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Mini Horses and Toddler Friends May Be the Cutest Thing Ever Published in LIFE
By Eliza Berman
These Inventions Are Weirder Than Anything You'll Find at CES This Year
By Eliza Berman
The Original CES: See Crazy Photos from the 1958 Gadget Show
By Eliza Berman
Holiday Jeer: Good-for-Nothing Gifts
By Ben Cosgrove
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Uplifting Holiday Fashion: Colorful Halters for 'Pendulous' Turkeys
Discovering 'pendulous' birds on her turkey farm, a Texas woman turns to tools of the lingerie trade. The solution? Halters for her poultry.
By Ben Cosgrove
November 26, 2014
LIFE Goes to a Republican Women's Bacchanal
Recalling the night when the Young Women's Republican Club of Milford, Conn., discovered the pleasures of tobacco, poker … and strip tease
By Ben Cosgrove
November 20, 2014
Here Comes the Bride, All Dressed in Turkey Feathers
Photos from a 1948 wedding in which the bride and bridesmaids rocked turkey-feather dresses of the bride's own design
By Allison Berry
November 18, 2014
A Squirrel's Guide to Fashion
Photos chronicling the adventures and sartorial splendor of an orphaned -- and, in 1940s America, a celebrated -- gray squirrel
By Ben Cosgrove
November 6, 2014
LIFE Goes to 'Genius School,' 1948
In the 1940s, LIFE visited a 'genius school' in New York -- a school filled with kids who just happened to enjoy stratospheric IQs
By Ben Cosgrove
November 1, 2014
'How a Wife Should Undress': Dubious Advice From 1930s Strippers
A skeptical look back at a New York "school of undressing" with a faculty of burlesque stars dedicated to proper "disrobing methodology"
By Ben Cosgrove
October 27, 2014
Something Wild: At Home With Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a 400-Pound Lion
Photos of Tippi Hedren, her teenage daughter, Melanie Griffith, and Neil, a 400-pound mature lion who had the run of their California home.
By Ben Cosgrove
October 17, 2014
Behind the Picture: Love Atop a Flagpole
Seven decades after an Ohio couple tied the knot atop a 176-foot flagpole, LIFE celebrates the lengths, and heights, to which some folks will go to consecrate their love.
By Ben Cosgrove
June 1, 2014
The Dionne Quintuplets: Little Girls Lost in the Harsh Glare of Fame
Put on display as public curiosities, the Dionne Quintuplets comprised a money-making and marketing juggernaut in the 1930s and 1940s, while their private lives were marked by misery.
By Ben Cosgrove
May 27, 2014
Here Are Two Rabbits That Walked Around on Their Front Feet
In November 1946, LIFE magazine introduced its readers to a pair of furry British acrobats named Junior and Mr. Walker -- rabbits who, for some reason, padded around on their forefeet.
By Ben Cosgrove
March 25, 2014
Putting a Hex on Hitler: LIFE Goes to a 'Black Magic' Party
On a wet, windy evening in January 1941, a youthful band of idealists went to a cabin in the Maryland woods -- armed with drums, axes and lots of rum -- with one aim: "to kill Adolf Hitler by voodoo incantation."
By Ben Cosgrove
March 5, 2014
Sort of Cute, Sort of Creepy Teddy Bears and the Grown-Ups Who Love Them
In December 1970, LIFE magazine featured a number of adults who, long years after their childhoods had ended, still retained a fondness for the fluffy teddy bear companions of their youth.
By Ben Cosgrove
February 2, 2014
JFK and Jackie: When They Were 'Dummies'
Jackie Kennedy was, arguably, the premier fashion figure of the early 1960s. Here, LIFE.com recalls a time when she and JFK were so chic, mannequins were created in their image.
By Ben Cosgrove
November 8, 2013
Friday the 13th With the Anti-Superstition Society of Chicago
In 1941, a LIFE photographer attended a dinner of the Anti-Superstition Society of Chicago, and captured proof that even myth-debunkers aren't opposed to having a boozy good time.
By Ben Cosgrove
September 12, 2013
LIFE With Mike the Headless Chicken: Photos of a Famously Tough Fowl
LIFE.com presents Mike the Headless Chicken's unlikely story, and the utterly unsettling pictures that can still shock today.
By Ben Cosgrove
May 30, 2013
Hell on Wheels: LIFE With Mutant Bicycles
LIFE.com offers a selection of photos from six long decades ago that belie the famous old saying (which we just made up) that there's no such thing as a useless bicycle.
By Ben Cosgrove
May 16, 2013
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