Throughout history, human beings have occasionally crisscrossed large water bodies in ships. While a majority of ships would be characterized as transport vessels, a fraction of them were characterized as hostile owing to the nature of their business at sea, which in essence, was to capture and loot other vessels. Such ships were flow by groups of individuals collectively named as pirates. Pirates were feared enormously especially because of the nefarious deeds they exerted upon their subjects or victims. In essence, rules of engagement that often applied in dissimilar scenarios were thrown out the window if one happened to encounter a pirate ship. More often than not, this meant that no filament of mercy would be shown to the people aboard a captured vessel. Given this reality, one would thus question; how then would a friendly ship distinguish between a potential pirate ship and another friendly vessel? This question perhaps brings the discussion to its core with reference to the subject topic. The only way a captain of another ship would be able to discern that a particular vessel belonged to pirates was in observing the type of flag such a vessel flew. Most pirates usually flew a black flag with an emblem of a white human skull set on crossbones, or as it were, and still is commonly known, the “Jolly Roger.”
Background of the Jolly Roger
It is almost impossible to come across a true account describing the very crux or origin of the Jolly Roger. History offers very little and many historians believe its origin may indeed be lost. However, scattered accounts provide for the placement of the origin of the Jolly Roger from around 1700, when Emanuel Wynne, a French pirate flew it. As indicated before, during the great ages when ...
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...ept employed in their usage of the Jolly Roger was to scare its victims or enemies into submission. One might think that modern times have perhaps eroded the usage of the Jolly Roger. This is not the case; the practice is, on the contrary, very much alive as seen in various army submarines belonging to different nations. Additionally, the term Jolly Roger has also been extended to include army and air force motifs such as those of delta troops or bomb squadrons. Moreover, student outfits such as the Harvard skull and bones clique, and sports outfits such as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have also adopted various aspects or forms of the Jolly Roger. Of course their usage and meaning is quite the opposite of what pirates practiced. Nevertheless, the Jolly Roger still serves its purpose of identifying between a friend and foe and psychologically instilling terror upon them.
George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.(14 Feb. 1859-22 Nov. 1896) was a civil engineer/ construction engineer who invented the Ferris Wheel. George Ferris was born in Galesburg, Illinois to farmers, George Washington Gale Ferris Sr. and Martha Edgerton Hyde Ferris. He lived with his 4 sisters and 2 brothers. When Ferris 5 years old his family sold their farm and headed toward San Jose, California. Unfortunately in the middle of their journey they ran out of money and had to settle in Carson City. In Carson City they made a ranch and Ferris helped his father farm for 9 years before going to California Military Academy in 1873. In 1876 he graduated and applied for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York to study civil engineering.
Entering the 1950s, no corporation even came close to General Motors in its size, or it's profits. GM was twice as big as the second biggest company in the world, Standard Oil of New Jersey (father of today's Exxon Mobil), and had a vast diversity of businesses ranging from home appliances to providing insurance and building Buicks, Cadillacs, Chevys, GMCs, Oldsmobiles, Pontiacs and trains. It was so big that it made more than half the cars sold in the United States and the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division was threatening to break it up(to prevent Monopolies, Like how Standard oil was broken up). In the 21st century, it's almost hard to imagine how powerful GM was in the 50s and 60s. Sports cars from Europe were getting popular, because of servicemen coming back from WWII, and wanted sports cars, but American Automakers didn't make sports cars, so they would either buy foreign, or go without. A man named McLean would still try to make a low priced sports car. But it didn't work. The idea of a car coming from GM that could compete with Jaguar, MG or Triumph was pretty much considered stupid and insane. C1:Generation: Bad but valuable. Just 300 Corvettes were made in 1953. Each of these first-year Corvettes was a white roadster with red interior. The Corvette was made of fiberglass for light weight, but the first cars were made with a really weak, (and kind of pathetic for a “sports car”) 150 horsepower 6-cylinder engine and an automatic transmission. The result was more of a look at me, I’m rich car than a race car. The first generation of the Corvette was introduced late in 1953. It was originally designed as a show car for GM's traveling car show, Motorama, the Corvette was a Show Car for the 1953 Motorama display...
Throughout the film there are parts of historical piracy that are shown. In the start of the film, pirate Hector Barbossa is shown as a new privateer for the English. It is revealed that Captain Barbossa is not sailing the seas for the King, but instead
At the sight of this pirate, many of his victims were quick to surrender without a fight. If they did, he would often times just take their valuables, rum, and weapons— allowing them to sail away. However, if the vessel resisted capture, he would either kill the crew, or maroon them. Blackbeard needed to maintain his devilish image in order to maintain the respect of his crew (very few members of the crew doubted that he was the devil himself, very few didn’t fear him, and therefore they obeyed him).
An American naval commander, Commodore Esek Hopkins, led a successful raid with a fleet of ships at Nassau in the Bahamas. There, he took supplies from a British supply base at Nassau and set on a return voyage back to the colonies. On his return voyage, he captured two British ships named the HMS Hawk and the HMS Bolton which were then manned by some of his crew. The fleet under his command sailed south of Block Island, Rhode Island as Hopkins wanted more prizes he can get a hold of before being docked at a harbor to unload his loot. Soon enough, one of the ships in the fleet spotted the HMS Glasgow, a British ship, several miles away. The HMS Glasgow under Captain Tryingham Howe, ran into Hopkins because it cruised off to Block Island before going to Virginia (which was its destination) to sail with other two ships, Hawk and Bolton, knowing they were there. Unknowing to Howe, the two ships were already captured by Hopkins. As a result, it ended up finding Hopkins’ fleet instead. Captain Howe wanted to know what ships were in company with the brig and to which Hopkins replied with “the Columbus and the Alfred, a tw...
