince Phillip of Great Britain, Richard Nixon, Bob Hope, and Carl Albert. November 24, 1969Date | 24 November 1969Source | http://www.ou.edu/carlalbertcenter/congressional-collectionAuthor | Carl Albert Research and Studies Center, Congressional Collectionhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe return of Richard Nixon's "silent majority" in the aftermath of the virus followed by the disorder. @LizPeek @theHillhttps://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/20200616/liz-peek-silent-majority-grows-ever-more-silent ...more

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• 35: Shopping Americans surprise the doubters of Wall Street and Main Street. @LizPeek

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  Jun 17 2020

  Photo:  1847 Rogers Bros. - A shopping scene in 1847 (1916 advertisement) Title: American forestryIdentifier: americanforestry221916amer (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 GardenView 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: I^ri r.ix. pll "SilUer "Plate that Wears" Made by the original Rogers Brothers in 1847, it has set the ^andard. It is sold with an unqualified guarantee made possible by the actual te^ of over 65 years. The"01d Colony"and"CromweH"pattems illusilrat- ed here show the characteristic beauty of this ware. The quaHty and richness of design make 1847 ROGERS BROS, silverware especially favored for gifts. Buy early while your dealer has a full line. Sold by leading dealers. Send for illustrated catalogue "M30" INTERNATIONAL SILVER CO. NEW YORK SA.N FRANCISCO ■ to ^Mer-itjfn ; MERIDEN, CONN. CHICAGO HAM ILTON, CANADA http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowShopping Americans surprise the doubters of Wall Street and Main Street. @LizPeek https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/business/stock-market-today-coronavirus.html ...more

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• 35: #NewWorld: Colombia hit by the virus; Venezuela hit by the Maduro regime. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal.

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  Photo: Plano de Bogotá del Atlas geográfico e histórico de la República de Colombia, 1890. Carta XX del Atlas geográfico e histórico de la República de Colombia, 1890.Date | 1890Source | Atlas geográfico e histórico de la República de Colombia, 1890.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#NewWorld: Colombia hit by the virus; Venezuela hit by the Maduro regime.  @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal.https://komonews.com/news/coronavirus/colombia-reports-biggest-daily-increase-in-virus-caseshttps://www.dw.com/en/venezuela-top-court-suspends-leaders-of-key-opposition-parties/a-53837112 ...more

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• 35: #NewWorld: Peru suffers by far the worst in Latin America; Panama is a distant second. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal.

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  Photo: La Plaza Bolognesi y el Paseo Colón, en Lima, Perú, 1928.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#NewWorld: Peru suffers by far the worst per capita in Latin America; Panama is a distant second. @jmhumire, @MariaFdaCabal.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-53051157

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• 34: Practiced and empty PRC indignation on display before SecState Pompeo in Hawaii. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Jun 17 2020

  Photo: Kalahaku Resthouse, Haleakalā Crater Rim, 1909  NPS Photo http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPracticed and empty PRC indignation on display before SecState Pompeo in Hawaii. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairshttps://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/16/pompeo-hawaii-summit-china-322836

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• 34: War Drums along the Himalayan border. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  Jun 17 2020

  Photo: British Library digitised image from page 37 of "Pictorial tour round India; with remarks on India past and present, alleged and true causes of Indian poverty, supposed or real, twelve means available for promoting the wealth of the country, etc" Title: "Pictorial tour round India; with remarks on India past and present, alleged and true causes of Indian poverty, supposed or real, twelve means available for promoting the wealth of the country, etc" Author(s): Murdoch, John, 1819-1904 [person] British Library shelfmark: "Digital Store 10058.l.9" Page: 37 (scanned page number - not necessarily the actual page number in the publication) Place of publication: Madras Date of publication: 1890 Publisher: Christian Vernacular Education Society Edition: Second edition Pictorial Tour round India, Illustrated By J. Murdoch Type of resource: Monograph Language(s): English Physical description: 65 pages (4°) Topics: India--Description and travel http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWar Drums along the Himalayan border. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairshttps://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/asia/china-india-border-clash-intl-hnk/index.html ...more

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• 34: Manhattan DA Cy Vance watches St. Patrick's Cathedral through a broken window. @WJMcGurn @WSJ

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  Photo: ish Library HMNTS 10410.pp.13.Source/Photographer | Image extracted from page 602 of  King's Hand-book of the United States planned and edited by M. King. Text by M. F. Sweetser, by SWEETSER, Moses Forster. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowManhattan DA Cy Vance watches St. Patrick's Cathedral through a broken window. @WJMcGurn @WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/cy-vances-broken-window-11592263910 ...more

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• 34: Biden's short list for vice-president has more questions than solutions for the campaign. @WhalenHoover

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  Jun 17 2020

  Photo: Washington St., Atlanta, est. 1890–1910Date | 31 December 1910Source | https://www.ebay.com/itm/ATLANTA-GEORGIA-WASHINGTON-STREET-WOODWARD-BRIDGE-CANCEL-POSTCARD-1910/371987352822?hash=item569c2c8cf6:g:CaMAAOSw1~JZPweLAuthor | Unknown authorhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBiden's short list for vice-president has more questions than solutions for the campaign.  @WhalenHoover https://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2020/06/14/bidens-short-list-is-long-on-complications/#6d5fc3158ebc...more

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• 33: CA Proposition 209 is back to the future on affirmative action interpretations. Bruce Thornton, @HooverInst

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  Jun 17 2020

  Photo: California historical coat of arms (illustrated, 1876) Henry Mitchell Restoration by Godot13 - Mitchell, Henry (1876) The State Arms of the Union, Boston: L. Prang & Co.  California state coat of arms Permission details This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia. The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.View more Public DomainThis image contains official insignia which may be subject to legal restrictions.view terms File:California state coat of arms (illustrated, 1876).jpg Created: 1 January 1876 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCA Proposition 209 is back to the future on affirmative action interpretations. Bruce Thornton, @HooverInsthttps://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/06/california-seeks-empower-illiberal-identity-bruce-thornton/ ...more

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• 33: Inquiries about the future strength of the markets turn on the Japan-scale accommodation by the worldwide central bankers. Gunnar Gregory, Vancery.com

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  Jun 17 2020

  Photo: Site of Jamestown, on James R. Va. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowInquiries about the future strength of the markets turn on the Japan-scale accommodation by the worldwide central bankers. Gunnar Gregory, Vancery.comhttps://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-stock-futures-little-changed-after-wall-streets-latest-rally-2020-06-16

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• 33: The Roberts Court chooses not to defer to the Congress on interpretation of the famed Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. John Yoo, @HooverInst

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  Jun 17 2020

  Photo: Une rue de New York vers 1890Date | 1 January 1890Source | queenscrap.blogspot.comAuthor | Unknown authorhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Roberts Court chooses not to defer to the Congress on interpretation of the famed Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. John Yoo, @HooverInst

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• 33: The Federal government can intervene in Seattle if the disorder exceeds Washington's police power. John Yoo. @HooverInst @BerkeleyLAw

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  Jun 17 2020

  Photo:  1st Ave. looking north from James St, Seattle, 1900Description | English: Shows Pioneer Building at right, Starr-Boyd Building and New York Mutual Life Building at left. Business firms depicted: Stewart and Holmes Drug Co. (627-629 1st Ave.); Morrison's Saloon (621-623 1st Ave.),Subjects (LCTGM): Streets--Washington (State)--Seattle; Business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Bars--Washington (State)--SeattleSubjects (LCSH): First Avenue (Seattle, Wash.); Starr-Boyd Building (Seattle, Wash.); Pioneer Buildings (Seattle, Wash.); New York Mutual Life Building; Morrison's Saloon (Seattle, Wash.)Depicted place | SeattleDate | 1900Medium | English: silver gelatin, b&whttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Federal government can intervene in Seattle if the disorder exceeds Washington's police power. John Yoo. @HooverInst @BerkeleyLAwhttps://www.foxnews.com/opinion/seattle-unrest-trump-power-intervene-should-he-john-yoo?utm_source=Hoover%20Daily%20Report&utm_campaign=b97af49ab0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_11_06_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-b97af49ab0-72527561 ...more

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• 33: Robustly Reawakening the National Parks and Trails with the Great American Outdoors Act. @BrianYablonski @PERCTweets

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  Jun 16 2020

  Photo: Three climbers on a glacier on Mount Rainier, July 24, 1910Description | English: Now located in Mount Rainier National Park which was established in 1899. PH Coll 35.413Subjects (LCTGM): Mountaineering--Washington (State); Glaciers--Washington (State); Mountains, Washington (State)Subjects (LCSH): Mountaineers--Washington (State); Rainier, Mount (Wash.)Depicted place | Mount RainierDate | 1910http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRobustly Reawakening the National Parks and Trails with the Great American Outdoors Act. @BrianYablonski @PERCTweets https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/502756-during-a-time-of-uncertainty-great-american-outdoorshttps://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/407906-paying-for-the-future-of-public-lands ...more

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• 33: The Southern Gas Corridor/Pipeline from Azerbaijan proceeds toward Turkey and Western Europe as the crisis lifts and demand revives. @ProfBShaffer @FDD @Georgetown

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  Jun 16 2020

  Photo:  Old illustration of Ateshgah of Baku, or Fire Temple. AzerbaijanDate | until 1860Source | Le Tour du Monde, Paris, 1860. See also this citeAuthor | Jean-Pierre Moynethttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Southern Gas Corridor/Pipeline from Azerbaijan  proceeds toward Turkey and Western Europe as the crisis lifts and demand revives. @ProfBShaffer @FDD @Georgetownhttps://www.kallanishenergy.com/2020/06/15/tanap-to-reach-full-delivery-capacity-to-turkey/ ...more

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• 32: Lyndon Johnson loses heart in the Newark and Detroit irots, July, 1967. @AmityShlaes

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  Photo: July 24, 1967. President Lyndon B. Johnson (seated, foreground) confers with (background L-R): Marvin Watson, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Sec. Robert McNamara, Gen. Harold Keith Johnson, Joe Califano, Sec. of the Army Stanley Rogers Resor, on responding to the riots Yoichi Okamoto - http://www.lbjlibrary.net/collections/photo-archive/photolab-detail.html?id=658 President Lyndon B. Johnson (seated, foreground) working with (background L-R): Marvin Watson, J. Edgar Hoover, Sec. Robert McNamara, Gen. Harold Johnson, Joe Califano, Sec. Of the Army Stanley Resor. Public Domain File:Meeting on Detriot riots Oval Office.jpg Created: 24 July 1967 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLyndon Johnson loses heart in the Newark and Detroit irots, July, 1967. @AmityShlaes Great Society: A New History  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Amity Shlaes (Author), Terence Aselford (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Great-Society-Amity-Shlaes-audiobook/dp/B07VD93K3J/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ...more

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• 31: Sergeant Shriver, the War on Poverty and the Watts Riot, August, 1965. @AmityShlaes

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  Photo: Soldiers of California's 40th Armored Division direct traffic away from an area of South Central Los Angeles burning during the Watts riotNational Guard Education Foundation - http://www.nationalguard.mil/news/todayinhistory/august.aspx Soldiers of California's 40th Armored Division direct traffic away from an area of South Central Los Angeles burning during the Watts riot. Whole city blocks were gutted by arson and mob set fires that the fire department was powerless to control due to sniper attacks. Public Domain File:40th in Watts.jpg Created: 2013-06-15 15:19:32 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSergeant Shriver, the War on Poverty and the Watts Riot, August, 1965. @AmityShlaes Great Society: A New History  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Amity Shlaes (Author), Terence Aselford (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Great-Society-Amity-Shlaes-audiobook/dp/B07VD93K3J/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ...more

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• 29: Tehran runs low on cash for its Iraqi hirelings. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jun 16 2020

  Phoashto:By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913Year: 1920 (1920s)Authors:  Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934Subjects:  Egypt -- Antiquities Egypt -- Description and travel Iraq -- Description and travel Iraq -- AntiquitiesPublisher:  London : MurrayContributing Library:  Robarts - University of TorontoDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:a.h. 870 = a.d. 1465. (13) Gama ash-Shekh, i.e., the Mosque of Shekh Abdal-Kadar of Ghilan, the patron saint of Baghdad, who isinvoked at all times. He died about a.h. 650 = a.d.1252, aged 91 years, but the fine dome above his tombwas not built until a.h. 840 = a.d. 1436. ^ I have adopted Felix Joness spelling and dates. ^ The minaret of this mosque is the oldest and highest in Baghdad ;of the original building of which it formed the most important partvery Uttle remains. For a transcript of the inscriptions see Niebuhr,Reisebeschreibung, vol. ii, p. 296, note 2. This is a very fine building, and well worth a close examination. This mosque is a very popular place of pilgrimage, and is avery handsome building. It lies some distance from the river, andan aqueduct has been made by the pious to provide pilgrims withwater. Niebuhr says (op. cit., ii, p. 297) that it possessed large revenuesout of which board and lodging were provided for needy pilgrims andothers. i To face p. 19^, vol. i. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTehran runs low on cash for its Iraqi hirelings. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness...more

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• 29: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Cannabis of 8th Century BCE Tel Arad. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jun 16 2020

  Photo: Caption:dead sea and mountains of moab, from mar saba.Date | between 1877 and 1879 Source | Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt, Division I, p. 152. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1881.Author | An engraving based on a sketch or watercolor by J.D. Woodwardhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Cannabis of 8th Century BCE Tel Arad. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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• 30: Swiss editorial finds NYT unacceptably partisan. @PaulR_Gregory

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  Jun 16 2020

  Image:  Neue Zürcher Zeitung  https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/502669-the-nyt-and-the-cotton-op-ed-opinion-or-party-line

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• 29: Never-Trumpers for Biden @DavidMDrucker

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  Jun 16 2020

  Image:  Screen grab  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/never-trump-republicans-collaborating-with-democrats-to-elect-biden

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• 28: Unexplained Covid-19 outbreak in Bejing's vast fruit and vegetable market & What is to be done? Professor Arthur. @GordonGChang

