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At the very end of another musician's recording session, Otis Redding was given a chance to try out the mic. He took it.

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"Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" proved the biggest hit of Otis Redding’s career. Sadly, he died shortly before its release.

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The ground was still covered in debris, the air thick with smoke, and the whole of America completely shaken by the terrorist attack that unfolded in New York City on September 11, 2001. 2,977 people ...

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Before foods could be easily imported from overseas, grown out of season, and in commercial or industrial quantities, the kinds of things you might find on offer in your local eat ...

From the stress of returning VHS tapes to the mystery of misheard song lyrics, these everyday rituals have silently faded into history.

For most of the 20th century, historians argued that medieval parents didn't treat childhood as a stage of life worth marking, and then archaeologists started pulling toys out of the mud. The Thames ...

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Singer-songwriter Buddy Holly didn’t intentionally change the spelling of his last name: somebody at a record company changed it for him, and he decided one letter wasn’t worth the argument.