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Exhibit Explores Rise of Pop Culture in 18th-Century London Libraries Life News (Arts and Humanities) Description A new exhibit of rare books at the Boston Public Library (BPL) highlights one of the earliest rises in pop culture in London with pamphlets, broadsides, and rare books telling stories of criminals, ghost, shipwrecks, and pirates. UMass Boston faculty and graduate students worked with BPL rare book curators to organize a first of its kind exhibit, “Crooks, Rogues, and Maids Less Than Virtuous.” __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Additional information at http://www.new…
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I am in the process of making the pirate flag for my group, the Colchester Historical enactment society (C.H.E.S.) (See picture. I remember from my cubscout days that flags were attached to the host line with a loop and a toggle. But for the life of me, I cannot remember if the loop was at the top of the flag, and the toggle was at the bottom. Or is the Toggle at the top, and the loop at the bottom? Can Anyone please help?
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This is not a pirate based topic and may not belong here ?., I recently went to Oregon and stopped in a Museum honoring Captain Gray. After reading I began to realize in all the history we learn as children in the schools.,about patriots.,and explorers.,this is one I was never informed of.., maybe I was out doing something naughty that day? Anyway out here on the west coast we are all pretty familiar with Lewis and Clark..., well before Lewis and Clark .,Captain Gray led the way. He captained our beloved Lady Washington and the Columbia., He was almost killed by Indians ., sailed the Lady Washington as a single masted sloop before her refit and was infact quite the …
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Piracy wouldn't be fun without the scourge of disease on bord ships and making contact with distant people. I give you the preliminary top ten that only a commited non-farb reenactor would wear with a badge of honor today! 10. Ague (....malarial fever) 9. Bronze John or Yellowjacket (...yellow fever) 8. Sprue (...tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore throat) 7. Worm Fit (...Convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated temperature or diarrhea) 6. Mania (...insanity, no less) 5. Dry Belly Ache (...Lead poisoning) 4. Lockjaw (...fatal after 8 days) 3. King's Evil (...tuberculosis neck& lymph glands) 2. Scurvy (…
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Ahoy mates.... 199 years ago today, at 4:30 PM, Lord Nelson breathed his last. Raise a glass for the Admiral today... I know I will.
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After a bit of a search and getting lost in the threads, I decided to just ask a new the questions I was searching. 1. Who was in charge of navigation on a pirate ship? 2. What about a privateer? 3. What navigational aides would be used? 4. Where would these navigational aides be acquired? 5. How often would navigation be checked? I could probably come up with more questions, but I figured I'd start there, since it's probably a lot of information. Also, yes I know I could search the web, but I know there are a lot of knowledgable folks here and if they'd be so kind to answer or point me to some good research, I'd appreciate it. Some items I've read about are: As…
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on a recent trip looking for interesting books (I buy sell and trade used books), I found a single volume from a Time Life series on seafarers, about piracy...... many period woodcuts, and other pictures depicting common outfits in the period.....as soon as I have time to scan 'em in, I promise I'll share 'em, to help everybody...... if you've already got the book, and things have been posted from it, please let me know, so I don't post pictures everybody's already seen!
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(sigh) The more I research, outfits, the more I spend. Now I'm running out of money quickly. Unfortunately in today's world, th cell phone bill must get paid first. I'm all for home fabrication, but I will tell you that even with all real vintage clothes I own , I'm discovering I still can't get what I want. I'm sure there are some folks out there that would agree.
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It seems most of the more elaborate knots we all know were inventions (or at least made popular) of the 19th century. Does anyone know of any (possibly scholarly) work on dating knots?
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While looking for something completely different I came across this slightly post GAoP painting by Hogarth entitled "Chairing the Member" Check out the chap front centre: baggy canvas slops, short blue jacket, cudgel handy... obviously a seaman. And look! He's got a wooden leg! Maybe he was a pirate! (Now I'm wondering whether people noticed the red tricorn or the skull and cross bones gatepost first...)
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Hi! I´ve just saw this picture in a new book of mine: Ann Mills The only information in the book given there was here name, Ann Mills. Can someone help me with some more information on her... maybe a bio?
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Hello. This is my first post here, and I'm hoping this forum will be able to help with with some rather specific research. I'm looking for information on Pirates (although I will accept information on privateers) who operated in Georgia. I need names, times, places, ship names, and titles of works on the subject. I need quite a lot of information, so pointers to sources are espeically welcome. (Provided I can find them online or at a library...) The primary rule is that they have to have, at some time, been known to be based in Georiga. Savannah Ga has a restruant called the 'pirate house' which inspired Treasure Island and was supposidly a Pirate hang out, but I canno…
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I am trying to get accurate currency comparisons for the GaOP. I found this calculator, but it's a bit confusing. Trying to determine what in Brittish or Spanish currency of the time would be about what 1 dollar is today. Any help would be appreciated Calculator Found this as well, which answers part of the question..then again it's late and my brain is at half mast.. What did it cost in the 18th Century?
