How cigar smoke saved the life of Pablo Picasso
The nearest of near misses.
History
William Shakespeare’s mysterious death in 1616 and the curse placed on his grave
“Death will have his day.”
‘Teenage Mother’: The infamous exploitation movie that masqueraded as sex education
The grindhouse classic that turned childbirth into box office gold.
The horrifying real-life murder that Bob Dylan turned into a folk song in 1963
A travesty of justice.
Robert Landsburg: the man who died photographing an erupting volcano in 1980
Going out in the name in science.