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  Jun 16 2020

  Photo: The first Mongol siege of Beijing in 1213–1214. The city fell in the second siege of 1214–1215.Sayf al-Vâhidî. Hérât. Afghanistan - Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Division orientale. Supplément persan 1113, fol. 65v Siege of Beijing. Jami' al-tawarikh, Rashid al-Din. Public Domain File:Siège de Beijing (1213-1214).jpeg Created: 1 January 1430 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowUnexplained Covid-19 outbreak in Bejing's vast fruit and vegetable market & What is to be done? Professor Arthur. @GordonGChang ...more

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• 28: SecState Pompeo travels to Hawaii to confront the belligerent PRC FM Yang. Professor Arthur. @GordonGChang

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  Jun 16 2020

  Photo: public domainPassengers disembarking from the steamer "Ohio" at Honolulu, Hawaii, ca.1900-1907 Photograph of passengers disembarking at Honolulu from the steamship "Ohio", ca.1900-1907. A man wearing a lei and holding a parasol stands in the foreground with a crowd of finely-dressed people behind him. The large ship extends next to the dock from the left foreground to the right background. People look over the rail on the deck of the ship while others walk down the long ramp at right. Call number: CHS-404 Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 Filename: CHS-404 Coverage date: circa 1900/1907 Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSecState Pompeo travels to Hawaii to confront the belligerent PRC FM Yang. Professor Arthur. @GordonGChang  https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3088989/coronavirus-beijing-reports-36-new-local-cases-all-links-xinfadi ...more

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• 28: Taliban curses democracy in order to make a deal with democracy. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Jun 16 2020

  Photo: Titled "Dignity & Impudence" for stereotypic personality traits of elephants and mules respectively, this photograph by John Burke shows an elephant and mule battery during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The mule team would have hauled supplies or towed the small field gun, while the elephants towed the larger gun. The gun appears to be a Rifled Muzzle Loader (RML) 7-pounder mountain gun. The men in the photograph are a mix of British soldiers and Indian sepoys. The group kneeling around the smaller, muzzle-loaded field gun is preparing to fire after the soldier at front left has used the ramrod to push the charge down into the gun. The gun at right, towed by elephants, appears to be a Rifled breech loader (RBL) 40-pounder ArmstrongBurke, John, died 1900 - http://dl.wdl.org/11496.png Gallery: http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11496/ This photograph of an elephant and mule battery is from an album of rare historical photographs depicting people and places associated with the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The mule team on the left side of the photograph would have hauled supplies or towed the small field gun, while the elephants towed the larger gun. The gun appears to be an RML 7-pounder mountain gun. The men in the photograph are a mix of British soldiers and Indian sepoys. The group kneeling around the smaller, muzzle-loaded field gun is preparing to fire after the soldier at front left has used the ramrod he is holding to jam the charge down into the gun. The gun at right, towed by elephants, appears to be an RBL 40-pounder Armstrong breechloader, as evidenced by gunner with ramrod behind the gun. The humorous caption invokes common stereotypes about elephants (“dignity”) and mules (“impudence”). The Second Anglo-Afghan War began in November 1878 when Great Britain, fearful of what it saw as growing Russian influence in Afghanistan, invaded the country from British India. The first phase of the war ended in May 1879 with the Treaty of Gandamak, which permitted the Afghans to maintain internal sovereignty but forced them to cede control over their foreign policy to the British. Fighting resumed in September 1879, after an anti-British uprising in Kabul, and finally concluded in September 1880 with the decisive Battle of Kandahar. The album includes portraits of British and Afghan leaders and military personnel, portraits of ordinary Afghan people, and depictions of British military camps and activities, structures, landscapes, and cities and towns. The sites shown are all located within the borders of present-day Afghanistan or Pakistan (a part of British India at the time). About a third of the photographs were taken by John Burke (circa 1843–1900), another third by Sir Benjamin Simpson (1831–1923), and the remainder by several other photographers. Some of the photographs are unattributed. The album possibly was compiled by a member of the British Indian government, but this has not been confirmed. How it came to the Library of Congress is not known. Afghan Wars; Cannons; Elephants; Great Britain. Army; Mules; Soldiers Public Domain File:Elephant and Mule Battery ("Dignity & Impudence") WDL11496.png Created: between 1878 and 1879 date QS:P571,+1878-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1878-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1879-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTaliban curses democracy in order to make a deal with democracy. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDDhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/06/taliban-denounces-deviant-beliefs-including-satanic-western-and-disbelieving-ideologies.php ...more

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• 28: Six-bladed R9X Hellfire targets Al Q in Syria. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Jun 16 2020

  Photo: Sir Galahad by Joseph Noel Paton (1879) Joseph Noel Paton - [1] Galahad Permission details Author died more than 70 years ago - public domainView more Public Domainview terms File:Joseph Noel Paton Sir Galahad JKAM.jpg Created: 1 January 2008 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSix-bladed R9X Hellfire targets Al Q in Syria. @ThomasJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDDhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2020/06/u-s-reportedly-targets-2-senior-al-qaeda-figures-in-airstrike-in-syria.php ...more

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• 27: 4/4 ‘Mr. President': George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office, by Harlow Giles Unger.

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  Jun 16 2020

  Image:  Seneca Chief Sagoyewatha was Washington's peace emissary with the Western Confederation.‘Mr. President': George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office, by Harlow Giles Unger.   Robertson Dean (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/Mr-President-Harlow-Giles-Unger-audiobook/dp/B00FX6DXI2/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Although the framers gave the president little authority, Washington knew that whatever he did would set precedents for generations of his successors. To ensure their ability to defend the nation, he simply ignored the Constitution when he thought it necessary and reshaped the presidency into what James Madison called a "monarchical presidency." Modern scholars call it the "imperial presidency."           A revealing new look at the birth of American government, "Mr.President" describes George Washington's assumption of office in a time of continual crisis, as riots, rebellion, internecine warfare, and attacks by foreign enemies threatened to destroy the new nation. Drawing on rare documents and letters, Unger shows how Washington combined political cunning, daring, and sheer genius to seize ever-widening powers to solve each crisis.        In a series of brilliant but unconstitutional maneuvers, Washington forced Congress to cede control of the four pillars of executive power: war, finance, foreign affairs, and law enforcement. Then, in the absence of Congress, he sent troops to fight Indian wars, crush tax revolts, and put down threats of secession by three states.         Constantly weighing preservation of the Union against preservation of individual liberties and states's rights, Washington assumed more power with each crisis. Often only a breath away from reestablishing the tyranny he pledged to destroy in the Revolutionary War, he imposed law and order across the land while ensuring individual freedom and self-government. ...more

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• 26: 3/4 ‘Mr. President': George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office, by Harlow Giles Unger.

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  Jun 16 2020

  Image: Engraving of President Washington's House in Philadelphia, his residence from 1790 to 1797   The President's House in Philadelphia was Washington's residence from 1790 to 1797‘Mr. President': George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office, by Harlow Giles Unger.   Robertson Dean (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/Mr-President-Harlow-Giles-Unger-audiobook/dp/B00FX6DXI2/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Although the framers gave the president little authority, Washington knew that whatever he did would set precedents for generations of his successors. To ensure their ability to defend the nation, he simply ignored the Constitution when he thought it necessary and reshaped the presidency into what James Madison called a "monarchical presidency." Modern scholars call it the "imperial presidency."           A revealing new look at the birth of American government, "Mr.President" describes George Washington's assumption of office in a time of continual crisis, as riots, rebellion, internecine warfare, and attacks by foreign enemies threatened to destroy the new nation. Drawing on rare documents and letters, Unger shows how Washington combined political cunning, daring, and sheer genius to seize ever-widening powers to solve each crisis.        In a series of brilliant but unconstitutional maneuvers, Washington forced Congress to cede control of the four pillars of executive power: war, finance, foreign affairs, and law enforcement. Then, in the absence of Congress, he sent troops to fight Indian wars, crush tax revolts, and put down threats of secession by three states.         Constantly weighing preservation of the Union against preservation of individual liberties and states's rights, Washington assumed more power with each crisis. Often only a breath away from reestablishing the tyranny he pledged to destroy in the Revolutionary War, he imposed law and order across the land while ensuring individual freedom and self-government. ...more

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• 25: 2/4 ‘Mr. President': George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office, by Harlow Giles Unger.

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  Jun 16 2020

  Image: Lansdowne portrait of President George Washington‘Mr. President': George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office, by Harlow Giles Unger.   Robertson Dean (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/Mr-President-Harlow-Giles-Unger-audiobook/dp/B00FX6DXI2/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Although the framers gave the president little authority, Washington knew that whatever he did would set precedents for generations of his successors. To ensure their ability to defend the nation, he simply ignored the Constitution when he thought it necessary and reshaped the presidency into what James Madison called a "monarchical presidency." Modern scholars call it the "imperial presidency."          A revealing new look at the birth of American government, "Mr.President" describes George Washington's assumption of office in a time of continual crisis, as riots, rebellion, internecine warfare, and attacks by foreign enemies threatened to destroy the new nation. Drawing on rare documents and letters, Unger shows how Washington combined political cunning, daring, and sheer genius to seize ever-widening powers to solve each crisis.       In a series of brilliant but unconstitutional maneuvers, Washington forced Congress to cede control of the four pillars of executive power: war, finance, foreign affairs, and law enforcement. Then, in the absence of Congress, he sent troops to fight Indian wars, crush tax revolts, and put down threats of secession by three states.        Constantly weighing preservation of the Union against preservation of individual liberties and states's rights, Washington assumed more power with each crisis. Often only a breath away from reestablishing the tyranny he pledged to destroy in the Revolutionary War, he imposed law and order across the land while ensuring individual freedom and self-government.   ...more

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• 24: 1/4 ‘Mr. President': George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office, by Harlow Giles Unger.

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  Jun 16 2020

  Image:  USS Constitution  commissioned and named by President Washington in 1794‘Mr. President': George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office, by Harlow Giles Unger.   Robertson Dean (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/Mr-President-Harlow-Giles-Unger-audiobook/dp/B00FX6DXI2/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Although the framers gave the president little authority, Washington knew that whatever he did would set precedents for generations of his successors. To ensure their ability to defend the nation, he simply ignored the Constitution when he thought it necessary and reshaped the presidency into what James Madison called a "monarchical presidency." Modern scholars call it the "imperial presidency."         A revealing new look at the birth of American government, "Mr.President" describes George Washington's assumption of office in a time of continual crisis, as riots, rebellion, internecine warfare, and attacks by foreign enemies threatened to destroy the new nation. Drawing on rare documents and letters, Unger shows how Washington combined political cunning, daring, and sheer genius to seize ever-widening powers to solve each crisis.        In a series of brilliant but unconstitutional maneuvers, Washington forced Congress to cede control of the four pillars of executive power: war, finance, foreign affairs, and law enforcement. Then, in the absence of Congress, he sent troops to fight Indian wars, crush tax revolts, and put down threats of secession by three states.        Constantly weighing preservation of the Union against preservation of individual liberties and states's rights, Washington assumed more power with each crisis. Often only a breath away from reestablishing the tyranny he pledged to destroy in the Revolutionary War, he imposed law and order across the land while ensuring individual freedom and self-government. ...more

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• 23: 1812: 4of4: The Navy's War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. George C. Daughan (Author), Marc Vietor (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jun 15 2020

  Photo: The capture of USS President was the last naval duel to take place during the conflict, with its combatants unaware of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent several weeks prior.Thomas Buttersworth - http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/escape-hms-belvidera-us-frigate-president A Thomas Buttersworth painting at first, thought to be HMS Belvidera escaping from USS President, this painting depicts the HMS Endymion yawing to rake USS President at dusk as President is ahead of the British frigate and has her after sails cut while the British frigate has her foresails cut. Furthermore, the British frigate in the painting and HMS Endymion were painted all black which was extremely unusual for ships of that size at the time. Public Domain File:HMS Endymion yaws to rake USS President.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 1812: 4of4: The Navy's War  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  George C. Daughan (Author), Marc Vietor (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/1812-Navys-War-George-C-Daughan-audiobook/dp/B005SA5YTO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= At the outbreak of the War of 1812, America's prospects looked dismal. It was clear that the primary battlefield would be the open ocean, but America's war fleet, only 20 ships strong, faced a practiced British navy of more than a thousand men-of-war. Still, through a combination of nautical deftness and sheer bravado, the American navy managed to take the fight to the British and turn the tide of the war: on the Great Lakes, in the Atlantic, and even in the eastern Pacific.  In 1812: The Navy's War, prize-winning historian George C. Daughan tells the thrilling story of how a handful of heroic captains and their stalwart crews overcame spectacular odds to lead the country to victory against the world's greatest imperial power. A stunning contribution to military and national history, 1812: The Navy's War is the first complete account in more than a century of how the U.S. Navy rescued the fledgling nation and secured America's future....more

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• 23: 1812: 3of4: The Navy's War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. George C. Daughan (Author), Marc Vietor (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jun 15 2020

  Photo: Marines aboard USS Wasp engage HMS Reindeer, June 1814. During the war, sloops of the United States Navy scored several victories against British sloops. Unknown author or not provided - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration General notes: Use War and Conflict Number 87 when ordering a reproduction or requesting information about this image. Public Domain File:Marines Aboard USS Wasp Engage HMS Reindeer. June 1814. Copy of painting by Sergeant John Clymer., 1927 - 1981 - NARA - 532579.tif http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 1812: 3of4: The Navy's War  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  George C. Daughan (Author), Marc Vietor (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/1812-Navys-War-George-C-Daughan-audiobook/dp/B005SA5YTO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= At the outbreak of the War of 1812, America's prospects looked dismal. It was clear that the primary battlefield would be the open ocean, but America's war fleet, only 20 ships strong, faced a practiced British navy of more than a thousand men-of-war. Still, through a combination of nautical deftness and sheer bravado, the American navy managed to take the fight to the British and turn the tide of the war: on the Great Lakes, in the Atlantic, and even in the eastern Pacific.  In 1812: The Navy's War, prize-winning historian George C. Daughan tells the thrilling story of how a handful of heroic captains and their stalwart crews overcame spectacular odds to lead the country to victory against the world's greatest imperial power. A stunning contribution to military and national history, 1812: The Navy's War is the first complete account in more than a century of how the U.S. Navy rescued the fledgling nation and secured America's future....more

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• 23: 1812: 2of4: The Navy's War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. George C. Daughan (Author), Marc Vietor (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jun 15 2020

