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"Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" levels off for a run over target. Photo shows the chin turret with .50 caliber machine guns featured in later models. The B-17 weighed about 60,000 lbs., carried a bomb load of 6000 lbs., at a speed of approximately 300…

Excerpt from 'A woman's thoughts about women' printed in 1858 by Hurst and Blackett. This excerpt includes Chapter II: Self-Dependence; Chapter VII: Female Friendships; and Chapter XI: Growing Old.

The photograph was taken after the signing. Gov. Regan passes his pen to Sen. George Deukmejian (R. Long Beach), sponsor of the death penalty bill, during formal ceremony here. At the right is Atty. Gen, Evelle J. Younger.

OLD OR NEW, THEY SWEEP CLEAN--These residents of Los Angeles' Korea town community take a centuries-old tradition seriously as they sweep the sidewalks in their neighborhood. They say they are planning to have such a cleanup once each month.

Focuses on the efforts of California restaurants to comply with the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). California Title 24 legislation as a forerunner of the ADA; Accessibility for the disabled; Cost of compliance with the guidelines.

This is a WWII propaganda poster created in America to encourage English to be spoken and not German, Japanese, or Italian.

early modern travel journal