Lower oil prices, while good for the economy, are a threat to what has been a dramatic surge in oil production in the U.S. David Goldman/AP hide caption

The airline industry is predicting more people will take to the skies this Thanksgiving than in any year since the start of the recession. David Goldman/AP hide caption

The Normandy American Cemetery is home to hundreds of American World War II veterans, including Eugene Vigosky. Samantha Broderick/WITF hide caption

Tacheles, a squat in the central district of Mitte, 1990. Spots like this one often became clubs or art spaces in the years following German reunification. Ben de Biel hide caption

Robert Lee Watt was a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for more than three decades. Courtesy of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers hide caption

James Earl Jones was born in Mississippi and grew up in Michigan. He was adopted by his grandparents and eventually developed a stutter. "I'm still a stutterer," he says. "I just work with it." Stephen Chernin/AP hide caption