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If I'd *really* wanted ot get ahead in this game, I should have done a history of piracy in the new world, from thw 15th to the 19th centuries for one of my essays -_- Of course, there is no way that I could have known that ahead of time. :/ Maybe I can work it in somehow next term. I would need to cover Drake and co., the Bucanneers, the Golden Age, and later 18th C folks like Lafitte. Maybe even toss in the barbary corsairs... but they are kind of different... kind of. it is *complicated*. It is surprisingly hard to synthesize a single definition of piracy. It would be like defining sports. Go on... Tell me what sports are. :P
Ahh well.
Ahh well.
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Although, following the adage of "It's all fun and games until someone loses and eye... then it's a sport.", clearly it's when someone loses an eye. :)