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Sea Dog Francis Drake battled, looted and bought his way from scourge of Spain to Queen Elizabeth’s favorite commander. “That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet,” wrote William Shakespeare in the 1590s. Perhaps a well-known contemporary of the great playwright heard those words shortly before embarking on …
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