Pirates!

Pirates! may refer to:

  • Sid Meier's Pirates!: a 1987 video game, created by Sid Meier
  • Pirates! Gold: a 1993 computer game, a remake of Sid Meier's 1987 release, Sid Meier's Pirates!
  • Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004 video game): a 2004 remake of the Sid Meier's video game
  • Pirates! (role-playing game): a 2003 role-playing game
  • Oasys Mobile: a 2008 version of the 2004 sequel, made for cellular phones
  • The series of The Pirates! books written by Gideon Defoe
  • The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists
  • The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling (published in the United States as The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab)
  • The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists
  • The Pirates! in an Adventure with Napoleon
  • The Pirates! Band of Misfits, a 2012 animated film based on the books by Gideon Defoe
  • Piracy

    Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea. Those who engage in acts of piracy are called pirates. The earliest documented instances of piracy were in the 14th century BC, when the Sea Peoples, a group of ocean raiders, attacked the ships of the Aegean and Mediterranean civilizations. Narrow channels which funnel shipping into predictable routes have long created opportunities for piracy, as well as for privateering and commerce raiding. Privateering uses similar methods to piracy, but the captain acts under orders of the state authorizing the capture of merchant ships belonging to an enemy nation, making it a legitimate form of war-like activity by non-state actors.(For a land-based parallel, compare the association of bandits and brigands with mountain passes.) Historic examples include the waters of Gibraltar, the Strait of Malacca, Madagascar, the Gulf of Aden, and the English Channel, whose geographic strictures facilitated pirate attacks.

    Pirates (album)

    Pirates is the second album by Chicago-born singer, songwriter, and musician Rickie Lee Jones, released in July 1981, two years after her eponymous debut Rickie Lee Jones. The album is partially an account of her break-up with fellow musician Tom Waits after the success of her debut album. The cover is a 1976-copyrighted photo by Brassaï.

    Recording

    Initial recording for Pirates began in January 1980, with the live recordings for "Skeletons" and "The Returns" from January 30 from these sessions kept on the final album. In the same month, Jones picked up a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

    Jones came to album sessions at Warner Bros. Recording Studios in North Hollywood with five songs, which were recorded and arranged in a two-month spurt in early 1980 before Jones was given an extended break for further writing. Album sessions reconvened in November 1980 and concluded in April 1981, three months before the album release.

    All songs were copyrighted on June 9, 1980, as well as “Hey Bub,” which was omitted from the album release, except for “Living It Up” and “Traces of the Western Slopes,” copyrighted in July, 1981, at the time of the album release.

    Template

    Template may mean:

  • a stencil, pattern or overlay used in graphic arts (drawing, painting, etc.) and sewing to replicate letters, shapes or designs
  • a pre-developed page layout in electronic or paper media used to make new pages with a similar design, pattern, or style
  • form letter or Boilerplate (text), a predefined letter which retains its primary intent when individually customised with variable data or text
  • Computer science and information technology

  • Template (file format), a standardized non-executable file type used by computer software as a pre-formatted example on which to base other files, especially documents
  • Template (C++), a tool for generic programming especially in the C++ language
  • Template metaprogramming, a programming technique used by a compiler to generate temporary source code
  • Template method, an object-oriented design pattern
  • Template processor, a system that combines a template with data to produce an output.
  • Template (word processing), a standard document containing layout and styles used to configure word processing software
  • Template (file format)

    The term document template when used in the context of file format refers to a common feature of many software applications that define a unique non-executable file format intended specifically for that particular application.

    Template file formats are those whose file extension indicates that the file type is intended as a very high starting point from which to create other files.

    These types of files are usually indicated on the File menu of the application:

    For example, the word processing application Microsoft Word uses different file extensions for documents and templates: In Microsoft Word 2003 the file extension .dot is used to indicate a template, in Microsoft Word 2007 .dotx (in contrast to .doc, resp. .docx for a standard document).

    In Adobe Dreamweaver the file extension .dwt is used to indicate a template.

    Microsoft Word Templates

    MS Word allows creating both layout and content templates. A layout template is a style guide for the file styles. It usually contains a chapter which explains how to use the styles within the documents. A content template is a document which provides a TOC. It might be modified to correspond to the user's needs.

    Template (novel)

    Template is a Canadian science fiction novel by Matthew Hughes, published by PS Publishing. It follows the adventures of a professional duelist who is drawn into a murder mystery. The novel explores differences between various cultures.

    Reception

    Matthew Hughes has been called one of Canada's best science fiction writers and his novel Template has been considered to be one of his best novels.

    Another review noted that this novel is part detective story, part space opera and part investigation into the clash of cultures.

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