"Walk the plank", 1763 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> Pirate scholars maintain that there is no evidence that "walking the
> plank" was a popular diversion . . .
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"Pirate scholars" -- this brings to mind the image of a peg-legged,
eye-patched, parrot-bearing researcher walking to reference desk asking
"Arrh, where be the special collections, matey??"
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