  Photo: USS Constitution defeats HMS Guerriere in a single-ship engagement. The battle was an important victory for American morale. Michel Felice Corne (1752-1845) - from [1] and cropped Public Domain File:USS Constitution vs Guerriere.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 1812: 2of4: The Navy's War  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  George C. Daughan (Author), Marc Vietor (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/1812-Navys-War-George-C-Daughan-audiobook/dp/B005SA5YTO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= At the outbreak of the War of 1812, America's prospects looked dismal. It was clear that the primary battlefield would be the open ocean, but America's war fleet, only 20 ships strong, faced a practiced British navy of more than a thousand men-of-war. Still, through a combination of nautical deftness and sheer bravado, the American navy managed to take the fight to the British and turn the tide of the war: on the Great Lakes, in the Atlantic, and even in the eastern Pacific.  In 1812: The Navy's War, prize-winning historian George C. Daughan tells the thrilling story of how a handful of heroic captains and their stalwart crews overcame spectacular odds to lead the country to victory against the world's greatest imperial power. A stunning contribution to military and national history, 1812: The Navy's War is the first complete account in more than a century of how the U.S. Navy rescued the fledgling nation and secured America's future....more

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• 23: 1812: 1of4: The Navy's War Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. George C. Daughan (Author), Marc Vietor (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jun 15 2020

  Photo: The Royal Navy's North American squadron was based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At the start of the war, the squadron had one ship of the line, seven frigates, nine sloops, as well as brigs and schooners.[123] Thomas Davies - National Gallery of Canada A View of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Taken from Cornwallis Island, with a Squadron Going off to Louisbourg, in the Year 1757 Public Domain File:A View of Halifax - Thomas Davies.jpg Created: 1757date QS:P571,+1757-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow 1812: 1of4: The Navy's War  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  George C. Daughan (Author), Marc Vietor (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/1812-Navys-War-George-C-Daughan-audiobook/dp/B005SA5YTO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= At the outbreak of the War of 1812, America's prospects looked dismal. It was clear that the primary battlefield would be the open ocean, but America's war fleet, only 20 ships strong, faced a practiced British navy of more than a thousand men-of-war. Still, through a combination of nautical deftness and sheer bravado, the American navy managed to take the fight to the British and turn the tide of the war: on the Great Lakes, in the Atlantic, and even in the eastern Pacific.  In 1812: The Navy's War, prize-winning historian George C. Daughan tells the thrilling story of how a handful of heroic captains and their stalwart crews overcame spectacular odds to lead the country to victory against the world's greatest imperial power. A stunning contribution to military and national history, 1812: The Navy's War is the first complete account in more than a century of how the U.S. Navy rescued the fledgling nation and secured America's future....more

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• 23: Black Ops, Vietnam: 4of4: An Operational History of MACVSOG Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert M. Gillespie (Author), Paul Heitsch (Narrator), University Press Audiobooks (Publisher)

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  Jun 15 2020

  Photo: US President Lyndon Johnson in 1964Arnold Newman, White House Press Office (WHPO) - http://photolab.lbjlib.utexas.edu/detail.asp?id=18170 Photo portrait of President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office, leaning on a chair. Public DomainThis image contains persons who may have rights that legally restrict certain re-uses of the image without consent. File:37 Lyndon Johnson 3x4.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Black Ops, Vietnam: 4of4:  An Operational History of MACVSOG  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Robert M. Gillespie (Author), Paul Heitsch (Narrator), University Press Audiobooks (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Black-Ops-Vietnam-audiobook/dp/B00BUVILKO/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Gillespie+MACV&qid=1592184760&s=audible&sr=1-1Without doubt the most unique U.S. unit to participate in the Vietnam War, the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACVSOG) was a highly-classified, U.S. joint-service organization consisting of Army Special Forces, Navy SEALs, Marine Force Reconnaissance units, the Air Force, and the CIA. Committed to action in Southeast Asia even before the major U.S. build-up in 1965, it also fielded a division-sized element of South Vietnamese military personnel, indigenous Montagnards, ethnic Chinese Nungs, and Taiwanese pilots.  During its nine-year existence, MACVSOG participated in most of the significant operations of the conflict, including the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the Tet Offensive, the incursion into Cambodia, the Green Beret murder case, the Phoenix program, and the Son Tay POW raid. The story of this extraordinary unit has never before been told in full and comes as a timely blueprint for today's unconventional warfare. Published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army.  The book is published by Naval Institute Press....more

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• 23: Black Ops, Vietnam: 3of4: An Operational History of MACVSOG Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert M. Gillespie (Author), Paul Heitsch (Narrator), University Press Audiobooks (Publisher)

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  Jun 15 2020

  Photo: Photograph taken from USS Maddox (DD-731) during her engagement with three North Vietnamese motor torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin, 2 August 1964. The view shows all three of the boats speeding towards the Maddox."U.S. Navy sailor aboard USS Maddox (DD-731) - Official U.S. Navy photo NH 95611 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Public Domain File:Tonkingunboats.jpg Created http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Black Ops, Vietnam: 3of4:  An Operational History of MACVSOG  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Robert M. Gillespie (Author), Paul Heitsch (Narrator), University Press Audiobooks (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Black-Ops-Vietnam-audiobook/dp/B00BUVILKO/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Gillespie+MACV&qid=1592184760&s=audible&sr=1-1Without doubt the most unique U.S. unit to participate in the Vietnam War, the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACVSOG) was a highly-classified, U.S. joint-service organization consisting of Army Special Forces, Navy SEALs, Marine Force Reconnaissance units, the Air Force, and the CIA. Committed to action in Southeast Asia even before the major U.S. build-up in 1965, it also fielded a division-sized element of South Vietnamese military personnel, indigenous Montagnards, ethnic Chinese Nungs, and Taiwanese pilots.  During its nine-year existence, MACVSOG participated in most of the significant operations of the conflict, including the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the Tet Offensive, the incursion into Cambodia, the Green Beret murder case, the Phoenix program, and the Son Tay POW raid. The story of this extraordinary unit has never before been told in full and comes as a timely blueprint for today's unconventional warfare. Published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army.  The book is published by Naval Institute Press....more

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• 23: Black Ops, Vietnam: 2of4: An Operational History of MACVSOG Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert M. Gillespie (Author), Paul Heitsch (Narrator), University Press Audiobooks (Publisher)

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  Jun 15 2020

  Photo: USS Maddox  Unknown author - U.S. Navy photo NH 97900 The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Maddox (DD-731) underway at sea, circa the early 1960s. Public Domain File:USS Maddox (DD-731) underway at sea, circa the early 1960s (NH 97900).jpg Created: between 1960 and 1964 date QS:P571,+1960-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1960-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1964-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Black Ops, Vietnam: 2of4:  An Operational History of MACVSOG  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Robert M. Gillespie (Author), Paul Heitsch (Narrator), University Press Audiobooks (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Black-Ops-Vietnam-audiobook/dp/B00BUVILKO/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Gillespie+MACV&qid=1592184760&s=audible&sr=1-1Without doubt the most unique U.S. unit to participate in the Vietnam War, the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACVSOG) was a highly-classified, U.S. joint-service organization consisting of Army Special Forces, Navy SEALs, Marine Force Reconnaissance units, the Air Force, and the CIA. Committed to action in Southeast Asia even before the major U.S. build-up in 1965, it also fielded a division-sized element of South Vietnamese military personnel, indigenous Montagnards, ethnic Chinese Nungs, and Taiwanese pilots.  During its nine-year existence, MACVSOG participated in most of the significant operations of the conflict, including the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the Tet Offensive, the incursion into Cambodia, the Green Beret murder case, the Phoenix program, and the Son Tay POW raid. The story of this extraordinary unit has never before been told in full and comes as a timely blueprint for today's unconventional warfare. Published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army.  The book is published by Naval Institute Press....more

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• 23: Black Ops, Vietnam: 1of4: An Operational History of MACVSOG Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Robert M. Gillespie (Author), Paul Heitsch (Narrator), University Press Audiobooks (Publisher)

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  Jun 15 2020

  Photo: Chart showing the track of the USS Maddox, July 31 – August 2, 1964Created by the U.S. Navy, and converted to SVG by Interiot. Interiot's modifications are also released to the public domain. - Official U.S. Navy photo NH 96348 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command. The chart was originally prepared for The United States Navy and the Vietnam Conflict, Volume II: From Military Assistance to Combat 1959-1965, published in 1986 by the Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington D.C. (USA), page 412. Chart showing the U.S. Navy's interpretation of the events of the first part of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. It shows the track of the U.S. Navy destoyer USS Maddox (DD-731), 31 July - 2 August 1964, during the first part of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Public Domain File:MaddoxTonkin1.svg Created: 1 January 1986 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Black Ops, Vietnam: 1of4:  An Operational History of MACVSOG  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Robert M. Gillespie (Author), Paul Heitsch (Narrator), University Press Audiobooks (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Black-Ops-Vietnam-audiobook/dp/B00BUVILKO/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Gillespie+MACV&qid=1592184760&s=audible&sr=1-1Without doubt the most unique U.S. unit to participate in the Vietnam War, the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACVSOG) was a highly-classified, U.S. joint-service organization consisting of Army Special Forces, Navy SEALs, Marine Force Reconnaissance units, the Air Force, and the CIA. Committed to action in Southeast Asia even before the major U.S. build-up in 1965, it also fielded a division-sized element of South Vietnamese military personnel, indigenous Montagnards, ethnic Chinese Nungs, and Taiwanese pilots.  During its nine-year existence, MACVSOG participated in most of the significant operations of the conflict, including the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the Tet Offensive, the incursion into Cambodia, the Green Beret murder case, the Phoenix program, and the Son Tay POW raid. The story of this extraordinary unit has never before been told in full and comes as a timely blueprint for today's unconventional warfare. Published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army.  The book is published by Naval Institute Press....more

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• 26: 4/4 Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living, by Paul Collins

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  Jun 15 2020

  Image:  Illustration by the French impressionist Édouard Manet for the Stéphane Mallarmétranslation of "The Raven", 1875. Digitally restored.Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living, by Paul Collins .  Grover Gardner (Narrator), Brilliance Audio (Publisher)  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  https://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe-Paul-Collins-audiobook/dp/B00MFS6MLG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=edgar+allan+poe+paul+collins&qid=1592183431&s=audible&sr=1-1 A view into the tumultuous and creative life of Edgar Allan Poe.  Today the name Edgar Allan Poe invokes a tragic genius whose mastery of horror seems inexorably tied to his tormented life. But in his own time, Poe was above all a craftsman—an editor and reviewer desperately trying to earn a living by transmuting the wild ephemera of early Victorianism into innovations in science fiction, horror, and detective literature. Indeed, the crime thriller would not exist without Poe's sleuth Dupin, the deductive genius of Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter.  With brilliant scholarship and storytelling verve, Paul Collins delves into Poe's life and his professional world, from his stormy relationship with his rich adoptive father and interest in cryptograms to hits such as "The Raven" and flops like Eureka, his late-career crank literature outing. Edgar Allan Poe is an informative and supremely entertaining account of one of the most singular talents in American letters.   ...more

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• 25: 3/4 Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living, by Paul Collins

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  Image:  Cottage in Fordham (now the Bronx) where Poe spent his last yearsEdgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living, by Paul Collins .  Grover Gardner (Narrator), Brilliance Audio (Publisher)  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  https://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe-Paul-Collins-audiobook/dp/B00MFS6MLG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=edgar+allan+poe+paul+collins&qid=1592183431&s=audible&sr=1-1 A view into the tumultuous and creative life of Edgar Allan Poe.  Today the name Edgar Allan Poe invokes a tragic genius whose mastery of horror seems inexorably tied to his tormented life. But in his own time, Poe was above all a craftsman—an editor and reviewer desperately trying to earn a living by transmuting the wild ephemera of early Victorianism into innovations in science fiction, horror, and detective literature. Indeed, the crime thriller would not exist without Poe's sleuth Dupin, the deductive genius of Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter.  With brilliant scholarship and storytelling verve, Paul Collins delves into Poe's life and his professional world, from his stormy relationship with his rich adoptive father and interest in cryptograms to hits such as "The Raven" and flops like Eureka, his late-career crank literature outing. Edgar Allan Poe is an informative and supremely entertaining account of one of the most singular talents in American letters. ...more

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• 24: 2/4 Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living, by Paul Collins

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  Image:  1845 portrait by Samuel Stillman Osgood Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living, by Paul Collins .  Grover Gardner (Narrator), Brilliance Audio (Publisher)  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  https://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe-Paul-Collins-audiobook/dp/B00MFS6MLG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=edgar+allan+poe+paul+collins&qid=1592183431&s=audible&sr=1-1 A view into the tumultuous and creative life of Edgar Allan Poe.  Today the name Edgar Allan Poe invokes a tragic genius whose mastery of horror seems inexorably tied to his tormented life. But in his own time, Poe was above all a craftsman—an editor and reviewer desperately trying to earn a living by transmuting the wild ephemera of early Victorianism into innovations in science fiction, horror, and detective literature. Indeed, the crime thriller would not exist without Poe's sleuth Dupin, the deductive genius of Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter.  With brilliant scholarship and storytelling verve, Paul Collins delves into Poe's life and his professional world, from his stormy relationship with his rich adoptive father and interest in cryptograms to hits such as "The Raven" and flops like Eureka, his late-career crank literature outing. Edgar Allan Poe is an informative and supremely entertaining account of one of the most singular talents in American letters. ...more

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• 23: 1/4 Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living, by Paul Collins

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  Jun 15 2020

  Image:Poe (age 26) obtained a license in 1835 to marry his cousin Virginia Clemm (age 13). They were married for 11 years until her death, which may have inspired some of his writing. Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living, by Paul Collins .  Grover Gardner (Narrator), Brilliance Audio (Publisher)  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  https://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe-Paul-Collins-audiobook/dp/B00MFS6MLG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=edgar+allan+poe+paul+collins&qid=1592183431&s=audible&sr=1-1 A view into the tumultuous and creative life of Edgar Allan Poe.  Today the name Edgar Allan Poe invokes a tragic genius whose mastery of horror seems inexorably tied to his tormented life. But in his own time, Poe was above all a craftsman—an editor and reviewer desperately trying to earn a living by transmuting the wild ephemera of early Victorianism into innovations in science fiction, horror, and detective literature. Indeed, the crime thriller would not exist without Poe's sleuth Dupin, the deductive genius of Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter.  With brilliant scholarship and storytelling verve, Paul Collins delves into Poe's life and his professional world, from his stormy relationship with his rich adoptive father and interest in cryptograms to hits such as "The Raven" and flops like Eureka, his late-career crank literature outing. Edgar Allan Poe is an informative and supremely entertaining account of one of the most singular talents in American letters. ...more

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• 22: 4/4 Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story, by Jack Devine.

