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- 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
- Mysterious Italy: The Mummies of Venzone - LIFE
The photos by LIFE’s Jack Birns capture the warm relations between the townsfolk and their mummified ancestors as they pose for photos together Birns also photographed a museum where some of the mummies were on display
- Garfield: The Story Behind the Coolest of the Cats - LIFE
In an age when attaining a satisfying work-life balance seems virtually impossible, and at a time when everyone is constantly asked to do more, achieve more, be better or risk feeling less than, Garfield serves as a potent reminder that some days, the healthier option is just going back to bed
- Sharks: Fear and Fascination - LIFE
The following is adapted from the introductio n to LIFE’s new special issue Sharks: Predators of the Sea, which is available here online and at newsstands: Few words in the American vocabulary inspire fear and fascination the way shark does
- The Most Iconic Photographs of All Time - LIFE
Experience LIFE's visual record of the 20th century by exploring the most iconic photographs from one of the most famous private photo collections in the world
- Michael Jordan: The One and Only - LIFE
The following is excerpted from LIFE’s new special issue Michael Jordan: The Greatest of All Time, available at newsstands and here online When it dropped in the mid-’90s, the 30-second spot felt like just another quick and clever Nike ad, though if you go back now and watch “ The Hundred-Foot Hoop,” it seems to speak to us on several
- Paratroopers in Vietnam Make a Historic Leap - LIFE
All 800 paratroopers landed safely (including Kuhl, who snapped a photo on the way down for LIFE), despite encountering some initial sniper fire But the mission itself was an anticlimax
- What Fun Looked Like in Brussels, 1945. - LIFE
Sometimes LIFE’s photographers took its readers to a places they would never have thought to go—for example, a nightclub in Brussels during the waning days of World War II, and months after German occupation of Belgium had ended Here’s how the magazine set the scene in a story that ran in its issue of March 26, 1945:
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