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The U.S. White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals met in Washington D.C., May 23-27, 1977. It was the first White House Conference devoted solely to the problems and potentials of handicapped people and it brought together the largest number…

SP4 Ruediger Richter (Columbus, Georgia), 4th Bn., 503 Inf., 173 Abn Bde (Separate), lifts his battle weary eyes to the heavens, as if to ask why? SGT. Daniel E. Spencer (Bend, Oregon) stares down at their fallen comrade. The day's battle ended, they…

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Through the IAEA's International Chernobyl Project, some 200 scientists from 25 countries and seven international organizations participated in field visits in 1990-91 to assess the radiological consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl accident. Here a…

Portuguese Charles Peters' accounts and stories of seeking gold in California.

Constructed by Augustus Petermann, F.R.G.S.

Scale: 1/890,000 of Nature (14 miles to 1 inch.)

Note: This Map is based on the trigonometrical surveys or Lt. Col. Waugh, from which the positions and altitudes of the principal Peaks are laid down.…

Digitized pages from autobiography "My Story" by Peter Roze Aivars, recounting his experience as a Latvian civilian turned captured soldier during World War II.

Tourists at the information booth at Cost Plus. A sign of the changing nature of Fisherman's Wharf.

Scanned documents, Peter Aivars Roze explaining the impacts of the "Gruesome Year" in Latvia.