Pirate Queens Rebellion

Grace O'Malley

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To help unclog the stalemate, Wisconsin's delegation threw Garfield's name into the hat as a compromise candidate. Not only did he win the election opposing Democrat Winfield Scott Hancock , but he became the only sitting House member elected president. The whole process took Garfield by surprise, as he once told friends that "this honor comes to me unsought.

I have never had the presidential fever, not even for a day. Just weeks before the general presidential election in November , Garfield's political opponents tried to deal a fatal blow to his campaign by circulating a letter Garfield had written to an associate named H.

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Morey addressing the matter of foreign workers. In it, Garfield supported the idea of Chinese laborers, a controversial point of view at a time the country was nervous about immigration affecting employment. Democrats handed out hundreds of thousands of copies of the letter in an effort to sour voters on his candidacy. In Denver, the prospect of foreign workers prompted a riot. At first, Garfield remained silent, but not because he was ashamed of the letter.

He simply couldn't recall writing or signing it—it was dated just after he was elected to the Senate, and he had signed lots of letters that he and his friends wrote in reply to the congratulatory messages he had received. But after consulting with his friends he issued a denial, and after seeing a reproduction in a newspaper, Garfield announced it was a phony.

Morey" didn't seem to exist. Turns out, the letter was planted by the opposition to discredit Garfield's name. Journalist Kenward Philp, who published the letter, was put on trial for libel and forgery but acquitted. One witness who claimed they met Morey was jailed for eight years for perjury. Several presidents in or near Garfield's era—Andrew Johnson, Woodrow Wilson—had less than flattering views on Reconstruction and civil rights.

But Garfield made his opinion abundantly clear. Speaking during his inauguration, Garfield celebrated the dissolution of slavery and called it "the most important political change" since the Constitution. Garfield also appointed four black men to his administration, including activist Frederick Douglass as recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia. A former Garfield supporter, Charles Guiteau, was erroneously convinced that Garfield owed him a European ambassadorship. After his letters and drop-ins were ignored by the administration for months, he shot Garfield twice at a train station in Washington, D.

The president was quickly tended to by a number of physicians in the hopes he could survive the bullet stuck in his abdomen, but the doctors didn't bother washing their hands before sticking their fingers in his wound. At the time, the idea of an antiseptic medical environment was being promoted but not widely used. For two weeks, Garfield languished in bed as his caregivers attempted to remove the projectile but succeeded only in worsening both the incision in his stomach and the accompanying infection.

A heart attack, blood infection, and splenic artery rupture followed. He hung on for roughly 80 days before dying on September 19, Guiteau was hanged for the crime in During Garfield's bedridden final days, the public at large tried their best to lend sympathies and possible solutions. One letter writer suggested that doctors simply turn him upside-down so the bullet would fall out. A slightly more reasonable—but no more effective—tactic was offered by Alexander Graham Bell. Inviting a large measure of respect for his invention of the telephone, Bell was allowed to use a makeshift metal detector over Garfield's body to see if the electromagnetic fields would be disrupted by the presence of the bullet, revealing its location in Garfield's abdomen.

Bell was unsuccessful, though he reportedly did manage to detect the metal in the president's mattress. Despite his short and somewhat uneventful tenure, Garfield quickly as in, within six years received an honor equal to more renowned American presidents.

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Sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward, who is probably best known for his oversized bronze of George Washington that stands on the grounds of his inauguration at Federal Hall in New York, unveiled his Garfield monument in at the foot of the Capitol building. The statue, which depicts Garfield giving a speech, also sports three figures along its granite pedestal base: One evokes the spirit of the holiday—the atmosphere, the charity, the awkward family meals—while the other shows snow falling and the occasional Santa hat to set the mood. Is it solely a matter of the calendar or does a true Christmas movie need to reflect the soul of the season?

Which makes the enduring legacies of the very best Christmas movies that much more impressive. We all have our own lineup of movies, old and more recent, that instantly leaps to mind when you think of Christmas. Movies that you watch on repeat without fail this time of year.

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Movies that have achieved Christmas immortality. Here are the 20 best movies that capture the heart of Christmas in alphabetical order, as we love them all too much to play total favorites. This may be the only romantic comedy where a handsome young man helps a beautiful woman stay with her slightly cranky husband. Of course, Cary Grant is actually a handsome young angel whose mission is to help a Bishop David Niven in the midst of raising money for a new cathedral.

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The shortest of the movies on this list, Charles M. The animated wonder simultaneously gave us the best Christmas monologue about the crappiest tree and a jazzy Christmas soundtrack courtesy of Vince Guaraldi. Go ahead and shout out all your favorite lines right now. He starts off cranky and hateful of the season but remembers the true value of love and kindness after being visited by multiple people with guns who teach him to share what he has with others and give selflessly to those in need.

Like a retelling of Big with yellow tights and a green, pointy hat, Will Ferrell navigates the big city world of cynics to help them locate their inner child and believe in Christmas again. The main gag is how ridiculous Ferrell is as a giant elf, but the movie turns to magic because of its refusal to be even slightly mean-spirited. John Hughes must have suffered some kind of vacation-based trauma, because this and Christmas Vacation both focus on the hilarious worsts of time away from the office.

