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Annotated Page of Otia Imperialia

Annotated pages of a 14th century Italian manuscript of the Otia Imperialia by Gervase of Tilbury. Past owners of the manuscript have crossed out sections and included their own notes in the margins in Latin.

Tags HON 399, Honors College, Student Projects, Study Abroad

Announcement in the Birmingham Post-Herald about Meal Deliveries

Clipping of a scan of the Birmingham Post-Herald from 1996 announcing that the AIDs Task Force of Alabama, the Birmingham AIDS Outreach and the Community Kitchens would work together to provide meals for HIV positive individuals who needed help with meal preparation.

Apollo Craft

The Apollo craft maneuvers closer to the Soyuz craft to prepare for docking.

Apollo CSM Launch

Photo of the Apollo CSM launch from Kennedy Space Center, U.S.

Apollo Soyuz Test Project information card.

An information card discussing the ASTP in short but precise detail.

Apollo’s Second Generation PLSS

Sectional Diagram of the Apollo Personal Life Support System. This was the system responsible for maintaining safe atmospheric systems inside of the Apollo Space Suit

Application for the use of the word "Royal"

First application to the London Home Office to use the word "Royal" in their name

Art of The Agape House

Line art of the building that would become the Agape House in Birmingham, Alabama. This art was on fundraising materials for the residence house.

ASTP crew members pose in front of an Apollo-Soyuz mockup during a tour of Kennedy Space Flight Center.

"American and Soviet crewmen for the Apollo Soyuz Test Project visited KSC today as part of a familiarization tour for the Soviet cosmonauts. During their tour, they inspected a full-scale mockup of the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft in a docked configuration in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building. From left are Astronauts Vance Brand and Thomas P. Stafford, Cosmonauts Aleksey Leonov and Valeriy Kubesov, and Astronaut Donald K. Slayton. Launch of history's first international manned space station is scheduled for July 15, 1975."

Astronaut Edwin Aldrin walks on lunar surface near leg of Lunar Module

Edwin Aldrin walks on the surface of the moon during an Extra Vehicular Activity on Apollo 11. Photograph taken by Neil Armstrong

Bark Charles W. Morgan under sail

A photograph taken in 1920 of the Charles W. Morgan under sail

Birthday Party at A Baby's Place

A digitization of a 1990 issue of the Birmingham Post-Herald, with pictures from the specialized foster home A Baby's Place. This photo shows the monthly birthday party the home holds for the children in the place to celebrate them surviving another month with HIV/AIDS.

BIS Lunar Space Suit Replica

Physical Replica of the British Interplanetary Society Lunar Space Suit.

Black Arrow R4 Vehicle Second Stage

A photograph of the Black Arrow R4 vehicle's second stage, as photographed in the London Science Museum. It shows clearly the vehicle's Gamma-304 Type 2 Engine, along with the bright red payload faring.

Blackwall Basin

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Blueprint of Dallas Mill Village, 1893

This blueprint of the Dallas Mill Village was created by Oscar Goldsmith, owner of the Huntsville Land Company and Treasurer of Dallas Manufacturing Company, to show the Dallas board of directors the expansion of the mill village. By February 20, 1893, the Huntsville Land Company had built 50 double houses for the employees of Dallas Mill and was contracted to build 25 more that year. The blocks highlighted in red are were homes were already built in February 1893 and the blocks in black are the planned construction sites.

British Airways Concorde nose from front exit stairs

The Concorde is the world's first supersonic commercial aircraft. Due to maintenance costs and noise issues, the plane was retired in 2003. Since then, Concorde has become a British icon. Exhibits such as this one at Brooklands Museum share a goal of presenting the innovation and passenger experience of Concorde.