May 13, 2019

Forget the meaning of life…the biggest unsolved question that has plagued mankind since at least 1968 is “how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Po...

January 14, 2019

This isn’t exactly what the CIA had in mind when it launched Operation Acoustic Kitty in 1961, but this cat, George, is doing his part to keep a watchful eye ...

August 15, 2018

Who doesn’t love chicken wings? They are the perfect bar food…versatile and handy. You can order hot and spicy wings, or mild wings, and any hotness in betw...

July 11, 2018

March 27, 1963: Christine Keeler takes a holiday in Spain shortly before her controversial involvement with war minister John Profumo led to his resignation. (Phot...

January 7, 2018

Born Margaret Rose in 1930 at Glamis Castle in Scotland, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The...

December 12, 2017

In 1910 the first motorhome, Pierce-Arrow's Touring Landau, debuts at Madison Square Garden. It has a back seat that folds down into a bed, a chamber pot toilet a...

December 10, 2017

The 1950s was the year American automakers produced the worst looking cars of the last 60 years: great tail-finned land barges draped in ornamentation and dripping i...

October 14, 2017

50-year-old corned beef sandwich, preserved in resin, sits on a table at the Virgil I. Gus Grissom Memorial Museum in Mitchell, Indiana. The ordinary-looking sand...

October 9, 2017

Andre the Giant was born on May 19, 1946 in Grenoble, France. He suffered from a condition called Acromelagy, also known as Giantism. Giantism is due to an excess of hormones which causes the ...

October 2, 2017

More than five decades have passes since Pres. John F. Kenneday was assassinated, yet the truth behind his death is still mired in secrecy... and everyone from th...

September 30, 2017

The 1960s saw a flourishing in art, music and fashion, and these cool snapshots prove just that...

September 22, 2017

Youtube user HouseholdHacker discovered a 60-year-old life hack book and tried a bunch of tips to see if they still hold up 50 years later. Here are 16 of the lif...

September 8, 2017

This video is a combination of two archive reels: Mr Universe 1969 and "Show of Strength", International Bodybuilding Contest in Cologne, Germany 1966 Arnold Schwarzenegger wa...

September 8, 2017

In March 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines were assigned on a mission in South Vietnam. By the end of the year, there were 200,000 of them. LIFE photographer Paul Schutze...

August 3, 2017

Singer Janis Joplin was known for her powerful, blues-inspired vocals; she rose to fame in the late 1960s. Here's a color photo collection of lovely Joplin in the 1960s. ...

July 29, 2017

This is just a handful of inventions from recent history that have helped to change how we live – in some cases beyond all recognition. H/T Stormclad

June 28, 2017

The US dollar bill has been redesigned many times over the years; the version you see now was finalized in 1963. But what do all of the different symbols on the U...

June 20, 2017

A new art installation at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago, called “Above and Beyond,” features over 58,000 replica dog tags — one for each American sold...

June 16, 2017

The architectural genius of the Greeks is proven time and again by the durability and elaborate nature of the structures they have built. The remains of Pavlopetr...

June 6, 2017

When couple Ken and Carol Zwick moved into their new home in Neenah, WI, they were aware of those two giant, green metal doors in the backyard. The home came equi...

June 1, 2017

On an overcast day in March 1973, photographer Sal Veder of Associated Press captured an image of a POW being happily greeted by his family. The photo was titled “Burst of Joy" a...

May 30, 2017

Photographer Henri Huet captured a young medic trying to save the lives of his buddies in the midst of machine gun fire on June 17, 1967. What's so stirring about...

May 22, 2017

After the end of the Civil War, would-be black voters in the South faced an array of disproportionate barriers to enfranchisement. The literacy test was a cla...

May 17, 2017

Recently, Cowan’s Auctions featured over 280 Vietnam-era lighters carried by soldiers during the war. As seen in the small sampling below, these small objects ref...

May 8, 2017

One of U.S. history’s most consequential gatherings and speeches almost didn't happen. On August 27, 1963,  the night before  Martin Luther King Jr.  speech...

April 26, 2017

It was supposed to be a simple recon mission. A small team of ultra-elite asskicking American Green Berets, infiltrating deep into the thick jungles several mile...

April 17, 2017

Taken in 1967 by Rocco Morabito, the photo below called “The Kiss of Life” shows utility worker J.D. Thompson giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker Randall G. Champion after t...

