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Swashbuckler Soiree

The folks in charge of Privateer Day in Fell’s Point, Baltimore, sent me this flyer for one of the upcoming Privateer Day events to pass along — I suppose because I posted about my visit to Privateer Day last year — so I’ll do just that, since I think the flyer looks extra cool, this [...]
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Pirate Quote of the Week: Talk-Like-a-Pirate-Day Edition

“In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages and hard labour; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power …. No, a merry life and a short one shall be my motto.” – Attributed to Bartholomew Roberts, 1682–1722 Photo © ACF
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Pirate Quote of the Week

ARABELLA: I’ll never wear them, never! These nor any other ill-gotten by a thief and pirate. CAPTAIN BLOOD (Dumbstruck): Thief and pirate …! ARABELLA: I’ve seen your pirate ways. I’ve seen myself bargained for and fought over, a combat between jackels. CAPTAIN BLOOD: But I thought you understood …. ARABELLA: You mean you thought you’d [...]
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Pirate Quote of the Week

“We, the undersigned, are men without a country, outlaws in our own land and hopeless outcasts in any other. Desperate men, we go to seek a desperate fortune. Therefore, we do here and now band ourselves into a brotherhood of buccaneers to practice the trade of piracy on the high seas. We the hunted will [...]
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