The notorious Welsh pirate, Black Bart, promised a pension of 800 pieces of eight- that's silver- to any of his crew who lost a limb or were disabled in battle.

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Lawrie Smith's crew had been locked in a head-to-head battle with Innovation Kvaerner for the final 30 hours of the stage and the two boats arrived only four minutes apart in Baltimore around 2200 BST on Wednesday.

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"Taste of Cherry" closes with an astonishing, ambiguous nighttime scene in which lightning seems to battle literal and metaphorical darkness, followed by a coda in which we see Mr. Kiarostami and his crew at work on the film, signaling that although the story may have ended, the storyteller remains.

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