The Curio

Of course, I’m delighted that the family are safe and sound. But the whole thing does sound like a scene from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.

Rescuers spot lost family’s twig ‘Help’ sign - CNN.com:

“Stranded in the snowy California woods for three days after losing their way while searching for a Christmas tree, a father and his three children fashioned a “Help” sign out of twigs on a nearby unpaved road, according to the helicopter pilots who found them.”

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• Twitter, social networks and losing your data
• I’ve done questionable things. Truly stupid.
• Weird weather
• Christmas shopping without moving

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Exactly 90 years on, these letters are being posted to a blog in the same timeframe as they were originally received by the soldiers family.

To find out what happens (happened) to Henry, follow the blog.

BBC - Radio 4 - Broadcasting House:

“In 1917, William Henry Bonsor Lamin went off to war, leaving behind him his wife and young son. Like thousands of other men enduring the terrors of the trenches, he wrote to his family. His letters are now the subject of a remarkable blog.”

It’s easy to forget that once, these giants were seen as the future for commercial passenger airlines. Nice, eerie pictures.

Pity they were full of hydrogen.

Fogonazos: Zeppelins over Manhattan:

“Zeppelins reached their zenith at the beginning of the 1930s, when the airships Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg operated regular transatlantic flights between Germany and both North and South America. Zeppelins flew frequently over Manhattan, as silent monsters floating over the skyscrappers.”

The human tragedy of the SS Titanic lives on: A recent DNA test reveals the true identity of a lost child.

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It seems that after all these years, the Titanic is still claiming victims.

Titanic baby given new identity:

“A baby boy positively identified by DNA testing decades after he died when the Titanic sank has now been named as someone else.”