Sample Clues
The French loved the fur hat Ben Franklin wore to cover his boils & compared him to this Swiss-born philosopher of a state of nature
Rousseau
The "Golden Age of" this seafaring crime was ended in part by a lot of hangings, some followed by public display of tar-coated bodies
Piracy
She came to power in Russia in a 1762 coup against her husband, who was soon dead with the official cause as hemorrhoids
Catherine the Great
George Vancouver once went to the bow of this captain's ship to be the man the farthest south in the world
Captain James Cook