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January 2011

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Postcard of Sweetwater Dam, 1907

  • ... that the Sweetwater Dam (pictured) near San Diego, when first constructed in 1888, was the tallest masonry arch dam in the United States?

Flames running up slope during B&B Complex Fires on 21 August 2003

A brown bird with speckled eyes sits on the grass.

An inline-engined aircraft on tall taildragger landing gear with a mid-wing and 1930s U.S. military insignia

A large brick church with bronze domes

Track map of Hurricane Able

Color photograph of two World War II-era warships at sea near the coast. Clouds of smoke are visible on the left-hand side of the ship nearest the camera.