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

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  Jun 19 2019

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

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

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  Jun 19 2019

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

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

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  Jun 19 2019

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

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

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  Jun 19 2019

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

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

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  Jun 19 2019

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

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

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  Jun 19 2019

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

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

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  Jun 19 2019

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

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

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  Jun 19 2019

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

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

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  Jun 19 2019

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

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

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  Jun 19 2019

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

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

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  Jun 18 2019

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

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

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  Jun 18 2019

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

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

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  Jun 18 2019

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

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

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  Jun 18 2019

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

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

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  Jun 18 2019

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

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

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  Jun 18 2019

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

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

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  Jun 18 2019

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

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

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  Jun 18 2019

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

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

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  Jun 18 2019

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

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

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  Jun 18 2019

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

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

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  Jun 17 2019

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

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

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  Jun 17 2019

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

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

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  Jun 17 2019

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

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

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  Jun 17 2019

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

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

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  Jun 17 2019

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

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

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  Jun 17 2019

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

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

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  Jun 17 2019

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

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

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  Jun 17 2019

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

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

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  Jun 17 2019

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

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

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  Jun 17 2019

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

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

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  Jun 17 2019

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

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

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  Jun 17 2019

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

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

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  Jun 17 2019

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

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

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  Jun 17 2019

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

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

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  Jun 17 2019

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

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

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  Jun 17 2019

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

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

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  Jun 17 2019

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

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

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  Jun 15 2019

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

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

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  Jun 15 2019

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

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

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  Jun 15 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  Jun 13 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  Jun 12 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  Photo: US 7th corps jeep passes under the French flag as civilians thank the Americans after liberating the town.US Army Signal Corps photographer - Imperial War Museum collection, http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205195375 This is photograph EA 26383 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. The French Tricolour floats over a street in Carentan, the first French town to be liberated by the Americans. French civilians wave their hands in welcome as men of the US 7th Corps pass through the streets after two days of bitter fighting The capture of Carentan materially strengthened the link between the two American beachheads. Permission details This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.View more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Lions of Carentan: 4 of 4: Fallschirmjager Regiment 6, 1943-1945 Hardcover – October 20, 2011.  by Volker Griesser  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Lions-Carentan-Fallschirmjager-Regiment-1943-1945/dp/1612000061/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Volker+Griesser&qid=1560330287&s=books&sr=1-1Although it is known that Allied airborne forces landed into a German buzzsaw on D-Day, far less is known about the troops they encountered in the dark night of June 6, 1944. One of the formations they encountered was a similarly elite group of paratroopers, who instead of dropping from the skies fought on the defensive, giving their Allied counterparts a tremendous challenge in achieving their objectives.This is the complete wartime history of one of the largest German paratrooper regiments, 6th , from its initial formation in the spring of 1943 to its last day at the end of the war. With numerous firsthand accounts from key members, reporting on their experiences, they describe the events of 1943–45 vividly and without compromise. These accounts reveal previously unknown details about important operations in Italy, Russia, on the Normandy Front, Belgium, Holland, the last German Parachute drop in the Ardennes, and the final battle to the end in Germany.With over 220 original photographs, many from private collections and never before published, this book fully illustrates the men, their uniforms, equipment and weapons. Also included is an appendix with maps, battle calendar, staffing plans, a list of field and post-MOB-numbers, and the Knight's Cross recipients of the regiment. Having earned the respect of the Allied forces who fought against it during World War II, this work will inform current readers of the full record of Fallschirmjäger Regiment 6, and why the Allied advance into German-held Europe was so painstaking to achieve....more

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• The Trump Administration plans for a Motel-in-Orbit ISS. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Trump Administration plans for a Motel-in-Orbit  ISS. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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• The Fed created the slowdown by raising rates last December & Wha is to be done? @StephenMoore @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Fed created the slowdown by raising rates last December & Wha is to be done? @StephenMoore @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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• The competing strategies of Nancy Pelosi and Bill Barr: I of 2: @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe competing strategies of Nancy Pelosi and Bill Barr: I of 2: @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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• The competing strategies of Nancy Pelosi and Bill Barr: 2 of 2: @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe competing strategies of Nancy Pelosi and Bill Barr: 2 of 2: @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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• The Blood of Free Men: 4 of 4: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 1st Edition. by Michael Neiberg (Author)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Blood of Free Men: 4 of 4: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 1st Edition. by Michael Neiberg (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Free-Men-Liberation-Paris/dp/0465023991As the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of 1944, the fate of Paris hung in the balance. Other jewels of Europe—sites like Warsaw, Antwerp, and Monte Cassino—were, or would soon be, reduced to rubble during attempts to liberate them. But Paris endured, thanks to a fractious cast of characters, from Resistance cells to Free French operatives to an unlikely assortment of diplomats, Allied generals, and governmental officials. Their efforts, and those of the German forces fighting to maintain control of the city, would shape the course of the battle for Europe and color popular memory of the conflict for generations to come.In The Blood of Free Men, celebrated historian Michael Neiberg deftly tracks the forces vying for Paris, providing a revealing new look at the city's dramatic and triumphant resistance against the Nazis. The salvation of Paris was not a foregone conclusion, Neiberg shows, and the liberation was a chaotic operation that could have easily ended in the city's ruin. The Allies were intent on bypassing Paris so as to strike the heart of the Third Reich in Germany, and the French themselves were deeply divided; feuding political cells fought for control of the Resistance within Paris, as did Charles de Gaulle and his Free French Forces outside the city. Although many of Paris's citizens initially chose a tenuous stability over outright resistance to the German occupation, they were forced to act when the approaching fighting pushed the city to the brink of starvation. In a desperate bid to save their city, ordinary Parisians took to the streets, and through a combination of valiant fighting, shrewd diplomacy, and last-minute aid from the Allies, managed to save the City of Lights. A groundbreaking, arresting narrative of the liberation, The Blood of Free Men tells the full story of one of the war's defining moments, when a tortured city and its inhabitants narrowly survived the deadliest conflict in human history....more

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• The Blood of Free Men: 3 of 4: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 1st Edition. by Michael Neiberg (Author)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Blood of Free Men: 3 of 4: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 1st Edition. by Michael Neiberg (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Free-Men-Liberation-Paris/dp/0465023991As the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of 1944, the fate of Paris hung in the balance. Other jewels of Europe—sites like Warsaw, Antwerp, and Monte Cassino—were, or would soon be, reduced to rubble during attempts to liberate them. But Paris endured, thanks to a fractious cast of characters, from Resistance cells to Free French operatives to an unlikely assortment of diplomats, Allied generals, and governmental officials. Their efforts, and those of the German forces fighting to maintain control of the city, would shape the course of the battle for Europe and color popular memory of the conflict for generations to come.In The Blood of Free Men, celebrated historian Michael Neiberg deftly tracks the forces vying for Paris, providing a revealing new look at the city's dramatic and triumphant resistance against the Nazis. The salvation of Paris was not a foregone conclusion, Neiberg shows, and the liberation was a chaotic operation that could have easily ended in the city's ruin. The Allies were intent on bypassing Paris so as to strike the heart of the Third Reich in Germany, and the French themselves were deeply divided; feuding political cells fought for control of the Resistance within Paris, as did Charles de Gaulle and his Free French Forces outside the city. Although many of Paris's citizens initially chose a tenuous stability over outright resistance to the German occupation, they were forced to act when the approaching fighting pushed the city to the brink of starvation. In a desperate bid to save their city, ordinary Parisians took to the streets, and through a combination of valiant fighting, shrewd diplomacy, and last-minute aid from the Allies, managed to save the City of Lights. A groundbreaking, arresting narrative of the liberation, The Blood of Free Men tells the full story of one of the war's defining moments, when a tortured city and its inhabitants narrowly survived the deadliest conflict in human history....more

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• The Blood of Free Men: 2 of 4: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 1st Edition. by Michael Neiberg (Author)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Blood of Free Men: 2 of 4: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 1st Edition. by Michael Neiberg (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Free-Men-Liberation-Paris/dp/0465023991As the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of 1944, the fate of Paris hung in the balance. Other jewels of Europe—sites like Warsaw, Antwerp, and Monte Cassino—were, or would soon be, reduced to rubble during attempts to liberate them. But Paris endured, thanks to a fractious cast of characters, from Resistance cells to Free French operatives to an unlikely assortment of diplomats, Allied generals, and governmental officials. Their efforts, and those of the German forces fighting to maintain control of the city, would shape the course of the battle for Europe and color popular memory of the conflict for generations to come.In The Blood of Free Men, celebrated historian Michael Neiberg deftly tracks the forces vying for Paris, providing a revealing new look at the city's dramatic and triumphant resistance against the Nazis. The salvation of Paris was not a foregone conclusion, Neiberg shows, and the liberation was a chaotic operation that could have easily ended in the city's ruin. The Allies were intent on bypassing Paris so as to strike the heart of the Third Reich in Germany, and the French themselves were deeply divided; feuding political cells fought for control of the Resistance within Paris, as did Charles de Gaulle and his Free French Forces outside the city. Although many of Paris's citizens initially chose a tenuous stability over outright resistance to the German occupation, they were forced to act when the approaching fighting pushed the city to the brink of starvation. In a desperate bid to save their city, ordinary Parisians took to the streets, and through a combination of valiant fighting, shrewd diplomacy, and last-minute aid from the Allies, managed to save the City of Lights. A groundbreaking, arresting narrative of the liberation, The Blood of Free Men tells the full story of one of the war's defining moments, when a tortured city and its inhabitants narrowly survived the deadliest conflict in human history....more

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• The Blood of Free Men: 1 of 4: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 1st Edition. by Michael Neiberg (Author)

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Blood of Free Men: 1 of 4: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 1st Edition. by Michael Neiberg (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Free-Men-Liberation-Paris/dp/0465023991As the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of 1944, the fate of Paris hung in the balance. Other jewels of Europe—sites like Warsaw, Antwerp, and Monte Cassino—were, or would soon be, reduced to rubble during attempts to liberate them. But Paris endured, thanks to a fractious cast of characters, from Resistance cells to Free French operatives to an unlikely assortment of diplomats, Allied generals, and governmental officials. Their efforts, and those of the German forces fighting to maintain control of the city, would shape the course of the battle for Europe and color popular memory of the conflict for generations to come.In The Blood of Free Men, celebrated historian Michael Neiberg deftly tracks the forces vying for Paris, providing a revealing new look at the city's dramatic and triumphant resistance against the Nazis. The salvation of Paris was not a foregone conclusion, Neiberg shows, and the liberation was a chaotic operation that could have easily ended in the city's ruin. The Allies were intent on bypassing Paris so as to strike the heart of the Third Reich in Germany, and the French themselves were deeply divided; feuding political cells fought for control of the Resistance within Paris, as did Charles de Gaulle and his Free French Forces outside the city. Although many of Paris's citizens initially chose a tenuous stability over outright resistance to the German occupation, they were forced to act when the approaching fighting pushed the city to the brink of starvation. In a desperate bid to save their city, ordinary Parisians took to the streets, and through a combination of valiant fighting, shrewd diplomacy, and last-minute aid from the Allies, managed to save the City of Lights. A groundbreaking, arresting narrative of the liberation, The Blood of Free Men tells the full story of one of the war's defining moments, when a tortured city and its inhabitants narrowly survived the deadliest conflict in human history....more

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• Japan and Germany to Tehran to seek resolution of the Iran crisis. Benham ben Taleblu @FDD

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  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowJapan and Germany to Tehran to seek resolution of the Iran crisis. Benham ben Taleblu @FDD

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• On the Road to Tashkent: the new partnership between the Trump Administration and the Republic of Uzbekistan. @JavlonVokhabov, Uzbekistan Ambassador to the United States of America.

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  Jun 11 2019

  Photo:  Old Samarkand: Bibi-Hanim bazaarDate | before 1900 Source | Old photograph (before 1900)Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowOn the Road to Tashkent: the new partnership between the Trump Administration and the Republic of Uzbekistan. @JavlonVokhabov, Uzbekistan Ambassador to the United States of America.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/world/asia/trump-uzbekistan.html

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• Trump's tariff success with Mexico strengthens his hand with the PRC @StephenMoore @Heritage @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Photo: English: Adobe homes with torreon, Manzano, New MexicoDate | published circa 1900Source | http://digitalnm.unm.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/acpa&CISOPTR=9095&CISOBOX=1&REC=13Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTrump's tariff success with Mexico strengthens his hand with the PRC @StephenMoore @Heritage @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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• Gold-mining in Northern Ghana: an update. Archie Koimtsidis Chief Executive Officer / Managing Director, Cardinal Resources

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  Photo: An image of an Ashanti home from the 18th century. Yellowfiver at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Dmitri Lytov using CommonsHelper. A British officer pictured with traditional Ashanti family dwelling. Architecture was typical of the Ashanti during the 18 to early 19th centuries. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGold-mining in Northern Ghana: an update. Archie Koimtsidis Chief Executive Officer / Managing Director, Cardinal Resourceshttps://www.cardinalresources.com.au/cardinals-ghana-projects/EXPLORATION AND MINING IN GHANA Ghana has a low sovereign risk rating and has enjoyed over 20 years of continuous democratic rule. It is one of the most developed and affluent countries in Africa, with a well-developed Mining Code, infrastructure and a population with the technical skills to support modern mining projects. Political stability in Ghana has made the country one of the most attractive new mining investment areas in Africa. After South Africa, Ghana is Africa’s second-largest gold producer. Large industry players such as Newmont Mining Corporation, AngloGold Ashanti and Kinross, have been joined by smaller companies including Randgold Resources, Keegan Resources, Golden Star Resources, PMI Gold Corp, Perseus Mining, Azumah Resources and African Gold Group, as well as individual and local artisanal miners. Many industry participants see potential for the discovery of further significant deposits in Ghana as large parts of the country, particularly in the north east region, remain relatively under-explored....more

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• In Iowa, Biden drifting back toward the Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg pack. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Photo: Iowa Spirit Lake Dickinson County (Iowa) -- HistoryPublisher:  Des Moines, The Kenyon printing & mfg. co.Contributing Library:  New York Public LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:e county judge ofWoodbury County. He issued an order for holding theelection, which was held accordingly. The first ofiicers 170 DICKINSON COUNTY - IOWA elected were as follows: (). (. Howe, Coiiiity Judge;B. F. Jarineiiter, Proseciitiiiii Attorney; M. A. Blan-chard. Treasurer and Ret-nrder; K, A. Suiirli, (Ifrk of tli;-Distrier Courr; (. F. Hill, Sheriff; Alfred AVilkius, (..uut\Surveyor; W. B. Browu, Coruiicr. R. IJ. Wlieelock and li.A. Smith wvYc elected Justices of the Peace. After the elec-tion it was necessary that the returns he sent to Sioux City,and that either the county Iudiie, district attorney or clerkof the district court elect go before the judge of Woo(ll)nrvConnty .and give honds for his aj^proval and lie swum in in dnef(u-ni. This journey fell to tlie lot of the clerk of the districtcourt. These trips to Sioux City were no holiday affairs. Theronte by which they were made was to strike out in a westerlydirection to the head (d tlic Fhivd and foll<iw-that stream tohttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIn Iowa, Biden drifting back toward the Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg pack. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotterhttps://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/06/10/joe-biden-leading-iowa-cnn-poll-top-issues-chalian-newday-vpx.cnn ...more

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• HK Carrie Lam triggers the turmoil that Beijing now supports. Mark Clifford, former editor of the @SCMP @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  Photo: Hong Kong waterfront, 1900s.Note: Queen's Building was built in 1899. The pier is probably the temporary pier off Ice House Street [1894-1911] [1], that was leased to the Star Ferry Co. from 1900. It was replaced by the Second Generation Star Ferry Pier in 1912.Date | 1941 - 45Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/acstudio/sets/72157622555491467/Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHK Carrie Lam triggers the turmoil that Beijing now supports. Mark Clifford, former editor of the @SCMP @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter...more

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• Beijing aims to subjugate Hong Kong. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  Photo: View of the Peak, HK. c.1910.Date | circa 1920 Source | Originally from here.Author | publ. by M. Sternberg, HKPermission(Reusing this file) | PD-HK.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBeijing aims to subjugate Hong Kong. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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• Jihadists recruiting in Central Asia. @TomJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD @LongWarJournal

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  Photo: The "Memoirs of Babur" or Baburnama are the work of the great-great-great-grandson of Timur (Tamerlane), Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (1483-1530). The Baburnama tells the tale of the prince's struggle first to assert and defend his claim to the throne of Samarkand and the region of the Fergana Valley. After being driven out of Samarkand in 1501 by the Uzbek Shaibanids, he ultimately sought greener pastures, first in Kabul and then in northern India, where his descendants were the Moghul (Mughal) dynasty ruling in Delhi until 1858.   The miniatures are from an illustrated copy of the Baburnama prepared for the author's grandson, the Mughal Emperor Akbar. It is worth remembering that the miniatures reflect the culture of the court at Delhi; hence, for example, the architecture of Central Asian cities resembles the architecture of Mughal India. Nonetheless, these illustrations are important as evidence of the tradition of exquisite miniature painting which developed at the court of Timur and his successors. Timurid miniatures are among the greatest artistic achievements of the Islamic world in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.Illustrations of Mughals from the BaburnamaDate | between 183 and 1530Source | BaburnamaAuthor | Painters of Baburhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowJihadists recruiting in Central Asia. @TomJoscelyn @BillRoggio @FDD @LongWarJournal...more

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• ISIS claims a first-time attack in Mozambique. @BillRoggio @TomJoscelyn @FDD @LongWarJournal

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  Photo: English: Mozambique CFM Class 250 2-10-2 no. 252, Lourenco Marques LocoshedDate | 24 April 1970Source | Own workAuthor | User:Peter Bagshawehttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowISIS claims a first-time attack in Mozambique. @BillRoggio @TomJoscelyn @FDD @LongWarJournalhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/06/islamic-state-claims-first-attack-in-mozambique.php

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• First to Jump: 1 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Jerome Preisler (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo: Gliders are delivered to the Cotentin Peninsula during D-Day, World War II http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow First to Jump: 1 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Jerome Preisler (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/First-to-Jump/dp/B00QGAOE1Y/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1560211153&sr=1-1 The first into combat and the last out, their advance jumps into enemy territory were considered suicide missions by those who sent them into action. World War Two's special operations commandos, the U.S. Army Pathfinders relied on their stealth, expert prowess, and matchless courage and audacity to set the stage for airborne drops and glider landings throughout Europe. After the invasion of Sicily almost ended in disaster, General Jim Gavin was determined to form an all-new unit of specialized soldiers who would jump ahead of the airborne forces without any additional support, stealing across enemy terrain to scout and mark out drop zones with a unique array of homing equipment. Sporting Mohawk haircuts, war paint, and an attitude of brash confidence, they were the best of the best. Their heroic feats behind the lines were critical to nearly all of the Allies' major victories from Normandy to Bastogne - where they saved the day for thousands of besieged American troops....more

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• First to Jump: 2 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Jerome Preisler (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo:   Bocage country at Cotentin Peninsula, Northern France. Source: Archivesnormandie 1939-45 Post-Work: User:W.wolny Licence: Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow First to Jump: 2 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Jerome Preisler (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/First-to-Jump/dp/B00QGAOE1Y/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1560211153&sr=1-1 The first into combat and the last out, their advance jumps into enemy territory were considered suicide missions by those who sent them into action. World War Two's special operations commandos, the U.S. Army Pathfinders relied on their stealth, expert prowess, and matchless courage and audacity to set the stage for airborne drops and glider landings throughout Europe. After the invasion of Sicily almost ended in disaster, General Jim Gavin was determined to form an all-new unit of specialized soldiers who would jump ahead of the airborne forces without any additional support, stealing across enemy terrain to scout and mark out drop zones with a unique array of homing equipment. Sporting Mohawk haircuts, war paint, and an attitude of brash confidence, they were the best of the best. Their heroic feats behind the lines were critical to nearly all of the Allies' major victories from Normandy to Bastogne - where they saved the day for thousands of besieged American troops....more

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• First to Jump: 3 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Jerome Preisler (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 11 2019

  Photo: A group of Pathfinders in front of a C-47 transport before takeoff. During World War II, the pathfinders were a group of volunteers selected within the Airborne units who were specially trained to operate navigation aids to guide the main airborne body to the drop zones. At 21.30 hours on June 5, about 200 pathfinders began to take off from North Witham, for the Cotentin Peninsula, in 20 C-47 aircraft of 9th Troop Carrier Command Pathfinder Group. They began to drop at 00.15 on June 6, to prepare the drop zones for the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions. They were the first US troops on the ground on D-Day.Date | 5 June 1943Source | Department of the ArmyAuthor | Department of the Armyhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow First to Jump: 3 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Jerome Preisler (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/First-to-Jump/dp/B00QGAOE1Y/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1560211153&sr=1-1 The first into combat and the last out, their advance jumps into enemy territory were considered suicide missions by those who sent them into action. World War Two's special operations commandos, the U.S. Army Pathfinders relied on their stealth, expert prowess, and matchless courage and audacity to set the stage for airborne drops and glider landings throughout Europe. After the invasion of Sicily almost ended in disaster, General Jim Gavin was determined to form an all-new unit of specialized soldiers who would jump ahead of the airborne forces without any additional support, stealing across enemy terrain to scout and mark out drop zones with a unique array of homing equipment. Sporting Mohawk haircuts, war paint, and an attitude of brash confidence, they were the best of the best. Their heroic feats behind the lines were critical to nearly all of the Allies' major victories from Normandy to Bastogne - where they saved the day for thousands of besieged American troops....more

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• First to Jump: 4 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Jerome Preisler (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 11 2019

  Photo: Members of the French Resistance and the U.S. 82nd Airborne division in World War IIhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow First to Jump: 4 of 4: Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Jerome Preisler (Author), Tom Perkins (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/First-to-Jump/dp/B00QGAOE1Y/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1560211153&sr=1-1 The first into combat and the last out, their advance jumps into enemy territory were considered suicide missions by those who sent them into action. World War Two's special operations commandos, the U.S. Army Pathfinders relied on their stealth, expert prowess, and matchless courage and audacity to set the stage for airborne drops and glider landings throughout Europe. After the invasion of Sicily almost ended in disaster, General Jim Gavin was determined to form an all-new unit of specialized soldiers who would jump ahead of the airborne forces without any additional support, stealing across enemy terrain to scout and mark out drop zones with a unique array of homing equipment. Sporting Mohawk haircuts, war paint, and an attitude of brash confidence, they were the best of the best. Their heroic feats behind the lines were critical to nearly all of the Allies' major victories from Normandy to Bastogne - where they saved the day for thousands of besieged American troops....more

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• The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: 1 of 8: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John C. McManus (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), LLC Gildan Media (Publisher)

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  Jun 10 2019

  Photo: American military convoy through Saint Lo, June 1944Date | June 1944Source | Archivesnormandie 1939-45Author | Post-Work: User:W.wolny | This picture is from the site Archives Normandie 1939-45 where it is available under reference identifier undefinedThe pictures that are credited to the National Archives USA or the National Archives Canada and which are tagged "libres de droits" are in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: 1 of 8: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John C. McManus (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), LLC Gildan Media (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Those-About-Die-D-Day/dp/B00K6XKSCQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1560132077&sr=1-1A white-knuckle account of the First Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach - acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, First Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation as stalwart warriors on the front lines and rabble-rousers in the rear. Yet on D-Day, these jaded combat veterans melded with fresh-faced replacements to accomplish one of the most challenging and deadly missions ever. As the men hit the beach, their equipment destroyed or washed away, soldiers cut down by the dozens, courageous heroes emerged: men such as Sergeant Raymond Strojny, who grabbed a bazooka and engaged in a death duel with a fortified German antitank gun; T/5 Joe Pinder, a former minor-league pitcher who braved enemy fire to save a vital radio; Lieutenant John Spalding, a former sportswriter, and Sergeant Phil Streczyk, a truck driver, who together demolished a German strong point overlooking Easy Red, where hundreds of Americans had landed.  Along the way, McManus explores the Gap Assault Team engineers who dealt with the extensive mines and obstacles, suffering nearly a 50 percent casualty rate; highlights officers such as Brigadier General Willard Wyman and Colonel George Taylor, who led the way to victory; and punctures scores of myths surrounding this long-misunderstood battle.  The Dead and Those about to Die draws on a rich array of new or recently unearthed sources, including interviews with veterans. The result is history at its finest, the unforgettable story of the Big Red One's 19 hours of hell - and their ultimate triumph - on June 6, 1944....more

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• The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: 2 of 8: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John C. McManus (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), LLC Gildan Media (Publisher)

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  Jun 10 2019

  Photo: Armed with a M1 Rifle, an American Soldier Checks the Body of a Dead German Soldier near St. Lo, France July 1944.Date | 1944Source | https://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/eise/Military/WWII_normandy_VEday/GISt-Lo-July-1944.jpgGallery: https://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/eise/Military/WWII_normandy_VEday/GISt-Lo-July-1944.htmlAuthor | National Archives (Number not known)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: 2 of 8: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John C. McManus (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), LLC Gildan Media (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Those-About-Die-D-Day/dp/B00K6XKSCQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1560132077&sr=1-1A white-knuckle account of the First Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach - acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, First Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation as stalwart warriors on the front lines and rabble-rousers in the rear. Yet on D-Day, these jaded combat veterans melded with fresh-faced replacements to accomplish one of the most challenging and deadly missions ever. As the men hit the beach, their equipment destroyed or washed away, soldiers cut down by the dozens, courageous heroes emerged: men such as Sergeant Raymond Strojny, who grabbed a bazooka and engaged in a death duel with a fortified German antitank gun; T/5 Joe Pinder, a former minor-league pitcher who braved enemy fire to save a vital radio; Lieutenant John Spalding, a former sportswriter, and Sergeant Phil Streczyk, a truck driver, who together demolished a German strong point overlooking Easy Red, where hundreds of Americans had landed.  Along the way, McManus explores the Gap Assault Team engineers who dealt with the extensive mines and obstacles, suffering nearly a 50 percent casualty rate; highlights officers such as Brigadier General Willard Wyman and Colonel George Taylor, who led the way to victory; and punctures scores of myths surrounding this long-misunderstood battle.  The Dead and Those about to Die draws on a rich array of new or recently unearthed sources, including interviews with veterans. The result is history at its finest, the unforgettable story of the Big Red One's 19 hours of hell - and their ultimate triumph - on June 6, 1944....more

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• The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: 3 of 8: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John C. McManus (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), LLC Gildan Media (Publisher)

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  Jun 10 2019

  Photo: USS St. Lo View author information Public Domain File:USS St. Lo Cve63.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: 3 of 8: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John C. McManus (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), LLC Gildan Media (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Those-About-Die-D-Day/dp/B00K6XKSCQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1560132077&sr=1-1A white-knuckle account of the First Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach - acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, First Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation as stalwart warriors on the front lines and rabble-rousers in the rear. Yet on D-Day, these jaded combat veterans melded with fresh-faced replacements to accomplish one of the most challenging and deadly missions ever. As the men hit the beach, their equipment destroyed or washed away, soldiers cut down by the dozens, courageous heroes emerged: men such as Sergeant Raymond Strojny, who grabbed a bazooka and engaged in a death duel with a fortified German antitank gun; T/5 Joe Pinder, a former minor-league pitcher who braved enemy fire to save a vital radio; Lieutenant John Spalding, a former sportswriter, and Sergeant Phil Streczyk, a truck driver, who together demolished a German strong point overlooking Easy Red, where hundreds of Americans had landed.  Along the way, McManus explores the Gap Assault Team engineers who dealt with the extensive mines and obstacles, suffering nearly a 50 percent casualty rate; highlights officers such as Brigadier General Willard Wyman and Colonel George Taylor, who led the way to victory; and punctures scores of myths surrounding this long-misunderstood battle.  The Dead and Those about to Die draws on a rich array of new or recently unearthed sources, including interviews with veterans. The result is history at its finest, the unforgettable story of the Big Red One's 19 hours of hell - and their ultimate triumph - on June 6, 1944....more

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• The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: 4 of 8: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John C. McManus (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), LLC Gildan Media (Publisher)

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  Jun 10 2019

  Photo: Major Howie's flag-draped body on the cathedral rubble Unknown or not provided - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Public Domain File:Photograph of the Flag-Draped Body of Major Thomas D. Howie on the Rubble of the St. Lo Cathedral - NARA - 12518083.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: 4 of 8: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John C. McManus (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), LLC Gildan Media (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Those-About-Die-D-Day/dp/B00K6XKSCQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1560132077&sr=1-1A white-knuckle account of the First Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach - acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, First Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation as stalwart warriors on the front lines and rabble-rousers in the rear. Yet on D-Day, these jaded combat veterans melded with fresh-faced replacements to accomplish one of the most challenging and deadly missions ever. As the men hit the beach, their equipment destroyed or washed away, soldiers cut down by the dozens, courageous heroes emerged: men such as Sergeant Raymond Strojny, who grabbed a bazooka and engaged in a death duel with a fortified German antitank gun; T/5 Joe Pinder, a former minor-league pitcher who braved enemy fire to save a vital radio; Lieutenant John Spalding, a former sportswriter, and Sergeant Phil Streczyk, a truck driver, who together demolished a German strong point overlooking Easy Red, where hundreds of Americans had landed.  Along the way, McManus explores the Gap Assault Team engineers who dealt with the extensive mines and obstacles, suffering nearly a 50 percent casualty rate; highlights officers such as Brigadier General Willard Wyman and Colonel George Taylor, who led the way to victory; and punctures scores of myths surrounding this long-misunderstood battle.  The Dead and Those about to Die draws on a rich array of new or recently unearthed sources, including interviews with veterans. The result is history at its finest, the unforgettable story of the Big Red One's 19 hours of hell - and their ultimate triumph - on June 6, 1944....more

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• The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: 5 of 8: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John C. McManus (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), LLC Gildan Media (Publisher)

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  Jun 10 2019

  Photo: Saint-Lô Train Station ruinsFonds d'archives de Normandie / National Archives USA Gare et ville de Saint-Lô détruite Railway station and city of Saint-Lô (Normandy) destroyed Permission details Conseil Régional de Basse-Normandie / National Archives USA (mention requise de la source / Required mention of the source)View more Public Domainview terms File:Saint-Lô Railway station destroyed.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: 5 of 8: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John C. McManus (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), LLC Gildan Media (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Those-About-Die-D-Day/dp/B00K6XKSCQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1560132077&sr=1-1A white-knuckle account of the First Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach - acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, First Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation as stalwart warriors on the front lines and rabble-rousers in the rear. Yet on D-Day, these jaded combat veterans melded with fresh-faced replacements to accomplish one of the most challenging and deadly missions ever. As the men hit the beach, their equipment destroyed or washed away, soldiers cut down by the dozens, courageous heroes emerged: men such as Sergeant Raymond Strojny, who grabbed a bazooka and engaged in a death duel with a fortified German antitank gun; T/5 Joe Pinder, a former minor-league pitcher who braved enemy fire to save a vital radio; Lieutenant John Spalding, a former sportswriter, and Sergeant Phil Streczyk, a truck driver, who together demolished a German strong point overlooking Easy Red, where hundreds of Americans had landed.  Along the way, McManus explores the Gap Assault Team engineers who dealt with the extensive mines and obstacles, suffering nearly a 50 percent casualty rate; highlights officers such as Brigadier General Willard Wyman and Colonel George Taylor, who led the way to victory; and punctures scores of myths surrounding this long-misunderstood battle.  The Dead and Those about to Die draws on a rich array of new or recently unearthed sources, including interviews with veterans. The result is history at its finest, the unforgettable story of the Big Red One's 19 hours of hell - and their ultimate triumph - on June 6, 1944....more

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• The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: 6 of 8: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John C. McManus (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), LLC Gildan Media (Publisher)

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  Jun 10 2019

  Photo: Saint-Lô after U.S. bombing, July 1944Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1984-043-03 / 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. Normandie Front [1944] St. Lô. Ein schwerbeschädigtes Stadtviertel. CC BY-SA 3.0 de File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1984-043-03, Frankreich, St. Lô, Zerstörungen.jpg Created: June 1944date QS:P,+1944-06-00T00:00:00Z/10 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: 6 of 8: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John C. McManus (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), LLC Gildan Media (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Those-About-Die-D-Day/dp/B00K6XKSCQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1560132077&sr=1-1A white-knuckle account of the First Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach - acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, First Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation as stalwart warriors on the front lines and rabble-rousers in the rear. Yet on D-Day, these jaded combat veterans melded with fresh-faced replacements to accomplish one of the most challenging and deadly missions ever. As the men hit the beach, their equipment destroyed or washed away, soldiers cut down by the dozens, courageous heroes emerged: men such as Sergeant Raymond Strojny, who grabbed a bazooka and engaged in a death duel with a fortified German antitank gun; T/5 Joe Pinder, a former minor-league pitcher who braved enemy fire to save a vital radio; Lieutenant John Spalding, a former sportswriter, and Sergeant Phil Streczyk, a truck driver, who together demolished a German strong point overlooking Easy Red, where hundreds of Americans had landed.  Along the way, McManus explores the Gap Assault Team engineers who dealt with the extensive mines and obstacles, suffering nearly a 50 percent casualty rate; highlights officers such as Brigadier General Willard Wyman and Colonel George Taylor, who led the way to victory; and punctures scores of myths surrounding this long-misunderstood battle.  The Dead and Those about to Die draws on a rich array of new or recently unearthed sources, including interviews with veterans. The result is history at its finest, the unforgettable story of the Big Red One's 19 hours of hell - and their ultimate triumph - on June 6, 1944....more

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• The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: 7 of 8: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John C. McManus (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), LLC Gildan Media (Publisher)

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  Jun 10 2019

  Photo: Front lines shortly before the battleView author information Public Domain File:Bocagenormandy.jpg Uploaded: 2006-01-08 14:42:07 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: 7 of 8: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John C. McManus (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), LLC Gildan Media (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Those-About-Die-D-Day/dp/B00K6XKSCQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1560132077&sr=1-1A white-knuckle account of the First Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach - acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, First Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation as stalwart warriors on the front lines and rabble-rousers in the rear. Yet on D-Day, these jaded combat veterans melded with fresh-faced replacements to accomplish one of the most challenging and deadly missions ever. As the men hit the beach, their equipment destroyed or washed away, soldiers cut down by the dozens, courageous heroes emerged: men such as Sergeant Raymond Strojny, who grabbed a bazooka and engaged in a death duel with a fortified German antitank gun; T/5 Joe Pinder, a former minor-league pitcher who braved enemy fire to save a vital radio; Lieutenant John Spalding, a former sportswriter, and Sergeant Phil Streczyk, a truck driver, who together demolished a German strong point overlooking Easy Red, where hundreds of Americans had landed.  Along the way, McManus explores the Gap Assault Team engineers who dealt with the extensive mines and obstacles, suffering nearly a 50 percent casualty rate; highlights officers such as Brigadier General Willard Wyman and Colonel George Taylor, who led the way to victory; and punctures scores of myths surrounding this long-misunderstood battle.  The Dead and Those about to Die draws on a rich array of new or recently unearthed sources, including interviews with veterans. The result is history at its finest, the unforgettable story of the Big Red One's 19 hours of hell - and their ultimate triumph - on June 6, 1944....more

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• The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: 8 of 8: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John C. McManus (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), LLC Gildan Media (Publisher)

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  Jun 10 2019

  Photo: aint-Lo : Bombardement de 1944 (Photo Couleur). Copyright: libre de droit. Mention obligatoire: Conseil Régional de Basse-Normandie / National Archives USA Source: http://www.archivesnormandie39-45.org Conseil Régional de Basse-Normandie / National Archives USA Attribution File:Saint-Lo 1944 - Capitale des Ruines - couleurs.jpg Created: 29 September 2005 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: 8 of 8: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. John C. McManus (Author), Don Hagen (Narrator), LLC Gildan Media (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Those-About-Die-D-Day/dp/B00K6XKSCQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1560132077&sr=1-1A white-knuckle account of the First Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach - acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, First Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation as stalwart warriors on the front lines and rabble-rousers in the rear. Yet on D-Day, these jaded combat veterans melded with fresh-faced replacements to accomplish one of the most challenging and deadly missions ever. As the men hit the beach, their equipment destroyed or washed away, soldiers cut down by the dozens, courageous heroes emerged: men such as Sergeant Raymond Strojny, who grabbed a bazooka and engaged in a death duel with a fortified German antitank gun; T/5 Joe Pinder, a former minor-league pitcher who braved enemy fire to save a vital radio; Lieutenant John Spalding, a former sportswriter, and Sergeant Phil Streczyk, a truck driver, who together demolished a German strong point overlooking Easy Red, where hundreds of Americans had landed.  Along the way, McManus explores the Gap Assault Team engineers who dealt with the extensive mines and obstacles, suffering nearly a 50 percent casualty rate; highlights officers such as Brigadier General Willard Wyman and Colonel George Taylor, who led the way to victory; and punctures scores of myths surrounding this long-misunderstood battle.  The Dead and Those about to Die draws on a rich array of new or recently unearthed sources, including interviews with veterans. The result is history at its finest, the unforgettable story of the Big Red One's 19 hours of hell - and their ultimate triumph - on June 6, 1944....more

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• Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization Paperback – June 25, 2012. by Liel Leibovitz (Author), Matthew Miller (Author)

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  Jun 10 2019

  Photo: Street entertainers in China]descriptionSummaryMORE: DANCElabel_outlineTagsdate_rangeDate1650 - 1659 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization Paperback – June 25, 2012.  by Liel Leibovitz  (Author), Matthew Miller (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Fortunate-Sons-Chinese-Revolutionized-Civilization/dp/0393342301/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Leibovitz-fortunate+son&qid=1560131680&s=books&sr=1-1 "With its surging storyline, extraordinary events, and depth of character, this gripping tale of 120 Chinese boys sent to America…reads more like a novel than an obscure slice of history." ―Publishers Weekly, starred review In 1872, China―ravaged by poverty, population growth, and aggressive European armies―sent 120 boys to America to learn the secrets of Western innovation. They studied at New England’s finest schools and were driven by a desire for progress and reform. When anti-Chinese fervor forced them back home, the young men had to overcome a suspicious imperial court and a country deeply resistant to change in technology and culture. Fortunate Sons tells a remarkable story, weaving together the dramas of personal lives with the fascinating tale of a nation’s endeavor to become a world power....more

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• Greenhouse Gas Theory at 2.7 Billion Years-Ago in Early Earth. @SidPerkins @ScienceMagazine

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  Jun 10 2019

  Photo: When haze built up in the atmosphere of Archean Earth, the young planet might have looked like this artist’s interpretation — a pale orange dot. IMAGE CREDIT: NASA’S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER/FRANCIS REDDY. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGreenhouse Gas Theory at 2.7 Billion Years-Ago in Early Earth. @SidPerkins @ScienceMagazinehttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/01/earth-more-sensitive-increasing-greenhouse-gas-thought

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• Dog Company: 1 of 4: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc--the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe Paperback – November 5, 2013 by Patrick K. O'Donnell (Author)

