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I like forced self-cannibalization meself! Pirate Ned Low would cut off both ears of his victim, roast them and sprinkle salt &pepper on them and make his victim eat them...just like he did to a couple of fishermen off the coast of Block island.

I have a source of tavern names from 1680 Port Royal, these are just names, not signs: Black Dog, Cheshire Cheese, Cat and Fiddle, Sign of Bacchus, Sin of the Mermaid (hmm...I wonder what that sin is?), Jamaica Arms, Sugar Loaf, Sign of the George. I still like the tavern in NYC that tooks it's nmae from American Werewolf in London...the Slaughtered Lamb.

Finally got Red Handed Jill's from Pew. Will work on it over the weekend.

Many more to ya!

Sea hag

"Oh, I see" said the blind man...as he picked up his hammer and saw.

In memory of NORBERT FELICIEN MIGNERON, PHYSICIAN WHO DIED FEB 23 A.D. 1764, AGED 95 YEARS & 8 MONTHS AND ONE DAY.

The places...the people It's amazing when books make such a good read when you know the people and places mentioned in the book: Pg 206 reads: "The first recorded case of Rhode island privateering occurred in 1653, when two local merchant mariners, Edward hall and Samuel Comstock Sailed from newport in a bark named the Swallow, bearing a commission from Governor William Dyer to harrass the Dutch trade. the bark returned some months later, wherat a prize commission was duly convened. The government recieved £56 for it's troubles--a respectable but not princely sum. Colonial records indicate the prize was purchased by one Christopher Almy, merchant. This is his newphew below, Captain Christoper Almy, who died in 1746 Pg 215: The Dichotomy between the dubious legality of the privateering commissions and the reality of Rhode Island piracy became painfully apparent during the war of the Spanish Sucession. Commissions were once again lawful, and Governor Cranston gave them out readily. The recipients, which included the afformentioned Want and Lawrence, were 'pirates' without exception. Thumbing their noses at the board of trade, the R.I. Assembly declared in june 1705 that they "have had, and still ha the power and authority to grant commissions to privateers. Yet these bonds were a legal fiction of the flimsiest sort, as Customs Officer Peleg Sanford testified: "Such men are here [in Rhode island] counteneanced, entertained, and concealed, and will appear by the evidence enclosed, that for such as are seized and committed, bonds to the amount of £2000 or £3000 are forthwith given for them; and having thus obtained their liberty, they gave notice unto their wicked companions, whereby they know how and where to secure themselves" Below is Customs Official Peleg Sanford's wife Sarah who died in 1726: Governor Cranston had his own tailor brought over from London, who is buried nearby Cranston himself (see the flag in back): HERE LYETH INTERRED ye BODY OF NOAH LOYD, CITTISON & DRAPr OF LONDON, AGED 74 YEARS, HE DEPARTED HIS LIFE SPT 20 1703, AGED 74 YEARS....noticed how the stone mentioned his age twice:

I was down at Southstreet on Pioneer, on Oct 11th when you took the photos. Lettie G. Howard is now rafted next to Ambrose, spars are down on her, Pioneer and Wavertree- but still interesting to see. Let me know if you are going to visit the area again on Sat- I am usually down there doing stuff. I really want to sail on the Lettie G Howard, and get some experience. This is closest to me at this moment. Any advice from your experience would be greatly appreciated!

Colonel & Governor Samuel Cranston...every pirate's friend....for a slight fee. Dad John Cranston too...1680:

Some loose hand stuff using Pilot fineliner pen and graphite pencil of sterncastles:

I'm saddend by the fact that there are people out there that have no respect for the past. These relics, such as this tombstone below are the only bridge between now and the past, was one of may that were desecrated in the common burial ground, in Newport, R.I. about a few yards from the grave of Governor Samuel Cranston, one of the infamous GAOP pirate sponsors himself. How infrequent do you find gems like this in modern America, and people treat them like empty beer cans. In this case, 64 year old Elisabeth Remmend who died in 1718:

Are we all in agreement here (Hurricane notwithstanding, ya lucky dog) that there is an entire sizing issue?.....besides delivery time. I don't have any issues with the shoes themselves, except for the fit, and the delivery. Should we just voice our grievances to LA, instead of brushing them off? my two pence.

It isn't half as interesting as actually having seen the exhibit in Philadelphia. I so wish I could have photographed everything there, but there were guards in the exhibit rooms in every corner, enforcing the photo ban like Gestapo. The sawed-off muskets, the plates, the enomous collection of concreted artifacts yet to be lifted out of the chunks of sediment, the roomfull of pieces of eights...sigh. BTW, the same book is actually sold in Barnes & Noble, but I bought mine at the museum.

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I was never impressed much of Margaret Spellings, the Secretary of Education. Her being a graduate of Regent university (I'm sorry, I meant Monica Goodling..they seem the same to me) that was seems to be in line with the neocon agenda of the Bush administration, and the way she thinks.

Excellent question...and that is exactly the point I'm getting at. I pretty much read the book Pirates' Pact, which is basically about the complicity of the pirates and the colonial governors. The basic story is the Board of Trade was complaining to the crown of the situation of piracy in the carolinas, in which Spotswoode had secretly appointed Captain Maynard to put an end to Teach, without Governor Eden's knowledge. Whether it was the directive of the British crown or the Board of Trade, I can't say exactly at this moment because I do not have the book presently in front of me. The BoT assumed correctly that Eden was closely tied with Blackbeard, and could not be trusted and therefore appointed an outsider (in this case Virginia Governor Spotswoode) to nail Blackbeard. Captain Maynard was a Carolinian wo was working closely with Spotswoode, and found paydirt when he found correspondence letters between Blackbeard and Eden in the Greatcabin of Blackbeard's ship after the pirate was decapitated....and also cargo to be delivered to Eden as a payoff. If anybody wan't to dispute or verify this, I am only accounting for the passages in the abovesaid book.

Everyone talks of Blackbeard but no one says much about the squabbling between Governor Eden, who had a vested interest in Blackbeard, and Va. Governor Spotswoode & his boy Maynard.

...then it be the beach for me

Now that withoutaname has bade me more time, I will attempt to passthe flight time drawing on a 5 hour flight to las Vegas...knowing this is the only time I'm free. Though I guarantee you the red-eye on the way back will surely make for interesting creativity if I try.

Anyone willing for one more soul? 1720 camp for me. Whatever ship is good. PM me...as I am discovering travel logistics into KW are being more favorable as of late. The existing crew That I had won't make it this year

Nothing glamorous...but it gets the job done. I'm working out of it right now as I type this Mostly remnants of a 220 marker set of prismacolor marker set:

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Prismacolor markers, Pilot Fineliner, staedtler white erasers, and #11 X-acto knives. Anybudy have any metal drawer cabinets? I need a lot of drawers.

I misspelled 'pirate' on google, and ended up here. Since then, I've become profficient at Ye Olde English.