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Not all pirates are the romanticized high-seas pillagers of yesteryear. Nor are they sports teams from Pittsburgh or Tampa Bay. There are plenty of people on the outside of the system looking in, trying to circumvent the laws of the day, that you might not consider to be prates, but they very much are. 10. [...]

When you think of the term “period piece,” what usually comes to mind is Jane Austen, powdered wigs, and petticoats.  Many films depict these distant eras with a beloved sort of detachment– these eras only remembered otherwise in written documents and various memoirs. But what of the eras that many, to this day, can recall [...]

When people think of tiny countries, places like Andorra, Monaco, and Luxembourg often come to mind. But these places are huge compared to some of the more obscure “micronations” scattered across the globe. These mini-states, which are often as small as a single acre, are formed for a variety of reasons: from artistic and political [...]