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  Photo: from page 71 of "The book of the Bayeux tapestry :" (1914) Identifier: bookofbayeuxtap00bell Title: The book of the Bayeux tapestry : Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors:  Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 Subjects:  Bayeux tapestry Publisher:  London : Chatto & Windus Contributing Library:  Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor:  Smithsonian Libraries    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:watch the details, for they are of great historical interest. There you will seethe servants bringing on board the swords in their scabbards, the lances tiedon to wagons, which also bear barrels of wine; over one mans shoulder awine skin, over anothers a small barrel, and, borne upon poles, which bear theirweight and stretch them out, the heavy coats of mail for the knights. Thesepanels ended, you have the sailing of the fleet, monotonous and undivided,covering what may be called four panels (43, 44, 45, and 46), though all arecontinuous. In these the draughtsman has concerned himself to insist uponthe number of horses that were carried, and upon little more. But at theend of the inscription you have that piece of historical documentary evidence, And he came to Pevensey (it is written just above the last of the fourforemost ships proceeding to disembarkation : the ship with the cross uponits mast). The size of the transport, the great number of the ships, has 17 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Dog Company: 1 of 4: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc--the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe Paperback – November 5, 2013 by Patrick K. O'Donnell  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Company-Hoc-Accomplished-Toughest/dp/0306822644An epic World War II story of valor, sacrifice, and the Rangers who led the way to victory in EuropeIt is said that the right man in the right place at the right time can make the difference between victory and defeat. This is the dramatic story of sixty-eight soldiers of the U.S. Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion, D Company—Dog Company—who made that difference, time and again.From D-Day, when German guns atop Pointe du Hoc threatened the Allied landings and the men of Dog Company scaled the ninety-foot cliffs to destroy them; to the thickly forested slopes of Hill 400, in Germany's Hürtgen Forest, where the Rangers launched a desperate bayonet charge across an open field, captured the crucial hill, and held it against all odds. In each battle, the men of Dog Company made the difference.Dog Company is their unforgettable story—thoroughly researched and vividly told by acclaimed combat historian Patrick K. O'Donnell—a story of extraordinary bravery, courage, and determination. America had many heroes in World War II, but few can say that, but for them, the course of the war may have been very different. The right men, in the right place, at the right time—Dog Company. ...more

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• Dog Company: 2 of 4: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc--the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe Paperback – November 5, 2013 by Patrick K. O'Donnell (Author)

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  Photo: The book of the Bayeux tapestry : Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors:  Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 Subjects:  Bayeux tapestry Publisher:  London : Chatto & Windus Contributing Library:  Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor:  Smithsonian Libraries    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:stands was the summit beyond which the scouts did not advance, and thewood on the slope immediately below is the wood represented in this panel.In the next panel (59), as the inscription tells us, the converse is going on inHarolds case, and his scouts (represented as being on foot) come to tellHarold, who is mounted, that they have established contact with the enemy.The 60th panel stands for the speech William made to his troops before thebattle. Most of the chronicles mention this episode, and Wace in particular.You get again, in the next panel, the deployment suggested as before, andthen a group of four panels (62-65 inclusive) bearing no inscription (thewords above them being no more than the continuation of the legend aboveWilliams speech: That they should prepare themselves for battle againstthe English army both courageously and with art). And these four panelsare the effort of the artist, with such means as he had at his disposal, to givesome conception of the order of battle. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Dog Company: 2 of 4: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc--the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe Paperback – November 5, 2013 by Patrick K. O'Donnell  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Company-Hoc-Accomplished-Toughest/dp/0306822644An epic World War II story of valor, sacrifice, and the Rangers who led the way to victory in EuropeIt is said that the right man in the right place at the right time can make the difference between victory and defeat. This is the dramatic story of sixty-eight soldiers of the U.S. Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion, D Company—Dog Company—who made that difference, time and again.From D-Day, when German guns atop Pointe du Hoc threatened the Allied landings and the men of Dog Company scaled the ninety-foot cliffs to destroy them; to the thickly forested slopes of Hill 400, in Germany's Hürtgen Forest, where the Rangers launched a desperate bayonet charge across an open field, captured the crucial hill, and held it against all odds. In each battle, the men of Dog Company made the difference.Dog Company is their unforgettable story—thoroughly researched and vividly told by acclaimed combat historian Patrick K. O'Donnell—a story of extraordinary bravery, courage, and determination. America had many heroes in World War II, but few can say that, but for them, the course of the war may have been very different. The right men, in the right place, at the right time—Dog Company. ...more

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• Dog Company: 3 of 4: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc--the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe Paperback – November 5, 2013 by Patrick K. O'Donnell (Author)

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  Jun 09 2019

  Photo: mage from page 44 of "The book of the Bayeux tapestry :" (1914)Identifier: bookofbayeuxtap00bell Title: The book of the Bayeux tapestry : Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors:  Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 Subjects:  Bayeux tapestry Publisher:  London : Chatto & Windus Contributing Library:  Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor:  Smithsonian Libraries    View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book  Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.  Text Appearing Before Image: Text Appearing After Image:Tapestry. The Breton Chronicle, I believe, says nothing about it. Turning to the details of these ten panels (17 to 26 inclusive), one notesagain the fully developed armorial bearings upon the retinue of William, andin the next panel the convention of the Palatium,1 that capital institution ofEurope, the seat of government in every land ; in one aspect a building, inanother a body of men, and throughout the West for a thousand years thecontinuator of Rome. It is also interesting to note the attempt at portraiture in the case ofWilliam. The round bullet head and square shoulders of the Gaul (theslight and distant strain of Scandinavian blood seems to have influencedneither his soul nor his body) are emphasized in this first introduction of him,and it is possible so to emphasize the portrait because he is so represented inthis early part of the series neither helmeted nor crowned. The episode of the priest and of the woman who is given the name ofAelfgyva has, if I am not mistaken, rema http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Dog Company: 3 of 4: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc--the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe Paperback – November 5, 2013 by Patrick K. O'Donnell  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Company-Hoc-Accomplished-Toughest/dp/0306822644An epic World War II story of valor, sacrifice, and the Rangers who led the way to victory in EuropeIt is said that the right man in the right place at the right time can make the difference between victory and defeat. This is the dramatic story of sixty-eight soldiers of the U.S. Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion, D Company—Dog Company—who made that difference, time and again.From D-Day, when German guns atop Pointe du Hoc threatened the Allied landings and the men of Dog Company scaled the ninety-foot cliffs to destroy them; to the thickly forested slopes of Hill 400, in Germany's Hürtgen Forest, where the Rangers launched a desperate bayonet charge across an open field, captured the crucial hill, and held it against all odds. In each battle, the men of Dog Company made the difference.Dog Company is their unforgettable story—thoroughly researched and vividly told by acclaimed combat historian Patrick K. O'Donnell—a story of extraordinary bravery, courage, and determination. America had many heroes in World War II, but few can say that, but for them, the course of the war may have been very different. The right men, in the right place, at the right time—Dog Company....more

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• Dog Company: 4 of 4: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc--the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe Paperback – November 5, 2013 by Patrick K. O'Donnell (Author)

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  Jun 09 2019

  Photo: Photochrom Print CollectionTitle | General view, Bayeux, FranceDate | between 1890 and 1900 Dimensions | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.Accession number | LCCN2001697568http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Dog Company: 4 of 4: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc--the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe Paperback – November 5, 2013 by Patrick K. O'Donnell  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Company-Hoc-Accomplished-Toughest/dp/0306822644An epic World War II story of valor, sacrifice, and the Rangers who led the way to victory in EuropeIt is said that the right man in the right place at the right time can make the difference between victory and defeat. This is the dramatic story of sixty-eight soldiers of the U.S. Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion, D Company—Dog Company—who made that difference, time and again.From D-Day, when German guns atop Pointe du Hoc threatened the Allied landings and the men of Dog Company scaled the ninety-foot cliffs to destroy them; to the thickly forested slopes of Hill 400, in Germany's Hürtgen Forest, where the Rangers launched a desperate bayonet charge across an open field, captured the crucial hill, and held it against all odds. In each battle, the men of Dog Company made the difference.Dog Company is their unforgettable story—thoroughly researched and vividly told by acclaimed combat historian Patrick K. O'Donnell—a story of extraordinary bravery, courage, and determination. America had many heroes in World War II, but few can say that, but for them, the course of the war may have been very different. The right men, in the right place, at the right time—Dog Company....more

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• The Milky Way is a top-of-the-line galaxy surrounded by untold satellite galaxies. Ken Croswell,@knowablemag

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  Jun 09 2019

  Photo: The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).NASA/Ames Research Center - https://web.archive.org/web/20070327105953/http://ails.arc.nasa.gov/Images/Astrobiology/AC87-0459.html Image of the Large Magellanic Cloud and Supernova 1987A taken by the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (NASA 714) during its New Zealand deployment in 1987. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Milky Way is a top-of-the-line galaxy surrounded by  untold satellite galaxies. Ken Croswell,@knowablemag  https://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Heavens-Searching-Meaning-Milky/dp/0385472145 https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2019/mighty-milky-way ...more

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• New new plan for the Moon and beyond. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 09 2019

  Photo: Henry Hudson's Half Moon sailing ship.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNew new plan for the Moon and beyond. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/trump-seeks-1-6-billion-more-for-nasa-cuts-money-to-gateway/ 

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• Waiting for a solution to NASA's Mars probe InSight drill anomaly. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 09 2019

  Photo: 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. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWaiting for a solution to NASA's Mars probe InSight drill anomaly. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/update-on-effort-to-resume-drilling-of-heat-probe-on-insight/ ...more

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• Remember the Redeemer Nation's finest hours: 2 of 2: at Midway and Normandy & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos @JHUWorld Crisis

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  Jun 09 2019

  Photo: Japanese Nakajima B5N2 "Kate" Type 97 shipboard attack aircraft from the carrier Hiryu amid heavy anti-aircraft fire, during the torpedo attack on the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) in the mid-afternoon, 4 June 1942. At least three planes are visible, the nearest clearly having already dropped its torpedo. The other two are lower and closer to the center, apparently withdrawing. The smoke on the horizon in right center is from a crashed plane. It is possible that the object very close to the horizon, in center, is another attacking aircraft.Date | 4 June 1942Source | Official U.S. Navy photograph 80-G-11639.Author | USNhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRemember the Redeemer Nation's finest hours: 2 of 2: at Midway and Normandy & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos @JHUWorld Crisis ...more

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• Remember the Redeemer Nation's finest hours: 1 of 2: at Midway and Normandy & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos @JHUWorld Crisis

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  Photo:General Eisenhower reviewing damage (including a wrecked Tiger II) in the pocket at ChamboisAcme News Photos (according to The Allison Collection) - https://www.flickr.com/photos/photosnormandie/8597977906/in/set-72157611749224223/ “IKE” INSPECTS THE WORK OF HIS MEN FRANCE – Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied expeditionary forces, inspects an overturned German tank left by a roadside in France by the retreating enemy. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRemember the Redeemer Nation's finest hours: 1 of 2:  at Midway and Normandy & What is to be done? Michael Vlahos @JHUWorld Crisis...more

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• Wall Street vs China Fraud . @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost

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  Jun 09 2019

  Photo: A battle between Qing troops and the Uyghur Khojas near Lake Eshilkul in 1759."Qing troops battling moslem insurgents" - http://polusharie.com/ Это сражение с цинских войск с уйгурами у озера Ешилькуль в 1759 г. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWall Street vs China Fraud . @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/06/washington-presses-wall-street-solve-its-china-problem/?utm_term=.184dbba33c53 ...more

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• China's Third Offset preps for global supremacy.by 2049. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost

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  Jun 09 2019

  Photo: The Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Twelve: Return to the Palace (detail), 1764—1770, by Xu Yang.Xu Yang - Royal Academy of Arts, part of the The Three Emperors, 1662 - 1795 exhibition which ran from 12 November 2005 - 17 April 2006 in London. Website might be taken down at some point in future. The Qianlong Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Twelve: Return to the Palace (detail), 1764—1770, by Xu Yang (fl.c.1750—after 1776) and assistants. Handscroll, colour on silk. The Palace Museum, Beijing. Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domainin its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.View more Public Domainview terms http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowChina's Third Offset preps for global supremacy.by 2049. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPosthttps://s3.amazonaws.com/files.cnas.org/documents/CNAS-Report-Work-Offset-final-B.pdf?mtime=20190531090041 ...more

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• The Gigantic Promise Style of 21st Century campaigning & What is to be done? @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 08 2019

  Photo: Portrait by Johann Zoffany, 1771 Johann Zoffany - Royal Collection RCIN 405072 A three quarter length figure of King George III seated in a General Officer's coat with the ribbons and star of the Garter, wearing the Garter around his leg; his hat and sword resting on a nearby table. Finished in 1771 it portrays the king at age 33, with a steady serious gaze, a ruddy healthy face, and a calm assured demeanor. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Gigantic Promise Style of 21st Century campaigning & What is to be done? @DanHenninger @WSJOpinionThe future could turn out to be a succession of hard Brexits—simply blowing up the status quo and then seeing whether democratic governments can put Humpty Dumpty back together again.https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-the-west-still-govern-11559774606 ...more

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• The May 2019 jobs report only a three-handed economist can celebrate. @McTagueJim

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  Jun 08 2019

  Photo: The Second Opium War 1856-1860Panorama of Hong Kong Harbour.Date | 1860 (Pre-1914)Source | http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//362/media-362488/large.jpghttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe May 2019 jobs report only a three-handed economist can celebrate. @McTagueJim https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-may-nonfarm-payrolls-increased-by-75-000-11559910687?mod=article_inline&mod=hp_lead_pos1

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• #TheScalaReport: Alibaba explores listing on Hong Kong and Apple explores a Plan B supply chain as Big Tech settles in for a long trade war. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com

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  Jun 08 2019

  Photo: View of Hong Kong Harbour.Date | 1860–70Source | http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_04/gallery_places/pages/cwHK_1860-70_M10874_Hbr.htmAuthor | Marciano Antonio Baptista (1826–96)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: Alibaba explores listing on Hong Kong and Apple explores a Plan B supply chain as Big Tech settles in for a long trade war.  Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE ⁦@ScalaInc⁩ https://www.google.com/url?client=internal-uds-cse&cx=013751040265774567329:ylv-hrexwbc&q=https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/05/30/the-trade-war-and-finance&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjvhJO2-9jiAhUJKK0KHY7JCKMQFjADegQIDhAC&usg=AOvVaw1Pf48PeiMuujjGNZdsI94q ...more

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• The Mueller "Dossier" invites significant corrections & What is to be done? @DevinNunes Also a podcast conversation with Lynn Cheney of Wyoming

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  Jun 08 2019

  Photo: View of Green River, Wyoming Territory (looking north) /date_rangeDate01/01/1875 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Mueller "Dossier" invites significant corrections & What is to be done? @DevinNunes Also a podcast conversation with Lynn Cheney of Wyominghttps://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/447394-key-figure-that-mueller-report-linked-to-russia-was-a-state-departmenthttps://saraacarter.com/nunes-muellers-report-is-a-fraud-to-target-trump-transcripts-suggest-he-purposefully-left-out-information/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-pug ...more

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• Iran constrained by the CENTCOM air-land-sea deployment in the Gulf. @Brad_L_Bowman @FDD

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  Jun 08 2019

  Photo: The Portuguese Castle on Hormuz Island (Gaspar Correia. "Lendas da Índia", c. 1556)Gaspar Correia - Gaspar Correia, Lendas da India, 1854-1864, caption taken from Giancarlo Casale, The Ottoman Age of Exploration, Oxford University Press US, 2010, 336 p. (ISBN 0195377826) page 97 The fort of Hormuz as seen on the mid sixteenth century Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIran constrained by the CENTCOM air-land-sea deployment in the Gulf. @Brad_L_Bowman @FDD...more

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• Refugees of failed Syria stuck in failed Lebanon. @haningdr Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 08 2019

  Photo: Lebanon. Bshirre and road to Cedars Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print (postcard) : gelatin silver.Date | between 1900 and 1930 Source | Library of CongressCatalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2006691711Image download: http://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/13100/13189v.jpgOriginal url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2006691711/Author | American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Department, photographerPermission(Reusing this file) | No known restrictions on publication.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRefugees of failed Syria stuck in failed Lebanon. @haningdr  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presHanin Ghaddar is the inaugural Friedmann Visiting Fellow at The Washington Institute's Geduld Program on Arab Politics, where she focuses on Shia politics throughout the Levant.The longtime managing editor of Lebanon's NOW news website, Ghaddar shed light on a broad range of cutting-edge issues, from the evolution of Hezbollah inside Lebanon's fractured political system to Iran's growing influence throughout the Middle East. Related articles●     https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-and-Lebanese-officials-met-in-Greece-and-Cyprus-report-590758 ●     https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/israel-expects-us-mediated-lebanese-sea-border-talks-within-weeks-1.870766 ●     https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/lebanon-agrees-talks-israel-maritime-dispute-190530132656645.html ●     http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263224 ●     https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-said-to-expect-us-brokered-talks-with-lebanon-on-sea-border-within-weeks/ ●     https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5520520,00.html ●     https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-official-shows-lebanon-photos-maps-of-hezbollah-weapons-sites-report/ ...more

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• "Armies of Sand:" Arab armies are hobbled by politicization and under development.@AEIfdp Kenneth Pollack Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 08 2019

  Photo: The history of Arabia. Ancient and modern Year: 1834 (1830s) Authors:  Crichton, Andrew, 1790-1855 Subjects:  Natural history -- Arabia Arabian Peninsula -- History Publisher:  New York Harper Contributing Library:  Robarts - University of Toronto Text Appearing After Image:MOHAMMED. HAfiPEK & BROTHERS, NEW-YORK. If-* /iL^ Z/?^ HISTORY OF ARABIA. ANCIENT AND MODERN. CONTAINING A DBSORIPTION OF THE COUNTRY—AN ACCOUNT OF ITS INHABITANTSANTIQUITIES, POLITICAI, CONDITION, AND EARLY COMMERCE—THELIFE AND RELIGION OF MOHAMMED—THE CONQUESTS, ARTS, ANDLITERATURE OF THE SARACENS—THE CAI.IPHS OF DAMASCUS, BAGDAD,AFRICA, AND SPAIN—THE CIVIL GOVERNMENT AND RELIGIOUS CERE-MONIES OF THE MODERN ARABS—ORIGIN AND SUPPRESSION OF THEWAHABEES—THE INSTITUTIONS, CHARACTER, MANNERS, AND CUS-TOMS OF THE BEDOUINS—AND A COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF ITS NATU-RAL HISTORY. BY ANDREW CRICHTON. WITH A MAP AND EN GRAVING 8.IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NO. 82 CLIFF-STREET. 18 3 4. DS 3 V.I G48138 ^ PREFACE. It has been frequently remarked with surpriseand regret, that while the annals of almost everynation of any political importance have been illus-trated by British talent, no writer has hithertofavoured the world with a regular andhistoryofarabiaa01cricuoft http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowArmies of Sand: Arab armies are hobbled by politicization and under development.@AEIfdp  Kenneth Pollack Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness Hardcover – January 15, 2019. by Kenneth M. Pollack  (Author) Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments. Over time, soldiers, scholars, and military experts have offered various explanations for this pattern. Reliance on Soviet military methods, the poor civil-military relations of the Arab world, the underdevelopment of the Arab states, and patterns of behavior derived from the wider Arab culture, have all been suggested as the ultimate source of Arab military difficulties. Armies of Sand, Kenneth M. Pollack's powerful and riveting history of Arab armies from the end of World War Two to the present, assesses these differing explanations and isolates the most important causes. Over the course of the book, he examines the combat performance of fifteen Arab armies and air forces in virtually every Middle Eastern war, from the Jordanians and Syrians in 1948 to Hizballah in 2006 and the Iraqis and ISIS in 2014-2017. He then compares these experiences to the performance of the Argentine, Chadian, Chinese, Cuban, North Korean, and South Vietnamese armed forces in their own combat operations during the twentieth century. The book ultimately concludes that reliance on Soviet doctrine was more of a help than a hindrance to the Arabs. In contrast, politicization and underdevelopment were both important factors limiting Arab military effectiveness, but patterns of behavior derived from the dominant Arab culture was the most important factor of all. Pollack closes with a discussion of the rapid changes occurring across the Arab world-political, economic, and cultural-as well as the rapid evolution in war making as a result of the information revolution. He suggests that because both Arab society and warfare are changing, the problems that have bedeviled Arab armed forces in the past could dissipate or even vanish in the future, with potentially dramatic consequences for the Middle East military balance. Sweeping in its historical coverage and highly accessible, this will be the go-to reference for anyone interested in the history of warfare in the Middle East since 1945....more

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• Tariffs on Mexico are like tariffs on Texas. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus

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  Jun 08 2019

  Photo: Mexico, Federalists at Ojinaga, watching advance of rebelsDate01/01/1914 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTariffs on Mexico are like tariffs on Texas. @VerodeRugy @Mercatus

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• Sniper attack while the OSCE inspects the Nagorno-Karabakh frontline & What is to be done? @ElinSuleymanov https://www.facebook.com/azembassy.us/

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  Jun 08 2019

  Photo: Palace of the former ruler (khan) of Shusha. Taken from a postcard from the late 19th–early 20th century.Unknown - http://www.baku.ru/cmm-glr-list.php?cmm_id=564&id=136185 Шушинский ханский дворец дочери бывшего владетельного хана. Сейчас стоит в руинах, разрушен во время войны. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSniper attack while the OSCE inspects the Nagorno-Karabakh frontline & What is to be done? @ElinSuleymanov https://www.facebook.com/azembassy.us/https://eurasianet.org/fatal-frontline-shootings-heighten-tensions-between-armenia-and-azerbaijan ...more

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• Uzbekistan looks to Turkmenistan and the Caucasus to connect to Europe and prosperity. @RobertMCutler Carleton University

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  Jun 08 2019

  Photo: The painter Vasily Vereshchagin was present at the taking of Khiva by Russian forces. Vasily Vereshchagin - http://www.art-catalog.ru/picture.php?id_picture=2420 At the fortress wall. "Let them enter!" (1871) by Vasili Vereshchagin. Painting commemorating the capture of Samarkland (in present-day Uzbekistan) by Russian Imperial troops. Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowUzbekistan looks to Turkmenistan and the Caucasus to connect to Europe and prosperity. @RobertMCutler Carleton Universityhttps://www.upstreamonline.com/hardcopy/1795790/uzbekistan-reforms-target-energy-independence ...more

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• Russian gunmen tangle with Iranian gunmen in failed Syria & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 08 2019

  Photo:  Wilhelm Timm View author informationPublic Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRussian gunmen tangle with Iranian gunmen in failed Syria & What is to be done? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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• And still Iran's suspect nuclear weaponry. Emily Landau Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 08 2019

  Photo: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors:  Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 Subjects:  Zoroastrianism Publisher:  New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. Contributing Library:  Cornell University Library Text Appearing Before Image:y may know it only as a centre oftrade in rugs, or possibly as the scene of the Persian novel,Hajji Baha of Isfahan. The city lies in a level tract of country which extendsaround it for miles. Entrance to the town is made through amaze of walled vineyards and orchards, whose variety of colorresembles a Persian carpet. Mosques pierce the sky-line withtheir slender minarets, or rival the blue of heaven with theirturquoise domes; poplars and plane trees lend grace and colorto the scene; and distant hills form a serrated background forthe picture. A peculiar feature of the landscape is the largenumber of pigeon-towers which line the sides of the road anddot the plain beyond. These turreted columbaries, which arebuilt of clay and brick and look like windmills that have losttheir arms and sails, provide shelter for myriads of pigeons and 262 •V \ -^^ 1 r„;-:--;-Aa. w^igyZ^H^a^.Ki^^.??.:- , =^ ± Flandins Sketch uf thk Hh.l of the Isfahan Fire-Temple, with aPigeon-Tower in the Foreokound http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAnd still Iran's suspect nuclear weaponry. Emily Landau Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presEmily Landau is a senior research fellow at INSS and head of the Arms Control and Regional Security Program, leading its research, conference outreach, and mentorship projects. Dr. Landau has published and lectured extensively on nuclear proliferation, arms control, and regional security dynamics in the Middle East; WMD proliferation challenges in the post-Cold War era; Israel's nuclear image and policy; and developments in global arms control thinking in the nuclear realm. Dr. Landau has taught nuclear strategy, negotiations and arms control in different programs at Tel Aviv University since 2004; she currently teaches in the executive MA program on Diplomacy and Security at Tel Aviv University, as well as in the Lauder school of Government at IDC Herzliya (from 2013), and the International School at the University of Haifa (from 2008).  Relevant articles: ·      https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/iran-less-than-a-year-away-from-nuclear-weapon-former-top-un-inspector-says-1.7334680?utm_source=Eye%20on%20Iran%3A%20Trump%20Prepared%20To%20Talk%20To%20Iran%20But%20Says%20Always%20A%20Chance%20Of%20Military&utm_campaign=eye-on-iran&utm_medium=email ·      https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/politics/us-intelligence-saudi-arabia-ballistic-missile-china/index.html ·      https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/German-intel-Iran-buying-illegal-technology-for-weapons-of-mass-destruction-591472 ·      https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-tehran-working-toward-arsenal-of-nuclear-bombs/ ·      https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-31/iran-sticks-to-nuclear-limits-under-2015-deal-with-world-powers ...more

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• Erdogan's Turkey spins away from NATO and toward Moscow. Aykan Erdemir @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 07 2019

  Photo: View of the Galata Bridge.Title translated from album caption.Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French.No. 41.No. 579.In album: The Imperial Naval Academy, Imperial Naval Arsenal, Navy Department, and bridges, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire /http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=LOT%209537&fi=number&op=PHRASE&va=exact&co=coll&sg=true.Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress)/ https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/ahii/.Date | between 1880 and 1893http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDr. Aykan Erdemir, senior fellow at FDD, is a former member of the Turkish Parliament (2011 to 2015) who served in the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, EU Harmonization Committee, and the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on the IT Sector and the Internet. As an outspoken defender of pluralism, minority rights, and religious freedoms in the Middle East, Aykan has been at the forefront of the struggle against religious persecution, hate crimes, and hate speech in Turkey.  Related articles●      https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/9b258bce-13c5-4e1c-b747-320dd4409380 ●      https://www.wasaahingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/04/how-i-won-race-mayor-istanbul-how-ill-win-again ●      https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190606-turkey-ready-to-purchase-us-patriot-anti-missile-system-after-russias-s-400/ ●      https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/05/31/erdogan-releases-another-u-s-hostage-ahead-of-trump-meeting/? ●      https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-russia-syria/russia-says-an-end-to-fighting-in-syrias-idlib-is-turkeys-responsibility-idUSKCN1T029Z http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowErdogan's Turkey spins away from NATO and toward Moscow. Aykan Erdemir @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres...more

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• Millions of Venezuelans at extreme risk of brutality & What is to be done? @jmhumire Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 07 2019

  Photo: Battle of Lake Maracaibo in 1823 resulted in the final expulsion of the Spanish from Gran Colombia Unknown - http://encontrarte.aporrea.org/imagenes/Efemerides/ABRIL/04-08/02/batalla%20naval24071823maracaybo.jpg Public Domainview terms File:Batalla del Lago de Maracaibo 1823.jpg Created: circa 1830 date QS:P,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMillions of Venezuelans at extreme risk of brutality & What is to be done? @jmhumire Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presJoseph M. Humire is the SFS Executive Director. A global security expert specializing on transnational threats in the Western Hemisphere, he provides regular briefings on international terrorism, transnational organized crime, Islamism and Iran’s influence Latin America to various entities within the U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence community, as well as prominent think tanks and universities around the world. He testifies frequently before the U.S. Congress on national security issues and has also testified before the European, Canadian, and Andean Parliament, as well as the Argentine and Peruvian Congress. Related Articles:●     https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/what-are-russia-iran-and-cuba-doing-in-venezuela/ ●     https://www.newsweek.com/russia-military-forces-remain-venezuela-1442063 ●     https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-oil-exports/venezuelas-oil-exports-drop-17-in-may-as-sanctions-kick-in-data-idUSKCN1T521H ●     http://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2019/06/01/National-movement-of-all-parties-key-to-resolving-situation-Venezuela.html ●     https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-case-for-force-in-venezuela-11559507441 ●     https://www.timesofisrael.com/argentina-embassies-to-mark-25-years-since-amia-jewish-center-bombing ●     https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/argentine-judge-and-spy-chief-jailed-in-amia-bombing-cover-up-ex-president-acquitte-1.6983321 ...more

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• Plagiarist Joe Biden hurriedly plagiarizes climate change & What is to be done? @LizPeek

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  Jun 07 2019

  Photo: Note strip of timber left unlogged along the shoreline. (Prater)Date | 18 November 2010, 14:02Source | Shevlin & Clark Lumber co. abandoned logging camp and slash area on Shortiss Island in Lac La Croix, Canada 7/31/1940Uploaded by AlbertHerringAuthor | Superior National Foresthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPlagiarist Joe Biden hurriedly plagiarizes climate change & What is to be done? @LizPeek https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-joe-biden-climate-plan-ocasio-cortez-democrats-frontrunner ...more

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• Reawakening the American-British Commonwealth Alliance June 6, 2019. @SebGorka

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  Jun 07 2019

  Photo: The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own), marching in New Westminster, 1940. As a rifle regiment, weapons are carried "at the trail" rather than at the slope. Wait for Me, Daddy is one of the most famous and reprinted Canadian WW2 Photos. The father survived the war.Claude Dettloff, photographer - City of Vancouver Archives online database "Wait for me daddy":British Columbia Regiment, DCO, marching in New Westminster, 1940 (LP 109) Permission details Copyright expired. As a pre-1946 Canadian image, also public domain in the U.S.View more Public Domainview terms File:British Columbia Regiment 1940.jpg Created: 30 September 1940 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowReawakening the American-British Commonwealth Alliance June 6, 2019. @SebGorka...more

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• The American-British Commonwealth Alliance that succeeded on June 6, 1944. @SebGorka

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  Photo: Film still from the D-Day landings showing commandos aboard a landing craft on their approach to Sword, 6 June 1944.No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Wilkes (Sgt) - http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//46/media-46155/large.jpg This is photograph BU 1181 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Film still from the D-Day landings showing commandos aboard a landing craft on their approach to Sword Beach, 6 June 1944. Film still from the D-Day landings showing commandos aboard a landing craft on their approach to Sword Beach, 6 June 1944. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe American-British Commonwealth Alliance that succeeded on June 6, 1944. @SebGorka ...more

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• Civilian Warriors: 1 of 2: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Erik Prince (Author), Jeff Gurner (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 07 2019

  Photo: German Baghdad Railway, 190_. Workers making woodwork for stations E. of AleppoAbstract/medium: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph CollectionPhysical description: 1 negative :Date | between 1900 and 1910 Source | Library of CongressCatalog: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/matpc/item/mpc2004003604/PPOriginal url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/matpc.04669Author | Matson CollectionPermission(Reusing this file) | No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Civilian Warriors: 1 of 2: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Erik Prince (Author), Jeff Gurner (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Civilian-Warriors-Inside-Blackwater-Unsung/dp/B00GRBO9NU/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=Erik+prince+Blackhawk&qid=1559872509&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmr0The founder of Blackwater offers the gripping, previously untold story of the world's most controversial military contractor.  Blackwater is one of the most misunderstood companies of our time. As Erik Prince, its founder and former CEO, writes:  "Hundreds of American citizens employed by private military contractors, or PMCs, would lose their lives helping our government wage wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, only to have their memory tarnished by the unfair and/or ignorant depiction of PMCs as profiteers, jackbooted thugs, or worse."  Because of the secrecy requirements of Blackwater's contracts with the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA, Prince was unable to speak out when his company's opponents spread false information. But now he's free to tell the often shocking story of Blackwater's rise and fall.  Blackwater hired Special Forces veterans and others with the skills and courage to take on the riskiest security jobs in the world. As its reputation grew, demand for its services escalated. Its men eventually completed nearly 100,000 missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Prince's narrative includes newly revealed details about many controversial events. It debunks myths that have been spread by TV shows and movies. It honors our armed forces while challenging the Pentagon's top leadership. Above all, it will make people rethink exactly who the "good guys" and "bad guys" have been since 9/11....more

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• Civilian Warriors: 2 of 2: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Erik Prince (Author), Jeff Gurner (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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  Jun 07 2019

  Photo: The war and the Bagdad railway Year: 1918 (1910s) Authors:  Jastrow, Morris, 1861-1921 Subjects:  Baghdad Railway Eastern question World War, 1914-1918 Publisher:  Philadelphia and London, J.B. Lippincott company Contributing Library:  Cornell University 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:PRIMITIVE IRRIGATION IN MESOPOTAMIA Text Appearing After Image:THE PORTAL AT NIGDEH. SELYUK ART. (C. 1223 A-D-) THE STORY OF ASIA MINOR 65 trend is westward, and they gradually spread over alarge region. A branch advances into Asia Minor,driven perhaps by waves behind it. This advance guardbecomes known as the Seljuk Turks, though the namedoes not appear till the eleventh century, when wefind them firmly established in Asia Minor and incontrol of most of it, as far east as Cappadocia andsouth to Cilicia. In 1071 they defeat the ByzantineEmperor, and in 1080 take Nicaea which brings themclose to the Bosphorus. The Seljuk Turks had become Moslems as hadother branches of the Turks when coming into con-tact with Arabs and Persians. They thus added tothe strength of Mohammedan control of the East.We find them spreading in all directions until by thethirteenth century there was scarcely any part of theNearer East in which Turks were not to be found,serving as mercenaries or otherwise engaged in theservice of the various caliphates. The sultans ofRum, a http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Civilian Warriors: 2 of 2: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Erik Prince (Author), Jeff Gurner (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Civilian-Warriors-Inside-Blackwater-Unsung/dp/B00GRBO9NU/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=Erik+prince+Blackhawk&qid=1559872509&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmr0The founder of Blackwater offers the gripping, previously untold story of the world's most controversial military contractor.  Blackwater is one of the most misunderstood companies of our time. As Erik Prince, its founder and former CEO, writes:  "Hundreds of American citizens employed by private military contractors, or PMCs, would lose their lives helping our government wage wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, only to have their memory tarnished by the unfair and/or ignorant depiction of PMCs as profiteers, jackbooted thugs, or worse."  Because of the secrecy requirements of Blackwater's contracts with the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA, Prince was unable to speak out when his company's opponents spread false information. But now he's free to tell the often shocking story of Blackwater's rise and fall.  Blackwater hired Special Forces veterans and others with the skills and courage to take on the riskiest security jobs in the world. As its reputation grew, demand for its services escalated. Its men eventually completed nearly 100,000 missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Prince's narrative includes newly revealed details about many controversial events. It debunks myths that have been spread by TV shows and movies. It honors our armed forces while challenging the Pentagon's top leadership. Above all, it will make people rethink exactly who the "good guys" and "bad guys" have been since 9/11....more

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• The Hero Factor: 1 of 2: How Great Leaders Transform Cultures and Create Winning Organizations Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Jeffrey W. Hayzlett (Author), Jim Eber - contributor (Author), Jeffrey Hayzlett (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Photo:Turning out parts for bomber planes at Willow Run, 1942 Unknown or not provided - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Public Domain File:Both men and women man the machines which are turning out parts for America's bomber planes at Willow Run, Mich. - NARA - 195476.jpg Created: circa July 1942 date QS:P571,+1942-07-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Hero Factor: 1 of 2:  How Great Leaders Transform Cultures and Create Winning Organizations  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Jeffrey W. Hayzlett (Author), Jim Eber - contributor (Author), Jeffrey Hayzlett (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Hero-Factor-Transform-Cultures-Organizations/dp/B07LFGZ6P2/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Today's leaders need to engage, connect with, listen to, and include their employees and customers in the conversation surrounding the business. The Hero Factor discusses the importance of a strong company culture as the backbone of any successful business. Companies with leadership that dismisses the importance of transparency in today's world are more likely to be called out for not living up to the mission statements on their websites. Listeners will learn how to implement the traits that will help them become a hero entrepreneur, change their organization, live their values, and create a winning culture where they: Invest in people as a path to more inclusion Recast the role of business leadership beyond politics Serve others/the common good Avoid failure, reasons why not, and the lure of the dark side when things get tough Know the line between hero and martyr Create the next generation of hero leaders ...more

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• The Hero Factor: 2 of 2: How Great Leaders Transform Cultures and Create Winning Organizations Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Jeffrey W. Hayzlett (Author), Jim Eber - contributor (Author), Jeffrey Hayzlett (Narrator), & 1 more

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  Photo: B-24s under construction at Willow Run. Howard R. Hollem - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID fsa.8b05939. 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. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Looking up one of the assembly lines at Ford's big Willow Run plant, where B-24E (Liberator) bombers are being made in great numbers. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges on precision bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer. Permission details PD-USGOV-OWIView more Public Domainview terms File:B-24 bomber at Willow Run.jpg Created: between July 1942 and February 1943 date QS:P,+1942-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1942-07-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1326,+1943-02-00T00:00:00Z/10 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Hero Factor: 2 of 2:  How Great Leaders Transform Cultures and Create Winning Organizations  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Jeffrey W. Hayzlett (Author), Jim Eber - contributor (Author), Jeffrey Hayzlett (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Hero-Factor-Transform-Cultures-Organizations/dp/B07LFGZ6P2/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Today's leaders need to engage, connect with, listen to, and include their employees and customers in the conversation surrounding the business. The Hero Factor discusses the importance of a strong company culture as the backbone of any successful business. Companies with leadership that dismisses the importance of transparency in today's world are more likely to be called out for not living up to the mission statements on their websites. Listeners will learn how to implement the traits that will help them become a hero entrepreneur, change their organization, live their values, and create a winning culture where they: Invest in people as a path to more inclusion Recast the role of business leadership beyond politics Serve others/the common good Avoid failure, reasons why not, and the lure of the dark side when things get tough Know the line between hero and martyr Create the next generation of hero leaders ...more

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• Purges, executions, tantrums, cancellations suggest Kim regime instability as North Korean sanctions bite. @DavidMaxwell161 @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jun 07 2019

  Photo: English: Fifth Air Force, Korea--Winging their way through the skies over North Korea, these heavily loaded U.S. Air Force F-84 "Thunderjets" of the 474th Fighter Bomber Wing, head for a Communist military target somewhere north of the 38th parallel. These speedy warcraft almost daily are hitting enemy supply and troop concentrations and attacking enemy frontline positions in support of UN ground operations. AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM#: 82754 AChttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPurges, executions, tantrums, cancellations suggest Kim regime instability as North Korean sanctions bite. @DavidMaxwell161 @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/05/north-koreas-mass-games-suspended-after-kim-jong-un-criticismhttps://www.cnn.com/2019/06/03/asia/north-korea-kim-yong-chol-intl/index.html ...more

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• Former colonial power Great Britain wary of new colonial power Red China. @CleoPaskal Chatham House. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jun 07 2019

  Photo: The East India Company iron steam ship Nemesis, commanded by Lieutenant W. H. Hall, with boats from the Sulphur, Calliope, Larne and Starling, destroying the Chinese war junks in Anson's Bay, on 7 January 1841. Edward Duncan - http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/opium_wars_01/ow1_gallery/pages/1841_0792_nemesis_jm_nmm.htm Public Domain File:Destroying Chinese war junks, by E. Duncan (1843).jpg Created: 29 May 1843 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFormer colonial power Great Britain wary of new colonial power Red China. @CleoPaskal Chatham House. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast  https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-trump-britain-protests/trumps-uk-visit-turns-to-brexit-and-huawei-as-protests-planned-in-london-idUSKCN1T42VQ ...more

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• Tiananmen tragedy survivor recalls the violence and mercies. @rosetangy @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jun 06 2019

  Photo: China, in a series of views : displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits of that ancient empireYear: 1843 (1840s)Authors:  Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872 Wright, G. N. (George Newenham), 1790?-1877, editor Fisher, Son, & Co., publisherSubjects: Publisher:  London, Newgate Street Paris, rue St. Honoré : Fisher, Son, & Co.Contributing Library:  Getty Research InstituteDigitizing Sponsor:  Getty Research InstituteView 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:rly called the Gardens of Yuen-min-Yuen, is situatedabout three leagues north-west of Peking, and occupies an area of eleven square miles.Here are no less than thirty distinct imperial residences, each surrounded with all thenecessary buildings for lodging the numerous state officers, servants, and artificers,that are required, not only on occasions of court and public days, but for the regularconduct of the household. Each of these assemblages includes so great a number ofseparate structures, that at a little distance the appearance is precisely that of a com-fortable village, and of tolerable extent. The mode of building possessing few traitsof permanence, on a closer examination a character of meanness, and a poverty ofinvention, are at once discovered; and even here, in the most luxurious and spaciousof all the imperial homes, it is to the amazing number of fanciful huts, and decoratedsheds, rather than to their stateliness or durable pretensions, that any magnificence isascribed.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTiananmen tragedy survivor recalls the violence and mercies. @rosetangy  @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast  ...more

