President John F. Kennedy at Rice University, September 12, 1962 NASA photo archive
On September 12, 1962, John F. Kennedy first announced the United States’ intention to put a man on the moon during a speech on the football field of Rice University in Houston
USS Gloucester, 1898 Naval Historical Center
The USS Gloucester, a Spanish-American war-era gunboat the US Navy converted from JP Morgan’s beloved old yacht, Corsair II
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Francis Cugat’s 1924 painting Celestial Eyes, which was later used as the cover art for the first edition of The Great Gatsby (1925)
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The program from the first ever Academy Awards, held on May 16, 1929 at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. The ceremony wasn’t televised, and it only ran for 15 minutes total
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The December 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual that featured the debut appearance of both Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet
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