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Just to be a Devil's Advocate, how about an East Indiaman?
Postscript - you know, your photo layout makes me think that those prints (suitably covered with a durable clear acetate) would make some stylin' placements.
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If it's a matter of life and death, you'll get over 'icky factory' pretty quick.
Some reading for you:
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.138
http://www.mic.ki.se/West.html#West4
(The modern period/1601 - and 18th century categories in particular)
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Careful, maggots are making something of a comeback in debridement (the removal of necrotic flesh).
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The Fresh Urine flush is also taught in some survival courses.
Note the 2,000 year old use of Honey as a treatment for wounds being 'rediscovered'.
http://www.worldwidewounds.com/2001/novemb...ical-agent.html
Key Points
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Honey is a traditional topical treatment for infected wounds. It can be effective on antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria.
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Honey is produced from many different floral sources and its antibacterial activity varies with origin and processing. Honey selected for clinical use should be evaluated on the basis of antibacterial activity levels determined by laboratory testing.
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The antibacterial properties of honey include the release of low levels of hydrogen peroxide. Some honeys have an additional phytochemical antibacterial component.
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Many authors support the use of honey in infected wounds and some suggest its prophylactic use on the wounds of patients susceptible to MRSA and other antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Abstract
Honey is an ancient remedy for the treatment of infected wounds, which has recently been 'rediscovered' by the medical profession, particularly where conventional modern therapeutic agents are failing. There are now many published reports describing the effectiveness of honey in rapidly clearing infection from wounds, with no adverse effects to slow the healing process; there is also some evidence to suggest that honey may actively promote healing. In laboratory studies, it has been shown to have an antimicrobial action against a broad spectrum of bacteria and fungi. However, further research is needed to optimise the effective use of this agent in clinical practice.
Introduction
Honey was used to treat infected wounds as long ago as 2000 years before bacteria were discovered to be the cause of infection. In c.50 AD, Dioscorides described honey as being "good for all rotten and hollow ulcers" [1]. More recently, honey has been reported to have an inhibitory effect to around 60 species of bacteria including aerobes and anaerobes, gram-positives and gram-negatives [2]. An antifungal action has also been observed for some yeasts and species of Aspergillus and Penicillium [2], as well as all the common dermatophytes [3]. The current prevalence of antibiotic-resistant microbial species has led to a re-evaluation of the therapeutic use of ancient remedies, including honey[4].
Honey Remedy Could Save Limbs
By Brandon Keim
WIRED
01:00 AM Oct, 11, 2006
When Jennifer Eddy first saw an ulcer on the left foot of her patient, an elderly diabetic man, it was pink and quarter-sized. Fourteen months later, drug-resistant bacteria had made it an unrecognizable black mess.
Doctors tried everything they knew -- and failed. After five hospitalizations, four surgeries and regimens of antibiotics, the man had lost two toes. Doctors wanted to remove his entire foot.
"He preferred death to amputation, and everybody agreed he was going to die if he didn't get an amputation," said Eddy, a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
With standard techniques exhausted, Eddy turned to a treatment used by ancient Sumerian physicians, touted in the Talmud and praised by Hippocrates: honey. Eddy dressed the wounds in honey-soaked gauze. In just two weeks, her patient's ulcers started to heal. Pink flesh replaced black. A year later, he could walk again.
see Wired.com for the rest of that article.
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Excellent find.
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You mean the olde ways, like flushing wounds with fresh urine or letting maggots clean them out by eating the dead flesh?
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That is perfect for Halloween. We need more GAoP themed happenings for October 31st. Thanks Story.
As ye wish...
http://images.epilogue.net/users/mckenna/B...es_preview2.jpg
Haunted New England cemeteries
http://www.eagletribune.com/lifestyle/loca...rces_printstory
If you listen hard at night, you may hear the screams of the woman who was murdered nearby on what is now known as Screeching Lady Beach. According to Robert Ellis Cahill in "Ghostly Haunts," an Englishwoman was captured and robbed by Spanish pirates in the 17th century and left on the beach to die. The pirates stole her expensive jewels and cut off her finger to get an emerald ring, Cahill wrote.
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Christ on a crutch! I was considering a vacation in the Bahamas next spring. Now, I'll think twice about visiting such a barbaric country.
Hester
I sincerely doubt you'd have such a high and mighty attitude, if you had ever been raped.
