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rock'n'roll cockroaches
Chartres cathedral ..
matchstick info
dragons and 'rising sun'
camel bone carving info
Chinese jade carving
jade carving info
Beauregard mockup
Wisconsin steer info
the head
shrunken head info
Paduang woman
Paduang women info
eeew
snake charmer info
1400 lb man info
Here's Johnny
incredible Johnny Eck
cat mummy
mummy info
Jesus with crown of thorns
''Christ's crown'' info
Ghandi in rice straw
rice-straw portrait
Robert Ripley himself
Ripley info
Museum entrance
Warden Castle
the only known surviving one
authentic treasure chest belonging to Thomas Tew, a very successful pirate
silver recovered from Dead Men's Island (Santa Clara)
pearls, etc. from elsewhere in the West Indies
from the Atocha, a recently located treasure galleon sunk 350 years ago
booty from Port Royal, the piracy capital of the world
the Hollywood version' used by Johnny Depp in 'Pirates of the Caribbean'
a genuine pirate's cutlass
Seen from another angle, these cannons are genuine.
gun deck mockup
Blackbeard's blunderbuss, a wide-muzzled forerunner of the shotgun, could fire a spray of anything you could cram into it.
''Salamagundi'' was considered a gourmet feast for special occasions.
In this mock-up a “surgeon” is removing a shattered eyeball with giant pliers, without anaesthetic. All they had was “yo ho ho and a bottle of rum”.
The pirates' living conditions weren't exactly luxurious.
pirate weapons inclduing a blunderbuss, a ''Dragon'', and various pistols and knives
early sextants and other navigation aids
a few of the Museum's hundreds of artifacts
Then their body would be hung in a metal “gibbet” and left to rot on display at the entrance to a port.
Execution by hanging was the standard fate for pirates captured alive.
He managed to have 14 wives, either individually or all at once, we don't know.
For 3 years in the early 1700s this 6’4” giant was the most terrifying pirate of all. His head ended up tied to the bowsprit of a Royal Navy ship.
Local archaeologists have discovered artifacts from pirate raids, including the famous one in which Francis Drake looted and burned the town.
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