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The following is from LIFE’s new special issue on Pope Leo XIV, available at newsstands and online: JESUS AND the early Christian evangelists did not necessarily have something called …

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The following is adapted from the introduction to LIFE’s newcspecial issue 100 Photographs: The Most Important Pictures of All Time and the Stories Behind Them, available at newsstands …

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The following is excerpted from LIFE’s new special issue on The Karate Kid, available at newsstands and online: The title was ridiculous. So ridiculous nobody thought it would stick. It …

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In 1968 LIFE magazine summed up the appeal of French philosopher and author Albert Camus with a single sentence: “Camus looked directly into the darkness as saw sun—the human …