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Blackbeard's real identity called into question!

Nope, not elaborating on this one. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
Meh.. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" /> My post wasn't directed at your last post, my post was directed at people who went being blithering idiots. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> And why did my post I made here earlier disappeard!?! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" /> this is like tenth time this has happend. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/piratesing.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shock" border="0" alt="piratesing.gif" />
 
<!--quoteo(post=321405:date=May 21 2009, 12:06 AM:name=Deep One)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Deep One @ May 21 2009, 12:06 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=321405"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> And why did my post I made here earlier disappeard!?! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" /> this is like tenth time this has happend. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/piratesing.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shock" border="0" alt="piratesing.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
are you certain you posted on this forum??

maybe it was all a dream

or superman(?) removed it by turning the world back faster than light

while he was shaving his legs.
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":facepalm" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" /> I'm no fool. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":no" border="0" alt="no.gif" /> Something is going on with this rare happening of post disappearing. I've had few of those incidents even in the "Throwing the Bones" section's topics.. It was like this that I posted a post like the last one and I CERTAINLY saw my post there after posting it and the next day I visited it, it was gone for no obvious reason. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/piratesing.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shock" border="0" alt="piratesing.gif" /> Forum bug? Moderators abusing their powers? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

<i><b>From Fred Bob: Yer posts be disappearin' when yer language be gittin' o'er de top, matey! </b><img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pirate3.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p2" border="0" alt="pirate3.gif" /></i>
 
<!--quoteo(post=321406:date=May 21 2009, 01:18 AM:name=rupertlittlebear)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rupertlittlebear @ May 21 2009, 01:18 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=321406"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=321405:date=May 21 2009, 12:06 AM:name=Deep One)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Deep One @ May 21 2009, 12:06 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=321405"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> And why did my post I made here earlier disappeard!?! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" /> this is like tenth time this has happend. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/piratesing.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shock" border="0" alt="piratesing.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
are you certain you posted on this forum??

maybe it was all a dream

or superman(?) removed it by turning the world back faster than light

while he was shaving his legs.
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Ye be sayin' Blackbeard done mastered time travel an' invented de disposable razor? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
 
<!--quoteo(post=321406:date=May 21 2009, 12:18 AM:name=rupertlittlebear)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rupertlittlebear @ May 21 2009, 12:18 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=321406"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->or superman(?) removed it by turning the world back faster than light

while he was shaving his legs.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Sounds like he's pretty good at multitasking. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
At least delete my bad words not my whole message! Argh! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pirate3.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p2" border="0" alt="pirate3.gif" /> With deleting my posts you'll just make me swear even more.

That's it.. There's gonna be some major <!--coloro:#FF0000--><span style="color:#FF0000"><!--/coloro-->DREADNOUGHT<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--> TIME!!! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pirate3.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p2" border="0" alt="pirate3.gif" /> In Warhammer Dark Crusade and I shall splatter there anyone who dears to oppose me. <img src="http://forum.piratesahoy.net//style_emoticons/default/dev.gif" border="0" class="linked-image" />

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd50QnoI4Fc&fmt=18" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd50QnoI4Fc&fmt=18</a>
 
<!--quoteo(post=321473:date=May 21 2009, 07:39 AM:name=Fred Bob)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Fred Bob @ May 21 2009, 07:39 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=321473"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=321406:date=May 21 2009, 01:18 AM:name=rupertlittlebear)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rupertlittlebear @ May 21 2009, 01:18 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=321406"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=321405:date=May 21 2009, 12:06 AM:name=Deep One)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Deep One @ May 21 2009, 12:06 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=321405"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> And why did my post I made here earlier disappeard!?! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" /> this is like tenth time this has happend. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/piratesing.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shock" border="0" alt="piratesing.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
are you certain you posted on this forum??

maybe it was all a dream

or superman(?) removed it by turning the world back faster than light

while he was shaving his legs.
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Ye be sayin' Blackbeard done mastered time travel an' invented de disposable razor? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The lazer epilady

and of course


velcro
 
<!--quoteo(post=321501:date=May 21 2009, 12:28 PM:name=rupertlittlebear)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rupertlittlebear @ May 21 2009, 12:28 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=321501"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The lazer epilady

and of course


velcro<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/24.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rofl" border="0" alt="24.gif" />

