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Buried treasure is a literary trope commonly associated with depictions of pirates, alongside Vikings, criminals, and outlaws in the Old West. According to popular conception, these people often buried their stolen fortunes in remote places, intending to return to them later (often with the use of a pirate's treasure map).
In the 1985 film The Goonies, an old treasure map leads to the secret stash of a legendary 17th-century pirate. In the 1994 comedy City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold, a treasure map is made by criminals. In the 1995 film Waterworld, an extremely vague and cryptic treasure map has been tattooed on the back of the child character Enola ...
A pirate and slave trader active in the Caribbean and the Red Sea in the late 1690s. Robert Glover: d. 1698 1693–1698 Ireland / Colonial America An Irish-American pirate active in the Red Sea area in the late 1690s. Christopher Goffe? 1683–1691 Colonial America A pirate and privateer active in the Red Sea and the Caribbean. He was ...
The St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum is a museum dedicated to pirate artifacts. Formerly known as the Pirate Soul Museum, the museum was located at 524 Front Street, Key West, Florida, United States. It was announced in February 2010 that the museum was being moved to St Augustine, Florida. It reopened there on December 8, 2010, as the St ...
According to the earliest hypothesis, the pit held a pirate treasure buried by Captain Kidd; [5] [67] Kidd and Henry Avery reportedly took treasure together, and Oak Island was their community bank. Another pirate story involved Edward Teach ( Blackbeard ), who said that he buried his treasure "where none but Satan and myself can find it."
Fossil remains of Homo erectus pekinensis; dated ~500,000 years old. Lost during World War II in China in 1941 when the U.S. Marine Corps moved them out of Japanese-occupied Beijing or may have been on Japanese ship Awa Maru when it was torpedoed by the USS Queenfish and sank in April 1945. [32] Amber Room: Confirmed circa 1945