Anyways, the article was also posted here
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Bahamas orders man lashed with cat-o'-nine-tails
Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:56 AM ET
By John Marquis
NASSAU, Bahamas, Oct 10 (Reuters Life!) - A man convicted of trying to rape an 83-year-old woman was sentenced to eight lashes with a cat-o'-nine-tails, a punishment used by the British Navy in the 18th century and reinstated in the Bahamas 15 years ago.
Altulus Newbold, 34, was sentenced on Friday to 16 years in prison after being found guilty of burglary, attempted rape and causing harm. Justice Jon Isaacs ordered that he receive four lashes of the whip at the start of his sentence and four upon his release, but suspended the punishment for three weeks pending a possible appeal.
The cat, a whip made of knotted cords, leaves flesh wounds and is used on the offender's back by a prison guard. It was outlawed in the Bahamas many years ago, but reinstated in the former British colony in 1991 in the face of rising crime.
Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson supported the use of the cat and said it was retained only for the most "egregious" cases.
"I think the public is pleased to see the determination of our courts to see punishment meted out swiftly," she said.
Newbold was accused of breaking into a woman's home on Cat Island in July 2004 and trying to have sexual intercourse with her. The woman told the court that she grabbed Newbold's genitals and "mashed" them. He bit her to make her let go and then fled the scene.
Newbold apologized after the verdicts were handed down.
A spokesman for the attorney general's office said the cat was last used in 2000 on a child rapist. That was the first time it had been used since 1994.
Former Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Thompson said the cat was always considered an effective form of punishment.
"A long-serving prison governor told me that prisoners who received the cat never returned to prison. He considered it the ultimate deterrent," Thompson said.
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Another period wreck -
Wreck is declared protected site
Maev Kennedy
Saturday October 7, 2006
The Guardian
The wreck of a ship which went down with a princess's dowry, a prize so rich that 500 years ago survivors and Cornish fishermen fought on the beach over salvage rights, has been declared a protected site by the government to save it from modern treasure hunters.
In 1527, the St Anthony, owned by King John of Portugal, sank off Gunwalloe Cove in Cornwall. The cargo manifest still survives, showing huge quantities of copper and silver ingots, believed to be part of the dowry of Princess Katherine, sister of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who was to marry King John. At the time the cargo was valued at more than £18,000.
The site was discovered by divers in 1981, and designated a protected wreck. However, a survey last year suggested that the position of the wreck has been shifting, so that part now lies outside the original site.
The new order, made by culture minister David Lammy, will cover the entire current position of the wreck and its contents. Mr Lammy said: "Shipwrecks from this era are extremely rare, and are wonderful examples of our - and the world's - maritime heritage."
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Cannons, Other Items Sought At Presumed Site Of Blackbeard's Ship
AP
POSTED: 5:26 pm EDT October 3, 2006
UPDATED: 5:26 pm EDT October 3, 2006
BEAUFORT, N.C. -- State archaeologists began a series of dives this week to recover four cannons and other artifacts from the shipwreck believed to be the flagship of notorious pirate Blackbeard.
The six-week dive began Monday a few miles offshore from Beaufort. Officials said they hope to take advantage of what's been a mild hurricane season.
"Thousands of artifacts remain at the shipwreck, and this invaluable resource is in danger of being lost," Mark Wilde-Ramsing, director of the Queen Anne's Revenge Project, said in a statement. "We plan to recover 7,000 objects containing artifacts."
Those items will be taken to the Queen Anne's Revenge conservation lab at East Carolina University.
Cannons, grenades, platters, flecks of gold, fabric fibers, wine bottles, and hundreds of ballast stones that were used to stabilize the ship while at sea have already been found at the site.
The team, which also includes historians and conservators, says this dive is the most extensive recovery effort since the shipwreck was discovered in November 1996.
The ship, which ran aground in June 1718, is the oldest shipwreck discovered off the North Carolina coast.
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On the Net:
Queen Anne's Revenge Project: http://www.qaronline.org
N.C. Department of Cultural Resources: http://www.ncculture.com
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Any ideas?
Greg
White Pages, local lumber yards. Describe what you want, ask where they'd get it.
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McBanacle...um... I think you might want to tell the guy in the red coat to plug the other ear...Its the one pointed at the cannon that gets filled with loudness.
He's not keeping the loudness out, he's using his finger to keep his brains in.
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Considering the number of horse pistols that saw nautical service, here's some pommel holsters
http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/...ler_pistols.jpg
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Do you know what the one in Black John's pic is?
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I just got one of these things and WOW the thing is huge. The proportions were what I was looking for, it's just half again as massive as I expected.
K,
*Which* MH pistol did you get?
