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The global superstar has seemingly done it all. Priyanka Chopra Jonas on where you go after you've reached the top.

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The 'Assassin's Creed IV' Remake Is Making Some Divisive Changes

The yet-to-be-announced 'Black Flag' remake will allegedly make some sweeping changes to the original, including the removal of the game's modern-day sections.

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Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake reaches unprecedented levels of leaked, despite Ubisoft's best efforts to stomp on yapping actors

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13 Famous Pirates Who Ruled The High Seas

Discover the legendary lives of famous pirates, including Blackbeard, Henry Morgan, and the daring Anne Bonny and Mary Read, who ruled the seas! The post 13 Famous Pirates Who Ruled The High Seas first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Pirates and politicians: what a 300-year-old book about the most notorious buccaneers reveals about British politics

Three hundred years ago, A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates by Captain Charles Johnson first hit the shelves of London’s booksellers. The book aimed, according to Johnson, to give “a distinct Relation of every Pyrate who has made any Figure”.

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‘She took control of the ship with a pistol’: the high seas heroine who inspired a savage pirate tale

Katherine Howe’s bloody, brutal new novel is about a Boston barmaid who dresses up as a cabin boy and joins a notorious crew of pirates. The writer and keen sailor explains how it was inspired by her great-aunt, who once quelled a mutiny at sea

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Minnie Driver Is Joining Our Flag Means Death Season 2, And Her Casting Could Represent A Major Step For The Show

Minnie Driver is set to guest star in Season 2 of Our Flag Means Death making her only the second woman pirate to appear in the hit show.

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Woke the plank! Were pirate ships actually beacons of diversity and democracy?

They’ve been portrayed as toothless, wooden-legged cut-throats. But a new exhibition in Cornwall shows there were queer pirates, female pirates, pirates of colour – and they all got a vote (and an equal share of the grog)

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Introducing Lewes FC, the world's only gender-equal football club, and the Australians who play there

Isobel Dalton and Libby Copus-Brown know what football inequality looks like. Now, in a small corner of England, they're part of a club that's trying to fix it.

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English Heritage signs up its first female pirate

Freyja Eagling, 18, has been practising her sword fighting for more than a year.

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