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Musical satirist Tom Lehrer once said of bullfighting, "There is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast." Unfortunately for Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez, better known as Manolete, he was facing the wrong pot roast on August 28, 1947. Considered the greatest bullfighter of all time, Manolete had actually retired from the bull ring, but was unable to stay away. On that day, he had already killed four bulls, but toro numero cinco, Islero, got posthumous revenge. Before dying, he gored Manolete in the thigh, an injury that led to the torero's own death the next day -- an event that sent Spain into three days of mourning. Tauromachy
has been criticized
for being nothing but a blood sport, and while most of the time the matador
gets the bull, sometimes, as Manolete discovered to his misfortune, the bull
gets you.
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