In Algiers in the seventeenth century, piracy was big business. Algerian corsairs brought back enormous amounts of booty and hundreds[…]
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Month: April 2023
DATES AND DATING: JULIAN AND GREGORIAN CALENDARS
When you’re dealing with events that took place four or five hundred years ago, the exact dates when those events[…]
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CIVITATES ORBIS TERRARUM
Something a little different this week… Living in the twenty-first century as we do, with access to Google Earth, Google[…]
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THE COSTS OF OUTFITTING A SHIP FOR A PIRATE CRUISE
Have you ever wondered how much it cost to outfit a ship for a pirate cruise in the seventeenth century?[…]
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