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Sleepy Hollow: Then & Now

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How One Woman Built an Empire on Lipstick and Lotion

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Crimea: Where War Photography Was Born

The Fire Last Time: Life in Watts, 1966 history

The Fire Last Time: LIFE in Watts, 1966

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The Kennedy-Nixon Debates: When TV Changed the Game

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Apollo 11: What Liftoff Looked Like

August 11, 1969, special edition of LIFE magazine. history

‘To the Moon and Back.’ See LIFE’s Complete Special Issue on Apollo 11

Silhouettes of West Berliners waving to their relatives on the other side are cast across the Berlin Wall. history

Berlin Wall: Photos From the Birth of a Brutal Divide

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Sudden Death in Vietnam: ‘One Ride With Yankee Papa 13’

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Meet the Actress Who Set Out to Kiss 10,000 Soldiers to Boost Morale

John Hunt, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, 1953 history

High Society: Hillary and Tenzing After the First Ascent of Everest

John Glenn, 1959 history

The Right Stuff: When America Met the Mercury Astronauts

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