A fragment of paper discovered on Queen Anne's Revenge, compared with the book it was determined to be from. [N.C. Department of Natural & Cultural Resources]
1 posted on
01/30/2018 10:49:32 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
So, it really was a Cook-Book?......................
4 posted on
01/30/2018 10:52:18 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
To: SunkenCiv
A further scientific evaluation says the previously unidentified words remaining are: Eat more Cheerios
5 posted on
01/30/2018 10:55:01 AM PST by
wildbill
(Quis Custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen?)
To: SunkenCiv
6 posted on
01/30/2018 10:55:53 AM PST by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
Ultimately, it announces the first Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrrrrggggghhhh!
To: SunkenCiv
Since it was removed from the breech of a cannon..., was it merely crumpled up pages from the book used for wadding of a powder charge? Seems likely to me...
9 posted on
01/30/2018 11:03:42 AM PST by
ExSES
(the "bottom-line")
To: SunkenCiv
Were 18th-century pirates literate? I suspect some of them were. A lot of them probably were not. Sort of like society in general.
15 posted on
01/30/2018 11:22:08 AM PST by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: SunkenCiv
After months of research, the fragments were determined to be from a 1712 first edition of a book by Capt. Edward Cooke... They may have been literate, but they certainly didn't know anything about proper storage of valuable first editions. Rule One is and always has been, "never cram your valuable first edition down the barrel of a cannon"...
16 posted on
01/30/2018 11:24:29 AM PST by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: SunkenCiv
The Queen Anne’s Revenge. The Golden Hind. Bonhomme Richard. Those guys had a flair for boat-naming.
Nowadays they’re named after fags (Harvey Milk).
17 posted on
01/30/2018 11:24:55 AM PST by
IronJack
(A)
To: SunkenCiv
Were 18th-century pirates literate? What sort of books did they keep on board ship? ...The fact that pages from books appear to have been used as wadding in their cannons indicates that they didn't place a high value on the written word.
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