If you die before your brain tumor comes back that's considered success, but it's not really success, obviously. So, unfortunately, even when intense radiation therapy does work to wipe out brain tumor metastases, the source of the original cancer, in Harrison's case cancer of the lungs, remains life threatening.
Captain Kidd walks the plank. At Londonâs Execution Dock, British privateer William Kidd, popularly known as Captain Kidd, is hanged for piracy and murder. Born in Strathclyde, Scotland, Kidd established himself as a sea captain before settling in New York in 1690, where he bought property and married. At various times he was commissioned by New York and other American colonies to rid the coast of enemy privateers.
Captain Kidd burying his legendary treasure. Public domain image. Today we're going to scramble up the ratlines with a spyglass, for on the horizon has been spotted a sail. 'Tis the ship Adventure Galley of the notorious pirate Captain Kidd, doubtless on the warpath, bloodthirsty and lusting for gold. We'll fall off a point and run out the stuns'l booms, and should we live to see the morrow, we may get our own chance to hunt for his legendary buried treasure.