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• Many pirates got their start as privateers, engaging in raiding and looting other ships, but while under orders of the state. Privateers were respected ship captains, and received a commission or letter of marque from a government official or monarch, empowering the privateers to capture merchant ships belonging to an enemy nation. In fact, they were often considered reserve naval forces. Although privateers could not technically be charged with piracy, their actions, which were considered legal, were much the same as the criminal pirate. However, if privateers were taken into custody by a foreign government, they could very well be executed, as was the case with Spanish authorities who hanged privateers with their letters of marque tied to their neck.

• English explorer Sir Francis Drake was actually one of the most renowned privateers of his time. Although hailed as the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe, he had been commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I (who nicknamed Drake “my pirate”) to attack Spanish vessels and ports. When he returned from his 1580 voyage with a ship loaded with plunder, the Queen immediately knighted him. (continued on next page)

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PIRATES (continued): • Sir Thomas Cavendish was another English explorer who used circumnavigation of the globe as a method of capturing riches. He completed his voyage in 1588, having spent two years and 49 days raiding Spanish ports, towns, and vessels throughout his journey. One 600ton ship captured by Cavendish was filled with gold, silk, and other treasures from the Pacific and the Philippines. He also was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I upon his return at the age of 27. Cavendish set out a few years later for a repeat of his first raiding expedition, but died at sea at age 31.

• The career of Henry Every, a pirate known as Long Ben, started out respectably with a position in the British Royal Navy. He then joined up with the Spanish Expedition Shipping Company, and through a mutiny became a pirate captain, who developed into one of the most feared and successful pirates. Every became the richest pirate after capturing a ship in the Indian Ocean that was loaded with gold and jewels.

He retired before he could be captured, and his whereabouts were never discovered.

• Captain Henry Morgan was a Welsh pirate who raided the Caribbean colonies in the late 1600s, sanctioned by England as a privateer.

It’s believed he looted more than 400 ships during his career. His largest plunder was achieved in Panama City, where he captured 30 ships and 1,200 men. However, this raid resulted in his arrest and extradition to England. Yet Morgan dodged the sentence, and was instead knighted

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-- Carol in Buffalo, New York DEAR CAROL: Twelve years ago, I wrote about the problems caused by Katrina’s flooding, including pets being displaced and sent to shelters across the country. There was a huge increase of diseases like heartworm in pets who were lost outdoors for many days.

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Ahead of Harvey, many shelters in the evacuation zones transferred their adoptable occupants to other states to make room for rescued pets.

Local shelters are networking more closely with each other, with national rescue groups and with the public (thanks in part to social media like Twitter) to coordinate transfer of animals to overflow shelters.

For example, one shelter, Austin Pets Alive!, is taking in pets by the truckload and for several days has coordinated transfers, as well as calls for volunteers and supplies, via Twitter.

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• Well-known pirate Captain Kidd started out as a privateer with an official commission from European royals to rid the Indian Ocean of pirates. Kidd’s ship Adventure Galley was equipped with 34 guns and 150 men. His attack on a large 500-ton East India Company vessel “X” FACTOR becameTHE his downfall.

One of(continued): the owners had • Do you suffer from xeroderma?

If you have connections in England, and his complaints abnormal dryness of branded the skin, as this term applies resulted in Kidd being a wanted to you! When Kidd learned he was being criminal.

• From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on hunted, he supposedly hid most of the treasure the Mediterranean Sea sailed a small threesomewhere in the Caribbean.

He then headed masted vessel with square and triangular sails forthat Newenabled York, with a stop on Gardiners Is- their them to sail faster than land, a tiny island east of Long Island.

Here prospective victims. Depending on the size of Kidd buried chests containing gold dust, bars the ship, known as a xebec, between 16 and 40 be mounted on the vessel. of guns silver,might Spanish dollars, rubies, diamonds, candlesticks, silver Captured shortly • The word and xenia has bowls. a variety of meanings.

To the ancient Greeks, it was the concept afterward, he was charged with murder and of hospitality, generosity, and courtesy shown five counts of piracy and shipped to England to those far from home. To the botanist, it’s for trial. Found guilty on all charges, he was the effect of pollen on a seed. And to those in hanged 1701. the County, rope Ohio, init’s the During county the seat hanging, of Greene broke, necessitating a second attempt.

His dead a community about 21 miles (34 km) from body was enclosed in an iron cage and left on Dayton. display in London for three years to deter otherto • Xystus is an architectural term, referring a long,criminals. covered portico, or main entrance, of potential ancient Greek gymnasiums.

