Daily Archives: November 2, 2007

Speaking of pirates

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November 2, 2007

Although not a true “pirate” by the accepted definition of the word, Felix von Luckner was quite possibly the last truly great sailing “pirate”.  Using the 245 foot SMS Seeadler, he sank almost 30,000 tons of Allied shipping during World War One – while causing only a single casualty.  Of course, this is only...
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Modern Piracy

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November 2, 2007
Modern Piracy

Pirates who hijacked a Japanese tanker off Somalia earlier this week are demanding a U.S. warship shadowing the vessel back off, the wife of the tanker’s foreman said Friday. The Navy did issue a response to the pirates: I jest, they did not blow up a freighter full of benzene. I’ve been following these...
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School crime

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November 2, 2007

According to an FBI study, knives – not guns – are the most commonly used weapons in school crime. The Crime in Schools and Colleges study, which gathered data from about a third of the nation’s law enforcement agencies, showed that the most commonly used weapon in more than 558,000 campus-related crimes over the...
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