• William the Pirate is the fourteenth book in the Just William series by Richmal Crompton. It was first published in 1932. It contains eleven short stories...
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  • William Mayes (fl. 1689–1700) was a pirate active in the Indian Ocean. He was best known for taking over William Kidd’s ship Blessed William and sailing...
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  • trader active in the Caribbean and near Newfoundland, best known for aiding William Kidd. Burke had been active through early 1699 as a pirate off Newfoundland...
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  • Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers of Albany, Oregon, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day...
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  • William Moody (died 1719, last name occasionally Moudy) was a London-born pirate active in the Caribbean and off the coast of Africa. He is best known...
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    William Lewis (fl. 1687?) was a pirate supposedly active in the Caribbean, off the American east coast, and off the west coast of Africa in the 18th century...
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  • William Read (died 1701, last name occasionally Reed) was a pirate active in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar. He is best known for rescuing fellow pirate...
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    in 1701: Pirate of the Caribbean, William 'Captain' Kidd, meets his end at Execution Dock". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original...
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  • William Jackson (fl. 1639–1645) was an English privateer who, based in Guanaja and Roatan, was in the service of the Providence Island Company from 1639...
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  • William Fox (fl. 1718–1723) was a pirate active in the Caribbean and off the African coast. He was indirectly associated with a number of more prominent...
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  • William Cotter (c. 1670-1702) was a former pirate who lived in Maryland in the late 17th-century. He became notable due to his association with the Gresham...
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  • William Moody may refer to: William Moody (pirate) (died 1719), pirate active in the Caribbean and off the coast of Africa William Alvin Moody (1954–2013)...
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  • William Knight (fl. 1684–1689) was a 17th-century English buccaneer and pirate known for joining privateering expeditions against Spanish colonies in Central...
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  • William Coward (fl. 1689) was a minor pirate active off the coast of Massachusetts. He is known for a single incident involving the seizure of one small...
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  • For a list of female pirates, see women in piracy. For pirates of fiction or myth, see list of fictional pirates. "CHRISTIANITY", The Roman World 44 Bc–Ad...
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    was an English pirate who was best known for his piracies in the Indian Ocean. His real name is uncertain; French sources from the time of his retirement...
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    Piracy (redirect from Pirate ship)
    pirate ships. The earliest documented instances of piracy were in the 14th century BC, when the Sea Peoples, a group of ocean raiders, attacked the ships...
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    William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651; died March 1715) was an English explorer, pirate, privateer, navigator, and naturalist who became the first...
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    The United States Pirate Party (USPP) is an American political party founded in 2006 by Brent Allison and Alex English. The party's platform is aligned...
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  • in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Captain Jack Sparrow is portrayed by Johnny Depp. First introduced in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse...
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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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  • The Dread Pirate Roberts is the identity assumed by several characters in the novel The Princess Bride (1973) and its 1987 film adaptation. Various pirates...
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  • William 10 Just William: Home for the Holidays. William the PirateWilliam Holds the Stage. Barnett, David. "'Just William' represents a time when rebellious...
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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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  • 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. The list includes...
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  • Blackbeard the Pirate is a 1952 American adventure film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix, Keith Andes...
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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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    shipping in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific to western Pacific. The Pirate Round (1690s), associated with long-distance voyages from the Americas to...
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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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    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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