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Eight pieces of memorabilia from the storied life of Kansas-born aviator Amelia Earhart — including a glowing fan letter from her friend, President Franklin D. Roosevelt — go up for auction June 22. A set of her fingerprints taken in a Mexico City police station is one of the more curious offerings. Earhart was the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and set numerous aviation records before mysteriously disappearing over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 while trying to fly around the world. She was officially declared lost at sea. She was 41. She is the most famous person to hail from ......

An archive of more than 40 letters a lovesick teenage Bob Dylan wrote to a high school girlfriend in the late 1950s sold this week for nearly $670 million, an auction house said. Livraria Lello, a renowned bookshop in Porto, Portugal’s second-largest city, said it had acquired the more than 150-page haul from Dylan’s youth in Hibbing, Minnesota. “Guess who won the auction of 42 Bob Dylan’s love letters? That’s right, we did!!” the bookstore said Friday on Facebook The store said that it planned to make the entire archive available for scholars and fans, but it did not say when that would happe......