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Blackbeard’s flag showed a skeleton piercing a heart and toasting the devil.
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Blackbeard’s Pirate Flag

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Pirate Stede Bonnett flew this flag. 
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Pirate Flag of Stede Bonnett

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Pirates divide up the riches they plundered.
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Sharing the Booty

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During what is known as the Golden Age of Piracy, pirates reaped great rewards—and, if they were caught, faced terrible punishments. Here are some of the most legendary pirates of that time.
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Dividing Up the Treasure

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Charles Darwin's first diagram of an evolutionary tree appears in his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species (1837).
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Darwin’s Evolutionary Tree Diagram

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Pirates capture the imagination of dreamers of all ages.
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Pirate reflection in mirror

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This map shows the localities represented by the Gulf of Mexico collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.
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Map of Gulf of Mexico Collection

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Marine Ecologist Jeremy Jackson
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Marine Ecologist Jeremy Jackson Discusses Oil Spills

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Researchers on a boat try to to catch an oiled pelican in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast.
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Netting an oiled pelican in the Gulf of Mexico

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An autonomous underwater vehicle from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) being launched from the NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Autonomous Underwater Vehicle in Gulf of Mexico

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Oil leaks from cars and other vehicles contribute to ocean pollution.
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Oil Leak on Roadway

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a thick multicolored oil sheen on the water inside a boat marina
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Oil on the Water

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