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Troops watch the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, Italy, 1944. nature

Mount Vesuvius: Photos From the Volcano’s Last Great Eruption

Mercury 7 astronauts, Langley Air Force Base history

Magnificent Seven: LIFE With America’s Mercury Astronauts

Albert Einstein's office - just as the Nobel Prize-winning physicist left it - taken mere hours after Einstein died, Princeton, New Jersey, April 1955. history

The Day Albert Einstein Died: A Photographer’s Story

The automobile engineer Ferdinand Porsche (in suit), Adolf Hitler and, immediately to Hitler's left, the head of the German Labour Front, Robert Ley, admire Hitler's birthday gift on his 50th birthday: a convertible Volkswagen. people

Hitler at 50: Color Photos From a Despot’s Garish Birthday Bash

Severed head of a Japanese soldier, propped up on a disabled tank, Guadalcanal, 1942. history

Portrait From the Brutal Pacific: ‘Skull on a Tank,’ Guadalcanal, 1942

Hillary Rodham (later Hillary Rodham Clinton), Park Ridge, Illinois, June 1969. people

LIFE With Hillary: Portraits of a Wellesley Grad, 1969

nature

The Amazing Lunar Module: From Early Models to the Moon

Return of the King: When Elvis Left the Army arts & entertainment

Return of the King: When Elvis Left the Army

On the coral beach of Eniwetok's Engebi Island, a Marine drags a dead comrade out of the surf. history

Battle of Eniwetok: Rare and Classic Photos From the Pacific in WWII

Jackson Pollock works in his Long Island studio, 1949. people

Jackson Pollock: Early Photos of the Action Painter at Work

Apollo 1 astronauts Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom, 1967. history

The Apollo 1 Launchpad Fire: Remembering Grissom, White and Chaffee

Marine Capt. Francis "Ike" Fenton ponders his fate and the fate of his men after being told that his company is nearly out of ammunition, Korea, 1950. history

David Douglas Duncan and the Korean War: To Hell and Back

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