AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

Photo shows a train passenger looking over wreckage caused by Irish rebels and incidentally getting a light from the still burning timbers, Feb. 6, 19...

An armored car shown, Aug. 26, 1922, Ireland. (AP Photo)

Patricia Reso, wife of missing Exxon executive Sidney Reso, cast her eyes down as she tells reporters at her home on June 17, 1992 in Morris Township,...

Troops firing from the shelter of a hedge in Ireland, 1922. (AP Photo)

Hughey Jennings former manager of the Detroit Tigers, later assistant to John J. McGraw of the New York Giants is shown in Aug. 1921. (AP Photo)

William H Taft, former president, at left, is shown taking the oath of office as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States on July 1...

Karl F. Skoog, Boston sculptor, touches up a bust of the oldest Harvard professor, Albert Bushnell Hart, a noted historian, April 12, 1933. Bushnell...

Opera tenor Enrico Caruso is shown in 1921. (AP Photo)

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, left, and James M.Cox, Democratic nominee for president in 1920, photographed at the White H...

Grateful French women present flowers to wounded Marines in France, following battle of Belleau Woods, 1918. (AP Photo)

These men are at work in a place where work isn't taken very seriously Jan.16, 1917 in the Virgin Islands in the West Indies. The idea is to make the...

Paul Robeson is seen as an all-American football player at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1917. (AP Photo)

Czar Nicholas II reviews his bodyguards in 1916, with his son Czarevich Alexei behind the Czar, 18 months later they were shot in a cellar at Yekateri...

This is the scene in Turkey in 1915 when Armenians were marched long distances and said to have been massacred. (AP Photo)

Ben Hogan (right), pro golfer from Hershey, Pa., is interviewed by a radio announcer on July 11, 1914 at Kansas City, Mo., after he shot a second roun...

Czar Nicholas II of Russia is shown in formal dress uniform in this undated photo circa 1914. Nicholas' rule ended with the Russian Revolution of 19...

Racers round the southwest turn of the Indianapolis Speedway in the third 500-mile race May 31, 1913. Jules Goux, a Frenchman, won the race. (AP Pho...

Billy Knipper speeds down the track while other entrants are pulled into the pits in the third 500-mile race, May 31, 1913 at the Indianapolis Motor S...

This is the start of the 1911 Memorial Auto Race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, May 30, 1911. (AP Photo)

At top: An action photo of the first Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Speedway, May 30, 1911, and at bottom is the start of the 1962 race as race...

The death in San Quentin prison March 8, 1941, of James B. McNamara recalled the 1910 dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times. McNamara pleaded guilty t...

French aviator Louis Bleriot, standing in his plane, in France, as it wheeled into position prior take-off and his attempt to fly across the English C...

William Howard Taft, center, wore big fur-lined overcoat when he reviewed parade after his inauguration as president, on March 4, 1909 in Washington....

President William Howard Taft sits in a horse draw carriage beside his wife Helen after Inaugural ceremonies at the Capitol, in center of photo. Th...

President William Howard Taft enters a horse draw carriage to sit beside his wife Helen after Inaugural ceremonies at the Capitol where he was sworn...

President William Howard Taft sits in a horse draw carriage beside his wife Helen in front of the white podium area of photo after Inaugural ceremo...

Theodore Roosevelt campaigns for the Presidency in 1904. (AP Photo)

This was the scene at the battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War, July 1863. (AP Photo)

Associated Press staffers in Philadelphia are seen, March 28, 1898. Top row, left to right: telegraph operators O.M. Park, L.W. Bartholomew, John W. S...

The brigades of Confederate General Robert Toombs and Union General A.E. Burnside struggle fo rthe stone bridge during the battle near Antietam, Md.,...

The Second Avenue Armory in New York burns during the city's Draft Riots, July 1863. (AP Photo)

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Federal charge of the 8th Missouri and 11th Indiana Zouaves, led by Gen. Lew Wallace, against Fort Donelson, a Confederate stronghold on the Cumberlan...

The attack of Union forces against the Confederacy in the battle of Carnifex Ferrry, W. Va., is shown in this wash drawing made on the spot by Cpl. Ne...

Czars house in Yekaterinburg, Siberia, Russia shown in this photo taken during the Czars imprisonment in the early 1900s. No other caption informatio...

This is a copy of an actual halftone photo, or ink print from a lead plate, made in 1863 during the Civil War at the time of the siege of Port Hudson...

Judah Benjamin is shown in a portrait made when he was Secretary of State of the Confederacy, 1861. (AP Photo)

Officers of the New York and Brooklyn Corporation, and workmen, inspect the cable anchorage on the Brooklyn side during construction, Oct. 1878. (AP P...

This is a scene from the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee April 7, 1862, as depicted by artist Thure de Thulstrup. Although the Union forces as painted...

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, center, prepares to don his motorboard as United Nations Secretary General Boutros-Ghali, left, looks on prior...

President Abraham Lincoln is shown in a photograph by Alex Hessler, Nov. 1860 shortly after he won the election, in Chicago, Ill. (AP Photo/Alex Hessl...

The Green Mountain Boyes of Vermont, a paramilitary group from western Vermont, wearing mismatched uniforms, are shown sailing on Lake Champlain durin...