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The Buccaneer was a secondary mascot used by the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball club during their 1995 season. While the team's primary mascot, the Pirate Parrot, wore an elaborate costume with a prosthetic head and molded frame, the Buccaneer was simply a man in pirate's garb who led the crowd in organized cheers. After an audition involving 30 ...
The Pirate Parrot costume became three times heavier and its new outfit was a Pirates jersey and backwards baseball cap. [3] In 1995, the Parrot was briefly paired with a secondary mascot, the Buccaneer , who was quickly dropped after its actor was arrested for skinny dipping .
The 1961 film, Pirates of Tortuga, Robert Stephens portrayed Morgan's having set up an independent pirate kingdom on Tortuga instead of answering Charles II's summons to England. In a 1965 episode of the TV sitcom The Munsters , "The Treasure of Mockingbird Heights", Herman and Grandpa Munster discover a secret chamber and a clue to Henry ...
In a buccaneer camp, the captain was elected and could be deposed by the votes of the crew. The crew, and not the captain, decided whether to attack a particular ship, or a fleet of ships. Spoils were evenly divided into shares; the captain received an agreed amount for the ship, plus a portion of the share of the prize money , usually five or ...
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. For a list of female pirates, see women in piracy. For pirates of fiction or myth, see list of fictional pirates.
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The mascot's 13 whiskers represent the Ocean State's history as the 13th state to sign the U.S. Constitution.
A prequel novel to Treasure Island, titled Porto Bello Gold, was published in 1924 by Arthur D. Howden Smith. [full citation needed]British historian Dennis Judd presents Silver as the main character in his 1977 prequel, The Adventures of Long John Silver, [10] and in the 1979 sequel, Return to Treasure Island.