José Gaspar, the Glossary
José Gaspar, also known by his nickname Gasparilla (supposedly lived c. 1756 – 1821), is a fictional Spanish pirate who terrorized the Gulf of Mexico from his base in southwest Florida during Florida's second Spanish period (1783 to 1821).[1]
Table of Contents
101 relations: Admiral, American Civil War, Atlantic Ocean, Barrier island, Bartholomew Roberts, Bayshore Boulevard, Blackbeard, Boca Grande, Florida, Boston, Bowl game, Buccaneer, Calusa, Captiva, Florida, Caribbean Sea, Charles III of Spain, Charlotte Harbor (estuary), Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway, Charlotte Harbor, Florida, College football, Concubinage, Conservation movement, Crown jewels, Diminutive, Discovery Channel, Downtown Tampa, Everglades, Expedition Unknown, Filibuster (military), Flag of the United States, Florida Territory, Folklore, Forest and Stream, Fort Myers, Florida, Galleon, Gasparilla Bowl, Gasparilla Inn & Club, Gasparilla Island, Gasparilla Island State Park, Gasparilla Pirate Festival, Golden Age of Piracy, Grammatical gender, Guide, Gulf of Mexico, Henri Caesar, Hillsborough River (Florida), Indigenous peoples of Florida, Key West, Krewe, Lee County, Florida, List of mayors of Tampa, Florida, ... Expand index (51 more) »
- Fictional pirates
- Florida culture
- Florida folklore
- Legendary American people
Admiral
Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies.
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Barrier island
Barrier islands are a coastal landform, a type of dune system and sand island, where an area of sand has been formed by wave and tidal action parallel to the mainland coast.
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Bartholomew Roberts
Bartholomew Roberts (17 May 1682 – 10 February 1722), born John Roberts, was a Welsh pirate who was, measured by vessels captured, the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy. José Gaspar and Bartholomew Roberts are maritime folklore.
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Bayshore Boulevard
Bayshore Boulevard is a waterfront road on Hillsborough Bay in South Tampa, Florida.
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Blackbeard
Edward Teach (or Thatch; – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. José Gaspar and Blackbeard are maritime folklore.
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Boca Grande, Florida
Boca Grande is a small residential community on Gasparilla Island in southwest Florida.
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Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
Bowl game
In North America, a bowl game, or simply bowl, is one of a number of postseason college football games that are primarily played by teams belonging to the NCAA's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).
Buccaneer
Buccaneers were a kind of privateer or free sailors particular to the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Calusa
The Calusa (Calusa: *ka(ra)luš(i)) were a Native American people of Florida's southwest coast.
Captiva, Florida
Captiva is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lee County, Florida, United States.
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Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
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Charles III of Spain
Charles III (Carlos Sebastián de Borbón y Farnesio; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain in the years 1759 to 1788.
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Charlotte Harbor (estuary)
Charlotte Harbor Estuary, the second largest bay in Florida, is located on the Gulf of Mexico coast of west Florida with two thirds lying in Charlotte County, Florida and one in Lee County.
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Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway
The Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway is a historic railroad line that at its greatest extent serviced Gasparilla Island in Charlotte Harbor and a major shipping port that once operated there.
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Charlotte Harbor, Florida
Charlotte Harbor is a census-designated place (CDP) in Charlotte County, Florida, United States.
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College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur student-athletes at universities and colleges.
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Concubinage
Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship between two people in which the couple does not want to, or cannot, enter into a full marriage.
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Conservation movement
The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to manage and protect natural resources, including animal, fungus, and plant species as well as their habitat for the future.
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Crown jewels
Crown jewels are the objects of metalwork and jewellery in the regalia of a current or former monarchy.
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Diminutive
A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment, and sometimes to derogatorily belittle something or someone.
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Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav.
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Downtown Tampa
Downtown Tampa is the central business district of Tampa, Florida, United States, and the chief financial district of the Tampa Bay Area.
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Everglades
The Everglades is a natural region of flooded grasslands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the Neotropical realm. José Gaspar and Everglades are Florida culture.
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Expedition Unknown
Expedition Unknown is an American reality television series produced by Ping Pong Productions, that follows explorer and television presenter Josh Gates as he investigates mysteries and legends.
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Filibuster (military)
A filibuster (from the Spanish filibustero), also known as a freebooter, is someone who engages in an unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country or territory to foster or support a political revolution or secession.
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Flag of the United States
The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.
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Florida Territory
The Territory of Florida was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 30, 1822, until March 3, 1845, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Florida.
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Folklore
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.
Forest and Stream
Forest and Stream was a magazine featuring hunting, fishing, and other outdoor activities in the United States.
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Fort Myers, Florida
Fort Myers (or Ft. Myers) is a city in and the county seat of Lee County, Florida, United States.
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Galleon
Galleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships developed in Spain and first used as armed cargo carriers by Europeans from the 16th to 18th centuries during the Age of Sail and were the principal vessels drafted for use as warships until the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the mid-17th century.
