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LIFE.com celebrates Father’s Day with a special gallery featuring classic portraits of famous dads and their daughters.
Pictured: John F. Kennedy with daughter Caroline, 1958.
(Ed Clark—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Happy Father’s Day!
Photograph by Orlando Sierra—AFP/Getty Images
May 22, 2013. A doll lies on a hole in the dry soil of Los Laureles dam, southern Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The main two dams that supply water for the more than one million inhabitants of the Honduran capital reached a critical level after an eight-month-long drought.
From deadly tornadoes in the Midwest and the final week of the Cannes Film Festival to a wheelchair beauty contest in Moscow and the U.S. Naval Academy’s storied freshman initiation, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
NY Times: What city dwellers might see in the absence of light pollution.
Airport runway becomes parking lot for thousands of Sandy-damaged vehicles (via Photoblog)
Snow-covered teddy bears are a sad Christmas Day reminder of the Newtown tragedy. Snow-covered stuffed animals, some with photos attached, sit at a memorial in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 25, 2012.
A flock of starlings blanket the sky over Gretna, Scotland, yesterday.
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LIFE.com remembers the legendary Kennedy-Nixon debates in the fall of 1960 — and the look and feel of a contest often cited as the first “modern” presidential campaign.
Pictured: Presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon (right) speaks during a televised debate while opponent John F. Kennedy watches, 1960.
Your Dumb iPad Picture Taking Is Keeping Real Photographers From Doing Their Jobs
“We’re pretty sure that if people want to take a picture, they have more than enough options, between their phones and everything else, that they don’t need a camera on their tablet.” Dave Limp, Vice President Amazon Kindle, told Gizmodo last week.
Whoa!
The full moon rises through the Olympic Rings hanging beneath Tower Bridge during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 3, 2012. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor
Photo of the Day: July 22, 2012
Penn State employees covered the Joe Paterno statue outside Beaver Stadium before removing it on Sunday.
Photo: Christopher Weddle, Centre Daily Times / Getty Images
Wow, talk about being in the right place at the right time. Photographer Justin Lee captured a dazzling moment when a rainbow formed from the spray of a waterfall at Yosemite National Park.
A double rainbow appears after a heavy monsoon storms over Nipton Road in Searchlight, Nevada, July 13, 2012.
The National Weather Service has extended a flashflood watch through Saturday night, as rain and thunderstorms have rumbled into Southern Nevada. Picture taken July 13. 2012. [REUTERS/Gene Blevins]
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Behind the scenes of Mad Men.
(h/t NedHepburn)