Pan Am Explorer Vintage-Style Travel Bag. Pan Am represents a way of travel long since forgotten: a time when the journey was anticipated as much as the destination. With Pan Am, “getting there” always meant unmatched civility pooled with the pinnacle of cool. Today, nothing better represents the Pan Am experience than the Pan Am [...]
Posted by uspostWorldSaturday, September 24th, 2011
Pan Am, An Aviation Legend is a must for anyone who considers herself or himself a romantic and a traveler by air, in the 20th century. The book is loaded with vintage photos of early aircraft landing in the tropics, of founder Juan Trippe and longtime Pan Am advisor, Charles Lindberg, as well as art [...]
Unpretentious and dramatically straightforward, Valkyrie is a suspenseful yet ennobling story about the last attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler prior to the end of World War II. Tom Cruise is effective if a little opaque as hero Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who channels his anger at Hitler’s atrocities and mismanagement of the war by joining a [...]
When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, few could have anticipated its potential for devastation. Pulitzer prize-winning author John Hersey recorded the stories of Hiroshima residents shortly after the explosion and, in 1946,Hiroshima was published, giving the world first-hand accounts from people who had survived it. The words of Miss Sasaki, Dr. Fujii, Mrs. [...]
Elizabeth Taylor has died at age 79 after two months in a Los Angeles hospital where she was being treated for congestive heart failure. Good Morning America said she died “in the early hours this morning” in Los Angeles, with her four children – Michael Wilding, Christopher Wilding, Liza Todd, and Maria Burton – by [...]