On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey ...

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In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...

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A lawsuit to protect the snail darter from the Tellico Dam in Tennessee offered the first real test of the 1973 Endangered ...