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Showing posts with label pirates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pirates. Show all posts
Friday, September 19, 2025

Piracy played a role, early in the “Second” Hundred Years’ War

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“When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village [Hannibal, Missouri] on the west bank of the Missis...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

How Congress can give legal permission to be a “pirate” (er, “privateer”)

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“[The Congress shall have the power] To declare war, grant  letters of marque and reprisal , and make rules concerning captures on land an...
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By training, I am a business major with a concentration in marketing, and a certificate in economics. I originally wanted to do market research for businesses because I enjoyed the social science aspects of marketing, and I have studied psychology a little on my own; but I now wonder if this will ever be my field. I have also taken a fair amount of communications classes, because I thought about grad school in advertising or public relations (or even business & economic journalism), but I'm not sure I will ever do these things. (I'm glad I studied them just the same, though.) By inclination, I learn about a lot of other things in my spare time. For example, I am a history buff, an aspiring polyglot, an amateur linguist, a political philosopher (after a fashion), and a student of the Bible. Most of the things I study on my own these days have something to do with one of these subjects (or sometimes even more than one), and I write about many of them on my blog. So my actual profession is … you guessed it … a math tutor! Not what you'd expect, right? (Not what I would have expected, either … )
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