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  Image:  Aerial view of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, Langley, Virginia - Corrected and Cropped. Public domain.Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story, by Jack Devine.     Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  https://www.amazon.com/Good-Hunting-Jack-Devine-audiobook/dp/B00PMABZSO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= A master class in spycraft from one of its greatest practitioners.  Jack Devine ran Charlie Wilson's War in Afghanistan. It was the largest covert action of the Cold War, and it was Devine who put the brand-new Stinger missile into the hands of the mujahideen during their war with the Soviets, paving the way to a decisive victory against the Russians. He also pushed the CIA's effort to run down the narcotics trafficker Pablo Escobarin Colombia. He tried to warn the director of central intelligence, George Tenet, that there was a bullet coming from Iraq with his name on it. He was in Chile when Allende fell, and he had too much to do with Iran-Contra for his own taste, though he tried to stop it. He also tangled with Rick Ames, the KGB spy inside the CIA, and hunted Robert Hanssen, the mole in the FBI.  Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story is the spellbinding memoir of Devine's time in the CIA, where he served for more than 30 years, rising to become the acting deputy director of operations, responsible for all of the agency's spying operations. This is a story of intrigue and high-stakes maneuvering‑‑all the more gripping when the fate of our geopolitical order hangs in the balance. But this audiobook also sounds a warning to our nation's decision makers: covert operations, not costly and devastating full-scale interventions, are the best safeguard of America's interests worldwide.  Part memoir, part historical redress, Good Hunting debunks some of the myths surrounding the agency and cautions against its misuses. Beneath the exotic allure--living abroad, running operations in seven countries, serving successive presidents from Nixon to Clinton--this is a realist's gimlet-eyed account of the CIA. As Devine sees it, the agency is now trapped within a larger bureaucracy, losing swaths of turf to the military and, most ominous of all, becoming overly weighted toward paramilitary operations after a decade of war. ...more

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• 21: 3/4 Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story, by Jack Devine.

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  Image: Fiestas Patrias of Chile, 1854.  Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story, by Jack Devine.     Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  https://www.amazon.com/Good-Hunting-Jack-Devine-audiobook/dp/B00PMABZSO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= A master class in spycraft from one of its greatest practitioners.  Jack Devine ran Charlie Wilson's War in Afghanistan. It was the largest covert action of the Cold War, and it was Devine who put the brand-new Stinger missile into the hands of the mujahideen during their war with the Soviets, paving the way to a decisive victory against the Russians. He also pushed the CIA's effort to run down the narcotics trafficker Pablo Escobarin Colombia. He tried to warn the director of central intelligence, George Tenet, that there was a bullet coming from Iraq with his name on it. He was in Chile when Allende fell, and he had too much to do with Iran-Contra for his own taste, though he tried to stop it. He also tangled with Rick Ames, the KGB spy inside the CIA, and hunted Robert Hanssen, the mole in the FBI.  Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story is the spellbinding memoir of Devine's time in the CIA, where he served for more than 30 years, rising to become the acting deputy director of operations, responsible for all of the agency's spying operations. This is a story of intrigue and high-stakes maneuvering‑‑all the more gripping when the fate of our geopolitical order hangs in the balance. But this audiobook also sounds a warning to our nation's decision makers: covert operations, not costly and devastating full-scale interventions, are the best safeguard of America's interests worldwide.  Part memoir, part historical redress, Good Hunting debunks some of the myths surrounding the agency and cautions against its misuses. Beneath the exotic allure--living abroad, running operations in seven countries, serving successive presidents from Nixon to Clinton--this is a realist's gimlet-eyed account of the CIA. As Devine sees it, the agency is now trapped within a larger bureaucracy, losing swaths of turf to the military and, most ominous of all, becoming overly weighted toward paramilitary operations after a decade of war. ...more

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• 20: 2/4 Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story, by Jack Devine.

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  Image: International drug routes.Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story, by Jack Devine.     Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  https://www.amazon.com/Good-Hunting-Jack-Devine-audiobook/dp/B00PMABZSO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= A master class in spycraft from one of its greatest practitioners.  Jack Devine ran Charlie Wilson's War in Afghanistan. It was the largest covert action of the Cold War, and it was Devine who put the brand-new Stinger missile into the hands of the mujahideen during their war with the Soviets, paving the way to a decisive victory against the Russians. He also pushed the CIA's effort to run down the narcotics trafficker Pablo Escobarin Colombia. He tried to warn the director of central intelligence, George Tenet, that there was a bullet coming from Iraq with his name on it. He was in Chile when Allende fell, and he had too much to do with Iran-Contra for his own taste, though he tried to stop it. He also tangled with Rick Ames, the KGB spy inside the CIA, and hunted Robert Hanssen, the mole in the FBI.  Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story is the spellbinding memoir of Devine's time in the CIA, where he served for more than 30 years, rising to become the acting deputy director of operations, responsible for all of the agency's spying operations. This is a story of intrigue and high-stakes maneuvering‑‑all the more gripping when the fate of our geopolitical order hangs in the balance. But this audiobook also sounds a warning to our nation's decision makers: covert operations, not costly and devastating full-scale interventions, are the best safeguard of America's interests worldwide.  Part memoir, part historical redress, Good Hunting debunks some of the myths surrounding the agency and cautions against its misuses. Beneath the exotic allure--living abroad, running operations in seven countries, serving successive presidents from Nixon to Clinton--this is a realist's gimlet-eyed account of the CIA. As Devine sees it, the agency is now trapped within a larger bureaucracy, losing swaths of turf to the military and, most ominous of all, becoming overly weighted toward paramilitary operations after a decade of war. ...more

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• 19: 1/4 Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story, by Jack Devine.

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  Image: Soviet ground forces in action while conducting an offensive operation against the Islamist resistance, the Mujahideen. Public domain Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story, by Jack Devine.     Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/Good-Hunting-Jack-Devine-audiobook/dp/B00PMABZSO/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= A master class in spycraft from one of its greatest practitioners.  Jack Devine ran Charlie Wilson's War in Afghanistan. It was the largest covert action of the Cold War, and it was Devine who put the brand-new Stinger missile into the hands of the mujahideen during their war with the Soviets, paving the way to a decisive victory against the Russians. He also pushed the CIA's effort to run down the narcotics trafficker Pablo Escobarin Colombia. He tried to warn the director of central intelligence, George Tenet, that there was a bullet coming from Iraq with his name on it. He was in Chile when Allende fell, and he had too much to do with Iran-Contra for his own taste, though he tried to stop it. He also tangled with Rick Ames, the KGB spy inside the CIA, and hunted Robert Hanssen, the mole in the FBI.  Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story is the spellbinding memoir of Devine's time in the CIA, where he served for more than 30 years, rising to become the acting deputy director of operations, responsible for all of the agency's spying operations. This is a story of intrigue and high-stakes maneuvering‑‑all the more gripping when the fate of our geopolitical order hangs in the balance. But this audiobook also sounds a warning to our nation's decision makers: covert operations, not costly and devastating full-scale interventions, are the best safeguard of America's interests worldwide.  Part memoir, part historical redress, Good Hunting debunks some of the myths surrounding the agency and cautions against its misuses. Beneath the exotic allure--living abroad, running operations in seven countries, serving successive presidents from Nixon to Clinton--this is a realist's gimlet-eyed account of the CIA. As Devine sees it, the agency is now trapped within a larger bureaucracy, losing swaths of turf to the military and, most ominous of all, becoming overly weighted toward paramilitary operations after a decade of war. ...more

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• 18: A Mad Catastrophe: 8of8: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jun 14 2020

  Photo: Conrad late in lifeUnknown author - http://crowland.uw.hu/images/csata/caporetto.htmlhttp://www.thefullwiki.org/Count_Franz_Conrad_von_H%C3%B6tzendorfhttp://www.qwiki.com/q/#!/Count_Franz_Conrad_von_H%C3%B6tzendorfhttp://oc.encydia.com/ca/Franz_Conrad_von_H%C3%B6tzendorfhttp://degroteoorlog.blogspot.com/2011/03/broesilov-offensief.htmlhttp://www.iltasanomat.fi/kotimaa/Mannerheimin%206%20vihollista/art-1288363475002.html Franz Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf (Hoetzendorf), Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I. Permission details Note: In Germany and possibly other countries, certain anonymous works published before July 1, 1995 are copyrighted until 70 years after the death of the author. See Übergangsrecht. Please use this template only if the author never claimed authorship or their authorship never became public in any other way. If the work is anonymous or pseudonymous (e.g., published only under a corporate or organization's name), use this template for images published more than 70 years ago. For a work made available to the public in the United Kingdom, please use Template:PD-UK-unknown instead.View more Public Domainview terms File:Franz Graf Conrad von Hoetzendorf.jpg Uploaded: 2017-01-21 17:02:02 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow A Mad Catastrophe: 8of8: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself - both equally ripe for destruction.  After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything - the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London - hinged on the Habsburgs’ ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided.  Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a riveting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history....more

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• 18: A Mad Catastrophe: 7of8: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Painting depicting machine gunners of the 1st Army firing at advancing enemy forces, 1915 Karl Friedrich Gsur (* 3.7.1871, † 25.8.1939) - Selbst erstellt bei der Sonderausstellung "Musen an die Front" im Heeresgeschichtlichen Museum Wien am 2. Oktober 2009. Original uploader was Pappenheim at de.wikipedia. German: Abwehrkampf einer MG-Abteilung. Maschinengewehrabteilung II des Infanterieregiments Nr. 4 "Hoch- und Deutschmeister" auf der Höhe Gora Sokal am Bug, 20. Juli 1915 Public Domain File:Gsur Abwehrkampf einer MG Abteilung.jpg Created: 1915date QS:P571,+1915-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow A Mad Catastrophe: 7of8: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself - both equally ripe for destruction.  After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything - the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London - hinged on the Habsburgs’ ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided.  Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a riveting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history....more

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• 18: A Mad Catastrophe: 6of8: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: no known copyrightTitle: The Great war Year: 1915 (1910s) Authors:  Allen, George Henry, 1876- Whitehead, Henry C., 1873-Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936 McAndrew, James William, 1862-1922 Wiley, Edwin, 1872- Subjects:  World War, 1914-1918 Publisher:  Philadelphia : G. Barrie's Sons 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:German pioneers repairing one of the bridges across the Vistula which had been blown upby the Russians on their retreat. Text Appearing After Image:Peasant refugees. Great numbers of Polish peasants left their homes and fied eastivardinto Russia before the German army. The Destruction of the Polish Salient 129 courageous and sustained efforts of the great masses oftroops had all contributed. The Russians had been drivenfrom the greater part of Galicia, Austria-Hungary hadbeen given a new lease of life, and the tide of battlehad been forced back into Poland from the south. Theprospects on the eastern front had undergone a revolution. The original Polish salient, resting on its framework ofstrategic railways was now everywhere exposed. Themoment was ripe to match the great effort in the south byan attack in the north. With success on both sides themain Russian armies might be entrapped within the salient.Von Falkenhayn, the Chief of the German General Staff,proposed to destroy the Russian armies by the now familiardouble enveloping strategy applied with unprecedentedstrength and energy. While the Russians were assailed with violenc http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow A Mad Catastrophe: 6of8: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself - both equally ripe for destruction.  After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything - the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London - hinged on the Habsburgs’ ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided.  Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a riveting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history....more

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• 18: A Mad Catastrophe: 5of8: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Public domainA german artillery piecePhotostelle der Deutsche Südarmee - The New York Public Library Schwere deutsche Mörser Public Domain File:01915 Schwere deutsche Morser.jpg Created: 1 January 1915 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow A Mad Catastrophe: 5of8: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself - both equally ripe for destruction.  After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything - the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London - hinged on the Habsburgs’ ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided.  Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a riveting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history....more

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• 18: A Mad Catastrophe: 4of8: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: An engagement in Hungary between an Austro-Hungarian force and a body of Russian cavalry who had crossed the Carpathians from Galicia.Date | 1914Source | The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914Author | variousPermission(Reusing this file) | Project Gutenberg Public Domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow A Mad Catastrophe: 4of8: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself - both equally ripe for destruction.  After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything - the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London - hinged on the Habsburgs’ ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided.  Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a riveting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history....more

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• 18: A Mad Catastrophe: 3of8: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Russian Infantry of World War I. Photo by Public Domain.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow A Mad Catastrophe: 3of8: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself - both equally ripe for destruction.  After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything - the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London - hinged on the Habsburgs’ ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided.  Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a riveting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history....more

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• 18: A Mad Catastrophe: 2of8: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: Border between Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires at BRODY (city in western Ukraine, then in Austrian-Hungary Empire) in 1905. Old postcard.Українська: Міжнародний кордон між Австро-Угорською та Російською імперіями в місті Броди в Галичині, західна Україна, 1905 рік. Старовинна листівка.Date | 1905Source | Sejny Foundation - http://pogranicze.sejny.pl/centrum/pocztowki-list.php?Sfind=tytul&Swarunki=pocztowki&session_id=01fd603e3cc36afeda9635414914a148Author | Unknown photographerpublic domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow A Mad Catastrophe: 2of8: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself - both equally ripe for destruction.  After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything - the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London - hinged on the Habsburgs’ ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided.  Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a riveting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history....more