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• PRC Defense Minister talks aggression toward the US in front of China's neighbors. @JoshRogin

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  Jun 06 2019

  Photo: Panoramic view of the roads and harbour in SingaporeUnknown - http://sgebooks.nl.sg/details/13_Photo210217.html 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:Harbour in Singapore, circa 1870.jpg Created: circa 1870 date QS:P,+1870-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPRC Defense Minister talks aggression toward the US in front of China's neighbors. @JoshRogin https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/04/united-states-is-talking-big-game-asia-china-is-moving-fast/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8abc827dbf91 ...more

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• PRC makes official excuses for the 1989 Tiananmen tragedy. Arthur Waldron University of Pennsylvania @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jun 06 2019

  Photo: Jiangxi; China Subject (unesco): Buildings; Children Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960 Type: images Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950 Format (aat): photographic postcards, 8.4 x 13.4 cm. Legacy record ID: impa-m68063 Access conditions: http://www.library.yale.edu/div/reproductions.html Coverage date: 1900/1932 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPRC makes official excuses for the 1989 Tiananmen tragedy. Arthur Waldron University of Pennsylvania @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast ...more

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• Alibaba and Apple prepare for a long trade war & What is to be done? @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  Jun 06 2019

  Photo: Similar view of Mill Valley, circa 1910, as pictured on a souvenir postcard with the caption 'Mill Valley and Mount Tamalpais, Showing Crookedest Railroad, California'.Unknown - eBay store Web page: http://cgi.ebay.com/1910-Mill-Valley-CA-Marin-County_W0QQitemZ370042822914QQihZ024QQcategoryZ20198QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Postcard showing view of Mill Valley showing Mount Tamalpais, about 1910. Store Web page states: "Original, circa 1910 postcard. Caption reads 'MIll Valley and Mount Tamalpais Showing Crookedest Railroad, Calif'." http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAlibaba and Apple prepare for a long trade war & What is to be done? @AlanTonelson @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast ...more

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• Hopper: 1 of 2: A Journey into the American Dream Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tom Folsom (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Jun 06 2019

  Photo: English: Plains, Kansas in early 1900s.Date | circa 1900 Source | http://www.oldmeadecounty.com/images/PLAINS%20JPGS/Street/Street3.jpgAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Hopper: 1 of 2: A Journey into the American Dream  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Tom Folsom (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Hopper-Journey-into-American-Dream/dp/006220694X As unconventional a biography as Dennis Hopper was a man, Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream by Tom Folsom charts his roller coaster life and career through the lens of the landscape of American popular culture. The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now. The terrifying psychopath in Blue Velvet. The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause. The actor taken under the wing of James Dean, a friendship that set Dennis Hopper on his path to becoming a star. A quintessentially American dreamer longing to be the next Orson Welles. The hell-raising director who revolutionized Hollywood. Dennis Hopper’s extraordinary journey takes him to superhero highs and plummeting lows. Capturing the magic and the madness of his American Dream, Hopper is a wild ride through Dennis’s many lives. Written in a rebel spirit, complemented with iconic photographs, and packed with insights from his fellow actors, artists, and friends, Hopper tells the story of a half-century of rebellion waged at the edge of pop culture....more

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• Hopper: 2 of 2: A Journey into the American Dream Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Tom Folsom (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

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  Jun 06 2019

  Photo: Looking north at the rail yard beneath the lower Sixth Street viaduct, circa 1880-1900Unknown - http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/210449 Photograph shows a view of the rail yard beneath the lower Sixth street viaduct on the east side of Atchison, Kansas. Also visible are freight cars (including Missouri Pacific, Texas & Pacific, Kansas City, Fort Scott, & Memphis railway cars), and the business, church, and residence buildings of eastern Atchison. Public Domain File:Atchison, Kansas (circa 1880-1900).jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Hopper: 2 of 2: A Journey into the American Dream  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Tom Folsom (Author), Ray Porter (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Hopper-Journey-into-American-Dream/dp/006220694X As unconventional a biography as Dennis Hopper was a man, Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream by Tom Folsom charts his roller coaster life and career through the lens of the landscape of American popular culture. The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now. The terrifying psychopath in Blue Velvet. The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause. The actor taken under the wing of James Dean, a friendship that set Dennis Hopper on his path to becoming a star. A quintessentially American dreamer longing to be the next Orson Welles. The hell-raising director who revolutionized Hollywood. Dennis Hopper’s extraordinary journey takes him to superhero highs and plummeting lows. Capturing the magic and the madness of his American Dream, Hopper is a wild ride through Dennis’s many lives. Written in a rebel spirit, complemented with iconic photographs, and packed with insights from his fellow actors, artists, and friends, Hopper tells the story of a half-century of rebellion waged at the edge of pop culture....more

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• Xi Jinping and the 2019 Communists fail to confront the history of the Tiananmen tragedy 1989. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst

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  Jun 06 2019

  Photo:  Young Jiang Qing and Mao in Yan'an in 1930s.Date | 1930s Source | http://news.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2008/04/200804171803.shtmlAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowXi Jinping and the 2019 Communists fail to confront the history of the Tiananmen tragedy 1989. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst

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• Spying is spying, 1963 and 2016 & What is to be done? @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinion

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  Jun 06 2019

  Photo: [Kitchen in the White House, Washington, D.C.]date_rangeDate01/01/1901personContributorsC.M. Bell (Firm : Washington, D.C.), photographer http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSpying is spying, 1963 and 2016 & What is to be done? @WJMcGurn @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/about-the-fbis-spying-11559602877?mod=hp_opin_pos1

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• Eyewitness to the Tiananmen massacre June 3-4, 1989. @CRosett

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  Jun 06 2019

  Photo: Chongwenmen, a gate to the inner walled city, c. 1906Sanshichiro Yamamoto - Peking (1906) Photo form Peking (1906) by Sanshichiro Yamamoto. before 1906 Public Domain File:Hata-men Gate.jpg Created: before 1906 date QS:P,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowEyewitness to the Tiananmen massacre June 3-4, 1989. @CRosett

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• America & Europe, 1944 and 2019.@Brad_L_Bowman @FDD

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  Jun 06 2019

  Photo: Ruins of medieval castle Château Gaillard at Les Andelys in Normandy. The river Seine is floating by. Den medeltida slottsruinen Château Gaillard vid Les Andelys i Normandie, Frankrike. Floden Seine flyter förbi. Location: Les Andelys, Normandie, France Photograph by: UnknownDate: c. 1900Format: Print Persistent URL: kmb.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16001000218224  Read more about the photo database (in english): kmb.raa.se/cocoon/bild/about.html http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAmerica & Europe, 1944 and 2019.@Brad_L_Bowman @FDDhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/world/europe/trump-uk-visit.html ...more

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• The end of Stratolaunch. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 05 2019

  Photo: Natural features -- Parks -- Death ValleySubject (lcsh): Parks; Deserts; Mountains; CanyonsDate | circa 1900 /1940 (date created)Source | http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/11366Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe end of Stratolaunch. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/stratolaunch-shutting-down/

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• Solar Minimum continues minimally. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 05 2019

  Photo: Visible light photograph of sunspot, 13 December 2006NASA / JAXA - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/solar-b/solar_022.html Granules-like structure of surface of sun and sunspots (size around 20'000km). Visible light. Taken by Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope (SOT). These sunspots belong to AR 10930 where X3.4 flare occurred on that day. Public Domain File:172197main NASA Flare Gband lg-withouttext.jpg Created: 13 December 2006 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSolar Minimum continues minimally. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/sunspot-update-may-2019-the-long-ramp-down/ ...more

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• The China trade contest hurts the American economy and will be solved. @StephenMoore @Hertage

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  Jun 05 2019

  Photo: English: View of the Canton factories — by William Daniell, 1805-1806.Painting of Canton City (Guangzhou) — with the Pearl River and the some of the Thirteen Factories of the Europeans. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe China trade contest hurts the American economy and will be solved. @StephenMoore @Hertage

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• The Fed echoes Trump, Kudlow, Moore and Laffer: the rates are too high and there is deflation, not inflation.. @StephenMoore @Heritage

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  Jun 05 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Fed echoes Trump, Kudlow, Moore and Laffer: the rates are too high and there is deflation, not inflation.. @StephenMoore @Heritage

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• The markets call off yesterday's end of the world & What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill

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  Jun 05 2019

  Photo: "Field genealogy; being the record of all the Field family in America, whose ancestors were in this country prior to 1700. Emigrant ancestors located in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Virginia. AllIdentifier: fieldgenealogybe02pier Title: Field genealogy; being the record of all the Field family in America, whose ancestors were in this country prior to 1700. Emigrant ancestors located in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Virginia. All descendants of the Fields of England, whose ancestor, Hurbutus de la Field, was from Alsace-Lorraine Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors:  Pierce, Frederick Clifton, 1855-1904 Subjects:  Field family Publisher:  Chicago, W. B. Conkey Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  Sloan Foundation http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe markets call off yesterday's end of the world & What is to be done? @LizPeek @TheHill...more

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• $5 Trillion for Joe Biden to spend on ending fossil fuels by 2050. @LizPeek

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  Jun 05 2019

  Photo: A general map of the middle British colonies in America viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New York, Connecticut & Rhode-Island: Of Aquanishuonigy the country of the confederate Indians comprehending Aquanishuonigy proper, their places of residence, Ohio & Thuchsochruntie their deer hunting countries, Couchsachrage & Skaniadarade their beaver hunting countries, of the Lakes Erie, Ontario and Champlain. Wherein is also shewn the antient & present seats of the Indian nations; carefully copied from the original published at Philadelphia,copyrightCopyright infoPublic Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow$5 Trillion for Joe Biden to spend on ending fossil fuels by 2050. @LizPeekhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/us/politics/joe-biden-climate-plan.html ...more

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• Biden in NH tiptoes up to the Impeachment. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Jun 05 2019

  Photo:  Main Street, looking south west, Keene NH in the 1900CREATOR Keene Camera ClubSUBJECT Business districts - NH - Keene Stores and shops - NH - Keene Buildings - NH - Keene Roads - NH - KeeneDESCRIPTION Photograph of the west side of Main Street, Keene New Hampshire, looking south, in 1900.PUBLISHER Keene Public LibraryDATE DIGITAL 20080502DATE ORIGINAL 1900RESOURCE TYPE photographsFORMAT image/jpgRESOURCE IDENTIFIER hsykkpc012RIGHTS MANAGMENT No known restriction on publication.Date | 9 June 2009, 08:15Source | Main Street, looking south west, Keene NH in the 1900Author | Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County from USAhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBiden in NH tiptoes up to the Impeachment. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst...more

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• California Democratic Party Convention in SF cheers Warren. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  Jun 05 2019

  Photo: San Francisco in ruins after the 1906 earthquake and fire image credit: Library of Congress http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCalifornia Democratic Party Convention in SF cheers Warren. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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• Ghost on the Throne: 1 of 2: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire by James Romm

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  Jun 05 2019

  Photo:  Giuseppe Cades  (1750–1799)  Title English: Alexander the Great Refuses to Take WaterDate1792Medium English: Tempera with wax on canvasDimensions80.5 x 114 cmCollectionHermitage, Department of Western European Fine Arts.Source/Photographer[1], [2] http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGhost on the Throne: 1 of 2: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire by James Romm When Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-two, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day India in the east. In an unusual compromise, his two heirs—a mentally damaged half brother, Philip III, and an infant son, Alexander IV, born after his death—were jointly granted the kingship. But six of Alexander’s Macedonian generals, spurred by their own thirst for power and the legend that Alexander bequeathed his rule “to the strongest,” fought to gain supremacy. Perhaps their most fascinating and conniving adversary was Alexander’s former Greek secretary, Eumenes, now a general himself, who would be the determining factor in the precarious fortunes of the royal family. James Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, brings to life the cutthroat competition and the struggle for control of the Greek world’s greatest empire. ...more

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• Ghost on the Throne: 2 of 2: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire by James Romm

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  Jun 05 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGhost on the Throne: 2 of 2: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire by James Romm When Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-two, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day India in the east. In an unusual compromise, his two heirs—a mentally damaged half brother, Philip III, and an infant son, Alexander IV, born after his death—were jointly granted the kingship. But six of Alexander’s Macedonian generals, spurred by their own thirst for power and the legend that Alexander bequeathed his rule “to the strongest,” fought to gain supremacy. Perhaps their most fascinating and conniving adversary was Alexander’s former Greek secretary, Eumenes, now a general himself, who would be the determining factor in the precarious fortunes of the royal family. James Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, brings to life the cutthroat competition and the struggle for control of the Greek world’s greatest empire....more

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• Farewell to James Powell and Hello to Alpha Centauri system in 100 years. @CharlesPellegri

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  Jun 05 2019

  Photo: The two bright stars at the lower right are Alpha (right) and Beta Centauri (left, above antenna). A line drawn through them points to the four bright stars of the Southern Cross, just to the right of the dome of La Silla Observatory.[48] Y. Beletsky (LCO)/ESO - http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1604a/ In the sky above ESO's La Silla Observatory, the Southern Cross is clearly visible just to the right of the dome of the Danish 1.54-metre telescope, and to the lower right of the image, two stars sparkle in the amazingly dark sky. From right to left, these are Alpha and Beta Centauri. Alpha Centauri is a multiple star, the nearest star system to Earth. A little closer to Earth than the bright components of Alpha Centauri, and invisible to the naked eye, is Proxima Centauri, the third star belonging to this multiple star system. It is our closest neighbour, at a distance of just 4.2 light-years. Previous observations have provided tantalising, but subtle, hints of a small companion orbiting this red dwarf star. An observing campaign that started in January 2016 will make a more sensitive search for the telltale wobbles in the dwarf star’s orbital motion that might reveal the presence of an Earth-like orbiting planet: the Pale Red Dot campaign. HARPS, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher instrument, which is attached to ESO’s 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla will be used to search for a potential new planet. Measurements with HARPS will be complemented by observations at the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT) and the Burst Optical Observer and Transient Exploring System (BOOTES). As well as giving the public the chance to follow the scientific observations as they arrive, the Pale Red Dot outreach campaign will reveal the often unseen side of planet hunting in background articles and through social media. An array of blog posts on many topics — including planet-hunting techniques, ESO’s European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), and the lives of stars — are planned. They will be written by the astronomers, scientists and engineers from the observatories involved, as well as by science writers, observers and other experts in the field. CC BY 4.0 File:Our Nearest Star System Observed Live.jpg Created: 25 January 2016 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowFarewell to James Powell and Hello to Alpha Centauri system in 100 years. @CharlesPellegri  ...more

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• Can the House Judiciary Committee use the Mueller Report to move a bill of impeachment? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Jun 05 2019

  Photo: Congress Hall and New Theatre, in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.Date1800 - 1889 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCan the House Judiciary Committee use the Mueller Report to move a bill of impeachment? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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• Mueller Report is only about impeaching. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Jun 05 2019

  Photo: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments ..Year: 1884 (1880s)Authors:  Moore, Joseph WestSubjects:  Washington (D.C.)Publisher:  Providence, J.A. & R.A. ReidContributing Library:  New York Public LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:stics, is a happy circumstance for the worthyfellowship of fault-finders, who would otherwise have to hang them-selves from the galleries in despair. The congressmen who used itfound it was a badly constructed hall for public speaking, as it hadvery provoking echoes, and at certain points a whisper scarcely audi-ble to the ear into which it was breathed, would resound over theentire hall. But with all its bad acoustic properties, many of themost eloquent and effective speeches ever heard in the halls of Con-gross have been delivered in this old legislative chamber, by renownedstatesmen, whose names will live forever in the annals of the Republic. Under the arch near the dome is a large plaster figure of Liberty,by Causici, and beneath it is the American eagle with outspread wings,sculptured in stone by Valperti. Over the main entrance is a marblestatue of History recording the events of the Nation, while rolling overthe globe in a winged car, the wheel of which serves as a clock. Thishttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMueller Report is only about impeaching. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR...more

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• How not to kill Godzilla & What is to be done? @PappalardoJoe @PopMechanics

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  Jun 05 2019

  Photo: A giant reptilian monster faces an artillery battalion while grasping a doomed jet.Toho Co., Ltd and one more author - Godzilla roars onto Criterion Blu-ray Fair use File:Godzilla '54 design.jpg Uploaded: 7 July 2017 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHow not to kill Godzilla & What is to be done? @PappalardoJoe @PopMechanics

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• "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost 5000 year-old beer yeast rebrewed and celebrated. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  Jun 04 2019

  Photo: Egyptian hieroglyphics showing women pouring beerUnknown - http://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/provocative-yet-sacred-ancient-egyptian-festival-drunkenness-005289 Egyptian hieroglyphics depict the pouring out of beer. Public Domain File:Egyptian-woman-painting Beer.jpg Created: 19 November 2016 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost 5000 year-old beer yeast rebrewed and celebrated. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotterhttps://www.sciencefocus.com/news/unbeerlievable-ancient-egyptian-ale-recreated-from-5000-year-old-yeast/  ...more

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• Governor Hickenlooper decries socialism to the jeers of the Democratic Left & What is to be done? @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Jun 04 2019

  Photo: Panorama of Denver, Colorado, 1898 William Henry Jackson - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.09570. 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. Panorama photo of Denver, capital of Colorado and the Eastern gateway to the Rocky Mountains. The view depicted is looking northwest down 16th Street, image taken from Colorado State Capital. Public Domain File:Panorama of Denver, Colorado, 1898.jpg Created: 31 December 1897 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGovernor Hickenlooper decries socialism to the jeers of the Democratic Left & What is to be done? @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter ...more

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• Is Pelosi holding the line against the Impeachers of the House? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  Jun 04 2019

  Photo: Allyn Cox Oil on Canvas 1973-1974 Hall of Capitols House wing, Cox Corridors Only the north (Senate) wing of the U.S. Capitol Building was ready for the Congress by 1800. As construction continued on the rest of the building, this wing accommodated the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, and the district courts. This official Architect of the Capitol photograph is being made available for educational, scholarly, news or personal purposes (not advertising or any other commercial use). When any of these images is used the photographic credit line should read “Architect of the Capitol.” These images may not be used in any way that would imply endorhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIs Pelosi holding the line against the Impeachers of the House? @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter...more

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• Pompeo derides the anti-semitic hate-speaker Corbyn for his allegiance to the dictator Maduro. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotter

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  Jun 04 2019

  Photo: Palace Of Westminster, Parliament Square. A view showing the Palace of Westminster behind a grandstand being erected for the coronation of King George V.Date | 28 May 1911Source | English Heritage NMR. Reference Number: OP03703Downloaded from http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/reference.aspx?uid=107398Originally uploaded to DE Wikipedia as de:Datei:Parliament-Square-1911.jpg by de:User:Der Bischof mit der E-Gitarre 10 July 2007.Author | Rupert Potter (1832-1914)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPompeo derides the anti-semitic hate-speaker Corbyn for his allegiance to the dictator Maduro. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @ThadMcCotterhttps://www.nationalreview.com/news/mike-pompeo-blasts-jeremy-corbyn-for-standing-by-nicolas-maduro/ ...more

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• Xi Jinping declares a thirty year war for world hegemony. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @AlanTonelson @ThadMcCotter

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  Jun 04 2019

  Photo: View of Canton with merchant ship of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1665 Johannes Vingboons - This is an image from the Atlas of Mutual Heritage and the Nationaal Archief, the Dutch National Archives. The metadata of this file is public domain under a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC-ZERO). This permission has been archived as ticket #2014051410008887 Title in the Leupe catalogue (NA): Gezicht op Canton van de zeezijde. View of the city of Canton, with mountains in the background. In the foreground, several vessels of which some are flying the Dutch flag and Chinese vessels. The city wall is depicted across the whole breadth of the image. Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This work is in the public domainin its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.View more Public Domainview terms File:AMH-6145-NA View of Canton.jpg Created: circa 1665 date QS:P571,+1665-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 Location: 23° 8′ 45.75″ N, 113° 15′ 38.48″ E http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowXi Jinping declares a thirty year war for world hegemony. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @AlanTonelson @ThadMcCotter...more

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• Thirty years after Tiananmen, does the youth of China accept materialism in place of liberty? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  Jun 04 2019

  Photo: cycle of Cathay, or, China, south and north Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors:  Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons), 1827-1916 Subjects:  Publisher:  New York, F.H. Revell Contributing Library:  Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor:  University of Toronto    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:the city with-out opposition. The well-to-do people and the women hadfled, showing that they had not heard of the humane treat-ment accorded to captured cities in the former war and toCanton in this. They expected, as in Chinese warfare, thatpillage, murder, and violence would be the order of the day.The country people, however, care little which party gains thevictory. One of the gunboats running aground on the wayup, four hundred peasants were hired to get her afloat, andthey tugged away as lustily as if they had not been helpingthe enemies of their sovereign. To speak of the Chinese gen-erally, patriotism is a word not found in their vocabulary. 165 166 A CYCLE OF CATHAY All they know of it, in its broader sense, is to boast of Chinaand vilify foreigners. In lieu of it, they inculcate loyalty tothe government, a sentiment chiefly confined to official classes.Their local attachments to clan, district, and province are ex-ceedingly strong; but between these are hereditary antipathies http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThirty years after Tiananmen, does the youth of China accept materialism in place of liberty? @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter...more

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• The missing logic of the FBI timeline about Russia and the DNC server. Larry Johnson Sic semper tyrannis

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  Jun 04 2019

  Photo: Russia, 960-1694 [part 1].date_rangeDate1694 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe missing logic of the FBI timeline about Russia and the DNC server. Larry Johnson Sic semper tyrannishttps://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/06/more-evidence-of-the-russian-meddling-lie-by-larry-c-johnson.html

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• Three lessons learned from the Long War. @BillRoggio @FDD

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  Jun 04 2019

  Photo: The battle of Wadi al-Khazandar, 1299. depicting Mongol archers and Mamluk cavalry (14th-century illustration from a manuscript of the History of the Tatars)Unknown - BNF Nouvelle acquisition française 886, fol. 31v[1]. This image is a scan of reproduction published in Claude Mutafian, Le royaume arménien de Cilicie, XIIe ‑ XIVe siècle, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 1993 (ISBN 978-2271051059) (page needed). The Battle of Wadi al-Khazandar (Battle of Homs) of 1299 (14th-century miniature) This is an early depiction of a "star and crescent" flag. It is important to note that various combinations of stars and crescents are shown in this manuscripts, and they are not consistently attributed to a particular faction (e.g. the Crusaders have a crescent flag on fol. 19v and a star flag on fol. 9v, and the Mongols have a star and crescent on fol. 22rv -- a secondary source is needed for a coherent discussion). Public Domain File:BattleOfHoms1299.JPG Created: between circa 1300 and circa 1325 date QS:P,+1350-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1300-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1325-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 (early 14th  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThree lessons learned from the Long War. @BillRoggio @FDDhttps://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/06/caliphate-interrupted.php ...more

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• Measure of the Earth: 1 of 4: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World. by Larrie D. Ferreiro (Author)

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  Jun 04 2019

  Photo: English: The Andes of Ecuador Frederic Edwin Church http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Measure of the Earth: 1 of 4:  The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World.  by Larrie D. Ferreiro  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Measure-Earth-Enlightenment-Expedition-Reshaped/dp/0465063810In the 18th century, Europe's scientific community was torn between two opposing theories: Descartes' argument that the Earth was spherical, and Newton's contention that it was flattened at the poles. Recognizing that the answer was the key to securely navigating the earth's oceans, France and Spain organized a joint expedition to colonial Peru. Their goal was to measure a degree of latitude at the Equator; by comparing this measurement to one taken back in Europe, they would be able to determine the planet's shape and put an end to the debate. But what seemed a straightforward scientific exercise was almost immediately marred by a series of unforeseen catastrophes: treacherous terrain, deeply suspicious locals, and the voyagers' own hubris. A thrilling tale of adventure, political history, and scientific discovery, Larrie D. Ferreiro's Measure of the Earth recounts the greatest scientific exhibition of the Enlightenment through the eyes of the men who completed it—pioneers who overcame tremendous adversity to traverse the towering Andes Mountains and discern the Earth's true shape....more

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• Measure of the Earth: 2 of 4: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World. by Larrie D. Ferreiro (Author)

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  Jun 04 2019

  Photo: The Andes and the Amazon :;bor across the continent of South AmericaYear: 1876 (1870s)Authors:  Orton, JamesSubjects: Publisher:  New York: HarperContributing Library:  Natural History Museum Library, LondonDigitizing Sponsor:  Natural History Museum Library, LondonView 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:bably, theconsolidation of closely allied people, having a commonorigin, but unequally developed. The solid history of Peru begins only about a hundredyears before the Spanish Conquest. Yet we are prettycertain that the imperial glories of the Ineas were but thelast gleams of a civilization that mounted up to perhapsthousands of years ; that, long before the advent of MancoCapac, the Andes had been the dwelling-place of raceswhose beginnings must have been coeval with the savagesof Western Europe. The earliest left no epitaph; butaround Lake Titicaca are massive monolithic monuments,which could not have been wrought by a childish nation,yet are prehistoric, pre-incarial. The latest of the fivestyles of architecture visible on the Andes (each represent-ing an age of human progress) is shown by the Temple ofthe Sun at Cuzco, built a century before Pizarro saw it. Pkehistokic Peru. 455 yet put together with the precision of mosaic* WhileEurope was getting up rollicking crusades, the Sun-http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Measure of the Earth: 2 of 4:  The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World.  by Larrie D. Ferreiro  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Measure-Earth-Enlightenment-Expedition-Reshaped/dp/0465063810In the 18th century, Europe's scientific community was torn between two opposing theories: Descartes' argument that the Earth was spherical, and Newton's contention that it was flattened at the poles. Recognizing that the answer was the key to securely navigating the earth's oceans, France and Spain organized a joint expedition to colonial Peru. Their goal was to measure a degree of latitude at the Equator; by comparing this measurement to one taken back in Europe, they would be able to determine the planet's shape and put an end to the debate. But what seemed a straightforward scientific exercise was almost immediately marred by a series of unforeseen catastrophes: treacherous terrain, deeply suspicious locals, and the voyagers' own hubris. A thrilling tale of adventure, political history, and scientific discovery, Larrie D. Ferreiro's Measure of the Earth recounts the greatest scientific exhibition of the Enlightenment through the eyes of the men who completed it—pioneers who overcame tremendous adversity to traverse the towering Andes Mountains and discern the Earth's true shape....more

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• Measure of the Earth: 3 of 4: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World. by Larrie D. Ferreiro (Author)

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  Jun 04 2019

  Photo:  'Two Leagues from Santa Rosa [de Los Andes, Chile], Jany 14th 1851' [with the Andes and Aconcagua].Date | 14 January 1851Source | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/154598.htmlAuthor | Admiral Edward Gennys Fanshawe (27 November 1814 – 21 October 1906).http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Measure of the Earth: 3 of 4:  The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World.  by Larrie D. Ferreiro  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Measure-Earth-Enlightenment-Expedition-Reshaped/dp/0465063810In the 18th century, Europe's scientific community was torn between two opposing theories: Descartes' argument that the Earth was spherical, and Newton's contention that it was flattened at the poles. Recognizing that the answer was the key to securely navigating the earth's oceans, France and Spain organized a joint expedition to colonial Peru. Their goal was to measure a degree of latitude at the Equator; by comparing this measurement to one taken back in Europe, they would be able to determine the planet's shape and put an end to the debate. But what seemed a straightforward scientific exercise was almost immediately marred by a series of unforeseen catastrophes: treacherous terrain, deeply suspicious locals, and the voyagers' own hubris. A thrilling tale of adventure, political history, and scientific discovery, Larrie D. Ferreiro's Measure of the Earth recounts the greatest scientific exhibition of the Enlightenment through the eyes of the men who completed it—pioneers who overcame tremendous adversity to traverse the towering Andes Mountains and discern the Earth's true shape....more

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• Measure of the Earth: 4 of 4: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World. by Larrie D. Ferreiro (Author)

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  Photo: Narrative of a journey from Lima to Para, across the Andes and down the Amazon: undertaken with a view of ascertaining the practicability of a navigable communication with the Atlantic, by the rivers Pachitea, Ucayali, and AmazonYear: 1836 (1830s)Authors:  Smyth, William, 1800-1877Subjects: Publisher:  London, MurrayContributing Library:  Robarts - University of TorontoDigitizing Sponsor:  University of TorontoView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:uda, (orthe little gate of tlie Viuda,) at an elevation ofabout 15,500 feet above the sea, the highest partof the mountain being 15,968. Here we saw be-neath us mountains surrounding a beautifullytransparent lake, over which a violent wind wasdriving huge masses of cloud. The scene wasinexpressibly grand, and the words of Campbellflashed across our minds, most beautifully verified, * Where Andes, giant of the western star, Looks from his throne of clouds oer half the world. We stopped a short time to admire the splendidscene, and give rest to our beasts, as well as takeour luncheon of bread and cheese, for which thekeenness of the air had given us a great relish ;and we sat down sheltered by a rock. After ourrepast, we drank a glass of grog to the prosperityof the Peruvian Republic, Avhich was returned byIMajor Beltran giving that of the British Empire ;and Dr. Valdizan proposed the Pachitea expe-dition. We then conunenced our descent in aheavy snow-storm, with the thermometer down tohttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Measure of the Earth: 4 of 4:  The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World.  by Larrie D. Ferreiro  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Measure-Earth-Enlightenment-Expedition-Reshaped/dp/0465063810In the 18th century, Europe's scientific community was torn between two opposing theories: Descartes' argument that the Earth was spherical, and Newton's contention that it was flattened at the poles. Recognizing that the answer was the key to securely navigating the earth's oceans, France and Spain organized a joint expedition to colonial Peru. Their goal was to measure a degree of latitude at the Equator; by comparing this measurement to one taken back in Europe, they would be able to determine the planet's shape and put an end to the debate. But what seemed a straightforward scientific exercise was almost immediately marred by a series of unforeseen catastrophes: treacherous terrain, deeply suspicious locals, and the voyagers' own hubris. A thrilling tale of adventure, political history, and scientific discovery, Larrie D. Ferreiro's Measure of the Earth recounts the greatest scientific exhibition of the Enlightenment through the eyes of the men who completed it—pioneers who overcame tremendous adversity to traverse the towering Andes Mountains and discern the Earth's true shape....more

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• The Quantum Universe: 1 of 2: (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does. by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw

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  Jun 03 2019

  Photo: Niels Bohr with Albert Einstein at Paul Ehrenfest's home in Leiden (December 1925) Paul Ehrenfest Original uploader was Graf at de.wikipedia - http://www.dfi.dk/dfi/pressroom/kbhfortolkningen/ Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein. The picture was taken at Ehrenfest's home in Leiden, the occasion was most likely the 50th anniversary of Hendrik Lorentz' doctorate (December 11, 1925). Permission details This photo is PD in the Netherlands, its country of origin. Publication information is needed to determine if it is also PD in the U.S. If this photo was unpublished (or not published until 2003 or later), then it is considered PD in the U.S.View more Public Domainview terms File:Niels Bohr Albert Einstein by Ehrenfest.jpg Created: 11 December 1925 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Quantum Universe: 1 of 2: (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does. by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Universe-Anything-That-Happen/dp/0306821443/ref=laB003DRUAIO1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518307614&sr=1-2 In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible—and fascinating—to everyone. The subatomic realm has a reputation for weirdness, spawning any number of profound misunderstandings, journeys into Eastern mysticism, and woolly pronouncements on the interconnectedness of all things. Cox and Forshaw's contention? There is no need for quantum mechanics to be viewed this way. There is a lot of mileage in the “weirdness” of the quantum world, and it often leads to confusion and, frankly, bad science. The Quantum Universe cuts through the Wu Li and asks what observations of the natural world made it necessary, how it was constructed, and why we are confident that, for all its apparent strangeness, it is a good theory. The quantum mechanics of The Quantum Universe provide a concrete model of nature that is comparable in its essence to Newton's laws of motion, Maxwell's theory of electricity and magnetism, and Einstein's theory of relativity....more

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• The Quantum Universe: 2 of 2: (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does. by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw

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  Jun 03 2019

  Photo: George Gamow's make-believe experimental apparatus for validating the thought experiment at the Niels Bohr Institutein Copenhagen.View author information Public Domain File:Einsteinbox.jpg Uploaded: 19 July 2007 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Quantum Universe: 2 of 2: (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does. by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Universe-Anything-That-Happen/dp/0306821443/ref=laB003DRUAIO1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518307614&sr=1-2 In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible—and fascinating—to everyone. The subatomic realm has a reputation for weirdness, spawning any number of profound misunderstandings, journeys into Eastern mysticism, and woolly pronouncements on the interconnectedness of all things. Cox and Forshaw's contention? There is no need for quantum mechanics to be viewed this way. There is a lot of mileage in the “weirdness” of the quantum world, and it often leads to confusion and, frankly, bad science. The Quantum Universe cuts through the Wu Li and asks what observations of the natural world made it necessary, how it was constructed, and why we are confident that, for all its apparent strangeness, it is a good theory. The quantum mechanics of The Quantum Universe provide a concrete model of nature that is comparable in its essence to Newton's laws of motion, Maxwell's theory of electricity and magnetism, and Einstein's theory of relativity. ...more

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• Spillover: 1 of 4: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen

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  Jun 03 2019

  Photo:  Congolese (dressed in European attire) waving off a two decked steamer at Baringa Beach at the side of the Congo River. A smaller steamer floats alongside. In the present day Democratic Republic of the Congo The larger steamer may be the "S.S Livingstone," a passenger steamer owned by the Congo Balolo Mission and used on the route between Brazzaville and Kinshasa (formerly Leopoldville) along the Congo River. The smaller vessel alongside may be either the "S.S Pioneer" or the "Evangelist," both single deck steamers owned by the Congo Balolo Mission. The "S.S Pioneer" was donated by the Young Men's Christian Association Institutes of Ireland, and its parts had to be carried from Matadi to the Upper Congo by Congolese porters before it could be reassembled. This slide comes from a collection generated by missionaries working for the Congo Balolo Mission, a mission begun in 1889 under the supervision of the East London Training Institute for Home and Foreign Missions that developed into the interdenominational evangelical mission Regions Beyond Missionary Union after 1900. Photographer: Unknown Filename: IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-79.tif Coverage date: 1900/1915 Subject (unesco): Inland water transport; Mission work Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSpillover: 1 of 4: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen https://www.amazon.com/Spillover-Animal-Infections-Human-Pandemic/dp/0393346617/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1532911599&sr=1-1&keywords=spillover+quammenA masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.  The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia - but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the field - netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo - with the world's leading disease scientists. In Spillover, Quammen takes the listener along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?...more

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• Spillover: 2 of 4: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen

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  Jun 03 2019

  Photo: 900/1915 Subject (unesco): Groups; Christianity Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960 Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s Subject (corporate name): Congo Balolo Mission Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity Archival file: Volume2/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS11-50.tif Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom Geographic subject (country): Congo Format (aacr2): lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm Geographic subject (continent): Africa Rights: Contact the repository for details. Part of series: Regions Beyond Missionary Union. Congo People and Places (CSCNWW33/OS11) Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk Date created: 1900/1915 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSpillover: 2 of 4: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen https://www.amazon.com/Spillover-Animal-Infections-Human-Pandemic/dp/0393346617/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1532911599&sr=1-1&keywords=spillover+quammenA masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.  The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia - but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the field - netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo - with the world's leading disease scientists. In Spillover, Quammen takes the listener along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?...more

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• Spillover: 3 of 4: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen

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  Jun 03 2019

  Photo: UnknownTitle | Le Congo françaisDescription | Congo pavilion at the 1900 Paris world fair. The hut on the right of the image was a replica of a typical dwelling from the Chari region. The pavilion itself stands on the background of the picture; its architecture was inspired by colonial architecture.Date | 1900Dimensions | 20.5 x 25.5 cmCollection | Brown University Library   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSpillover: 3 of 4: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen https://www.amazon.com/Spillover-Animal-Infections-Human-Pandemic/dp/0393346617/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1532911599&sr=1-1&keywords=spillover+quammenA masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.  The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia - but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the field - netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo - with the world's leading disease scientists. In Spillover, Quammen takes the listener along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?...more

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• Spillover: 4 of 4: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen

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  Jun 03 2019

  Photo: Congo Balolo Mission Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity Archival file: Volume2/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-75.tif Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom Geographic subject (country): Congo Format (aacr2): lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm Geographic subject (continent): Africa http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSpillover: 4 of 4: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen https://www.amazon.com/Spillover-Animal-Infections-Human-Pandemic/dp/0393346617/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1532911599&sr=1-1&keywords=spillover+quammenA masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.  The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia - but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the field - netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo - with the world's leading disease scientists. In Spillover, Quammen takes the listener along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?...more

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• The Inventor and the Tycoon: 1 of 4: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures by Edward Ball

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  Jun 03 2019

  Photo: A view of Mission San Francisco de Asis (Mission Dolores) on Dolores Street in San Francisco, California — between 1880 and 1902. The adobe/stone building has an arched entryway, pilaster columns, a cross, and tile roof.Date | Source | Denver Public Library public domain images, lower resolution version of: http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?20103074+CHS.J3074%7Ccallno=CHS.J2289Author | User DaveOinSF on en.wikipediaOther versions | Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is (was) here * 20:46, 4 September 2006 [[:en:User:DaveOinSF|DaveOinSF]] 365×292 (17,278 bytes) <span class="comment">(Lower resolution version of Image:CHS.J2289.jpg A view of Mission San Francisco de Asis (Mission Dolores) on Dolores Street in San Francisco, California between 1880 and 1902. The stone building has an arched entryway, columns, a cross, and tile roof. )</span>http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Inventor and the Tycoon: 1 of 4:  A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures by Edward Ball One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and screen entertainments of all kinds. Yet the artist and inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial is one of the early instances of a media sensation. His patron was railroad tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, whose particular obsession was whether four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground at once. Stanford hired Muybridge and his camera to answer that question. And between them, the murderer and the railroad mogul launched the age of visual media. Set in California during its frontier decades, The Tycoon and the Inventor interweaves Muybridge's quest to unlock the secrets of motion through photography, an obsessive murder plot, and the peculiar partnership of an eccentric inventor and a driven entrepreneur. A tale from the great American West, this popular history unspools a story of passion, wealth, and sinister ingenuity....more

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• The Inventor and the Tycoon: 2 of 4: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures by Edward Ball

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  Jun 03 2019

  Photo: English: Charles Crocker mansion — on Nob Hill, San Francisco.A Victorian Italianate style house, with Second Empire style features.Magyar: Charles Crocker's palotája, San FranciscoDate | circa 1880 Source | http://collections.sfmoma.org/Obj48858$6377Author | Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Inventor and the Tycoon: 2 of 4:  A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures by Edward Ball One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and screen entertainments of all kinds. Yet the artist and inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial is one of the early instances of a media sensation. His patron was railroad tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, whose particular obsession was whether four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground at once. Stanford hired Muybridge and his camera to answer that question. And between them, the murderer and the railroad mogul launched the age of visual media. Set in California during its frontier decades, The Tycoon and the Inventor interweaves Muybridge's quest to unlock the secrets of motion through photography, an obsessive murder plot, and the peculiar partnership of an eccentric inventor and a driven entrepreneur. A tale from the great American West, this popular history unspools a story of passion, wealth, and sinister ingenuity....more

