Saturday, May 17, 2014

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today

On this day in 1682 the Welsh pirate Bartholomew Roberts was born. Taking over 470 ships during his “career” Roberts was the most successful pirate of what is termed the golden age of piracy.

And now the news:
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  • Bill Oddie to support the Love Your Zoo campaign
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  • 'Biggest dinosaur ever' discovered
  • Domesticated animals provide vital link to emergen...
  • Hong Kong burns ivory stockpile
  • Safari park celebrates birth of long-awaited eleph...
  • 500 Right Whales Could Face the Wrong Fate (Op-Ed)...

  • A fictionalised version of Roberts was a main character in Assassins Creed: Black Flag. Here's a comparison between Roberts' real history and the modified form in the game (which is by the way excellent) SPOILER ALERT:

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