Life (magazine)

Life has been the name of two notable magazines published in the United States.

LIFE, the photojournalism magazine

The best known is LIFE, the photojournalism magazine founded by Henry Luce in 1936 and owned by Time Warner. Its first issue was dated November 23.

Related Topics:
Photojournalism - Magazine - Henry Luce - 1936 - Time Warner - November 23

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LIFE was published weekly until dwindling circulations for magazines as a whole, coupled with rising advertising rates, caused the magazine to print its final weekly issue in December 1972 (its annual "Year in Review" edition). From there, LIFE was published fortnightly from 1974 to 1978, and was restarted as a monthly magazine in October, 1978. A weekly Life in Time of War was published for a month or two during the first Gulf War. Monthly publication ceased in 2000.

Related Topics:
December - 1972 - 1974 - 1978 - October - Gulf War - 2000

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LIFEs original mission was "to see life; see the world." The magazine has published some of the most iconic images of events in the United States and the world.

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LIFE 2004

Starting in October 2004, LIFE resumed weekly publication, this time as a supplement to U.S. newspapers. At its launch, it was distributed with over seventy newspapers; these had a combined circulation of over 12 million:

Related Topics:
2004 - Supplement - U.S. newspapers

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Alaska

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• Anchorage Daily News

Arizona

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• East Valley Tribune

California

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• Contra Costa Times
• The Fresno Bee
• Los Angeles Times
• Merced Sun-Star
• The Modesto Bee
• Monterey County Herald
• The Sacramento Bee
• San Jose Mercury News
• San Luis Obispo Tribune

Colorado

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• The Denver Post
• Rocky Mountain News

Connecticut

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• Greenwich Time
• Hartford Courant
• Stamford Advocate

Florida

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• Bradenton Herald
• El Nuevo Herald
• Orlando Sentinel
• South Florida Sun-Sentinel
• St. Petersburg Times
• Tallahassee Democrat
• Miami Herald

Georgia

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• Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
• Macon Telegraph

Illinois

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• Belleville News-Democrat
• Chicago Tribune
• Bloomington Pantagraph

Indiana

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• Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
• Fort Wayne News-Sentinel

Kansas

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• Olathe News
• The Wichita Eagle

Kentucky

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• Lexington Herald-Leader

Massachusetts

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• Boston Herald
• Metrowest Daily News

Maryland

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• The Baltimore Sun

Michigan

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• Morning Sun
• Daily Tribune
• Macomb Daily
• Oakland Press

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Minnesota

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• Duluth News Tribune
• Saint Paul Pioneer Press
• Star Tribune of Minneapolis

Missouri

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• St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• The Kansas City Star

Mississippi

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• Biloxi Sun Herald

North Carolina

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• Charlotte Observer
• The News & Observer

North Dakota

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• Grand Forks Herald

New Jersey

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• Herald News of Passaic County, New Jersey
• The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey

New York

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• New York Daily News
• Newsday

Ohio

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• Akron Beacon Journal

Pennsylvania

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• Centre Daily Times
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• The Morning Call
• Philadelphia Daily News
• The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Times Leader

South Carolina

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• Myrtle Beach Sun News
• Rock Hill Herald
• Beaufort Gazette
• Island Packet
• The State

South Dakota

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• Aberdeen American News

Tennessee

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• The Commercial Appeal

Texas

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• Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Virginia

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• Daily Press (Newport News)

Washington

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• Tacoma News Tribune
• Tri-City Herald of Kennewick, Washington

Wisconsin

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• Superior Daily Telegram

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LIFEs ten most important events of the second millennium

The magazine ranked its top ten events of the millennium:

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• Bookprint (Johann Gutenberg, 1455)
• Discovery of New World (Christopher Columbus, 1492)
• A new major religion (Martin Luther, 1527)
• Steam engine starts industrial revolution (James Watt, 1769)
• Earth revolves around sun (Galileo Galilei, 1610)
• Germ theory of disease (Louis Pasteur, 1864; Robert Koch,1876)
• Gunpowder weapons (China, 1100)
• Declaration of independence (US, 1776)
• Adolf Hitler comes to power (1933)
• Compass goes to sea (China, 1117)

This list has been criticised for being overly focused on Western achievements. For example, the Chinese also invented a variant of book print long before Gutenberg, and until the mid 18th century the bulk of the world's printed material was Chinese.

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LIFEs 100 most important people of the second millennium

The magazine also published a list of the "100 Most Important People in the Last 1000 Years":

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This list, too, was sometimes criticized. Edison's number one ranking was challenged since there were others whose inventions (combustion engine, car, electricity-making machines, for example) which had greater impact than Edison's. The top 100 list was further criticised for mixing world-famous people, such as Newton and Einstein and Luther and da Vinci, with numerous Americans largely unknown outside of the United States.

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Well-known employees

• Margaret Bourke-White (photojournalist)
• Robert Capa (photojournalist)
• Alfred Eisenstaedt (photojournalist)
• Clay Felker (sportswriter, founder of New York Magazine)
• Lee Miller (photojournalist)
• Gordon Parks (photojournalist)
• Will Lang Jr. (Bureau Head)
• Anne Fadiman (writer, essayist)