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Shiver me timbers and avast ye hearties! We think we know pirates, from Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow to Errol Flynn as Captain Blood, or literature s Long John Silver and Captain Hook. But what do we really know? The true Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Sir Henry Morgan, and lots more, from ancient keelhauling to twenty-first-century buccaneering, are all here in Q & A commodore Doug Lennox s Now You Know Pirates. Arrrr!What is the origin of the word pirate?Who were the Barbary Corsairs?What did pirates do to St. Patrick?What is the difference between a pirate and a privateer?What is the Oak Island Treasure?How many female pirates have there been?What are pieces of eight and doubloons ?Who were the buccaneers?How old is piracy?

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