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  2. Israel Hands - Wikipedia

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    Israel Hands, also known as Basilica Hands [1], was an 18th-century pirate best known for being second in command to Edward Teach (c. 1680 – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard. His name serves as the basis for the name of the villainous sidekick in Robert Louis Stevenson 's 1883 novel Treasure Island .

  3. Faces of Death - Wikipedia

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    Faces of Death (later re-released as The Original Faces of Death) is a 1978 American mondo horror film written and directed by John Alan Schwartz, credited under the pseudonyms "Conan Le Cilaire" and "Alan Black" respectively. [3] [4]

  4. Huang Bamei - Wikipedia

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    Huang Bamei [3] (Chinese: 黃八妹; pinyin: Huáng Bāmèi; 1906 – 4 May 1982), also known as Huang P’ei-mei [4] [5] or Huang P'emei, [2] was a Chinese pirate leader who served as a naval commander in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and the second phase of the Chinese Civil War (1945–1949), aligned with the Republic of China but at times of dubious allegiance.

  5. Blackbeard - Wikipedia

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    The incident was chronicled in the Boston News-Letter, which called Teach the commander of a "French ship of 32 Guns, a Briganteen of 10 guns and a Sloop of 12 guns." It is not known when or where Teach collected the ten-gun briganteen, but by that time he may have been in command of at least 150 men split among three vessels.

  6. Pirates in the arts and popular culture - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. ‘Our Flag Means Death’ Creator on How the Pirate Queens ...

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    For once, Stede Bonnet and Blackbeard aren’t the most dysfunctional pirate couple on the deck of Max’s comedy series “Our Flag Means Death.” In Season 2’s fourth episode, titled “Fun ...

  8. SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 7 of “Our Flag Means Death,” now streaming on Max. For the second season of “Our Flag Means Death,” Max’s comedy ...

  9. Trump Promised To Free Ross Ulbricht. Here's Why He Should. - AOL

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    The drug war is the real villain in his story. It has cost $1 trillion while fueling decades of black market crime and violence—all as U.S. overdose deaths increased .