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Sherryl Woods born on July 23, 1944, in Arlington, Virginia, United States. She graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in Journalism. She worked for several newspapers covering everything from suburban government to entertainment, eventually specializing in television, she became the television editor for papers in Ohio and Florida .
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 ...
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Edward England's flag, described by the East India Company as "flying a black flag with a skull and crossed bones at the main". Edward England ( c. 1685 –1721) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was an Irish pirate . The ships he sailed on included the Pearl (which he renamed The Royal James ) and later the Fancy , for which England exchanged the Pearl in 1720.
Captain Napin (died 1718, first name unknown, last name occasionally Napping) was a pirate active in the Caribbean and off the American east coast. He is best known for sailing alongside Benjamin Hornigold .
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 ...