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$450,000 In Private Donations Will Allow Excavation Of Blackbeard’s Ship To Continue
Posted by Willie Drye on October 19, 2012 A spur-of-the-moment donation today of $32,500 allowed the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources to meet its fund-raising goal of $450,000 to continue excavating the wreckage of the Queen Anne’s Revenge, the flagship of the legendary 18th-century pirate Blackbeard. The contribution from Rita and Eric Bigham, a retired couple who divide their time between…
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A few years ago a scientific survey was released that mapped out where fisheries were being depleted around the world. This was about the same time that pirates from Somalia achieved a large degree of prominence by seizing a cargo ship full of tanks, with news reports bemoaning how global shipping lanes brought cargo…
Pirates 2.0
Posted by Anne Marie Houppert on June 13, 2011 
“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” is currently in theaters. While the pirate character Jack Sparrow is a rather dashing and romantic figure, the pirates of today are seen as exactly the opposite. Are they different?
