Real estate blog entries tagged with pirates by Steven L. Smith, Bellingham, Wa. Home Inspector (King of the House Home Inspection, Inc)

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pirates: America's Pirate - 04/27/09 10:56 AM

I never thought it would happen in my lifetime but pirates are big news again. This is a rather startling development. As many of my readers will know, a couple weeks back -- when the Somalian pirates were holding the American captain -- I wrote about the history of pirates in Africa.
Let us leave Africa behind. The most famous pirate of them all was Blackbeard. I am wondering how many of you realize that many of Blackbeard's dastardly deeds took place right here in the Americas.

At the end of the 17th century, wars were ending in Europe and … (16 comments)

pirates: Terror on the High Seas: Somalia and a History of Pirates in Africa - 04/12/09 10:44 AM

News Flash: The American captain was rescued by the U.S. Navy this morning. Three pirates were killed. Now, on to the original story which recounts the history of pirate activity in Africa.
Pirates. I cannot get that word out of my head. I am finding the re-birth of pirates off the coast of Africa quite amazing. Major pirate activity is something that I would have chalked up to history -- like cowboys in the wild west. A book on pirates, published in 2004, states that piracy is now small-scale and it will not return to the levels of 300 years ago. … (24 comments)

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