Say you're a budding author, and you are lucky enough to get a contract for an unwritten book. How long do you have to deliver the manuscript before the publisher sues you to recover the advance payment? If the experience of MC Hammer is anything to go by, the answer is about six years.In 2003, … Continue reading Hammer Time

The man arrested last fall for attempting to sell Adolph Hitler's golden bookmark (details here) has plead guilty. The bookmark was stolen from a Spanish auction house in 2002.Details are here.--David E

We know comparatively little about William Shakespeare--least of all what he looked like. But we may now be one step closer to finding out. Art historians have agreed that a painting recently uncovered in the UK is a almost certainly a likeness of the bard, painted during his lifetime.Details are here.--David E