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Top Image: Pirates in a tavern (smile4u/Adobe Stock) — 29 May 2023

Fine Dining With The Pirates Of The Caribbean

By Aaronne Colagrossi

History & Tradition

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Caribbean cuisine was certainly founded by pirates. Images of filibusters as ragamuffins gnawing bugs in some cell, or perhaps scraping the bottom of some barrel adrift in the Caribbean, hunting for prey, or that of pirates getting drunk in front...
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Top Image: Pirates in a tavern (smile4u/Adobe Stock) — 29 May 2023

Fine Dining With The Pirates Of The Caribbean

By Aaronne Colagrossi

History & Tradition

0

Caribbean cuisine was certainly founded by pirates. Images of filibusters as ragamuffins gnawing bugs in some cell, or perhaps scraping the bottom of some barrel adrift in the Caribbean, hunting for prey, or that of pirates getting drunk in front...
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The Barbary Wars: America’s Most Successful Foreign Intervention — 10 Mar 2023

The Barbary Wars: America’s Most Successful Foreign Intervention

By Jake Leigh-Howarth

History & Tradition

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Since its foundation in 1775 the United States has become well known for its tendency to intervene in foreign countries when its national security is threatened. But while much has been written and discussed about the recent errors of Vietnam, Iraq...
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The Barbary Wars: America’s Most Successful Foreign Intervention — 10 Mar 2023

The Barbary Wars: America’s Most Successful Foreign Intervention

By Jake Leigh-Howarth

History & Tradition

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Since its foundation in 1775 the United States has become well known for its tendency to intervene in foreign countries when its national security is threatened. But while much has been written and discussed about the recent errors of Vietnam, Iraq...
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Ancient Trashy Erotic Historical Romance Novels Survived The Passage Of Time — 08 Feb 2022

Ancient Trashy Erotic Historical Romance Novels Survived The Passage Of Time

By MartiniF

Mythology & Mystery

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The popularity of trashy romance fiction with pirates abducting beautiful virgins and selling heroes as slaves, mistaken identities, shipwrecks, lust, lost lovers reunited and happy-ever-after-endings existed in even antiquity, although it was...
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Ancient Trashy Erotic Historical Romance Novels Survived The Passage Of Time — 08 Feb 2022

Ancient Trashy Erotic Historical Romance Novels Survived The Passage Of Time

By MartiniF

Mythology & Mystery

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The popularity of trashy romance fiction with pirates abducting beautiful virgins and selling heroes as slaves, mistaken identities, shipwrecks, lust, lost lovers reunited and happy-ever-after-endings existed in even antiquity, although it was...
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East Indiaman Kent battling Confiance, a privateer vessel commanded by French corsair Robert Surcouf in October 1800 by Ambroise Louis Garneray. (Public Domain) — 08 Mar 2021

Buccaneers’ Brimstone, Booty, Brotherhood and Betel Nut

By Aaronne Colagrossi

History & Tradition

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The goal of a pirate of the West Indies was to capture his prey, with as little damage as possible, so that he could resell the vessel, including its cargo and crew. Therefore generally, the freebooters rarely used cannons to capture a vessel, so...
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East Indiaman Kent battling Confiance, a privateer vessel commanded by French corsair Robert Surcouf in October 1800 by Ambroise Louis Garneray. (Public Domain) — 08 Mar 2021

Buccaneers’ Brimstone, Booty, Brotherhood and Betel Nut

By Aaronne Colagrossi

History & Tradition

0

The goal of a pirate of the West Indies was to capture his prey, with as little damage as possible, so that he could resell the vessel, including its cargo and crew. Therefore generally, the freebooters rarely used cannons to capture a vessel, so...
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Pirate Ship. ( neillockhart / Adobe) — 05 Feb 2021

