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...a National Instrument: The Arab-Israeli Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191 R. A. Mason It Was a Bit of a Close Call: Some Thoughts on the South Atlantic War . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 R. G. Funnell Airpower in Peripheral Conflict: From the Past, the Future? . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Dennis M. Drew Soviet Airpower in the New Russian Mirror . .301 Benjamin S. La...

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... 191 R. A. MasonIt Was a Bit of a Close Call:Some Thoughts on the South Atlantic War . . . . . . . . . . 221 R. G. FunnellAirpower in... ...bin Higham was born in the United Kingdomand educated on both sides of the Atlantic. He served as a firstsergeant pilot in the Royal Air Force (RAF) f... ...ntrol SystemNavFE Naval Forces Far EastNATO North Atlantic Treaty OrganizationNBC nuclear, biological, and chemical (... ... defense of the country—wasbroken up into Bomber Command, Fighter Command, CoastalCommand, and Training Command, with MaintenanceCommand being added i... ...to Liddell Hart’s comment that Douhet had noinfluence in Europe generally, plainly that was not true forItaly.23 Nor was it for Germany. Horst Boog, a... ...e placed anchored balloons. Far forward as afirst line of defense were the coastal batteries. Above all, com-mand was coordinated. Given all the techn... ...ainst the V-1. Once the decision was madeto move some 2,600 guns to form a coastal gun belt in July1944, antiaircraft fire using the newly available r... ...By the springof 1945 the effort was no longer possible. “The air war,” com-plained Goebbels in his diary on 1 March, “has now turnedinto a crazy orgy.... ...nd once in the discus-sion. If the political parameters were askew or just plain wrongas you’ve suggested, what should or even could the militarycomma...

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...At the request of Scott R. Atkinson, Director of Marine and Coastal Conservation, of The Nature Conservancy, and in partnership with the Department of Land and Natural Resources-Division of Aquatic Resources, the University of Hawaii-Hawaii Natural Heritage Program, and various commun...

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...ished at alarming rates. Undertaking the Present Study At the request of Scott R. Atkinson, Director of Marine and Coastal Conservation, of The ... ... HiPae74-080103 INTRODUCTION Background At the request of Scott R. Atkinson, Director of Marine and Coastal Conservation, of The ... ...ogical accounts. All forms of the natural environment, from the sky and mountain peaks, to the watered valleys and lava plains, and to the shore line... ...ccessed, and near shore fisheries—enriched by nutrients carried in the fresh water—could be maintained in fishponds and coastal fisheries. It was ar... ...vely clear, and are thus swept in immense quantities on to the platform, and from there into a ditch leading out to a plain where they are gathered... ...uki, who was of the uplands of Waimano. It is this Kualii who built the long house called Makanaole, on the inland plains of Manana 2nd. It is n... ...or the mouths of great rivers, which they will ascend to deposit their spawn…chinooks [Pacific salmon]…shad…alewives…[Atlantic] salmon.Ka Hana Lawa... ... Panama by sailing vessel, thence by rail across the Isthmus to Colon, and from there by sailing vessel or steamer to Atlantic ports. A part also w...

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...meth Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? -- 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape-Scripting symbolic images lets man communicate over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state...

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...er surge that filled the Black Sea andscatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward thePacific?4. Script... ... drive for a hundred dollars—drives that can hold a million book titles in plain text or 2.5 million in compressed text. Such modern information tec... ...ors did the following:  Moved out of the forests onto Africa‘s grassy plains (savannahs).  Learned to stand upright so they could look over ... ...havinglived primarily on aquatic animals and plants from shallow fresh and coastal waters. Dr. Crawford also notes that the famed prehistoric female... ...d spread as far north as the seashoreabove Scandinavia, as far west as the Atlantic Ocean, as far northeast as the Pacific, and asfar southeast as Ind... ...sold the cedars to King Solomon (1011–931 BC).Their homeland lay along the coastal regions known today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and thePalestinian T... ...s. Theytransported goods all across the Mediterranean and even on into the Atlantic Ocean. Sailing out from their homeland, they established trading... ...vested. The combination of the moldboard plow‘s conquest of the European plains, and theintroduction of the three-field crop rotation spurred increa... ... man and beast The Pacific Ocean‘s moisture-bearing winds water the lush coastal plains of Asia‘sagrarian civilizations. North of the 45-degree para...

