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Pete Buttigieg Campaigns in Provincetown, Turns P-Town Into ‘Pete-Town’

Matthew McDonald

America's first serious openly homosexual candidate for president got a thunderous reception in the most homosexual town in America during a four-hour stop at the tip of Cape Cod.

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, drew about 400 people to a speech in Provincetown on Friday, July 5.

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Rhode Island’s First Slave Ship Was Cover for Biggest Pirate Haul of All Time, Local Amateur Historian Says

Matthew McDonald

The discovery of a small 1693 silver coin from Yemen in a field in Middletown, Rhode Island has helped an amateur historian determine that Rhode Island's first slave ship was a cover for the biggest pirate heist of all time.

James Bailey, 52, of Warwick, who works in security for the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, took his metal detector to the site of a former colonial home and came upon the rare coin, known as a comassee. It was taken from a ship from an Islamic empire in India that was attacked by English pirates in August 1695 under the command of a former British Royal Navy officer, Henry Every.

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