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The addition this time around is to the Amazons! Gallery. "Amazon Figurehead" attempts to explain the origin of what was to become the tradition of mounting the figure of a female on the bow of early sailing vessels. In essence she was the embodiment of a "Good Luck" charm and from the tales I've read over the course of my life, I'd say that the seafarers of the day needed every bit of it that they could get.

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