Photo, above: nanosatellite..STRaND-2, a twin nanosatellite mission from SSTL and the University of Surrey to test a novel in-orbit docking system using XBox Kinect technology that could change the way space assets are built, maintained and decommissioned. See sstl.co.uk for more information. JOHN...
Photo, above: Ann Romney, the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner, horsing around on a plane JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Tuesday 905P Eastern Time: Sean Trende, Real Clear Politics, in re: the president can win despite the poor economy. State polls lag behind national polls. The race is tied. Senior...
Photo, above: Tropical Storm Isaac passed over Miami enroute to New Orleans, bypassing Tampa. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Nan Hayworth (NY-19) Tampa Bay under the clouds of Isaac. Monday 905P Eastern Time (605P Pacific Time): Mona Charen, NRO, and David Drucker, Roll Call, in re: Why Do We Still...
Photo, above: War of 1812: British attack Washington: The Burning of Washington in 1814 was an armed conflict during the War of 1812 between the forces of the British Empire and those of the United States of America. On August 24, 1814, after defeating the Americans at the Battle of Bladensburg, a...
Photo, above: The Battle of the Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of the Virginia Capes or simply the Battle of the Capes, was a crucial naval battle in the American War of Independence that took place near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on 5 September 1781, between a British fleet led by Rear...
Photo, above: The fins on the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado were the largest and most outrageous ever fitted on a production car. Those fins were too much for many customers, however, and the tailfins shrank after that point. Within a couple of years, tailfins had become much less prominent, and by the...
Photo above: Flag of Club 88, where "h" is the eighth letter in the alphabet and HH stands for Heil Hitler. The many Club 88s currently all around Germany are a visible manifestation both of the resurgence of neo-Nazism and of a wash of specifically anti-Jewish sentiment. German politicians,...
Gu confessed during her trial this month in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei to killing 41-year-old Neil Heywood by pouring poison down his throat, saying he had threatened her son after a business deal went sour. 905 PM ET: With Gordon Chang, Forbes. com, and Peter Navarro, University of...
905 PM ET: Imperfect: An Improbable Life by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown (Apr 3, 2012) 920 PM ET: Imperfect: An Improbable Life by Jim Abbott and Tim Brown (Apr 3, 2012) 935 PM ET: Soccer Men: Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses, and Neurotics Who Dominate the World's Most Popular Sport ...
Photo, above: Syrian boys look at a destroyed tank near a damaged mosque in the city of Azaz. (Ben Hubbard, Associated Press /August 20, 2012) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Monday 905P Eastern Time: Devin Nunes (CA-21), in re: his recent trip to the Mideast, comments about the deterioration of the...