Why they keep trying to improve on perfection is beyond comprehension. Sadly, the sequel, Halloween is Grinch Night , never quite caught on. It, more than just about any other movie, has come to represent Christmastime itself—a ubiquitous presence on TV screens everywhere throughout December.

And is he the old gentleman you helped get a job at the department store? Cynicism is incinerated by this infectiously warm movie—one of the only films in history where the US Postal Service acts as Deus Ex Machina. The year-old story has been adapted more than times counting movies, TV, radio, and graphic novels. Scott or Patrick Stewart best. The Muppets and Michael Caine, though, brought a fresh, playful flavor that allowed a rat to co-narrate.

Queen Teuta of Illyria. Fought against her brother Thrond for the thrones of both Denmark and Norway. Became a pirate to avoid marriage. Sister of Koller, king of Norway. Koller " deemed it would be a handsome deed " to kill the pirate and sailed to find the pirate fleet. Horwendil killed Koller but had to later kill Sela, who was a skilled warrior and experienced pirate, to end the war. Leader of a group of male and female pirates.

All three are listed in the Gesta Danorum as sea captains. Wigbiorg died in battle, Hetha became queen of Zealand , and Wisna lost a hand in a duel. Often wrongly dated to the 5th century. Ladgerda is the inspiration for Hermintrude in Shakespeare's Hamlet. The Lady of the Mercians.

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Eldest daughter of Alfred the Great of England. Became the military leader of the Anglo-Saxons after her husband's death in battle against the Danes in Took command of the fleets to rid the seas of the Viking raiders. The "Lioness of Brittany". A Breton woman who became a pirate to avenge the execution of her husband. Attacked only French vessels.

A Norwegian noble who became a pirate to avenge the execution of her husband. She operated outside the sea of the city of Bergen.

She is an important figure in Irish folklore , and a historical figure in 16th century Irish history , and is sometimes known as "The Sea Queen Of Connaught ". Biographies of her have been written primarily in the 20th and 21st centuries by the historian Anne Chambers. Allied with the Turkish corsair Barbaros of Algiers.

This marriage is the only time in Moroccan history a King has married away from the capital Fez. Mary was the daughter of a former Suffolk pirate. Whenever her husband went to sea, Mary engaged in piracy using the staff of her castle Arwenack Castle in Cornwall as crew and possibly with the Queen's knowledge. In , she captured a German merchant ship off Falmouth and her crew sailed it to Ireland to sell.

However, the owner of this ship was a friend of Queen Elizabeth, who then had Lady Mary arrested and brought to trial at the Launceston assizes. Some sources say she was sentenced to death and then pardoned by the Queen, but this is due to confusion with another family member. According to sources, her family either bribed the jurors and she was acquitted, or Queen Elizabeth arranged a short jail sentence. Whatever transpired, she gave up piracy and took up fencing stolen goods until she died several years later. In early a Spanish ship, the Marie of San Sebastian was blown down Channel by a storm and was forced, dismasted, to take refuge in Falmouth harbour.

Lady Elizabeth led an attack on the ship and then fenced the proceeds. Lady Elizabeth was later arrested and sentenced to death but pardoned. Her husband Sir John was ordered by the Privy Council to restore the vessel and goods to their owners but went into hiding along with the ship which resulted in several warrants for his arrest being issued for acts of piracy committed over the next eight years. Also known as " Back from the Dead Red " due to her red hair and return to piracy after faking her own death and hiding dressed as a man for several years.

She actively participated in the secret piracy conducted by her brother and spouse in the Baltic sea. Caribbean pirate and later based in Mississippi after Tortuga was closed down. Dieu-Le-Veut was a nickname meaning " God wills it " and given to her as it seemed anything she wanted God gave her.

Married to a pirate, Anne challenged pirate Laurens de Graaf to a duel after he killed her husband in He refused and she became his common law wife, fighting by his side and sharing command. The wife of Captain Eric Cobham and possibly fictional.

Pirate operating on the Canadian east coast. Often listed separately in lists of pirates but is likely to be Maria Lindsey see above.

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After the kidnapping of his fiance, Lord Alan has had it with the Pirate Queen of the Gamma Quadrant and goes after her to bring her to justice with a vengeance. Stealing much needed food and medicines that were re-rounted by the Federation, Dria brings them to their original destination--to her people. Dria, in her alter personality, Lady Alexa, is a member of the founding family of the Gamma Quadrant, and feels responsible for those her family talked into following them to the new area.

Alan and Alexa grow closer as she shows him what is wrong with their quadrant, and she prays he doesn't find out that she's the one that he's hell-bent on capturing or destroying. I really enjoyed the adventures Alexa and Alan had speeding through space and watching their budding relationship grow. The sex is hot as Hades too! One person found this helpful. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Learn more about Amazon Prime. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime.

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