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• 18: A Mad Catastrophe: 1of8: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Photo: public domainWorld War 1 postcard showing (l - r) the Central Powers monarchs: Germany, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Austro-Hungarian EmpireTürkçe: 1. Dünya Savaşı İttifak Devletleri hükümdarlarını gösteren kartpostal.Kartpostaldaki hükümdarlar:Almanya İmparatorluğu, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu, Bulgaristan Krallığı, Avusturya-Macaristan İmparatorluğu hükümdarlarıdır.Deutsch: Ein Vierverband, doch nicht von Englands Gnaden. Kein heimlich Machwerk brit'scher Wühlerei; Ein freier Bund von Waffenkameraden Zu brechen Englands VölkertyranneiItaliano: Cartolina della prima guerra mondiale che mostra i regnanti delle potenze centrali (da sinistra a destra): Impero tedesco, Impero Ottomano, Regno di Bulgaria, Impero Austro-UngaricoDate | 1916Source | my archiveAuthor | B. B. & O. L. G. M. B. H.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow A Mad Catastrophe: 1of8: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Geoffrey Wawro (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As prizewinning historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in A Mad Catastrophe, the doomed Austrian conscripts were an unfortunate microcosm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself - both equally ripe for destruction.  After the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914, Germany goaded the Empire into a war with Russia and Serbia. With the Germans massing their forces in the west to engage the French and the British, everything - the course of the war and the fate of empires and alliances from Constantinople to London - hinged on the Habsburgs’ ability to crush Serbia and keep the Russians at bay. However, Austria-Hungary had been rotting from within for years, hollowed out by repression, cynicism, and corruption at the highest levels. Commanded by a dying emperor, Franz Joseph I, and a querulous celebrity general, Conrad von Hötzendorf, the Austro-Hungarians managed to bungle everything: their ultimatum to the Serbs, their declarations of war, their mobilization, and the pivotal battles in Galicia and Serbia. By the end of 1914, the Habsburg army lay in ruins and the outcome of the war seemed all but decided.  Drawing on deep archival research, Wawro charts the decline of the Empire before the war and reconstructs the great battles in the east and the Balkans in thrilling and tragic detail. A Mad Catastrophe is a riveting account of a neglected face of World War I, revealing how a once-mighty empire collapsed in the trenches of Serbia and the Eastern Front, changing the course of European history....more

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• 18: India ISRO delays Manned Space Mission Gaganyaan. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo: An Arcas rocket being loaded into launch tube at Thumba Launching Station. In the early days of ISRO, rocket parts were often transported on bicycles and bullock carts.[27] NASA - http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4401/ch8.htm An Arcas rocket being loaded into launch tube, Thumba, India. Public Domain File:TERLS-03.jpg Created: 2012-11-16 09:31:11 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIndia ISRO delays Manned Space Mission Gaganyaan. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/indias-first-manned-mission-faces-delays-caused-by-covid-19/ ...more

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• 18: Commercial space tasked for VIPER mission to the Moon's South Pole. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo: Lunar south polar region as imaged by Diviner.NASA - http://www.diviner.ucla.edu/gallery/south_pole_summer_noon.jpg Lunar south pole temperature as imaged by Diviner. Cabeus Crater, de Gerlache Crater, Haworth Crater, Shackleton Crater, Shoemaker Crater, Faustini Crater, Nobile Crater, Amundsen Crater. Public Domain File:Lunar south pole summer.jpg Uploaded: 2010-05-24 02:50:42 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCommercial space tasked for VIPER mission to the Moon's South Pole. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/astrobotic-wins-contract-to-land-viper-rover-at-moons-south-pole/ ...more

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• 18: What is known so far of Mars core? Bruce Banerdt, NASA JPL, Principal Investigator, InSight Mission to Mars. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  Jun 14 2020

  Photo: "Hottah" rock outcrop on Mars – ancient streambed[1][2][3] viewed by the Curiosity Rover (September 12, 2012, white balanced) (raw, close-up, 3-D version). Abundant iron compounds are responsible for the bright brownish-red colour of the martian soil.NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA17062.jpg PIA17062: Remnants of Ancient Streambed on Mars (White-Balanced View)http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17062 NASA's Curiosity rover found evidence for an ancient, flowing stream on Mars at a few sites, including the rock outcrop pictured here, which the science team has named "Hottah" after Hottah Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories. It may look like a broken sidewalk, but this geological feature on Mars is actually exposed bedrock made up of smaller fragments cemented together, or what geologists call a sedimentary conglomerate. Scientists theorize that the bedrock was disrupted in the past, giving it the titled angle, most likely via impacts from meteorites. NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover found evidence for ancient, water-transported sediment on Mars at a few sites, including the rock outcrop pictured here, named "Hottah." Rounded pebbles within this sedimentary conglomerate indicate sustained abrasion of rock fragments within water flows that crossed Gale Crater. The key evidence for the ancient stream comes from the size and rounded shape of the gravel in and around the bedrock. Hottah has pieces of gravel embedded in it, called clasts, up to a couple inches (few centimeters) in size and located within a matrix of sand-sized material. Some of the clasts are round in shape, leading the science team to conclude they were transported by a vigorous flow of water. The grains are too large to have been moved by wind. Erosion of the outcrop results in gravel clasts that protrude from the outcrop and ultimately fall onto the ground, creating the gravel pile in the left foreground. The scale bar at lower right is 5 centimeters (2 inches). This view of Hottah is a mosaic of images taken by the right (telephoto-lens) camera of the Mast Camera instrument (Mastcam) on Curiosity during the 39th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (Sept. 14, 2012 PDT/Sept. 15 GMT). It has been enhanced for presentation in white-balanced color, which yields a view as if the rock were seen under outdoor lighting conditions on Earth, which is useful for scientists to distinguish rocks by color in familiar lighting. A "raw color" view of Hottah, showing the colors as recorded by the camera on Mars, is at PIA16156. A stereo view is at PIA16223. Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates Mastcam. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Mars Science Laboratory mission and the mission's Curiosity rover for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The rover was designed, developed and assembled at JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. For more about NASA's Curiosity mission, visit http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl, http://www.nasa.gov/mars, and http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl. Public Domain File:PIA17062-MarsCuriosityRover-HottahRockOutcrop-20120915.jpg Created: 2013-05-30 19:32:03 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat is known so far of Mars core?  Bruce Banerdt, NASA JPL, Principal Investigator, InSight Mission to Mars. David Livingston, SpaceShow.comhttps://www.space.com/marsquake-study-could-shatter-mars-formation-theories.html ...more

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• 18: NASA Mars probe #InSight adapts to the strange qualities of Martian soil. Bruce Banerdt, NASA JPL, Principal Investigator, InSight Mission to Mars. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  Photo: An image taken on June 3, 2020, shows the arm of the InSight lander gently pushing the heat probe into Mars.(Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNASA Mars probe #InSight adapts to the strange qualities of Martian soil.  Bruce Banerdt, NASA JPL, Principal Investigator, InSight Mission to Mars. David Livingston, SpaceShow.comhttps://en.brinkwire.com/us/nasas-insights-mole-is-finally-making-steady-progress/ ...more

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• 18: Mr. Met: 2of2: How a Sports-Mad Kid from Jersey Became like Family to Generations of Big Leaguers Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Jay Horwitz (Author), Jacob deGrom - foreword (Author), Barry Abrams (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Photo: License: CC0 Public Domain Guy Percival has released this “Citi Field Stadium, Mets Night Game” image under Public Domain license. It means that you can use and modify it for your personal and commercial projects. If you intend to use an image you find here for commercial use, please be aware that some photos do require a model or a property release. Pictures featuring products should be used with care. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Mr. Met: 2of2: How a Sports-Mad Kid from Jersey Became like Family to Generations of Big Leaguers  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Jay Horwitz (Author), Jacob deGrom - foreword (Author), Barry Abrams (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Met-Sports-Mad-Generations-Leaguers/dp/B087SGFBJW/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Anyone who knows Jay Horwitz knows he loves stories and has a wealth of them to share. As the beloved, longtime PR director for the New York Mets, he has witnessed and quietly shaped some of the most memorable moments in team history, becoming a trusted friend and mentor to generations of players, from Darryl Strawberry to Jacob deGrom.  In this fascinating memoir, Horwitz tells the unlikely story of a childhood dream come true, offering an unparalleled insider's perspective on four dynamic and unpredictable decades of Mets baseball. Featuring reflections and anecdotes only Horwitz can tell, on subjects ranging from clubhouse hijinks, to the chaotic New York media scene, to navigating moments of greatness and defeat, Mr. Met is a remarkable behind-the-scenes ride that fans will not want to miss....more

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• 18: Mr. Met: 1of2: How a Sports-Mad Kid from Jersey Became like Family to Generations of Big Leaguers Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Jay Horwitz (Author), Jacob deGrom - foreword (Author), Barry Abrams (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Photo: Shea StadiumSource | Own workAuthor | SammetsfanPermission(Reusing this file) | Public Domain, No copyrighthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Mr. Met: 1of2: How a Sports-Mad Kid from Jersey Became like Family to Generations of Big Leaguers  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Jay Horwitz (Author), Jacob deGrom - foreword (Author), Barry Abrams (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Met-Sports-Mad-Generations-Leaguers/dp/B087SGFBJW/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Anyone who knows Jay Horwitz knows he loves stories and has a wealth of them to share. As the beloved, longtime PR director for the New York Mets, he has witnessed and quietly shaped some of the most memorable moments in team history, becoming a trusted friend and mentor to generations of players, from Darryl Strawberry to Jacob deGrom.  In this fascinating memoir, Horwitz tells the unlikely story of a childhood dream come true, offering an unparalleled insider's perspective on four dynamic and unpredictable decades of Mets baseball. Featuring reflections and anecdotes only Horwitz can tell, on subjects ranging from clubhouse hijinks, to the chaotic New York media scene, to navigating moments of greatness and defeat, Mr. Met is a remarkable behind-the-scenes ride that fans will not want to miss....more

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• 17: #NewAmericanCivilWar: The Woke Culture vs the American Empire, 2020 AD, New York City.

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  Jun 13 2020

  Photo: Surrender of Japan, 2 September 1945 Navy carrier planes fly in formation over the U.S. and British fleets in Tokyo Bay during surrender ceremonies. Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum ArchiveNo known copyright restrictions http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: The Woke Culture vs the American Empire, 2020 AD, New York City.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/opinion/letters/james-bennet-tom-cotton-op-ed.html ...more

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• 17: #NewAmericanCivilWar: Christianity vs the Roman Empire under Domitian, 90 AD, Londinium.

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  Jun 13 2020

  Photo: Roman Britain around ad 410, without speculative provincial borders.View author information Public Domain File:Brittain 410.jpg Uploaded: 2005-12-03 15:24:16 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#NewAmericanCivilWar: Christianity vs the Roman Empire under Domitian, 90 AD, Londinium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londinium

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• 16: #TheScalaReport: How do the big imperial cities in Europe and the USA revive and adapt? Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE

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  Jun 13 2020

  Photo:  A bird's-eye view of Chicago from elevation 700 ft. above Lake Michigan.Date | 1911Source | Chicago_Michigan_Avenue_1911.jpgAuthor | Chicago_Michigan_Avenue_1911.jpg: Copyright by Kaufmann, Weimer & Fabry Co, Chicago.derivative work: Smalljim (talk)Public domain1911, 700 feet above Lake Michicgan looking at Chicago.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport:  How do the big imperial cities in Europe and the USA revive and adapt?  Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHEhttps://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/06/13/great-cities-after-the-pandemic "There are reasons to worry. Covid-19 struck the most exciting, global cities hardest—the ones you find on the side of bags full of designer clothes. With 3% of America’s population, New York has suffered 19% of deaths attributed to the disease (see Briefing). One in four French deaths was in Paris and its region. Even as lockdowns lift, international travel restrictions and fear of infection will linger: London is only 15% as busy as normal.,....."...more

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• 16: #PacificWatch: Because Seattle, Because LA, Because San Francisco, Because Disneyland. @JeffBliss1

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  Jun 13 2020

  Photo: Title: Seattle and the Orient Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors:  Bowen, Alfred D Subjects:  Publisher:  Seattle, Wash. : Times Print. Co. Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation    View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book  Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.  Text Appearing Before Image:ited States with Rus-sia now goes through the Atlanticcities to Liverpool and St. Petersburg.The completion of the Rusian railroadwill naturally change this, and thisvast traffic will flow westward throughSeattle. THE SIZE OF SEATTLE AND OTHER INFORMATION. ^T-^i^- The City of Seattle, which now con-tains a population approximately esti-mated at 90,000 inhabitants, has anarea of twenty-eight square miles. It:ilongest distance north and south iseight and one-half miles, and its long-est distance east and west is seven andone-half miles; its shortest distanceeast and west is two miles. In 1880 itcontained a population of 3533; in graded streets. The water system,which furnishes a very superior qual-ity of pure water (and which is quiteadequate for a city of the present size)is being augmented in a very substan-tial way, and a supply will soon beaccessible for double the present pop-ulation. It is brought in from a longdistance, and secured from streamshaving their source in the Cascade 1 Text Appearing After Image:Overlooking the City from Beacon Hill. 1885 it had grown to be a place of9683; this was increased to 26,740 upto and including the year 1889; thepopulation in 1890 is given at 42,837;in 1892 it had grown to 57,540, and in1899 to over 86,000. It is confidentlypredicted that by the year 1910 thepopulation will easily reach 300,000.The city at the present time has 60.45miles of sewers and 101.59 miles of Mountains, and is therefore absolutelypure and wholesome. The city is sup-plied with both gas and electricity inabundance, at rates which are consid-ered very moderate compared withmany cities of its size. Lake Washington, which foiins theeastern boundary of the city, is twoand one-half miles east of Elliott Bay.It is twenty miles in length and from SEATTLE AND THE ORIENT. two to five miles micle, with an areaof forty square miles. It is from six-ty to 222 feet deep, and is fed chief-ly by the Samamish River, a streamflowing from the Cascale Mountains.Green Lake, a small body of water ly http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#PacificWatch: Because Seattle, Because LA, Because San Francisco, Because Disneyland. @JeffBliss1 ...more

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• 16: Uncovering the Obama FBI coverup that continued 2017-2020. @DevinNunes

