Inspectors roam elaborate tunnels used by tomb raiders and smugglers over different eras.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2026
Amongst the sandy plains of the Burning Springs region and throngs of raiders and ruthless cap collectors is Prime Video’s Fallout character, The Ghoul (Walton Goggins).
Many South African farms are ringed in barbed wire and outfitted with security cameras; one of the migrants told me a story about confronting armed robbers.
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Boyce Upholt,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
The result — from the tunnels carved out by tomb robbers to the trains that run day and night — is a cinematic gift for the senses and specifically, to paraphrase one of the more philosophical characters, about our understanding of time’s ability to both preserve and destroy.
In some cases, the linear sections are convincing enough, but for the most part, Black Ops 7 feels like a mediocre looter shooter in structure and moment-to-moment gameplay.
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Fran J. Ruiz,
Rolling Stone,
18 Nov. 2025
Looking for another 'looter shooter' but don't want to deal with pesky MMO elements?
Casani is a legend at JPL and NASA, and his story reads like a combination of a spaceflight adventure, personal memoir, and a pirate's tale.
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Space.com Staff,
Space.com,
14 Mar. 2026
Magic Kingdom’s Beak and Barrel explores a pirate theme with a storyline, an animatronic bird named Rummy, a limited menu (but with octopus tentacles), both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages and a time limit of 45 minutes.
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Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 Mar. 2026
French buccaneers spent much of the seventeenth century hiding and plundering along the northwest coast of Hispaniola, eventually realizing more money could be made farming tobacco and sugar.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Jan. 2026
Grant had pessimistically concluded in 1965 that the buccaneer capitalism and technocracy of the U.S. had already penetrated the True North beyond repair.
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