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OK.... I think this topic was started before...... But it is a "fact" of life........... We are use to "whipeing" ..... when we are done with to toilet..... At the "head" of the ship..... (the place where you did your "business")..... well there wern't any toilet paper racks........ With out getting Too gross....... (and keeping it pg-13) Well they had to "go" In Period...... did they just not worry about it...... (eeeeeweh..........) But I will argue that is what they did........ outhouses had th' corncobs... or latter period the Sears Roebuck catalog........ did they just do the Icky breaches thing....... Sorry... but I wonder about this ......well........ick…
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From the red shirt thread in PLUNDER.... Well, then I should ask instead.... "Do you have, in your notes, personal collection, or links on the web, refrences to or pictures of GAoP era shirts with collars like that on the red shirt that this topic is about?" Just looking for shirts in general... for ones we can see 5 shirts and all are band or as I would say, standing collar shirts. Now, this is a 1731 refrence, so it could be claimed to be out of bounds, but, since we have used this picture in the past to support ASC clothing, I figured what the heck.... To get a better look, http://www.nmm.ac.uk/mag/images/700/BHC2567_700.jpg Then there is Our old friend …
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I only met Capt. Hiott once, but he was a great guy. . . . he would have made an excellent pirate. His knowledge of tall ships was unparalled and he had forgotten more than most of us will ever learn about hauling the rigging on tall ship. Worse, the man passed from melanoma. . . a terrible, long-effecting, and painful cancer. A great sailor is gone. I wish his family the most thoughtfelt condolences and wish upon his soul the fastest sail and strongest following seas to paradise. I hope to shake his hand once again. . . on Fiddler's Green. http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dl...0/NEWS/61110036
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I live on Long Island which sticks out from NYC between NJ and CT & is surrounded on 3 sides by water. I've always known it had a rich maritime and Pirate history, and believe me if you live here it's just in you to love the island life. You can't stay away from the water & the shore even in the winter, and like most coastal places beaches, fishing and boats are a regular part of your life. All the supermarkets have seagulls poking around out back and basically everyone has at least some knowledge of it's history.. I am launching a site in a day or so which will feature a lot of this and have found the following excerpt which says it all...or most of it. " In l…
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The Royal Society has digitized part of their archives. Of special interest may be the GAoP contemporary science editions of the "Philosophical Transactions", their regular publication, beginning in the year 1683. I have already found gems like a "Tide-Table, Shewing the True Times of the High-Waters at London-Bridge" for 1683, and several others for subsequent years, sunspot observations, an "Historical account of the Trade Winds, and Monsoons" by Edmund Halley, microscopic examinations by Anthony Leeuwenhoek, etc etc. Most of the texts are in English, as opposed to the then "scientific language", Latin. But you have to hurry:
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The gentleman on the right, what might he be doing? I wonder, it looks a lot like a cigarette or a small cigar of some sort. What do you all see? I pulled it from this webite http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/leloirX1.htm
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Caribbean grave site illuminates slavery By MAT PROBASCO, Associated Press Writer Sun Nov 5, 12:40 PM ET A paper trail documents their lives as human property, from their passage across the Atlantic to their sale as slaves for sugar plantations. Now a newly discovered burial ground promises to shed extensive new light on the lives and deaths of Africans in the Caribbean. Researchers from Denmark and the U.S. Virgin Islands want to unearth up to 50 skeletons next year, hoping to learn about their diet, illnesses and causes of death, and thus broaden knowledge of slave life in the one-time Danish colony. Descendants of slaves could discover ancestors through DNA tests.…
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Ok, I found questionable references to the following and wondered if any of you others have heard of: Constance Purty said after turning to piracy she earned the nickname of "The Witch of The Seas" in 1699 or there abouts. Another lady pirate by the name of Veronica Sanchez...aka..."Spanish Banshee" Jim Donne, wrote a book on the art of cutlass fighting with pirates in 1702????? thanks
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Neptune yields tiny treasure October 28,2006 PATRICIA SMITH Daily news staff ATLANTIC BEACH — Underwater archaeologists found something to crow about this week on the Queen Anne’s Revenge shipwreck site. Divers discovered a 1-inch-high brass rooster, the decorative top to something — but they don’t know what. “On the base, you can tell where the metal broke off,” said Linda Carnes-McNaughton, a historical archaeologist with Fort Bragg who volunteered this week with the QAR Project. Such finials adorned a wide variety of items in the 18th century, so it could have broken off of a weapon or even a personal box, Carnes-McNaughton said. Divers found the cockerel in…
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Ok ... this is for a non-authentic project.... but I have no idea where to find pictures on the internet that shows period writting...... In a few of my Pyrate books there are a few examples of writting, but most of them are way too small to see how the letters were formed.... and there is not enough to find all of the letters...... So does anyone know where I might be able to find pictures of period writting on the internet...... Right now, I'm basing it off of copperplate/Spencurian.... but both styles are after the period.... looking at some of the pictures in books.... it looks almost the same..... but I want MORE INFO...... (sorry bout th' yelling.... )
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Archaeologists find 18th-century store AP - Sun Oct 8, 2:23 AM ET FORT EDWARD, N.Y. - This history-rich Hudson River community has yielded a museum's worth of 18th-century military artifacts over the decades, from musket balls to human skeletons. But a colonial soldier's daily lot wasn't all fighting and bloodshed. They had their share of down time, and that's where the sutler came in, offering for sale two of the few diversions from frontier duty: alcohol and tobacco. A five-year-long archaeological project has unearthed the 250-year-old site of a merchant's establishment that sold wine, rum, tobacco and other goods to the thousands of soldiers who passed through this…
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Bahamas orders man lashed with cat-o'-nine-tails By John Marquis Wed Oct 11, 7:53 AM ET NASSAU, Bahamas, Oct 10 (Reuters Life!) - A man convicted of trying to rape an 83-year-old woman was sentenced to eight lashes with a cat-o'-nine-tails, a punishment used by the British Navy in the 18th century and reinstated in the Bahamas 15 years ago. ADVERTISEMENT Altulus Newbold, 34, was sentenced on Friday to 16 years in prison after being found guilty of burglary, attempted rape and causing harm. Justice Jon Isaacs ordered that he receive four lashes of the whip at the start of his sentence and four upon his release, but suspended the punishment for three weeks pending a…
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