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Episode 492: Blackbeard Part II - P is for Pirate

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The Pirate Ship Surgeon

In 16 92, an earthquake measuring seven point five on the ricter scale, absolutely destroyed port royal. The loose liquid soil then formed into literal waves of sand, with fissures repeatedly opening and closing,. crushing everybody who fell inside. In just two minutes, a sonami came that drowned two thirds of the town in water so high even the vessels dacked ashore could only be seen by their high masts. But as it goes in the caribbean, natural disaster is never far behind progress. And much to the delight of soulless American moralists like boston's cotton mather, the sodom of the new world soon had its day of judgment.

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