It’s a Hulk--It’s a Crocodile--It’s . . . Lizard Man!

Christopher Davis, 17, swears the creature that attacked him while he was changing a tire in the middle of the night in Scape Ore Swamp near Browntown, S.C., was 7 feet tall and had red eyes and three fingers on each hand. Then Tom and Mary Waye reported that their car had been “chewed up” at the same location. Was it the Lizard Man, as the locals are calling him, or just a red fox or a “muddy drunk”--the theory of state biologist Matt Knox, who has been called in to help investigate the sightings. Sheriff Liston Truesdale said he has been swamped with phone calls from people claiming to have seen the slimy critter, “and these are reputable people.” The swamp, meanwhile, has been overrun with television crews and others hoping to catch a glimpse of Lizard Man, and a Columbia radio station is offering a $1-million reward for his capture.

--In 1688, nearly a century before the United States parted ways with England, the British had a revolution of their own. It established the world’s most enduring constitutional monarchy and brought William III and Mary to the throne. “The Glorious Revolution won its title because it was initially achieved without loss of life and with wide popular support,” Queen Elizabeth II said in addressing a joint session of Parliament commemorating the 300th anniversary of the unseating of the Catholic Stuart King James II by his son-in-law, the Dutch Protestant Prince William of Orange. The revolution changed the structure of English politics by ceding the monarchy’s absolute power to Parliament. Representing the United States at the solemn ceremony was a delegation from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, led by the college chancellor, former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. The college was founded in 1693 at the behest of William and Mary.

--Annie Oakley, perhaps the most famous woman sharpshooter of all time, has been honored by her hometown of Greenville, Ohio, with the unveiling of a bronze statue in Annie Oakley Memorial Park. “When you talk about famous women, she’s one of the top two or three women in the world of that time,” said Rodney Oda, chairman of the memorial committee. Oakley, also known as Little Miss Sure Shot, was born Phoebe Ann Moses in Darke County in 1860. She gained fame in the 1880s and ‘90s as a sharpshooter in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.