Posted on 07/28/2003 4:24:03 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
In general that is true. But one country's pirates were sometimes another counries Privateers. Then there was Jean Laffite, who fought alongside Andy "Old Hickory" Jackson at New Orleans. He is known as a pirate, but was probably more Privateer than pirate. He did later burn Galveston, but it belonged to the Spanish at the time.
Near the Country Bears is a rifle arcade. Shoot the frogs! Shoot the deer, and the moose, and the snakes! Shoot the piano player! Surprised it's still around in this P.C. day. They will never make a Disney movie based on that rifle arcade!
Good thing that I was never a pirate. With my warped sense of humor, I'd have the dreaded plank rigged as a powerful springboard. The poor victim gingerly edges out onto the thing, and WHANNNGGG!! He's flung over the rigging, dropping into the sea a hundred feet off of the other side of the ship.
Howard Pyle was a very talented American artist and illustrator (1853-1911). He also started an entire school of painting and illustration - his students, including N.C. Wyeth (one of my favorites), Maxfield Parrish (remember HIM?), Jessie Willcox Smith (too cutesy for my taste), Harvey Dunn (a GREAT painter), and Frank Schoonover (don't like his work much) were collectively known as the "Brandywine School" - he lived in Wilmington DE but taught summer classes at Chadds Ford PA.
He not only did pirates - he also did King Arthur, Robin Hood (I have a copy - it's great, he adapted the text and it's all illustrated with woodcuts), Pepper and Salt and The Wonder Clock, collections of stories for children, a story of the German wars called Otto of the Silver Hand, historical paintings and murals, and hundreds of magazine illustrations.
Samples follow.
I seem to recall something similar in a Conan Doyle story (not one of the Sherlock Holmes ones) of a trap rigged to fling the unwary through the air . . .
You bet! That's FANTASTIC news!!! You see, if Al Gore decides to run, it will become much easier to get these reviews published (with accompanying cartoons) as a book. Of course, Al Gore will deny that he is the author and somehow claim that I really wrote these reviews even though he is the true author. He already told me he would vociferously deny writing these controversial reviews if he decides to run for Prez again.
Yup! You sure made my day!
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