WHO INVENTED IT: The people who invented the jolly ranchers were Bill and Dorothy Harmens.
Little is known about the infamous Blackbeard's early life; in fact, the first documentations of him are not recorded until the early 1700s, long after his childhood. Yet with so little knowledge of him, he is arguably regarded as the most notorious pirate in history due to his fearsome personality, distinguished look, daring acts of piracy, and stalwart death.
It is encouraging all the young and able men to enlist and fight in the war to defeat the Germans. The slogan I used is “The Germans sunk our men and left them to drown. Boys, time to sink their hopes: Fight for the Crown!!”. The first sentence of the slogan is meant to incite hatred for the Germans within the hearts of all Americans, as the direct accusation of the Germans leaving the Americans to drown will most definitely rile people up. The second sentence has two key parts. “Boys, time to sink their hopes” is a play on words/ the situation, as the Germans had sunk the Americans. Thus, boys who enlist will see this as a perfect opportunity to get revenge by justly “sinking” the Germans’ chance at victory. The second part is “Fight with the Crown!!”, and this is a play with rhyme. Not only will the rhyme help the slogan stick in people’s heads, but this will further encourage boys to identify themselves as the good guys and fight alongside the good side. To accompany this slogan, there is a picture of the Lusitania sinking, a small crown under the slogan, and a lineup of soldiers with weapons at the ready. The picture of the sinking cruiser is to act as a visual for people to connect the slogan with; it also cements the harsh reality of the fact that there was in fact a cruiser that sank with their own people on board. The small crown is just to act as a visual connector with the Crown from the slogan. The
Because of this ill treatment, some sailors decided to become pirates. The system of piracy was a particularly egalitarian one. It reinstituted the medieval method of payment, by offering each member shares of the profit, which in the sailor’s mind meant better pay for their labor. Additionally, as written in the codes the pirates followed, the ship was run by the crew, not the captain. The crew had the ability to depose a captain that treated them unfairly. (Rediker 261-62) In many cases piracy offered better working conditions, better food, better pay, and better leadership. However, an organized effort to eradicate the threat of piracy began to take shape in the late 1720’s. Colonial governors began offering bounties on the heads of pirates and the Royal Navy engaged in a much more organized and focused attack on such enterprises. (Rediker 283) These factors, combined with the inability of pirates to organize on a large scale, lead to only a short reign at sea for these ill-treated rebels. (Rediker
Shipboard rules were harsh in the 1800s. Captains were sometimes removed for not being aggressive enough to their crews. While others
The Flag was first carried in battle at the Brandywine, September 11, 1777. It first flew over foreign territory January 28, 1778, at Nassau, Bahama Islands; Fort Nassau having been captured by the American in the course of the war for independence.
Modern piracy has touched nearly every corner of the globe and has increased with globalization. The tentacles of piracy now extend from South America to the South China Sea. The greatest numbers of piracy incidents occur along maritime commercial trade routes. Since China dominates the world’s container shipping industry, the South China Sea has become a hotspot for piracy (Kraska 2011). The prominence of cargo activity increases opportunity for pirates and indisputably triggered the sixty- nine incidents of piracy that were reported in 2009 in the South China Sea (Kraska 2011).
Blackbeard was ruthless and fearsome anyone who was unwilling to give him a ring lost a finger as punishment. Not only did Blackbeard want to scare his victims he wanted to scare his crew he even shot his first mate in the knee just so they would remember who he was and so they wouldn’t commit mutiny (over throw the captain and steal his ship).
The Golden Age of Piracy began around 1650, and ended around 1730. Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea, but can include acts committed on land, in the air, or in other major bodies of water or on a shore. It does not normally include crimes committed against persons traveling on the same vessel as the criminal. The term has been used throughout history to refer to raids across land borders by non-state agents. A pirate is one who commits robberies at sea, usually without being allotted to do so by any particular nation. The usual crime for piracy can include being hung, or publically executed. Some of the most famous pirates who were killed either because of piracy, or because of natural causes, are Barbarossa, Stede Bonnet, Anne Bonney, Sir Francis Drake, Captain Greaves, William Kidd, Jean Laffite, Sir Henry Morgan, Mary Read, and Giovanni da Verrazano.
There are many inventions of the future that people either know or hope will happen and some inventions that people have never thought that would happen in this or the next lifetime. For instance, one piece of future technology that I believe may come to pass is the invention of flying cars. Since the time of being young and watching the Jetsons, many people have been waiting to see the first flying car. While bringing up the idea of a flying car to a lot of people would seem absurd or downright impossible to some, I actually believe that it is very much so possible to create given how far technology has come in the past few decades. I think that it is a very logical conclusion to assume that at some point in the future engineers, car makers, and others will start to pursue other alternatives to avoiding traffic jams and other problems on the road, and instead begin to examine the possibilities of taking to the air as an alternative solution. There is much talk about it over the internet and many people would like to try flying cars. While it would greatly improve traffic for those that prefer staying on the ground, it may prove dangerous in the beginning because of accidents in the air with other cars, planes, trees, and buildings. Some would say though, that the convenience would outweigh the risks because there would not be traffic jams, or detours because of road work. These cars would need something like a GPS system and an anti-wrecking system so people would not run into each other or other objects (How Flying Cars Will Work).