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Barbarossa

The 7 Most Terrifying Pirates From History

www.cracked.com | David Moye | Posted 10.19.2011 | Weird News
Read More: Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Francois L'Olonnais, Black Bart, Barbarossa, Stephen Decatur, Bad Ass Pirates, Pirates, Jean Lafitte, William Dampier, Weird News News

Between Johnny Depp and numerous sports logos, pirates have become cartoon characters in modern culture. It's easy to forget that the real thing d...

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US Military Tailors Mission Names To Target Audience

Washington Post | Christian Davenport | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Glad Tidings of Benevolence, Barbarossa, Hitler, Operation Together Forward, Afghanistan, War, Operation Enduring Freedom, Adolf Hit, Sean Macfarland, Shock and Awe, Afghan War, Er, Ramadi, Operation New Dawn, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Fritz, Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld, Politics News

In the hypercharged rush of combat, the adrenaline flows and the rhetoric soars. After the "shock and awe" invasion of Iraq, many of the names the mil...

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Pete Seeger, "Folk Music" and the Left

Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Fellow Travelers, James Lileks, Banjo, Joseph Stalin, Barbarossa, Ron Radosh, Pete Seeger, March on Washington, Folk Music, Woody Guthrie, Nicaragua, Bob Dylan, Mark Steyn, Kingston Trio, World War Two, Yalta, Billy Bragg, Communism, Doc Watson, Mao Zedong, Guitar, Leninism, Joan Baez, Franklin Roosevelt, Kim Il-Sung, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, Medgar Evers, Amy Goodman, Entertainment News
Jesse Larner

As someone on the left who loves folk music, I understand that I'm supposed to feel mystically uplifted by the dean of activist folkies. But I never could stand Pete.

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