Gasparilla Bowl
The Gasparilla Bowl is an annual NCAA-sanctioned post-season college football bowl game played in the Tampa Bay area.
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Gasparilla Inn & Club
The Gasparilla Inn & Club is a historic hotel at 500 Palm Avenue on Gasparilla Island in Boca Grande, Florida.
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Gasparilla Island
Gasparilla Island is a barrier island in southwest Florida, United States, straddling the border of Charlotte and Lee counties.
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Gasparilla Island State Park
Gasparilla Island State Park is a Florida State Park located south of Boca Grande on Gasparilla Island off Charlotte Harbor and Pine Island Sound.
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Gasparilla Pirate Festival
The Gasparilla Pirate Festival (often simply referred to as Gasparilla) is a large parade and a host of related community events held in Tampa, Florida, United States, most years since 1904.
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Golden Age of Piracy
The Golden Age of Piracy is a common designation for the period between the 1650s and the 1730s, when maritime piracy was a significant factor in the histories of the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
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Grammatical gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns.
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Guide
A guide is a person who leads travelers, sportspeople, or tourists through unknown or unfamiliar locations.
Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.
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Henri Caesar
Henri Caesar, also known as Black Caesar, (fl. 1791–1830) was a legendary 19th-century Haitian revolutionary and pirate. José Gaspar and Henri Caesar are Fictional pirates.
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Hillsborough River (Florida)
The Hillsborough River is a river located in the state of Florida in the United States.
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Indigenous peoples of Florida
The Indigenous peoples of Florida lived in what is now known as Florida for more than 12,000 years before the time of first contact with Europeans.
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Key West
Key West is an island in the Straits of Florida, within the U.S. state of Florida.
Krewe
A krewe is a social organization that stages parades and/or balls for the Carnival season.
Lee County, Florida
Lee County is a county located in southwestern Florida, United States, on the Gulf Coast.
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List of mayors of Tampa, Florida
The Mayor is the highest elected official in Tampa, Florida.
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List of viceroys of New Spain
This article lists the viceroys who ruled the Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1535 to 1821 in the name of the monarch of Spain.
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Marco Island, Florida
Marco Island is a city and barrier island in Collier County, Florida, south of Naples on the Gulf Coast of the United States.
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Mardi Gras in New Orleans
The holiday of Mardi Gras is celebrated in southern Louisiana, including the city of New Orleans.
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Maritime pilot
A maritime pilot, marine pilot, harbor pilot, port pilot, ship pilot, or simply pilot, is a mariner who has specific knowledge of an often dangerous or congested waterway, such as harbors or river mouths.
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Martín de Mayorga
Martín de Mayorga Ferrer (12 September 1721 in Barcelona – 28 July 1783 in Cádiz) was a Spanish military officer, governor of the Captaincy General of Guatemala (from June 1773 to 1779), and interim viceroy of New Spain (from 23 August 1779 to 28 April 1783).
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Mauritius
Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar.
May Day
May Day is a European festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on 1 May, around halfway between the Northern Hemisphere's Spring equinox and June solstice.
Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
Midden
A midden is an old dump for domestic waste.
Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
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Mutiny
Mutiny is a revolt among a group of people (typically of a military, of a crew, or of a crew of pirates) to oppose, change, or remove superiors or their orders.
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).
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New Spain
New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain.
Oral tradition
Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.
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Outdoor recreation
Outdoor recreation or outdoor activity refers to recreation done outside, most commonly in natural settings.
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Paperback
A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.
Pass-a-Grille
Pass-a-Grille is a small beach neighborhood and former town at the south end of St. Pete Beach in Pinellas County, Florida.
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Phosphate
In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid.
Phosphate mining in the United States
In 2015, 27.6 million metric tons of marketable phosphate rock, or phosphorite, was mined in the United States, making the US the world's third-largest producer, after China and Morocco.
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Pierre Lafitte
Pierre Lafitte (c. 1770–1821) was a pirate in the Gulf of Mexico and smuggler in the early 19th century. José Gaspar and Pierre Lafitte are 19th-century pirates and maritime folklore.
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Plat
In the United States, a plat (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land.
Privateer
A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.
Recreational fishing
Recreational fishing, also called sport fishing or game fishing, is fishing for leisure, exercise or competition.
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Sanibel, Florida
Sanibel is an island and city in Lee County, Florida, United States.
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune is a daily newspaper, located in Sarasota, Florida, founded in 1925 as the Sarasota Herald.
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Schooner
A schooner is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast.
Seminole Wars
The Seminole Wars (also known as the Florida Wars) were a series of three military conflicts between the United States and the Seminoles that took place in Florida between about 1816 and 1858.
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Southwest Florida
Southwest Florida is the region along the southwest Gulf coast of the U.S. state of Florida.
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Spanish Florida
Spanish Florida (La Florida) was the first major European land-claim and attempted settlement-area in northern America during the European Age of Discovery.
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Spanish Main
During the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the Spanish Main was the collective term for the parts of the Spanish Empire that were on the mainland of the Americas and had coastlines on the Caribbean Sea or Gulf of Mexico.