...that would explain the quick change in the phone booth thing! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
Haha <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />

...and all that in just 10 secs - thats GOT to hurt <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sick.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":eww" border="0" alt="sick.gif" />
 
Just a bit of an update on the original story, the original link I posted for the article in the Baltimore sun no longer works. This one pretty much relates everything the original article did :

Blackbeard was American, not English, claims historian
May 18th, 2009 - 12:08 pm ICT by ANI -

Washington, May 18 (ANI): In a new research, a historian has claimed that the notorious pirate Blackbeard and many of his henchmen weren’t rogue Englishmen, but Americans.

Most historical accounts contend that the early 18th century pirate, known as Edward Teach or Thatch, was from Bristol, England.

But now, according to a report in The Baltimore Sun, historian Kevin P. Duffus said that his review of archives and genealogical research indicates that Blackbeard was probably Edward Beard, son of a landowner in Bath in Beaufort County, North Carolina, US.

“There’s never going to be a smoking gun to determine who he really was,” Duffus said of the pirate. “My version is a lot more plausible than what’s been foisted upon us for nearly three centuries,” he added.

Duffus also claims that several of Blackbeard’s crew members were not hanged as earlier accounts said and at least three returned to North Carolina to respectable and wealthy lives.

With the help of genealogists, Duffus has found a descendant of one of Blackbeard’s known crew members, Edward Salter.

Under prodding by Duffus, state officials are investigating whether a skeleton kept for years in a state archaeology lab in Raleigh is that of Salter, who lived out his life near Bath.

The bones were recovered in 1986 from a crypt near the Pamlico River.

If DNA tests show that the bones are Salter’s, the identification would establish that at least one of Blackbeard’s men had family roots in Bath.

Steve Claggett, the state archaeologist, said such a scenario could be true. “I think there’s a pretty good case for it,” he said.

Blackbeard is largely known for his exploits late in his life, before troops from Virginia tracked him down and killed him at Ocracoke in 1718.

His ties to Bath have been documented, and some have become the stuff of legend, but there is scant evidence of his early life.

Duffus’ theory is that Blackbeard was the son of Captain James Beard of the Goose Creek area near Charleston, South Carolina, who owned about 400 acres on the west bank of Bath Creek as early as 1707.

He said that Beard’s son Edward, born in South Carolina in 1690, came to Eastern North Carolina with his father, but was also taken to Philadelphia, where he learned his sailing skills.

Duffus suggests that Edward Beard sported a black beard and used “Black” as a nickname, much like fellow pirate Black Sam Bellamy.

By his account, Thatch or Teach was an alias, and the pirate’s moniker was actually Black Beard, later condensed to Blackbeard.

Original story here :
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal...n-not-english-claims-historian_100193997.html

Anyway, the update, for anyone even remotely curious is not about Blackbeard, but the remains of Edward Salter. Duffus has sought to have the remains tested genetically to try and help prove his theory that Blackbeard was American. The Washington Daily News reported Thursday that a Superior Court judge ruled the bones found in 1986 should be returned for reburial to people thought to be the man's descendants. The relatives plan on allowing the testing. You can read that full article HERE! I'm not quite convinced I believe this guys story, but he has done some very impressive in depth research on this. You can find a bit more background information HERE!
 
<!--quoteo(post=320731:date=May 18 2009, 09:06 PM:name=rupertlittlebear)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rupertlittlebear @ May 18 2009, 09:06 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=320731"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=320629:date=May 18 2009, 03:25 AM:name=PeterWillemoes)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PeterWillemoes @ May 18 2009, 03:25 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=320629"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->If it does'nt take more "archaeological proof" to rewrite history, I would suggest we finally could bury Columbus once for all as the discoverer of Americas and hand the credit to the Vikings. Thx.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Peasant

Emperor Constantine the First discovered the Americas

and decided it streatched his empire too far

so he hid the documentation
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

So sorry, noble Lord. Could You also please tell me why Columbus is still credited for this fine deed <img src="http://forum.piratesahoy.net//public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/guns.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":2guns" border="0" alt="guns.gif" />



Constantine? What the heck? It was Lief Erickson (or Columbus), what would make you say such a thing? LOL
 
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