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...he: 1802 CHAPTER SEVEN Settlement and Expansion in Van Diemens Land: 1803–10 CHAPTER EIGHT Penetrating the Interior: 1811–18 CHAPTER NINE Coastal Exploration—British and French: 1819–12 CHAPTER TEN The Infrastructure of Natural History: 1821–28 EPILOGUE Scientific index: hard copy only General index: hard copy only ...

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...–93 CHAPTER NINECHAPTER THREE Coastal Exploration—British andEstablishment of the British Fre... ...arren countrey I have seen, is not so badbanished to the other side of the Atlantic. A but that between the productions of the sea andlong-ter... ...nt over them, and either twine or a canvas coverreturning vessel, the Atlantic, along with seeds was tied to the hoops to form a protectivean... ...erent to that which they had encountered in mountain range behind the coastal flat on whichEurope or any other part of the world. The Syd... ...continued to study the comparative anatomy of explorations of the coastal zone of New Souththe platypus and later requested a second ... ...f the tunicate Pyrosomasimilar to the hippopotamuses Baudin had seen atlanticum, the zoology of the Southernin Africa. Baudin retained the teeth... ...ngham theydescending the Lachlan by boat. Cunningham encountered a plain which Oxley named forfossicked about the area collecting specimens ... ... of coral and shells scattered over the flat plain, stimulating him to consider that the‘Angophora intermedia’ ... ... journeyedthird collection for Prince Leopold of Saxe- through open plains and scant forest notingCoburg, king of the Belgians. Among the ...

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...l and Western India, majorly around those are living near hilly, tropical & coastalareas. As a result of dramatic climatic changes gradual rise in tro... ...tic changes cyclonic activities near oceans also increasedover tropical and coastal areas and in few places earth-quakes shivering also been noticed w... ...Nodal influences we see rise in catastrophes of waters occur intropical and coastal regions and to those places closer to small lakes, rivers and ocea... ...ery “jeeva”. So this line starts below Mercury field and reaches the higher plainsof Jupiter. That is the reason why it is called a “Jeeva rekha”. Ket... ... around evening (local time) before grinding inland. Hurricane Atlantic Ocean near West of Africa, Patricia flattened dozens of ... ...ut authorities said the record-breaking hurricane largely close toNorth Atlantic Ocean after spared the country and weakened into a remna...

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... of planar-language. Everything and everyone are placed in a single plain in the language codes. There is only one single YOU, YOUR, YOU... ...onourable man, and everyone of his own indicant level or below, are plainly dishonourable men, whatever their other qualities of intellect or ... ... words to an inferior, it gives an impression of pretended humility or plain mocking, and not any polite manners. Otherwise, the general impre... ...the same time, to the southern tip of Madras state, and to its western coastal region, there were two small independent kingdoms, by name Trav... ...als. The newly-cleared places became filled with settlers from the coastal plains of Kerala. They fenced-up all the cleared areas. So ... ... I am of the personal opinion that the UN should be thrown into the Atlantic Ocean. It remains as an agency right inside USA, and in the city o... ...s claimed, the overwhelming strength of its navy. NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, an organisation formed by America and...