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• The Inventor and the Tycoon: 3 of 4: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures by Edward Ball

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  Jun 03 2019

  Photo: Nob Hill, from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, Cal.Date1880personContributorsReilly, John James (1839-1894), Photographer http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Inventor and the Tycoon: 3 of 4:  A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures by Edward Ball One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and screen entertainments of all kinds. Yet the artist and inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial is one of the early instances of a media sensation. His patron was railroad tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, whose particular obsession was whether four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground at once. Stanford hired Muybridge and his camera to answer that question. And between them, the murderer and the railroad mogul launched the age of visual media. Set in California during its frontier decades, The Tycoon and the Inventor interweaves Muybridge's quest to unlock the secrets of motion through photography, an obsessive murder plot, and the peculiar partnership of an eccentric inventor and a driven entrepreneur. A tale from the great American West, this popular history unspools a story of passion, wealth, and sinister ingenuity....more

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• The Inventor and the Tycoon: 4 of 4: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures by Edward Ball

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  Jun 03 2019

  Photo: Eadweard Muybridge's 1878 panoramic view of San Francisco from the top of Mark Hopkins mansion. Eadweard Muybridge - Gawain Weaver On 11 July 1877, Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) announced in the San Francisco Bulletin the publication of a “Panorama of San Francisco from California Street Hill.” The photographs were taken from the tower of the Mark Hopkins mansion, then the highest point in San Francisco, 116 metres (381 feet) above the harbour, which commanded an uninterrupted, sweeping view of the entire city, its harbour, and San Francisco Bay. One year later, Muybridge re-photographed the view, as seen here. Taken in April 1878, Muybridge worked with a mammoth camera using 18 x 22 inch plates. Muybridge started at about 11am and, probably with the help of an assistant, made each section within a matter of 15 minutes. The seventh panel from the left was taken last; it is a second shot of a section that was not successful on the first try. He used a 40 inch near telephoto lens, which determined the number of 20 inch wide glass negatives needed to make the complete circle. He had chosen the day for the execution of the panorama carefully; the shadows are sharp and the atmosphere clear. Published as an album and comprising thirteen mounted albumen prints, the resulting panorama exceeded seventeen feet in length when fully extended. He printed nine copies, but never advertised them. Permission details The author died in 1904, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.View more Public Domainview terms File:Panorama of San Francisco by Eadweard Muybridge, 1878.jpg Created: April 1878date QS:P571,+1878-04-00T00:00:00Z/10 Location: 37° 47′ 29.61″ N, 122° 24′ 37.31″ W http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Inventor and the Tycoon: 4 of 4:  A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures by Edward Ball One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and screen entertainments of all kinds. Yet the artist and inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial is one of the early instances of a media sensation. His patron was railroad tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, whose particular obsession was whether four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground at once. Stanford hired Muybridge and his camera to answer that question. And between them, the murderer and the railroad mogul launched the age of visual media. Set in California during its frontier decades, The Tycoon and the Inventor interweaves Muybridge's quest to unlock the secrets of motion through photography, an obsessive murder plot, and the peculiar partnership of an eccentric inventor and a driven entrepreneur. A tale from the great American West, this popular history unspools a story of passion, wealth, and sinister ingenuity. ...more

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• Wounded Knee: 1 of 2: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Heather Cox Richardson (Author), Jonathan Davis (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jun 02 2019

  Photo: Deadwood, South Dakota. 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.Date | 1900Source |  | This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID ppmsca.18062.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.العربية | čeština | Deutsch | English | español | فارسی | suomi | français | עברית | magyar | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | polski | português | português do Brasil | русский | slovenčina | slovenščina | Türkçe | українська | 中文 | 中文（简体）‎ | 中文（繁體）‎ | +/−Restoration by trialsanderrors: Deadwood, South Dakota, 1900Author | Detroit Publishing Co., from photo by H. R. Locke & Co.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Wounded Knee: 1 of 2:  Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Heather Cox Richardson (Author), Jonathan Davis (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Wounded-Knee-Politics-American-Massacre/dp/B00435J6US/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=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 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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• Wounded Knee: 2 of 2: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Heather Cox Richardson (Author), Jonathan Davis (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  Jun 02 2019

  Photo: English: View of downtown Aberdeen, South Dakota in 1910. Looking northeast.Date | 1910Source |  | This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID ppmsca.19078.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.العربية | čeština | Deutsch | English | español | فارسی | suomi | français | עברית | magyar | italiano | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | polski | português | português do Brasil | русский | slovenčina | slovenščina | Türkçe | українська | 中文 | 中文（简体）‎ | 中文（繁體）‎ | +/−Author | N. A. Brothershttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Wounded Knee: 2 of 2:  Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre. Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Heather Cox Richardson (Author), Jonathan Davis (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Wounded-Knee-Politics-American-Massacre/dp/B00435J6US/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=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 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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• Guest Podcast: "Venezuelans are arming themselves in Colombia." @RichValdes #ThisIsAmerica

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  Jun 02 2019

  Photo: Español: Caracas Fabrica de Cementos Nacional 1920Date | 1920Source | Rivero, Angel. 1992: La vega en concreto. Libro conmemorativo de la fundación C.A. Fabrica Nacional de Cementos. Editorial Arte. ISBN:980-6273-66-4Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Venezuelans are arming themselves in Colombia." @RichValdes #ThisIsAmerica https://www.ogpodcastnetwork.com/this-is-america-with-rich-valdes/

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• New American Civil War:1 of 2: Lessons learned from the 1865 assassination trial and the 1868 impeachment. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorld Crisis

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  Jun 02 2019

  Photo: COLBERT(1871) p363 CROSBYS' OPERA HOUSEThis file is from the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library.  View image on Flickr   View all images from book   View catalogue entry for book. Permission details Public Domainview terms File:COLBERT(1871) p363 CROSBYS' OPERA HOUSE.jpg Created: 1871date QS:P571,+1871-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNew American Civil War:1 of 2:  Lessons learned from the 1865 assassination trial and the 1868 impeachment. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorld Crisis...more

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• New American Civil War:2 of 2: Lessons learned from the 1865 assassination trial and the 1868 impeachment. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorld Crisis

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  Jun 02 2019

  Photo:Recognition, by Constant Mayer, was the sixth prize of the lottery. Constant Mayer - kAHro4Bi1j-00w at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level Public Domain File:Constant Mayer - Recognition- North and South - Google Art Project.jpg Created: 1865date QS:P571,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNew American Civil War:2 of 2:  Lessons learned from the 1865 assassination trial and the 1868 impeachment. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorld Crisis...more

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• "The Fed cannot power economic growth." @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets

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  Jun 02 2019

  Photo: Teutonic of 1889, (9,984 GRT)Detroit Publishing Company - https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/det/item/det1994011751/PP/ The SS Teutonic, between 1890 and 1900 Public Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"The Fed cannot power economic growth." @JohnTamny @RealClearMarketshttps://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2019/05/16/if_the_fed_can_instigate_why_is_middletown_still_so_poor_103741.html

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• Cronyism is a fiction, otherwise Enron, GE and WAMU would rule the DOW. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarkets

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  Jun 02 2019

  Photo: Adriatic of 1871, (3,888 GRT)George Parker Greenwood (fl.1870-1904) - http://www.vallejogallery.com/item.php?title=White_Star_Liner_ADRIATIC&category=Maritime_Paintings&id=144 White Star Liner Adriatic (1871). Oil on Canvas, 22 ¼ x 36 inches. Public Domainview terms File:Adriatic (1871).jpg Created: 31 December 1888 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCronyism is a fiction, otherwise Enron, GE and WAMU would rule the DOW. @JohnTamny @RealClearMarketshttps://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2019/05/21/wealth_lost_not_wealth_preserved_powers_economic_growth_103747.html ...more

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• NASA Europa Clipper in trouble. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 02 2019

  Photo: Approximate natural color (left) and enhanced color (right) Galileo view of leading hemisphereNASA/JPL/University of Arizona - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01295 (image link) This color composite view combines violet, green, and infrared images of Jupiter's intriguing moon, Europa, for a view of the moon in natural color (left) and in enhanced color designed to bring out subtle color differences in the surface (right). The bright white and bluish part of Europa's surface is composed mostly of water ice, with very few non-ice materials. In contrast, the brownish mottled regions on the right side of the image may be covered by hydrated salts and an unknown red component. The yellowish mottled terrain on the left side of the image is caused by some other unknown component. Long, dark lines are fractures in the crust, some of which are more than 3,000 kilometers (1,850 miles) long. North is to the top of the picture and the sun fully illuminates the surface. Europa is about 3,160 kilometers (1,950 miles) in diameter, or about the size of Earth's moon. The finest details that can be discerned are 25 kilometers across. The images in this global view were taken in June 1997 at a range of 1.25 million kilometers by the Solid State Imaging (SSI) system on NASA's Galileo spacecraft, during its ninth orbit of Jupiter. Public Domain File:PIA01295 Europa Global Views in Natural and Enhanced Colors.jpg Created: 8 May 1998 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNASA Europa Clipper in trouble.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-ig-finds-both-europa-missions-a-mess/ ...more

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• Curiosity uncovers the puzzling clays of Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  Jun 02 2019

  Photo: Paris Exposition: Champ de Mars and Palace of Metallurgy, Paris, France, 1900. Exposition of 1900. General view of the Chateau de Mars taken from the Chateau d'Eau. [The Champs de Mars towards the Metallurgie Palace]. Brooklyn Museum Archives.Date | 1 January 1900, 00:00:00Source | Flickr: Paris Exposition: Champ de Mars and Palace of Metallurgy, Paris, France, 1900Author | Brooklyn MuseumThis image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist,http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCuriosity uncovers the puzzling clays of Mars. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/rover-update-may-30-2019/ ...more

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• The English Brexiteers are not positives for Scotland. @RealConstable

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  Jun 02 2019

  Photo: Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland] (LOC)[Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland] [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. Notes:Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J--foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.Print no. "10002".Forms part of: Views of landscape and architecture in Scotland in the Photochrom print collection. Subjects:Scotland--Edinburgh.  Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900.  Rights Info: No known restrictions on reproduction.  Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print   Part Of: Views of landscape and architecture in Scotland (DLC) 2001703567 More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz   Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.07584   Call Number: LOT 13407, no. 073 [item] http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe English Brexiteers are not positives for Scotland.  @RealConstablehttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/only-brexit-justifies-independence-vote-qhdpk65xw ...more

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• Early days of the China feud. @RHFontaine @@CNASDC

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  Jun 01 2019

  Photo: English: canton the vast metropolis of chinaDate | 1920Source | Canton China (1920)Author | United States Bureau of Navigationhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowEarly days of the China feud. @RHFontaine @@CNASDChttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/us-china-trade-war-only-beginning/590206

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• #TheScalaReport: The China Commerce Ministry, in response to #Huawei banning, threatens #Google. #Huawei faces cut-off from software, chipmakers, engineering professionals. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE ⁦@ScalaInc⁩

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  Jun 01 2019

  Photo: One of diamonds: Mathematical instrumentsWilliam Barclay Parsons Collection - New York Public Library Archives Deck of playing cards illustrating engineering instruments, England, 1702. One of diamonds: Mathematical instruments Public Domain File:One of Diamonds Mathematical instruments 1702.jpg Created: 28 August 2011 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport: The China Commerce Ministry, in response to #Huawei banning, threatens #Google. #Huawei faces cut-off from software, chipmakers, engineering professionals.  Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE ⁦@ScalaInc⁩ https://www.wsj.com/articles/after-u-s-blacklisting-of-huawei-china-plans-unreliable-foreigners-list-11559303104?mod=hp_lead_pos4 ...more

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• "You've got all the Russia hoaxers shooting at each other, blaming each other..." @DevinNunes

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  Jun 01 2019

  Photo: "The Situation", a Harper's Weekly editorial cartoon, shows Secretary of War Stanton aiming a cannon labeled "Congress" to defeat Johnson. The rammer is "Tenure of Office Bill" and cannonballs on the floor are "Justice". en:Harper's Weekly - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3c27515. 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 situation". Print shows Ulysses Grant and Edwin Stanton near cannon labeled "Congress" aimed at Lorenzo Thomas and President Johnson. Permission details No known restrictions on publication.View more Public Domainview terms File:The situation.jpg Created: 31 December 1867 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWill the Democrats Impeach? "You've got all the Russia hoaxers shooting at each other, blaming each other..."  @DevinNuneshttps://www.foxnews.com/opinion/karl-rove-five-things-that-will-happen-if-house-dems-move-to-impeach-trump ...more

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• #Pacific Watch: Typhoid Fever confirmed in the Homeless conditions of Downtown LA. #JeffBliss

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  Jun 01 2019

  Photo:  View of the Angels Flight with the cars, the tower and surrounding buildings, Third Street and Hill Street, Los Angeles, ca.1910 Photograph of a view of the Angels Flight on Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles — with the cars (left of the tower), the view tower (center), and surrounding buildings, including the William Ferguson building on the corner of Third Street and Hill Street, ca.1910. The surrounding buildings flank the Angels Flight transportation facility. A set of stairs (to the right of the railway car) allows people to walk up to the top of the hill instead of taking the incline railway car. A tall tower, with a platform and a booth, stands at the top of the flight. Picture file card reads: "The architect of the Ferguson building was George H. Wyman, who also designed the Bradbury building."; Legible signs include: "ladies tailor", "301, Marsden Drug Co., drugs, cigars", "Common Sense Beauty Shop", "D. Curl C.S., Christian science [...]", "Dr. W.K. Chambers, dentist", "Champ Clark for president", "The Hulburt apartments", "Angels Flight, B.P.O.E.", "S. Hill St.", "Notice $100 fine, for riding, driving or propelling any vehicle faster than 8 miles per hour in this tunnel, see ordinance no. 15775", "take other walk, going west", "Vegetarian Cafeteria", "furnished rooms", "Young Woman's [...] Christian Association building", "power off", "409, The Glen Vil[la], furnished rooms", "Hotel Hillcrest", "Rose, McCoy", "sanitarium", "257, The Guiles [furnish]ed rooms, week or month, prices reasonable". "The original Angels Flight, originally known as the 'Los Angeles Incline Railway,' was built in 1901 by Col. J.W. Eddy to connect the original Downtown shopping district below with the posh residential district of Bunker Hill, with its Victorian frame houses. Then located at the corner of 3rd and Hill streets, Angels Flight was known (and is still known) as 'The World's Shortest Railway,' with its two counterbalanced passenger cars, Sinai and Olivet ascending up and descending down the hill for all Angelenos, all for a nickel. During the post-World War II era, the growth of Los Angeles boomed, and the once-upper-class area of Bunker Hill had turned into a slum. The Victorian homes were gradually razed, and those that remained were converted to boarding houses." "Bunker Hill became an urban renewal project under the California Redevelopment Act, and in the late 1960s, everything was demolished to make room for office buildings and a senior citizen's condominium complex, called the Angelus Plaza. Angels Flight, however, was not demolished but dismantled, by the City, who promised to move and re-build the Los Angeles landmark 'in a couple of years'." -- unknown author. Call number: CHS-5542 Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#Pacific Watch: Typhoid Fever confirmed in the Homeless conditions of Downtown LA. #JeffBliss https://www.apnews.com/e6c4a34980c549deada4f1f981cedb80 ...more

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• Tariffs are unpopular. Talk of tariffs are unpopular. @veroderugy @Mercatus

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  Jun 01 2019

  Photo: General Luis Torres and wife at their residence in Los Angeles or Mexico, ca.1906-1930 Photograph of General Luis Emeterio Torres (1843-1935) and wife at their residence, 1316 Westlake Avenue, Los Angeles or in Mexico, ca.1906-1930. He is standing with his right arm across the back of a rocking chair in which she sits on the patio. Potted plants hang from the patio roof. Numerous pots of plants line the edge of the patio near the pillars of the arches which support the roof.; "Death takes Gen. Torres -- Leader in Mexico During Porfirio Diaz Regime, Ousted by Madero -- Gen. Luis E. Torres, 91 years of age, former Governor of the State of Sonora, and an outstanding figure in Mexico a quarter of a century ago, died yesterday in retirement at his home, 1316 South Westlake Avenue. -- Deposed when President Porfirio Diaz was overthrown in Francisco Madero revolution of 1911, Gen. Torres for many years figured largely in troublesome political and military campaigns of the southern republic. He formerly was comander-in-chief of the military forces of Sinaloa and Sonora. -- At the time of the Madero revolution, however, Gen. Torres brought his family as refugees to Los Angeles and has maintained the family residence here since that time. Always a champion of friendly relations between the United States and Mexico, he bent his efforts toward exposing adverse propaganda. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Vincent's Church. West Adams and Figueroa Streets. Interment will follow at Calvary Cemetery." -- Newspaper clipping. Call number: CHS-1518 Legacy record ID: chs-m15070; USC-1-1-1-13980 Filename: CHS-1518 Coverage date: circa 1906/1930 Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTariffs are unpopular. Talk of tariffs are unpopular. @veroderugy @Mercatus...more

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• What is the purpose of the meeting of the National Security Advisers of the US, Israel and Russia? Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 01 2019

  Photo: Photograph of six young women making lacedate_rangeDate01/01/1930personContributorsAmerican Colony (Jerusalem)American Colony (Associated name) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat is the purpose of the meeting of the National Security Advisers of the US, Israel and Russia?  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres  

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• Russia and Iran have a sturdy strategic relationship. @PhillipSmyth Soref Fellow at @WashInstitute. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 01 2019

  Photo: The 138–126 BCE travels of Zhang Qian to the West, Mogao Caves, 618–712 CE mural.Unknown - Reproduction in Roderick Whitfield, Susan Whitfield, Neville Agnew, and Lois Conner, Cave Temples of Mogao: Art and History on the Silk Road. Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2000. ISBN 978-0-89236-585-2 The travel of Zhang Qian to the West. Mogao caves, 618-712 CE. Translation of Chinese note: "This is a section of a Dunhuang mural showing a line of officials led by Han Emperor Wu (Han Wudi) to see off Zhang Qian in the outskirts of Chang'an (the capital city). Zhang Qian is shown kneeling at the left edge of the painting." Public Domain File:Zhang Qian.jpg Created: 8th century date QS:P,+750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRussia and Iran have a sturdy strategic relationship. @PhillipSmyth  Soref Fellow at @WashInstitute. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presPhillip Smyth is a 2018-2019 Soref Fellow at The Washington Institute. He has studied Shia Islamist militarism in the Middle East as a researcher at the University of Maryland, and created the blog Hezbollah Cavalcade. He is the author of the 2015 Institute monograph The Shiite Jihad in Syria and Its Regional Effects. Related articles:●      https://www.voanews.com/a/tensions-grow-between-russia-iran-in-syria/4935188.html ●      http://www.arabnews.com/node/1502781 ●      https://www.apnews.com/1a77fc00ca5f42afa806207474046d52 ●      https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/05/yemens-houthis-fundraise-for-hezbollah.php ●      https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-strikes-syrian-anti-aircraft-target-and-a-spying-device-in-lebanon-1.7298589 ●      https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-reveals-longest-most-significant-hezbollah-tunnel-yet-on-northern-border/ ...more

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• Groundhog Day Election Israel, Bibi vs Not Bibi. @Gil_Hoffman

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  Jun 01 2019

  Photo: Jaffa Road, near the Old City.Depicted place | JerusalemDate | 1930Medium | photographic printCollection | Widener Library, Cambridge, MassachusettsCurrent location | Judaica Division. Repository: JPCDPZA14643Object history | The David B. Keidan Collection of Digital Images from the Central Zionist Archives: Photographs on the History of Zionism and Israel. (metadata: Harvard-Littauer Judaica Endowment)Notes | Record Identifier: olvwork473285Source | via.lib.harvard.eduhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGroundhog Day Election Israel, Bibi vs Not Bibi. @Gil_Hoffman Gil Hoffman is the chief political correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post. Well-connected to Israeli and Palestinian leaders, he has interviewed every major figure across the Israeli political spectrum, has been interviewed by top media on six continents and is a regular analyst on CNN, Al-Jazeera and other news outlets. Called "The most optimistic man in Israel" by Israel Television, Hoffman provides a behind the scenes look at the intrigue and humor in the Israeli political arena. He was raised in Chicago, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Northwestern University's School of Journalism, and wrote for the Miami Herald and Arizona Republic before moving to Israel. Related articles●      https://www.timesofisrael.com/liberman-is-right-to-protest-ultra-orthodox-coercion-but-an-election-wont-help/ ●      https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/A-third-election-in-2019-It-can-certainly-happen-analysis-591125 ●      https://www.timesofisrael.com/liberman-wont-say-hell-back-netanyahu-for-pm-after-elections-rules-out-gantz/ ●      https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-netanyahu-just-suffered-one-of-the-biggest-losses-of-his-political-career-1.7305540 ●      https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/prospect-of-new-israeli-vote-looms-as-netanyahu-struggles-with-coalition/2019/05/29/9155b71a-8171-11e9-b585-e36b16a531aa_story.html?utm_term=.f3602a7f8332 ...more

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• EU democracy is fractious, fragmented, uncertain.@BlaiseMisztal Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Jun 01 2019

  Photo: Strassberg im Fondei (politisch Arosa, ehem. Langwies), alte AnsichtskarteDate | circa 1900 Source | Archiv der Fundaziun Capauliana (Chur)Author | anonym, unbekannt / unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowEU democracy is fractious, fragmented, uncertain.@BlaiseMisztal Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_presBlaise Misztal is a fellow at Hudson Institute. His research program focuses on the Middle East, Europe, and strategic competition.Most recently, Misztal served as the Executive Director of the Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States, a congressionally mandated project convened by the U.S. Institute of Peace. Prior to that, he was director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s national security program where he managed a team responsible for researching and developing policy recommendations concerning a variety of national security issues, including Iran and its nuclear program, U.S.-Turkey relations, cybersecurity, countering extremism, and state fragility. Related articles●      https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/what-make-european-elections/590398/ ●      https://www.vox.com/2019/5/28/18642498/european-parliament-elections-2019-takeaways-greens-salvini-brexit-eu ●      https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/world/europe/europe-election-results-populism.html ●      https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/britains-main-parties-hammered-in-eu-elections--voters-opt-for-those-with-clear-stances-on-brexit/2019/05/27/f69e6f46-8053-11e9-95a9-e2c830afe24f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e308bf4069ea ●      https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2019-05-29/surprise-support-for-the-green-party-underscores-a-divided-france  ...more

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• Mueller drives the Impeachers to act sooner rather than later. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Jun 01 2019

  Photo: Johnson in 1860Attributed to Jesse Harrison Whitehurst - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.05704. 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. This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: cropped, color adjustments. Permission details Note that this is a formal photo of a prominent politician, and can be deemed to be published at the time. In any event, the Library of Congress deems that there are no known restrictions on publication.View more Public Domainview terms File:AndrewJohnson1860.png Created: 31 December 1859 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMueller drives the Impeachers to act sooner rather than later. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJRhttps://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/robert-mueller-press-conference-impeachment-politics-democrats/ ...more

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• Does AMLO of Mexico trust a market economy or does he follow the Argentina failure? @MaryAnastasiaOG @wsjOpinion

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  Jun 01 2019

  Photo: : Zuid_1920-1930.jpgDate | between 1920 and 1930 Source | http://www.stamgent.be/nl/beeldenreeks-zuidAuthor | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDoes AMLO of Mexico trust a market economy or does he follow the Argentina failure? @MaryAnastasiaOG @wsjOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/mexico-flirts-with-suicide-11558294511

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• MBS and the Kingdom enlist the Gulf, including Qatar, against Tehran. Behnam ben Taleblu @FDD

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  May 31 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMBS and the Kingdom enlist the Gulf, including Qatar,  against Tehran. Behnam ben Taleblu @FDD

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• Nancy Pelosi is losing her struggle with the Impeachers. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  May 31 2019

  Photo:  Photograph of the San Francisco Mint, ca. 1900.  From:: Series Photographs of Operations, compiled ca. 1870 - ca. 1930  Created By:: Department of the Treasury. Bureau of the Mint. U.S. Mint, San Francisco, California. (1873 - 07/11/1962)  Production Date: ca. 1900  Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=296585   Repository: NARA's Pacific Region (San Bruno, CA) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNancy Pelosi is losing her struggle with the Impeachers. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst...more

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• Condemned Huawei uses Jones Day to complain to the US courts & What is to be done? @afixler @fdd @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 31 2019

  Photo: English: Rådhuspladsen in Copenhagen, DenmarkDate | circa 1900 Source | http://vaeggen.copenhagen.dk/album/3377/9991Author | Unknownhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCondemned Huawei uses Jones Day to complain to the US courts & What is to be done? @afixler @fdd @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-tech-usa-filing/huawei-challenges-legality-of-u-s-defense-bill-as-sanctions-fight-ramps-up-idUSKCN1SZ08C ...more

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• "Before Mueller ever walked in the door, they knew that there was no evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia." @DevinNunes

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  May 31 2019

  Photo:  Among horses in Russia Identifier: amonghorsesinrus00haye Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace), 1842-1904 Subjects: Horses; Horses Publisher: London : R. A. Everett Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University    View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book  Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.  Text Appearing Before Image: THE GUINEA STAMP" 33 of horses and has money to spend on his fad. In Russia the matter is one almost entirely of social distinction, because there, "the guinea stamp" and not the man is of value. For instance, http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Before Mueller ever walked in the door, they knew that there was no evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia." @DevinNunes ...more

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• Kim regime executes the Hanoi summit diplomats and purges advisers. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @DavidMaxwekk161 @FDD

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  May 31 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowKim regime executes the Hanoi summit diplomats and purges advisers. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @DavidMaxwekk161 @FDD

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• A giant Hezbollah attack tunnel & What is to be done? Tony Badran @FDD

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  May 31 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowA giant Hezbollah attack tunnel & What is to be done? Tony Badran @FDDhttps://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-reveals-longest-most-significant-hezbollah-tunnel-yet-on-northern-border/

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• Modi's sizable victory in India and what it means for the US. @CleoPaskal @ChathamHouse

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  May 31 2019

  Photo: Opium production in Calcutta, India, in 1900. Workers in dhotis and turbans are mixing and balling opium.Date | 1900Source | http://www.plantcultures.org/pccms/action/showItem?id=388Partner: Wellcome Library, LondonImage reference: V0019163Author | Bourne & Shepherd, 1900http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowModi's sizable victory in India and what it means for the US. @CleoPaskal @ChathamHousehttps://nationalinterest.org/feature/modis-victory-america’s-opportunity-60057 ...more

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• Hong Kong fears Beijing & What is to be done? Mark Clifford, former editor of the South China Morning Post

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  May 31 2019

  Photo: English: Queen's Road Central, Duddell Street on the left, c1900Date | 1900Source | Hong Kong Library MMISAuthor | The original uploader was Ohconfucius at English Wikipedia.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHong Kong fears Beijing & What is to be done? Mark Clifford, former editor of the South China Morning Posthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/thousands-march-in-hong-kong-to-commemorate-june-4-protests/2019/05/26/d2ec5d46-7fa5-11e9-b585-e36b16a531aa_story.html?utm_term=.4e2a17d1e84f ...more

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• Turkmenistan natural gas is the new new. @RobertMCutler Carleton University

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  May 31 2019

  Photo: City of Chardzhou in Russian Turkestan, 1890 Paul Nadar - Taken from this site. Чарджуй (бухарские владения). У городских ворот Public Domain File:1. Чарджуй (бухарские владения). У городских ворот.jpg Created: 31 December 1889 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTurkmenistan natural gas is the new new. @RobertMCutler Carleton University Turkmenistan https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.urdupoint.com/en/amp/business/turkmenistan-hosts-x-international-gas-congre-631340.html Nord Streamhttps://www.neweurope.eu/article/us-sanctions-may-be-too-late-to-stop-nord-stream-2-construction/ Contaminationhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1ST1TX ...more

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• James Madison: 1 of 2: by Richard Brookhiser.

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  May 30 2019

  Photo: Hampton, Va., Virginia printing & pub. 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:POWDKIi HOKX. The Palace was the executive mansion. It wasburned during the Revolution. A stone monument marksthe historical spot, it is now utilized for a school building. A stone monument has been erected by the Associationfor the preservation of Virginia Anticjuities, on the siteof the old House of Burgesses, which long ago was de-stroyed bv fire. The site is at the end of the Duke ofhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowJames Madison: 1 of 2:  by Richard Brookhiser. 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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• James Madison: 2 of 2: by Richard Brookhiser.

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  May 30 2019

  Photo: :  Virginia -- Gazetteers Virginia -- StatisticsPublisher:  Richmond : Published for the proprietorContributing Library:  New York Public LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From BookClick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:unty, Virginia. Annsville, a small village of Dinwiddle county, Virginia,about 75 miles N. W. by W. from Norfolk. Anthonys Creek, a post-office of Greenbrier county, Virginia. Appersons, a post-office of Charles City county, Virginia. Appomattox, a river in the S. E. part of Virginia, rises in Ap-pomattox county, and fl.owing in a general eastward directionforms the boundary between several counties on each side, passesby the city of Petersburg and enters the James river at CityPoint. It is a valuable stream for navigation, having a narrowand deep channel. Large vessels ascend to Petersburg, about20 miles from its mouth, and batteaus to Farmville, pcrliaps 100miles farther. The whole length is estimated at 150 miles. Thenavigation is good at all seasons for boats of 5 or 6 tons to Farm-ville. Appomattox, a county in the S. E. central part of Virginia,has an area of 260 s(j(uare miles. It is bounded on the N. W. 166 NORFOLK BUSINESS DIRECTORY. )Sr O R F O L K SElINiR! FOR lOUIG LADIES.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowJames Madison: 2 of 2:  by Richard Brookhiser. 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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• The GOP oppo on Joe Biden done by Joe Biden. @DavidMDrucker

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  May 30 2019

  Photo: Wilmington up-to-date : the metropolis of North Carolina graphically portrayed Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors:  Isaacs, I. J Wilmington Chamber of Commerce (N.C.) Subjects:  Business enterprises Publisher:  Wilmington, N.C. : W.L. De Rosset, Jr., printer Contributing Library:  University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Digitizing Sponsor:  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Text Appearing Before Image:e humidity evenduring the hottest months is below the average and in the afternoon ofeach day there is almost invariably a refreshing breeze, which invig-orates humanity and renders sleep easy and recuperating. The nor-mal rainfall for the year during a period of twenty-five years is 54inches. The heaviest rainfall occurs in the summer months in con-nection with the time of greatest heat produces a luxuriant vegetation THE CITY OF WILMINGTON. and affords moisture to crops when most needed. In the spring- thereare moderate rainfalls, which are very beneficial to truck and straw-berry growers. As a rule the precipitation is regular and can be de-pended upon, although, of course, there have been times when all cal il-lations have gone astray. Last year was an abnormal one, the heaviestamount of rain having then fallen almost within the recollection of theoldest inhabitant. There is very little snow and it seldom remains onthe ground longer than a few hours, and a damaging frost is a very http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe GOP oppo on Joe Biden done by Joe Biden. @DavidMDruckerhttps://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/inside-the-gop-operation-to-take-down-joe-biden ...more

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• Guest Podcast: "Hey, did you hear? Cauliflower is a symbol of colonialism." @RichValdes theRichValdes.com

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  Photo:  Sándor Galimberti  (1883–1915)  TitleStill Life with Cauliflower http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGuest Podcast: "Hey, did you hear? Cauliflower is a symbol of colonialism." @RichValdes theRichValdes.com

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• The sex trafficking of North Korean women to China & What is to be done? Greg Scarlatoiu, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea

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  May 30 2019

  Photo: Chinese forces cross the Yalu River.Source Chinese forces cross the Yalu River and joined the Korean War Fair use File:China Crosses Yalu.jpg Created: Taken on 1951/02. Published in 1951 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe sex trafficking of North Korean women to China & What is to be done? Greg Scarlatoiu, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea https://www.wsj.com/articles/like-escaping-into-the-desert-more-women-forced-into-sex-trade-when-fleeing-north-korea-11558339202...more

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• Japan thrilled by Trump's visit to begin the Era of "Reiwa" or Beautiful Harmony. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 30 2019

  Photo: Promulgation of the new Japanese constitution by the Emperor of Japan at TokioUnknown - (1889 June 22). The Graphic. Vol. XXXIX: P. 697. Public Domain File:Promulgation of The New Japanese Constitution (1889).jpg Created: 31 December 1888 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowJapan thrilled by Trump's visit to begin the Era of "Reiwa" or Beautiful Harmony. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast 

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• Is Xi Jinping isolated from contrary opinions about the China business plan of theft and mercantilism? Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania, @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 30 2019

  Photo: A 17th-century painting showing the city wall of the Old City of Shanghai and the river port outside the wall.Own work, World Imaging Old City of Shanghai will walls and seafront CC BY-SA 3.0 File:Old City of Shanghai will walls and seafront.jpg Created: 17th century date QS:P571,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIs Xi Jinping isolated from contrary opinions about the China business plan of theft and mercantilism? Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania, @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast ...more

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• China threatens the US with the old and failed gambit of rare earth cut-off. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 30 2019

  Photo: Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL) is a government-owned corporation in India based in Mumbai. The Corporate Research Centre and major mining dept. are located at Chavara in Kollam Metropolitan Area.Date | 26 November 2016Source | Self-photographedAuthor | Arunvrparavur I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: | Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowChina threatens the US with the old and failed gambit of rare earth cut-off.  @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ChristianWhitonhttps://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6042123254001/#sp=show-clips ...more

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• Tragedy in Crimson: 1 of 2: How the Dalai Lama Conquered the World but Lost the Battle with China by Tim Johnson

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  May 30 2019

  Photo: Tibet in 1734. Royaume de Thibet ("Kingdom of Tibet") in la Chine, la Tartarie Chinoise, et le Thibet ("China, Chinese Tartary, and Tibet") on a 1734 map by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, based on earlier Jesuit maps. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville - An antique map from the Special Collection "China in Maps" of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library, reproduced by the HKUST Library in the book "China in European Maps", Hong Kong, 2003. ISBN 962-86403-9-9. Entire map Permission details Author died more than 70 years ago - public domainView more Public Domainview terms File:CEM-44-La-Chine-la-Tartarie-Chinoise-et-le-Thibet-1734-2568.jpg Created: 1734, according to the map itself (although the modern publishers say 1737) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTragedy in Crimson: 1 of 2: How the Dalai Lama Conquered the World but Lost the Battle with China by Tim Johnson https://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-Crimson-Dalai-Conquered-Battle/dp/1568586019/ref=laB004AN257Y1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1521940913&sr=1-1 Tragedy in Crimson is award-winning journalist Tim Johnson’s extraordinary account of the cat-and-mouse game embroiling China and the Tibetan exile community over Tibet. Johnson reports from the front lines, trekking to nomad resettlements to speak with the people who guard Tibet’s slowly vanishing culture; and he travels alongside the Dalai Lama in the campaigns for Tibetan sovereignty. Johnson unpacks how China is using its economic power around the globe to assail the Free Tibet movement. By encouraging massive Chinese migration and restricting Tibetan civil rights, the Chinese are also working to dilute Tibetan culture within Tibet itself. He also takes a sympathetic but unsentimental look at the Dalai Llama, a popular figure in the West who is regarded as a failure by many of his own people. Staggering in scope, vivid and audacious in its narrative aims, Tragedy in Crimson tells the story of a people on the brink of cultural extinction and the rising nation that is quashing them ...more

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• Tragedy in Crimson: 2 of 2: How the Dalai Lama Conquered the World but Lost the Battle with China by Tim Johnson

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  May 30 2019

  Photo: Tibet in 1892 during the Qing dynasty.View author information Public Domain File:Qing china.jpg Uploaded: 23 January 2005 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTragedy in Crimson: 2 of 2: How the Dalai Lama Conquered the World but Lost the Battle with China by Tim Johnson https://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-Crimson-Dalai-Conquered-Battle/dp/1568586019/ref=laB004AN257Y1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1521940913&sr=1-1 Tragedy in Crimson is award-winning journalist Tim Johnson’s extraordinary account of the cat-and-mouse game embroiling China and the Tibetan exile community over Tibet. Johnson reports from the front lines, trekking to nomad resettlements to speak with the people who guard Tibet’s slowly vanishing culture; and he travels alongside the Dalai Lama in the campaigns for Tibetan sovereignty. Johnson unpacks how China is using its economic power around the globe to assail the Free Tibet movement. By encouraging massive Chinese migration and restricting Tibetan civil rights, the Chinese are also working to dilute Tibetan culture within Tibet itself. He also takes a sympathetic but unsentimental look at the Dalai Llama, a popular figure in the West who is regarded as a failure by many of his own people. Staggering in scope, vivid and audacious in its narrative aims, Tragedy in Crimson tells the story of a people on the brink of cultural extinction and the rising nation that is quashing them...more

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• The lawsuit of researcher Svetlana Lokhova against FBI informant Stefan Halper. Larry Johnson, Sic Semper Tyrannis

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  May 30 2019

  Photo: A blue-eyed Central Asian monk teaching an East-Asian monk, Bezeklik, Turfan, eastern Tarim Basin, China, 9th century; the monk on the right is possibly Tocharian,[136] although more likely Sogdian.[137][138] of the paintings - Unknown. Of the book, Albert von Le Coq. - Chotscho: Facsimile Reproduction of Important Findings of the First Royal Prussian Expedition to Turfan in East Turkistan, Berlin, 1913. A catalogue of the findings of the Second German Turfan Expedition (1904–1905) led by Albert von Le Coq, containing colour reproductions of the murals, which were destroyed in WW2. (National Institute of Informatics – Digital Silk Road  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe lawsuit of researcher Svetlana Lokhova against FBI informant Stefan Halper. Larry Johnson, Sic Semper Tyrannishttps://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/05/stefan-halper-played-a-key-role-in-a-sophisticated-counterintelligence-operation-that-involved-the-fbi-the-cia-british-intel.html ...more

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• South Pole of the Moon is beachfront property. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  May 30 2019

  Photo: Українська: Контур басейна Південний полюс — Ейткен на зображенні зворотного боку Місяця. За основу взято мозаїку знімків зонда Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter file:Moon farside LRO 5000.jpg із дещо збільшеною яскравістю.English: Outline of South Pole–Aitken basin on the image of far side of the Moon. Based on mosaic of images by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiterfile:Moon farside LRO 5000.jpg with somewhat increased brightness.Date | 4 November 2015Source | file:Moon farside LRO 5000.jpg (which is from http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_rdr_product/WAC_ROI_FARSIDE_DUSK_O000N1800_128P)Author | NASA (the outline of South Pole–Aitken basin is own work)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSouth Pole of the Moon is beachfront property. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/?s=South+Pole ...more

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• Hayabusa2 chooses a touchdown site on the asteroid Ryuku. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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  May 30 2019

  Photo: Photograph of the full disc of the asteroid 162173 Ryugu, as it appeared to the Hayabusa2 spacecraft at 03:50 UTC on 26 June 2018. The photograph was taken by the spacecraft's Optical Navigation Camera – Telescopic (ONC-T) at a distance of 20 kilometres (12 miles). 162173 Ryugu is the 23rd minor planet studied by a spacecraft in-situ, and is the target of the second ever sample-return mission to an asteroid, Hayabusa2.Source (WP:NFCC#4) Fair use File:162173 Ryugu.jpg Uploaded: 27 June 2018 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHayabusa2 chooses a touchdown site on the asteroid Ryuku. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.comhttps://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/hayabusa-2s-second-approach-to-artificial-crater-scheduled/ ...more

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• Happy Republic Day to the critical Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, 101 years old today. @ElinSuleymanov @AzerbaijanMFA ‏

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  May 29 2019

  Photo: Conference Room of the Republic's First Parliament.Interfase - http://www.baku.ru/cmm-glr-list.php?cmm_id=276&id=69469 Parlament of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Public Domain File:Azeri parlament.jpg Created: 31 December 1917 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHappy Republic Day to the critical Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, 101 years old today. @ElinSuleymanov @AzerbaijanMFA ‏http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/Ilham-Aliyev-visits-monument-to-Azerbaijan-Democratic-Republic-in-Baku.html ...more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Christopher Steele says he "would not cooperate" with Barr. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  May 29 2019

  Photo: On the rooftops of London. Coo, what a sight! With the weather being a bit grim in Ireland today, thought we might go all Mary Poppins and take ourselves off over to London for a change. Can't identify any individual business except for Stokes Leather Warehouse (see note), and it'd be great to get some idea of the spot from which this one was taken (over to you, mapping gurus)... Date: 1860-1883 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 1 of 2: Christopher Steele says he "would not cooperate" with Barr. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/christopher-steele-wont-cooperate-with-john-durham-review-of-russia-investigation ...more

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• Tales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: Christopher Steele says he "would not cooperate" with Barr. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.

