Photo, above: Queen Tamar the Great (Georgian: თამარი) (c. 1160 – 18 January 1213), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was Queen Regnant of Georgia from 1184 to 1213. Tamar presided over the golden age of the Medieval Georgian monarchy. Her position as the first woman to rule Georgia in her own right was...
Photo, above: The latest in a string of infrastructure projects in Georgia is a twisted cascade of concrete forming a checkpoint at the border with Armenia. Work has begun at Ninotsminda on the structure, which will be over 100 meters wide and will divide traffic from both directions into a total...
Sunday 905PM Eastern (605P Pacific): Annamaria Andriotis, Marketwatch, in re: why do so many bidders withdraw from contracts to buy a house? A wildfire burns, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012 near Featherville, Idaho. A burnout maneuver has so far been successful in reducing fuels between Featherville and...
(Photo, above: Times Square, VJ Day, August 14, 1945. The term has been applied to both of the days on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made – to the afternoon of August 15, 1945, in Japan, and, because of time zone differences, to August 14, 1945 (when it was announced in...
(Photo: Elephants Walking Through Grass, Amboseli 2008. Leading Matriarch (Marianna). Killed By Poachers, 2009. © Nick Brandt 2011) 905P: Richard Epstein, Hoover, re Chicago School Strike and Collective Bargaining. 920P Epstein continued Charter School and Obama education policy. 935P: Tunku...
Photo, above: impending apocalypse JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial page; Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents Iwo Jima, February-April, 1945, preparing for the Invasion of Japan. Thursday 905P Eastern Time: Eli Lake; Newsweek/DailyBeast.com, in re:...
Photo, above: Cosmic radiation background: from the earliest universe, called "the flash of the Big Bang" at 3 degrees above absolute zero. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Wednesday 905P Eastern Time (605P Pacific Time): John Bolton, AEI, in re: Susan Rice on six Sunday-morning talk shows suggests that...
Photo, above: Iran announces missile tests at the Strait of Hormuz JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow report, CNBC, and WABC Radio Tuesday 905P Eastern Time: Larry Kudlow, in re: did the mkt sell off on report of Iranian missiles test this morning? Maybe, but more likely in...
Photo, above: demonstration in Ulyanovsk opposing the establishment of a NATO transit base there for Afghanistan resupply. Lenin's natal name was Ulyanov, as he was born there. "Under this scheme goods would be delivered by air from Afghanistan to Russia bypassing Uzbekistan. Russia will form...
Photo, above: Arab and Persian astronomers. The history of the best Western science runs through a massive flowering of Islamic thought; long before that, many sciences embraced in earliest Egypt, whence they spread to Greece and the entire ancient world, were first developed in Africa,...