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While you're on this subject, I rather like the one BlackJohn is carrying in his profile pic. Anyone know what it is? How heavy in weight are these? I assume a lot more than a modern rifle?
8 to 10 lbs, depending. French muskets were generally lighter.
If you visit a RevWar event in NY, chances are you'll see a wide selection of Bess' and earlier muskets. Ask nicely, the owners will probably let you heft the various weapons.
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Rats,
Go with the Doglock then - that'll allow you to portray militia through the French & Indian War and up until the Revolution. What corner of the US are you in? That makes it easier to put up links to groups using/allowing the doglock.
eg
http://www.angelfire.com/va3/virginiaregim...nt/1754kit.html
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Searching for the ghost of Blackbeard near Ocracoke Inlet
By CATHERINE KOZAK , The Virginian-Pilot
© September 25, 2006
It's a fact that Blackbeard, also known as Edward Teach, was killed in a gruesome battle in 1718 off Springer's Point, a wooded Eden that lines an area by Ocracoke Inlet called, aptly, Teach's Hole.
It's not a fact, as legend would have it, that his headless body swam around his ship Adventure five times before giving up the ghost, so to speak. Nor is there a shred of evidence that the buccaneer buried his treasure beneath the dunes on Ocracoke.
As part of a documentary he is filming about Blackbeard, Raleigh filmmaker and historian Kevin Duffus thought it would be interesting to dispel, or - who knows? - confirm, the legends at the place of his undoing, where it's said that his beheaded body still roams at night.
"One reason I wanted to conduct the paranormal investigation is if we were able to contact Blackbeard, I could have saved a lot of time in my research by speaking to him myself," Duffus said with a grin. "On the more serious side, I wanted to attempt to put an end to the legends, or myths, of his headless corpse walking the lonely beaches along Teach's Hole channel."
When Rodriguez, who runs East Coast Hauntings Organization in Washington, N.C., reached the shore by Teach's Hole, she and para psychologist Sonya Holley, holding detecting equipment, scanned the spartina grass between the windswept cedar trees for any spirit energy.
"Did you lose yours - he still with you?" Rodriguez asked Holley.
As they searched, the sinking sun spilled deepening shades of red and purple onto the water. Jumping mullets occasionally flung themselves out of the water in search of bugs or menhaden. The gentle lap-lap of the water on the beach was marred by the incessant buzzing of mosquitoes alerted to dinner.
"It feels hinky," Holley responded. "He feels like he's right here."
That means, she said, that there's a sense that something happened at that spot.
While the sky darkened, the women moved further down the beach, eventually finding a total of eight spirits, a least two of whom were "running" around them, they said. The presence is akin to a feeling under the skin, or a pressure, Rodriguez said, and males and females exert different types of energy.
"There's some interaction between sensitive people," she had explained earlier. "To me, it might be something interdimensional. It's like a thin point. Somehow, when they open up, there's some kind of energy exchanged or released."
Holding two dowsing rods - bent brass rods with copper sleeves on the handles - Rodriguez stood in the grass and asked a series of questions requiring "yes" and "no" answers. For a no, the spirit energy moves it in an "L" shape; for a yes, they're crossed in an "X."
After a time, it was learned from the spirit that he was an American Indian who had lived on Ocracoke in the 1600s.
The few details provided about the others said they were not related by blood and were unfamiliar with each other in life.
"Did you know any pirates?" Rodriguez asked, the rod handles held steady by unmoving hands.
One rod whipped out to the side, forming an "L."
"No," she said, interpreting.
"Did white men come in ships?"
"No."
"Are you happy that you're talking to us?"
"No."
"Do you know that you are dead?"
"Yes."
After several more questions, Rodriguez said it seemed like the communication was becoming more difficult. When one response said that the entity was aware of "the light," she advised the spirits to go to the light if they wanted to leave.
While she was working, Holley and others took photographs. When a spirit is present, a white orb often is evident in photographs. Considered to be energy bursts, they are usually not visible to the naked eye. Cold spots have been reported to have been felt in the area where an orb appeared.
Orbs were seen in numerous shots taken by two different cameras and photographers at Teach's Hole.
Rodriguez, 52, who has a degree in psychology, has been doing selective paranormal work for no charge for the past five years. She said spirits' energy has a force of charged ions similar to plasma. In their presence, she said, batteries, electrical sockets and lamps are routinely drained of energy.
Even though Blackbeard didn't make himself known that night, Duffus said the eight spirits - seven of whom were identified as men - may indeed have been part of Blackbeard's crew.
