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Vintage Yoga photo from LIFE magazine. lifestyle

Yoga’s 20th-Century Evolution Captured in Classic Photographs

National Pickle Week, 1949. With the Three Stooges. lifestyle

Celebrate Pickle Day by Floating in a Giant Vat of Pickles

Seeing eye cat, 1947 animals

Meet the Award-Winning Seeing-Eye Cat

Black Cat Audition, 1961 animals

Scary Movie? 152 Black Cats Go to an Audition

As the game went into the night, the ash trays overflowed and the air got positively "blue." Reasoning that "if men can take it, so can we," the women continued. history

Partying Politics: LIFE Goes to a Republican Women’s Bacchanal

A Squirrel's Guide to Fashion animals

A Squirrel’s Guide to Fashion

Photo from a public "genius school" for 3-to-11-year-olds at New York's Hunter College, 1948. lifestyle

LIFE Goes to ‘Genius School,’ 1948

Burlesque star June St. Clair and Professor Connie Fonzlau demonstrate the right and wrong ways to disrobe at the Allen Gilbert School of Undressing in New York, 1937. history

‘How a Wife Should Undress’: Dubious Advice From 1930s Strippers

Tippi Hedren in her swimming pool, spouting water at Neil the lion, Calif., 1971. animals

Something Wild: At Home With Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a 400-Pound Lion

A view of the "Dionne Quintuplets" posing in their confirmation dresses on day of their first Holy Communion, 1940. history

The Dionne Quintuplets: Little Girls Lost in the Harsh Glare of Fame

Mike the headless chicken "dances" in 1945. animals

LIFE With Mike the Headless Chicken: Photos of a Famously Tough Fowl

Eccentric four-man bicycle built by Art Rothchild (top position). lifestyle

Hell on Wheels: LIFE With Mutant Bicycles

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