As it must to all men, Death came last week to Hudson Maxim, 74, inventor of deadly explosives. It came slowly, quietly—preceded by 24 hours’ coma. It found him at his home at Maxim Park, Lake Hopatcong, N. J. It had tried unsuccessfully, many times before, to find him in his laboratory. Although several of his assistants had been blown to bits, he emerged from all his dangerous experiments with only his left hand missing.

The Seattle Seahawks have been on a roll of late and the momentum has carried over to their touchdown celebrations. The Seahawks opened their Week 9 game against the Los Angeles Chargers with a drive down the field and touchdown to wide receiver Jaron Brown. Afterward, the Seahawks all lined up in the end zone and showed off the type of synchronized dance that likely required more practice time than most would realize.

October 26, 2016 4:00 PM EDT It was 130 years ago, on Oct. 28, 1886, that the Statue of Liberty was officially dedicated during a ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland. The celebration also included something that would eventually become a New York City tradition of its own: its first ticker-tape parade. And the city had reason to celebrate: getting the Statue of Liberty there was no easy task.

There’s a new big bad lurking in the Upside Down in season 4 of Stranger Things, now streaming. As with the series’ previous villains—remember the Demogorgon and Mind Flayer?—the evil force that Eleven and the gang have to face this year takes its name from a classic Dungeons & Dragons monster. A being known as Vecna threatens Hawkins, Indiana, just as Vecna the evil arch-lich threatened D&D players for decades. While Stranger Things’ villains are not exact copies of the D&D monsters they take inspiration from, the characters on the shows are avid players of the iconic tabletop game, as were the series’ creators, the Duffer Brothers, in real life.

April 13, 2015 10:38 PM EDT A 13-year-old surfing champion died in a shark attack off the coast of the Indian ocean island of Reunion, officials said Monday. Elio Canestri was surfing with seven others off the west coast of the island on Sunday morning when a shark attacked, a spokesman for the island’s rescue services agency told NBC News. The shark sunk its teeth into the teen’s stomach and flung him around the water as he prepared to mount a wave, the spokesman added.