• The Pirate Round was a sailing route followed by certain, mainly English, pirates, during the late 17th century and early 18th century. The course led...
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    shipping in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific to western Pacific. The Pirate Round (1690s), associated with long-distance voyages from the Americas to rob...
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    sometimes erroneously given as Jack Avery or John Avery, was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s. He probably...
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    Thomas Tew (category American pirates)
    second, and he pioneered the route which became known as the Pirate Round. Other infamous pirates in his path included Henry Avery and William Kidd. It is...
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    Piracy (redirect from Pirate ship)
    of pirates Piracy in the Atlantic World Piracy kidnappings Pirate code Pirate game Pirate Party Pirate Round Pirate studies Pirate utopia Pirates World...
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  • International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers of Albany, Oregon, who proclaimed September 19...
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    (hanged 18 November 1720), commonly known as Calico Jack, was an English pirate captain operating in the Bahamas and in Cuba during the early 18th century...
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    The Republic of Pirates was the base and stronghold of a loose confederacy run by privateers-turned-pirates in Nassau on New Providence island in the...
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  • Gulf of Guinea Piracy in the Strait of Malacca Piracy on Falcon Lake Pirate Round Ship Security Alert System "Eritrea 'arming' Somali militia". BBC News...
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  • This is a list of pirate films and TV series, primarily in the pirate film genre, about the Golden Age of Piracy from the 17th through 18th centuries...
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    The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Its official...
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  • This is a list of known pirates, buccaneers, corsairs, privateers, river pirates, and others involved in piracy and piracy-related activities. This list...
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    Pirates of the Caribbean is a dark ride at Disneyland, Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, Tokyo Disneyland and Disneyland Park at Disneyland Paris. The...
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    (1688 – 10 December 1718) was a Barbadian-born pirate and military officer, known as the Gentleman Pirate because he was a moderately wealthy landowner...
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    A pirate code, pirate articles, or articles of agreement were a code of conduct for governing ships of pirates, notably between the 17th and 18th centuries...
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    Charles Vane (category British pirates)
    Charles Vane (c. 1680 – 29 March 1721) was an English pirate who operated in the Bahamas during the end of the Golden Age of Piracy. Vane was likely born...
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    The Barbary pirates, Barbary corsairs, or Ottoman corsairs were mainly Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from the largely independent Ottoman...
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    1553 – 1622), also known as Birdy or later as Yusuf Reis, was an English pirate who later became a Corsair for the Ottoman Empire operating out of Tunis...
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    culture, the modern pirate stereotype owes its attributes mostly to the imagined tradition of the 18th-century Caribbean pirate sailing off the Spanish...
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  • spelled as "Roronoa Zolo" in some English adaptations), also known as "Pirate Hunter" Zoro (海賊狩りのゾロ, Kaizoku-Gari no Zoro), is a fictional character created...
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    Jolly Roger (redirect from Pirate flag)
    Jolly Roger Base pirate flags Jolly Roger is the traditional English name for the naval ensign flown to identify a pirate ship preceding or during an attack...
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  • Pirate Latitudes is an action adventure novel by Michael Crichton, the sixteenth novel to be published under his own name and first to be published after...
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    Pirate utopias were defined by anarchist writer Peter Lamborn Wilson, who coined the term in his 1995 book Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European...
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    colonies in the Caribbean began hunting and prosecuting pirates. The period during which pirates were most successful was from the 1650s to the 1730s. Piracy...
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    Buccaneer (redirect from Corsair (pirate))
    Realm: Pirate Life on the Spanish Main, 1674–1688. Potomac Books. Retrieved 9 January 2017. "Tortuga – Pirate History – The Way Of The Pirates". Archived...
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    (1771–1832), a friend of John Leyden's, was the first to refer to the vessel as a pirate ship, writing in the notes to Rokeby; a poem (first published December 1812)...
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    deleted in later revisions of Brewer's dictionary. David Jones, a real pirate, although not a very well-known one, living on the Indian Ocean in the 1630s...
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    Mary Read (category 18th-century pirates)
    1721), was an English pirate about whom there is very little factual documentation. She and Anne Bonny were among the few female pirates during the "Golden...
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  • Caesar, later known as “Black Caesar” (fl. 1718), was a West African pirate who operated during the Golden Age of Piracy. He served aboard the Queen Anne's...
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  • The Pirates of Dark Water is an American fantasy animated television series created by David Kirschner and produced by Hanna-Barbera. The series premiered...
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