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Images of cargo hold of a Boeing 747 (left) and associated cargo reservations system (right)
images from page 19 of Pan American World Airways Annual Report for 1977. Left caption reads: "Its immense capacity and extra large loading doors enable Pan Am's 747 freighter to carry items that formerly could not be shipped by air." Right caption…
Infographic: "Pioneering Contributions to U.S. Aviation by Pan American Airways System" timeline, 1927-1943
pp. 19-20 of "Wings Over the World: Pan American World Airways Annual Report for 1943"
International Rescue Committee waiting area at the Cuban Refugee Center
To alleviate overcrowded Miami, the Cuban Refugee Program worked with voluntary agencies to encourage arriving refugees to relocate away from the area. By 1980, 304,000 Cuban refugees, about 60% of those processed, resettled to 38 states and 24…
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“Remembering Jacques Stéphen Alexis: A Centenary Celebration” commemorates the centennial anniversary of the birth of Jacques Stéphen Alexis (1922– -1961), renowned Haitian novelist, essayist, activist, and neurologist born in Gonaïve, Haiti.…
Is Shakespeare Dead????
If you thought the movie Anonymous was a fresh and original take on the man we know as Shakespeare, you’ll be interested to know that it was a road – though less travelled – paved long before. Mark Twain, one of our country’s most celebrated authors…
Jacques Stéphen Alexis, 1922-1961. Haitian novelist, essayist, activist, and neurologist.
April 22, 1922, Jacques Stéphen Alexis is born in Gonaïve, Haiti to Lydia Nuñez and Stéphen Alexis during the American occupation of Haiti (1915-1934).
1926, Alexis starts his elementary education at the Collège Stanislas de Paris, France when his…
1926, Alexis starts his elementary education at the Collège Stanislas de Paris, France when his…