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  Jun 13 2020

  Photo: Federic Remington1931: given by Thomas M. Evans, B.A. What an unbranded cow has cost1895 Inscriptions | Signature bottom leftNotes | Loosely inspired by the "cattle wars" of the 1880s and 1890s, in which wealthy cattle barons gradually displaced independent homesteaders and small-scale ranchers, Frederic Remington's painting depicts the deadly aftermath of a shootout over the ownership of an unbranded cow. The painting illustrated a nostalgic article in Harper's Monthly by Remington's friend Owen Wister about the history of cowboys, whom Wister likened to Anglo-Saxon knights. Remington and Wister's glorification of the American cowboy as a symbol of Anglo-Saxon culture was a response to the perceived threat represented by increasing immigration. Remington sought to celebrate the cowpuncher, but the mournful tone of this painting instead affirms that this mythic figure and his frontier world were vanishing.[1]↑ Yale University Art Galleryhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowUncovering the Obama FBI coverup that continued 2017-2020. @DevinNuneshttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/ica-steele-dossier-claims ...more

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• 16: San Joaquin Valley fully prepared in the event of more partisan disorder. @DevinNunes CA-22

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  Jun 13 2020

  Photo: The Hunters' SupperFederic RemingtonObject typepublic domain  paintingMediumoil on canvasCollectionNational Cowboy and Western Heritage MuseumCurrent locationOklahoma City, OklahomaSource/PhotographerNational Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSan Joaquin Valley fully prepared in the event of more partisan disorder. @DevinNunes CA-22

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• 15: @SmallBusinessAmerica: Secrets of the Cares Act. @GeneMarks @PhillyInquirer @Guardian

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  Jun 13 2020

  Photo: The Old Mill, 1888. Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Vincent van Gogh - albrightknox.org/collection Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domainin its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or 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. 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:Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) - The Old Mill (1888).jpg Created: 1888date QS:P571,+1888-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow@SmallBusinessAmerica: Secrets of the Cares Act. @GeneMarks @PhillyInquirer @GuardianThe Cares Act's best-kept secret is a boon not just for survival but for growthhttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/07/the-cares-acts-best-kept-secret-is-a-boon-not-just-for-survival-but-for-growthThe Paycheck Protection Program is a success, except for one big issuehttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/10/the-paycheck-protection-program-is-a-success-excep/Reopening your small business amid COVID-19? Lawsuits loom. Here’s how to do it safely. https://www.inquirer.com/business/small-business/small-business-liability-lawsuits-safety-philadelphia-coronavirus-covid-reopening-20200608.htmlWe're not all going to be working from home, nor should we. Here's whyhttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/11/were-not-all-going-to-be-working-from-home-nor-should-we-heres-why...more

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• 15: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Bottoming out, picking up and expanding. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer

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  Jun 13 2020

  Photo: The Red Vineyard, November 1888. Pushkin Museum, Moscow. Sold to Anna Boch, 1890 Vincent van Gogh - History of the Red Vineyard by Anna Boch.com, 2nd upload: wikipaintings the only painting Vincent van Gogh is certainly known to have sold during his lifetime. Public Domain File:Red vineyards.jpg Created: 4 November 1888 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#SmallBusinessAmerica: Bottoming out, picking up and expanding. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirerSmall Business Optimism Index Rebounds from April, Earnings Trends Decline https://www.nfib.com/surveys/small-business-economic-trends/ Restaurants are picking back uphttps://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hblP5zPULN0/Xt3BnB1H6KI/AAAAAAAA1C8/rj_FxyhF7KIVPipIB4r0kOEAx8Tg1AEPACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/DinersJune62020.PNGGasoline consumption is picking uphttps://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D69NKZTbii4/Xt2-O_Jw5rI/AAAAAAAA1Cs/WgI4kbMqlt0dRSPKXaz1u2wfnYp_EV9XgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/GasolineMay292020.PNGNMHC Rent Payment Tracker Finds 80.8 Percent of Apartment Households Paid Rent as of June 6https://www.nmhc.org/news/press-release/2020/nmhc-rent-payment-tracker-finds-80.8-percent-of-apartment-households-paid-rent-as-of-june-6/Fed expands Main Street program to allow for both smaller and bigger loanshttps://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/fed-expands-main-street-program-to-allow-for-both-smaller-and-bigger-loans.html$130 Billion in Small-Business Aid Still Hasn’t Been Usedhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/business/Small-business-loans-ppp.html...more

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• 15: The Federal Government looks to Artificial Intelligence to solve the Federal Government. @FRoseDC

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  Jun 13 2020

  Photo: The Second Class Carriage (1864) by Honoré Daumier Honoré Daumier - Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork Permission details This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2012021710000834. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard.View more Public Domainview terms File:Honoré Daumier - The Second Class Carriage - Walters 371224.jpg Created: 1864date QS:P571,+1864-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Federal Government looks to Artificial Intelligence to solve the Federal Government. @FRoseDChttps://govmatters.tv/intelligent-technology-a-i-tackles-fraud-waste-and-abuse/ ...more

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• 15: "Withdrawal of Tolerance" spreads like fire across the editorial pages. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 13 2020

  Photo:  The throne of king Louis Philippe is burned in the place de la Bastille, at the foot of the July Column, during the French revolution of 1848, Paris 25th February 1848Date | 1848public domainSource | https://springfieldmuseums.org/collections/item/the-burning-of-the-throne-paris-25th-february-1848-nathaniel-currier/Author | Nathaniel Currierhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Withdrawal of Tolerance" spreads like fire across the editorial pages. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/the-medias-self-censors-11591829694 ...more

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• 14: PRC abuses religious worship at home and overseas. Sam Brownback @IRF_Ambassador Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom

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  Jun 13 2020

  Photo: The Kangxi Emperor with a Jesuit astronomer, Adam Schall. "Tapisserie de Beauvais", 1690–1705.Unknown author - 18th century painting. Reproduction in [1] Jesuit_astronome_with_Kangxi_Emperor.jpg Public Domain File:Jesuit astronome with Kangxi Emperor.jpg Created: between 1690 and 1705 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1690-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1705-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPRC abuses religious worship at home and overseas. Sam Brownback @IRF_Ambassador Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedomhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/state-department-rebukes-china-as-one-of-the-worst-abusers-of-religious-freedom/2020/06/10/311da072-ab39-11ea-868b-93d63cd833b2_story.html. ...more

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• 14: Modern Education and inequality of incomes in the 50 states. @MichaelPetrilli fordhaminstitute.org @HooverInst

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  Jun 13 2020

  Photo: Title: Mind and hand: manual training the chief factor in educationYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  Ham, Charles Henry, 1831-1902. (from old catalog)Subjects:  Manual training. (from old catalog)Publisher:  New York, Cincinnati (etc.) American book companyContributing 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:admission to the Chicago school. ARITHMETIC. Transcribe work sufficient to show processes. )^ociedit given for results alone. 1. Change to decimals and find the sum of f, f, ^l, ^q, ;^. 2. Divide the product of 28f and 13f by the difference of 8^^and 4;. 3. Divide .00875 by 12i 4. Reduce .395 of a mile to integers. 5. If a locomotive move f of a mile in (^ of an hour, vv^hat is itsspeed per hour? 6. A man invested ^ of his money in land, .125 of it in stocks,$12,000 in a vessel, and had $55,500 remaining. How much did heinvest in land? 7. Bought a square mile of land at $75 an acre. I reserved 160acres of it for streets and alleys, and divided the remainder into lotseach 66 feet front by 200 feet deep, all of which I sold for $15 perfront foot. The expense of surveying, etc., was $2000. What did Igain ? 8. How many balls, each ^ of an inch in diameter, are equal inweight to a ball of the same material 1 foot in diameter? 9. Find cost of material for making box, inside measurement 4 byText Appearing After Image:MANUAL AND MENTAL TRAINING COMBINED. 109 2 by 3 feet, of inch lumber, worth $30 per M., ^V of the lumber pur-chased being wasted. Include in the cost 7 dozen screws at $L80per gross, 10. What is the height of a rectangular cistern capable of contain-ing 600 gallons, the bottom of which is 7 by 11 feet, inside measure-ment? GEOGRAPHY. 1. Name the five most populous cities of the United States inorder of population. On what water is St. Petersburg? Dublin?Rome? Calcutta? Cairo? 2. Locate the principal coal fields and iron regions of the UnitedStates. What minerals occur in Illinois? 3. Draw map of Illinois, showing by what States and by whatwaters bounded. Locate the capital and the largest city of Illinois. 4. Name the outlet of Lake Erie; of Lake Champlain; of GreatSalt Lake; of the Black Sea; of Lake Victoria Nyanza. 5. Compare the latitude and climate of Spain and Illinois. 6. How does the island of Great Britain compare in area with theUnited States, or with any one of the United Shttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowModern Education and inequality of incomes in the 50 states. @MichaelPetrilli fordhaminstitute.org @HooverInsthttps://www.wsj.com/articles/the-unequal-american-city-11591657673 ...more

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• 14: Trees do not grow to Heaven and other lessons learned on Wall Street. @GregoryZuckerman @WSJ

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  Jun 13 2020

  Photo: Title: Descriptive catalogue : fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, rose, bulbs, etc.Identifier: CAT31284955 (find matches)Year: 1900 (1900s)Authors: Storrs & Harrison Co; Painesville Nurseries; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog CollectionSubjects: Nursery stock Ohio Painesville Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit CatalogsPublisher: Painesville, Ohio : Storrs and Harrison Co.Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural LibraryDigitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural LibraryText Appearing After Image: TEAS' WEEPING MULBERRY.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTrees do not grow to Heaven and other lessons learned on Wall Street. @GregoryZuckerman @WSJ https://amzn.to/2PaanUD ...more

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• 14: Chapter 11 Bankruptcy is the remedy for the impossibly deeply indebted and obligated states. @VerodeRugy

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  Jun 13 2020

  Photo: A mid-Victorian depiction of the debtors prison at St Briavel CastleDato | 1858Kilde | Henry Nicholls' book "The Forest of Dean"Opphavsperson | Henry Nichollshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowChapter 11 Bankruptcy is the remedy for the impossibly deeply indebted and obligated states. @VerodeRugy https://www.mercatus.org/publications/covid-19-economic-recovery/difficult-path-state-bankruptcy

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• 14: Preliminary post-shutdown estimates of lives saved and infections avoided. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch

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  Jun 12 2020

  Photo: A 13th-century fresco of Sylvester and Constantine, showing the Donation of Constantine, Santi Quattro Coronati, RomeUnknown medieval artist in Rome - Unknown source San Silvestro Chapel at Santi Quattro Coronati, Rome 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:Sylvester I and Constantine.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPreliminary post-shutdown estimates of lives saved and infections avoided. @HenryIMiller @PacificResearchOur central estimates suggest that there would be roughly 37 million more cumulative confirmed cases (corresponding to 285 million more total infections, including the confirmedcases)inChina,11.5millionmoreconfirmedcasesinSouthKorea (38 million total infections), 2.1 million more confirmed cases in Italy (49 million total infections), 5 million more confirmed cases in Iran (54 million total infections), 1.4 million more confirmed cases in France (45 million total infections), and 4.8 million more confirmed cases (60 million total infections) in the US had these countries never enacted any anti-contagion policies since the start of the pandemic.  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2404-8_reference.pdf We find that, across 11 countries, since the beginning of the epidemic, 3,100,000 [2,800,000 - 3,500,000] deaths have been averted due to interventions (see Extended Data Figure 5 comparing the actual total deaths to the coun- terfactual). The counterfactual model without interventions is illustra- tive only and reflects our model assumptions. We do not account for changes in behavior; in reality even in the absence of government interventions we would expect Rt to decrease and therefore would overestimate deaths in the no-intervention model. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2405-7_reference.pdf...more

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• 14: Why is the WHO unreliable and distrusted & What is to be done?? @HenryIMiller @PacificResearch

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  Jun 12 2020

  Photo: Rome: Ruins of the Forum, Looking towards the Capitol (1742) by Canaletto Canaletto - Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domainin its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or 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:Rome- Ruins of the Forum, Looking towards the Capitol.jpg Created: 1742date QS:P571,+1742-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhy is the WHO unreliable and distrusted & What is to be done?? @HenryIMiller @PacificResearchhttp://www.henrymillermd.org/24248/the-who-follies-redux ...more

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• 13: Pennsylvania Hand-made Lawn Sign Gap for Trump. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Jun 12 2020

  Photo: Pittsburgh in 1902. (Note: shows Pennsylvania RR railyards on southeast (right) side of Allegheny River.) Other yards are south of Monongahela River. Lithograph by Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler. Original: Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler (1842-1922) Restoration: Adam Cuerden - Library of Congress Geography and Maps division Three colour (blue, yellow-orange, black) lithographic print showing Pittsburgh in 1902. 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:Thaddeus M. Fowler - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1902 (cropped).jpg Created: 1 January 1902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPennsylvania Hand-made Lawn Sign Gap for Trump. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst ...more

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• 13: The reopening upon us in DC and NYC & What is to be done? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Jun 12 2020

  Photo: View of Grand Central Depot, New York City. The text cut off to the left is for the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad.Date | 1880Source | Brennan, Joseph (2004-2005). "Beach Pneumatic." Chapter 9: "Sinking the Tracks." Original web publication. Accessed 2015-01-24.Author | Unknown photographerhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe reopening upon us in DC and NYC & What is to be done? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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• 12: Frail, failed Iran revives its toy mock aircraft carrier as a provocation. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 12 2020

  Photo: The fifth voyage of Sindbad Gustave Doré - [1] An episode from the 5th voyage of Sinbad the Sailor in the "One Thousand and One Nights". Illustration from "Les Mille et une nuits", par Galland - Paris, 1865. Public Domain File:Sinbad the Sailor (5th Voyage).jpg Created: 1 January 1865 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFrail, failed Iran revives its toy mock aircraft carrier as a provocation. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_preshttps://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-builds-yet-another-us-fake-aircraft-carrier-to-practice-blowing-it-up-630980 ...more

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• 12: What are Israel's defensible borders? @DrDoreGold Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 12 2020

