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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.
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.
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."
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 ...
Joseph Faro (fl. 1694–1696, last name occasionally Farrell, Firra, or Faroe) was a pirate from Newport, Rhode Island active during the Golden Age of Piracy, primarily in the Indian Ocean. He is best known for sailing alongside Thomas Tew to join Henry Every’s pirate fleet which captured and looted the fabulously rich Mughal ship Gunsway.
Anstis' flag, described as “hoisted a Union Flag, with Four blazing Balls”. [3] Anstis' pirate flag, described as a “Black Flagg with Death’s Head”." During the night of 18 April 1721, Roberts' ships headed for Africa, but Anstis and his crew in the Good Fortune slipped away in the night and continued to operate in the Caribbean.
Dulaien's pirate flag was described by the mayor of Nantes as "black cloth, with white designs of human figures, cutlasses, bones, and hourglasses." [ 2 ] A woodblock purportedly made from a drawing of the flag has survived, as have other independent drawings of it.