Photography course, Glasgow School of Art, 1910
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Everyone knows Wilbur and Orville Wright’s names and how, on a blustery day in 1903, they flew the first airplane off a sand
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The people of Hastings on the southeast shore of England woke up on the morning of April 15, 1919, and they were in for a big
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World War II became a race of production and the Ford Motor Company stepped up in a big way to help bring down Hitler. As the
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Once upon a time, a trip from the east coast of the United States to California was an arduous journey. It required weeks of