  Photo: Sindbad and the Valley of Diamonds, from the Second Voyage. Maxfield Parrish - http://aspenillustration.blogspot.com/2011/02/illustrator-research-maxfield-parrish.html , see also: http://www.printsoldandrare.com/maxfield/index.html The Valley of Diamonds by Maxfield Parrish. Book illustration from The Arabian Nights (Sindbad 2nd voyage), published 1907. 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 Valley of Diamonds by Maxfield Parrish.jpg Created: 1 January 1907 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat are Israel's defensible borders? @DrDoreGold Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presAmbassador Dore Gold is President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. In June 2015, Dore Gold left the Jerusalem Center, which he had led since 2000, to serve as Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Related articles●        https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/06/03/turkey-opens-new-islamic-center-near-the-western-wall/ ●        https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/06/01/israel-saudi-arabia-in-secret-talks-to-curb-turkish-presence-on-temple-mount/ ●        https://www.news1.co.il/Archive/0026-D-141615-00.html ●        https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/event_germany100620 ...more

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• 12: Iran violates all the terms of the JCPOA & What is to be done? David Albright @TheGoodISIS. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 12 2020

  Photo: The Flying Carpet, a depiction of the hero of Russian folklore, Ivan Tsarevich. Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov - belygorod.ru The Flying Carpet, a depiction of the hero of Russian folklore, Ivan Tsarevich Public Domain File:Vasnetsov samolet.jpg Created: 1880date QS:P571,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIran violates all the terms of the JCPOA & What is to be done? David Albright @TheGoodISIS. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presDavid Albright, a physicist, is founder and President of the non-profit Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, D.C. He directs the project work of the Institute, heads its fundraising efforts, and chairs its board of directors. In addition, he regularly publishes and conducts scientific research. He has written numerous assessments on secret nuclear weapons programs throughout the world. Related articles●        https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-experts-react-to-iaea-its-time-for-the-world-to-get-involved-630796 ●        https://www.wsj.com/articles/irans-pre-deal-deceptions-11591744764 ●        https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/statement-on-no-enrichment ...more

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• 12: Iran's poverty rate is long-term tragedy for the helpless, virus-ridden people. Mohsen Sazegara. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 12 2020

  Photo: Picture of the brother of Ali Baba: "Cassim ... was so alarmed at the danger he was in that the more he endeavoured to remember the word Sesame the more his memory was confounded". Maxfield Parrish - Arabian Nights 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:Ali-Baba.jpg Created: 1 January 1909 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIran's poverty rate is long-term tragedy for the helpless, virus-ridden people. Mohsen Sazegara. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presMohsen Sazegara is an Iranian journalist and pro-democracy political activist. Dr. Sazegara held several high-ranking positions in the Government of Mir-Hossein Mousavi, such as deputy prime minister, minister of industry, deputy chairman of the budget and planning department, and many more before becoming disillusioned with the government in 1989 and pushing for reforms. He applied to become a candidate for President of Iran in the 2001 election but was declined.Relevant articles·         https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/economy/majlis-research-center-irans-economy-in-freefall-and-reaching-destruction/ ·         https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-china-russia/iran-urges-russia-china-to-resist-us-push-to-extend-arms-embargo-idUSKBN23H1EP ·         https://www.newsweek.com/iranian-commander-us-rapid-decline-tehran-leverages-unrest-propaganda-1510133 ·         https://www.bbc.com/news/52959756 ...more

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• 11: In the virus, Chile delays confrontation with bad actors. Mary O’Grady: @MaryAnastasiaOG

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  Jun 12 2020

  Image:  Lautaro, toqui and hero of the Arauco war Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ editorial board, Americas column; in re: Chilean protests; most people objected to problems transport and the like; a smaller group took advantage to create chaos. President Pinera is rich.  Made foolish speeches; then knuckled under and agreed to have a referendum on whether or not to rewrite the constitution, which at this stage would be bad for Chile.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-culture-wars-and-the-street-wars-11591560660  https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-culture-wars-and-the-street-wars-11591560660 ...more

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• 10: POTUS is unruffled and robust. @ConradMBlack

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  Jun 12 2020

  Image:  Maya, Kuvaszok Hungarian dogConrad Black, NRO; author and publisher, in re: President Trump’s rough-and-tumble week.  Natl political media except for Fox & one other are relentless anti-Trump; unrelieved.  Unless he were a stupid and evil person, he’d occasionally react. Even Peggy Noonan casts false accusations.  Accused him of never having visited Steve Scalise after the shooting; in fact, Trumps were the first people there after the family. Media just make it up. The presumptive nominee (here, Biden) is so incoherent that he hasn’t been doing the job a party leader is expected to do. Larry Kudlow says the president is unruffled by the attacks and the derogation.  A person inexplicably irritated with what we’d consider minor provocations; but once they reach a ferocity that would upset most of us, he feels that it’s nothing at all to be concerned about.  Conrad and Barbara Black’s marvellous dog Maya. https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/trump-hangs-tough/https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-i-was-a-cat-person-before-we-had-maya-i-will-miss-this-wonderful-dog ...more

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• 9: Disorder in Blue; & What is to be done? Victor Davis Hanson: @VDHanson

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  Jun 12 2020

  Image:     More detailsEngraving "Closing of the Jacobin Club, during the night of 27–28 July 1794, or 9–10 Thermidor, year 2 of the Republic" Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, in re:  Disorder in California; in blue cities and states more than in red, although no demarcation. The first night, I observed the “protest”—young people wanting to break in and loot. Protests became Jacobin in nature.  Toppling statues, rename military bases.   The core of Seattle is being occupied by AR-16s, as an autonomous nation. The lockdown was on dubious pretenses for this long; been repudiated by thousands of people in the street. “We were forbidden to emerge, but masses of people were out there screaming with no masks.”  https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/protests-coronavirus-bitter-irony-of-revolutions/ ...more

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• 8: D-Day's risk and sacrifice were for this disregard in 2020? Victor Davis Hanson: @VDHanson

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  Jun 12 2020

  Image:  Landing ships putting cargo ashore on Omaha Beach, at low tide during the first days of the operation, mid-1944-06 Among identifiable ships present are LST-532 (in the center of the view); USS LST-262 (3rd LST from right); USS LST-310 (2nd LST from right); USS LST-533 (partially visible at far right); and USS LST-524. Note barrage balloons overhead and Army "half-track" convoy forming up on the beach. The LST-262 was one of 10 Coast Guard-manned LSTs that participated in the invasion of Normandy, France. This version has had dust and scratches removed, slight tonal imbalances corrected and a tiny white residual border cropped out, otherwise as per the original. Edited and uploaded by mikaultalk 13:18, 16 April 2007 (UTC)..  ..  ..  Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, in re:  Largest invasion in modern history, June 5-6, 1944, and somehow stop that extraordinary land force, battle divisions.  The big problem was Omaha Beach, where the intell was poor; and no one had planned for the bocages.  Closest thing after that was the Inchon landing. Brits recalled the failed Dieppe raid and opposed the Normandy landing, which added to the difficulties. For thirty days we were pinned down within a few miles; had to destroy Caen.        Until Vietnam, people thought we could do anything, as we won the war within four years starting with no military. Almost unbelievable achievement, Moon project reflected that confidence.        Recall that Europe was merely space occupied by Germany.        I was at UC Santa Barbara, said that there was no class on WWII; was challenged with, “Yes, but we have post-War gender studies.”        Look at the [chaos] of the last weeks: 40,000 men died for this?  We haven't lived up to that sacrifice.  https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/d-day-remember-normandy-invasion/ ...more

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• 7: WHO mis-announces and then un-announces asymptomatic infectiousness "very rare," & What is to be done @RichardAEpstein @Hoover

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  Jun 12 2020

  Photo: 1813Accession number | British Library HMNTS 11641.g.38.Source/Photographer | Image extracted from page 344 of  The Tour of Doctor Syntax: in search of the picturesque ... Fifth edition, with new plates., by William Combe. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWHO mis-announces and then un-announces asymptomatic infectiousness "very rare," & What is to be done @RichardAEpstein @Hooverhttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/coronavirus-who-retracts-statement-within-a-day-that-said-asymptomatic-covid-19-carriers-cannot-spread-infection-here-is-an-explainer/photostory/76299600.cms https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52977940...more

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• 7: LancetGate illustrates science distorted by anti-Trump partisanship & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Jun 12 2020

  Photo: Image from page 594 of "The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet : containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English; their expulsion thence; and of other mem Identifier: chroniclesofengu01mons Title: The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet : containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English; their expulsion thence; and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries ... Beginning at the year MCCCC., where that of Sir John Froissart finishes, and ending at the year MCCCCLXVII, and continued by others to the year MDXVI Year: 1853 (1850s) Authors:  Monstrelet, Enguerrand de, d. 1453 Johnes, Thomas, 1748-1816 Subjects:  Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 Publisher:  London : H. G. Bohn Contributing Library:  Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor:  Brigham Young University http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLancetGate illustrates science distorted by anti-Trump partisanship & What is to be done? @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/lancets-covid-fiasco?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=423c6a2d2f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_09_05_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-423c6a2d2f-72527561...more

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• 6: Taiwan rejects a major Kuomintang politician. Stephen Yates @YatesDCIA @GordonGChang

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  Jun 12 2020

  Photo: 1880s Source | http://www.twmemory.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/twmemory2565.jpgAuthor | Edmund Hornby Grimanihttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTaiwan rejects a major Kuomintang politician.  Stephen Yates @YatesDCIA @GordonGChangStephen Yates, former deputy national security advisor to Vice President Cheney and currently CEO of DC International Advisory https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3945652

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• 6: India faces down PRC aggression along the Himalayan Border, same as 1962. @CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChang

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  Jun 12 2020

  Photo: Hemis Monastery in the 1870sView author information Public Domain File:Hemis Monastery Ladakh 1876.jpg Uploaded: 2006-03-12 02:08:19 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIndia faces down PRC aggression along the Himalayan Border, same as 1962. @CleoPaskal @FDD @GordonGChangCleo Paskal, non-resident senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/china-versus-the-world

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• 5: Starship advances. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 11 2020

  Photo: The firing of the Columbiad.The original uploader was Chalupa at Czech Wikipedia. - Original source: http://jv.gilead.org.il/rpaul Transferred from cs.wikipedia to Commons by Sevela.p using CommonsHelper. From the Earth to the Moon engraving from the 1872 illustrated edition. Public Domain File:FETMlaunch.jpg Created: 27 June 2006 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowStarship advances. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-endorsement-allows-spacex-to-shift-focus-to-starship/ ...more

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• 4: Devaluation of the currency does not lead to profits or prosperity. @JohnTamny

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  Jun 11 2020

  Photo: NYCPD Officers charging rioters at the offices of the New York Tribune newspaper. New York City draft riots July 1863 Harper's Weekly - Modified from secondary source at http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/august/draft-riots.htm Depiction of rioters and police during the New York City draft riots of 1863. Original caption in Harper's Weekly: "CHARGE OF THE POLICE ON THE RIOTERS AT THE 'TRIBUNE' OFFICE". Permission details Public domain in all countries - copyright expiredView more Public Domainview terms File:New York Draft Riots - Harpers - beating.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDevaluation of the currency does not lead to profits or prosperity. @JohnTamnyhttps://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/06/03/dont_be_naive_currency_devaluations_boost_no_one_495073.html ...more

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• 3: The unlikely notion that Federal law enforcement agencies can teach local law enforcement. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jun 11 2020

  Photo: The new regulation uniforms of the Municipal Police in 1854Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room - Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room New regulation uniform of the New York Police. Illustration from 1854. 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:Police uniform NY 1854.jpg Created: 1 January 1854 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe unlikely notion that Federal law enforcement agencies can teach local law enforcement.  @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatnesshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/unable-to-run-its-own-agencies-washington-dictates-to-americas-police/ ...more

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• 2: The back-up sample landing zone on Asteroid Bennu is perilously tiny. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 11 2020

  Photo: The sample site is located in the crater at the bottom of the image, just above the dark patch at the crater’s center. The long, light-colored boulder to the left of the dark patch, named Strix Saxum, is 17 ft (5.2 m) in length. The mosaic is rotated so that Bennu’s east is at the top of the image. Osprey is the backup sample collection site for the OSIRIS-REx mission. OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to make its first sample collection attempt at primary site Nightingale on Oct. 20. Date Taken: May 26, 2020 Instrument Used: OCAMS (PolyCam) Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe back-up sample landing zone on Asteroid Bennu is perilously tiny. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/bennus-forbidding-gravelly-surface/ ...more

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• 2: Emmet Sullivan tasks Friends of the Resistance in order to charge Michael Flynn with an entirely new crime, perjury. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

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  Jun 11 2020

  Photo: Police Show -- Street Cleaners Band (LOC)Bain News Service,, publisher. Police Show -- Street Cleaners Band [between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920] 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 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowEmmet Sullivan tasks Friends of the Resistance in order to charge Michael Flynn with an entirely new crime, perjury. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness...more

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• 1: State of the City, the State, the Union: The NYPD secures New York City's citizens and visitors. John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtable

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  Jun 11 2020

  Photo: Police Show -- Tug of War (LOC)Bain News Service,, publisher. Police Show -- Tug of War [between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920] 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). http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowState of the City, the State, the Union: The NYPD secures New York City's citizens and visitors. John Catsimatidis @JCats2013 @CatsRoundtablehttps://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-nypd-officers-gunfire-queens-20200611-36iyvbf6inenrocfco2tsk3u7i-story.html ...more

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• 88: Trillions added to our national debt; can’t let interest rates return to natural rate—ever. @DavidBahnsen

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  Jun 11 2020

  Image:  Newspaper clipping USA, Woodrow Wilson signs creation of the Federal Reserve. Date: 24 December 1913David Bahnsen, CIO, Bahnsen Group,  in re: The Fed will “do whatever it takes” to . . .  stabilize the economy.  Same as what he’s been saying.   A put option/safety valve for risk.   Keep interest rates at zero till 2022.  After 2017, ’twas almost 2017 before they raised interest rates. You can’t just unwind; a society grows addicted to low interest rates.  Problem is we added several trillions to our national debt; thus cannot let interest rates return to natural interest rate—ever. Case in point: Japan for the last 30 years. Academic economists make mistakes all the time; that’s all right except they pretend they're infallible.  The May jobs number was about employees’s being laid off, not fired; academic  economists were wrong.  The PPP program has been underrated for its efficacy. My guess is that we’ll have less unemployment than 9.5%. ...more

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• 87: US sanctions PRC officials Chen and Zhu for persecuting the Uyghur people. @nuryturkel

