9月 2011
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Instagram: Tribute to New York City - Photo... →
LIFE.com asked Instagram users to show us what they love about New York City, whose bustling streets, amazing architecture, and unique people make it one of the most vibrant places on Earth. And with the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks fast approaching, these beautiful snapshots are a testament to a mighty town that was once down — but never out. (Visit Instagram.com...
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High and Dry - Rare, Unseen: Building the Pentagon... →
The Pentagon — and, by extension, the U.S. military — has become such a prominent and obvious symbol of American might over the years that it’s easy to forget that the world’s largest office building and home of the Department of Defense is just that: a building. Here, on both the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack in Washington that left 125 Pentagon employees dead...
Japan Disaster: Minute by Minute - Timeline - LIFE →
The quake strikes in the Pacific 89 miles east of Sendai. It’s so massive that it moves parts of Japan nearly eight feet closer to North America, changes the tilt of the Earth by 10 inches, and shortens the Earth’s day by 1.8 microseconds. It also unleashes a massive tsunami that races toward Japan’s islands. Eleven of Japan’s 55 nuclear reactors shut down automatically...
World War II: In Praise of the RAF - Photo Gallery... →
The pilots of an RAF (Royal Air Force) fighter squadron that destroyed 73 enemy planes and damaged 38 others during the Battle of Britain crowd around a Hawker Hurricane with their canine mascot. Of England’s debt to the outnumbered pilots who defeated the Nazi Luftwaffe, Winston Churchill famously said: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so...
They Were There: 9/11 Photographers - Photo... →
It was a late-summer day like any other. And then, suddenly, it wasn’t. On the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, eighteen photographers — some who were at home, some who were shooting other assignments in New York when the planes hit — spoke with LIFE.com about capturing history, and living to tell about it. Kelly Guenther, then a freelance photographer for the New York...
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Japan Disaster: Minute by Minute - Timeline - LIFE →
A 22-foot wave strikes the small, historic coastal town of Iwate Kamaishi-oki.
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