April 6, 2017

On November 22, 1963, two hours after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Vice President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as the nation’s 36th president aboard...

March 30, 2017

Wouldn’t you want to wear any of these wickedly despicable retro vests of the ‘60s and ‘70s? H/T Hint Blog

March 13, 2017

Jacqueline Kennedy was undeniably a role model to many women in the 1960s. Contrary to the belief of others, she was not an heiress, nor was she unfamiliar to hard work --- but s...

March 10, 2017

Known as the world’s luckiest unlucky man, Frane Selak, a Croatian music teacher was able to cheat death --- seven times! And, incredibly, in 2003, Selak won $1,000,000 d...

March 9, 2017

Revealed by car makers to advertise new technologies, the 'Concept cars' sometimes evolve into production vehicles, oftentimes they don't. Nevertheless, they do offer a vi...

February 7, 2017

We know all about the Apollo 1 mission and how it ended. Last January 27, 50 years after the fire that occurred during a rehearsal launch — killing Gus Grissom, E...

January 17, 2017

Some unforeseen and unwanted occurrences were encountered by the astronauts according to the revelation from the records of NASA's Apollo 10 mission. The transcr...

January 12, 2017

At New York Kennedy Airport's airplane hangar, fewer than 30 pieces of steel linger from the debris recovered after the tragic 9/11 incident when terrorists hijacked plane...

January 12, 2017

Skyscrapers arised in the 1880s, these were supported by an interior skeleton made of steel columns placed every 20 feet or the like. The exterior walls of the building, known as...

January 5, 2017

On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy with the astronauts carried into an initial Earth-orbit of 114 by 116 miles. Approximately 530 million peo...

December 30, 2016

The Rotor, also known as the “Devil’s Hole”, was designed by German engineer Ernst Hoffmeister in the late 1940s. The photo below was taken at Coney Island in the...

December 21, 2016

One Saturday morning last May, four U.S. Marine veterans made their way to Cinnamon Beach in Florida to recreate a photo they took 50 years ago. Bob Falk, 71, Bob De...

December 16, 2016

Let's stroll back into the past through this collection of vintage photos showing beautiful street scenes of different cities during Christmas time! Photo of downtown ...

December 13, 2016

Men's hair in the 60's and 70's was a big thing. From blow drying to bobbing to sideburns - they did it all! Just take a look at the collection below... Most of the photos w...

December 12, 2016

1. The first BART car unveiled on June 27, 1965 in San Francisco. 2. The Newport Beach Dory Fleet in the early 1960s when the fishing boats pulled right up onto the beach. 3...

November 30, 2016

While photos taken at a black cat audition in Hollywood in 1963 look adorable, at the same time, they also raise many questions concerning the sanity of cat-owners in the s...

November 25, 2016

Stephanie Kwolek is the chemist who invented Kevlar in 1965. She started working as a chemist in 1946 just to earn enough money to go to medical school, to fulfill her child...

November 17, 2016

In 1969, photographer Arthur Schatz went to a California high school to do a photo-essay for LIFE Magazine on an emerging trend in fashion. The results seemed to...

November 8, 2016

It was before the 20th century when camping holidays really started. The first real holiday camp was in the Isle of Man, called the “Cunningham Camp”. The only st...

November 3, 2016

1958 Georgia: Nuclear Bomb Training Accident Nuclear Bombing training exercises were common during the 1950s, so it’s not entirely surprising for an accident to occ...

October 30, 2016

Johnsonville, Connecticut may be completely void of human inhabitants at present, but a few licks of paint and a good spring clean you could be calling it home in no time! The to...

October 29, 2016

Prisoner, 1860 Woman in front of the mirror, photographer Baron Raimund von Stillfried, 1860 Two tattooed men, photographer Baron Raimund von Stillfried Pilgrim g...

October 24, 2016

Imgur use Branik12was remodeling his house when he stumbled upon a mysterious old box. He decided to share his discovery to the Reddit community, he wrote He wrot...

October 23, 2016

The assassination of JFK is the United States’ most notorious and widely believed conspiracy theory. Several questions, suspicions and coincidences surround that fateful day, incl...

October 21, 2016

One of the most unusual sights in a city overflowing with street battles is the slight figure of a 12-year-old Vietnamese boy scrambling across the rubble, deliberately...

