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We'll call it "Pirates 101." A: Quite a lot of them, actually. The 17th century has been called "The Golden Age of Piracy" in the Caribbean. Villainous pirates plied those waters, pillaging ...

Wreck-hunters have discovered the remains of a small 17th-century pirate ship, known as a Barbary corsair, in deep water between Spain and Morocco. The wreck is "the first Algiers corsair found in ...

A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century. The map ...

Did you know that in the 17th and 18th centuries ... The special also traced the history of pirates through the age of privateering and the 20th century rumrunners of the Prohibition era.

“I’d stopped eating and I wasn’t getting nutrients,” Williams told The Mirror, adding that he contracted “a 17th century pirate disease.” Not eating enough fruits and vegetables is the ...

"A 17th century pirate disease," he said. While Williams did not identify which drug he was taking, he revealed that he was on "something like Ozempic" in October 2023. Robbie Williams Jokes on ...

The 19th-century author Howard Pyle is responsible for a great many beliefs about 17th-century pirates, from their flamboyant costumes to their buried treasures. Published after his death ...

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