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Scene inside St. Peter's Basilica during the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, 1962.

lifestyle

Pope John XXIII and Vatican II: The Catholic Church’s Modern Moment

The Statue of Liberty, photographed from a helicopter, 1952.

history

High Angle: Helicopter Views Across America

View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon, Dec. 7, 1972.

history

Home, Sweet Home: In Praise of Apollo 17’s ‘Blue Marble’

April Atkins Muscle Beach Girl

lifestyle

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

Psalm 104

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When LIFE Illustrated Psalms with Photos, 1964.

Stewardess school, Texas, 1958.

lifestyle

When Flying Was Fun: LIFE Goes to Stewardess School, 1958

A young girl reads a comic book at an Anchorage, Alaska, supermarket in 1958.

arts & entertainment

Reading The Comics: A True American Pastime

In a thousand-year-old rite, the witches dance around bonfire within prehistoric Rollright stone circle that stands in Oxfordshire.

history

The Wonderful World of Witches: Portraits of English Pagans, 1964

Apollo 9, March 1969. On the fourth day of the mission, astronaut David Scott stood in the open hatch of the command module and scanned the blue earth below.

history

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

people

William S. Burroughs in Paris: Rebel, Junkie, Exile, Genius

1964 Winter Olympics

arts & entertainment

Winter Olympics Flashback: Innsbruck, 1964

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