September 3, 2004
Avast, Students! Here Ye Can Add Keelhauling to Your Curriculum
Why doesn't every college have a course on pirates?
That's what Thomas M. Truxes wants to know. For one thing, there is a wealth of pirate-related material for students to explore, including firsthand accounts of raids. Pirates also loom large in the popular imagination, serving as fodder for numerous novels, movies, and comic strips, not to mention a Disney ride and "Talk Like a Pirate Day," created by a couple of guys with way too much time on their hands. (It's September 19, by the
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