Pomme Pirates
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So reads cites the following article in Wired News.
So reads cites the following article in Wired News.
posted by copy team at 10:17 AM
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Privateer: A privately-owned, armed sea vessel commissioned by a sovereign government to attack and raid the merchant ships of a hostile nation. The term also applies to the ship's owner, its captain or crew.
Although the terms are often used interchangeably, the difference between a pirate and a privateer is that the privateer was commissioned by a government and the pirate was non-commissioned.
Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
Directed by
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Grigori Aleksandrov (co-director)
Writing credits
Nina Agadzhanova
Nikolai Aseyev (intertitles)
Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What started as a protest strike when the crew was given rotten meat for dinner ended in a riot. The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignite the revolution in their home port Odessa. The movie revolves around an uprising on board the Battleship Potemkin (Bronenoset Potemkin) in 1905. Conditions on the ship are unbearable, which in turn incites revolutionary fervor among the sailors, most notably within the character of Vakulinchik. After the ship's doctor declares rancid meat safe to eat, the sailors buy provisions at the canteen in a show of protest. The Admiral then orders all those who ate the borsch made with the meat to step under the cannons in a show of loyalty. Those who do not are covered under a tarp and ordered shot. Vakulinchik then implores his shipmates to rise up against those who oppress them, namely the officers of the ship. All the officers are killed and the ship is liberated. During the uprising, Vakulinchik dies. His body his placed on the docks in the Odessa harbor as a symbol of the revolution. The citizens of Odessa rally around his body and join the Potemkin in their revolt. Cossaks then come, in one of the most famous scenes of the film, and slaughter the helpless citizens on the steps leading to the harbor, effectively ending the revolt in Odessa. A fleet of battleships then comes to destroy the Potemkin...
Rotten Apples...? Torrent Apples? This cannot be a coincident...
In one of the classic episodes of the west wing, the first lady's right to be in the Daughters of the Revolution is questioned on the grounds that the ancestor affording her the right to join the Daughters was a pirate, to which she rebuttles 'he was a privateer'. Zoes also joins the Daughters, and the world is once again saved by the walk&talk west wing staff.
I think it was Ehud Barak who compared the war on terrorism to the war waged against pirates in the 18th (?) century. I should look that up...
Emily Gilmore is in the DAR and then Roru also joined...
i know!
At first, I thoughtthe DAR was some kind of pro slavery commitee of old ladies... then after a while it occured to me that in the North East (new england etc.,) they were against slavery and cotton, they didn't like cotton at all, and could also be that say Lincoln's wife was in the DAR. I don't think Jews are alowed though...
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