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  • 8
    Apr
    2013
    12:13pm, EDT

    'Iron Lady' shows her softer side in historical photos

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    Margaret Thatcher holds a chimpanzee while Prime Minister in 1985.

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    British Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher enjoys a cup of tea at the opening of the South Mimms Motorway service area, watched by the press in 1987.

    Margaret Thatcher, who led Great Britain as prime minister from 1979 to 1990, was the first woman to hold the job, and was the longest-serving prime minister of the postwar era.

    During her decades-long career in politics, the camera followed her every move and many of the images that we’re left with show a humorous side to the “Iron Lady."

    Whether she was meeting with constituents or playing a game of snooker, Thatcher’s image appears to be one of control and grace.

    Related links:

    • Slideshow: The life and times of Margaret Thatcher
    • Margaret Thatcher, ‘Iron Lady’ who led conservative resurgence in Britain, dies
    • Margaret Thatcher played polarizing role in pop culture

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    Margaret Thatcher has fun on a ski run in Battersea Park with instructor Joe Hoki in 1962 as the Conservative MP.

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    Margaret Thatcher, conservative party leader, on the campaign trail during the general election campaign in 1979.

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    Margaret Thatcher gets a kiss from Petticoat Lane stallholder Lew Pickle, on her East End walkabout in 1979 in London while she was the Conservative Party leader.

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    Margaret Thatcher swings from a hoist during a visit to the Royal Navy as prime minister in 1983

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    Margaret Thatcher handles a silver mine drill at the Broken Hill mine, west of Sydney, Australia, in 1976.

    Jockel Fink / AP

    British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stands in a British tank during a visit to British forces in Fallingbostel in 1986.

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    British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Imperial College, London, to open the Technology 2000 exhibition in 1985.

    Tom Stoddart / Hulton Archives via Getty Images

    British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher plays snooker during an election campaign visit in 1987.

    Tom Stoddart / Hulton Archive via Getty Images

    British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher peers through binoculars during an election campaign photo call in 1987.

     

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    No tears in the Welsh hills...

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  • 23
    Sep
    2011
    8:40am, EDT

    Afghanistan mourns former President Rabbani

    S. Sabawoon / Pool via EPA

    Afghan soldiers carry the coffin containing body of Burhanuddin Rabbani, the slain former President and head of High Peace Council, during his funeral ceremony at presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sept. 23. Reports state that a suicide bomb attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body on Sept. 20, killing Burhanuddin Rabbani at his residence in Kabul. Rabbani was the chairman of the Afghan High Peace Council that leads Afghan efforts to negotiate with the Taliban. A former mujahideen commander who fought Soviet forces in the 1980s, Rabbani was Afghanistan's president from 1992 to 1996, when the country went through a brutal civil war.

    Pool / Reuters

    Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, prays with Vice Presidents Mohammad Qasim Fahim, center, and Karim Khalili during the funeral ceremony of slain former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, at the presidential palace in Kabul on Sept. 23. Weeping Afghans gathered under tight security on Friday to bury Rabbani, the government's chief peace negotiator, who was killed this week by a suicide bomber posing as a Taliban envoy with a message about possible talks.

    Kamran Jebreili / AP

    Rabbani daughters Atia, left, and Fatima are joined by granddaughter, Zahra Rabbani, right, as they attend the funeral ceremony of Afghan former president Burhanuddin Rabbani at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sept. 23. Rabbani was killed by a suicide bomber claiming to carry a message of peace from the Taliban.

    Ahmad Masood / Pool via EPA

    Afghans carry the coffin of Burhanuddin Rabbani, former Afghan president and head of the government's peace council, during his burial ceremony on Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sept. 23. Weeping Afghans gathered under tight security on Friday to bury Rabbani, who was killed this week by a suicide bomber posing as a Taliban envoy with a message about possible talks.

    Shah Marai / AFP - Getty Images

    An Afghan man prays at the graves of slain former president Burhanuddin Rabbani at the Wazir Akbar Khan hilltop over looking Kabul on September 23. Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed to continue efforts to broker a peace deal with the Taliban as he led thousands of mourners at the funeral of the assassinated peace envoy. Kabul police deployed thousands of extra officers as part of a security lockdown designed to protect the funeral prayers being offered at the presidential palace from increasingly brazen gun and suicide attacks.

    By John Makely, NBC News

    From msnbc.com news services: 

    KABUL, Afghanistan — A surging crowd of mourners on Friday kissed the coffin of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, slain by a suicide bomber claiming to carry a peace message from the Taliban, and railed against neighboring Pakistan for allegedly fomenting conflict in their country.

    The outpouring of anger at a hilltop cemetery exposed the divisions and suspicion that plague Afghanistan after years of war, and followed a stately funeral ceremony at the palace of President Hamid Karzai, who hailed Rabbani as a tireless advocate for reconciliation.