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  May 29 2019

  Photo: Hyde Park Corner, London, EnglandDescription | Forms part of: Views of the British Isles, in the Photochrom print collection.; Print no. "11215".; Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J-foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905.; More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgzDate | between 1890 and 1900 Dimensions | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.Accession number | ppmsc.08574http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTales of the New Cold War: 2 of 2: Christopher Steele says he "would not cooperate" with Barr. Stephen F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/christopher-steele-wont-cooperate-with-john-durham-review-of-russia-investigation ...more

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• Millennials and GenZ are the same percentage of the vote as Boomers & What is t be done?

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  May 29 2019

  Photo: Baseball team composed mostly of child laborers from a glassmaking factory. Indiana (1908)Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer. - Library of Congress[1] The Ball Team. Composed mainly of glass workers. Indiana. Permission details See belowView more Public Domainview terms File:Baseball glass workers2.jpg Created: 1 August 1908 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowMillennials and GenZ are the same percentage of the vote as Boomers & What is t be done?...more

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• The Chinese Communists are not prepared for a trade war. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNews

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  May 29 2019

  Photo:  Shanghai - The Bund in the 1930s.Date | 1930s Source | http://www.chinataiwan.org/zppd/LZP/200811/t20081110_775958.htmAuthor | ROC reporterhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Chinese Communists are not prepared for a trade war. @LizPeek @TheHill @FoxNewshttps://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-china-feud-threatens-5g-growth-in-u-s-11559035804?mod=hp_lead_pos3

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• The Democratic prosecution of Bill Barr & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO.

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  Photo:  The clock tower and the Plough Inn at Clapham Common, London, England. A view from Clapham High Street (today's A3) near the junction with Clapham Park Road, looking past the clock tower and along The Pavement (today's B224).The Valentine's Series photograph was taken before the domed tube station entrance and public toilet buildings were erected, therefore dated possibly pre-1907 but before the postal date of 1915. The Plough Inn is noted in 18th-century sources, and in the London Medical Gazette of 1837-38 with a reported use for coroner courts. The original Inn was at 156 High Street, and was re-sited here as no.196, rebuilt as part of the mid-Victorian terrace shown in the photograph. The Victorian building was rebuilt in timber-framed mock-Tudor style, documented as The Plough Inn by a Frith postcard of 1960. The name subsequently changed to the Goose and Granite, and is in 2015 identified as an O'Neill's faux Irish pub. The only buildings surviving redevelopment are those of The Pavement in a terrace located by a 'Sale' banner to the right of the clock tower.Date | 3 June 2015, 15:55:01Source | Vintage postcard c.1915 or beforeAuthor | Unknown photographer | This work is in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Democratic prosecution of  Bill Barr & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO.https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/05/stefan-halper-played-a-key-role-in-a-sophisticated-counterintelligence-operation-that-involved-the-fbi-the-cia-british-intel.html ...more

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• Joe Biden shuns the California Democratic Party. @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  May 29 2019

  Photo: Los Angeles -- Hollywood -- General views; Botany -- Flowers -- Water lilliesFormat: glass plate negativesAccess conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.Geographic subject (county): Los AngelesGeographic subject (roadway): Franklin AvenueSubject (lcsh): Gardens; LotusSubject: Sturdivant; Hollywood -- Cultivated FlowersDate | circa 1900 (date created)Source | http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/4159Author | Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowJoe Biden shuns the California Democratic Party. @HooverWhalen @HooverInsthttps://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2019/05/27/election-forecast-models-trump-the-presidents-bad-poll-numbers/#50fba93f4f90 ...more

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• Arctic Mission: PART 1 of 2: 90 North by Airship and Submarine by William F. Althoff

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  May 29 2019

  Photo:English: Scott TC-6 airship over Hangar 1925Date | 1926Source | http://www.scott.af.mil/photos/mediagallery.asp?galleryID=9939&?id=-1&page=1&count=48Author | United States Army Air ForcesPermission(Reusing this file) | USGOV-PD http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowArctic Mission: PART 1 of 2: 90 North by Airship and Submarine by William F. Althoffhttps://www.amazon.com/Arctic-Mission-North-Airship-Submarine/dp/1612510108/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=william+althoff&qid=1559095418&s=books&sr=1-8 Artic Mission recounts two concurrent Navy Department penetrations of the Arctic, in 1958: one an unclassified project, the other absolutely secret. The Cold War posed alarm and threat; amid its urgencies, the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58 was underway. Sputnik had opened the Space Age--for Americans, a national humiliation. The White House needed a success. Sailing under the direct orders of the Commander in Chief, the nuclear submarine Nautilus (SSN-571) would---if successful--reaffirm U.S. technological prowess with a stupendous demonstration: an under-ice transit of the Arctic Basin via the North Pole.  The airship's unclassified mission was an Office of Naval Research project. Objective: to assess the suitability of non-rigid airships (blimps) for support of field parties deployed throughout the North, ashore and afloat. That IGY August, BUNO 126719 crossed the Arctic Circle--the sole military airship ever to do so--en route to rendezvous with a U.S. Air Force ice-rafted camp (drifting station) in the Arctic Ocean. As "719" (delayed) pressed north, Nautilus pierced the geographic pole then without changing course logged the first-ever transit of the deep-ocean Arctic, Pacific to Atlantic.  Based on interviews and correspondence with dozens of participants, and on Navy Department reports, the work presents first-hand material throughout--a distinct contribution to the naval literature. Indeed, Arctic Mission may be the first in-depth (non-popular) account of the boat's epic cruise to 90° N. Further, the ONR expedition across Arctic Canada to IGY BRAVO (ice island T-3) is a singular unknown--even to naval aviators. ...more

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• Arctic Mission: PART 2 of 2: 90 North by Airship and Submarine by William F. Althoff

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  Photo: Zeppelin bij Empire State Building in aanbouw / Zeppelin near the Empire State Building under constructionSFA003001027 Nationaal Archief/Spaarnestad Photo  Nederlands: Het Amerikaanse luchtschip ZR-3 Los Angeles vliegt nabij het in aanbouw zijnde Empire State Building in New York, 29 oktober 1930. De zeppelin, gebouwd als LZ 126, wordt begeleid door enkele blimps.  English: The American airship ZR 3 Los Angeles flying near the Empire State Building under construction. The Zeppelin, built as LZ 126, is accompanied by some blimps. New York, the United States of America, 29 October 1930.  Hebt u meer informatie over deze foto, laat het ons weten. Laat een reactie achter (als u ingelogd bent bij Flickr) of stuur een mailtje naar: info@nationaalarchief.nl  Please help us gain more knowledge on the content of our collection by simply adding a comment with information. If you do not wish to log in, you can write an e-mail to: info@nationaalarchief.nl  Meer foto’s van Spaarnestad Photo zijn te vinden op onze beeldbank: www.spaarnestadphoto.nl/ http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowArctic Mission: PART 2 of 2: 90 North by Airship and Submarine by William F. Althoffhttps://www.amazon.com/Arctic-Mission-North-Airship-Submarine/dp/1612510108/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=william+althoff&qid=1559095418&s=books&sr=1-8 Artic Mission recounts two concurrent Navy Department penetrations of the Arctic, in 1958: one an unclassified project, the other absolutely secret. The Cold War posed alarm and threat; amid its urgencies, the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58 was underway. Sputnik had opened the Space Age--for Americans, a national humiliation. The White House needed a success. Sailing under the direct orders of the Commander in Chief, the nuclear submarine Nautilus (SSN-571) would---if successful--reaffirm U.S. technological prowess with a stupendous demonstration: an under-ice transit of the Arctic Basin via the North Pole.  The airship's unclassified mission was an Office of Naval Research project. Objective: to assess the suitability of non-rigid airships (blimps) for support of field parties deployed throughout the North, ashore and afloat. That IGY August, BUNO 126719 crossed the Arctic Circle--the sole military airship ever to do so--en route to rendezvous with a U.S. Air Force ice-rafted camp (drifting station) in the Arctic Ocean. As "719" (delayed) pressed north, Nautilus pierced the geographic pole then without changing course logged the first-ever transit of the deep-ocean Arctic, Pacific to Atlantic.  Based on interviews and correspondence with dozens of participants, and on Navy Department reports, the work presents first-hand material throughout--a distinct contribution to the naval literature. Indeed, Arctic Mission may be the first in-depth (non-popular) account of the boat's epic cruise to 90° N. Further, the ONR expedition across Arctic Canada to IGY BRAVO (ice island T-3) is a singular unknown--even to naval aviators....more

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• Knights of the Sea: PART 1 of 2: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812. by David Hanna

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  May 29 2019

  Photo: J. M. W. Turner  (1775–1851)    Title The Battle of Trafalgar (1806)Object typepaintingDescriptionThe Battle of Trafalgar, as seen from the mizen starboard shrouds of the Victory by J. M. W. Turner (1806–1808)Date1806Mediumoil on canvasCollectionTate Britain  Source/Photographerhttp://www.tate.org.uk This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowKnights of the Sea: PART 1 of 2: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812. by David Hanna "David Hanna establishes his credibility both as a writer and with the quality and depth of his historical research in Knights of the Sea. His capturing of a little-known maritime battle during the War of 1812 is surprisingly relevant in modern-day exploration of military strategy." Portland Press Herald...more

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• Knights of the Sea: PART 2 of 2: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812. by David Hanna

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  Photo: English: Loss of The Magnificent, 25 March 1804Date | 1839Source | NMM BHC0534Author | John Christian Schetky (1778-1874)Permission(Reusing this file) | This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowKnights of the Sea: PART 2 of 2: The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812. by David Hanna "David Hanna establishes his credibility both as a writer and with the quality and depth of his historical research in Knights of the Sea. His capturing of a little-known maritime battle during the War of 1812 is surprisingly relevant in modern-day exploration of military strategy." Portland Press Herald ...more

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• City of Light, City of Poison: 1 of 4: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Holly Tucker (Author), Kate Reading (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  May 28 2019

  Photo: Vue de Paris vers 1600. Au premier plan, rive gauche, enceinte de Philippe Auguste. Au nord de la Seine, rive droite, enceinte de Charles V.Date | circa 1600 Source | Tiré de la Topographie francoise ou representations de plusieurs villes, bourgs, chasteaux, plans, forteresses, vestiges d'antiquité, maisons modernes et autres du royaume de France, Boisseau, Paris, 1655Author | Claude Chastillon  (1559–1616)  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow City of Light, City of Poison: 1 of 4: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Holly Tucker (Author), Kate Reading (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/City-Light-Poison-Murder-Police-dp-B06XH1D47X/dp/B06XH1D47X/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1559007145 Appointed to conquer the "crime capital of the world", the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s. Assigned by Louis XIV, Nicolas de La Reynie begins by clearing the streets of filth and installing lanterns throughout Paris, turning it into the City of Light.  The fearless La Reynie pursues criminals through the labyrinthine neighborhoods of the city. He unearths a tightly knit cabal of poisoners, witches, and renegade priests. As he exposes their unholy work, he soon learns that no one is safe from black magic - not even the Sun King. In a world where a royal glance can turn success into disgrace, the distance between the quietly back-stabbing world of the king's court and the criminal underground proves disturbingly short. Nobles settle scores by employing witches to craft poisons and by hiring priests to perform dark rituals in Paris' most illustrious churches and cathedrals.  As La Reynie continues his investigations, he is haunted by a single question: could Louis' mistresses be involved in such nefarious plots? The pragmatic and principled La Reynie must decide just how far he will go to protect his king.  From secret courtrooms to torture chambers, City of Light, City of Poison is a gripping true-crime tale of deception and murder. Based on thousands of pages of court transcripts and La Reynie's compulsive note taking, as well as on letters and diaries, Tucker's riveting narrative makes the fascinating, real-life characters breathe and live....more

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• City of Light, City of Poison: 2 of 4: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Holly Tucker (Author), Kate Reading (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo:  Nicolas de La Mare  (1639–1723)  Antoine Coquart  (1668–1707)  Description English: Plan of Paris in 1643, the seventh of eight chronological maps of Paris from Traité de la police Français : Septième plan de la ville de Paris, son acroissement et ses embelissemens sous Henry II et Louis XIII depuis 1589 jusqu'en 1643 [Image fixe numérisée] / par L.C.D.L.M. Publication : Paris : [s.n.], 1705 Description matérielle : 1 carte ; 44,5 x 54,5 cm Collection : Collection d'Anville ; 00807 Note(s) : Cote : Ge DD 2987 (807) BNF Richelieu Cartes et Plans Reprod. Sc 87/659 . - Légende et description en marge gauche et droite Sujet(s) : Paris (France) Notice n° : FRBNF38638262Date1705 (représente Paris en 1643)Source/PhotographerGallicaOther versionsGallica 29/07/2013This image from the National Library of France (BnF) is a reproduction by scanning of a bidimensional work that is now in the public domain ({{PD-scan}}). For this reason, it is in the public domain.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow City of Light, City of Poison: 2 of 4: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Holly Tucker (Author), Kate Reading (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/City-Light-Poison-Murder-Police-dp-B06XH1D47X/dp/B06XH1D47X/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1559007145 Appointed to conquer the "crime capital of the world", the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s. Assigned by Louis XIV, Nicolas de La Reynie begins by clearing the streets of filth and installing lanterns throughout Paris, turning it into the City of Light.  The fearless La Reynie pursues criminals through the labyrinthine neighborhoods of the city. He unearths a tightly knit cabal of poisoners, witches, and renegade priests. As he exposes their unholy work, he soon learns that no one is safe from black magic - not even the Sun King. In a world where a royal glance can turn success into disgrace, the distance between the quietly back-stabbing world of the king's court and the criminal underground proves disturbingly short. Nobles settle scores by employing witches to craft poisons and by hiring priests to perform dark rituals in Paris' most illustrious churches and cathedrals.  As La Reynie continues his investigations, he is haunted by a single question: could Louis' mistresses be involved in such nefarious plots? The pragmatic and principled La Reynie must decide just how far he will go to protect his king.  From secret courtrooms to torture chambers, City of Light, City of Poison is a gripping true-crime tale of deception and murder. Based on thousands of pages of court transcripts and La Reynie's compulsive note taking, as well as on letters and diaries, Tucker's riveting narrative makes the fascinating, real-life characters breathe and live....more

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• City of Light, City of Poison: 3 of 4: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Holly Tucker (Author), Kate Reading (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  Photo:Louis XIV as a young child, unknown painter Unknown - LSH 95015 (sm_dig5445) Note: For documentary purposes the original description has been retained. Factual corrections and alternative descriptions are encouraged separately from the original description.Fransk barnprins, troligen Ludvig XIV eller XV från 1600-talets första hälft. Nyckelord: Barn, Prins, 1600-tal, Konst Permission details Public Domainview terms File:Fransk barnprins, troligen Ludvig XIV eller XV från 1600-talets första hälft - Skoklosters slott - 95015.tif Created: first half of 17th century date QS:P571,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow City of Light, City of Poison: 3 of 4: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Holly Tucker (Author), Kate Reading (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/City-Light-Poison-Murder-Police-dp-B06XH1D47X/dp/B06XH1D47X/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1559007145 Appointed to conquer the "crime capital of the world", the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s. Assigned by Louis XIV, Nicolas de La Reynie begins by clearing the streets of filth and installing lanterns throughout Paris, turning it into the City of Light.  The fearless La Reynie pursues criminals through the labyrinthine neighborhoods of the city. He unearths a tightly knit cabal of poisoners, witches, and renegade priests. As he exposes their unholy work, he soon learns that no one is safe from black magic - not even the Sun King. In a world where a royal glance can turn success into disgrace, the distance between the quietly back-stabbing world of the king's court and the criminal underground proves disturbingly short. Nobles settle scores by employing witches to craft poisons and by hiring priests to perform dark rituals in Paris' most illustrious churches and cathedrals.  As La Reynie continues his investigations, he is haunted by a single question: could Louis' mistresses be involved in such nefarious plots? The pragmatic and principled La Reynie must decide just how far he will go to protect his king.  From secret courtrooms to torture chambers, City of Light, City of Poison is a gripping true-crime tale of deception and murder. Based on thousands of pages of court transcripts and La Reynie's compulsive note taking, as well as on letters and diaries, Tucker's riveting narrative makes the fascinating, real-life characters breathe and live....more

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• City of Light, City of Poison: 4 of 4: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Holly Tucker (Author), Kate Reading (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)

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  May 28 2019

  Photo: Louis XIV, King of France, in 1661Attributed to Charles Le Brun - La Varende, Jean de: Louis XIV, Paris : Éditions France-Empire, 1958. - Château de Versailles Public Domain File:Louis-xiv-lebrunl.jpg http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow City of Light, City of Poison: 4 of 4: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Holly Tucker (Author), Kate Reading (Narrator), Inc. Blackstone Audio (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/City-Light-Poison-Murder-Police-dp-B06XH1D47X/dp/B06XH1D47X/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1559007145 Appointed to conquer the "crime capital of the world", the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s. Assigned by Louis XIV, Nicolas de La Reynie begins by clearing the streets of filth and installing lanterns throughout Paris, turning it into the City of Light.  The fearless La Reynie pursues criminals through the labyrinthine neighborhoods of the city. He unearths a tightly knit cabal of poisoners, witches, and renegade priests. As he exposes their unholy work, he soon learns that no one is safe from black magic - not even the Sun King. In a world where a royal glance can turn success into disgrace, the distance between the quietly back-stabbing world of the king's court and the criminal underground proves disturbingly short. Nobles settle scores by employing witches to craft poisons and by hiring priests to perform dark rituals in Paris' most illustrious churches and cathedrals.  As La Reynie continues his investigations, he is haunted by a single question: could Louis' mistresses be involved in such nefarious plots? The pragmatic and principled La Reynie must decide just how far he will go to protect his king.  From secret courtrooms to torture chambers, City of Light, City of Poison is a gripping true-crime tale of deception and murder. Based on thousands of pages of court transcripts and La Reynie's compulsive note taking, as well as on letters and diaries, Tucker's riveting narrative makes the fascinating, real-life characters breathe and live....more

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• Citizen Canine: 1 of 4: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. David Grimm (Author), Graham Hamilton (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  May 28 2019

  Photo: Juan Ribalta  (1596–1628)  Juan Ribalta  (1596–1628)  This work is in the public domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Citizen Canine: 1 of 4:  Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  David Grimm (Author), Graham Hamilton (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Citizen-Canine-Evolving-Relationship-Cats/dp/B00J2D758Q/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=canine&qid=1559006007&s=books&sr=1-5 In this fascinating exploration of the changing status of dogs and cats in society, pet lover and award-winning journalist David Grimm explores the rich and surprising history of our favorite companion animals. He treks the long and often torturous path from their wild origins to their dark days in the middle ages to their current standing as the most valued animals on Earth. As he travels across the country - riding along with Los Angeles detectives as they investigate animal cruelty cases, touring the devastation of New Orleans in search of the orphaned pets of Hurricane Katrina, and coming face-to-face with wolves and feral cats - Grimm reveals the changing social attitudes that have turned pets into family members, and the remarkable laws and court cases that have elevated them to quasi citizens.The journey to citizenship isn't a smooth one, however. As Grimm finds, there's plenty of opposition to the rising status of cats and dogs. From scientists and farmers worried that our affection for pets could spill over to livestock and lab rats to philosophers who say the only way to save society is to wipe cats and dogs from the face of the earth, the battle lines are being drawn. We are entering a new age of pets - one that is fundamentally transforming our relationship with these animals and reshaping the very fabric of society. For pet lovers or anyone interested in how we decide who gets to be a "person" in today's world, Citizen Canine is a must-have. It is a pet tale like no other....more

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• Citizen Canine: 2 of 4: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. David Grimm (Author), Graham Hamilton (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  May 28 2019

  Photo: Title: American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments Identifier: americanfarmings03flin Year: 1892 (1890s) Authors: Flint, Charles L. (Charles Louis), 1824-1889 Subjects: Agriculture Publisher: New York, Casselberry Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries Text Appearing Before Image:  1520 THE AMERICAN FARMER. liim follow my footsteps. He would trace every step until lie found me, and then would quiver for joy." The faithfulness of the Shepherd dog is remarkably exemplified in the following touching incident given by Dr. Die Lewis: " One herder whom we met at Cold Spring ranch showed us a very pretty Collie dog that he said he would not sell for $500. She had at that time four young puppies. The night we arrived we visited his camp, and were greatly interested in the little mother and her nursing babies. Amid those wild, vast mountains, this little nest of motherly devotion and baby trust was very beautiful. "While we were exclaiming, the assistant herder came to say that there were more than twenty sheep missing. Two male dogs, both larger than the little mother, were standing about, with their hands in their breeches, doing nothing. But the herder said neither Tom nor Dick would find them. FloraNo known copyright restrictions http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Citizen Canine: 2 of 4:  Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  David Grimm (Author), Graham Hamilton (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Citizen-Canine-Evolving-Relationship-Cats/dp/B00J2D758Q/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=canine&qid=1559006007&s=books&sr=1-5 In this fascinating exploration of the changing status of dogs and cats in society, pet lover and award-winning journalist David Grimm explores the rich and surprising history of our favorite companion animals. He treks the long and often torturous path from their wild origins to their dark days in the middle ages to their current standing as the most valued animals on Earth. As he travels across the country - riding along with Los Angeles detectives as they investigate animal cruelty cases, touring the devastation of New Orleans in search of the orphaned pets of Hurricane Katrina, and coming face-to-face with wolves and feral cats - Grimm reveals the changing social attitudes that have turned pets into family members, and the remarkable laws and court cases that have elevated them to quasi citizens.The journey to citizenship isn't a smooth one, however. As Grimm finds, there's plenty of opposition to the rising status of cats and dogs. From scientists and farmers worried that our affection for pets could spill over to livestock and lab rats to philosophers who say the only way to save society is to wipe cats and dogs from the face of the earth, the battle lines are being drawn. We are entering a new age of pets - one that is fundamentally transforming our relationship with these animals and reshaping the very fabric of society. For pet lovers or anyone interested in how we decide who gets to be a "person" in today's world, Citizen Canine is a must-have. It is a pet tale like no other....more

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• Citizen Canine: 3 of 4: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. David Grimm (Author), Graham Hamilton (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  May 28 2019

  Photo: John Macallan Swan  (1847–1910)   Title A Shepherdess and her FlockObject typepaintingDate1878Mediumoil on canvasDimensionsHeight: 64.1 cm (25.2 ″); Width: 99 cm (38.9 ″) CollectionPrivate collectionObject historysold at Christie'sSource/PhotographerThe Bridgeman Art Library, Object 658242The author died in 1910, so this work is in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Citizen Canine: 3 of 4:  Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  David Grimm (Author), Graham Hamilton (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Citizen-Canine-Evolving-Relationship-Cats/dp/B00J2D758Q/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=canine&qid=1559006007&s=books&sr=1-5 In this fascinating exploration of the changing status of dogs and cats in society, pet lover and award-winning journalist David Grimm explores the rich and surprising history of our favorite companion animals. He treks the long and often torturous path from their wild origins to their dark days in the middle ages to their current standing as the most valued animals on Earth. As he travels across the country - riding along with Los Angeles detectives as they investigate animal cruelty cases, touring the devastation of New Orleans in search of the orphaned pets of Hurricane Katrina, and coming face-to-face with wolves and feral cats - Grimm reveals the changing social attitudes that have turned pets into family members, and the remarkable laws and court cases that have elevated them to quasi citizens.The journey to citizenship isn't a smooth one, however. As Grimm finds, there's plenty of opposition to the rising status of cats and dogs. From scientists and farmers worried that our affection for pets could spill over to livestock and lab rats to philosophers who say the only way to save society is to wipe cats and dogs from the face of the earth, the battle lines are being drawn. We are entering a new age of pets - one that is fundamentally transforming our relationship with these animals and reshaping the very fabric of society. For pet lovers or anyone interested in how we decide who gets to be a "person" in today's world, Citizen Canine is a must-have. It is a pet tale like no other....more

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• Citizen Canine: 4 of 4: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. David Grimm (Author), Graham Hamilton (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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  May 28 2019

  Photo: Year: 1889 (1880s) Authors:  Montgomery, Walter Subjects:  Art Artists Art Publisher:  Boston, E.W. Walker & co Contributing Library:  Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor:  Smithsonian Libraries    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:Deronda and Mirah. Drawn by Freer. I am ashamd : does not the stone rebuke meFor being more stone than it ? — O royal piece,Theres magic in thy majesty, which hasMy evils conjurd to remembrance, andFrom thy admiring daughter took the spirits,Standing like stone with thee ! Perdita. And give me leave; And do not say t is superstition, thatI kneel and then implore her blessing. — Lady,Dear queen, that ended when I but began,Give me that hand of yours to kiss. Paulina. O, patience! The statue is but newly fixd, the colour sNot dry. AMERICAN ART 20; Camillo. My lord, your sorrow was too sore laid on,Which sixteen winters cannot blow away,So many summers dry : scarce any joyDid ever so long live ; no sorrowBut killd itself much sooner. Polixenes. Dear my brother, Let him that was the cause of this have powerTo take off so much of grief from you as heWill piece up in himself. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Citizen Canine: 4 of 4:  Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs  Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  David Grimm (Author), Graham Hamilton (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)https://www.amazon.com/Citizen-Canine-Evolving-Relationship-Cats/dp/B00J2D758Q/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=canine&qid=1559006007&s=books&sr=1-5 In this fascinating exploration of the changing status of dogs and cats in society, pet lover and award-winning journalist David Grimm explores the rich and surprising history of our favorite companion animals. He treks the long and often torturous path from their wild origins to their dark days in the middle ages to their current standing as the most valued animals on Earth. As he travels across the country - riding along with Los Angeles detectives as they investigate animal cruelty cases, touring the devastation of New Orleans in search of the orphaned pets of Hurricane Katrina, and coming face-to-face with wolves and feral cats - Grimm reveals the changing social attitudes that have turned pets into family members, and the remarkable laws and court cases that have elevated them to quasi citizens.The journey to citizenship isn't a smooth one, however. As Grimm finds, there's plenty of opposition to the rising status of cats and dogs. From scientists and farmers worried that our affection for pets could spill over to livestock and lab rats to philosophers who say the only way to save society is to wipe cats and dogs from the face of the earth, the battle lines are being drawn. We are entering a new age of pets - one that is fundamentally transforming our relationship with these animals and reshaping the very fabric of society. For pet lovers or anyone interested in how we decide who gets to be a "person" in today's world, Citizen Canine is a must-have. It is a pet tale like no other....more

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• Midnight Rising: 1 of 2: 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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  May 28 2019

  Photo:View on the Potomac, Harper's Ferry in the distance.date_rangeDate1858 - 1900Copyright infoPublic Domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Midnight Rising: 1 of 2: 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-Brown-Sparked-Civil/dp/B005Z9GNSY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=.  Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But 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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• Midnight Rising: 2 of 2: 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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  May 28 2019

  Photo: Petrovič Svin'inDescription | Russian artistDate of birth/death | 8 June 1787 (in Julian calendar) | 9 April 1839 (in Julian calendar)Location of birth/death | Галичский уезд | Saint PetersburgWork period | 1813–Authority control | : Q3210067 VIAF: 54496274 ISNI: 0000 0001 1645 8508ULAN: 500176559 LCCN: n82055035 GND: 100564143 WorldCatTitleA View of the Potomac at Harpers FerryObject typewatercolor paintingDescriptionWatercolor; DrawingsDatebetween circa 1811 and circa 1813 MediumWatercolor and gouache on white laid paperDimensionsHeight: 14 cm (5.5 ″); Width: 21.9 cm (8.6 ″) The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Midnight Rising: 2 of 2: 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-Brown-Sparked-Civil/dp/B005Z9GNSY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=.  Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But 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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• Circle of Treason: 1 of 4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author), Janet Metzger (Narrator), & 1 more

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  May 27 2019

  Photo: Winston Churchill "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College (MSA)Collection Name: Gerald R. Massie Photograph Collection  Photographer/Studio: Massie, Gerald R. Description: Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stands at podium to deliver his "Sinews of War" speech in Fulton, Missouri. Coverage: United States - Missouri - Fulton Date: March 5, 1946 Rights: Copyright is in the public domain.  Credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives Image Number: Massie_B114_F46 Institution: Missouri State Archives http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Circle of Treason: 1 of 4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author), Janet Metzger (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Circle-Treason-Traitor-Aldrich-Betrayed/dp/B00G04ZRF8/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Circle+of+Treason&qid=1558922254&s=books&sr=1-1-catcorr Not only is this the first book to be written by the CIA principals involved, but it is also the first to provide details of the operational contact with the agents Ames betrayed. The book covers the political aftermath of Ames's arrest, including the Congressional wrath for not identifying him sooner, the FBI/CIA debriefings following Ames's plea bargain, and a retrospective of Ames the person and Ames the spy. It is also the compelling story of two female agents, who overcame gender barriers and succeeded in bringing Ames to justice in a historically male-oriented organization.  Now retired from the CIA, Grimes and Vertefeuille are finally able to tell this inside story of the CIA's most notorious traitor and the men he betrayed....more

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• Circle of Treason: 2 of 4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author), Janet Metzger (Narrator), & 1 more

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  May 27 2019

  Photo: Winston Churchill "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College (MSA)Collection Name: Commerce and Industrial Development Collection  Photographer/Studio: Massie, Gerald R. Description: President Harry Truman and former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ride in convertible car on the way to Westminster College auditorium for Churchill to deliver his "Sinews of War" speech in Fulton, Missouri. Coverage: United States - Missouri - Fulton Date: March 5, 1946 Rights: Copyright is in the public domain.  Credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives Image Number: CID_064-183 Institution: Missouri http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Circle of Treason: 2 of 4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author), Janet Metzger (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Circle-Treason-Traitor-Aldrich-Betrayed/dp/B00G04ZRF8/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Circle+of+Treason&qid=1558922254&s=books&sr=1-1-catcorr Not only is this the first book to be written by the CIA principals involved, but it is also the first to provide details of the operational contact with the agents Ames betrayed. The book covers the political aftermath of Ames's arrest, including the Congressional wrath for not identifying him sooner, the FBI/CIA debriefings following Ames's plea bargain, and a retrospective of Ames the person and Ames the spy. It is also the compelling story of two female agents, who overcame gender barriers and succeeded in bringing Ames to justice in a historically male-oriented organization.  Now retired from the CIA, Grimes and Vertefeuille are finally able to tell this inside story of the CIA's most notorious traitor and the men he betrayed....more

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• Circle of Treason: 3 of 4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author), Janet Metzger (Narrator), & 1 more

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  May 27 2019

  Photo: Winston Churchill "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College (MSA)Collection Name: Gerald R. Massie Photograph Collection  Photographer/Studio: Massie, Gerald R. Description: President Harry Truman waves from back of convertible as former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sits next to him smoking a cigar. Churchill was in Fulton, Missouri to deliver his "Sinews of War" speech. Coverage: United States - Missouri - Fulton Date: March 5, 1946 Rights: Copyright is in the public domain.  Credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives Image Number: Massie_B114_F49b Institution: Missouri State Archives http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Circle of Treason:   3 of 4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author), Janet Metzger (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Circle-Treason-Traitor-Aldrich-Betrayed/dp/B00G04ZRF8/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Circle+of+Treason&qid=1558922254&s=books&sr=1-1-catcorr Not only is this the first book to be written by the CIA principals involved, but it is also the first to provide details of the operational contact with the agents Ames betrayed. The book covers the political aftermath of Ames's arrest, including the Congressional wrath for not identifying him sooner, the FBI/CIA debriefings following Ames's plea bargain, and a retrospective of Ames the person and Ames the spy. It is also the compelling story of two female agents, who overcame gender barriers and succeeded in bringing Ames to justice in a historically male-oriented organization.  Now retired from the CIA, Grimes and Vertefeuille are finally able to tell this inside story of the CIA's most notorious traitor and the men he betrayed....more

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• Circle of Treason: 4 of 4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author), Janet Metzger (Narrator), & 1 more

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  May 27 2019

  Photo: Winston Churchill "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College (MSA)Collection Name: Gerald R. Massie Photograph Collection  Photographer/Studio: Massie, Gerald R. Description: Car carrying President Harry Truman and former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill travels through downtown Fulton, Missouri on the day Churchill delivered "Sinews of War" speech. Coverage: United States - Missouri - Fulton Date: March 5, 1946 Rights: Copyright is in the public domain.  Credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives Image Number: Massie_Box D_Folder 122 Institution: Missouri State Archives http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow Circle of Treason: 4 of 4: CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Sandra V. Grimes (Author), Jeanne Vertefeuille (Author), Janet Metzger (Narrator), & 1 more https://www.amazon.com/Circle-Treason-Traitor-Aldrich-Betrayed/dp/B00G04ZRF8/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Circle+of+Treason&qid=1558922254&s=books&sr=1-1-catcorr Not only is this the first book to be written by the CIA principals involved, but it is also the first to provide details of the operational contact with the agents Ames betrayed. The book covers the political aftermath of Ames's arrest, including the Congressional wrath for not identifying him sooner, the FBI/CIA debriefings following Ames's plea bargain, and a retrospective of Ames the person and Ames the spy. It is also the compelling story of two female agents, who overcame gender barriers and succeeded in bringing Ames to justice in a historically male-oriented organization.  Now retired from the CIA, Grimes and Vertefeuille are finally able to tell this inside story of the CIA's most notorious traitor and the men he betrayed....more

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

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  May 27 2019

  Photo:  Isezaki-chō street scene, Yokohama, JapanDate | circa 1880 Source | grand tour imagesAuthor | unattributedOther versions | 1This media file is in the public domain in the United States.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDaughters of the Samurai: 2 of 4: A Journey from East to West and Back Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Janice P. Nimura (Author), Emily Zeller (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Daughters-Samurai-Journey-East-West-dp-B0136E4F7K/dp/B0136E4F7K/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors - Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda - grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco, they became celebrities, their travels and traditional clothing exclaimed over by newspapers across the nation. As they learned English and Western customs, their American friends grew to love them for their high spirits and intellectual brilliance. The passionate relationships they formed reveal an intimate world of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later they returned to Japan - a land grown foreign to them - determined to revolutionize women's education. Based on in-depth archival research in Japan and in the United States, including decades of letters from between the three women and their American host families, Daughters of the Samurai is beautifully, cinematically written, a fascinating lens through which to view an extraordinary historical moment....more

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

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  May 27 2019

  Photo: Tokio JapanDate | between 1868 and 1880 Source | Sotheby'sAuthor | Baron Raimund von Stillfried  (1839–1911)This media file is in the public domain in the United States.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDaughters of the Samurai: 1 of 4: A Journey from East to West and Back Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Janice P. Nimura (Author), Emily Zeller (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Daughters-Samurai-Journey-East-West-dp-B0136E4F7K/dp/B0136E4F7K/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors - Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda - grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco, they became celebrities, their travels and traditional clothing exclaimed over by newspapers across the nation. As they learned English and Western customs, their American friends grew to love them for their high spirits and intellectual brilliance. The passionate relationships they formed reveal an intimate world of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later they returned to Japan - a land grown foreign to them - determined to revolutionize women's education. Based on in-depth archival research in Japan and in the United States, including decades of letters from between the three women and their American host families, Daughters of the Samurai is beautifully, cinematically written, a fascinating lens through which to view an extraordinary historical moment....more

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

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  May 27 2019

  Photo: Asakusa Temple at TokioDigital ID: 110043. Kusakabe, Kimbei -- Photographer. 188-?-189-? Source: Japan. / Kimbei Kusakabe. (more info) Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?110043   Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDaughters of the Samurai: 3 of 4: A Journey from East to West and Back Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Janice P. Nimura (Author), Emily Zeller (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Daughters-Samurai-Journey-East-West-dp-B0136E4F7K/dp/B0136E4F7K/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors - Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda - grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco, they became celebrities, their travels and traditional clothing exclaimed over by newspapers across the nation. As they learned English and Western customs, their American friends grew to love them for their high spirits and intellectual brilliance. The passionate relationships they formed reveal an intimate world of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later they returned to Japan - a land grown foreign to them - determined to revolutionize women's education. Based on in-depth archival research in Japan and in the United States, including decades of letters from between the three women and their American host families, Daughters of the Samurai is beautifully, cinematically written, a fascinating lens through which to view an extraordinary historical moment....more

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

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  May 27 2019

  Photo: OsaiDescription | United States East India Squadron in Tokyo BayDate | circa 1862-1880Medium | watercolor and oil on silkDimensions | 38 cm x 109 cmCollection | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library   Credit line | Courtesy of the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.Inscriptions | Text top rightSource/Photographer | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Libraryhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowDaughters of the Samurai: 4 of 4: A Journey from East to West and Back Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.  Janice P. Nimura (Author), Emily Zeller (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) https://www.amazon.com/Daughters-Samurai-Journey-East-West-dp-B0136E4F7K/dp/B0136E4F7K/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors - Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda - grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco, they became celebrities, their travels and traditional clothing exclaimed over by newspapers across the nation. As they learned English and Western customs, their American friends grew to love them for their high spirits and intellectual brilliance. The passionate relationships they formed reveal an intimate world of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later they returned to Japan - a land grown foreign to them - determined to revolutionize women's education. Based on in-depth archival research in Japan and in the United States, including decades of letters from between the three women and their American host families, Daughters of the Samurai is beautifully, cinematically written, a fascinating lens through which to view an extraordinary historical moment....more

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• The Liberty Bell: 2 of 2 (Icons of America) Hardcover – May 18, 2010. by Gary B. Nash (Author)

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  May 27 2019

  Photo: reminiscences of David Hayfield Conyngham, 1750-1834, a hero of the revolution, and the head of the revolutionary house of Conynngham and Nesbitt, Philadelphia, Pa., with an introductions, biographical sketches, and annotationsYear: 1904 (1900s)Authors:  Conyngham, David Hayfield, 1750-1834 Hayden, Horace Edwin, 1837- (from old catalog)Subjects: Publisher:  Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Printed for the societyContributing 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:uscript ofthe amanuensis becoming much worn by use, was copiedfor the family, and having no further use for it as a manu-script, it was destroyed. The Reminiscences are published now for the first time.As they were written at an advanced age and with no at-tempt at chronological exactness or arrangement, the editorhas made but little effort to change their sequence. In thecopy prepared by the amanuensis they begin with the au-thors visit to Kentucky, 1807, which is here placed at theend, and where it is possible the exact date of an incidenthas been inserted. Mr. Conyngham had five sons and five daughters. He was the father of Hon. Redmond Conyngham ofLancaster, Pa., and of Hon. John Nesbitt Conyngham, LL.D., the eminent President Judge of Luzerne county from1839 to 1870, a distinguished and beloved citizen of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and President of the Wyoming Historical andGeological Society, of which Society his son, Col. John But-ler Conyngham, U. S. V., was one of the Founders, 1858.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Liberty Bell: 2 of 2 (Icons of America) Hardcover – May 18, 2010. by Gary B. Nash  (Author)https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Bell-Icons-America/dp/0300139365/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Each year, more than two million visitors line up near Philadelphia’s Independence Hall and wait to gaze upon a flawed mass of metal forged more than two and a half centuries ago. Since its original casting in England in 1751, the Liberty Bell has survived a precarious journey on the road to becoming a symbol of the American identity, and in this masterful work, Gary B. Nash reveals how and why this voiceless bell continues to speak such volumes about our nation. A serious cultural history rooted in detailed research, Nash’s book explores the impetus behind the bell’s creation, as well as its evolutions in meaning through successive generations. With attention to Pennsylvania’s Quaker roots, he analyzes the biblical passage from Leviticus that provided the bell’s inscription and the valiant efforts of Philadelphia’s unheralded brass founders who attempted to recast the bell after it cracked upon delivery from London’s venerable Whitechapel Foundry. Nash fills in much-needed context surrounding the bell’s role in announcing the Declaration of Independence and recounts the lesser-known histories of its seven later trips around the nation, when it served as a reminder of America’s indomitable spirit in times of conflict. Drawing upon fascinating primary source documents, Nash’s book continues a remarkable dialogue about a symbol of American patriotism second only in importance to the Stars and Stripes....more

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• The Liberty Bell: 1 of 2 (Icons of America) Hardcover – May 18, 2010. by Gary B. Nash (Author)

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  May 27 2019

  Photo:  Annals of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of PennsylvaniaYear: 1887 (1880s)Authors:  Watson, John F. (John Fanning), 1779-1860 Hazard, Willis P. (Willis Pope), 1825-1913Subjects:  Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History Pennsylvania -- History Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customsPublisher:  Philadelphia, E.S. StuartContributing Library:  New York Public LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  MSNText Appearing Before Image:Corporation of Germantown.The then appointed coipoiation to continue in office till the 1st De-cember next ensuing, and from thence until there be a new choiceof other persons to succeed them, according as therein directed.^ The bailiff and the two eldest burgesses for the time being shallbe justices of the peace. The bailiff and the oldest burgesses, andthe recorder for the time being, shall hold and keep one court of re-cord., to be held every six weeks for hearing all civil causes accordingto the laws of the province. And also to hold and to )s.ee\) a marketevery sixth day, in such places as the provincial charter doth direct.^(Recoided at Philadelphia, 13th 3d month, 1691.) The government of Germantown began the 6lh of 8mo. 1691,and terminated 25lh of 12tli mo. 1706-7, being fifteen years. The borough and court records of Germantown were ordered tothe Recoiders office in Philadelphia, by an act of the General As-•*enihly in 1769. From those records I have extracted the followinghttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow The Liberty Bell: 1 of 2 (Icons of America) Hardcover – May 18, 2010. by Gary B. Nash  (Author)https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Bell-Icons-America/dp/0300139365/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Each year, more than two million visitors line up near Philadelphia’s Independence Hall and wait to gaze upon a flawed mass of metal forged more than two and a half centuries ago. Since its original casting in England in 1751, the Liberty Bell has survived a precarious journey on the road to becoming a symbol of the American identity, and in this masterful work, Gary B. Nash reveals how and why this voiceless bell continues to speak such volumes about our nation. A serious cultural history rooted in detailed research, Nash’s book explores the impetus behind the bell’s creation, as well as its evolutions in meaning through successive generations. With attention to Pennsylvania’s Quaker roots, he analyzes the biblical passage from Leviticus that provided the bell’s inscription and the valiant efforts of Philadelphia’s unheralded brass founders who attempted to recast the bell after it cracked upon delivery from London’s venerable Whitechapel Foundry. Nash fills in much-needed context surrounding the bell’s role in announcing the Declaration of Independence and recounts the lesser-known histories of its seven later trips around the nation, when it served as a reminder of America’s indomitable spirit in times of conflict. Drawing upon fascinating primary source documents, Nash’s book continues a remarkable dialogue about a symbol of American patriotism second only in importance to the Stars and Stripes....more

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• The College Board "Adversity Index" and the despair of Liberal Educators. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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  May 26 2019

  Photo: Plano High School's first football team, 1900.Date | Source | Obtained from Frances Wells Collection, Texana Collection, Gladys Harrington Library, Plano Public Library System, Plano, Texas, USA.Author | Frances Wells Collection | This media file is in the public domain in the United States. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe College Board "Adversity Index" and the despair of Liberal Educators. @DanHenninger @WSJOpinionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/the-college-admissions-mess-11558565047?emailToken=361612ecff6591b7fdf724e81b5639d8mliMyz0acSGs7MmsTuwYiKofvgBuZ4IKRptOTKt146mI5bD7Xw4eb8V9ND8dqQgn7BoP+jcFiuEOH9WDcc8PTA%3D%3D&reflink=article_copyURL_share ...more

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• The Third Horseman: 1 of 4: A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot" by William Rosen.

