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How To Rule the Sea: A Guide for Privateers 1500 – 1800s

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
October 12, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 09:52
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The Houston Museum of Natural Science has unveiled their Real Pirates exhibition.    You can also see privateer models Tuesday through Saturday from 9 am – 4:30 pm at the Houston Maritime Museum.

But to get you in the right piratitude, their site has a discussion on how nations without large navies got some work done against their enemies - by legalizing piracy and creating what are called privateers or privately owned ships that are willing to fight for you.

Sometimes it takes a pirate to defeat a pirate.

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