Monday, September 21, 2015
Jack Larson, R. I. P.
Deadline: Jack Larson, an actor, playwright, producer and screenwriter best known from the classic 1950s comic book series The Adventures of Superman, died Sunday in his Brentwood home. He was 87 years old.
Sunday, September 20, 2015
How Two 18th-Century Lady Pirates Became BFFs on the High Seas
How Two 18th-Century Lady Pirates Became BFFs on the High Seas: The fact that Anne Bonny and Mary Read ever crossed paths at all is almost unbelievable. Of the thousands of pirates active in the Caribbean during the 17th and 18th centuries, we know the names of just two female marauders. In 1719, the pair would forge an improbable friendship that would start on the high seas and end less than two years later in a damp, dark jail in Spanish Town, Jamaica.
Cult Books: Obsession with the Obscure
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