A Fanciful, Cranky Queen
I’ve been looking for reasonable images of Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge, and came across this cool photo. It’s labeled “Queen Anne’s Revenge Pirates of the Caribbean,” but I don’t think she’s related to either the real ship or those Disney movies. Ah, but she’s a beauty, isn’t she? All carved and skeletons, and, wait, what’s…
Blackbeard’s Three Mysteries
If you Google the name Blackbeard, everything you read will start with something like “Blackbeard was the most famous pirate…
A Fortune Be Danglin’…
Why did pirates wear earrings? Well, there are a quite a few theories, but also some hard facts. This’d be a fact: was you a sailor up until around the year 1800, you would get yourself an earring to signify to them what saw you that you had survived a shipwreck. A sailor with two earrings, one…
Sea Rover's Cove 