Hostis Humani Generis: Pirates Of Port Royal And Tortuga

By Aaronne Colagrossi

History & Tradition

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The history of piracy has always held the imagination captive, both for what concerns the nautical and its techniques and for the geopolitical landscape it occupied. Its origins spring from the times of the ancient Egyptians to the Romans, up to...
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Pirate Ship. ( neillockhart / Adobe) — 05 Feb 2021

Hostis Humani Generis: Pirates Of Port Royal And Tortuga

By Aaronne Colagrossi

History & Tradition

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The history of piracy has always held the imagination captive, both for what concerns the nautical and its techniques and for the geopolitical landscape it occupied. Its origins spring from the times of the ancient Egyptians to the Romans, up to...
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1780 map of the Mascarenes; Reunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues (Public Domain) — 18 Mar 2020

Treasure Hunters Seeking Hide-Outs of Mascarene Pirates

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition

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In 1512 Portuguese navigator Pedro Mascarenhas, identified a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar as the Mascarene islands (modern-day Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues). The Mascarenes were favorite haunts and hide-outs during...
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1780 map of the Mascarenes; Reunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues (Public Domain) — 18 Mar 2020

Treasure Hunters Seeking Hide-Outs of Mascarene Pirates

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition

1

In 1512 Portuguese navigator Pedro Mascarenhas, identified a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar as the Mascarene islands (modern-day Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues). The Mascarenes were favorite haunts and hide-outs during...
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Captain Kidd in New York Harbor by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863 – 1930) (Public Domain) — 10 Feb 2020

Pirates of the Northern Seas and Scotland’s Oceanic Criminals

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition

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Pirates, maybe even more than mermaids and sea serpents, are the most fascinating and misunderstood entities of maritime history and while it is known today that mermaids were seals and giant serpents were the washed up carcasses of whales, the...
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Captain Kidd in New York Harbor by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863 – 1930) (Public Domain) — 10 Feb 2020

Pirates of the Northern Seas and Scotland’s Oceanic Criminals

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition

0

Pirates, maybe even more than mermaids and sea serpents, are the most fascinating and misunderstood entities of maritime history and while it is known today that mermaids were seals and giant serpents were the washed up carcasses of whales, the...
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View of the Colonial home on Labourdonnais’ estate reflecting the opulent lifestyle of French sugar cane plantation owners of the 18th century. — 18 Mar 2019

Slaves and Sugar: ‘Black Gold’ and ‘White Gold’ of Mauritius’ Economy

By micki pistorius

History & Tradition

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In the 18th and 19th centuries, sugar was considered the ‘white gold’ in the commercial arenas of the world, but it was accrued by the scourge of ‘black gold’ – slave labor. The tiny green emerald island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean...
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View of the Colonial home on Labourdonnais’ estate reflecting the opulent lifestyle of French sugar cane plantation owners of the 18th century. — 18 Mar 2019

Slaves and Sugar: ‘Black Gold’ and ‘White Gold’ of Mauritius’ Economy

By micki pistorius

History & Tradition

0

In the 18th and 19th centuries, sugar was considered the ‘white gold’ in the commercial arenas of the world, but it was accrued by the scourge of ‘black gold’ – slave labor. The tiny green emerald island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean...
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Sir Henry Morgan, Capture of Panama, from the Pirates of the Spanish Main series (N19) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes. — 15 Mar 2019

Hunting for Captain Morgan’s Lost Inca Gold

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition

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Native mythology on San Andrés talks of the privateer Captain Henry Morgan burying a vast treasure in a sea cave and in December 2018, after two years of researching the life and times of Captain Morgan, the thought of an ancient treasure lying in...
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Sir Henry Morgan, Capture of Panama, from the Pirates of the Spanish Main series (N19) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes. — 15 Mar 2019

Hunting for Captain Morgan’s Lost Inca Gold

By ashley cowie

History & Tradition

1

Native mythology on San Andrés talks of the privateer Captain Henry Morgan burying a vast treasure in a sea cave and in December 2018, after two years of researching the life and times of Captain Morgan, the thought of an ancient treasure lying in...
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