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Recent Articles
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Prohibition
Lost LA
How Alcohol Still Seeped Into Los Angeles During Prohibition
Post date:In 1919, Congress passed the Volstead Act, the 18th Amendment’s liquor ban. Despite the Prohibition the liquor continued to flow in the Southland, along with the sun and waves and a few secret tunnels.
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Blue Sky Metropolis
Worth the Struggle: Diana Trujillo's Journey from Colombia to NASA
Post date:After immigrating from Colombia, Diana Trujillo took the long path to becoming an aerospace engineer at JPL, but for the Colombian aerospace engineer, it was worth it.
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aviation
Blue Sky Metropolis
Meet the Daring Women of Color Who Beat Bigotry in Aviation
Post date:Despite gender and racial discrimination, Bessie Coleman and those inspired by her blazed the trail for future female aviators.
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aviation
Blue Sky Metropolis
Soaring into Herstory: The Women's Air Derby of 1929
Post date:In 1929, Santa Monica was overflowing with spectators as the host for the first Intercontinental Woman’s Air Derby, where twenty female aviators signed up to participate in the 2,759-mile course to the finish line in Cleveland, Ohio.