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Vultee Aircraft award presentation program cover page, 1942

Legal court proceedings are notorious for taking months, and sometimes years, to finalize. For the sake of time and simplicity, many employers stipulate in their employment contracts that they will use an alternative: arbitration. Arbitration is a method of dispute resolution in which two parties elect a neutral third party to settle the issue... 

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Diametra, Trigona, Quadrata, & Hexagon, Iulij Firmici Materni Iunioris Siculi V.C. ad Mauortium Lollianum, Astronomicōn libri VIII, QB41 .F46 1551

Contemporary astrology in the United States is generally associated with the 12 zodiac signs, like Virgo and Aries, and their role in personal horoscopes. Centuries ago, early Western astrology was often conflated with astronomy and was considered a scholarly subject...

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Neeli Cherry cat illustration

In 1969 American poets Charles Bukowski and Neeli Cherkovski began producing a literary magazine titled Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns. Bukowski and Cherkovski published the mimeographed magazine...

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Two story Spanish influenced red brick elementary school in Los Angeles area, ca. 1930s

The Photographs of Los Angeles Schools and Homes is an artificial collection of thirty-five black and white photographs taken in approximately 1930 in the Los Angeles area. Three or more photographers created the images, and an unknown....

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