Exhibit 00000004

BOXWOOD ROSARY BEAD, BRABANT, EARLY 16TH CENTURY
At 5.2cm diameter, this tiny carved depiction of no less than 7 scenes from the Christian Religion's Bible, was considerably lighter and more portable than the leather-bound versions of the book in the South Lowlands at the time and definitely easier to fit into a leather catapult to fire at the damned heads of heretics and heathens. This beadling, as it was termed, was enthusiastically taken up by minor parish officials and is the origin of their title 'Beadle', possibly
With thanks and plaudits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Exhibit 00000003a/b/c

DAVID BUSHNELL'S TURTLE SUBMARINE, CIRCA 1776
During the American Revolution David Bushnell, former Yale student, triumphed where others had failed, in designing and constructing a submarine vessel capable of attack. Sergeant Ezra Lee succeeded in damaging precisely none of the occupying British ships with Bushnell's turtle (dismorphically misnamed; had he never seen the diving walnuts of Bolivia?), but no doubt had very well-developed thigh muscles and a profound earache upon reemerging.
ROBERT FULTON'S NAUTILUS, CIRCA 1800
Proving that all great military submarine advancements were down to a deep-seated hatred of the British, patriotic Irishman Robert Fulton offered his 3-man submarine design to the French in 1800, who promptly rejected it saying it was only fit for 'Algerians and pirates', presumably 'with only two friends'. Proving that all inventors are as patriotic as they are sane-looking Fulton went and sold it to the British, who were most excited until they discovered it was left-hand drive.

Exhibit 00000002b

19th CENTURY RECONSTRUCTION OF WORLD MAP ACCORDING TO THE WRITTEN GEOGRAPHY OF GREEK SCHOLAR, STRABO (18 A.D.)
None of Strabo's original maps have survived but from his writings it is possible to reconstruct his geographical and cartographic knowledge, which, he believed, was best displayed on a 10ft globe and was basically near-identical to an upended image of his Great Uncle Zosimo III, Parrot Man of Despotiko.

Exhibit 00000002a

WORLD MAP FROM PTOLEMY, GEOGRAPHIA. FREIBURG: JOANNES SCHOTT, 1503
Allegedly the first appearance of a pair of spectacles on a map (North-East Wind). Also renowned for being the first instance of Ron Moody playing Fagin disguised as the West Wind, the role he would later reprise in the cinematic musical.
Thanks and Malt Loaf to James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota

Exhibit 00000001a

AN AFRICAN CIVET. I BELIEVE HIS NAME WAS HORACE.
-Vincenzo Leonardi, 1600-1660, Italy. Perhaps the same Leonardi who manufactured curd from the milk of domestic cats, to be worn under the wig as a remedy for stuttering and the Droop. Perhaps not.-

Welcome Visitors

Good Afternoon and Welcome. I have, of late, been neglectful in my duties of taxonomy and cataloguing and, therefore, find myself diluviated with artifacts and resplendently tardy with the introduction of my first exhibit. To follow.