Piracy

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Piracy is a robbery committed at sea, or sometimes on the shore, by an agent without a commission from a sovereign nation. Seaborne piracy against...
Polybius

Polybius

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Polybius (ca. 203-120 BC, Greek) was a Greek historian of the Mediterranean world famous for his book called "The Histories" or "The Rise of the...
Suleiman The Magnificent

Suleiman The Magnificent

male, deceased (1566)
Suleyman I, was the tenth and longest‐serving Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from 1520 to 1566. He is known in the West as Suleiman the Ma...
Piri Reis

Piri Reis

male, deceased (1554)
Piri Reis (full name Hadji Muhiddin Piri Ibn Hadji Mehmed was an Ottoman-Turkish admiral and cartographer born between 1465 and 1470 in Gallipoli...

John Foster

male, deceased (1846)
John Foster, Junior (circa 1787 - 26 September, 1846) was an English architect. He studied under Jeffry Wyatt in London and in 1809 travelled in...
Robert Sarmast

Robert Sarmast

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Robert Sarmast is a Persian American architect who claims to have definitely found the lost city of Atlantis on November 14, 2004, saying that by...
Turgut Reis

Turgut Reis

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Turgut Reis (1485 - June 23, 1565) was a Turkish privateer and Ottoman admiral as well as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Mediterranean; and first...
John Rodgers

John Rodgers

male, deceased (1882)
John Rodgers (8 August 1812 - 5 May 1882), son of Commodore John Rodgers, was born near Havre de Grace, Maryland. He was received his appointment...

John Rodgers

male, deceased (1838)
Commodore John Rodgers (11 July 1772 - 1 August 1838) was an American naval officer who served in the United States Navy from its organization in...
Gary Roughead

Gary Roughead

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Among his six operational commands, Roughead was the first officer to command both classes of Aegis ships, having commanded USS Barry and USS Port...