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1 day ago · One review in the Weekly Journal suggested that each pirate was an allegory of some prominent public figure. Sadly, it didn’t identify any. The tradition of using pirates as political rhetoric ...
1 day ago · One review in the Weekly Journal suggested that each pirate was an allegory of some prominent public figure. Sadly, it didn’t identify any. The tradition of using pirates as political rhetoric to get at opponents was nothing new. It dates back at least to Roman times and Cicero, if not earlier.
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1 day ago · Pirates and politicians: what a 300-year-old book about the most notorious buccaneers reveals about British politics. Charles Johnson United States Mary Read Daniel Defoe Blackbeard London Wikimedia. New York Public Library. Three hundred years ago, A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates by Captain Charles ...
4 days ago · Wealth. 4,000 pieces of eight (hidden remnants of a larger fortune) Roberto Cofresí y Ramírez de Arellano [a] [b] (June 17, 1791 – March 29, 1825), better known as Pirata Cofresí, was a pirate from Puerto Rico. He was born into a noble family, but the political and economic difficulties faced by the island as a possession of the Spanish ...
22 hours ago · Political ideologies have two dimensions: (1) goals: how society should be organized; and (2) methods: the most appropriate way to achieve this goal. An ideology is a collection of ideas. Typically, each ideology contains certain ideas on what it considers to be the best form of government (e.g. autocracy or democracy ) and the best economic ...
1 day ago · The United States is a constitutional federal republic, in which the president (the head of state and head of government ), Congress, and judiciary share powers reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments. The federal government is divided into three branches, as per the specific ...
3 days ago · The notorious pirate, Barbarossa, who eventually went on to be an Admiral in the Ottoman Navy, was surprisingly half Greek. As a pirate, he was extremely successful, and his many victories for the Ottomans in the 16th century helped them secure a wide territory in the Mediterranean. Born in the village of Palaiokipos on the Greek island of ...