October 19, 2016

AT 9.15am October 21, 1966, a disaster struck a small Welsh mining community which would devastate the village for a generation. Friday will mark the 50th anniversary of the A...

October 15, 2016

Terry Jo Duperrault, immediately before her rescue by the Captain Theo Arthur Duperrault had long dreamed of taking his family sailing on the seas of the tropics. B...

September 17, 2016

Before the Internet era, millions had the chance to enjoy their hidden desires in a cloak of secrecy.  Those in search of pleasure had to be a little braver to se...

September 9, 2016

Take a look at this year-by-year breakdown of what you could get for a dollar since 1945. Anyone who's approached a vending machine with a buck in their hand realizes that a dollar...

September 6, 2016

1. A crowd reacts to the news of JFK’s death outside Parkland Hospital in Dallas, where the president was taken following the shooting. Art Rickerby/Time & L...

August 26, 2016

MISS BOBBED HAIR In 1925, Coral Gables, Florida, held a contest for the most beautiful bobbed hair. Yes, that’s right. The contestants all had their hair cropped and ne...

August 24, 2016

On October 30th, 1961 the Russians detonated the largest nuclear bomb man ever made - the Tsar Bomba. It contained the equivalent of 50 million tons of TNT, or 10...

August 23, 2016

Originally manufactured from 1962 - 1964 on the Isle of Man, the Peel P50 has only one door, one headlight and no reverse gear; just a handle at the rear that a...

August 18, 2016

1. In addition to Caroline and John, Jr., the Kennedys had two other children. In 1956, Jackie Kennedy gave birth to a stillborn baby girl whom they intended to name Arabel...

August 13, 2016

Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States, and the first African American to serve as U.S. president. First elected to the presidency in 2008, he wo...

August 8, 2016

In the spring of 1965, within weeks of arrival of 3,500 American Marines in Vietnam, 39-year-old British photographer Larry Burrows was commissioned by LIFE magaz...

August 4, 2016

Here is an interesting collection of classic motorbikes that Americans used in the 1950s and 1960s. H/T Dan Larson

August 1, 2016

Today, meals served up during a long-haul flight are admittedly not the same as they were before. You can now travel back in time to the golden age of flying whe...

August 1, 2016

After serving in World War II, Arizona State University professor Dr. Bill Podlich wanted to partake in a cause for peace, so he teamed up with UNESCO to work for two years at the High...

July 13, 2016

Let's go 65 years back and take a look at what the streets of America looked like on a regular day.               &n...

July 4, 2016

Audrey Hepburn is one of the 20th Century’s most heralded style icons, and for good reason! She had consistent, classic style throughout her life, sticking to sim...

July 2, 2016

Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States. Its state capital is Lincoln. Its largest city is Omaha, which is on the ...

June 29, 2016

Watch as these Southampton University students build their very own flying machine, which they called the 'Sumpac'. Credit: British Pathe

June 26, 2016

June 7, 2016

A few like Dolly Parton, Brigitte Bardot or Priscilla Presley were able to pull the big 'do off, but most end up lookin ridiculous. ...

May 11, 2016

In June of 1963, in a busy street in Saigon, Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burned himself to death as a protest to the South Vietnamese Diem regime’s discriminat...

May 6, 2016

If you can think it up, it can exist. Proof? These 11 oddball inventions from the 1960s. Some of these “ingenius” inventions are hybrids of familiar objects we us...

April 13, 2016

January 23rd came very close to being one of the most terrifying days in American history when a U.S. military plane accidentally dropped two nuclear bombs not fa...

April 12, 2016

The very First professional AFL-NFL World Championship Game in American football, later known as Super Bowl I and referred to in some contemporary reports as the Supergame, w...

April 4, 2016

Between 1962 and 1971, photographer Josef Koudelka travelled throughout Czechoslovakia and beyond to rural Romania, Hungary, France and Spain. His main subject? T...

April 1, 2016

This is the letter John F. Kennedy sent Inauguration Day, 1961, nominating his Cabinet. H/T National Archives

April 1, 2016

Between Sean Connery and Roger Moore playing agent James Bond, there was actor George Lazenby. In 1967 Life magazine photographer Loomis Dean went along to the au...

January 26, 2016

In 1961, Dr. Leonid Rogozov, a Soviet general practitioner, took part in a Soviet Antarctic Expidition. So when on the morning of April 29, 1961, Rogozov experien...