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  May 26 2019

  Photo: From the Apocalypse in a Biblia Pauperum illuminated at Erfurt around the time of the Great Famine. Death sits astride a manticore whose long tail ends in a ball of flame (Hell). Famine points to her hungry mouth.Scanned (by me) from the cover of The Great Famine (1996) by William Chester Jordan. Original cover art from a photograph courtesy of Stiftung Weimarer Klassik, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek. - Own work From the Apocalypse in a Biblia Pauperum illuminated at Erfurt around the time of the Great Famine of 1315–1317. Death ("Mors") sits astride a lion whose long tail ends in a ball of flame (Hell). Famine ("Fames") points to her hungry mouth. Public Domain File:Great famine.jpg Created: 1315—1317 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Third Horseman: 1 of 4:  A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot" by William Rosen.https://www.amazon.com/Third-Horseman-Weather-Famine-History/dp/0143127144/ref=laB001ILIG3S1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483060218&sr=1-3 “A kink in Europe’s climate during the fourteenth century indirectly triggered a seven-year cataclysm that left six million dead, William Rosen reveals in this rich interweaving of agronomy, meteorology, economics and history.... Rosen deftly delineates the backstory and the perfect storm of heavy rains, hard winters, livestock epidemics, and war leading to the catastrophe.” --Nature“Rosen is a terrific storyteller and engaging stylist; his vigorous recaps of famous battles and sketches of various colorful characters will entertain readers not unduly preoccupied by thematic rigor.... Rosen’s principal goal, however, is not to horrify us, but to make us think.... While vividly re-creating a bygone civilization, he invites us to look beyond our significant but ultimately superficial differences and recognize that we too live in fragile equilibrium with the natural world whose resources we recklessly exploit, and that like our medieval forebears we may well be vulnerable to ‘a sudden shift in the weather.’” —The Daily Beast ...more

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• The Third Horseman: 2 of 4: A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot" by William Rosen.

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  May 26 2019

  Photo: Europe in 1328View author information Public Domain File:Europe in 1328.png http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Third Horseman: 2 of 4:  A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot" by William Rosen.https://www.amazon.com/Third-Horseman-Weather-Famine-History/dp/0143127144/ref=laB001ILIG3S1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483060218&sr=1-3 “A kink in Europe’s climate during the fourteenth century indirectly triggered a seven-year cataclysm that left six million dead, William Rosen reveals in this rich interweaving of agronomy, meteorology, economics and history.... Rosen deftly delineates the backstory and the perfect storm of heavy rains, hard winters, livestock epidemics, and war leading to the catastrophe.” --Nature“Rosen is a terrific storyteller and engaging stylist; his vigorous recaps of famous battles and sketches of various colorful characters will entertain readers not unduly preoccupied by thematic rigor.... Rosen’s principal goal, however, is not to horrify us, but to make us think.... While vividly re-creating a bygone civilization, he invites us to look beyond our significant but ultimately superficial differences and recognize that we too live in fragile equilibrium with the natural world whose resources we recklessly exploit, and that like our medieval forebears we may well be vulnerable to ‘a sudden shift in the weather.’” —The Daily Beast ...more

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• The Third Horseman: 3 of 4: A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot" by William Rosen.

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  May 26 2019

  Photo:The peasants preparing the fields for the winter with a harrow and sowing for the winter grain, from The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry, c. 1410View author information Public Domain File:Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry octobre detail.jpg Uploaded: 18 June 2012  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Third Horseman: 3 of 4:  A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot" by William Rosen.https://www.amazon.com/Third-Horseman-Weather-Famine-History/dp/0143127144/ref=laB001ILIG3S1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483060218&sr=1-3 “A kink in Europe’s climate during the fourteenth century indirectly triggered a seven-year cataclysm that left six million dead, William Rosen reveals in this rich interweaving of agronomy, meteorology, economics and history.... Rosen deftly delineates the backstory and the perfect storm of heavy rains, hard winters, livestock epidemics, and war leading to the catastrophe.” --Nature“Rosen is a terrific storyteller and engaging stylist; his vigorous recaps of famous battles and sketches of various colorful characters will entertain readers not unduly preoccupied by thematic rigor.... Rosen’s principal goal, however, is not to horrify us, but to make us think.... While vividly re-creating a bygone civilization, he invites us to look beyond our significant but ultimately superficial differences and recognize that we too live in fragile equilibrium with the natural world whose resources we recklessly exploit, and that like our medieval forebears we may well be vulnerable to ‘a sudden shift in the weather.’” —The Daily Beast ...more

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• The Third Horseman: 4 of 4: A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot" by William Rosen.

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  May 26 2019

  Photo: Citizens of Tournai bury plague victims.Pierart dou Tielt (fl. 1340-1360) - http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=X004175&objnr=20049662 Miniature by Pierart dou Tielt illustrating the Tractatus quartus bu Gilles li Muisit (Tournai, c. 1353). The people of Tournai bury victims of the Black Death. ms. 13076 - 13077 fol. 24v. Public Domain File:Doutielt3.jpg Created: circa 1353 date QS:P,+1353-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Third Horseman: 4 of 4:  A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot" by William Rosen.https://www.amazon.com/Third-Horseman-Weather-Famine-History/dp/0143127144/ref=laB001ILIG3S1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483060218&sr=1-3 “A kink in Europe’s climate during the fourteenth century indirectly triggered a seven-year cataclysm that left six million dead, William Rosen reveals in this rich interweaving of agronomy, meteorology, economics and history.... Rosen deftly delineates the backstory and the perfect storm of heavy rains, hard winters, livestock epidemics, and war leading to the catastrophe.” --Nature“Rosen is a terrific storyteller and engaging stylist; his vigorous recaps of famous battles and sketches of various colorful characters will entertain readers not unduly preoccupied by thematic rigor.... Rosen’s principal goal, however, is not to horrify us, but to make us think.... While vividly re-creating a bygone civilization, he invites us to look beyond our significant but ultimately superficial differences and recognize that we too live in fragile equilibrium with the natural world whose resources we recklessly exploit, and that like our medieval forebears we may well be vulnerable to ‘a sudden shift in the weather.’” —The Daily Beast ...more

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• "Small business owners in America are old." @GeneMarks.

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  May 26 2019

  Photo: "Fifth Avenue in New York City on Easter Sunday in 1900"Date | Ostersonntag 1900Source | National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Bureau of Public Roads (30-N-18827) [VENDOR # 11]Author | UnknownPermission(Reusing this file) |  | This work is in the public domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow"Small business owners in America are old." @GeneMarks.https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/16/americas-small-business-owners-older-people ...more

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• Americans credit Trump with the booming economy. @GeneMarks

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  May 26 2019

  Photo:  Homeric games at ancient St. Andrews; an epyllium. Edited from a comparatively modern papyrus and shattered by means of the higher criticismYear: 1911 (1910s)Authors:  Shewan, Alexander, 1851-Subjects:  HomerPublisher:  Edinburgh J. ThinContributing 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:ities in the language andverse. So the critics will condemn the close, from 553 on, as they dothe end of the Doloneia, because every single detail is not clearlystated, regardless of the fact that modern writers, as Shakespeare,Scott and others give us unsatisfactory and even muddled conclusions.I fear the result of all our excisions is to leave little of any worth.It is always the way, if one listens, as of course one ought, to thepromptings of the Higher Criticism. — KOKKivo-)(\a.i.viijv is a veryun-Hellenic note. We can hardly imagine the Greeks clothing theiryoung men in scarlet gowns. 556. This among themselves, es ■K\y)<s(ov aWoi, after the delinquentshave disappeared.—dKOGLa^irai, a very difificult word, not found else-where. It is evidently on the model of Tr€fx.Trd.^o/xat, Od. iv. 412, tocount by fives. It is doubtless a relic of a primitive vigesimalsystem of counting. Possibly the expression is from some cardgame, at which a player marked 20, as we mark the King.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowAmericans credit Trump with the booming economy. @GeneMarks Americans feel good about economy and give Trump credithttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-feel-good-about-economy-and-give-trump-credit-cbs-news-poll/...more

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• Why did Crowdstrike wait from May 6 to June 10 to report Russian interference at the DNC? Larry Johnson Sic Semper Tyrannis

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  May 26 2019

  Photo: Squad of police clearing the streets before taking out the first Lindell Car during the Streetcar Strike of 1900, 10 May 1900.Date | 1900Source | Missouri History MuseumURL: http://images.mohistory.org/image/D12805ED-8042-3562-ADA7-F01013F6E519/original.jpgGallery: http://collections.mohistory.org/resource/145236Author | UnknownPermission(Reusing this file) | UND - Copyright undeterminedMHS Open Access Policy: You are welcome to download and utilize any digital file that the Missouri Historical believes is likely in the public domain or is free of other known restrictions. This content is available free of charge and may be used without seeking permission from the Missouri Historical Society.Identifier | N34159Part of | Transportation- Street Cars; Leslie S. Merrell CollectionSubjects | TransportationResource | 145236GUID | D12805ED-8042-3562-ADA7-F01013F6E519This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhy did Crowdstrike wait from May 6 to June 10 to report Russian interference at the DNC? Larry Johnson Sic Semper Tyrannishttps://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2019/05/the-campaign-to-paint-trump-as-a-russian-stooge-started-on-may-4-2016-by-larry-c-johnson.html ...more

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• Why the Fincantieri FREMM is a leading candidate for the new USN frigate. Tyler Rogoway @TheWarZone

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  May 26 2019

  Photo: Capture of HMS Sybille capturing the Chiffone Thomas Sutherland (engraver), Thoams Whitcombe (artist) - NMM [1] Permission details This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.  Public Domainview terms File:Sybille vs Chiffone-cropped.jpg Created: 1 May 1816 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhy the Fincantieri FREMM is a leading candidate for the  new USN frigate. Tyler Rogoway @TheWarZonehttps://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27853/behold-italys-fremm-frigate-in-the-u-s-navys-ffgx-future-frigate-configuration ...more

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• USAF uses a B-2 to show Iran the GBU57 Bunker Buster. Tyler Rogoeway @TheWarZone

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  May 26 2019

  Photo: USAAF B-17 damaged by mis-timed bomb release over Berlin, 19 May 1944. Unknown or not provided - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Public Domain File:United States bombing raid over a German city - NARA - 197269.jpg Created: 19 May 1944date QS:P571,+1944-05-19T00:00:00Z/11 Location: 51° 30′ 0″ N, 10° 30′ 0″ E http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowUSAF uses a B-2 to show Iran the GBU57 Bunker Buster. Tyler Rogoeway @TheWarZonehttps://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28076/new-video-of-b-2-bomber-dropping-mother-of-all-bunker-busters-sends-ominous-message ...more

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• Pacific Watch: California homeless are increasingly young, Zombie-like drug addicts. Jeff Bliss

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  May 25 2019

  Photo: George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead is considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture.Direction and cinematography both by George A. Romero - Screenshot from timeinc.net Zombies as portrayed in the movie Night of the Living Dead Permission details Public domainView more Public Domainview terms File:Zombies NightoftheLivingDead.jpg Created: The film was released in 1968 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPacific Watch: California homeless are increasingly young, Zombie-like drug addicts. Jeff Blisshttps://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-safe-injection-sites-opioid-drug-abuse-bill-20190523-story.html ...more

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• New American Civil War: Hollywood Othering of Red America and Democratic Othering of POTUS. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisis

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  May 25 2019

  Photo:  Panoramic view of Hollywood circa 1900, looking north from Ardmore Hill toward a farmhouse and windmill. Fences and trees mark the boundaries of fields. A church and a few houses are seen in the distance.Date | circa 1900 Source | http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/DoSearch?databaseID=968&index=w&terms=00071589Author | Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946.This media file is in the public domain in the United States. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNew American Civil War: Hollywood Othering of Red America and Democratic Othering of POTUS. Michael Vlahos @JHUWorldCrisishttps://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/hollywood-agonizes-over-dramatizing-trump ...more

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• #TheScalaReport. The US is the super-power of software: Red China's Huawei failed to find a Plan B. Ninety days till the end of Huawei's access to Google's app store. Xi is out of poker chips. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com

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  May 25 2019

  Photo:  Seeing San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley .. Year: 1904 (1900s)  [San Jose] Contributing Library:  The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:  The Library of Congress   Text Appearing After Image:Hotel Lyndon, Los Gatos.— Photo Mrs. Hare. Copyrighted. fiokl Lyndon, Los Gatos, Cal This modern and up-to-date hostlery is most beautifully locatedin the Gem City of the Santa Cruz foothills, properly namedSwitzerland of America. The climate is as near perfect as canbe had; no fogs. Hotel Lyndon is a delightful winter and sum-mer resort for tourists, equipped with all modern improvements.Conducted on the American plan. Also elegant grill room con-nected with the hotel. Kates: $2.$o by the day,- $17-50, $u and $12 by the week N© CONSUMPTIVES aee©MM0DaTED. Located opposite depot of Southern Pacific, where twelvebroad and narrow gauge trains arrive daily; also half-hour serviceof the San Jose, Los Gatos Interurban Electric Railway. J- P. MOGENSON,- PROPRIETOR. [37] Los Gatos, Gem City of the Santa Cruz Foothills. In the western portion of the far-famed SantaLocation Clara Valley, in the County of Santa Clara, about midway between its northern and south-ern boundaries, nestling in pi http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShow#TheScalaReport. The US is the super-power of software: Red China's Huawei failed to find a Plan B.  Ninety days till the end of Huawei's access to Google's app store. Xi is out of poker chips.  Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE @ScalaInchttps://www.cnn.com/2019/05/24/tech/donald-trump-huawei-ban/index.html ...more

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• Learning to understand and trade the most liquid of all, the Foreign Exchange Market, or FOREX. @WarnerDollar https://www.tradingacademy.com

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  May 25 2019

  Photo: Greater New York illustrated : over one hundred and fifty photographic views of the foremost city of the western hemisphere.Year: 1907 (1900s)Authors:  Rand McNally and CompanySubjects: Publisher:  Chicago : Rand, McNally & Co.Contributing Library:  Columbia University LibrariesDigitizing Sponsor:  The Durst OrganizationDate | 1907This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as: The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired; http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowLearning to understand and trade the most liquid of all, the Foreign Exchange Market, or FOREX David Warner. @WarnerDollar  https://www.tradingacademy.comhttps://www.tradingacademy.comShort-term income. Long-term wealth. And everything in between. Our students learn how professionals make money in the markets by gaining lifetime access to our classes, tools, resources, and online learning sessions, plus: A step-by-step approach to trading and investing Practice trading with our money in our Core Strategy Class 40 worldwide campuses and 24/7 online education 140 expert instructors providing expert instruction ...more

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• Barr takes command of Spygate. @DevinNunes R-Tulare, Ranking House Intelligence Committee.

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  May 25 2019

  Photo: 1931 demolition of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow in order to make way for the Palace of the Soviets View author information Public Domain File:Christ saviour explosion.jpg Uploaded: 13 May 2010 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowBarr takes command of Spygate. @DevinNunes R-Tulare, Ranking House Intelligence Committee.

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• California's middle-class exit from a state ruled by the 1% and Sacramento's Democratic Super-Majority. @DevinNunes R-Tulare

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  May 25 2019

  Photo:Hotel del Coronado by William Henry Jackson, c. 1900 William Henry Jackson - Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, California (LC-USZC4-3100 ) Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, California photochrom print rephotographed on slide film for preservation purposes Public Domain File:Hotel Del c1900b.jpg Created: circa 1900 date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCalifornia's middle-class exit from a state ruled by the 1% and Sacramento's Democratic Super-Majority. @DevinNunes  R-Tulare ...more

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• Israel's ally Modi of India wins a big re-election. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  May 25 2019

  Photo:  Washermen in India, 1900sDate | Source | http://in.news.yahoo.com/photos/exquisite-hundred-year-old-photos-of-british-raj-discovered-in-a-shoe-box-slideshow/exquisite-hundred-year-old-photos-of-british-raj-discovered-in-a-shoe-box-photo-1336556192.htmlAuthor | Unknown | This work is in the public domain in India b http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowIsrael's ally Modi of India wins a big re-election. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres ...more

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• German declares BDS is anti-semtism. @BenWeinthal @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  May 25 2019

  Photo:  Waisenbrücke that connects Old Berlin and Neukölln-on-the-water. The building on the right side is the orphanage.Date | circa 1880 Source | Berlin state archivesAuthor | Friedrich Albert SchwartzPermission(Reusing this file) | Public domain  Camera location | 52° 30′ 52″  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowGerman declares BDS is anti-semtism.  @BenWeinthal @FDD Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres European Affairs Correspondent at The Jerusalem Post. Research Fellow @FDD.  ...more

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• The price of crude oil hangs on the world economy not ominous headlines from the Gulf.@ProfBShaffer Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  May 25 2019

  Photo: Oil drilling operations in Los Angeles, 1905Unknown photographer - The New International Encyclopædia, v. 15, 1905, “Petroleum,” facing p. 666 (top). Oil wells at Los Angeles, California. Public Domain File:NIE 1905 Petroleum - oil wells at Los Angeles.jpg Created: published 1905 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe price of crude oil hangs on the world economy not ominous headlines from the Gulf.@ProfBShaffer Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres Prof. Brenda Shaffer is a specialist on international energy, Middle East, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Caspian energy, and the East-Med. Passion-mountain gorillas. ...more

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• Red China deceives and promises and deceives about fentanyl. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost

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  May 25 2019

  Photo: William Daniell's c. 1805 View of the Canton Factories: Until 1842, foreigners "from the Southern Sea" were required to live in Macao or the ships of the Pazhou ("Whampoa") anchorage; even bonded traders were restricted to the Thirteen Factoriestrading ghetto in Guangzhou (then romanized as "Canton"). Travel outside these areas was forbidden. Foreign women were permitted only on Macao. William Daniell - http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=ZBA1291 Canton City (Guangzhou) — with the Pearl River and the several of the Thirteen Factories of the Europeans. Public Domain File:View of Canton factories 2.jpg Created: 1805–10 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRed China deceives and promises and deceives about fentanyl. @JoshRogin @WashingtonPost https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/23/us-shouldnt-take-china-its-word-fentanyl/?utm_term=.ba5f6bf6b79a...more

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• The unknown Kushner plan for Middle East Peace is rejected uniformly by the Palestinians. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @RobSatloff @WashInstitute

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  May 25 2019

  Photo: http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe unknown Kushner plan for Middle East Peace is rejected uniformly by the Palestinians. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @RobSatloff @WashInstitute

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• Obamacare failed and Medicare-for-all is future failure. Scott Atlas @HooverInst @SWAtlasHoover

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  May 25 2019

  Photo: Coolgardie Hospital, W.A. - circa 1900http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowObamacare failed and Medicare-for-all is future failure. Scott Atlas @HooverInst @SWAtlasHoover https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/22/the-conservative-case-for-health-care/

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• What does Russia want in the EU elections? @AnnaBorsch @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  May 24 2019

  Photo:  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 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:as it may be before long.Moreover, it runs through such a fever-haunted district that Rus-sian carpenters, who can earn two roubles a day on it, throw upthe job and go back to earn fifty kopecks at home. The line is * This line has since been prolonged a few miles to Chahel Dokhteran, on the veryfrontier, and a branch is building through Penjdeh to Maruchak, where the MurghabRiver crosses the frontier. THE TRANS-CASPIAN RAILWAY 241 simply a deliberate military measure against Great Britain. Itserves at present only the purpose of facilitating the invasion ofIndia, or rather of enabling Russia to squeeze England by pre-tending to prepare the first steps of an invasion of India, when-ever such a pretence may facilitate her diplomacy in Europe.In simple truth, it places Herat at her mercy. The Merv-Kushkline, I may add, is now completed, and two regular trains a weekrun over it, at the rate of something less than ten miles anhour, reaching the Afghan frontier terminus in eighteen hourshttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat does Russia want in the EU elections? @AnnaBorsch @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres...more

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• Tehran comprehends that the US will not attack with carriers in the Gulf. @MichaelRubin1971

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  May 24 2019

  Photo: arabian GulfNASA - https://earthobservatoryasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8354 Public Domain File:PersianGulf vue satellite du golfe persique.jpg Uploaded: 6 February 2008 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTehran comprehends that the US will not attack with carriers in the Gulf. @MichaelRubin1971 https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinians-officially-refuse-invitation-to-us-economic-peace-summit-in-bahrain/ ·       https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/jared-kushners-peace-plan-would-be-a-disaster ·       https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/05/22/trump-kushner-peace-plan-looks-doomed-already/?utm_term=.411ff3cce8bf ·       https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/what-s-new-and-what-s-not-in-the-kushner-middle-east-peace-plan ...more

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• Roe v. Wade stands. @RichardAEpstein

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  May 24 2019

  Photo: Official Picture of Justice Harry A. Blackmun Source: [1] | This work is in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRoe v. Wade stands. @RichardAEpsteinhttps://www.hoover.org/research/defense-abortions-messy-status-quo

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• Waiting for Mueller in the Impeachment Dance. @RichardAEpstein

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  May 24 2019

  Photo: Restoration by [[User:]]: High Bridge, New York City, 1900Author | Detroit Publishing Co. Camera location | 40° 50′ 30″ N, 73° 55′ 36″ W    | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth | Licensing | This work is in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWaiting for Mueller in the Impeachment Dance. @RichardAEpstein https://www.wsj.com/articles/pelosi-holds-meeting-amid-more-calls-for-impeachment-proceedings-against-trump-11558533354?emailToken=bf97d5f32cf98844457bcb9467d55dc4yR3hTLnlyJSfF71UfGx+vub72VsWRLTVhQW0hEf7xFGcvxAg9PGy6h0dunZhNKZCSmy+AdIEQ+MdSkbB06YG+OFxx5kSilLOFPh5vYoLyzk0B8Dx40wlWOPkpAlNQdlcmOrZtCeeZ2v7nDWjUczhuw%3D%3D&reflink=article_copyURL_share...more

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• Winning the China Trade. @SebGorka

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  May 24 2019

  Photo: The gardens of the American factory at Guangzhou c. 1845Unknown Chinese artist - http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_04/gallery_places/pages/cwC_1844-45_E82881_Garden.htm View of the American Garden, Canton, China, 1844–45. Public Domain File:The American Garden.jpg Created: 1844–45 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWinning the China Trade. @SebGorka

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• Impeachment Dancing. @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  May 24 2019

  Photo: Children maypole dancing, 1900-1910  Location: Queensland  Description: Children's group maypole dancing, 1900-1910. Girls stand in a circle around the pole and hold the ribbon streamers. They wear headgear, dresses, stockings and shoes. Two of the three girls sitting at the centre of the pole have flowers in their hair and hold baskets of flowers. A wreath hangs from the pole above their heads. A man sits and play the accordion to the right. Children are lined up against the fence and look on. Trees are visible in the background. View this page at the State Library of Queensland: hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/137235 Information about State Library of Queensland?s collection: pictureqld.slq.qld.gov.au/ http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowImpeachment Dancing.  @SebGorka #AmericaFirst ...more

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• Kim regime uses the famine weapon to win concessions. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @DavidMaxwell161 @FDD

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  May 24 2019

  Photo: A prince's tomb. Korea c.1900; p.555. The passing of Korea (book)Date | 20 July 2010, 12:55 (UTC)Source | The_passing_of_Korea.djvuAuthor | The_passing_of_Korea.djvu: Homer Hulbert.Original uploader was Ryuch at en.wikisourcederivative work:  — billinghurst sDrewthPermission(Reusing this file) |  | This work is in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowKim regime uses the famine weapon to win concessions. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @DavidMaxwell161 @FDD...more

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• The "war" metaphor in public policy is always an advantage to the White House. David Davenport @HooverInst

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  May 24 2019

  Photo: "The [Franco-Prussian] War: French National Guards, Gardes Mobiles, Pompiers, and Volunteers."Español: Guerra Franco-prusiana de 1870: guardias, soldados y voluntarios franceses.Français : Illustration de « La guerre franco-allemande de 1870 : gardes nationaux, gardes mobiles, pompiers et soldats volontaires français. » parue le 3 septembre 1870 dans un journal londonnien.Magyar: „A francia-porosz háború: francia nemzeti gárdisták, mobil gárdisták, tűzoltók és önkéntesek.”Íslenska: Franskir hermenn, þjóðvarðliðar og sjálfboðaliðar í fransk-prússneska stríðinu 1870.Italiano: Guerra franco-prussiana: Guardia Nazionale Francese, Gardes Mobiles, Pompieri e Volontari.Nederlands: "De Frans-Pruisische Oorlog: Franse Gardes nationaux, Gardes mobiles, Pompiers en vrijwilligers"Português: Guerra franco-prussiana de 1870: guardas, soldados e voluntários franceses.Română: "Războiul franco-prusac: Garda Naţională Franceză, Gărzile Mobile, Pompierii şi Voluntarii."Svenska: Franska nationalgardister, soldater och frivilliga från Fransk-tyska kriget 1870.中文（简体）‎: 1870年普法战争期间法国的国民卫队、别动队、消防队员和志愿兵。中文（繁體）‎: 1870年普法戰爭期間的法國國民衛隊、移動衛隊、消防隊員和志願兵Date | 3 September 1870Source | Illustrated London NewsAuthor | Mr. Landells? (See the text in Image:Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia - Illustrated London News August 20, 1870.PNG, which mentions a Mr. Landells as at least one of the Special Artists for the Illustrated London News in France at the time.)Permission(Reusing this file) | N/A  | This work is in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe "war" metaphor in public policy is always an advantage to the White House. David Davenport @HooverInsthttps://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/War-is-the-new-normal-in-Washington-13854660.php?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=8f5193b9d0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_20_05_56&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-8f5193b9d0-72527561&psid=6j2Cw ...more

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• Nigeria falls into a failed state. Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs

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  May 24 2019

  Photo: Church of Scotland Slide and Visual Collection. Calabar Church and Industry (CSWC47-LS9)Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.ukDate created: 1900/1910Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. LibrariesSubject (aat genre): exterior viewsFormat (aat): lantern slides; photographsGeographic subject (state): Cross RiverAccess conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resourcesGeographic subject: religious facilitiesFile: CSWC47/LS9/60Subject (lcsh): Church; Presbyterian churchDate | 1900/1910 (date created)http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNigeria falls into a failed state. Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs ...more

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• The Australian rejection of climate change taxes. Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  May 24 2019

  Photo: Meal break for teamsters and horsesAuthor | Powerhouse Museum from Sydney, Australia | This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Australian rejection of climate change taxes. Gregory Copley Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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• Joe Biden rallies in the booming energy economy of Pennsylvania. @SalenaZito

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  May 24 2019

  Photo:  Report of the Bureau of Mines of the Department of Internal Affairs of PennsylvaniaYear: 1900 (1900s)Authors:  Pennsylvania. Bureau of MinesSubjects:  Pennsylvania. Bureau of Mines Coal mines and miningPublisher:  (Harrisburg) : The BureauContributing Library:  The University of Scranton Weinberg Memorial LibraryDigitizing Sponsor:  Lyrasis Members and 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:ire. There were forty loaded cars immediately at thebottom of the shaft, and knowing that a large number of men wouldbe in the mine at the time, he, with a force of men that had collectedb3 that time, entered the mine from the slope, which is six hundredfeet from the shaft, and is used as a man-waj^ and for part of the inletof air. When he arrived at the bottom of the shaft he found thebottom in flames, also some of the mine cars loaded with coal, and,knowing that the fire had destroyed the boiler power, rendering steampumps useless, a bucket brigade was formed and hand pumps jmt towork, realizing that if he could hold the fire in check until the partition between the down-cast and up-cast shaft were burned out, thenthe whole would be up-cast, and he could »ave the mine. He, at thesame time, sent trusty men to call all men in the workings out of themine, and in possibly thirty minutes the lining was burned, and botiiopenings became up-cast. He then directed that all air be cut off athttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowJoe Biden rallies in the booming energy economy of Pennsylvania. @SalenaZito ...more

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• The other end of the Potomac River is happy. @SalenaZito @WashingtonExaminer

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  May 24 2019

  Photo: Cabin John Bridge, Potomac River, Washington, D.C.Description | English: Union Arch Bridge, a.k.a. Cabin John Bridge, spanning Cabin John Creek, Montgomery County, Maryland. (Note: Originial title indicating Washington, D.C. is incorrect.)Date | [c 1900.]Medium | 1 negative : glass, wet collodionDimensions | 8 x 10Accession number | LC-D4-13028 (b&w glass neg.)Call Number: LC-D4-13028 <P&P> [P&P]Notes | Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901).Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013028.Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.Source | | This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID det.4a08521.http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe other end of the Potomac River is happy.  @SalenaZito @WashingtonExaminer...more

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• Red China is not tomorrow's world hegemon. @VDHanson @HooverInst @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 23 2019

  Photo:  Nanjing Road, Shanghai, in Late Qing period.中文（繁體）‎: 清末时期上海的南京路Date | 1900s Source | 历史与社会教学论坛 [1]Author | UnknownPermission(Reusing this file) |  | This work is in the public domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRed China is not tomorrow's world hegemon. @VDHanson @HooverInst @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast https://www.hoover.org/news/victor-davis-hanson-us-china-confrontation-will-define-global-order

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• House Democrats choose Federal judges to harry the White House. @adamjwhitedc @HooverInst

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  May 23 2019

  Photo: U.S. Courthouse, Chicago, IllinoisFJC. - FJC, http://www.fjc.gov/history/courthouses.nsf/lookup/IL-Chicago_1905_Ref.jpg/$file/IL-Chicago_1905_Ref.jpg Permission details Public DomainView more Public Domainview terms File:Chicago Federal Court, 1961.jpg Created: 31 December 1960 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowHouse Democrats choose Federal judges to harry the White House. @adamjwhitedc @HooverInsthttps://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/don-mcghan-argument-for-compelling-testimony-is-uncompelling/ ...more

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• Note Mars: Bezos on the Moon 2024. William Harwood @CBS_spacenews David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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  May 23 2019

  Photo: Three crewmembers work in the area of the lunar lander on the lunar surface in this NASA artist’s rendering.Image Credit: NASAhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowNote Mars: Bezos on the Moon 2024. William Harwood @CBS_spacenews David Livingston, SpaceShow.comhttps://www.theverge.com/2019/5/9/18550258/blue-origin-moon-lunar-lander-jeff-bezos-space

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• South Korea chooses appeasing Kim over prosperity. Tara O, Korean-American Studies @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 23 2019

  Photo:  Residence of the American Consul-General, Seoul, c.1900; p.573. The passing of Korea (book)Date | 20 July 2010, 12:55 (UTC)Source | The_passing_of_Korea.djvuAuthor | The_passing_of_Korea.djvu: Homer Hulbert.The original uploader was Ryuch at English Wikisource.derivative work:  — billinghurst sDrewthPermission(Reusing this file) |  | This work is in the public domainhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSouth Korea chooses appeasing Kim over prosperity. Tara O,  Korean-American Studies @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast Tara O, adjunct fellow at the Pacific Forum and fellow at the Institute for Corean-American Studies, ratings:https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/27830/as-south-korea-s-economy-sputters-moon-needs-a-breakthrough-with-north-korea ...more

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• Trudeau steps back from appeasement of Red China. Charles Burton, Brock University

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  May 23 2019

  Photo: Windsor Station, Montreal, Canada.Français : Gare Windsor, Montréal, Canada.Date | circa/vers 1900Source | | This image is available from the McCord Museum under the access number VIEW-3364 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.Deutsch | English | español | français | galego | македонски | suomi |  +/−Author | Wm. Notman and SonPermission(Reusing this file) |  | This Canadian work is in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowTrudeau steps back from appeasement of Red China. Charles Burton, Brock UniversityCharles Burton, professor at Brock University.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-huawei-tech-meng/huawei-cfo-house-arrest-contrasts-with-canadians-detained-in-china-idUSKCN1SQ0C3...more

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• What does Modi of India mean for the US? @CleoPaskal @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast

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  May 23 2019

  Photo: Pondicherry waterfront circa 19001903 print. Reproduction of an albumen photograph by Bourne & Shepherd Studio taken in 1890. - http://www.ebay.com/itm/1903-Print-Pondicherry-Puducherry-India-Birds-Eye-View-Cityscape-Historic-Image-/310544142908?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item484ddf923c Waterfront of Pondicherry, French India. In the foreground: Dupleix Park, with statue of Dupleix on the right. 1903 print of an 1890 photograph. Public Domain File:Pondicherry waterfront 1900.jpg Created: 22 December 2012 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowWhat does Modi of India mean for the US? @CleoPaskal @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast Cleo Paskal, visiting Trudeau Fellow, University of Montreal, and associate fellow, Chatham House:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48347081...more

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• Caspian Sea Basin natural gas is an answer to Russian bad acting. @RobertMcutler @Carleton

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  May 23 2019

  Photo: Illustration of two Caspian tigers, extinct in the region since the 1970s.Unknown - http://www.50birds.com/extan/gextanimals1.htm Turanian Tiger, Caspian Tiger Caspian Tigers lived in China, Tajikistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey. They were hunted for their furs and to protect livestock. A ban on hunting the Caspian Tiger in the USSR in 1947 followed their greatest destruction in the 1930s. The last Caspian Tiger reported shot was in 1957. Public Domain File:Extantigerturanianwksciam97.jpg Created: All images on the site are at least PD-US.[1] http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowCaspian Sea Basin natural gas is an answer to Russian bad acting. @RobertMcutler @CarletonTRANS-CASPIAN PIPELINE AND AZERBAIJAN&gt; -----------------------------------------------&gt; 1. U.S. ELITE FOREIGN POLICY OPINION SHIFTING IN FAVOR OF TRANS-CASPIAN &gt;    PIPELINE TO AZERBAIJAN&gt;    https://nationalinterest.org/feature/trans-caspian-gas-pipeline-start-small-aim-big-58012&gt; &gt; 2. AZERBAIJANI SOCAR BOOSTS ITS OPERATIONS WITHIN THE CASPIAN SEA &gt;    REGION AND BEYOND [Umid deposit exploration well w/BP]&gt;    https://world-news-monitor.com/energy/oil/2019/05/15/azerbaijani-socar-boosts-its-operations-within-the-caspian-sea-region-and-beyond/&gt; &gt; ======================================================================&gt; -----------------------------------------------&gt; RUSSIAN OIL CONTAMINATION&gt; -----------------------------------------------&gt; 1. OIL SUPPLIES TO POLAND VIA DRUZHBA PIPELINE TO BEGIN ON MAY 20 [AND &gt;    SLOVAKIA A FEW DAYS LATER]&gt;    https://world-news-monitor.com/energy/oil/2019/05/19/oil-supplies-to-poland-via-druzhba-pipeline-to-begin-on-may-20/&gt; &gt; 2. MINSK WILL INSIST ON COMPENSATION FOR DIRECT AND INDIRECT LOSSES DUE &gt;    TO POOR-QUALITY RUSSIAN OIL&gt;    https://world-news-monitor.com/energy/oil/2019/05/17/minsk-will-insist-on-compensation-for-direct-and-indirect-losses-due-to-poor-quality-russian-oil-2/&gt; &gt; 3. KAZAKHSTAN TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM TRANSNEFT FOR TAINTED OIL LOADED IN &gt;    UST-LUGA&gt;    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-oil-kazakhstan-exclusive/exclusive-kazakhstan-to-seek-damages-from-transneft-for-tainted-oil-loaded-in-ust-luga-idUSKCN1SN0RV&gt; &gt; 4. UKRAINE TO PUMP CONTAMINATED OIL TO HUNGARY, SLOVAKIA WITHIN 4-6 &gt;    MONTHS&gt;    https://world-news-monitor.com/energy/oil/2019/05/14/reuters-ukraine-to-pump-contaminated-oil-to-hungary-slovakia-within-4-6-months/&gt; &gt; 5. BELARUSIAN REFINERY STARTS CHARGING PENALTIES FOR SHORT SUPPLY OF &gt;    ON-SPEC OIL FROM RUSSIA&gt;    https://world-news-monitor.com/energy/oil/2019/05/14/belarusian-refinery-starts-charging-penalties-for-short-supply-of-on-spec-oil-from-russia/&gt; &gt; 6. WHO CONTAMINATED THE PETROLEUM SUPPLY IN THE DRUZHBA PIPELINE AND &gt;    CAUSED RUSSIAN EXPORTS TO BE UNUSABLE FOR WEEKS?&gt;    https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/05/08/who-contaminated-the-petroleum-supply-in-the-druzhba-pipeline-and-caused-russian-oil-exports-to-be-unusable-for-weeks-meduza-investigates&gt; ...more