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Spanish Navy
The Spanish Navy or officially, the Armada, is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces and one of the oldest active naval forces in the world.
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Tall tale
A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual.
Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay is a large natural harbor and shallow estuary connected to the Gulf of Mexico on the west-central coast of Florida, comprising Hillsborough Bay, McKay Bay, Old Tampa Bay, Middle Tampa Bay, and Lower Tampa Bay.
Tampa Bay area
The Tampa Bay area is a major metropolitan area surrounding Tampa Bay on the Gulf Coast of Florida in the United States.
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (colloquially known as the Bucs) are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida.
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Tampa Bay History Center
Tampa Bay History Center is a history museum in Tampa, Florida, United States.
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Tampa, Florida
Tampa is a city on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida.
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Ten Thousand Islands
The Ten Thousand Islands are a chain of islands and mangrove islets off the coast of southwest Florida, between Cape Romano (at the south end of Marco Island) and the mouth of the Lostmans River.
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The Tampa Tribune
The Tampa Tribune was a daily newspaper published in Tampa, Florida.
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Tide
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.
Travel Channel
Travel Channel (stylized as Trvl Channel since 2018) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery previously owned the channel from 1997 to 2007.
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Tropicana Field
Tropicana Field (commonly known as the Trop) is a multi-purpose domed stadium located in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Useppa Island
Useppa Island is an island located near the northern end of Pine Island Sound in Lee County, Florida, United States.
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USS Enterprise (1799)
The USS Enterprise was a schooner, built by Henry Spencer at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1799.
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West Indies Squadron (United States)
The West Indies Squadron, or the West Indies Station, was a United States Navy squadron that operated in the West Indies in the early nineteenth century.
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William Kidd
William Kidd (– 23 May 1701), also known as Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd, was a Scottish privateer. José Gaspar and William Kidd are maritime folklore.
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1870 United States census
The 1870 United States census was the ninth United States census.
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1880 United States census
The 1880 United States census, conducted by the Census Office during June 1880, was the tenth United States census.
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1900 United States census
The 1900 United States census, conducted by the Census Office on June 1, 1900, determined the resident population of the United States to be 76,212,168, an increase of 21.01% from the 62,979,766 persons enumerated during the 1890 census.
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See also
Fictional pirates
- Abraham Tuizentfloot
- Air pirates
- Billy Bones
- Black Manta
- Black Pirate
- Bloodscream
- Butterworth Stavely
- Commander Kraken
- Conan the Barbarian
- Doctor Syn
- George Mason University's historical hoaxes
- Henri Caesar
- Hercules and the Princess of Troy
- High Seas Havoc
- José Gaspar
- Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger
- Le Vieux Nick et Barbe-Noire
- Li Jun (Water Margin)
- List of Mysticons characters
- List of fictional pirates
- List of space pirates
- Mr. Smee
- Paul Burchill
- Pepito (comics)
- Pierre Carl Ouellet
- Piet Piraat
- Plunderer (comics)
- Redbeard (comics)
- Sandokan
- Siri och ishavspiraterna
- Sklarian Raiders
- Space pirate
- Space pirates
- Telmarines
- Terry and the Pirates
- The Black Pirate
- The Devil-Ship Pirates
- The Mersey Pirate
- Theon Greyjoy
- Thorfinn (Vinland Saga)
- Tom Ayrton
- Ulysses Bloodstone
- Usopp
- Zanzibar (G.I. Joe)
- Zhang Heng (Water Margin)
Florida culture
- Barefoot mailman
- Boat parade
- Bob Thomas Equestrian Center
- Cross and Sword
- Culture of Florida
- Ethnic groups in Florida
- Everglades
- Festivals in Florida
- Florida Council on Arts and Culture
- Florida Heritage Trails
- Florida Man
- Florida Memory
- Florida State Fairgrounds
- Florida literature
- Florida wine
- Florida's Natural Growers
- Floridiana
- José Gaspar
- List of breweries in Florida
- Miami accent
- Miss Florida
- Miss Florida USA
- Miss Florida World
- Miss Florida's Outstanding Teen
- Music of Florida
- Orange juice
- Poet Laureate of Florida
- Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach
- Redneck
- Religion in Florida
- Snowbird (person)
- Sports in Florida
- Symbols of Florida
- The Hawaiian Inn
- The Orchid Thief
- Two-Toed Tom
- Winter Star Party
Florida folklore
- Alligator bait
- Fountain of Youth
- José Gaspar
- Mules and Men
- Ole Pete
- Robert (doll)
- Skunk ape
- Two-Toed Tom
- Wakulla Volcano
Legendary American people
- Angel of Hadley
- Annie Christmas
- Frank Tower
- Hiawatha
- Jack Abernathy
- John Frum
- John Henry (folklore)
- Johnny Appleseed
- José Gaspar
- Ole Pete
- Paul Bunyan
- Rudolph Fentz
- Uncle Sam
- Virginia Dare
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Gaspar
Also known as José Gasparilla.
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