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The flag bears much of the company's history and is symbolic of founder Steve Jobs' vision for Apple as it progressed in to the future. Here's why Apple is flying a pirate flag over its ...
Susan Kare (/ k ɛər / "care"; born February 5, 1954) is an American artist and graphic designer, who contributed interface elements and typefaces for the first Apple Macintosh personal computer from 1983 to 1986. [1] She was employee #10 and creative director at NeXT, the company formed by Steve Jobs after he left Apple in 1985.
Emanuel Wynn's flag. Most historians agree that Cranby's journal is the first witness account of a black Jolly Roger used aboard ship, [3] which Cranby described as "a sable ensign with cross bones, a death's head, and an hour glass" (the quotation is from Earle, Pirate Wars, p. 154) or "A Sable Flag with a White Death's Head and Crossed Bones in the Fly."
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. – classic guide from the Federal Writers Project; covers main themes and describes every town and feature, with capsule histories Hoskins, Patricia (2009). 'The Old First is With the South:' The Civil War, Reconstruction, and Memory in the Jackson Purchase Region of Kentucky (PhD thesis).
Christopher Moody (c. 1694-1722) was a pirate as a member of Bartholomew Roberts' crew but was never a captain in his own right. He is best known not for his own actions but for a popular Jolly Roger flag mis-attributed to him as well as for later authors confusing him with unrelated pirate William Moody.
Before 1750, Kentucky was populated nearly exclusively by Cherokee, Chickasaw, Shawnee and several other tribes of Native Americans [1] See also Pre-Columbian; April 13, 1750 • While leading an expedition for the Loyal Land Company in what is now southeastern Kentucky, Dr. Thomas Walker was the first recorded American of European descent to discover and use coal in Kentucky; [2]
The first Kentucky Apple Festival was held on October 6, 1962, and was known as "Apple Day". It was guided by Elmon Davis, an officer at Citizens National Bank and apple orchard owner from Flat Gap. Davis not only created the festival to promote the county's apple production, but to compete with the Johnson County Fair, which had been held ...
The company offers its products online and has a chain of retail stores known as Apple Stores. Founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne created Apple Computer Co. on April 1, 1976, to market Wozniak's Apple I desktop computer, [2] and Jobs and Wozniak incorporated the company on January 3, 1977, [3] in Cupertino, California.