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... real growth rate 2.5% (1975-79); currentTerrain: mostly rugged mountains; plains Type: Communist regime backed by growth rate figures ... ...rrain: mostly mountains and hills; small November plains along coastsatellite station Land use: 21% arab... ...n Territorial sea: 12 nmmetallic ores, electricity, oil, vegetables, Coastal Defense Command, Air and Air Climate: arid to semiarid; mil... ...ontinuousoslovakia, FRG, Romania, Poland, Italy, coastal plainGreece, France La... ...soslovakia, FRG, Romania, Poland, Italy, coastal plainGreece, France Land use: ... ... People's Assembly Portugal, and BrazilTerrain: narrow coastal plain rises Government leader: Jose Eduardo dos Bu... ...or military/ Scrub IslandCuban links; 2 Atlantic Ocean satellite Prickly Pear Cays > Type: Brit... ...ive to sea lanes between lOOOkm Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (Strait ofGDP: $158 million (1984), $1,980 p... ...xt general printing, and metallurgy satellite stations with 3 Atlantic Oceanelection 1989 Steel: 2.9 million metric ...

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... 3terms associated with them, e.g., the Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) which has its ownonline dictionary, Rigb... ... may appear justas their common name in popular articles and herein, e.g., Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)appearing as cod in the fisheries of Newfoundlan... ...Gadus morhua)appearing as cod in the fisheries of Newfoundland and Europe, Atlantic herring (Clupeaharengus) similarly as just herring but in the Nort... ...hedepth at which water temperature remains uniform.abyssal floor = abyssal plain.abyssal plain = the area of the generally flat ocean floor excluding ... ...nd (archaic).adventurer = 2) a resident fisherman who fishes seasonally in coastal waters distant from hishome port in Newfoundland.advertisement = 1)... ...upstream and downstream bysteeper-gradient canyon system segments.alluvial plain = an expanse of land formed, at least in part, by deposited materials... ...whichan alluvial stream meanders. Usually applied to the gentle slope in a coastal plain.alluvion = fine sediment.alluvial stream = named after the si... ...alluvial stream meanders. Usually applied to the gentle slope in a coastal plain.alluvion = fine sediment.alluvial stream = named after the silts, cla... ...f trawlers fishing demersally in Arctic waters.Arctic realm = includes the coastal regions and continental shelves of the Arctic Ocean andadjacent sea...

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...ter-rain offered distinct advantages in another. Whether in theopen country of the Sharon Plains or the rugged hills of theJudean Range, horse cavalry... ... as to where the nextmajor blow would fall—either east of the Jordan River orwest, on the coastal flank. Because of the operations in16 ARMAGEDDON’S ... ...e the for-mula used at the Third Battle of Gaza by placing the weightof his effort on the coastal flank (see map 3, appendix A).60 Bulfin’s XXI Corps... ...epositioned immediately behind XXI Corps, exploiting thebreakthrough and passing into the Plain of Esdraelon.Chauvel’s troopers would seize El Affule ... ...s date is probable. That heremained in ignorance of my intention to attack in thecoastal [plain] with overwhelming numbers is certain.”63 Integral to... ...s ran security missions to allow for the secretconcentration of forces building up on the coastal plains.64Thus, not only had Allenby planned for an o... ...ed, 1934), 457. Appreciation for the value ofairpower was no more enthusiastic across the Atlantic. “Even the glaringdeficiencies shown by the 1st Aer...

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... +10 Celsius, and sedates after +30 Celsius, or so. Due to gold in both the coastal area of Ranklin Inlet, NT and also farther away in Yellowknife,... ...wn the peninsula and split into the lights over the backmarsh and Ennedai Lake coastal area. The lodge peninsula has broken up the steady sky lens are... ...years of pouring through books in prairie snowstorms ofminus 40 C on the Great Plains where I once lived. Having a home is something very wonderful, e... ...lyexplained. Being a cripple is a challenge. Being a cripple in a challenge is plain no fun, howeverwondrous. I built my tower to survive. I couldn... ...ackyard. It was sort of impressive at first, before thinking the XGUN was just plain oldcracking. Mon March 4 / 2013 12 am – 25 C wind from the nor... ...y move south and elsewhere, so the people perhaps do not have themuskox in the coastal area, but there is deer, or I suppose I should say Caribou. I’m... ...owneye, (PEIEIO) XI. OldeArunslight, (NB, or IRVING barony the other Atlantics cast off) and also the well documented … ...

