Graphic, above: The set of all numbers, real and imaginary JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Sunday 905PM Eastern (605P Pacific): The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On by Julian Havil; 1 of 4 The insides of this book are as clever and compelling as the subtitle on the cover. Havil, a...
Photo, above: Dong_Ha, Vietnam: Operation Hastings JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Saturday 905P Eastern Time: Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 by George J. Veith; 1 of 4 The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America’s worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete...
Photo, above: Trucking fleets and the economy. Peterbilt Motors Company is an American manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty Class 5 through Class 8 trucks headquartered in Denton, Texas. Founded in 1939 Peterbilt operates manufacturing facilities in Denton, Texas (1980), and Sainte-Thérèse,...
Graphic, above: the reach of Hamas rockets JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Malcolm Hoenlein Thursday 905P Eastern Time: Aaron Klein, WABC radio, in re: from a bunker under Tel Aviv as Hamas rockets rain to the south. Thursday 920P Eastern Time: Reza Kahlili, author, A Time to Betray, and Larry...
Photo, above: Israeli soldiers recite prayers close to the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights JOHN BATCHELOR Co-hot: Gordon Chang Wednesday 905P Eastern Time: Richard Fisher, Senior Fellow, Asian Military Affairs at the International Assessment and...
Photo, above: Lebanese ladies' Maronite ball. Jill Khawam Kelley is a Maronite Christian married to a surgeon and living in Tampa: a stone's throw from CENTCOM, which sent many important international visitors to dine chez Dr and Mrs Kelley. The couple owe the IRS millions of dollars for a...
Photo, above: the siege of the Alamo. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Monday 905P Eastern Time (605P Pacific Time): . The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H. W. Brands; 1 of 4 Monday 920P Eastern Time (620P Pacific Time): . The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and...
Photo, above: Ardebil Persian rug JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Sunday 905PM Eastern (605P Pacific): The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran by David Crist; 1 of 4 Sunday 920PM Eastern (620P Pacific): The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year...
Photo, above: Ashley Sabol, 21, of Seaside Heights, New Jersey, looks over her accommodations at Tent City in Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey, on November 9. 2012. Sabol arrived at Tent City the same night as the Nor'easter, when there was no heat inside the camp. The tent flaps were...
Photo, above: Shanidar Cave is an archaeological site in the Bradsot mountain, Zagros Mountains in Erbil Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It was excavated from 1957–1961 by Ralph Solecki and his team from Columbia University and yielded the first adult Neanderthal skeletons in Iraq, dating...