Privateering in the american. Just a little more background on me. Ive been a full time writer since about 2007. Most of my books are in american history, usually have a maritime component. Ive spoken at the archives a number of times in the past. Of the books include the history of whaling in america for fortune, an empire, a history of fur, trade in america, black flags, blue waters, the epic history of americas notorious pirates and my last book, a furious scar on the history of american hurricanes. But today i am here to talk about privateering and American Revolution. It was late the day on june 3rd, 1780, when salem captain Jonathan Harrod and his privateer, the pickering, were heading for the friendly port of bilbao, spain. The british achilles, however, stood in the way nobody would have faulted had he fled in the face of this superior foe. While the pickering had a crew of 38 men cannons, the achilles bristled with 130 men and 43 cannons, hardly fair fight. But thats not the w
Takes you behind the scenes of the Nonfiction Book Publishing Industry with insider interviews. Find all the podcasts by downloading the free app wherever you get your podcast and on the website. Im happy to welcome those of you that have made it in person as well as those joining online. We have a Great Program this evening. One of the most notorious pirates. Secretly aided and abetted her husband fighting alongside him and accusers and more remarkably still went on to live a successful and productive liferk as one of the most predominant. Telling the story is historian, journalist and author. She holds a doctoraten and masters as well as a masters in Business Administration from George Washington university. She spent the last 15 years conducting research on pilots and their wives and archives, washington, new york, rhode island and massachusetts from the Massachusetts Historical Society anyone who might be joining us forst the first time. We have been collecting and preserving and m
And shower shoes, theyre lucky if there have their roots in our residents, through the chapters kick into a fund to provide them their basic needs. If not, the house does that. A lot of times they dont even have the ability we get them in id, social and the food stamp card and prepare them for their Health Interview which will we give them a couple weeks in the house. How that happens is we have a houses that are chartered for around 12 men in there is room in there for a few extra and in that moment they can use some of those beds to keep guys moving because the house is viable. Its chartered for one number and they run that number but theres a few beds within the number that they can get people in. We work on, again, the eye dedication, food, clothes, educating them about what they are involved in and reassurance because we dont want them to admit it but we are scared. We get out, get out to the house and i see it all the time that the committee that first house and they dont want to
Senate side for next week. Can you give us a sense of the white house role in what they would like to see happen . The timeline is that is expected this week and then potentially vote on thursday. The white house says it is not yet aware it has the 50 votes they need but they will have a better sense at the end of the week and their confident things are heading in the right direction. Give us a sense of that confidence. What is this based on . Are they willing to take a gamble even if the votes arent there . A they were looking at a vote towards march. They pulled it at the last minute. They realize they do not have the votes and do not want to puts up a bill only to fail. Its still an unknown whether we could see a similar scenario play out in the senate. Right now things feel very talk unknown as we havent seen the w bill tax. Which talk about the objections but once we get this bill which is coming on thursday or friday of this week and will have a better sense of what issues senato
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