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..., and the coldest period is from July to August. With the exception ofsome coastal areas, the entire country is made up of steep mountains, resultingi... ...r coastline to the southwest. The northern and central regions havefertile plains of Hindustan, while the southern part is occupied by the Decan Plate... ... the Bay of Bengal. In northern India, central India has fertile Hindustan plainsalmost all over the country, and almost all parts of southern India a... ... is also active. The terrain of the islands is usuallymountainous, and the plains are limited to low-lying river watersheds bordering thecoast, so the... ...s only80 kilometers away from Cuba. Haiti's terrain is mountainous and its coastal areas havesmall plains, rivers and valleys. In 1925, Haiti was a tr... ...sylvania in the United States.The land is divided into five natural areas: coastal areas, a plateau called la Terre deBarre, another highland region m... ...bon is a central African country rich in natural resources. Located on the AtlanticOcean, it borders Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, ... ... Climate It is a tropical forest country near the redhead that borders the Atlantic Ocean. Since theclimate is typical of tropical climates, the tempe... ...ees far from the Equator.Ghana occupies an area of 238,535 km^2 and has an Atlantic coastline that stretchesabout 560 kilometers on the Gulf of Guinea...

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...er surge that filled the Black Sea andscatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward thePacific?4. Script... ... drive for a hundred dollars—drives that can hold a million book titles in plain text or 2.5 million in compressed text. Such modern information tec... ...ors did the following:  Moved out of the forests onto Africa‘s grassy plains (savannahs).  Learned to stand upright so they could look over ... ...havinglived primarily on aquatic animals and plants from shallow fresh and coastal waters. Dr. Crawford also notes that the famed prehistoric female... ...d spread as far north as the seashoreabove Scandinavia, as far west as the Atlantic Ocean, as far northeast as the Pacific, and asfar southeast as Ind... ...sold the cedars to King Solomon (1011–931 BC).Their homeland lay along the coastal regions known today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and thePalestinian T... ...s. Theytransported goods all across the Mediterranean and even on into the Atlantic Ocean. Sailing out from their homeland, they established trading... ...vested. The combination of the moldboard plow‘s conquest of the European plains, and theintroduction of the three-field crop rotation spurred increa... ... man and beast The Pacific Ocean‘s moisture-bearing winds water the lush coastal plains of Asia‘sagrarian civilizations. North of the 45-degree para...

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...ndthe island of Java (Indonesia). By its skull the creature the Atlantic coast in the west, where he would set-could be classified as somet... ...oyal families in Central Ana- ing into the forests of the North European Plain, tolia (Aladj Heijuck tomb, mid. III ka BC).A bronze into Denmark... ...ack Sea. Its location would spur over nearly the entire Atlantic Coast of Europe.conflicts of interest over it, as was borne out by... ...es in Sumer and Akkad14; they were scattered all across the Babylonian plain and served as commod- ity exchange centers for settled farmers, f... ...nly existed until 300 B.C.E., after which it ments: the sun-scorched clay plains were not erodedwould continue as a small settlement until the Arab ... ...ents (i.e. those consisting of houses built on piles driven into local coastal ground), the earliest of which were discovered in Swit- zerland; ... ...rn Cádiz)by the time that Emperor Augustus died in 14 C.E. This and the Atlantic Ocean. The entire route, as it wasfigure was later increased to al... ... seven thousand. indicated on the milestones, totaled 980 miles (al-A “coastal route,” the continuation of the Via Domitia that most 1,500 km). A... ... first called Via Maxima, then Via Augusta—went branched off from the coastal route and followedfrom the Pyrenees to Carthago Nova (modern Cartag...

