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I just picked up a copy of'The Pirate's Pact: The Secret Alliance Between History's Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial America' by Douglas R. Burgess Amazon It tells the interconnection of pirates and their associations with the colonial governors, outside the realm of privateering commissions during the GAOP. All the usual characters : Blackbeard, Kidd, Every. Most of the content came from Brown University library in R.I.
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Scientists Solve 16th-Century Sky Mystery By MALCOLM RITTER , AP NEW YORK (Dec. 4) — More than 400 years after Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe challenged established wisdom about the heavens by analyzing a strange new light in the sky, scientists say they've finally nailed down just what he saw. It's no big surprise. Scientists have known the light came from a supernova, a huge star explosion. But what kind of supernova? A new study confirms that, as expected, it was the common kind that involves the thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf star with a nearby companion. The research, which analyzed a "light echo" from the long-ago event, is presented in Thursday's is…
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I can generally get a good stitch down and made, have no troubles with the stitching. However, I still have one major stitch issue... and that's stitching by hand a buttonhole. The Buttonholes I stitch creates more of a gaping hole rather than a nice, close uniformed buttonhole similiar to making one via the sewing machine. Tips on how to make a better buttonhole done by hand rather than some sad looking hole barely passing off as a buttonhole? Anyone have any visuals/images of what it should look like? ~Lady B
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somone who knows their pirate punishments well is going to to rain superior this ol' night ye' salty sea dogs. i personally like marooning which for those filthy deckswabbers is when the cap'n and his mates put ye on an island no food no nothing exept a gun with 1 bullet, the most common pirate punishment is also flogging, again for those cow wogglin' sons of bilge rats' ( ye know who im talking about) is when the pirate's tie ye up to the stern of the boat and make u bob up and down with the boat and scrape yer' bare flesh on the barnacles often causing serious damage. also my second favorite punishment often used when ye kill somone is ye' old pirates, yer mates? thi…
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2008-...se_N.htm?csp=34 VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The front yard of a house in a tony British Columbia neighborhood is a little less welcoming for pirates now. Architect Andrew Dewberry and a crew of friends spent Saturday dismantling the pirate ship tree house he's had in his Vancouver yard for two years. He said he had no choice after a court ordered it to be removed for not complying with city bylaws. Dewberry had to explain the situation to his sons Jack, 9, and Sam, 7, before the tree house came down. He said, "They've had a lot of joy with the tree fort." Jack, who stood with a friend and watched the dismantling, s…
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http://www.islandfreepress.org/2008Archive...rTheirDead.html
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A contemporary perspective of an old problem: Why don't we hang pirates anymore?
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Pirate attacks increase worldwide Pirate attacks worldwide jumped 14 percent in the first nine months of 2007, with the biggest increases off the poorly policed waters of Somalia and Nigeria, an international watchdog reported Tuesday. Reported attacks in Somalia rose rapidly to 26 up from eight a year earlier, the London-based International Maritime Bureau said through its piracy reporting center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. And some of those hijackings have turned deadly. More here.
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if this has been discoursed on before i apologize now. however i am still trying to tie togeter points of navigation and cartography. and since I canae find a topic on it, figured to start one. I have been seeking reproduction charts that would be PC and without a care of which nation produced them. It is rather hard to search for somethign when you are not sure where to start. Obvisouly charts and maps have been around for along time and used for navigation. How good they were was another story and that is what interests me the most. How were the charts produced? was it taking a little bit of information and conjecture from there, or did they send survey ships …
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http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundam...ht-on-film.html In 1893, Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen and his ship Fram were victims of a strange phenomenon as he sailed past the Nordenskiöld Archipelago, north of Siberia. Nansen wrote afterwards: "Fram appeared to be held back, as if by some mysterious force, and she did not always answer the helm … We made loops in our course, turned sometimes right around, tried all sorts of antics to get clear of it, but to very little purpose." Nansen called the effect "dead water", reporting that it slowed Fram to a quarter of her normal speed. Research has already shown that dead water occurs when an area of water consists …
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I wasn't sure if this belonged in Twill or not, so feel free to move it if you think it needs to be. This link was posted on the Tales of the Seven Seas forum, but I thought it pretty interesting. It is a society for the cataloging, preservation, and study of tavern signs. They give brief histories, and where needed, explanations on the origin/meaning of certain names. Tavern Sign Society
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I figure I'd try to get a thread started about places relevant to the Golden Age, with some pictures just to get a visual. I don't know if this will work but I hope the idea would be to have a "then" and "now' pictures, though a 'then' picture might not always be readily available. here is the location of Captain Wm. Kidd's residence at 119-121 Pearl St, New York City, the Drawing here is called "Watergate at Pearl and Wall Streets 1691", and here is that location today. Pearl Street used to be where the East River came up to, and where all the ships docked. Now it is filled in and populated: Kidd also had a house on 52-56 Wall St. where the Deutschebank i…
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I have been reading a book called Return of Black Death, the worlds greatest serial killer. It is a very good book and I have become quite interested in the aspect that the plague usually entered by ports of trade. So my question is: Are there any first hand accounts of sailors or ships that were plague infested and what became of them? The book that I am reading gives a grand scale account from 1347 to the 1600's during which the plague struck. I am hoping to cross reference some of the material concerning the trade routes.
