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Black Pepper
Black pepper (Piper nigrum).
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Long Pepper
Dried long pepper catkins (Piper longum).
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The Jolly Roger of Stede Bonnet
The Jolly Roger flag of the Barbadian pirate Captain Stede Bonnet (d. 1718).
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Roman Baking Oven in Casa del Forno, Pompeii
Baking oven in the Casa del Forno, Pompeii.
A rare example of archaeological remains of an ancient bakery, Casa del Forno gives us a vivid picture of grinding grains, preparing the dough, and baking loaves in the Roman world.
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Minoan Religious Procession on Hagia Triada Sarcophagus
Minoan limestone sarcophagus, c. 1400 BCE. Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. This painting appears on one of the two longer sides of the sarcophagus. It shows a sacrificial procession, part of a funerary ritual, with a woman offering...
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Aalen Roman Limes Fort, Germany
The Aalen Roman Fort was a Roman military camp on the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes, a World Heritage Site in Germany. It was built in the 2nd century CE and was the largest cavalry garrison north of the Alps. The garrison was home to 1,000...
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Ray Stevenson as Blackbeard
Ray Stevenson as the English pirate Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach (d. 1718) in the TV series Black Sails.
© 2014 Starz
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Welzheim Roman Limes Fort, Germany
The east fort (Ostkastell) at Welzheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The site has been designed as an archaeological park with replicas of Roman stone monuments and explanatory plaques about Roman Welzheim. The fort was built in 160 CE and...
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Zach McGowan as Charles Vane
Zach McGowan as the English pirate Charles Vane (d. 1721) in the TV series Black Sails.
© 2014 Starz
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The Hanging of Stede Bonnet
An early 18th-century engraving showing the hanging of the Barbadian pirate Stede Bonnet in South Carolina in November 1718. (From an edition of 'A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates' by D. Defoe/Charles...
