- LIFE
A 1950 issue of LIFE featured a story headlined “Buddhist from Brooklyn,” which told the story of a 21-year-old man whose devotion to the religion inspired him to start a new life overseas His story is mostly about the praying There is very little eating, and the topic of love does not come up
- Jimmy Carter: A Noble Life
The following is from the introduction to LIFE’s special tribute issue, Jimmy Carter: A Noble Life, which is available online and at newsstands
- Back in the Day: Vikki Dougans Head-Turning Moment - LIFE
Years before she became “The Back,” Dougan had actually appeared in LIFE magazine on two occasions The first story, in the July 28, 1952 issue, was a short piece about how Dougan—born Edith Tooker in Brooklyn on Jan 1, 1929—used different-colored wigs to earn extra bookings as a model
- World War II Photo Archives - LIFE
Explore World War II within the LIFE photography vault, one of the most prestigious privately held archives from the US around the World
- The Joys of Minnesota Ice Fishing - LIFE
In 1962 LIFE magazine photographer Robert W Kelley traveled to the small Minnesota town of Glenwood—located on the shores of Lake Minnewaska, about halfway between Fargo, N D and Minneapolis—to capture people engaged in a classic northern pastime
- Mount Vesuvius: Photos From the Legendary Volcanos 1944 Eruption - LIFE
As LIFE noted to its readers in the April 17, 1944, issue of the magazine, the eruption “has compounded the complexities of fighting a war and of merely existing in southern Italy
- Welcome to LIFE. com
As a weekly magazine LIFE covered it all, with a breadth and open-mindedness that looks especially astounding today, when publications and websites tailor their coverage to ever-narrowing audiences LIFE chronicled the lives of presidents, and also followed a country doctor on his rounds
- Photos From an Atomic Bomb Test in the Nevada Desert, 1955 - LIFE
Eerily beautiful pictures from an atomic bomb test by LIFE's Loomis Dean, made in the Nevada desert in 1955 at the height of the Cold War
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