Category: History
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A ship thousands of miles from home with no drinking water had two options: find an island or die of thirst. Here’s how they got the water aboard — and what was probably in it.
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Yoda and pirates speak the same way. This is either a remarkable coincidence, proof of extraterrestrial influence in the Caribbean, or Lawrence Kasdan being very clever.
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The Disneyland song makes it sound appealing. It wasn’t. Once you turned pirate there was no going back — not to the sea, not to land, not to anything resembling a normal life.
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Pirates feared hanging more than death — not for the obvious reasons, but for what it meant for their souls. Blackbeard’s end was worse than he could have imagined.
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Pirates wore earrings to show shipwreck survival, advertise wealth, or fund their burial. One of these theories holds up better than the others. Bob’s earrings tell the tale.
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Blackbeard was the most famous pirate in history and almost nothing about him is actually known. Here are three mysteries that historians still can’t solve.
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She’s all skeletons and gunports and romance. She’s also top-heavy, diesel-powered, and would tip over in a stiff breeze. A cranky Queen, that one.
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The explosion of L’Orient at the Battle of the Nile killed a thousand men in an instant. Here’s who they were — and why they had no choice about being there.
Tales of the Black Falcon 