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• Spacesuits are dangerous and robots don't need them. @PappalardoJoe

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  May 23 2019

  Photo: English: Edwin Aldrin wearing the A7L spacesuit on the moon.Español: Edwin Aldrin con su traje A7L en la superficie lunar.Galego: Edwin Aldrin co seu traxe A7L na superficie lunar.Date | 21 July 1969Source | NASAAuthor | Neil Armstrong | This file is in the public domain i http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowSpacesuits are dangerous and robots don't need them. @PappalardoJoehttps://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a27541955/robot-spacewalk/ ...more

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• Putin reacted in amazement and befuddlement to Trump's 2016 election. @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst

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  May 23 2019

  Photo: Открытие памятник Робеспьеру в 1918 годуDate | 1918Source | http://www.oldmos.ru/photo/view/87223Auteur | AnonymeAutorisation(Réutilisation de ce fichier) |  |  | This work is in the public domain in Russia http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowPutin reacted in amazement and befuddlement to Trump's 2016 election. @PaulR_Gregory @HooverInst

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• The Trump Administration slow walks information about the murder of Khashoggi & What is to be done? @JoshRogin

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  May 23 2019

  Photo: The Trump Administration slow walks information about the murder of Khashoggi & What is to be done? @JoshRoginhttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Trump Administration slow walks information about the murder of Khashoggi & What is to be done? @JoshRoginhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/21/federal-court-presses-trump-administration-release-khashoggi-documents/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8b8773ea56b0

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• The Federal Reserve misinterpreted the US economy in 2018 and needs to correct. @StephenMoore @Heritage

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  May 23 2019

  Photo: Queens Boulevard, New York City.Date | 1920Source | https://ia600304.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/24/items/queensboroughnew01cham/queensboroughnew01cham_jp2.zip&file=queensboroughnew01cham_jp2/queensboroughnew01cham_0076.jp2&scale=3&rotate=0Author | Unknown | This media file is in the public domain in the United States.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowThe Federal Reserve misinterpreted the US economy in 2018 and needs to correct.  @StephenMoore @Heritage...more

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• Red China is in denial about $300B of theft each year. @StehenMoore @Herutage

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  May 23 2019

  Photo: 中文: 北京东四牌楼。1954年，为拓宽道路，四座牌楼均被拆除。Date | 1920Source | http://www.oldbeijing.org/UploadFile/2010-1/20101282022674729.jpgAuthor | UnknownPermission(Reusing this file) |  | This image is now in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contacthttp://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedulesTwitter: @BatchelorShowRed China is in denial about $300B of theft each year. @StehenMoore @Herutage

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• Lynch rejects Comey's telling of the Clinton email "matter." @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  May 22 2019

  Photo: Stack as Eliot Ness with Gloria Talbott, 1962 ABC Television - eBay item photo front photo back Publicity photo of Robert Stack as Eliot Ness and Gloria Talbott from the television program The Untouchables. Permission details PD-PRE1978. The photo 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.&quot;)View more Public Domainview terms File:Robert Stack Untouchables 1962.JPG Created: Press release is dated 10 May 1962; episode aired 31 May 1962. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Lynch rejects Comey&#39;s telling of the Clinton email &quot;matter.&quot; @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR https://www.foxnews.com/politics/loretta-lynch-james-comey-contradition-clinton-probe-matter-investigation...more

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• The Impeachment Train leaves the station & What is to be done? @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  May 22 2019

  Photo: The cast from left: Abel Fernandez, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni, (seated) Robert Stack (not shown: Steve London) ABC Television - eBay item photo front photo back Publicity photo of the cast of the television program The Untouchables. From left: Abel Fernandez, Paul Picerni, Nicholas Georgiade, (seated) Robert Stack. Permission details PD-PRE1978. The photo 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.&quot;)View more Public Domainview terms File:The Untouchables cast 1961.JPG Created: Photo was issued for the program&#39;s season premiere on 12 October 1961. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Impeachment Train leaves the station &amp; What is to be done?  @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR https://www.wsj.com/articles/impeachment-pressure-grows-among-house-democrats-11558436275?mod=hpleadpos6...more

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• How will Joe Biden take Liz Warren's punch-out? @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  May 22 2019

  Photo: Boston Car Strike Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Date 1910 Source Library of Congress Catalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/2014690471 Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/10400/10488v.jpg Original url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014690471/ Author Bain News Service, publisher Permission (Reusing this file)  No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow How will Joe Biden take Liz Warren's punch-out? @HooverWhalen @HooverInst ...more

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• Why do Democrats fail to plan for the Senate 2020? @HooverWhalen @HooverInst

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  May 22 2019

  Photo: The Senate Chamber, U. S. Capitol, Washington, D. C.  File name: 0610022222 Title: The Senate Chamber, U. S. Capitol, Washington, D. C. Created/Published: Capitol Souvenir Company, Inc., Washington, D. C. Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate) Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. Genre: Postcards Subject: Government facilities Notes: Title from item. Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department Rights: No known restrictions http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Why do Democrats fail to plan for the Senate 2020?  @HooverWhalen @HooverInst https://www.forbes.com/sites/billwhalen/2019/05/16/the-democratic-field-keeps-expanding-a-takeover-of-the-senate-not-so-much/#2cc89dd211df...more

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• China's thieves and consumer confidence. @LizPeek

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  May 22 2019

  Photo: Christmas shoppers (LOC)  Bain News Service,, publisher. Christmas shoppers [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.09340 Call Number: LC-B2- 2215-2 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow China&#39;s thieves and consumer confidence.  @LizPeek https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/consumer-sentiment-may-2019-preliminary.html...more

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• Australia 1, Climate change 0. @LizPeek @TheHill

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  May 22 2019

  Photo: Panorama of Canberra from Mt. Ainslie, [1930s]  Boland, Frank H., d. 1955. Condition: Good.; Part of the collection: Frank H. Boland collection.; "No. 20"--Lower right. Australian War Memorial under construction--Centre left. Persistent URL nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an23694834 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Australia 1, Climate change 0. @LizPeek @TheHill http://lizpeek.com/lesson-australia-voters-put-pocketbooks-ahead-climate-change/...more

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• Australia's Left speaks candidly about the cost of climate change and loses the election. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs.

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  May 22 2019

  Photo: Parliament House, Canberra, 1930s. Date 1930s Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationallibraryofaustraliacommons/6173436537/in/photostream/ Author National Library of Australia Licensing[edit] This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Australia's Left speaks candidly about the cost of climate change and loses the election. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs....more

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• Russian disinformation never moves on and never changes the fairy tale. Michael Ledeen @FDD

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  May 22 2019

  Photo: Ресторан гостиницы «Савой», 1930-е годы Дата 1930-е годы Источник https://russiainphoto.ru/search/photo/?yearto=1941&yearfrom=1918&author_ids=524&page=1&index=5 Автор Михаил Григорьевич Прехнер (1911, Варшава — 1941, Таллин) Лицензирование Public domain Это произведение находится в общественном достоянии в России  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Russian disinformation never moves on and never changes the fairy tale. Michael Ledeen @FDD https://www.amazon.com/Judgment-Moscow-Soviet-Western-Complicity-ebook/dp/B07NTQTRHN...more

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• The New American Civil War: 1 of 2: The world according to Orwell's "Inner Party" vs the proles.

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  May 22 2019

  Photo: Stalin alongside some of his allies at the 14th Congress Unknown credited to VTSIK - First known publication Magazine Projector (Spotlight) issue # 9 (55) dated May 15 1925 XIV party Conference. From left to right: Mikhail Lashevich, Mikhail Frunze, Vlas Chubar, Alexei Rykov, Klim Voroshilov, Joseph Stalin, Mykola Skrypnyk, Andrei Bubnov and Sergo Ordzhonikidze Public Domain File:14th Conference of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).jpg Created: 15 May 1925 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The New American Civil War: 1 of 2: The world according to Orwell&#39;s &quot;Inner Party&quot; vs the proles. The New American Civil War: 2 of 2: The world according to Orwell&#39;s &quot;Inner Party&quot; vs the proles....more

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• The New American Civil War: 2 of 2: The world according to Orwell's "Inner Party" vs the proles.

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  May 22 2019

  Photo: Berlin, V. SED-Parteitag, 4.Tag Info non-talk.svg Original caption  For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Info non-talk.svg Zentralbild Ulmer 13.7.1958. V. Parteitag der SED vom 10. bis 16.7.1958 in der Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle, Berlin, 4. Tag: UBz: Zu einem imposanten Ausdruck des festen Bündnisses zwischen der Arbeiterklasse und der werktätigen Bauernschaft unter Führung der Partei der Arbeiterklasse gestaltete sich der Empfang einer Delegation aus der Land- und Forstwirtschaft. Genossenschaftsbäuerinnen überreichten in rote Tücher gebundene Maisbündel und der Sprecher der Delegation, Meisterbauer Erich Himmelreich tauschte mit den Mitgliedern des Präsidiums einen herzlichen Händedruck. Von links nach rechts: Walter Ulbricht, Erster Sekretär des ZK der SED, Ministerpräsident Otto Grotewohl, und Dung Bi-wu, Mitglied des Politbüros des ZK der KP Chinas. Depicted place Berlin Date 1958-07-13 Collection  German Federal Archives Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q685753 Current location  Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst - Zentralbild (Bild 183) Accession number  Bild 183-57000-0391 Source  Logo Bundesarchiv This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project. The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation only using the originals (negative and/or positive), resp. the digitalization of the originals as provided by the Digital Image Archive. The man shaking hands is en:Dong Biwu, member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China Licensing[edit] w:en:Creative Commons attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany license. Flag of Germany.svg Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-57000-0391 / Ulmer, Rudi / CC-BY-SA 3.0 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The New American Civil War: 2 of 2: The world according to Orwell&#39;s &quot;Inner Party&quot; vs the proles. https://www.activistpost.com/2019/05/nineteen-eighty-four-turns-70-years-old-in-a-world-that-looks-a-lot-like-the-book.html...more

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• "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Milestone of the Year of Six Emperors. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  May 22 2019

  Photo: Portrait of Maximinus Thrax. Marble, Roman artwork, 235–238 CE.  Unknown - Jastrow (2006) Public Domain File:Maximinus Thrax Musei Capitolini MC473.jpg Uploaded: 22 April 2018 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Milestone of the Year of Six Emperors. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres

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• Germany judges BDS to be anti-semitism. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  May 22 2019

  Photo: (Berlin, Germany) תאריך יצירה בין 1890 ו- 1905 מקור Original image: Photochrom print (color photo lithograph) Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-00346 from Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Photochrom Prints Collection http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Germany judges BDS to be anti-semitism.  Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres

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• Trump defies Nadler completely. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  May 21 2019

  Photo: Mule barn along the towpath NPS Photo http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump defies Nadler completely.  @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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• Trump Administration grants the Huawei blacklist a 90 day waver. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotterThe Huawei blacklist gets a 90 day waver. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  May 21 2019

  Photo: Rural Electrification Administration (REA) erects telephone lines in rural areas. Photo courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration. Date 14 December 2011, 09:00 Source 20111110-OC-AMW-0030 Author U.S. Department of Agriculture Licensing[edit] w:en:Creative Commons attribution This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.  You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. Checked copyright icon.svg This image was originally posted to Flickr by USDAgov at https://www.flickr.com/photos/41284017@N08/6510692769. It was reviewed on 25 December 2011 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. Public domain This image or file is a work of a United States Department of Agriculture employee, taken or made as part of that person&#39;s official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Huawei blacklist gets a 90 day waver. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter https://www.wsj.com/articles/forced-tech-transfers-are-on-the-rise-in-china-european-firms-say-11558344240...more

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• Joe Biden waits for a challenger like Elizabeth Warren to challenge his Progressivism. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter

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  May 21 2019

  Photo: William Jennings Bryan, full-length view with arms spread, standing next to flag drapped table on stage; men seated in the background, during 1908 Democratic National Convention Date 1920 June 25 (from a photograph taken in 1908) Source Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001697078/ Author Unspecified Other versions  image extraction process This file has been extracted from another file: William Jennings Bryan at the 1908 DNC (1).jpg original file Licensing[edit] Public domain This work is in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Joe Biden waits for a challenger like Elizabeth Warren to challenge his Progressivism. @DavidMDrucker @JohnFund @ThadMcCotter...more

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• PRC accuses Europe of lying about forced technology transfer. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter

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  May 21 2019

  Photo: Europe, post Treaty of Versailles. Leslie’s New World Atlas. Date 1920 Source Maps ETC, map #01512 Author Leslie-Judge Company Licensing[edit] Public domain  This work is in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow PRC accuses Europe of lying about forced technology transfer. @GordonGChang @TheDailyBeast @ThadMcCotter https://www.wsj.com/articles/forced-tech-transfers-are-on-the-rise-in-china-european-firms-say-11558344240...more

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• US captures an Iran Hizballah op aiming at New York City. @ThomasJoscelyn

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  May 21 2019

  Photo: Queens Borough, New York City, 1910-1920; the borough of homes and industry, a descriptive and illustrated book setting forth its wonderful growth and development in commerce, industry and homes during the past ten years … a prediction of even greater growth during the next ten years … and a statement of its many advantages, attractions and possibilities as a section wherein to live, to work and to succeed Year: 1920 (1920s) Authors: Chamber of Commerce (Queens, New York, N.Y.) Willis, Walter I., comp Subjects:  Publisher: (New York, L. I. Star Pub. 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: mhurst and Corona. This line will later be extended toFlushing and other sections of the Third Ward. (c) To the south, the Queensboro Subway to the Grand Central Station, Man-hattan, which will be extended to Times Square, enabling passengers totransfer without an extra fare to the through north and south lines, oper-ated by the Interborough on the east and west sides of Manhattan, intoBrooklyn and the Bronx. (d) To the west, the 60th Street tunnel of the B. R. T. under the East River,connecting with the Broadway-59th Street Line; and the Second AvenueL of the Interborough Rapid Transit, across the upper level of theQueensboro Bridge operated to Park Row. 2. JAMAICA. While the entire Fourth Ward receives great benefits from theelevated extensions operated by the Brooklyn Rapid Transits throughWoodhaven, Ozone Park, Morris Park and Richmond Hill, Jamaica hasbecome a greater transit center than ever. It is not only the railroad cen-ter of Long Island, but is also a great trolley center. Text Appearing After Image: Joint Transfer St.\tion at Woodside Ni:\v YoKK City 71 3. JrOODSIDE. At the intersection of Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside and the six tracksof the Long Island Railroad there has been constructed and placed inoperation a joint transfer station that is of the utmost importance to allsections of Queens served by the North Shore Division, Main Line, andthe Rockaway Division of the Long Island Railroad. Passengers usingthese divisions aie able to transfer conveniently at this point to and fromthe Corona L operated by the Queensboro Subway and Second AvenueL trains of the I. R. T. and the Broadway-59th Street Line of the B.R. T. In other words, all Long Island Railroad passengers have at theirdisposal at this point, the whole of the citys comprehensive transit systemfor a single fare. The elevated railroad tracks and platforms are on the highest leveland the Long Island Railroad tracks and platforms are on the lowestlevel. Between these two levels a mezzanine floor facilitates the inter-change http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow US captures an Iran Hizballah op aiming at New York City.  @ThomasJoscelyn https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/05/hizballah-operative-convicted-of-terror-charges-after-surveilling-targets-in-new-york-city.php...more

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• Uyghurs in Syria as the al Qaeda-affiliated Turkistan Islamic Party. @ThomasJoscelyn @FDD

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  May 21 2019

  Photo: Syria Year: 1920 (1920s) Authors: Beirut. Institut français d'archéologie Subjects: Archaeology Art Art, Oriental Publisher: Paris P. Geuthner Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Ottawa 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: Fi(,. 20. — lIiui cji hi Ir^ineliéf et des piiil&gt; île sondage, excciilr^ sur le eôlé lM du château. baie eu deux [joils. duiiiiiie loul Sidoii de sa uiasse (|d. . 1); cest le seulpaint qui sélève au-dessus de la \ille, dniic une [(osilioii détensi\e de premier Text Appearing After Image: 1. Le CnATKAL DE Saida, au Jcbut lies fouille http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Uyghurs in Syria as the al Qaeda-affiliated Turkistan Islamic Party. @ThomasJoscelyn @FDD  https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2019/05/assads-forces-battle-jihadists-for-key-terrain-in-latakia.php...more

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• Guest Podcast: "There is no end game other than to create headlines." @RichValdes

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  May 21 2019

  Photo: Chief Senate Counsel representing the United States Army and partner at Hale and Dorr, Joseph Welch (left), with United States Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin (right), at the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations' McCarthy-Army hearings, June 9, 1954. Date August 22, 2013 08:56:32 Source http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/graphic/xlarge/Welch_McCarthy.jpg Author United States Senate Licensing[edit] Public domain This United States Congress image is in the public domain.  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Guest Podcast: &quot;There is no end game other than to create headlines.&quot; @RichValdes...more

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• Guest Podcast: Andrew Cumo says "It was never that great." @RichValdes

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  May 21 2019

  Photo: Postcard of Union Station in Albany, New York, United States Date circa 1930 Source Collection of the Albany Institute of History and Art Author Unknown Object location 42° 39′ 05.05″ N, 73° 44′ 57.51″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth info Nuvola apps kview with wrench.png This image was edited or restored by Matt Wade (see all). Licensing[edit] This image is in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Guest Podcast: Andrew Cumo says &quot;It was never that great.&quot; @RichValdes...more

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• Chasing the Last Laugh: 4 of 4: 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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  May 21 2019

  Photo:  SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse at sea Date circa 1901 Source http://oceanlinerblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/famous-four-stackers-ss-kaiser-wilhelm-der-grosse/ Author Unknown Licensing Public domain  This work is in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Chasing the Last Laugh: 4 of 4:  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/gp/product/B01DO8C9LM/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0 From Richard Zacks, best-selling author of Island of Vice andThe Pirate Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain&#39;s late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disaster and family tragedy - and revived his world-class sense of humor. Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation&#39;s worst investors. &quot;There are two times in a man&#39;s life when he should not speculate,&quot; he wrote. &quot;When he can&#39;t afford it and when he can.&quot; 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. &quot;I have a perfect horror and heart-sickness over it,&quot; she wrote. &quot;I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace.&quot; 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 &quot;platform&quot; 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&#39;s when he famously quipped, &quot;The report of my death was an exaggeration.&quot; 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 &quot;head idiot of this century&quot;. In Chasing the Last Laugh, author Richard Zacks, drawing extensively on unpublished material in notebooks and letters from Berkeley&#39;s ongoing Mark Twain Project, chronicles a poignant chapter in the author&#39;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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• Chasing the Last Laugh: 3 of 4: 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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  May 21 2019

  Photo: RMS Saxonia, around 1900 Date 1900 Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/det/item/det1994004348/PP/ Author Detroit Publishing Company Licensing Public domain This media file is in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Chasing the Last Laugh: 3 of 4: 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/gp/product/B01DO8C9LM/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0 From Richard Zacks, best-selling author of Island of Vice andThe Pirate Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain&#39;s late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disaster and family tragedy - and revived his world-class sense of humor. Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation&#39;s worst investors. &quot;There are two times in a man&#39;s life when he should not speculate,&quot; he wrote. &quot;When he can&#39;t afford it and when he can.&quot; 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. &quot;I have a perfect horror and heart-sickness over it,&quot; she wrote. &quot;I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace.&quot; 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 &quot;platform&quot; 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&#39;s when he famously quipped, &quot;The report of my death was an exaggeration.&quot; 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 &quot;head idiot of this century&quot;. In Chasing the Last Laugh, author Richard Zacks, drawing extensively on unpublished material in notebooks and letters from Berkeley&#39;s ongoing Mark Twain Project, chronicles a poignant chapter in the author&#39;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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• Chasing the Last Laugh: 2 of 4: 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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  May 21 2019

  Photo: Ocean Liner, SS St Paul  Accession Number: 1974:0056:0817 Maker: William M. Vander Weyde (American 1871–1929) Title: Ocean Liner, SS St Paul Date: ca. 1900 Medium: negative, gelatin on glass Dimensions: 6.5 x 8.5 inches George Eastman House Collection General – information about the George Eastman House Photography Collection is available at www.eastmanhouse.org/inc/collections/photography.php. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Chasing the Last Laugh: 2 of 4: Mark Twain&#39;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/gp/product/B01DO8C9LM/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0 From Richard Zacks, best-selling author of Island of Vice andThe Pirate Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain&#39;s late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disaster and family tragedy - and revived his world-class sense of humor. Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation&#39;s worst investors. &quot;There are two times in a man&#39;s life when he should not speculate,&quot; he wrote. &quot;When he can&#39;t afford it and when he can.&quot; 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. &quot;I have a perfect horror and heart-sickness over it,&quot; she wrote. &quot;I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace.&quot; 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 &quot;platform&quot; 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&#39;s when he famously quipped, &quot;The report of my death was an exaggeration.&quot; 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 &quot;head idiot of this century&quot;. In Chasing the Last Laugh, author Richard Zacks, drawing extensively on unpublished material in notebooks and letters from Berkeley&#39;s ongoing Mark Twain Project, chronicles a poignant chapter in the author&#39;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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• Chasing the Last Laugh: 1 of 4: 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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  Photo: Olympic electrical power plant. Date May 1911 Source  https://www.nmni.com/collections/history/photographs/harland-and-wolff-collection/hoyfmhwh1533/ http://marconigraph.com/titanic/electrician/elec_110728.html Author Robert John Welch (1859-1936), official photographer for Harland & Wolff Licensing[edit] Public domain  This work is in the public domain i http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Chasing the Last Laugh: 1 of 4: Mark Twain&#39;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/gp/product/B01DO8C9LM/ref=dbsadefrwthschvapitaftp1i0 From Richard Zacks, best-selling author of Island of Vice andThe Pirate Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain&#39;s late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disaster and family tragedy - and revived his world-class sense of humor. Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation&#39;s worst investors. &quot;There are two times in a man&#39;s life when he should not speculate,&quot; he wrote. &quot;When he can&#39;t afford it and when he can.&quot; 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. &quot;I have a perfect horror and heart-sickness over it,&quot; she wrote. &quot;I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace.&quot; 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 &quot;platform&quot; 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&#39;s when he famously quipped, &quot;The report of my death was an exaggeration.&quot; 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 &quot;head idiot of this century&quot;. In Chasing the Last Laugh, author Richard Zacks, drawing extensively on unpublished material in notebooks and letters from Berkeley&#39;s ongoing Mark Twain Project, chronicles a poignant chapter in the author&#39;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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• Eternity Street: 1 of 8: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles Kindle Edition. by John Mack Faragher (Author)

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  Photo: Deck and port : or, Incidents of a cruise in the United States frigate Congress to California ; with sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco Year: 1850 (1850s) Authors: Colton, Walter, 1797-1851 Subjects: Congress (Frigate: 1841-1862) Voyages to the Pacific coast Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes & Co. Cincinnati : H.W. Derby & Co. Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress 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: ld have much the larger shareof my sympathy and respect. If men must fight forthe amusement of their fellows, let them fight oneanother. If the death of one dont furnish sufficientexcitement, then let the other be shot or hung, as thetaste of the spectators shall suggest. But let themnot catch a poor beast, torture him with fagots andfire, skulk themselves, and pick him to death withtheir long weapons, and then insult the intelligence 264 DECK AND PORT. of the community by calling the dastardly act anexhibition of chivalry and valor. It is no wonder the ladies in Lima are deficient indelicacy and moral refinement, accustomed as theyare from their childhood to such savage spectacles.It is but justice, however, to say, that there are somemothers here who will not permit their daughters toattend them; nor will they allow them, for this, orany other purpose, to disguise themselves in the saya ymanto. There was one righteous man in Sodom, andthere is more than one good mother even in Lima. Text Appearing After Image: 265 CHAPTER IX. SKETCHES OP LIMA. Education of females.—marriages.—lapses from virtue.—the sun-set BELL. SILK FACTORY IN A CONVENT. HABITS OF THE INDIANS. THE HALF WEDLOCK. BLIND PEDLER.—PROTESTANT YOUTH IN LIMA. RELIGION OF THE LIMANIANS. INTRIGUES AT COURT. MODES OF LIV-ING. THE ZAMPAS. CHURCHES.—INDIAN DOCTORS. FRUITS OF THE COUNTRY. OLD SPANISH FAMILIES. MASSES FOR THE REPOSE OF THE SOUL. I say in my slight way I may proceedTo play upon the surface of humanity;I write the world, nor care if the world read,At least for this I cannot spare its vanity. Saturday, April 18. A girl here at the age often or eleven is as far advanced in her social andmatrimonial anticipations as she is with us at seven-teen. She expects in her fourteenth year to swayhearts, as the moon the troubled tide. For this pe-riod she trains herself with an ambition far beyondher years ; and when it arrives, she is armed with allthe brilliant weapons of beauty, wit, repartee, and alively self-possession. 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. Date 1850 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14587416797/ http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Eternity Street: 1 of 8:  Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles Kindle Edition. by John Mack Faragher (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Eternity-Street-Violence-Justice-Frontier-ebook/dp/B00ZAT8WUG &quot;[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California.&quot; —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous locales in the Californian frontier. In Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, &quot;a vivid, disturbing portrait of early Los Angeles&quot; (Publishers Weekly), John Mack Faragher weaves a riveting narrative of murder and mayhem, featuring a cast of colorful characters vying for their piece of the city. These include a newspaper editor advocating for lynch laws to enact a crude manner of racial justice and a mob of Latinos preparing to ransack a county jail and murder a Texan outlaw. In this &quot;groundbreaking&quot; (True West) look at American history, Faragher shows us how the City of Angels went from a lawless outpost to the sprawling metropolis it is today....more

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• Eternity Street: 2 of 8: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles Kindle Edition. by John Mack Faragher (Author)

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  Photo: Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, connected with the United States and Mexican boundary commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 / Date 1854 Source https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/pageimage/32612178 Author Bartlett, John Russell Collection Engelmann Herbarium Page ID 32612178 Item ID 101473 (Find related Wikimedia Commons images) Title ID 46972 (Find related Wikimedia Commons images) BHL Page URL https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32612178 DOI 10.5962/bhl.title.46972 Page type Text Illustration http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Eternity Street: 2 of 8: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles Kindle Edition. by John Mack Faragher (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Eternity-Street-Violence-Justice-Frontier-ebook/dp/B00ZAT8WUG &quot;[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California.&quot; —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous locales in the Californian frontier. In Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, &quot;a vivid, disturbing portrait of early Los Angeles&quot; (Publishers Weekly), John Mack Faragher weaves a riveting narrative of murder and mayhem, featuring a cast of colorful characters vying for their piece of the city. These include a newspaper editor advocating for lynch laws to enact a crude manner of racial justice and a mob of Latinos preparing to ransack a county jail and murder a Texan outlaw. In this &quot;groundbreaking&quot; (True West) look at American history, Faragher shows us how the City of Angels went from a lawless outpost to the sprawling metropolis it is today....more

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• Eternity Street: 3 of 8: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles Kindle Edition. by John Mack Faragher (Author)

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  Photo: Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, connected with the United States and Mexican boundary commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 / Date 1854 Source https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/pageimage/32611683 Author Bartlett, John Russell Collection Engelmann Herbarium Page ID 32611683 Item ID 101473 (Find related Wikimedia Commons images) Title ID 46972 (Find related Wikimedia Commons images) BHL Page URL https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32611683 DOI 10.5962/bhl.title.46972 Page type Text Illustration http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Eternity Street: 3 of 8: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles Kindle Edition. by John Mack Faragher (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Eternity-Street-Violence-Justice-Frontier-ebook/dp/B00ZAT8WUG &quot;[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California.&quot; —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous locales in the Californian frontier. In Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, &quot;a vivid, disturbing portrait of early Los Angeles&quot; (Publishers Weekly), John Mack Faragher weaves a riveting narrative of murder and mayhem, featuring a cast of colorful characters vying for their piece of the city. These include a newspaper editor advocating for lynch laws to enact a crude manner of racial justice and a mob of Latinos preparing to ransack a county jail and murder a Texan outlaw. In this &quot;groundbreaking&quot; (True West) look at American history, Faragher shows us how the City of Angels went from a lawless outpost to the sprawling metropolis it is today....more

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• Eternity Street: 4 of 8: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles Kindle Edition. by John Mack Faragher (Author)

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  Photo: Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, connected with the United States and Mexican boundary commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 / Date 1854 Source https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/pageimage/32611764 Author Bartlett, John Russell Collection Engelmann Herbarium Page ID 32611764 Item ID 101473 (Find related Wikimedia Commons images) Title ID 46972 (Find related Wikimedia Commons images) BHL Page URL https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32611764 DOI 10.5962/bhl.title.46972 Page type Text Illustration http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Eternity Street: 4 of 8: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles Kindle Edition. by John Mack Faragher (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Eternity-Street-Violence-Justice-Frontier-ebook/dp/B00ZAT8WUG &quot;[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California.&quot; —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous locales in the Californian frontier. In Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, &quot;a vivid, disturbing portrait of early Los Angeles&quot; (Publishers Weekly), John Mack Faragher weaves a riveting narrative of murder and mayhem, featuring a cast of colorful characters vying for their piece of the city. These include a newspaper editor advocating for lynch laws to enact a crude manner of racial justice and a mob of Latinos preparing to ransack a county jail and murder a Texan outlaw. In this &quot;groundbreaking&quot; (True West) look at American history, Faragher shows us how the City of Angels went from a lawless outpost to the sprawling metropolis it is today....more

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• Eternity Street: 5 of 8: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles Kindle Edition. by John Mack Faragher (Author)

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  Photo: Sacramento City Ca. from the foot of J. Streets, showing I. J. and K. Sts. with the Sierra Nevada in the distance. sierra nevada calif and nevsacramento califlithographs hand coloredsacramentocitysacramento cityfootstreetssierranevadasierra nevadadistancephelps stokes collectionamerican historical printsstokes collelctioncalifornia date_range Date 1850 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Eternity Street: 5 of 8: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles Kindle Edition. by John Mack Faragher (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Eternity-Street-Violence-Justice-Frontier-ebook/dp/B00ZAT8WUG &quot;[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California.&quot; —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous locales in the Californian frontier. In Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, &quot;a vivid, disturbing portrait of early Los Angeles&quot; (Publishers Weekly), John Mack Faragher weaves a riveting narrative of murder and mayhem, featuring a cast of colorful characters vying for their piece of the city. These include a newspaper editor advocating for lynch laws to enact a crude manner of racial justice and a mob of Latinos preparing to ransack a county jail and murder a Texan outlaw. In this &quot;groundbreaking&quot; (True West) look at American history, Faragher shows us how the City of Angels went from a lawless outpost to the sprawling metropolis it is today....more

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• Eternity Street: 6 of 8: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles Kindle Edition. by John Mack Faragher (Author)

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  Photo: Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q77132 Albert Bierstadt: Hetch Hetchy Valley Object type painting Genre landscape art Description  Hetch Hetchy Valley Date circa 1870s Medium oil Notes  Before submersion by reservoir. In present day Yosemite National Park, California. Source/Photographer [1], upload 2008 Permission (Reusing this file) Author died more than 70 years ago - public domain Licensing Public domain  This work is in the public domain in http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Eternity Street: 6 of 8: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles Kindle Edition. by John Mack Faragher (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Eternity-Street-Violence-Justice-Frontier-ebook/dp/B00ZAT8WUG &quot;[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California.&quot; —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous locales in the Californian frontier. In Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, &quot;a vivid, disturbing portrait of early Los Angeles&quot; (Publishers Weekly), John Mack Faragher weaves a riveting narrative of murder and mayhem, featuring a cast of colorful characters vying for their piece of the city. These include a newspaper editor advocating for lynch laws to enact a crude manner of racial justice and a mob of Latinos preparing to ransack a county jail and murder a Texan outlaw. In this &quot;groundbreaking&quot; (True West) look at American history, Faragher shows us how the City of Angels went from a lawless outpost to the sprawling metropolis it is today....more

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• Eternity Street: 7 of 8: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles Kindle Edition. by John Mack Faragher (Author)

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  Photo:  Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q77132 Object type painting Genre landscape art Description  Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite Valley, California Date between 1871 and 1873 Medium oil on paper mounted on canvas Dimensions Height: 48 cm (18.8 ″); Width: 66.1 cm (26 ″) Collection  Cincinnati Art Museum Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q2970522 Accession number  2002.45 (Cincinnati Art Museum) References  described at URL: http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/explore-the-collection?id=11299943 described at URL: http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/explore-the-collection?id=6144579 described at URL: http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/explore-the-collection?id=16636892 Source/Photographer Own work Licensing[edit] 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: Public domain  This work is in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Eternity Street: 7 of 8: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles Kindle Edition. by John Mack Faragher (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Eternity-Street-Violence-Justice-Frontier-ebook/dp/B00ZAT8WUG &quot;[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California.&quot; —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous locales in the Californian frontier. In Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, &quot;a vivid, disturbing portrait of early Los Angeles&quot; (Publishers Weekly), John Mack Faragher weaves a riveting narrative of murder and mayhem, featuring a cast of colorful characters vying for their piece of the city. These include a newspaper editor advocating for lynch laws to enact a crude manner of racial justice and a mob of Latinos preparing to ransack a county jail and murder a Texan outlaw. In this &quot;groundbreaking&quot; (True West) look at American history, Faragher shows us how the City of Angels went from a lawless outpost to the sprawling metropolis it is today....more

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• Eternity Street: 8 of 8: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles Kindle Edition. by John Mack Faragher (Author)

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  Photo: Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912 -- Publisher Title  Church of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, California. Date  Created: ca. 1875. Coverage: ca. 1875. Digital item published 6-15-2005; updated 2-12-2009. Collection  New York Public Library Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q219555 Current location  Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs Accession number  Catalog Call Number: MFY Dennis Coll 89-F356 Record ID: 648049 Digital ID: G89F356_020F Source  Original source: Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views. / United States. / States / California. / Stereoscopic views of Los Angeles, California. (Approx. 72,000 stereoscopic views : 10 x 18 cm. or smaller.) digital record  New York Public Library 1908c.jpg This image is available from the New York Public Library&#39;s Digital Library under the digital ID G89F356_020F: digitalgallery.nypl.org → digitalcollections.nypl.org This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ | বাংলা | English | français | hrvatski | Nederlands | русский | Türkçe | українська | 中文 |+/− This image is in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Eternity Street: 8 of 8: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles Kindle Edition. by John Mack Faragher (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Eternity-Street-Violence-Justice-Frontier-ebook/dp/B00ZAT8WUG &quot;[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California.&quot; —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous locales in the Californian frontier. In Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, &quot;a vivid, disturbing portrait of early Los Angeles&quot; (Publishers Weekly), John Mack Faragher weaves a riveting narrative of murder and mayhem, featuring a cast of colorful characters vying for their piece of the city. These include a newspaper editor advocating for lynch laws to enact a crude manner of racial justice and a mob of Latinos preparing to ransack a county jail and murder a Texan outlaw. In this &quot;groundbreaking&quot; (True West) look at American history, Faragher shows us how the City of Angels went from a lawless outpost to the sprawling metropolis it is today....more

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• Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: 1 of 2: Eastern Region Audio CD – Audiobook, CD, Unabridged. by Donald Stokes (Author, Reader), Lillian Stokes (Author, Reader), & 1 more

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  Photo: 1905 (1900s) Authors: Reed, L(ucas) A(lbert) (from old catalog) Subjects: Birds Publisher: Washington, D.C., Review and herald pub. ass'n Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress 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: NEIGHBORS man looked in surprise. It was an Englishsparrow. The scared bird had built himselfa nest in a hole that either he had found orburrowed there. Talk about feather beds! The inside of thathole was just packed with chicken feathers.That sparrow must have been a week or twopicking them up, one by one, about the coun-try, for the man does not keep chickens. It was certainly too bad to be driven out ofdoors in such weather, for it was very cold,and the sun was well along in the western sky.How would you like it to be turned out ofbed and house on a cold winters afternoonto hunt any old place you could find? Well, just about that time the cardinalcame along. I do not know whether he un-derstood how the sparrow had been misusedor not; but, anyway, he made some remarksthat the man thought were certainly meantfor him. If you do not know it, let me tell you thatthe cardinal can whistle, in a startling way,sounds that seem almost like words. This time the cardinal seemed to be angry.154 Text Appearing After Image: SCARLET TANAGERSUMMER TANAGER RED-HEADED WOODPECKER CARDINAL GROSBEAK DOWNY WOODPECKER THE NEIGHBOR IN RED If he understood what had happened, he hadreason to be. Look here! look here! whistled the car-dinal. Of course the man did look. But Mr. Car-dinal did not seem at all afraid to talk upto the man. The bird came a little nearer,tipped his head to one side, and flirted histail. Then he whistled again. See here! see here! Well, said the man to himself, I guessI have stirred up a bit of a tempest. I cer-tainly did not mean any harm to the birdfraternity. The man stepped back a pace or two, andpaused again to hear the cardinal whistleonce more. This time the words seemedsomewhat different. You fear! you fear! At this the cardinal whisked about andsounded a ^ chip of seeming indignation. Come here! come here! screamed thecardinal. But the man was of a peaceable nature,and did not intend to quarrel with any bird, 157 MY GARDEN NEIGHBORS much less the cardinal. And so he beggedto be excu http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow https://www.amazon.com/Stokes-Field-Guide-Bird-Songs/dp/1607887835/ref=tmmabkswatch0?encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1558311357&amp;sr=1-2 Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: 1 of 2: Eastern Region Audio CD – Audiobook, CD, Unabridged. by Donald Stokes (Author, Reader), Lillian Stokes (Author, Reader), &amp; 1 more  https://www.amazon.com/Stokes-Field-Guide-Bird-Songs/dp/1607887835/ref=tmmabkswatch0?encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1558311357&amp;sr=1-2 Donald and Lillian Stokes are widely recongized as America&#39;s foremost authorities on birds and nature. Their newest book, The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America is the most comprehensive photographic field guide to birds ever published. They have written more than thirty other books, which have cumulatively sold more than 4.5 million copies, including the bestselling Stokes Field Guide to Birds (Eastern and Western editions), the Stokes Beginner&#39;s Guide to Birds, the Stokes Nature Guides, and the Stokes Backyard Nature Books. They have hosted a popular public television series, Stokes Birds at Home, and offer current birding information on their Stokes Birding Blog, which features Lillian Stokes&#39;s stunning photography....more

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• Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: 2 of 2: Eastern Region Audio CD – Audiobook, CD, Unabridged. by Donald Stokes (Author, Reader), Lillian Stokes (Author, Reader), & 1 more

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  Photo: The birds of Virginia Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Bailey, Harold Harris, 1879- Subjects: Birds Publisher: Lynchburg, Va., J. P. Bell Company, Inc. Contributing Library: Cornell University 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: mer Eedbird]. Ea^^ge.—Southeastern United States and northernSouth America. Breeds in Carolinian and Austroriparianzones from southeastern Xebraska, southern Iowa, south-eastern Wisconsin, central Indiana, southern Ohio, Mary-land (formerly New Jersey), and Delaware south tonortheastern Mexico and central Florida; winters fromcentral Mexico and Yucatan to Ecuador, Peru, andGuiana; stragglers north to ISTew Brunswick, Quebec,JS^ova Scotia, Maine, and Ontario; migrant in westernCuba; accidental in the Bahamas. A beautiful bird, especially the male, but a lazy pairwhen it comes down to nest building. Seldom it is thatyou cant walk along some path on the edge of a pieceof woods, or that bordering the main country road, andlook up throgh a flimsy-made nest of these birds, and seethe eggs. In this respect they may be classed with theMourning Dove and the Green Heron. Dont misjudgethese remarks and think you can go along any road orpath and see nests easily, for they are not an over-common Text Appearing After Image: SUMME-E TANAGER Ct-Paal-K OF VIRGINIA 251 bird with us, though suitable localities seldom fail to havetheir single pair. The casual observer is ajDt to confusethem with the Cardinal, especially during the breedingseason, on account of the height of the nest, often not sixfeet from the ground. The nest is placed on the crotchof a lower limb of a tree, an oak, dogwood or pine, gener-ally. Three to four eggs is a complete set with us, apale bluish-green, spotted and blotched with reddish-brown. Size, .92x.64. Fresh eggs May 20th to June12th. They do not winter with us. Kest composed offine straws or grasses, loosely made, or woven together.Only one brood a season. The spring migratory birdsreach us about April 17th, and depart southward August5tli to. 8th. Their song is uttered from the tree tops,seldom when in close proximity to the nest or ground,and is rather pleasing to the ear, though it never varies,being confined to three notes, and a short stanza similarto the Red-eyed Vireo. Lon http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: 2 of 2:  Eastern Region Audio CD – Audiobook, CD, Unabridged. by Donald Stokes (Author, Reader), Lillian Stokes (Author, Reader), &amp; 1 more  https://www.amazon.com/Stokes-Field-Guide-Bird-Songs/dp/1607887835/ref=tmmabkswatch0?encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1558311357&amp;sr=1-2 Donald and Lillian Stokes are widely recongized as America&#39;s foremost authorities on birds and nature. Their newest book, The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America is the most comprehensive photographic field guide to birds ever published. They have written more than thirty other books, which have cumulatively sold more than 4.5 million copies, including the bestselling Stokes Field Guide to Birds (Eastern and Western editions), the Stokes Beginner&#39;s Guide to Birds, the Stokes Nature Guides, and the Stokes Backyard Nature Books. They have hosted a popular public television series, Stokes Birds at Home, and offer current birding information on their Stokes Birding Blog, which features Lillian Stokes&#39;s stunning photography. ...more

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• Dangerous Ambition: 1 of 2: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power.

