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  • Jon Hamm’s Holding Out for a (Super) Hero Role to Play

    Jon Hamm’s Holding Out for a (Super) Hero Role to Play

    Justin Carter

    Some actors come into a superhero role fairly early in their careers. Others do so in the middle, which can carry some extra weight if this comes as their star profile is growing. And sometimes you have the ones that are fighting to be cast in something because they’re pretty confident they’d be an ace…

  • A Signed Steve Jobs Business Card From 1983 Just Sold for $278,000

    A Signed Steve Jobs Business Card From 1983 Just Sold for $278,000

    Jody Serrano

    Although Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died more than a decade ago, his presence still looms large in the fandom around tech, making ordinary items that are signed by him very valuable. The proof is in the pudding: An early Apple business card signed by Jobs just sold for $278,205 ($US181,183) at auction. The signed business…

  • This Sonar Splotch Could Be Amelia Earhart’s Lost Plane

    This Sonar Splotch Could Be Amelia Earhart’s Lost Plane

    Bradley Brownell

    Amelia Earhart was declared dead in January of 1939, two years after her around-the-world flight in her Lockheed Electra 10E Special ended in an unsolved disappearance. Earhart was the world’s most accomplished and famed female pilot in 1937, and her ill-fated flight is still the kind of thing that haunts a person. Real-estate investor and…