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... able to locate the Italian passengerliner Rex more than 600 miles off the Atlantic Coast. Theattendant publicity, carefully planned by the Air Corps,... ...id a weekend visit to Roosevelt in Washington. DeLa Grange had crossed the Atlantic in anticipation of pur-chasing 1,000 American-built aircraft to im... ...,000 bombers with a rangeof 3,300 miles” and the potential of crossing the Atlantic fromWest African bases.230 Two days after Hap’s 10 November memos ... ...d those of the Senior members ofyour staff and of CinC Bomber, Fighter and CoastalCommands. Secondly to discuss training and thirdly to seefrom long r... ...sunk in April but many German ships were sunk by thenew method the British Coastal Command is now using. Inthis, the light bomber flying low over wate... ...n for “all relevant information to supportyour requirements for bomber and coastal command usage.”9 As Arnold continued to doubt the wisdom of providi... ...rientation of combined policy.”2 As theofficial AAF history concluded, “In plainer English, he was nottoo keen” about Bolero and its Sledgehammer pred... ... a brown, hilly island, looking much the same as SouthernCalifornia hills (Plaines des Gaiacs).145 Landing field is 180miles north of Noumea; B-17... ...einforcements and as replacements. Two airports for landing at Noumea: (1) Plaines des Graiacs,150 miles out of town; (2) Ton Tou Ta, much smaller, 40...

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...erring,His utmost power with adverse power opposedIn dubious battle on the plains of heaven,And shook His throne.What though the field be lost?All is ... ...Weather scorn, or satiate fury yield it from our foe.Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, the seat of desolation,Void of light, save what th... ...se,In even balance down they light on the firm brimstone, and fill all the plain;A multitude, like which the populous north poured never from her froz... ...From eastern point of Libra to the fleecy star that bears AndromedaFar off Atlantic seas beyond the horizon;Then from pole to pole he views in breath,... ...ins from the equinoctial rodeLike distant breadth to Taurus with the Seven Atlantic Sisters,And the Spartan twins up to the tropic crab;Thence down am... ...h bank of the Arnon river, east of the Dead Sea.Arreede ?Ascalon A coastal city 31 miles south of Tel AvivAshtaroth A Crowned Prince of Hel...

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...he total cultivable area.Maritime Zones: Fishing and economic zones claimed by coastalstates are included only when they differ from territorial sea l... ...ople's Army, Frontier Troops, Interior Troops, Albanian CoastalExports: $151 million (1978); asphalt, bitu- Defense Command, ... ... mine warfare ships, 54 Land boundaries: 6,260 kmceuticals coastal patrol-river/roadstead craft, 6 mine war... ... Caribbean Sea Elections: general election, June 1982links; 2 Atlantic Ocean satellite stations;29,100 telephones (0.5 per 100 popl.)... ...ia for par- 1, 315 kWh per capita 2 satellite stations with 3 Atlantic Ocean an-ticipation in national elections; Radical Civic ... ...0 AM, 536 FM, and 988 TV .STATES At/antic Ocean Bahamasstations; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT sta-tion; 3.01 million telephones (39.8 per 100... ...uded highest organ of government, usually ratifies bers in 1981wasteland, plains, rolling hills, and basins the party's programs; the State Co...

