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- John Hancock (8787 bytes)
3: ... Independence|United States Declaration of Independence]]]]
5: ...to sign the [[United States Declaration of Independence]]. According to legend, he signed his name lar...
8: ...ended [[Harvard College]] and received a business degree in [[1754]], when he was 17. Upon graduation,...
10: ...ously, the same. With his generosity, he was regarded as a man of integrity and honor.
13: ... [[Massachusetts General Court]], his colonial trade business naturally disposed him to resist the [[S... - Boat (6417 bytes)
56: * [[Sloop]]
73: * In UK English the term "gravy boat" is used to describe a small jug used to dispense meat gravy at ...
77: [[image:badewannenrennen.jpg|thumbnail|190px|right|Bathtub rac...
83: A specialized set of terms is used to designate directions relative to a boat or ship.
85: ...the frame of reference is within the vessel. Outside the vessel, the corresponding terms are ahead and... - Boston Tea Party (4518 bytes)
1: ...olitical protest by [[Boston, Massachusetts]] residents against the [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British...
2: [[Image:Boston tea party.jpg|thumb|Destruction of tea at the "Boston Tea party".]]
3: ... Harbor and throwing chests of tea overboard on [[December 18]], [[1773]]. Created/published: [[1784]]...
5: ...nd he was charged with [[smuggling]]. He was defended by [[John Adams]] and eventually the charges wer...
7: ...he usual colonial tax, thereby allowing them to undercut the prices of the colonial merchants and smug... - Ship (18843 bytes)
1: [[Image:Genoa 139a.jpg||thumb|250px|Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
2: ... a boat". Often local [[law]] and regulation will define the exact size (or the number of [[mast (sail...
4: ... have a [[bowsprit]] but this was not part of the definition. The same economic pressures which increa...
10: ... [[volume]] rather than weight, and are used when describing merchant ships for the purpose of tolls, ...
12: ... ship-owners could load their vessels until their decks were almost awash, resulting in a dangerously ... - Blackbeard (5955 bytes)
4: ...ng battle. This image, which he cultivated, has made him the premier image of the seafaring pirate.
6: ...nd the other of 8 guns, with 250 men. ''La Concorde'' was a prize: a 300-ton frigate armed with 40 [[...
8: ...then retired, taking advantage of an amnesty extended to privateers.
10: ...-of-war [[HMS Scarborough|HMS ''Scarborough'']] added to his notoriety.
14: ...Governor [[Woodes Rogers]] when the island was raided and all pirate occupants were either killed or d... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...rm has been used to refer to raids across land borders by non-state actors. Piracy should be distingu...
3: == Definition ==
4: ...09-04-09 |accessdate=2009-04-09 |publisher=[[Open Democracy]]}}</ref>
10: ...liament/2587/trade.html Phoenician Economy and Trade].</ref> By the 1st century BC, there were pirate ...
12: ...ued and captured the pirates, and had them put to death. - Samuel Bellamy (2712 bytes)
2: ...Cape Cod in a storm. Its gold was retrieved in modern times, being the only known pirate ship salvage...
9: ...rize. The captain of the merchant vessel had just declined an invitation to join the pirates.
11: ...cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage. Had you not b...
15: ...g puppies, who allow superiors to kick them about deck at pleasure."''
17: ... [[P. N. Furbank]] and W.R. Owens (1994). ''Defoe De-Attributions : A Critique of J.R. Moore's Checkli... - The Star-Spangled Banner (15265 bytes)
1: ...ircumstances of its writing. Of the five copies made, two are known to still exist.]]
2: ...ts rendering.bmp|200px|thumb|right|An artist's rendering of the battle at [[Fort McHenry]].]]
6: ...ong ''[[To Anacreon in Heaven]]'', but was only made the national anthem by a [[Congress of the United...
9: ...ey and Skinner showed them letters written by wounded British prisoners praising Beanes and other Amer...
11: ... ''Surprise'', and later back onto the ''Minden'' sloop, waiting behind the British fleet. On [[September... - Calico Jack (2810 bytes)
4: ...immediately turned, engaged the French vessel and defeated it.
8: ...s infatuated by Anne and lavished much of his plunder on her. He then joined the crew of [[Captain Bur...
10: ... a respected member of the crew and fought alongside her male counterparts in numerous successful enga...
12: ...oop. The governor resolved to capture Rackham and despatched the pirate-hunter [[Captain Barnet]] who ...
14: ...deal with the governor under which he would surrender himself if [[clemency]] was given to Anne and an... - War of 1812 (34444 bytes)
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46: Wounded in action: 4,505 <br>
48: Other deaths: 17,000<br>
49: Civilian deaths: 500?<br> - Anne Bonny (5802 bytes)
1: ...an [[Irish American]] [[pirate]] who plied her trade in the [[Caribbean]].
5: ...oved to [[Charleston, South Carolina]] where he made a fortune and bought a large [[plantation]]. Dili...
10: ...s also true that after the arrival of Governor Woodes Rogers in the summer of 1718, James Bonny became...
12: ...vidence, James dragged Anne before Gov. Rogers to demand she be flogged for adultery and returned to h...
15: ...r fellow pirates. She and Mary Read's name and gender were, however, known to all from the start, incl... - Propeller (12179 bytes)
1: ...sure from the forward and rear surfaces of the blades.
6: ... an inefficient angle, the inboard ends of the blade are subsumed into a streamlined spinner to reduce...
11: ...de the constant speed mechanism to reverse the blade pitch angle, and thus the thrust of the engine. ...
13: ...al to run an engine at an optimum constant independent of flight speed, setting separate requirements ...
15: ... blades also decreases the amount of work each blade is required to perform, limiting the local [[Mach...
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