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    Ganj-i-Sawai (category Mariam-uz-Zamani)
    Yemen to Surat, India. It was built on the order of Empress Mariam-uz-Zamani, great grandmother of Aurengzeb, after the capture of her ship named Rahimi...
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    Annaba in Algeria. Some inventions of pirate culture such as "walking the plank"—in which a bound captive is forced to walk off a board extending over the...
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