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Mission San Juan Capistrano
Aerial view of Koreatown facing north over Mid-Wilshire District (Koreatown), The Travelers Insurance Building, Sheraton Wilshire HotelAerial view of Koreatown facing north over Mid-Wilshire District (Koreatown), The Travelers Insurance Building, Sheraton Wilshire Hotel.…
Pacific Indemnity Building at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Vermont AvenuePacific Indemnity Building at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Vermont Avenue The Texaco Building can be seen further down the street, heading…
Amat Polymneia verumPolymneia
Glorious VictoryThis is a painting that depicts the 1954 Guatemalan Coup. This was painted in the same year as the coup reflecting a leftist perspective of the coup…
In this excerpt, President John F. Kennedy outlines why the space program is vital to national interests, what its benefits will be, how many national…
A 1959 cigarette company trading card featuring Laika, the Sputnik dog.Within a month of the launch of Sputnik, the first satellite, Soviets launched a second satellite, Sputnik 2. This satellite had a dog named Laika…
An excerpt from footage of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, 1969.After some setbacks and second place finishes to the Soviets, the United States successfully became the first nation to land a man on the moon.…
1976 Senate Judiciary Committee report on revolutionary activities within the American Indian MovementAn excerpt from the 1976 Senate Judiciary Committee report on revolutionary activities within the American Indian Movement. A profile of AIM from the…
Schoolmaster’s Assistant; being a compendium of arithmetic, both practical and theoretical, 17th editionMathematics textbook, 17th edition, published in Philadelphia, 1773