enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Pirates in the arts and popular culture - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_in_the_arts_and...

   Engraving of the English pirate Blackbeard from the 1724 book A General History of the Pyrates Pirates fight over treasure in a 1911 Howard Pyle illustration.. In English-speaking popular culture, the modern pirate stereotype owes its attributes mostly to the imagined tradition of the 18th-century Caribbean pirate sailing off the Spanish Main and to such celebrated 20th-century depictions as ...

3. Category:Pirates of the Caribbean images - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pirates_of_the...

   File:Pirates AWE Poster.jpg; File:Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides.png; File:Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl.png; File:Pirates of the caribbean 2 poster b.jpg; File:Pirates of the Caribbean Multiplayer Mobile logo.jpg; File:Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Men Tell No Tales.jpg; File:PiratesCD2.jpg; File ...

4. Jolly Roger - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolly_Roger

   The Jolly Roger raised in an illustration for Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance "Paul Jones the Pirate", a British caricature of the late 18th century, is an early example of the Jolly Roger's skull-and-crossbones being transferred to a character's hat, in order to identify him as a pirate (typically a tricorne, or as in this ...

5. List of pirates - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pirates

   This is a list of known pirates, buccaneers, corsairs, privateers, river pirates, and others involved in piracy and piracy-related activities. This list includes both captains and prominent crew members.

6. Golden Age of Piracy - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Piracy

   Most pirates in this era were of Welsh, English, Dutch, Irish, and French origin. Many pirates came from poorer urban areas in search of a way to make money and of reprieve. London in particular was known for high unemployment, crowding, and poverty which drove people to piracy. Piracy also offered power and quick riches. [citation needed]

7. Pirate coins - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_coins

   Fazer pirate coins Haribo pirate coins. Pirate coins are salty liquorice flavoured candies popular in Europe, especially the Nordic countries. The candies are coin-shaped and feature images associated with pirates, such as guns, skull and crossbones symbols, and parrots. Pirate coins have been produced by Fazer in Finland and by Haribo in ...

8. List of One Piece characters - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_One_Piece_characters

   Initial concept art for the Straw Hat Pirates. Several characters have been stated to be based on actual pirates and sailors such as: Eustass Kid (Eustace the Monk and William Kidd), X. Drake (Sir Francis Drake), Basil Hawkins (Basil Ringrose and John Hawkins), Capone Bege (Al Capone and William Le Sauvage), Jewelry Bonney (), Urouge (Aruj and Oruç Reis), Alvida (), Bartolomeo (Bartholomew ...

9. Portal:Piracy/Selected picture - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Piracy/Selected_picture

   Howard Pyle's illustration of pirate walking the plank, a form of murder or torture that was practiced by pirates and other rogue seafarers.It involved the victim being forced to walk off the end of a wooden plank or beam extended over the side of a ship, thereby falling into the water to drown, sometimes with bound hands or weighed down, often into the vicinity of sharks (which would often ...