"The fact is, Christine and Sonya were really communicating," he said. "There's no reason they couldn't be pirates pretending to be Native Americans."
Edward Teach, born about 1680, was more likely named Edward Thatcher, or Thatch, Duffus said. Most of his life is a mystery, but much that is known - including his violent death at the hands of the Royal Navy - was memorable.
A big man, Blackbeard was said to have woven wicks laced with gunpowder into his full black beard, according to a description on the North Carolina Maritime Museum Web site. To enhance his image even more, he wore a crimson coat with two swords, and bandoliers holding pistols and knives across his chest.
Known as the richest, most ruthless and most bloodthirsty pirate in history, Duffus said, the amazing thing is that the pirate's name appears in the true recorded history for only about two years.
Yet Blackbeard is a household name nearly three centuries after his death.
"He sort of understood the value of good marketing," Duffus said.
When Duffus went back to Teach's Hole for a second night, he stood at the same spot preparing to take more footage, and shared some tales about Blackbeard with Holley. While he chatted, Rodriguez shot a photograph.
Above Duffus' head, the photograph later revealed, hovered a large misty orb.
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1. I've never even HEARD of a one pounder. I guess the same goes for the three pounder.
2A. Pirates by nature took what they could get. And with all of the nations involved, and all of the various sizes of ships, I'm sure just about any size could be found someplace.
2. My question would be, where would one GET these casings to make grenades. I'm sure the military had plenty of access to them, so they put them to use. But, would they be very common on merchant ships? Could anyone go up to the local foundry and buy reject casings? Or even "regular" grenades, for that matter? Pirates mostly looted commercial ships. I doubt the average sailing vessel had a stash of them on board. There wasn't any "Pirate Depot" where your average pirate could go and buy piratical supplies. I would guess that, even in those days, you would draw suspicion to yourself if you walked up to a foundry and asked for a crate of grenade casings.
So, I wonder how common they actually were? Possibly a black market type of thing? If you had the right connections, you could lay your hands on some. They may have been a fairly rare commodity, and you considered yourself a lucky sailor to come across some.
1. The One Pounder was the mid-size swivel gun bore (2", with the 1/2lber being 1.15" or so). The Three Pounders are battalion-level guns during the 18th century, or the smaller deck guns.
2. I think you answer your own question in part with 2A. Piracy thrives on field expedients - if reject shells aren't available, and good shells are at a premium, then gunpowder-filled bottles would have to suffice.
Remember, the goal is to incapacitate the targetted crew, not destroy the ship - and if you fast-forward to the fight between the Serapis and Bonhome Richard, it was a sailor out on a yardarm dropping a grenade into the bowls of the British ship that ended the fight (loose powder being the guns was ignited by the flash).
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http://www.historicalimagebank.com/gallery..._circa_1758_psd
Hand grenade, circa 1758
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Yes most are past our time period. Wild Imports has that bronze swivel reputed to be a copy from Roberts' Royal Fortune (ex. Onslow.) After checking their provenance on that claim, it would be in period. It's a dandy looking cannon anyway, but the price has just gone up about $300 since the last time I looked.
Try $450 since last summer
http://www.wildimports.com/1720_swivel_cannon.htm
The deck gun looks ok, but it's $5k
http://www.wildimports.com/3_british_naval_cannon.htm
Only #575 for a bronze swivel and $950 for a bronze howitzer
http://www.cannon-mania.com/barrels-bronze.htm
Incidentally, this is what the howitzer looks like when mounted on a field carraige
http://www.fortedwards.org/braddock/july16...17/howitzer.jpg
And the navy's cheat sheet for cannon terminology
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The Swedish national elections on Sunday ushered in a huge shift in the political landscape of that country -- but failed to bring the copyright reform movement its first political victory.
The Pirate Party not only failed to score the 4 percent required for a seat in Sweden's Parliament, but appears to have missed the 1 percent that would have afforded the party state assistance with printing ballots and funding staff in the next election.
Final numbers won't be in until Wednesday the 20th, but the Pirate Party appears to be pulling .62 percent of the vote, or about 33,000 votes, according to party leader Rick Falkvinge. "This percentage may change somewhat as more districts are counted ... but I don't expect it to change to a significantly different number."
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,718...l?tw=wn_index_4
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Check out this thread -
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/artic...d_feature.shtml
Blackbeard's baldrick, 2nd photo in article
Doglock Musketoon
in Thieves Market
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Exactly - got any photos of completed conversions you can share as inspiration for the rest of us?