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With their elected leaders and strict rules on drink, Rebecca Simon’s The Pirates’ Code argues that freebooters valued discipline not chaos

The "Pirate Island Educational Exhibit" is sailing into the Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin, starting Friday, Oct. 7. It is a fantasy world of Pirate adventure brought to life with interactive games, stories and STEM activities that include navigation, compass and pulleys.

From the blog of David Sedley at The Times of Israel

Gordon Moore celebrated his 93rd birthday at the beginning of this year (January 3). Moore and seven co-conspirators including Robert Noyce, collectively dubbed the “Traitorous 8,” left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory en masse and founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957. In 1965, as Fairchild Semiconductor’s R&D Labs Director, Gordon Moore published a very short article titled “Cramming…

England was experiencing a time of social disruption, with people moving from the countryside to the cities in search of employment.  The conditions in these urban areas, however, were no better and many viewed working on a sailing ship as a way out of their predicament.  Nevertheless, ordinary sailors had to work hard, were subject to strict discipline, and earned only modest wages. Piracy, on the other hand, provided these sailors an opportunity to amass their fortunes quickly, and also the...