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50,000 aliens become U.S. citizens on Veterans Day in 1954. history

Thousands of People Became American Citizens on the First Official Veterans Day

In 1954 in Northbrook, Ill., Mrs. Jane Dill has just been told that, judging from the response of a chemical wafer on her tongue, she is going to have a baby girl. lifestyle

The Real Story Behind the Best Photo Ever Made of a Delighted Mom-to-Be

April Atkins Muscle Beach Girl lifestyle

Girl Power: The ‘World’s Strongest Seventh-Grader’ Wows Muscle Beach

I Was in LIFE: Rita Moreno Remembers people

‘I Was in LIFE’: Rita Moreno Remembers

Albert Schweitzer supervises the building of a hospital in Gabon, West Africa, 1952. people

A Legendary Essay: Albert Schweitzer in Africa

The threatening storm rises above a farm near Hartman, Colo. Once range land, it lies almost ruined by wheat. Dust-choked corral and pump are land's tombstones. history

‘Plague Upon the Land’: Scenes From an American Dust Bowl, 1954

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