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.
Synopsis. Explorer and navigator Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in the Republic of Genoa, Italy. His first voyage into the Atlantic Ocean in 1476 nearly cost him his life.Columbus participated in several other expeditions to Africa. 1492, Columbus left Spain in the Santa Maria, with the Pinta and the Nina niÃ±a along. sidehristopher Columbus-Mini Biography (TV-14; 3:16) Legendary explorer Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in a sea town in Italy and began sailing as a teenager. Columbus believed that sailing west would be a faster way to get to India.