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Could be oldest found in America By EARL KELLY, Staff Writer Published October 21, 2008 What could be the oldest African religious artifact ever discovered in America has been unearthed on Fleet Street in Annapolis, University of Maryland researchers said yesterday. The artifact, a clay "bundle," is filled with small pieces of metal and was unearthed in May from what had been an Annapolis street gutter three centuries ago. "It is a very important artifact because it is early, because it is African in conceptual origin, and because it is a way of showing that at the point when the city received its (1708) charter, there was a public display of African magic," said Uni…
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I thought this was aninteresting artical. http://www.military.com/news/article/black...?ESRC=navy-a.nl
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Great coat or frock coat, the name isn't important as we all know what they look like. My question is "Did they have functional pockets or just adornment to make it looks as if they had exterior pockets?" Also, "Did they have small interior pockets or is that a modern convention"?
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First I would like to thank Stynky for allowing me to post this request on his forums. Now on to the business at hand. I am starting a new website dedicated to pirates. I am having the site professionally designed so it should end up looking pretty good. The design should be done in a week or so unless there are issues that come up. The site I hope will become a database for all things pirates. I would like to have bios on all the famous and not so famous pirates along with their port-o-calls among other things. I was going to write the bios myself but writing is not my forte. I started thinking that maybe the best place to find people who are writers and who …
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Heads up, "King of the Pirates", the first full-length account of Henry Every and his piracies has just been published and is now available to buy. Amazon
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The Great American History Blog: http://timetravel21.blogspot.com/ has three Youtube episodes on the history of piracy, each episode runs about ten minutes. Episode 1 : Who were the pirates? Raiding the Spanish Main. The strange case of Sir Francis Drake. Episode 2: The exploits of famous women pirates. Henry Morgan and the sack of Panama. Are there pirate treasures? What does pirate treasure look like? Episode 3: The location of Tresure Island. Pirate banks. Captain Kidd. Blackbeard.
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http://www.sfmission.com/cgi-bin/gallery/i...sa.jpg&img=&tt= found this link. interesting. maybe someone can link the actual picture for me? i wonder how they happened across this gem? anyone able to decipher the writing or give an attempt to "read" the meanings of the symbols?
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I have been doing the Piracy side of this hobby fer a while now and have decided I wanna play both sides of the fence sort of speak and find reenactment clothing to be a British Naval Officer during GAOP say just before Woods Rodgers was commissioned to go after pirates.. So I am looking for some pictorial sources and some links to purchase this type of clothing.. I did find one cool link though.. http://www.kipar.org/piratical-resources/p...c-uniforms.html
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Does anyone know where I could find a template for making Letters of Marque? I've searched quite a bit online, but have come up empty handed. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!
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I tend to handwash most of my things in the bathtub or the bathroom sink and then hang them up to dry. My question is....how does one clean a set of stays? I would imagine that handwashing in the sink would be alright, but what to clean them with? I would be afraid that the reed boning would be difficult to get detergent out of. Any suggestions?
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Received via email: From Mystics to Chemists By MARK YOST August 20, 2008; Page D9 Corning, N.Y. Alchemists have a much-deserved bad reputation. Throughout the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, many of them were nothing more than mystical con men, hell-bent on bilking European royal families, aristocrats and anyone else with a spare coin into believing that they'd figured out how to "make" gold and other precious metals. But from about 1650 to 1750, alchemists had what was arguably their greatest -- and most honest -- century. "Glass of the Alchemists," a special exhibit at the Corning Museum of Glass through Jan. 4, tells this story well and features some of th…
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I just finished this cartridge pouch based on this picture I found in "The British Army 1660-1704" By John Tincey & Gerry Embleton. 1691 King William's Army Musketeer.
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