* While returning from Italy in 1576 Edward de Vere first encountered a cavalry division outside of Paris that was being led by a German duke and then pirates in the English Channel.

While serving post graduation, Frazier was a participant of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group team that saved Maersk Alabama captain Richard Phillips from Somalian pirates

While Robert Louis Stevenson is associated with popularizing the treasure map — and the archetypal X to mark the spot — with pirates in Treasure Island, he is not the first.

While the Overboard crew carries cutlasses and makes raids, most often their treasure is stolen by disgruntled shipmates or by more able pirates.

While pirates used the red, or bloody, flag as well as black flags, there was a distinction between the two.

While heading to Deneva Station, the Horizon was attacked by pirates but Mayweather's experience with weapons from Starfleet allowed the Horizon to defend herself against her attackers.

While such raids had occurred since soon after the Muslim conquest of the region, the terms Barbary pirates and Barbary corsairs are normally applied to the raiders active from the 16th century onwards, when the frequency and range of the slavers ' attacks increased and Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli came under the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire, either as directly administered provinces or as autonomous dependencies known as the Barbary States.

While the pirates battle the Royal Navy, Jack reveals his trickery and duels Barbossa ( after having secretly swiped a cursed coin ).

While Jack often associated " privateers " with legalised pirates, he agrees to sail the Surprise, but always refers to the ship under the more respectable term " Letter of Marque.

While sailing, they came across a pirate ship that had recently lost its captain, and the pirates elected Awilda as their captain.

While attracted to piracy, Elaine is initially wary of pursuing a relationship with pirates due to a bad liaison with LeChuck while the pirate captain was still alive.

While on a voyage to Europe in 1678, he was captured by Moorish pirates, and was compelled to pay a ransom of 2, 050 pieces of eight to obtain his freedom.

While in the Bahamas, Bonny began mingling with pirates in the local taverns.

While offshore pirates were rarer in Ireland, they still existed, and many notable UK offshore stations had a connection with Ireland.

While Rogers ' expedition was profitable, when it returned to London in 1715, the British East India Company vetoed the idea of a colonial expedition to Madagascar, believing a colony was a greater threat to its monopoly than a few pirates.

While Honor leads her crew in battles against various pirates, the Havenites are also conducting covert commerce raiding in Silesia, in an attempt to destabilize Manticoran trade in the region and present themselves in a more favorable light to the Andermani.

While journeying from Savona to Genoa, Italy, Anthony was captured by pirates but was released unharmed.

Anthony was also one of the leaders opposing the last of the antipopes, Felix V While journeying from Savona to Genoa, Italy, Anthony was captured by pirates but was released unharmed.

While going by sea from Savona to Genoa with a fellow friar, the ship in which they were was captured by corsairs ; they had no reason to look for anything but death or slavery, but the pirates were so impressed by the demeanour of the two religious that they set them free without ransom.

While some are named as specific characters, either licensed from film franchises ( such as Star Wars ) or of Lego's own creation, many are unnamed and are designed simply to fit within a certain theme ( such as police officers, astronauts and pirates ).

While some of the pirates complain that this is not pirate business, they soon come around when they find out the amount of money to be made.

While an official movement exists in Lutheran congregations celebrate Eucharist weekly, using formal rites very similar to the Roman Catholic and " high " Anglican services, it was historically common for congregations to celebrate monthly or even quarterly.

* While at Susa, Alexander holds a feast to celebrate his capture of the Persian Empire.

While at Thebes, he composes lyric odes to celebrate triumphs in the Olympic Games and other athletic events.

While at the Chapel Road studio, in about 1981, Norman, backed by the Barratt Band, recorded songs for Before and After, a tribute album of Bob Dylan covers scheduled to be released in 1982 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Dylan's recording career.

While the black community has long played an important role in the city, the City of Hanford only began to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 15, 2007 after a long battle led by the local branch of the NAACP.

While match manufacturing left Wadsworth in the 1980s, the Blue Tip Festival uses the name and giant match to affirm the community's past and celebrate the modern American city.

While on his way to a party at the Carews ' home to celebrate their return and the announcement of a new wedding date to Muriel, Jekyll, without the use of his drugs, suddenly changes into Hyde.

" High-ranking North Korean official Kim Yong-nam said, " While we wanted to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the country with General Secretary Kim Jong-Il, we celebrated on our own.

While other Christian families throughout the world celebrate the Christmas Eve meal with various meats, Italians and Sicilians celebrate the traditional Catholic " Feast of the Seven Fishes " which was historically served after a 24 hour fasting period.

While not a large occasion for the Buddhist community, Newar Buddhists celebrate Diwali through the chanting of mantras and remembering Emperor Ashoka who is said to have converted to Buddhism on this day, and therefore Buddhists also know the festival as Ashok Vijayadashami.

While Assyrian / Syriac members of the Syriac Orthodox Church and Ancient Church of the East celebrate Easter on a Sunday between April 4 and May 8 inclusively on the Gregorian calendar ( March 22 and April 25 on the Julian calendar ).

While his mother and Marena welcome him and celebrate him as a " friend " of man, the old Prince and Bambi pity him.

While Cinquè, Joadson, Baldwin, and the jubilant Africans celebrate their victory, a state dinner at the White House threatens to overturn the ruling.

While President Gerald Ford never visited the United Kingdom, the British government saw the US bicentennial in 1976 as an occasion to celebrate the special relationship.

While many celebrate the Internet as a tool for democracy, it should not be forgotten that the earlier visions of an Informatization-State were rather frightening, such as the one told by George Orwell in his Nineteen Eighty-Four.

While adopting Islam, Gnawa continued to celebrate ritual possession during rituals where they are devoted to the practice of the dances of possession and fright.

While watching the Nazis celebrate their victory by marching through the Brandenburg Gate, Liebermann was reported to have commented: " Ich kann gar nicht so viel fressen, wie ich kotzen möchte " (" I cannot eat as much as I would like to vomit ").

While many of Vicente's works were composed to celebrate religious and national festivals or to commemorate events in the life of the royal family, others draw upon popular culture to entertain, and often to critique, Portuguese society of his day.

While in a state of anathema he was foolhardy enough to celebrate mass, an act which got him excommunicated ; however Pope Pius II pardoned him.

While his aunt and uncle were having a party to celebrate the impending marriage of their son, he took his revenge by summoning a giant hail storm to demolish their house, killing 35 people, although the uncle and aunt are supposed to have survived.

While Esteban grieves, Blanca goes out on the street to celebrate, and to meet Pedro.

While Hindus celebrate it in the honour of the great sage Vyasa, who is seen as one of the greatest gurus in ancient Hindu traditions, and a symbol of the Guru-shishya tradition.