Pirates

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There are countless popular stories of male pirates who terrorized the seas in search of treasure. Many were famous for their cruetly. But history often overlooks the hundreds of women pirates who were often more terrifying and more successful then their male counterparts.There are still some pirates today, but they they use high-tech tools to locate ships to attack instead of wearing eye patches with parrots on their shoulders or being armed .

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Columbia Encyclopedia

Blackbeard,d. 1718, English pirate. His name was probably Edward Teach, Thatch, or Thach. He probably began as a privateer in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), then turned pirate. In 1716–18 he preyed on shipping and coastal settlements of the West Indies and the Atlantic coast of North America, becoming notorious for cruelty. His headquarters were in the Bahamas and the Carolinas. The governor of North Carolina shared some of the booty, but despite his protection Blackbeard was killed by a British force from Virginia. Legend has romanticized Blackbeard; his ship, found near Beaufort, N.C., in 1996, is key to a tourist Pirate's Trail.