J.R.R. Tolkien’s other adventure: Courting and marrying Edith Bratt
Female bandit Pearl Hart: “I shall not be tried under a law in which my sex had no voice in making”
Dr. Jacoby from “Twin Peaks” is based on Terence McKenna, the American psychedelic guru
Malham Cove: A Harry Potter location and briefly the highest “single drop” waterfall in England
“For sale, baby shoes, never worn”: Tracing the history of the shortest story ever told
Blanche Blackwell, the Jamaican heiress who was Ian Fleming’s lover, was far more substantial than a Bond Girl
Forbidden entry: The world’s remotest, most secret, and most fragile places
A stingy member of British Parliament who ate moldy food and sat in the dark was inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge
The most expensive paintings ever sold
Jimi Hendrix chose the U.S. Army over a jail term for auto theft, played his guitar endlessly at Fort Campbell
