Plundering Pirates of Paradise

02/03/2022

Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence you came? -

04/15/2021

They rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage. ~Captain Sam Bellamy from

On Fe. 11, 2021, investigators identified 6 pirate skeletons from the Whydah shipwreck off Cape Cod. One may belong to Black Sam Bellamy, richest pirate ever.

01/27/2021

"Damn ye, you are a sneaking puppy, and so are all those who will submit to be governed by laws which rich men have made for their own security." Sam Bellamy
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Speak like a real pirate on International Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19. Instead of schlepping some bad Jack Sparrow speak, dazzle your friends by using some of the authentic quotes provided here.

10/26/2020

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
~Jacques Yves Cousteau.

08/30/2020

Wander more!
There's always treasure to be found! "X" may mark the spot.
Descartes; I think therefore, I am!

06/16/2020

America was not built on fear! Or was that ALL it was built on? They didn't know, shouldn't we? Future, ho!

05/26/2020

Thou may be sure that he who will tell thee of thy faults is thy friend, for he ventures thy dislike and doth hazard thy hatred. ~ Walter Raleigh
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20 quotes from Walter Raleigh: 'But Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself, never turning.', 'The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to ex*****on.', and 'What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music o...

03/24/2020

How did Pirates treat sickness like the plague? Separation & comradeship.
Sir Walter Drake told us that "... 'the sicknesse shewed not his infection, wherewith so many were stroken untill we were departed thence, and there seazed our people with extreeme hot burning and continuall ague, whereof some very few escaped with life and yet those for the most part not without great alteration and decay of their wits and strength for a long time after. In some that dyed were plainly shewn the small spots, which are often found upon those that be infective with Plague. (Friedenberg, 16)'

The actual disease Drake described remains unknown, but it might have been typhus, cholera, yellow fever, or bubonic plague. He believed the night air was the culprit for the affliction. Even the surgeon died, and Drake returned home without any plunder to make up for the sacrifices he and his men endured." Medicine at Sea, by

Basil Ringrose penned these words in his journal in 1680. Mere notes in history, his entries provide a glimpse of the tenuous lives pirates lived. If they survived diseases (the principal cause of death for many), they might develop a bursted belly (hernia) from lifting and pulling, or break a finge...

02/05/2020

*This is a Journey I wish to take!* "You are now within the walls of the Fort Jefferson Military Prison in the Dry Tortugas. You have been tried, convicted and sentenced to serve your punishment here. No prisoner has ever successfully escaped from Fort Jefferson. No one will ever escape. It is more than 200 kilometers across open ocean to the nearest occupied land. Four of the prisoners who arrived that long ago day had been found guilty of taking part in the successful plot to murder the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln."

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02/04/2020

No sailor learned anything in calm seas. ~Anonymous

01/30/2020

Modern Pirates respecting our ocean's history & just off St. Augustine's coast! Amazing! "Michael Barnette went on a dive and believed he came across the wreckage of the Cotopaxi off the coast of St. Augustine, Florida."

A ship that vanished in 1925 near the Bermuda Triangle has been found.

01/16/2020

"Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying." Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1);

267 quotes have been tagged as pirates: Rick Riordan: ‘Save yourselves!” Percy warned. “It is too late for us!”Then he gasped and pointed to the spot wh...