re: Pictures from days gone by....

The Honeywell Kitchen Computer, famously advertised with the quip, “If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute,” was a bold but impractical attempt to bring computing power into the home in 1969.

Catwoman is still alive, 91

Only the British ...

Imagine being a young guy and you bring not one, but two dates to the New Year's Eve dance. One is your "girl friend", but you have no romantic interest in the other, a "very beautiful girl with a lovely personality", 17 year old Dutch ballerina Edda van Heemstra, known to her family as "Adriaantje".

Born Audrey Ruston to an English father, she had assumed her mother's royal family name when the Germans invaded Holland in order to avoid suspicion by disguising her English heritage. Just a few years later she would be known as Audrey Hepburn.



Heard of the "Bridge Too Far" battle in Arnhem? Audrey's uncle Otto had been the mayor of Arnhem, and was executed by the SS in retaliation for an act of sabotage by Dutch partisans. One family home in which she lived was within sight of the bridge (and of course utterly destroyed, as was her school). At the time of the battle Audrey was living with her mother and other family in the close-by town of Velp. There they helped shelter some members of the British 1st Airborne "Red Devils" who escaped capture in Arnhem, hiding one soldier in their basement until the underground could smuggle them back west.

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This poignant photo, officially titled "Burst of Joy", shows Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm coming home from the Vietnam War in 1973. Photographer Slava "Sal" Veder captured the moment at Travis Air Force Base in California, after spending more than five years in captivity as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.

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and it was a terrible day in his life, wife had been cheating and was already engaged to another guy, she told him shortly after this picture was taken