In November 1992, Mike Kennedy, the co-owner of Planet Comics in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, rented a casket. Before the store ...

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Ninety years ago, the worst dust storm in American history blasted the Great Plains. The Dust Bowl had arrived.

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Fifty years after it’s release, a nail-biting game based on ‘Jaws’ is returning to shelves. Steven Spielberg, one of America’s most famous filmmakers, has directed numerous classic movies, from E.T.