Bonus Episode: The Bard and a Bird Strike

The Thread With OZY by OZY

Dec 11, 201710:32Society & Culture

In this bonus episode, OZY brings you our first mini-Thread which begins with one of William Shakespeare's characters uttering a single word in 1597 and ends as a passenger plane plunges into the waters outside Boston al...

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