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LA RIOTS 1992

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“Worship changes the worshiper into the image of the One worshiped”
-Jack Hayford

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The one and only Audrey Hepburn cradles the Oscar she won in 1958 for her role in Roman Holiday.

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“before the day I die, I’mma touch the sky”—Kanye West

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For his 1948 feature “Country Doctor” — republished here, in its entirety, for the first time online, with all of the photos and — LIFE magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith spent 23 days in Kremmling, Colorado, shadowing general practitioner Ernest Ceriani.

His powerful, intimate images capture in poignant detail the emotional and physical challenges faced by this modest, hard-working rural physician — and gradually reveal the inner workings and the outer trappings of what is clearly a uniquely rewarding life. When first published, “Country Doctor” was an instant classic, setting Smith firmly on a path as a master of the unique art form of the photoessay, and solidifying his status as one of the most passionate and influential photojournalists of the 20th century.

Feast your eyes on a classic — Eugene Smith’s ‘Country Doctor’

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50 Photos That Brought the War Home. It’s Veterans Day and the least we can do.

No single picture from World War II — in fact, arguably, no single 20th-century photograph — is more famous than Alfred Eisenstaedt’s “VJ Day in Times Square.”

On August 14, 1945 — but when this photo appeared in LIFE, countless readers were drawn to the story it told: a man and a woman, both in uniform, both young, in the very heart of America’s greatest city, celebrating the end of a long, brutal conflict with that most unwarlike of gestures: a lingering, “Who cares who sees us?” kiss.

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On this day in 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Barack Obama winning a Nobel Peace Prize 10 months into his presidency has, if nothing else, generated some serious controversy and healthy debate. So it’s ironic, perhaps, that October 14 marks the 47th anniversary of another African American’s stunning Nobel win: In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. won his own Peace Prize—and while, at 35, he was the award’s youngest-ever recipient, no one looking at what King achieved in the decade leading up to his Nobel could possibly challenge the rightness of the honor.

see more — MLK: Before He Won the Nobel

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Ray Charles + Kermit the Frog — Not a bad way to start your Friday, right?

Ray Charles gets a better understanding of Kermit the Frog on the “Cher” show in 1975. Charles appeared on a TV tribute to the late Jim Henson in 1990, where he said Henson “took a simple song and a piece of felt and turned it into a moment of great power,” then performed “It’s Not Easy Being Green.”

(see more — Ray Charles: The Genius in Action)