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  Jun 11 2020

  Image:  Detainees in a Xinjiang Re-education Camp located in Lop County listening to "de-radicalization" talks. Fair use.   Nury Turkel, co-founder of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom; Time Magazine: in re:   A villain, Chen , responsible for massive numbers of deaths of Uyghur and Kazakh people in Xinjiang.  Wuhan hospitals put up in days rr taken fro Xinijang; doors could open only from the outside, Chen was transferred from Tibet to Xinjiang in 2016. From three to eight million Uyghurs in actual concentration camps;  Their children:  about a half-million have been either locked up or taken to Han orphanages.  Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in US Congress.  Uyghur Human Rights Act (20 June 2020) .  All supported by Senate unanimously; 430 to 1 in House.  Execute ha been active: Pompeo made a statement last September by commenting on this matter over 2,000 time! Europeans should understand how this ends, having seen it in WWII.  Chen and Zhu:  Zhu was train to be a local warlord; learned Uyghur, lived with them; he signed off on the operating manuals for the concentration camps, is responsible for their expansion.  Says that, “Islam is a mental illness.” Any practice of Muslm tradition is called “a religious virus.”   https://time.com/5847184/uyghur-human-rights-policy-act-china/ ...more

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• 86: HSBC bank kowtows to the PRC as Hong Kong defiance abides. @Michael_Yon @GordonGChang

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  Image:  A HK$20 note issued by the HSBC. Fair use.Michael Yon, Far East reporter; in re: the spontaneous protest marking the one-year anniversary of the massive June 9 demonstration. China threatens London if it fails to let Huawei [CCP military] into UK.   HSBC kowtows to Beijing; Article 23 Natl Security Legislation.  Bank says it’ll buy Huawei equipment. Standard Chartered, HQ in London, does most of its business in Asia; it also kowtowed.          The patriot/protest movement:  many arrest of the insurgency, which will persist.  Will go through phases, and flare back up again. The CCP is on the offensive every direction, from HK to Taiwan to South China Sea (Philippines, Vietnam), to India and London. It's wise to punch only up; China is punching down, looks like a shakedown operation.  Mainland Producer Price Index fell 7%, imports fell 16.7%.  If HK breaks down, what will Taiwan and HK make of a frantic central govt in Beijing?  HK: don’t quit—remember that Eastern Europe was liberated by the economic collapse of the USSR.   Yes, China is coercive and totalitarian. This is an exceedingly dangerous phase for all concerned.  Standard Chartered, HQ in London, does most of its business in Asia; also kowtowed.  Taiwan sees HK as a great ally.   @Michael_Yon     https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/protest-anniversary-lam-hong-kong-bear-chaos-200609060205234.html ...more

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• 85: Governor Wolf breaks his own lockdown and drops in approval. @SalenaZito

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  Image:    A Pennsylvania oil field in 1862Salena Zito, CNN, Washington Examiner, New York Post, “In the Middle of Somewhere,” in re: Governor Wolf breaks his own lockdown and drops in approval.  Gov Wolf is walking in the protest; Harrisburg: the governor has kept the entire country closed, which has massively displeased the electorate. “If you join the protest, you may go get your hair cut.”  Lack of transparency, information data – all are in the closed courthouse; changing goal posts. Hypocrisy of walking in a protest while demanding people not open their business, or attend a wedding or funeral. Rural hospitals are integral to the health of residents; eke dental work. Paul Mango, deputy chief of staff for policy in HHS.   ...more

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• 84: Homemade Trump lawn signs and the Enthusiasm Gap in PA. @SalenaZito

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  Jun 11 2020

  Image:  Homemade Trump lawn signs. Salena Zito, CNN, Washington Examiner, New York Post, “In the Middle of Somewhere,” in re: Governor Wolf breaks his own lockdown and drops in approval.  Gov Wolf is walking in the protest; Harrisburg: the governor has kept the entire country closed, which has massively displeased the electorate. “If you join the protest, you may go get your hair cut.”  Lack of transparency, information, data – all are in the closed courthouse; changing goal posts. Hypocrisy of walking in a protest while demanding people not open their business, or attend a wedding or funeral. Rural hospitals are integral to the health of residents; eke dental work. Paul Mango, deputy chief of staff for policy in HHS.   ...more

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• 82: 4/4 Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza.

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  Jun 11 2020

  Image:  The 1919 Chicago White Sox Team Photo Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza.    Grover Gardner (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim, and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Rothstein was much more—and less—than a fixer of baseball games. He was everything that made 1920s Manhattan roar. Featuring Jazz Age Broadway with its thugs, speakeasies, showgirls, political movers and shakers, and stars of the Golden Age of Sports, this is a biography of the man who dominated an age. Arnold Rothstein was a loan shark, pool shark, bookmaker, thief, fence of stolen property, political fixer, Wall Street swindler, labor racketeer, rumrunner, and mastermind of the modern drug trade. Among his monikers were, "The Big Bankroll," "The Brain," and "The Man Uptown." This vivid account of Rothstein's life is also the story of con artists, crooked cops, politicians, gang lords, newsmen, speakeasy owners, gamblers and the like. Finally unraveling the mystery of Rothstein's November 1928 murder in a Times Square hotel room, David Pietrusza has cemented The Big Bankroll's place among the most influential and fascinating legendary American criminals. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs are featured. ...more

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• 83: 3/4 Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza.

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  Image: The 21 Club, a speakeasy through Prohibition.   Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza.    Grover Gardner (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim, and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Rothstein was much more—and less—than a fixer of baseball games. He was everything that made 1920s Manhattan roar. Featuring Jazz Age Broadway with its thugs, speakeasies, showgirls, political movers and shakers, and stars of the Golden Age of Sports, this is a biography of the man who dominated an age. Arnold Rothstein was a loan shark, pool shark, bookmaker, thief, fence of stolen property, political fixer, Wall Street swindler, labor racketeer, rumrunner, and mastermind of the modern drug trade. Among his monikers were, "The Big Bankroll," "The Brain," and "The Man Uptown." This vivid account of Rothstein's life is also the story of con artists, crooked cops, politicians, gang lords, newsmen, speakeasy owners, gamblers and the like. Finally unraveling the mystery of Rothstein's November 1928 murder in a Times Square hotel room, David Pietrusza has cemented The Big Bankroll's place among the most influential and fascinating legendary American criminals. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs are featured. ...more

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• 80: 2/4 Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza.

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  Jun 11 2020

  Image: The Saratoga main track in 1907 Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza.    Grover Gardner (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim, and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Rothstein was much more—and less—than a fixer of baseball games. He was everything that made 1920s Manhattan roar. Featuring Jazz Age Broadway with its thugs, speakeasies, showgirls, political movers and shakers, and stars of the Golden Age of Sports, this is a biography of the man who dominated an age. Arnold Rothstein was a loan shark, pool shark, bookmaker, thief, fence of stolen property, political fixer, Wall Street swindler, labor racketeer, rumrunner, and mastermind of the modern drug trade. Among his monikers were, "The Big Bankroll," "The Brain," and "The Man Uptown." This vivid account of Rothstein's life is also the story of con artists, crooked cops, politicians, gang lords, newsmen, speakeasy owners, gamblers and the like. Finally unraveling the mystery of Rothstein's November 1928 murder in a Times Square hotel room, David Pietrusza has cemented The Big Bankroll's place among the most influential and fascinating legendary American criminals. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs are featured. ...more

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• 79: 1/4 Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza.

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  Jun 11 2020

  Image: Arnold Rothstein (January 17, 1882 – November 5, 1928), New York businessman and gambler who became a famous kingpin of the Jewish mafia.  Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza.    Grover Gardner (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged  History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim, and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls, Rothstein was much more—and less—than a fixer of baseball games. He was everything that made 1920s Manhattan roar. Featuring Jazz Age Broadway with its thugs, speakeasies, showgirls, political movers and shakers, and stars of the Golden Age of Sports, this is a biography of the man who dominated an age. Arnold Rothstein was a loan shark, pool shark, bookmaker, thief, fence of stolen property, political fixer, Wall Street swindler, labor racketeer, rumrunner, and mastermind of the modern drug trade. Among his monikers were, "The Big Bankroll," "The Brain," and "The Man Uptown." This vivid account of Rothstein's life is also the story of con artists, crooked cops, politicians, gang lords, newsmen, speakeasy owners, gamblers and the like. Finally unraveling the mystery of Rothstein's November 1928 murder in a Times Square hotel room, David Pietrusza has cemented The Big Bankroll's place among the most influential and fascinating legendary American criminals. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs are featured. ...more

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• 78: Big city vandalism and fear of same last a long long time. @JMcGurn @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 10 2020

  Photo: Barricade à l'angle des boulevard Voltaire et Richard-Lenoir pendant la Commune de Paris de 1871. Cliché pris à l'occasion de l'exposition "La Commune 1871, Paris capitale insurgée" à l'Hôtel de ville de Paris le 5 avril 2011. Bruno Braquehais - BHVP/Roger-Viollet Public Domain File:Barricade Voltaire Lenoir Commune Paris 1871.jpg Created: 1 January 1871 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBig city vandalism and fear of same last a long long time. @JMcGurn @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mayhem-is-the-message-11591657260 ...more

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• 78: Investment is growth: cash and consumption are not growth. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets

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  Jun 10 2020

  Photo: No Known Restrictions: Salvador, Market Place Santa Tecla (LOC) Public Domain License. From Library of Congress Collections. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowInvestment is growth: cash and consumption are not growth.  @JohnTamny @RealClearMarketshttps://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/06/08/el_salvadors_decline_mocks_keynesian_and_monetarist_magic_495512.htmlhttps://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/06/04/economists_worship_consumption_lebanon_mocks_their_religion_495251.html ...more

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• 77: Has POTUS run out of luck?? @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Jun 10 2020

  Photo: Aiding a Comrade, 1890 Frederic Remington - NgFOqvqn8LtPew at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level Public Domain File:Frederic Remington - Aiding a Comrade - Google Art Project.jpg Created: 1890date QS:P571,+1890-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHas POTUS run out of luck?? @HooverWhalen @HooverInst https://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2020/06/07/as-trump-runs-for-a-second-term-is-he-also-running-out-of-luck/...more

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• 77: The Fed cannot make credit. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets

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  Jun 10 2020

  Photo: The Blanket Signal, 1894/1898 Frederic Remington - dQE-yjyW6G50WQ at Google Cultural Institute, zoom level maximum Public Domain File:Frederic Remington - The Blanket Signal - Google Art Project.jpg Created: 1894/1898 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Fed cannot make credit. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarketsThe Fed leaked its future plans through WSJ central bank watcher Nick Timiraos. In the reporter's words, the Fed could “amplify” its commitment to low rates “by capping yields on every Treasury security that matures before 2023.” Only an economist could believe this would work. No doubt some of the bluest of blue chip businesses, individuals, and governments will be able to borrow at rates related to the yield cap benchmarks set by the Fed, but this would be true with or without the caps. Actual economic growth comes from financing new ideas, or the creation of wealth that doesn’t yet exist. The Fed's confirmation of what's already true (sure things can borrow at low rates) will not alter the cost of capital for growth ideas one bit. Thankfully it won't. Much as economists wish it weren't true, what can be controlled by non-market entities is soon enough not worth controlling. And as the 20th century hopefully reminds the half awake, there's little to control to begin with.  The opinion piece can be found here....more

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• 76: The UK pulls down statues while debating reopening pubs and restaurants June 22. Joseph Sternberg: @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 10 2020

  Image:  The Rhodes Colossus" – cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne, published in Punch after Rhodes announced plans for a telegraph line from Cape Town to Cairo in 1892. Joseph Sternberg, WSJ Editorial Board, in London; in re: Protests in sympathy with American demos about race and the tragedy of George Floyd. In Oxford, statue of Rhodes is torn down. In Antwerp, “Statue of Leopold II, Belgian King Who Brutalized Congo, Is Removed in Antwerp.”   In Bristol, statue demolished of a member of the transatlantic slave trade. Two-meter distance is being reviewed in England.  https://www.ft.com/content/bd44ed58-adcd-4934-bec4-8edf7fc0e4c2 ...more

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• 75: The European Union debates which American Founding Father to follow: Hamilton or Madison. Joseph Sternberg: @josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 10 2020

  Image: Madison at Princeton University, portrait by James SharplesJoseph Sternberg, WSJ Editorial Board, in London; in re: Why is Madison superior to Hamilton in state policy?  Founders created a fledgling fiscal union for he states.  Europeans are hoping to create more fiscal unity now; problem is, they also need to think of James Madison: why America needed a federal government, at all. Madison also devised a political system to keep the machinery working. Italy wants funding in view of the coronavirus, but Germany doesn't want to pay. Seems to be every man for himself.  Worst of all worlds: spending, but no one in charge.   . . . What problem is a EU federal union designed to solve?  “A strong federal government will ensure individual liberty” – not a consideration in Europe.  Too late to have this debate?  UK is gone; Russia is licking its lips.    https://www.wsj.com/articles/forget-hamiltoneuropeans-need-a-madison-moment-11591293229https://www.wsj.com/articles/forget-hamiltoneuropeans-need-a-madison-moment-11591293229 ...more

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• 74: The looming Pennsylvania mail-in virus election nightmare. @LizPeek

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  Jun 10 2020

  Image:   A specialised ballot box used to assist ballot stuffing, featured in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper in 1856. Elizabeth Peek, TheHill and Fox News; in re:   Sixty per cent of Biden voters say they're voting against Trump.   https://www.wsj.com/articles/pennsylvanias-mail-in-primary-pains-11591658283

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• 73: The sudden artificial recession is official; what of the sudden genuine recovery? @LizPeek

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  Jun 10 2020

  Image:  President Donald Trump with key automobile industry leaders, 2017Elizabeth Peek, TheHill and Fox News; in re:   .. . .  We’re within in inch of an all-time high in the market. Unemployment has dropped like a stone. Conspiracy theories to said that Trump invented the numbers [Paul Krugman published that, then had to race backward in shame]— which would be physically impossible—and Canada’s numbers are about the same.  Everyone put down their tools and went home, where they sat for three months. No one has ever experienced quite this before . https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2020/06/09/newsletter-its-officially-a-recession/