    For the full story click here and to see more images from the ongoing turmoil inside Afghanistan click here to see the slideshow.

    An earlier post in PhotoBlog gives a glimpse of Rabbani's political history and his significant involvement in the events that have shaped the country.

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    Hello, Picture 3 on this blog are family members of Rabbani. Please update the caption as follows: From left to right: daughter-Atia Rabbani, daughter- Fatima Rabbani and Grand daughter Zahra Rabbani.

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  • 3
    Jun
    2011
    10:36am, EDT

    Jack Kevorkian, convicted in assisted suicides, dies at 83

    Richard Sheinwald / AP

    Dr. Jack Kevorkian poses with his "suicide machine" in Michigan, Feb. 6, 1991.

    Richard Sheinwald / AP

    Dr. Jack Kevorkian, seated in a wheelchair, 65, of Royal Oak, Mich., rests his head on the defense table in Oakland County District court in Royal Oak, Michigan, Friday, Dec. 10, 1993. Kevorkian was in court for his preliminary hearing on charges he violated Michigan's ban on assisted suicide on Oct. 22, 1993, suicide death of Merian Fredrick of Ann Arbor, Mich. Kevorkian is in his 11th day of a hunger strike in jail.

    Carlos Osorio / AP

    Dr. Jack Kevorkian meets the press in homemade stocks before his arraignment on assisted suicide charges at the Oakland County courthouse in Pontiac, Mich., Thursday, Sept. 14, 1995. Kevorkian, a retired pathologist who advocates doctors helping the terminally ill who wish to commit suicide, was wearing the laminated cardboard stocks in apparent reference to a state Supreme Court ruling that said assisted suicide could be prosecuted in Michigan under common law.

    Rebecca Cook / Reuters

    Jack Kevorkian waits to announce he is running in the November election as an independent for a seat in the U.S. Congress in Southfield, Michigan in this March 24, 2008 file photo. Kevorkian, the Michigan pathologist who put assisted suicide on the world's medical ethics stage, died in the early morning hours of June 3, 2011, said his lawyer Mayer Morganroth. Kevorkian, 83, died at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, where he had been hospitalized for about two weeks with kidney and heart problems.

     

    'Dr. Death' put controversy of euthanasia on world stage; had been hospitalized for weeks. For more on this story click here.

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  • 23
    Mar
    2011
    1:49pm, EDT

    Elizabeth Taylor: Never-before-seen pictures

    Mark Kauffman/TIME & LIFE Pictures

    In 1948, Mark Kauffman captured the young actress and her home life. Here, she gazes into the distance while wearing an "All America" sweatshirt; the pin she wears belonged to Glenn Davis, a 1946 Heisman Trophy-winning athlete she was dating at the time.

    Life.com’s exclusive gallery of 16 never-before-seen pictures from Elizabeth Taylor’s life is viewable here.

    Taylor appeared on the magazine's cover a record 14 times, starting when she was just 15 years old, and over the following decades many LIFE photographers captured the astonishingly beautiful movie star.  But a magazine only has so many pages -- and several stunning images of the Hollywood icon never actually made it to print. As such, LIFE.com is now featuring an unpublished gallery of photos of Elizabeth Taylor from the magazine's archives.

    Paul Schutzer/TIME & LIFE Pictures

    In costume as Marc Antony and Cleopatra, Burton and Taylor share a look on the set. They were the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie of their day, two impossibly gorgeous movie stars whose controversial relationship fascinated the world. They would marry not once, but twice.

    Peter Stackpole/TIME & LIFE Pictures

    During a break in filming A Place in the Sun, Taylor chats with her costar Montgomery Clift on the Paramount lot. The two would remain close friends; she would even save his life in 1956, after he smashed his car into a telephone pole following a party at her house (Taylor removed his shattered teeth from his throat, and kept him from choking).

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    To Patrick Damien, you are so wrong. Elizabeth Taylor was Jewish, not Christian. That means she did not believe in Jesus as anything but a heretic. And Jews generally do not believe in heaven but rather their here and now relationship with God.

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  • 23
    Mar
    2011
    11:42am, EDT

    Reuters

    Elizabeth Taylor is shown in this undated publicity photograph.

    Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79‎

    One of Hollywood's most legendary beauties, Elizabeth Taylor, died on Wednesday, March 23 at the age of 79. See slideshow: Elizabeth Taylor: Legend also read: Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor dies.

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  • 29
    May
    2010
    1:26am, EDT

    Robert Galbraith / Reuters file

    Actor Gary Coleman is surrounded by journalists while working as a comedy radio personality at the opening arguments in the child molestation trial of Michael Jackson in Santa Maria, California in this February 28, 2005 file photo.

    Fallen star

    R.I.P. Mr. Coleman.

    Click here to see more images from his lifetime.

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    And to think He could've had a brilliant career as a midget wrestler...RIP LiL guy!

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