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Speaker 1: Welcome to Aaron Manky's Cabinet of Curiosities, a production of

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Speaker 1: iHeart Radio and Grim and Mild. Our world is full

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Speaker 1: of the unexplainable, and if history is an open book,

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Speaker 1: all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

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Speaker 1: just waiting for us to explore. Welcome to the Cabinet

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Speaker 1: of Curiosities. Some actors, despite their best efforts, become known

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Speaker 1: for playing a particular role. Sean Connery, for example, acted

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Speaker 1: in almost a hundred films throughout the years, but most

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Speaker 1: people remember him best as Agent Double oh seven from

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Speaker 1: the James Bond franchise. Boris Karloff appeared in eighty films

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Speaker 1: before he was ever cast in his starring role as

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Speaker 1: the Lumbering Monster in nineteen ones Frankenstein But to eight.

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Speaker 1: When people hear the name Karlaf, they can't help but

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Speaker 1: imagine his massive figure, dressed all in black with a

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Speaker 1: is so well known for one particular part it followed

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Speaker 1: him to his grave. Bell O Blasco was born in

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Speaker 1: eighteen eighty two in Hungary. Dropping out of school when

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Speaker 1: he was just twelve years old, he took up acting

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Speaker 1: one year later and got his start performing in local

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Speaker 1: nineteen eleven, Blasco moved to Budapest and performed with a

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Speaker 1: National Theater of Hungary. Although being in a bigger company

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Speaker 1: didn't bring him fame and fortune, so at the outbreak

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Speaker 1: of World War One, he enlisted with the Austro Hungarian

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Speaker 1: Army and fought for two years. When he returned home

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Speaker 1: due to injuries he sustained, he resumed his acting career

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Speaker 1: that he had left behind. After that, Blasco bounced from

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Speaker 1: Hungary to Vienna and then to Berlin for a short

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Speaker 1: time until finally working his way to America. He earned

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Speaker 1: rave reviews for his portrayal of a villainous character in

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Speaker 1: a ninete stage play, staying in the role when the

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Speaker 1: production moved out to the West Coast. The following year,

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Speaker 1: turned out, Universal Studios was looking to cast the role

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Speaker 1: that he originated on Broadway for a film version of

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Speaker 1: the play. Their first choice, Lon Cheney, who had already

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Speaker 1: cautious about a relatively unknown actor headlining their next major

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Speaker 1: Both the play and the film told the story of

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Speaker 1: a Transylvanian vampire whose moved to England caused quite a stir.

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Speaker 1: Based on the e book by brom Stoker, Dracula became

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Speaker 1: a huge hit and catapulted Blasgow to great acclaim. But

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Speaker 1: if you're wondering why you've never heard of Blastgow, there's

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Speaker 1: a good reason why. At this point he no longer

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Speaker 1: went by that last name. You see. Early on in

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Speaker 1: So from nineteen oh three onward, audiences had come to

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Speaker 1: know him as Bella Lugosi. While he had lived in

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Speaker 1: relative obscurity back in Hungary, Legosi soon found a lucrative

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Speaker 1: suspense movies. He went on to star in films like

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Speaker 1: black Cat. Sadly, as quickly as his star ascended, it

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Speaker 1: came crashing back down. For one, Legosi grew tired of

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Speaker 1: being typecast as a villain. In fact, Universal had offered

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Speaker 1: him the title role in their upcoming Frankenstein picture after

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Speaker 1: Dracula's box office success, but he refused, saying that the

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Speaker 1: the role, of course, went to Boris Karlaf, who would

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Speaker 1: go on to co star with Legosi in five films

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Speaker 1: Later in life. Due to his accent and ethnicity, he

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Speaker 1: He acted in numerous B movies over the next two decades,

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Speaker 1: each one more questionable in quality than the last. By

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Speaker 1: the time he died in nineteen fifty six, Legosi had

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Speaker 1: appeared in over one films in roles ranging from mad

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Speaker 1: doctors to evil scientists and even a heroic magician. But

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Speaker 1: he needed the work. But even after all of that,

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Speaker 1: his fans remembered him best as Count Dracula, looming over

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Speaker 1: Legosi terrified audiences for years as the legendary character, practically

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Speaker 1: for the next century. In fact, his costume was so

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Speaker 1: But now that I think about it, maybe someone should

