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As Nolan’s final Dark Knight installment is set to dominate the box office and movie discussions for the foreseeable future, LIFE.com offers some rare photos (most of them never published in LIFE) from the set of the classic old show, in fond celebration of another, lighter side of Gotham’s masked avenger.
See the photos here on LIFE.com.
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Not originally published in LIFE: Adam West in costume on the set of Batman, 1966.
See more photos here.
But then we hear a message on the radio. Rink, one of our star Water/Sanitation guys has gone up to K18 to check that the water supply can be reactivated. He’s discovered about 100 families that must have arrived in recent days from the border. He asks for medical support and Erna, our top medic that has been here since the start of this refugee crisis, from the initial discovery of weak, exhausted refugees that were beyond medical care to the erection of a clinic at K18 to the transfer of all refugees to T3 and finally Batil, grabs her kit and jumps in a car, cancelling the first day off she’s had in a month.
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Ruby Siddiqui is an MSF epidemiologist currently working on the refugee crisis in South Sudan. Read more about the situation on her blog. (via doctorswithoutborders) |
In case you weren’t obsessively refreshing mentalfloss.com all week, here’s what you missed…
1. 17 Famous Literary Characters Almost Named Something Else
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2. 11 Product Names That Mean Unfortunate Things in Other Languages
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3. 10 Lines From Napoleon’s Love Letters That Sound Like…
”If you’re bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don’t have enough goals.” -Lou Holtz
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An unprecedented photographic feat: Sixteen photos excerpted from Swedish photojournalist Lennart Nilsson’s book, A Child Is Born, were published in the April 30, 1965, issue of LIFE. The images followed the human embryo through its various stages of development.
Pretty remarkable stuff — you can view the rest of the spreads here.