Here, athletes • The practice of gibbeting was a common one would exercise during inclement weather. following the execution of pirates. After enclosTo the Romans, the xystus was the garden ingwalkway the bodyininfront an iron cage, known as a gibbet, of the porticoes, where they theplanted flower beds. pirates were often left dangling from a hook until their flesh rotted off, which could take • Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” as words, long asxyster two years.

During the 1700s, Ellis is a and xiphisterna.

The xyster Island, which became America’s foremostbones, Imsurgical instrument used for scraping while the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage migration Station, was known as Gibbet Island,at the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long because it was frequently used as an execution flat bone located at the center of the chest. site for pirates •• The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” The notorious Blackbeard was born Edward and in several of our use a prefix.

Teach England, andwords went to seait asfor a mariner Xanthophyll is a yellow pigment found along in with the Royal Navy. After a French cholorophyll in capturing green plants.

Plants merchant vessel, he fitted it with 40 guns with yellow stems are xanthopous.

Toand those made the switch piracy. suffering fromtothe abnormal vision condition known as(continued xanthopsia, everything on next page) they see seems to have a yellow hue.

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People have stepped up in other ways, using OpGrat as a kind of clearinghouse to get a message out. A group in California arranged to send 500 bales of alfalfa to Texas to feed horses displaced by the floods.

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PIRATES (continued): • At the peak of his career, Blackbeard commanded four ships and 300 men, and seized more than 40 ships in the Caribbean. He sported a thick long black beard, frequently braided into pigtails or tied with colored ribbons, and was said to radiate an extremely frightful appearance. Blackbeard was captured by the Royal Navy in 1718, when he was 38, and during the ensuing intense battle, Teach and many of his crew were killed. Blackbeard was beheaded, and his head was raised upon a stake and displayed near Virginia’s Hampton River.

• Welsh pirate Black Bart (born Bartholomew Roberts) started out as a respected navy officer and navigator, and was forced into piracy when the vessel was captured by a pirate. The lifestyle seemed to be a good fit for Bart, as he went on to plunder more than 470 ships, more than any other pirate. Bart was an elegant man who dressed in crimson velvet coats, wore a feather in his hat, and gold chains around his neck. Two pairs of pistols were usually slung over his shoulders. Bart didn’t gamble or drink alcohol, preferring a cup of tea, and could frequently be found praying. His ship was captured off the coast of Africa in 1722, and he was killed in battle by a British naval captain.

Per his prior wishes, before his body could be seized by the navy, Bart’s crew wrapped him in the ship’s sail and threw him overboard.

• It’s believed that French pirate Emanuel Wynne was the first to fly the Jolly Roger flag above his ship. The skull and crossbones on a black flag came into use around 1710. Pirates frequently personalized their flags, with some featuring a full skeleton. Wynne added an hourglass beneath the skull to symbolize that time was running out.

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BLEEDING TOOTH Perhaps one of Nature’s creepiest plants is the hydnellum peckii, commonly referred to as the bleeding tooth fungus. Follow along as Tidbits focuses on this remarkable living thing.

• This fungus’ appearance puts off many, as it resembles a wad of chewing gum that oozes blood. Its fruit is a pale white color accented with pinks and reds. Bleeding tooth is just one of its nicknames, with others including strawberries and cream, red juice tooth, and Devil’s Tooth. Some say it resembles a Danish pastry topped with strawberry jam. While the liquid goo on most species is red, resembling blood, some species secrete liquid that is light pink, yellow, orange, or beige in color.

• The fungus was first discovered in 1913 in North Elba, New York, by an American botanist named Howard Banker. It can be found across North America from Alaska to North Carolina, but is especially widespread in the Pacific Northwest. Most often it’s found growing under conifers, particularly Douglas fir, lodgepole pines, and hemlock trees. Its favored environment is in moss and pine needle litter, where it can grow either as a solitary plant or clustered together. Its width varies from 1.6 to 3.9 inches (4 to 10 cm). It’s also found in central Europe, and has been discovered in Iran and Korea in the last nine years.

• The sap oozes from the top of the fungus because of high root pressure. This process, known as guttation, occurs when a plant amasses moisture and nutrients necessary for survival through its roots. The pressure causes the plant to push up the thick red goo onto the fruit of the plant. Most of its stem is below the ground.

• The bleeding tooth belongs to a family of mushrooms and toadstools called Bankeraceae (named for the noted botanist who discovered the peckii) and contains 98 different species. (continued on next page)

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