Modern Piracy
Piracy is as old as maritime trade.
It is said that Julius Caesar was kidnapped by Cilician pirates and held prisoner in the Dodecanese islet of Pharmacusa. When the pirates decided to demand a ransom of twenty talents of gold, Caesar is said to have insisted that he was worth at least fifty, and the pirates indeed raised the ransom to fifty talents.
It used to be said that the English Aristocrats educated their daughters in the best of convents and then married them off to pirates.
Nothing has changed over the centuries and it seems the Somalian pirates of today have the most beautiful girls and the best of cars.
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