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  Photo:  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Dangerous Ambition: 1 of 2: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power. https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Ambition-Rebecca-Dorothy-Thompson/dp/0345459865 Born in the 1890s on opposite sides of the Atlantic, friends for more than forty years, Dorothy Thompson and Rebecca West lived strikingly parallel lives that placed them at the center of the social and historical upheavals of the twentieth century. In Dangerous Ambition, Susan Hertog chronicles the separate but intertwined journeys of these two remarkable women writers, who achieved unprecedented fame and influence at tremendous personal cost. American Dorothy Thompson was the first female head of a European news bureau, a columnist and commentator with a tremendous following whom Time magazine once ranked alongside Eleanor Roosevelt as the most influential woman in America. Rebecca West, an Englishwoman at home wherever genius was spoken, blazed a trail for herself as a journalist, literary critic, novelist, and historian. In a prefeminist era when speaking truth to power could get anyone—of either gender—ostracized, blacklisted, or worse, these two smart, self-made women were among the first to warn the world about the dangers posed by fascism, communism, and appeasement. But there was a price to be paid, Hertog shows, for any woman aspiring to such greatness. As much as they sought voice and power in the public forum of opinion and ideas, and the independence of mind and money that came with them, Thompson and West craved the comforts of marriage and home. Torn between convention and the opportunities of the new postwar global world, they were drawn to men who were as ambitious and hungry for love as themselves: Thompson to the brilliant, volatile, and alcoholic Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis; West to her longtime lover H. G. Wells, the lusty literary eminence whose sexual and emotional demands doomed any chance they may have had at love. Tragically, both arrangements produced troubled sons, whose anger and jealousy at their mothers’ iconic fame eroded their sense of personal success. Brimming with fresh insights obtained from previously sealed archives, this penetrating dual biography is a story of twinned lives caught up in the crosscurrents of world events and affairs of the heart—and of the unique trans-Atlantic friendship forged by two of the most creative and complex women of their time....more

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• Dangerous Ambition: 2 of 2: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power.

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  Photo:  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Dangerous Ambition: 2 of 2: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power. https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Ambition-Rebecca-Dorothy-Thompson/dp/0345459865 Born in the 1890s on opposite sides of the Atlantic, friends for more than forty years, Dorothy Thompson and Rebecca West lived strikingly parallel lives that placed them at the center of the social and historical upheavals of the twentieth century. In Dangerous Ambition, Susan Hertog chronicles the separate but intertwined journeys of these two remarkable women writers, who achieved unprecedented fame and influence at tremendous personal cost. American Dorothy Thompson was the first female head of a European news bureau, a columnist and commentator with a tremendous following whom Time magazine once ranked alongside Eleanor Roosevelt as the most influential woman in America. Rebecca West, an Englishwoman at home wherever genius was spoken, blazed a trail for herself as a journalist, literary critic, novelist, and historian. In a prefeminist era when speaking truth to power could get anyone—of either gender—ostracized, blacklisted, or worse, these two smart, self-made women were among the first to warn the world about the dangers posed by fascism, communism, and appeasement. But there was a price to be paid, Hertog shows, for any woman aspiring to such greatness. As much as they sought voice and power in the public forum of opinion and ideas, and the independence of mind and money that came with them, Thompson and West craved the comforts of marriage and home. Torn between convention and the opportunities of the new postwar global world, they were drawn to men who were as ambitious and hungry for love as themselves: Thompson to the brilliant, volatile, and alcoholic Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis; West to her longtime lover H. G. Wells, the lusty literary eminence whose sexual and emotional demands doomed any chance they may have had at love. Tragically, both arrangements produced troubled sons, whose anger and jealousy at their mothers’ iconic fame eroded their sense of personal success. Brimming with fresh insights obtained from previously sealed archives, this penetrating dual biography is a story of twinned lives caught up in the crosscurrents of world events and affairs of the heart—and of the unique trans-Atlantic friendship forged by two of the most creative and complex women of their time....more

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• AMLO of Mexico moves backwards. @MaryAnastasiaOG

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  Photo: Irrigation near Zacatecas, Mexico c. 1900. Local number: SIA2012-4605 Summary: SIA Acc. 11-093, Box 1, Folder Mary Agnes Chase Photograph Album 1898-1903; Photograph taken by Mary Agnes Chase or A. S. Hitchcock, documenting field work. Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution. Date 15 March 2012, 09:20 Source Irrigation plant near Zacatecas [Mexico]. Uploaded by PDTillman Author Smithsonian Institution from United States Permission (Reusing this file)  Smithsonian Institution @ Flickr Commons Licensing[edit] This image was taken from Flickr&#39;s The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as: The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired; http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow AMLO of Mexico moves backwards. @MaryAnastasiaOG https://www.wsj.com/articles/mexicos-backward-turn-11556483367?emailToken=c7fbc6e2a87d2efbc2ea6a83ee63b5ebFNY1WFXpqAfwRwSK2JnJyAS419dmQwKk7h94QQq7ZiC7rOX1wNzqOThkLpUxW7gm4GrqvjhW07ft6WzrlTmvqQ%3D%3D&amp;reflink=articlecopyURLshare  ...more

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• Treachery in Venezuela. @MaryAnastasiaOG

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  Photo: 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 possessions Year: 1907 (1900s) Authors: Moore, J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton), 1864-1950 Subjects: Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926 Publisher: Philadelphia, The Book print Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress 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: er at Minister Mortons—The Exciting Game ofJai Alai—The Governor Remembers a Friend. A beautiful city—Havana; naturally, and by the hand ofman. With its Prado and its Malecon, its parks, its churchesand its statues; its stately and artistic buildings, its orna-mental and substantially-built homes—indeed, there wassomething captivating about it all. We expected to enjoyourselves in the capital city, for it had been pictured asanother Paris and Naples combined, with a little of MonteCarlo thrown in. The launches were ready, and we werepreparing to land when a boarding party made its way tothe Speakers state-room. They might have searched theisland over and not done better. Its Governor Magoon, said Tawney, as the Taft-likeform of the Provisional Governor grasped the Speakershand—another Minnesota boy. But he isnt boasting of it, laughed Sherman; hesbeen to Nebraska since. Accompanying the Governor were Major-General Ale-jandro Rodriguez, the Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban 314 Text Appearing After Image: NATIVE FUNERAI., HAVANA. the: city 01^ HAVANA. 317 troops; his United States adviser, Major H. J. Slocum,Second United States Cavalry, and Colonel Carlos M. deRojas of the Cuban Artillery; the American Consal-Gen-eral, Frank Steinhart, a Pennsylvanian, hailing from Allen-town ; Captain Robert E. L. Michie, of the General Staff,U. S. A., who had been detailed from Washington; Cap-tain J. A. Ryan, Fifteenth Cavalry, U. S. A., aide to theProvisional Governor, and Lieutenant-Commander Sypher,U. S. Navy. Trooping along with the party were Mr.Alvord, the New York Herdds representative at Havana,and Mr. Patchin, of the New York Sun. It was not long before the Congressional party found ithad come in contact with a big-bodied, big-hearted, big-minded man. Some of us had not met Governor Magoonbefore, but we liked him. He looked the part of anAmerican representative in a trying position abroad. Therewas nothing nervous about him. The annoyances of theisland were not disturbing him. He was jovia http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Treachery in Venezuela. @MaryAnastasiaOG  https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-liberate-venezuela-11557688819?emailToken=843e7c40a3b26536e944ddc09c87af02f17/uwpGguvpUT6pufYTqMvbrCqLhjf6zxy3Frvkxa5mx3DvD8v1SNxxpphjd0fqge4Vk2+6/JQDmY4JTjN7iQ%3D%3D&amp;reflink=articlecopyURLshare https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelas-rebellion-that-wasnt-11557090358?emailToken=f0f6084ced61dd3fdcbb67862312fd72elRslyDs+j56taLfOwZJLqWy/U8GCqsY4juf//sjaqbZjItzvzdm+ex9qruiU8Qzh2FnYoPHh0jcnJI8czk6Iw%3D%3D&amp;reflink=articlecopyURLshare...more

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• What was "Opetration Good Neighbor" along the Golan Heights frontier with Syria? Lt. Colonel Eyal Dror, Isreal Defense Force. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Photo: al-Majdal, sea of Galilee circa 1890/1900. Shrine of Muhammad al-'Ajami in the foreground. Unknown - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.02721. 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 birthplace of Mary Magdalene, Magdala, Holy Land, between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900 Permission details public domain in the United StatesView more Public Domainview terms File:Magdala um 1900.jpg Created: between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What was &quot;Opetration Good Neighbor&quot; along the Golan Heights frontier with Syria? Lt. Colonel Eyal Dror, Isreal Defense Force. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres Lt. Col. Eyal Dror was the Commander of Operation “Good Neighbor” on the Israeli border with Syria. Recent articles: · https://www.timesofisrael.com/operation-good-neighbor-israels-massive-humanitarian-aid-to-syria-revealed/  · http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Operation-Good-Neighbor-540359  · https://www.idf.il/en/minisites/operation-good-neighbor/operation-good-neighbor-inside-the-idf-s-effort-to-provide-aid-to-syria/...more

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• The Iranian threats are "multiple, credible and occurring in multiple channels." @JohnHannah @FDD

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  Photo: Battle of Ganja, 1826. Franz Roubaud. Part of the collection of the Museum for History, Baku. Franz Roubaud - Museum of the History of Azerbaijan Сражение под Елисаветполем Public Domain File:Сражение под Елисаветполем.jpeg Created: 19th century date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Iranian threats are "multiple, credible and occurring in multiple channels." @JohnHannah @FDD John Hannah is senior counselor at FDD, where he brings long experience at the highest levels of U.S. foreign policy. Prior to joining FDD, John served as Vice President Dick Cheney’s national security advisor from 2005 to 2009. During the first term of President George W. Bush (2001 to 2004), he was Vice President Cheney’s deputy national security advisor for the Middle East. Related articles: ● https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/saudi-oil-in-irans-crosshairs ● https://www.fdd.org/analysis/press_releases/2019/05/09/omans-growing-ties-with-iran-threatens-its-neutrality-fdd-report/ ● https://news.sky.com/story/uk-raises-threat-level-for-personnel-in-iraq-due-to-heightened-risk-from-iran-11721363 ● https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-oil-usa-iran-encouragement/u-s-believes-iran-encouraged-tanker-attacks-u-s-sources-idUSKCN1SL2I5 ● https://www.rferl.org/a/pompeo-russia-putin-lavrov-meeting/29938843.html...more

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• The claim of Executive Privilege for Nixon 1974 and for Trump 2019. 1 of 2: @RichaardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Photo: Nixon campaigning for the Senate, 1950 National Park Service photographer - http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/presidents/bio37.htm Congressman Richard Nixon campaigns for the Senate, 1950 Public Domain File:Richard Nixon campaigning for Senate 1950.jpg Created: 31 December 1949 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The claim of Executive Privilege for Nixon 1974 and for Trump 2019. 1 of 2:  @RichaardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/presidents-privilege...more

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• The claim of Executive Privilege for Nixon 1974 and for Trump 2019. 2 of 2: @RichaardAEpstein @HooverInst

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  Photo: Outgoing Vice President Nixon and incoming Vice President Lyndon Johnson leave the White House on the morning of January 20, 1961, for the Kennedy–Johnson inauguration ceremonies Robert L. Knudsen - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-KN-17134.aspx Vice President Richard Nixon leaves the White House to attend the Inaugural Ceremonies of his successor, former Texas Senator Lyndon Johnson Public Domain File:Nixon Johnson 1961.jpg Created: 20 January 1961 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The claim of Executive Privilege for Nixon 1974 and for Trump 2019. 2 of 2:  @RichaardAEpstein @HooverInst https://www.hoover.org/research/presidents-privilege...more

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• PacWatch: Homeless camps overwhelm California. Jeff Bliss.

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  Photo: Harvesting near San Jose, California; 1874, John Ross Key. Key, John Ross, 1832-1920 (artist); L. Prang & Co. (publisher) - Flickr: Harvesting near San Jose, California   File name: 0711000150 Title: Harvesting near San Jose, California Creator/Contributor: Key, John Ross, 1832-1920 (artist); L. Prang & Co. (publisher) Copyright date: 1874 Genre: Chromolithographs; Landscape prints Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department Rights: No known restrictions Flickr data on 2011-08-08: Camera: Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW, Sinar m License: CC BY 2.0 User: Boston Public Library BPL 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&#39;s life plus 70 years or less. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1924. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that &quot;faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain&quot;. 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:Harvesting near San Jose, California (Boston Public Library).jpg Created: 23 July 2008 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow PacWatch: Homeless camps overwhelm California. Jeff Bliss.  https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/16/san-jose-42-percent-spike-in-homeless-population/...more

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• Democrats cry "Dictator!" @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion

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  Photo: First Lenin statue built by the workers in Noginsk Unknown - Projector (Spotlight) issue 6 (28) Mar 1924. News reports on events and facts, which have a purely informational character (news reports). First Lenin statue built by the workers in Noginsk Permission details "This work was originally published anonymously or under a pseudonym before January 1, 1943 and the name of the author did not become known during 50 years after publication."View more Public Domainview terms File:First Lenin statue in USSR 1924.jpg Created: 24 March 1924 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Democrats cry &quot;Dictator!&quot; @DanHenninger @WSJOpinion https://www.wsj.com/articles/jerry-nadlers-dictator-11557960157?emailToken=63ba4a63fde0255de634f7bca70a78f9P1kMiRRUIQZXg4bHecO812MNpVerak8hd+tQumDHanSI8WPfBLVDDlgLEWoJjazts/4h2SyJ7osxA7AcbMiaOw%3D%3D&amp;reflink=articlecopyURLshare...more

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• The unconnected dots of Steele, Trubnikov, Surkov, Halper, Page, Pappadopolos. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Photo: Kuznetsky Most. A view from the street Rozhdestvenka to side of the street Lubyanka, the beginning of the 1930's Русский: Перекресток Кузнецкого моста с Рождественкой Date the beginning of the 1930's Source http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Kuzmost39_perekrestok-Rojdestvenki.jpg Author Unknown Licensing[edit] Public domain This work is in the public domain in Russia  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The unconnected dots of Steele, Trubnikov, Surkov, Halper, Page, Pappadopolos. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR...more

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• The unexplained FBI unverified "VERIFIED APPLICATION" for "agent of a foreign power" Carter Page. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR

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  Photo:  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The unexplained FBI unverified "VERIFIED APPLICATION" for "agent of a foreign power" Carter Page. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @WJR  https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-justice-department-releases-carter-page-fisa-application

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• The FBI denied the House Intelligence Committee the Kathleen Kavalec memo on Steele naming Russian sources October 11, 2016. @DevinNunes

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  Photo: Aerial view of Pennsylvania Ave. looking west, ca. 1930. (Records of the Public Buildings Service, National Archives) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The FBI denied the House Intelligence Committee the Kathleen Kavalec memo on Steele naming Russian sources October 11, 2016. @DevinNunes https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/443710-state-departments-red-flag-on-steele-went-to-a-senior-fbi-man-well-before

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• California Democrat "vote-harvesting" gained seven seats from the GOP 2018. @DevinNunes

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  Photo: Exterior view of the California State Capitol building in Sacramento, ca.1900-1920 Photograph of the exterior view of the California State Capitol building in Sacramento, ca.1900-1920. The Italian Renaissance Revival state capitol building is approximately six-stories tall. After climbing a flight of concrete stairs, visitors are greeted by an eight-column portico entrance. Above the portico is a wide pediment adorned with moldings and sculptures. A very prominent feature is the dome and cupola. The building has a east and west wing. A variety of trees decorate the yard surrounding the building. A sign planted in the ground in the foreground reads: &quot;No thoroughfare, keep off the path, this means you&quot;.; &quot;Construction began in 1860--just 12 years after the discovery of gold at Sutter&#39;s Mill--on a four square block site which had been occupied by several private homes. The property was purchased with tax money raised by the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors. Over the next four years, architect Reuben Clark managed to get the walls up nine feet above the foundation. Floods in 1861 and 1862 slowed construction, forcing construction crews to haul wheelbarrows of dirt to raise the structure 15 feet. Funding for the project was piecemeal, but Clark signed a statement May 18, 1862 stating it could be built to his specifications for $500,000. Funds were provided by a legislature which met only two months every two years--so building progressed until funds ran out, then stopped until the next legislative session. That undoubtedly added to the frustration which drove Clark into a Stockton mental institution where he died in 1866. According to records uncovered in the hospital&#39;s files, the cause of insanity was diagnosed as &#39;continued and close attention to the building of the State Capitol in Sacramento&#39;. Gordon P. Cummings took over as supervising architect, and was in charge of the project until he finished the job in 1874. Total cost of the project was $2.5 million. The first major alteration took place from 1906 through 1908. A fourth floor was added to the remainder of the building by gutting the chambers, taking the roof off the building, installing new steel trusses, and redesigning the senate and assembly chambers. The building remained much that way until the Depression years of the 1930&#39;s, when people began making more demands on government. Then, a mezzanine floor was added. World War II, with its population boom, brought about the most major alteration of the Capitol: the addition of the East Wing, around 1952.&quot; -- unknown author. Call number: CHS-5654 Photographer: Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 Geographic subject (state): California Subject (file heading): Sacramento County -- Architecture Legacy record ID: chs-m8263; USC-1-1-1-8395 Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. Geographic subject (county): Sacramento Subject (lcsh): Capitols Date circa 1900 /1920 (date created) Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/8584 Author Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow California Democrat &quot;vote-harvesting&quot; gained seven seats from the GOP 2018. @DevinNunes Devin Nunes Podcast with the new chair of the California Republican Party, Jessica Patterson @millanpatterson...more

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• Why did Christopher Steele name Russian names to the State Department October 11, 2016? @ChuckRoss

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  Photo: Рекламный плакат розыгрыша лотереи 16 июля 1930 года на здании Страстного монастыря, Москва Date June 1930 Source http://www.hist.msu.ru/Strastnoy/Source/V/1930_2.jpg Author Unknown Licensing[edit] Public domain This work is in the public domain in Russia  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Why did Christopher Steele name Russian names to the State Department October 11, 2016?  @ChuckRoss https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/16/steele-dossier-sources-state-department/...more

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• #TheScalaReport. Digitisation of the planet produces REITs for "fulfillment centers," server farms and cell towers. Monetizing the emptied malls and dimmed city blocks. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com

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  Photo: Pike and Henry Streets, Manhattan.  Digital ID: 482679. Abbott, Berenice -- Photographer. March 06, 1936 Notes: Code: I.A.5. Looking down Pike Street toward the Manhattan Bridge, street half in shadow, rubble in gutters, some traffic. Source: Changing New York / Berenice Abbott. (more info) Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery. Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?482679 Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow #TheScalaReport. Digitisation of the planet produces REITs for &quot;fulfillment centers,&quot; server farms and cell towers. Monetizing the emptied malls and dimmed city blocks. Chris Riegel, CEO Scala.com  #ScalaAPS @STRATACACHE  @ScalaInc...more

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• Taking Tehran to zero oil. @Mikeknightsiraq @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Photo: German Baghdad Railway, 190_. Railroad construction camp Abstract/medium: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection Physical description: 1 negative : Date between 1900 and 1910 Source Library of Congress Catalog: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/matpc/item/mpc2004003601/PP Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/matpc.04666 Author Matson Collection Permission (Reusing this file)  No known restrictions on publication. Library of Congress square logo.png This image is available from the United States Library of Congress&#39;s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID matpc.04666. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Taking Tehran to zero oil. @Mikeknightsiraq @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres Michael Knights is a senior fellow of The Washington Institute, specializing in the military and security affairs of Iraq, Iran, and the Persian Gulf states. Related articles ● https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/if-iran-deploys-missiles-in-iraq-u.s.-israeli-response-options ● https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-embassy-staff-told-to-leave-iraq-amid-iran-tensions-11557910345 ● https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/how-the-u.s.-government-should-think-about-iraqs-popular-mobilization-force ● https://twitter.com/MichaelSinghDC/status/1128668164533956610...more

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• Tehran Threat Streams in the Gulf. BarbaraL Leaf @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Photo: Baghdad Railway Eastern question (Central Asia) Publisher: London Isbister Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: e an hour beforedaybreak, and the track, which winds along theedge of the marsh in order to keep on the hard sandjust between the desert and the water, cannotexceed fifty miles at the outside. Yet, when thesun set, we still had two hours of painful floggingthrough the darkness, guided by the rings of flameround the great domes of Hussein and Abbas, untilwe came on a labyrinth of canals and date-gardensand an enormous graveyard with dim lights amongthe habitations of the dead, and we knew that wewere close to the Sacred City. Passing througha tumble-down gateway in a ruined wall we foundourselves in wide busy streets, where I recognisedso many Indian faces in the little shops which werestill open that one might have fancied oneself in theoutskirts of Bombay or Delhi. In one direction washeard the wild music of a Turkish military bandj inanother the chant of a belated pilgrim caravan wasdistinct above the uproar of the bazaar, while in o w &gt; CO03&gt; *PIJO 03 wr&gt; Text Appearing After Image: THE SACRED CITIES OF THE SHIAHS 213 front of us loomed the lights of a big market-placewhere the babble of voices and the thronged benchesof the coffee shops, the Eastern counterpart of theFrench cafes, with their seats out on the publicstreet, showed clearly that the Kerbela season wasin full swing. The arabana pulled up in front of a hostelry witha wonderful picture of a waggonette and horses overthe door. Here I found a kavass from the BritishAgency awaiting me, and in five more minutes Iwas in a pleasant apartment of the house of theIndia Nawab who looks after the British Indiansubjects in the city of Hussein. Next morningI found most of. the distinguished people of theplace had come to call on me, including the TurkishGovernor, the judge, and the head Mullah. I wouldhave given anything for a good interpreter in orderto converse with all these interesting people, whospoke no European language. As it was I hadto get along as best as I could with my Christianservant, whose English w http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Tehran Threat Streams in the Gulf.  BarbaraL Leaf @WashInstitute Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres Barbara A. Leaf, the U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates from 2014-2018, is a Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute. During her diplomatic career, Ambassador Leaf served in high-level positions at Foggy Bottom and abroad. Before arriving in Abu Dhabi in 2014, she served as deputy assistant secretary of state for the Arabian Peninsula in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs and as deputy assistant secretary of state for Iraq; directed the U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Team in Basrah, Iraq; and served as the department’s first director of the Office of Iranian Affairs. Related articles ● https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/if-iran-deploys-missiles-in-iraq-u.s.-israeli-response-options ● https://www.thenational.ae/world/gcc/saudi-arabia-s-oil-infrastructure-attacked-by-drones-energy-minister-khalid-al-falih-says-1.861314 ● https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-oil-usa-iran/saudi-arabia-says-oil-facilities-near-riyadh-attacked-idUSKCN1SK0YM ● https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-iraq-security-idUSKCN1SL1LR ● https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/us/politics/us-iraq-embassy-evacuation.html ● https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Saudi-led-coalition-in-Yemen-launches-air-strikes-on-Houthi-held-capital-589861 ● https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/world/middleeast/yemen-government-houthi-fighting.html ● https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-16/saudi-prince-iran-ordered-houthi-attacks-on-aramco-facilities...more

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• Eurovision Tel Aviv prospers in spite of Palestinian hacking pranks. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Photo:  Rotshild Boulevard in Tel-Aviv, the 1930's עברית: שדרות רוטשילד בסביבת שנת 1930, Original Image Name:שדרות רוטשילד , נוסח הקרדיט:The Rotshild collection of Prof. Shaul Ladany Pikiwiki Israel, Location:תל אביב Date circa 1930 Source The Israel Internet Association via the PikiWiki - Israel free image collection project Author Unknown Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain This work or image is now in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Eurovision Tel Aviv prospers in spite of Palestinian hacking pranks. Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres https://www.reuters.com/article/us-music-eurovision-madonna/madonna-gets-into-eurovision-groove-in-tel-aviv-despite-palestinian-criticism-idUSKCN1SN1LH...more

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• The Electoral College complaints & What is to be done? @LaraMBrownPHD

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  Photo:  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Electoral College complaints & What is to be done? @LaraMBrownPHD - https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/443507-democrats-should-stop-worrying-about-the-electoral-college

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• Pipeline attacks in Saudi Arabia and Pipeline contamination in Russia. @RobertMCutler Carleton University

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  Photo:  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Pipeline attacks in Saudi Arabia and Pipeline contamination in Russia. @RobertMCutler Carleton University Ukrtransnafta resumes oil transit to Europe https://www.unian.info/m/economics/10545570-ukrtransnafta-resumes-oil-transit-to-europe.html

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• Do you recall September 6, 2007 in the sky over Eastern Syria? @YaakovKatz Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres

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  Photo:  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Do you recall September 6, 2007 in the sky over Eastern Syria? @YaakovKatz Malcolm Hoenlein @Confofpres Shadow Strike: Inside Israel's Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power Audible Audiobook – Unabridged.Yaakov Katz (Author), Christopher Lane (Narrator), & 1 more

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• Cheerful conversation with colleague Mark Levin. @MarkLevinShow

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  Photo: Presidential Election 2016 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Cheerful conversation with colleague Mark Levin re 2020. @MarkLevinShow

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• "Promise Fatigue" with the false promises of the PRC. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst

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  Photo:  Shanghai Government Building in the 1930s 中文: 上海市政府大楼(1930年代) תאריך יצירה שנות ה-1930 מקור http://opinion.huanqiu.com/bbs/2010-01/685456_12.html יוצר לא ידוע אישורים והיתרים (שימוש חוזר בקובץ זה)  Public domain This image is now in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow "Promise Fatigue" with the false promises of the PRC. @MichaelAuslin @HooverInst https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/15/trumphaspromisefatiguefromdealingwithchina140330.html...more

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• What is the oil price of the Tehran provocations? @ProfBShaffer @Georgetown University.

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  Photo: McCarney, Upton County, Texas Physical Description: 1 photographic print (postcard) File: ag2005000103106rmccarneyopt Rights: Please cite DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University when using this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained for a fee. For details see the https://sites.smu.edu/cul/degolyer/research/permissions/ web page. For other information, contact degolyer@smu.edu. For more information, see: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/tex/id/150 View Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints: http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/all/cul/tex/ Date 1 January 1930, 00:00:00 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/smuculdigitalcollections/7590830760/ Author SMU Central University Libraries Permission (Reusing this file)  At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail. Flickr sets  Collection of Real Photographic Postcards of Texas Early Texas Postcards Texas Oil Photographs Flickr pools  Science, Technology, History Flickr tags  petroleum industry oil well drilling rigs oil wells derricks oil fields buildings Texas real photographic postcards RPPC http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow What is the oil price of the Tehran provocations? @ProfBShaffer @Georgetown University....more

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• Trump leads Europe and America against Red China. @SebGorka

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  Photo: Shanghai - The Bund in the 1930s. Date 1930s Source http://www.chinataiwan.org/zppd/LZP/200811/t20081110_775958.htm Author ROC reporter Permission (Reusing this file)  Public domain This movie or image from a movie is now in the public domain http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Trump leads Europe and America against Red China. @SebGorka

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• Can the Democrats fall in love with Joe Biden? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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  Photo: Waibaidu (Garden) Bridge, by Lang Jingshan Date 1930s Source http://wanshi2008.ok.blog.163.com/blog/static/5615701520139290514394 Author  Lang Jingshan (1892–1995) Blue pencil.svg wikidata:Q73460 Licensing[edit] Public domain This image is now in the public domain  http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow Can the Democrats fall in love with Joe Biden? @SebGorka #AmericaFirst

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• The Battle of Midway: 1 of 8: The Naval Institute Guide to the U.S. Navy's Greatest Victory, by Thomas C. Hone (Editor)

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  Photo: Frank Jack Fletcher, commander of U.S. Task Force 17 U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph - http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-f/fj-fltr.htm Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher in September 1942 Permission details This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.View more Public Domainview terms File:Frank Jack Fletcher-g14193.jpg Created: 1 September 1942 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Battle of Midway: 1 of 8: The Naval Institute Guide to the U.S. Navy&#39;s Greatest Victory, by Thomas C. Hone (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Midway-Institute-Greatest-Victory/dp/168247030X/ref=sr1fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1545001244&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr1&amp;keywords=Thomas+Hone+editor+Midway The Battle of Midway, commemorated annually in the U.S. Navy, warrants close attention. This Naval Institute guide includes some of the most vibrant and informed accounts by individuals who fought on both sides of the June 1942 battle. The anthology pulls together memoirs, articles, excerpts from other Naval Institute Press books, and relevant government documents to help readers understand what happened and explain why the battle was so significant to the naval service. It also includes selections from several important Naval Institute oral histories. From the enlisted man&#39;s perspective to the admiral&#39;s, for both Americans and Japanese, The Battle of Midway ensures that readers see the U.S. Navy&#39;s greatest victory as the participants experienced it....more

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• The Battle of Midway: 2 of 8: The Naval Institute Guide to the U.S. Navy's Greatest Victory, by Thomas C. Hone (Editor)

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  Photo: Shigeyoshi Inoue, commander of the Fourth Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy Unknown - Scanned from: Dull, Paul S. (1978) A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945, Naval Institute Press, pp. p. 119 ISBN 0-87021-097-1 Japanese Admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue (Inouye), World War II Imperial Japanese Navy commander Permission details To uploader: Please provide the source and publication date. If the photograph was also published in the United States within 30 days after publication in Japan, it might be copyrighted. If the copyright has not expired in the U.S, this file will be deleted. See Commons:Hirtle chart. This template should not be used for a faithful photographic reproduction of an artwork. Under Article 23 of the former Copyright Act, its protection will be consistent with the artwork. See also Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag.View more Public Domainview terms File:Inoue Shigeyoshi.jpg Created: before 1945 date QS:P,+1945-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1945-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 (year of Inoue&#39;s retirement from naval service) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Battle of Midway: 2 of 8: The Naval Institute Guide to the U.S. Navy&#39;s Greatest Victory, by Thomas C. Hone (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Midway-Institute-Greatest-Victory/dp/168247030X/ref=sr1fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1545001244&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr1&amp;keywords=Thomas+Hone+editor+Midway The Battle of Midway, commemorated annually in the U.S. Navy, warrants close attention. This Naval Institute guide includes some of the most vibrant and informed accounts by individuals who fought on both sides of the June 1942 battle. The anthology pulls together memoirs, articles, excerpts from other Naval Institute Press books, and relevant government documents to help readers understand what happened and explain why the battle was so significant to the naval service. It also includes selections from several important Naval Institute oral histories. From the enlisted man&#39;s perspective to the admiral&#39;s, for both Americans and Japanese, The Battle of Midway ensures that readers see the U.S. Navy&#39;s greatest victory as the participants experienced it....more

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• The Battle of Midway: 3 of 8: The Naval Institute Guide to the U.S. Navy's Greatest Victory, by Thomas C. Hone (Editor)

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  Photo: Japanese advances in the Southwest Pacific from December 1941 to April 1942 MacArthur's General Staff - United States Army Center of Military History. The Campaigns of MacArthur in the Pacific, Volume I. Reports of General MacArthur. Retrieved on 2006-12-08., p. 24 ([1]) Map of Imperial Japanese advances in the Southwest Pacific and Southeast Asia areas during the first five months of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Permission details This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person&#39;s official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.View more Public Domainview terms File:Pacific War Japanese Advances.jpg Created: 31 December 1993 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Battle of Midway: 3 of 8: The Naval Institute Guide to the U.S. Navy&#39;s Greatest Victory, by Thomas C. Hone (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Midway-Institute-Greatest-Victory/dp/168247030X/ref=sr1fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1545001244&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr1&amp;keywords=Thomas+Hone+editor+Midway The Battle of Midway, commemorated annually in the U.S. Navy, warrants close attention. This Naval Institute guide includes some of the most vibrant and informed accounts by individuals who fought on both sides of the June 1942 battle. The anthology pulls together memoirs, articles, excerpts from other Naval Institute Press books, and relevant government documents to help readers understand what happened and explain why the battle was so significant to the naval service. It also includes selections from several important Naval Institute oral histories. From the enlisted man&#39;s perspective to the admiral&#39;s, for both Americans and Japanese, The Battle of Midway ensures that readers see the U.S. Navy&#39;s greatest victory as the participants experienced it....more

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• The Battle of Midway: 4 of 8: The Naval Institute Guide to the U.S. Navy's Greatest Victory, by Thomas C. Hone (Editor)

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  Photo: A mushroom cloud rises after a heavy explosion on board the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2), 8 May 1942. This is probably the great explosion from the detonation of torpedo warheads stowed in the starboard side of the hangar, aft, that followed an explosion amidships at 1727 hrs. Note USS Yorktown (CV-5) on the horizon in the left center, and destroyer USS Hammann (DD-412) at the extreme left.  Unknown - U.S. Navy photo 80-G-16651 Public Domain File:Large explosion aboard USS Lexington (CV-2), 8 May 1942 (80-G-16651).jpg Created: 8 May 1942date QS:P571,+1942-05-08T00:00:00Z/11 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Battle of Midway: 4 of 8: The Naval Institute Guide to the U.S. Navy&#39;s Greatest Victory, by Thomas C. Hone (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Midway-Institute-Greatest-Victory/dp/168247030X/ref=sr1fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1545001244&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr1&amp;keywords=Thomas+Hone+editor+Midway The Battle of Midway, commemorated annually in the U.S. Navy, warrants close attention. This Naval Institute guide includes some of the most vibrant and informed accounts by individuals who fought on both sides of the June 1942 battle. The anthology pulls together memoirs, articles, excerpts from other Naval Institute Press books, and relevant government documents to help readers understand what happened and explain why the battle was so significant to the naval service. It also includes selections from several important Naval Institute oral histories. From the enlisted man&#39;s perspective to the admiral&#39;s, for both Americans and Japanese, The Battle of Midway ensures that readers see the U.S. Navy&#39;s greatest victory as the participants experienced it....more

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• The Battle of Midway: 5 of 8: The Naval Institute Guide to the U.S. Navy's Greatest Victory, by Thomas C. Hone (Editor)

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  Photo: Midway Atoll, several months before the battle. Eastern Island (with the airfield) is in the foreground, and the larger Sand Island is in the background to the west.  Unknown - U.S. Navy photo 80-G-451086 Aerial photograph of Midway Atoll, looking just south of west across the southern side of the atoll, 24 November 1941. Eastern Island, then the site of Midway's airfield, is in the foreground. Sand Island, location of most other base facilities, is across the entrance channel. Public Domain File:Aerial view of Midway Atoll on 24 November 1941 (80-G-451086).jpg Created: 24 November 1941date QS:P571,+1941-11-24T00:00:00Z/11 http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Battle of Midway: 5 of 8: The Naval Institute Guide to the U.S. Navy&#39;s Greatest Victory, by Thomas C. Hone (Editor) https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Midway-Institute-Greatest-Victory/dp/168247030X/ref=sr1fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1545001244&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr1&amp;keywords=Thomas+Hone+editor+Midway The Battle of Midway, commemorated annually in the U.S. Navy, warrants close attention. This Naval Institute guide includes some of the most vibrant and informed accounts by individuals who fought on both sides of the June 1942 battle. The anthology pulls together memoirs, articles, excerpts from other Naval Institute Press books, and relevant government documents to help readers understand what happened and explain why the battle was so significant to the naval service. It also includes selections from several important Naval Institute oral histories. From the enlisted man&#39;s perspective to the admiral&#39;s, for both Americans and Japanese, The Battle of Midway ensures that readers see the U.S. Navy&#39;s greatest victory as the participants experienced it....more

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• The Battle of Midway: 6 of 8: The Naval Institute Guide to the U.S. Navy's Greatest Victory, by Thomas C. Hone (Editor)

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  Photo:  More details USS Yorktown at Pearl Harbor days before the battle  Unknown - U.S. Navy photo 80-G-13065 The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) in Dry Dock No. 1 at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, 29 May 1942, receiving urgent repairs for damage received in the Battle of Coral Sea. She left Pearl Harbor the next day to participate in the Battle of Midway. USS West Virginia (BB-48), sunk in the 7 December 1941 Japanese air attack, is being salvaged in the left distance. Public Domain File:USS Yorktown (CV-5) in a dry dock at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard,