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The text Hic Sunt Dracones on the Hunt–Lenox Globe, dating from 1504 "Here be dragons" (Latin: hic sunt dracones) means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist.
Map created by Robert Louis Stevenson in Treasure Island. A treasure map is a map that marks the location of buried treasure, a lost mine, a valuable secret or a hidden locale. More common in fiction than in reality, "pirate treasure maps" are often depicted in works of fiction as hand drawn and containing arcane clues for the characters to follow.
According to popular conception, these people often buried their stolen fortunes in remote places, intending to return to them later (often with the use of a pirate's treasure map). Pirates burying treasure was a rare occurrence, with the only known instance being William Kidd , who buried some of his wealth on Gardiners Island .
Railroad maps from the 19th century, like Rand McNally & Co.’s “Railroad Map of the United States,” can command modest prices on resale sites like eBay and Etsy (averaging from around $60 to ...
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 ...
José Gaspar as illustrated in the 1900 brochure. José Gaspar, also known by his nickname Gasparilla (supposedly lived c. 1756 – 1821), is a mythical Spanish pirate who supposedly terrorized the Gulf of Mexico from his base in southwest Florida during Florida's second Spanish period (1783 to 1821).
Edward Low (also spelled Lowe or Loe; c. 1690–1724) was a pirate of English origin during the latter days of the Golden Age of Piracy, in the early 18th century.Low was born into poverty in Westminster, London, and was a thief from an early age.
A Vagrant has a pirate receive a black spot from another before he is shot for pointing out that Stevenson invented the practice. 2012: In "Idiots Are People Three", season 6 episode 3 of the TV series 30 Rock , Jack Donaghy hands Criss (Liz Lemon's new boyfriend) a black spot while telling Liz he is Officially Disapproving of Criss (with no "H ...