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... (these bridges are simple around New Orleans, is flat country, a perennial flood plain. Andlog affairs which predate our arrival by possibly centur... ...rom the countryside, for that most French of traditions, their cargoes with our coastal settlements. Spices, chili peppers,Le Grande Reveillon. ... ...ended the hunters, the women, and the fishermen were abundant in the lakes and coastal waters. Everywhere fromto see what they fed their people ... ...e of its largest distributaries in SE Louisiana. On its western North American Plains. In simple terms, all of these family bank a large bayou d... ... groups and clan/tribes followed the game migrations. Seasonal rich and fertile plain down into the Gulf. So large, in fact, that its villages... ... typical Creole pantry in French New Orleans. As will be shown,in the so-called “Atlantic World”, smuggling was a way of life, and there are ... ...hens of the colonial capital. Available historical re-purposes, it was normal in the Atlantic marketplaces,the Atlantic cords are replete with r... ... history of French Louisiana, their activity in Ba-pot between the continent and the Atlantic empires of Spain, rataria, Lafourche, Baton Roug... ...ninternational trade routes, the Columbian exchange, theCaribbean-Mexico- North Gulf coastal trade route, as well as thegardens of old New Orleans; ma...

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... the kinds of tar-gets that strategic bombing would likely be directed against,“should plainly be excluded upon the most elemental ethical andhumanita... ...ed States Armyso bluntly, and a Chief of Staff who was General Pershing at that,it was plain it was going to take a lot to stop Billy Mitchell.”68 The... ...n dispersing them to corps and field armycommanders; and (4) clarification between the coastal defense mis-sions of the Army Air Service and air units... ... He recalled that the last few years had been a periodof economy and sounded an almost plaintive warning against fur-ther cuts: “We are down to rock b... ...the Air Service that the nation’s air defenses were dete-riorating. Responsibility for coastal defense, he said, was claimedby both the Army and Navy,... ...he Hawaiian flight and the Shenandoah disaster, wehave come to the conclusion that the Atlantic and Pacific are stillour best defenses.”69 To Mitchell... ...t perhapsbecause they realized that they had to make an attempt to meetrequirements of coastal defense or run the risk of losing that taskto either pr... ...neer, had designed the ill-fated dirigibleShenandoah and the first seaplane to fly the Atlantic, the NC-4; andhe was a member of the National Advisory... ... ones outside the continental United States. Extension of hemi-sphere defense into the Atlantic and Pacific required bases. In thePacific, the problem...

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...oman Navy) was anchored on thefar side of the Gulf, towards Kalamata. On reaching the plain at the foot of the mountainswhich extends to the sea, we p... ..., planted with wheat half-harvested. The terrain, which fromafar seems one consistent plain, is cut by deep and uneven gullies. Monsieur Vial, at that... ...tory: we would delight in seeing the migratorybirds forsake the unknown tribes of the Atlantic shores to visit the famed peoples of theEurotas and Cep... ...liked to haveseen at least the location of Merope’s palace. J’entends des cris plaintifs. Hélas! dans ces palais Un dieu persécuteur hab... ...uth, over the plain; we came to some hills,which formed, without my realising it, the coastal promontories; for after passing througha gorge we sudden...

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...arco luengo] a large Spanish fishing boat having two or three masts and employed for coastal trading and occasional offshore fishing, too, a longboatb... ...r trouble‘batten yer hatch!’ shut your mouthbatteries armaments along a settlement’s coastal wallsbeak the bow of a shipbeam the extreme width of a sh... ... it carries the uncanny ability to capsize the sturdy longships normally employed in coastal raids‘bleedin’ the monkey’ swigging grog in transit to me... ... seaman’s weaponboard [1] [above board] anything on or above open deck, something in plain view, honest [He’s above board, sir, if there e’er wast an ... ... land, naturally, songs of love, adventure, pathos, and famous men, battles, or just plain funny songs top the list, as far as whaling songs go, life ... ...ugh the original Jolly Roger is most probably the Flag of No Quarter sporting only a plain red fieldEdward ‘Ned’ Low a flagitious pirate captain born ... ...ular sail set above the gaffgale a freezing hurricane-force wind common in the North Atlanticgaleota [Dutch or Flemish] galliot, galiotgallant roguery... ...the foremast and bowspritJohn Halsey a colonial American pirate who is active in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans during the early 17th century, althoug... ... older maps] an island off the coast of North Carolina between Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic where Blackbeard makes his port, possibly the island of ...