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- Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...non-state actors. Piracy should be distinguished from [[privateer]]ing, which was a legitimate form o...
4: ...l community]] is facing many problems in bringing pirates to [[justice]].<ref>{{cite news |first=M.Chiarug...
10: ...d Trade].</ref> By the 1st century BC, there were pirate states along the [[Anatolia]]n coast, threatening...
12: ..., Caesar raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and had them put to death.
14: ...ss the threat. (See [[Pompey#Campaign against the pirates]]). - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: ...cutlass]] and masted [[sailing ship]], today most pirates get about in [[speedboat]]s wearing [[balaclava]...
4: ... it is also much reduced in the [[Caribbean Sea]] from days of yore. Seaborne piracy against transport...
6: ==Other terms for pirates==
8: ...ame pirates and took their name with them. These pirates were eventually organized and at their height wh...
10: ...to English as '''[[filibuster]]s''', who were not pirates, but adventurers involving themselves in [[Latin...
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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugues...
11: *[[Francisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]]...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
2: [[Image:Arthur3487.jpg|right|framed|Victorian image of '''King Arthur''' in plate...
7: Some members of this school, most notably Geoffrey Ashe and Leon Fleuriot, have argued for identif...
19: ..., chief giver of feasts, with his tall blades red from the battle which all men remember."
23: ...ncarfan]], Arthur killed Gildas' brother Hueil, a pirate on the [[Isle of Man]].
25: ...r's soldiers; Arthur was awarded a herd of cattle from Cadoc as [[wergeld]] for his men; Cadoc deliver... - Mary Read (2833 bytes)
1: '''Mary Read''' was a female [[pirate]] born in the late [[17th century]] who disguised...
7: ...covered her true sex and the two became immediate friends. Rackham became jealous of how much time Re...
9: ...on found herself in love once more. Read and her pirate lover married and were happy together, but not fo...
11: ...h. Bonny was pardoned from her sentence and lost from official records while Read and her unborn chil... - Ching Shih (2491 bytes)
1: [[fr:Ching Shih]]
2: ...d died in a [[gale]] in [[1807]], he had united a pirate coalition numbering 400 [[ship]]s and over 70,000...
6: ...teal from them. It was a capital offense to steal from the treasury. Raping female captives was a capi...
8: ...cted on him, O-po-tae sought a pardon for his men from the government and it was granted. Ching Shih a... - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: ...the [[Indian Ocean]], off the eastern coast of [[Africa]]. Madagascar is the [[List of islands by siz...
13: ...[[Malagasy language|Malagasy]], [[French language|French]] |
38: established_dates = From [[France]] <br> [[26 June]], [[1960]] |
53: ...1774]] to [[1824]], it was a favorite haunt for [[pirate]]s, including [[United States|American]]s, one of...
57: ...ion of spheres of influence in the area. Absolute French control over Madagascar was established by mi... - Belize (11927 bytes)
1: ...lf of Honduras]] to the east. The name is derived from [[Belize City]], the former capital and largest...
42: | '''[[Independence]]''' From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]
50: | '''[[National anthem]]''' || ''[[Land of the Free]]''
63: ... in 1638. Another possibility is that the name is from the Maya word belix, meaning "muddy water", app...
81: [[Image:BelizeNumbered.png|125px|framed|]] - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
44: | <font size="1">From [[West Indies Federation]] and [[United Kingdom...
65: ...it by the original [[Arawak]] or [[Taino]] people from South America, who first settled there around t...
67: ...s achieved through the massive use of imported [[Africa]]n [[slavery|slave]] labor.
71: Jamaica slowly gained increasing independence from the [[United Kingdom]], and in [[1958]] Jamaica...
75: ...tals of Jamaica include [[Port Royal]], where the pirate [[Henry_Morgan|Governor Morgan]] held sway, and w... - Hourglass (3146 bytes)
12: The hourglass was often depicted on [[pirate]] flags where it symbolised the fact that human e... - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
10: ...Babe Ruth, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding up bat, in baseball uniform, on field...
12: ...itcher. Brother Matthias promptly switched George from catcher to pitcher to teach him a lesson. But, ...
15: ...rs, placed a team in Baltimore, across the street from minor league Orioles, and the competition hit O...
25: ...9 his physique had changed from the tall athletic frame of 1916 to a rotund shape with which he was us...
29: ...e the [[Black Sox Scandal|1919 World Series]] and Frazee's own failings as a theater promoter meant th... - New Hampshire (23166 bytes)
36: ... the most famous of all [[state motto]]s: "[[Live free or die]]".
51: ... modern [[Republican Party]] by [[Amos Tuck]] and friends. New Hampshire grew as a hotbed of [[Aboliti...
58: ...ther [[John H. Sununu]] was governor of the state from [[1983]]–[[1988]]. [[List of New Hampshir...
60: ...ampshire)| Executive Council]] that is a holdover from the [[Governor's Council]] of the Colonial era....
66: ...ermont]] voted on [[March 2]], [[2004]] to secede from [[Vermont]] and join New Hampshire—a larg... - Spider (29039 bytes)
11: ...er [[Mesothelae]]'''<br /> <!-- Families missing from this list: Microstigmatidae, Nemesiidae, Barych...