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Speaker 1: he's still inside. One might not consider a pirates in

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Speaker 1: the traditional sense as fancy, but that's apparently what Henry

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Speaker 1: Every wanted to be and successfully ended up being. In fact,

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Speaker 1: the fancy, a word that perhaps captures Every's essence more

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Speaker 1: than we yet know. After all, by definition, the word

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Speaker 1: fancy is a faculty of imagination or delight, and that

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Speaker 1: is exactly how you might likewise define the life and

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Speaker 1: legacy of the pirates in question. No now as the

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Speaker 1: King of pirates or the arch pirate, depending on who

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Speaker 1: you ask. Henry Every does not have a lot in

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Speaker 1: common with his fellow pirate lords. Sure he has an

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Speaker 1: But beyond that he is something of a unicorn. He

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Speaker 1: did not need multiple acts of piracy to cement his legend.

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Speaker 1: He did not need to die in battle or be

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Speaker 1: hanged for his crimes. He was well a bit fancier

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Speaker 1: than all of that. In six Henry sailed for the

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Speaker 1: volcanic island of param up the coast of Madagascar. There

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Speaker 1: he and his small pirate squadron waited for their pay day,

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Speaker 1: And on September seven they spotted that prize, a twenty

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Speaker 1: five ship convoy led by the Grand Mogul on their

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Speaker 1: annual pilgrimage to Mecca. The convoy was laden with treasures

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Speaker 1: reach it. They did, however, put up a fight. Armed

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Speaker 1: well as a six hundred ton escort, they held their

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Speaker 1: own renowned pirate, Thomas two, was killed during the battle

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Speaker 1: with the mogul vessel and numerous ships in the Pirates

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Speaker 1: squadron were left behind because they simply could not keep up.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps you could say that they just weren't fancy enough.

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Speaker 1: In fact, the forty six gun Fancy soon found itself

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Speaker 1: accompanied by only two other comrades, the Pearl and the

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Speaker 1: Portsmouth Adventure. So massively outgunned and out numbered, Henry even

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Speaker 1: to the odds with an opening broadside that crippled the

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Speaker 1: mast of the Mogul's ship, the six ton Behemoth, although

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Speaker 1: the ship itself still boasted four hundred well armed soldiers,

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Speaker 1: and while Henry Every led the boarding alongside his men,

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Speaker 1: the Mogul captain Ibrahim fled below decks without a leader.

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Speaker 1: The Moguls buckled under the ferocity of the Pirates, Henry

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Speaker 1: and his men overtook the vessel, claiming a treasure worth

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Speaker 1: over six hundred thousand pounds at the time roughly ninety

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Speaker 1: three million English pounds today. It is far and away

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Speaker 1: the biggest heist in the history of heists, and it

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Speaker 1: the man who engineered it all, Henry Every. The raid

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Speaker 1: had soured the already strained relationship between England and the moguls,

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Speaker 1: their trade opportunity with India, the only thing that would

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Speaker 1: repair it was the prompt arrest of the man who

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Speaker 1: had caused the whole fiesco. Only no one knew where

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Speaker 1: he was or where he put the treasure. Last anyone

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Speaker 1: had heard, Henry Every had docked the Fancy at Royal

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Speaker 1: where he assumed a new name, Captain Bridgeman. When word

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Speaker 1: reached the governing body that Bridgeman was, in fact Henry Every,

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Speaker 1: they issued a warrant for his arrest, but before they

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Speaker 1: could capture him, he had simply disappeared, as if by

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Speaker 1: of them. Numerous stories were reported as to where Every

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Speaker 1: intended to go, but no two stories ever matched stup.

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Speaker 1: Either they were protecting their captain or Henry Every had

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Speaker 1: told different crew members different things to purposely throw off pursuit.

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Speaker 1: Whatever the case, it worked. After there is not a

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Speaker 1: single record of Henry Every, nor his riches, nor the

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Speaker 1: aptly named Fancy. There are some who believe that Every,

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Speaker 1: in true pirate fashion, squandered his riches and died a

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Speaker 1: poor man in England, although there is no evidence to

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Speaker 1: back up that claim. As such, the end of Henry

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Speaker 1: Every Story is still a mystery, as is the question

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Speaker 1: of what happened to that massive wealth he accumulated, all

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Speaker 1: from a single act of piracy. Now I'd call that fancy.

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