Gold Treasure Fleet coin sold on Pawn Stars

Someone recently posted this on Facebook, and I thought people might enjoy seeing it here, too. It's not very often you see a real Spanish Gold coin come up for sale!

Spanish Gold Coin sold on Pawn Stars

What was New Year's like in 1700?

I bet you haven’t ever thought about just how long some of our New Year’s traditions have been going on! Check out this web site:

http://www.pauldenton.co.uk/Newyearsday.htm

Also going on in 1700 was the change in what calendar we used. You can read all about the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendars here:

https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/colonialresearch/calendar

And here is quick little article about how New Year's was celebrated in Boston in 1700:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/03/22/march-happy-colonial-new-year/L0MrkQc47SiUu1OHVJt1lI/story.html

Here is another look at New Year’s traditions from Live Science.com:

https://www.livescience.com/57344-the-origin-of-7-new-years-traditions-revealed.html

The Irish woman who married a dead pirate says they've split up

This is just too much fun to pass up! You can't make this stuff up, folks! If I wrote a novel around this you would think I was nuts!

Here's the link:

Irish woman who married ghost of 300-year-old pirate says they have split up

 

Interesting opinion piece from Colin Woodard

Check out Colin Woodard's opinion piece which will appear in print in the New York Times tomorrow:

 

More Than a Pirate, a Rebel With a Democratic Spirit

 

Sam Bellamy, From Penniless to the Richest Pirate Of All, pt 2

This month read the conclusion of my article on Sam Bellamy! 

Sam Bellamy, The Richest Pirate of All