49: Mimetidae ([[pirate spider]])<br />
79: ... [[Liphistiidae]], rarely seen burrowing spiders from Asia. The study of spiders is known as [[arachn...
81: ... strong [[protein]] strand extruded by the spider from [[spinneret]]s on the end of the abdomen. All ...
106: ...age (Foelix, 1996). A spider does not transition from the nymph to the imago until it has become sexu... - Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
1: {{MLB Pirates franchise}}
3: The '''Pittsburgh Pirates''' are a [[Major League Baseball]] team based in...
6: ...apered off after the [[National Football League]] franchise called the [[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]] came a...
9: :'''Logo design:''' Pirate caricature superimposed on crossed baseball bats
10: :'''Official mascot:''' [[Pirate Parrot]] - Venice (22017 bytes)
8: ...from Verona in 1178, opening a lifeline to silver from Germany; the last autocratic doge, Vitale Michi...
10: ...[1200]], mostly for commercial reasons, because [[pirate]]s based there were a menace to trade. The Doge a...
16: ...actice, a number of Doges were forced by pressure from their [[oligarchy|oligarchical]] peers to resig...
20: ...]]. This apparent lack of zeal contributed to its frequently coming into conflict with the [[Papacy]]....
24: ...nice during the [[First Coalition]]. The [[France|French]] conqueror brought to an end the most fascin... - Blackbeard (5955 bytes)
2: ...ward Thatch''', a notorious [[England|English]] [[pirate]] who had a short reign of terror in the [[Caribb...
4: ..., has made him the premier image of the seafaring pirate.
6: ...[[cannon]], which had ranged the west coast of [[Africa]], taking English, [[Netherlands|Dutch]] and [...
12: ...e all of the valuables, food, liquor, and weapons from the ship and if there was no resistance, let th...
14: ...oodes Rogers]] when the island was raided and all pirate occupants were either killed or driven out. - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...non-state actors. Piracy should be distinguished from [[privateer]]ing, which was a legitimate form o...
4: ...l community]] is facing many problems in bringing pirates to [[justice]].<ref>{{cite news |first=M.Chiarug...
10: ...d Trade].</ref> By the 1st century BC, there were pirate states along the [[Anatolia]]n coast, threatening...
12: ..., Caesar raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and had them put to death.
14: ...ss the threat. (See [[Pompey#Campaign against the pirates]]). - Jean Lafitte (3700 bytes)
2: ...'''Laffite''' (''ca''1780 - ''ca''1826?), was a [[pirate]] in the [[Gulf of Mexico]] in the early [[19th c...
4: ...He engaged in [[smuggling]] and [[privateer]]ing, from his "Kingdom of Barataria" (in what is now [[Lo...
6: ... the 1950's the journal was translated from the [[French language]] and published. The original manusc...
17: ...5 battle and the final resting place for soldiers from the [[Civil War]], [[Spanish-American War]], [[...
19: ...]] character [[Cap'n Crunch]] for a while had a [[pirate]] nemesis named [[Jean La Foote]], after Lafitte. - Francis Drake (14963 bytes)
1: [[Image:FrancisDrake.jpg|framed|Sir Francis Drake, c. [[1540]]–[[1596]].]]
2: ...to [[circumnavigation|circumnavigate]] the globe, from [[1577]] to [[1580]] and was knighted on his re...
7: ...n from a portrait painted quite late in his life. Francis was the eldest or second eldest of twelve ch...
9: ...orced to flee to [[Kent]]. At about the age of 13 Francis took to the sea on a cargo bark, becoming ma...
12: ... Empire]]; the Spanish considered him an outlaw [[pirate]], but to England he was simply a sailor and [[pr... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
6: ...ole under the necessity of allowing the English a free hand to attack the Spanish whenever possible. I...
8: ...ured, recovered a considerable amount of treasure from one which had run aground, exacted a heavy rans...
10: .... Thus Morgan and his crew were privateers, not [[pirate]]s. Accordingly, after ravaging the coasts of Cub...
16: ...n's Spiced [[Rum]], which comes, cheekily enough, from [[Puerto Rico]], not Jamaica.
18: ... Peter Tosh states, "You teach the kids about the pirate Morgan, and you say he was a very good man." - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
1: ...ampier.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|William Dampier, pirate, navigator and explorer]]
7: ...ips on the [[Pacific]] coast of that isthmus; the pirates then raided Spanish settlements in [[Peru]] befo...
9: ...eaving Swan and 36 others behind, the rest of the pirates cruised to [[Manila]], [[Pulo Condore]], [[China...
24: ...lty, docked his pay for the voyage, and dismissed from the [[Royal Navy]].
44: * His reports on [[breadfruit]] led to [[William Bligh]]'s ill-fated voyage ... - William Kidd (4938 bytes)
2: ... the voyage which established his reputation as a pirate he lived as a respectable merchant.
4: ...cording to Henry Gilbert writing in ''The Book of Pirates'', Kidd's backers were rumored to include [[King...
6: ... actions became increasingly more like those of a pirate than an agent of the English King.
8: ... to Gilbert stating his unwillingness to become a pirate. In a subsequent fight a few days later, Kidd thr...
10: ...ship on seeing his French colours pretended to be French. Kidd took his prize and only later realised ...
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