AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

This almost unreadable first draft of Maurice Ravel's

This is the crew of the El-Al Israel Airlines Boeing 707 Intercontinental jet airliner which was hi-jacked on its flight from Rome to Lod Airprot, Tel...

U.S. Army Headquarters Building, August, 1942 in Egypt. (AP Photo)

U.S. Army Headquarters Building, August, 1942 in Egypt. (AP Photo)

John Cushnahan, Northern Ireland Alliance Party, is a candidate in the by-election of January 1986 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (AP Photo/Peter Ke...

Actor Paul Newman shown in London during the shooting in November 1972 of location scenes for

Calvin Murphy, right, and his bride Vernetta relax in their new apartment in Niagrara Falls, New York as they received word March 4, 1970 that the Nia...

Ban Johnson, American League President, Secretary, and Treasurer shown July 8, 1927 at Belmont hotel in New York City. (AP Photo)

Alec Guinness, center, is shown in a scene from the film

San Diego Padres Alan Wiggins tries to avoid the tag by Detroit Tigers catcher Lance Parrish as Wiggins overran home-plate and then tried to go back a...

Anastasio Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua, visits a fish processing plant, October 1978 at San Juan Del Sur. This is one of his first public ap...

Every day twenty to thirty cars move out from the Dakotas and pass the Montana Highway Department's Port of Entry as seen here, July 1936. (AP Photo)

Gary Nixon of Baltimore, Md. is shown with his wife Mary following his victory in the 200-mile AMA motorcycle race at Daytona Beach, Fla., March 1967....

British movie producer Sir Richard Attenborough accompanied by Lady Attenborough in Paris, on January 1986, when he was awarded the Order of the Comma...

Gen. Anastasio Somoza Garcia, head of Nicaragua's 4,500 U.S. Marine-trained National Guard, takes time out to pose, June 14, 1947, three days after h...

Prince Dhirendra, the brother of Nepal's ruler, King Birendra, pictured in February, 1986. (AP Photo/ Peter Kemp)

Robert Venturi, American architect, pictured in London in January 1986, recently named to build the controversial for London's National Gallery, the b...

Against a background of the Himalayas, Katmandu, the capital of Nepal is shown February, 1986. (AP Photo/ Peter Kemp)

Noted German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, pictured in London, in September 1985, where she is appearing in concerts at the Royal Festival Hall. (AP P...

Giuletta Masina, the wife of the Italian movie director Federico Fellini, pictured in Paris, on January 1986. (AP Photo)/Laurent Rebours)

Soldiers of the Royal Nepalese Army, popularly known as the Gurkhas, parade in Katmandu in February, 1986. (AP Photo/ Peter Kemp)

Temples in Durbar square, in the Nepalese capital; Katmandu is shown February, 1986. (AP Photo/ Peter Kemp)

The Royal Palace in Katmandu, Nepal is shown February, 1986. (AP Photo/ Peter Kemp)

This is the type of railroad train that hauled U.S. Marines in Nicaragua, 1933. (AP Photo)

Spread over a wide area of the Egyptian Desert. British artillery and infantry push forward together

Australian officers who were decorated by Lieut. General Morshead, Sept. 9, 1942. Lieut. General Sir Leslie J. Morshead presented medal ribbons to Aus...

A school teacher's leap to freedom at the Soviet Consulate in New York provided one sensational chapter in international controversies, Aug. 12, 1948....

After five years to the day, a beflagged and decorated Addis Ababa turned out to watch their emperor June, 1945, Haile Selassmo return in triumph to t...

A column of German and Italian prisoners captured in the Libyan campaign nears the massive walls of the Citadel of Cairo, Jan. 1, 1942 after marching...

Defenders of an Egyptian city throw up a heavy anti-aircraft barrage during a night air raid in the latter part of 1941. (AP Photo)

Britain's Royal Navy had a major role in the world's latest combined operation when the 500 ship envoy safely transported allied troops to French with...

French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent is shown in Paris, date unknown. (AP Photo)

A San Francisco canyon made with 22 inch lens appears to be bridged by the Bay Bridge of San Francisco. First two blocks are within boundary of San...

Manning a heavy automatic A. A. gun on a rooftop in Oran are PTE. John D. Wood of Ft. Payne, Ala., left, and PTE. Frank J. Peks a of Milwaukee in an u...

This color cover of a

A night-time view of the Music Box Theater entrance located at 239 West 45th Street, in the Times Square area of Manhattan, in November 1976 in New Y...

Washington State Center Mel Hein (1928-30) , is considered the finest at his position. His 1930 team was 9-0 before losing to Alabama in The Rose Bowl...

Green Bay Packers coach Earl (Curly) Lambeau, at right, stands on the sidelines with unidentified player wearing #37 jersey. (AP Photo)

Chicago Daily News war correspondent George Weller, demonstrates how he turned out an empty pocket in West Berlin, after his release from East Germany...

Franklin Banker, left, Associated Press war correspondent, avows it is a small world after meeting up with his brother Pfc. George Banker in France wh...

Detroit Redwings, center ice man, Ebbie Goodfellow poses in 1933. (AP Photo)

Photo show of Kim Campbell, Canada's first woman Prime Minister, June, 1993. Exact date and location are unknown. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Winston Churchill, left, U.S. President Harry S. Truman, behind speakers dais, and Dr. France L. McClure, Westminster College, March 5 in Fulton, Miss...

Singer Frank Sinatra. 53, looks different with his mustache and beard as he appearance at the Caesara Palace in Las Vegas in May 1969 .(AP photo)

Tennessee's Richmond Flowers, Jr., is shown as he crosses the finish line during the 440 relay race at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1968. Tennessee won the r...

Willy Brandt West German Chancellor shown here in 1972. (AP Photo)

Meyer Lansky, reputed king of American gambling, takes a break outside High Court of Israel where he is appealing for permission to stay in the Jewish...

M. Lamar Muse, chairman, chief executive officer, Muse Air Corporation. In an undated photo. (AP Photo)

View of room in the British Stock Exchange in London, 1932. (AP Photo)

A relief in the hall of the pillars of Ramses's temple show on chariot during battle in Syria, in Abu Simbel, Egypt, Sept., 1968. (AP Photo/Mahmoud)