…are flowers that will soon grow in the Arctic because Someone Else refuses to turn the heat down to 60 during cold snaps, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Atlas Shrugs, with a post on the NY Times and global jihad.
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I’d like to see Veronica Ricci do a pirate movie. She’s done some movies with no men in them, and was a Pet Of The Month in 2009.
In related news, we have:
The Last Days of Blackbeard
An exclusive account of the final raid and political maneuvers of history’s most notorious pirate
In recent years, however, researchers have dug up new evidence, buried in the archives of England, France and the Americas, or beneath the sands of the American coast, allowing them to piece together a fuller and extremely compelling picture of Blackbeard and his cohorts, one that shows him to have been a canny strategist, a master of improvisation, a showman, a natural leader and an extraordinary risk taker. “Researchers are often drifting around without a rudder not sure what pirate stories are real,†says underwater explorer Mike Daniel, president of the Maritime Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida, who found the never-before-published account of the Rose Emelye’s capture buried in the Archives Départementales de Loire-Atlantique in Nantes in 2008. “Then all of a sudden you find documents like these and it’s like finding an island. There are solid facts beneath your feet.â€
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/last-days-blackbeard-180949440/
He went by Edward Thatch—not “Teach†as many historians have said, apparently repeating an error made by the Boston News-Letter.