Photo, above: Ukrainian - Temple Pendant (Kolt) with Two Birds. [unvetted for accuracy:] With Its Gold "Vaporized", a Furious Ukraine Turns On Its Central Bankers, by Tyler Durden [this report is decidedly not verified] As reported two weeks ago, following a stunning announcement by the head of...
Photo, above: In the old days, before Erdogan: F-14B VF-32 at Incirlik AB in Turkey, Operation Northern Watch. See Hour 2, Block A, and Hour 3, Block A. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter, WJR, The Great Voice of the Great Lakes and author, Liberty Risen. Hour One Monday 1...
Photo, above: A bull's head bowl from the Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós. The origin of the treasure is still controversial, it may be a product of the Eighth Century; or Avars art; or Ninth Century Bulgarian; or perhaps outstanding work of the Tenth Century Hungarian conquerors. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW...
Portraits, above: see, Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership, by Conrad Black, hours two and three. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 29 November 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of...
Photo, above: Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876), and sometimes called "the Napoleon of the West," was a Mexican politician and general who greatly influenced early Mexican politics and government. Santa Anna first opposed the...
Photo, above: Church Trustees room - Many of the Pilgrims who migrated to the Plymouth Plantation had resided in the city of Leiden, in Holland, from 1609–1620, and had recorded their births, marriages and deaths at the Gothic Pieterskerk. To commemorate this, a nondenominational Thanksgiving Day...
Photo, above: The brick kiln in Kot Radha Kishan of Kasur district, 50 kilometres from Lahore. Pakistani Christian Couple burnt alive in Kasur Punjab / Posted by Christians in Pakistan on November 04, 2014 KASUR, PAKISTAN: A couple was burnt alive in a brick kiln in the outskirts of Kasure, Geo...
Photo, above: Modern Russia exists as progeny of the ancient Kievan Rus. The history of Russia begins with that of the Eastern Slavs and the Finno-Ugric peoples. The state of Garðaríki ("the realm of towns"), which was centered in Novgorod and included the entire areas inhabited by Ilmen Slavs,...
Photo, above: Persian warriors from the Berlin Museum. In the matter of Defense Ministers: Darius the Great advises his successor, "If thus thou shalt think, 'May I not feel fear of [any] other,' protect this Persian kara*; if the Persian kara shall be protected, thereafter by the will of...
Photo, above: Ukraine crisis, 2014. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 23 November 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: The Great Big Book of Horrible Things - Matthew White Sunday 23 November 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: The Great Big Book of Horrible Things - Matthew White Sunday 23 November 2014 /...