Art hoarder's whereabouts unknown after German officials make estimated $1B discovery

The mysterious painting hoarder who was revealed to have stashed more than 1,400 works in his apartment – estimated to be worth around $1 billion -- has disappeared after authorities made the discovery.

Prosecutor Reinhard Nemetz told reporters in the Bavarian city of Augsburg that investigators have turned up "concrete evidence" that at least some of the works were seized by the Nazis from their owners or classed by them as "degenerate art" and seized from German museums in 1937 or shortly after.

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Remembering legendary Enigma code breaker Mavis Batey

If you don't know of Mavis Batey, you should. Her work cracking the Enigma machine's coded messages was crucial to the success of D-Day landings during WWII. Batey, aged 92, died this week on 12 November 2013. Read the full story below about her accomplishments:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57612488-1/remembering-legendary-enigma-code-breaker-mavis-batey/

Last Doolittle Raiders make final toast

With a final toast, the Doolittle Raiders symbolically said goodbye Saturday to a decades-old tradition and to a history that changed the course of the Pacific war in World War II.
Gathering from across the country together one last time, three surviving Raiders sipped from silver goblets engraved with their names and filled with 1896 Hennessy cognac in a once-private ceremony webcast to the world at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/local/last-doolittle-raiders-make-final-toast/nbnpF/