Who Was the Most Famous Pirate of All Time?

In my research, I found famous pirates, legendary pirates, successful pirates and a sundry list of pirates. One fact keeps surfacing in my quest to identify the most famous pirate of all time. Blackbeard is legendary and he holds the title as the most famous pirate of all time. If you have evidence to the contrary, please post it in the comment section below. I would love to hear from you and I want to get the facts straight.

I have highlighted a link above that leads to a very good story about Blackbeard. Please visit the site responsible for this article at www.thewayofpirates.com.

Who Was Blackbeard?
What do you know about his life?
Where did he live?
How many years was he a pirate?
How many wives did Blackbeard have?
Did Blackbeard ever find any hidden treasure?
How much booty did he plunder?

For answers to these questions, follow this blog as I post the answers in coming posts. I will unfold the history of the most famous pirate of all time until a full feature article on his life is finished. I invite you to contribute to this historical essay on Blackbeard.

Leave a comment below or email themidnightwriter1@gmail.com

Our next quest for February is to identify the most successful pirate of all time. I have already found the answer and will be featuring the story sometime next month. Meanwhile, I want to hear from you. If any one finds the same name that I found, that person can be a guest writer on this blog in February. I invite the winner in this quest to write the feature about the most successful pirate of all time will full byline and links to your site.

First Blackbeard Hint:
He had fourteen wives. What were their names and who was his last wife?

The Midnight Writer

Exploring the Latest Discoveries in Space

The greater technology that is developed, space exploration reaches new heights in its ability to search deeper into the nature of our universe. New discoveries are made almost daily now by NASA and by both government and private organizations. Scientists have tools at their fingertips that permit closer investigation into space that allows them to make new analyses of formerly perceived theories and prior discoveries.

What has been discovered in the recent months?

1. Asteroid 2007 TU24 Flyby

Asteroid 2007 TU24 (information taken from website link above)

Asteroid 2007 TU24 is flying past the Earth by 1.4 lunar distance (538,000 km) on 30 January at 4:33pm UT+8 . The 250m-wide space rock is not going to collide with Earth. The magnitude of TU24 is 10th so a telescope with at least 76 cm can reveal the asteroid.

This will be the closest approach until the next century. It’s also the asteroid’s closest Earth approach for 2,000 years. Asteroid 2007 TU24 was discovered by the NASA-sponsored Catalina Sky Survey on Oct. 11, 2007.

2. Weird science news headline of the morning: Our world may be a giant hologram

Posted by Fausta Wertz January 17, 2009 9:18AM

Categories: Princeton

A fascinating article on the latest science discoveries,
Our world may be a giant hologram

3. Solar Eclipse to Cause Counterfeit Twilight
Visit this link for the full story on Space.com

Solar Eclipse set for January 26, 2009

4. Traveling through a Supernova's Graveyard
Click the link above to view the video from space.com

5. The year in science: 'God particles' and the cloak of invisibility?

BY ROGER SCHLUETER - News-Democrat

Like a modern tower of Babel story, a new quest to find the "God particle" got off to an all-too-human start in 2008.

The Midnight Writer

Blog Explosion

I joined a new free advertising site today to test the waters once again. Will this Blog Explosion bring traffic to my site? If it works for me, then it will work for you. Visit the banner in the sidebar and sign up to test this program for yourself.

Time will tell if it is a worthy venture. If comments start appearing in this blog, then I would say it is worth my time, and yours. Let's monitor it right here to see what happens.

As of today, January 3, 2009, this blog has two comments. Between Blog Explosion and Entrecard, one or both might help get visitors to this site to participate in all the fun treasure hunts and quests being sponsored here.

I'm working on some in depth articles for bloggers and freelance writers to help add some good resource material to this blog. Also, I 'll be writing feature articles on treasure hunting, antiquities, archaeological sites, mysteries of the universe, the secret diary and more. Please come back often and give me your feedback.

First Feature Articles for January- A Preview of Coming Attractions

1. Part two of The Locked Box.
2. The Unknown Soldier's Diary.
3. The Secret Diary Quest No. 1. First clues to be posted.
4. Latest Discoveries in Space.
5. The Mysteries of Stone Henge.
6. Entrecard- A Review- hoping to conduct personal interview with creator.
7. The Making of A Walking- Lakota Traditions and Historical Sites
8. One Ancient City Feature- to be announced
9. Blog Explosion- Traffic update and reports on personal experience.
10. Treasure Hunt- the first featured treasure hunt complete with map and tracking the actual quest for the treasure.
11. Geocaching for Treasure
12. Facebook- face to face interviews with those who experience the social networking business style. One person per month will be chosen for this feature.
13. Twitter- what is all the tweeting about?
14. Who Was the Most Famous Pirate of All Time?
15. Search for the Holy Grail.

The Midnight Writer