DRAW A PIRATE or TWO or MORE!

 This comes from Graphic's Fairy, one of the image resources I use here at SIRENS LINK TO SEA!

HERE IS WHAT THE PIRATE CAN LOOK LIKE WHEN YOU ARE DONE!  REMEMBER THAT THERE WERE FEMALE PIRATES TOO!  YOU CAN DRESS THEM ANY WAY YOU LIKE!

PIRATE MODELS BY DOVER

  THIS IS A FREE SAMPLER FROM DOVER PUBLICATIONS.  When you buy the kit you also get clothing changes.  The pirate models put together are 3 D.  Have fun with these and check out Dover!

WAS BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE A GENTLEMAN? HISTORY MAY HAVE BEEN REWRITTEN!

DAILY MAIL - UK - BLACKBEARD GENEROUS WITH HIS SIBLINGS  article by Richard Gray

EXCERPT:

Historian Baylus Brooks, who conducted the research with the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, also questions the validity of many of the exploits credited to the legendary pirate.

 

He argues many of the deeds attributed to Blackbeard, who became known by some as the King of Pirates, were misconceptions, or worse, made up entirely. ...

'The enormously successful pirate Edward Thache was not the notorious and villainous "Pirate King" Blackbeard - or Satan "from hell" as Mist wrote him to be,' explained Mr Brooke.

'He was an educated aristocrat, likely grandson of an Anglican minister trained at Oxford.

 

'His family in Spanish Town, Jamaica, owned an estate with slaves; they probably rode in their personal carriage to church and conversed with assemblymen and their families in the palace square.

'And he was a veteran...

WHAT NO HO HO HO NO RUM?

 

Ever have a fantasy about an encounter with pirates of the sea?

THE REAL PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN : FILM REVIEW

THE REAL PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN is a DVD that was put out in 2005 by A and E TV and there are many films out with the name or similar so...  What this film will reveal to you is that pirating in its day was like corporate theft today - people got hired to do it and people got away with it all the time. Pirating was considered fair game.  It was considered unfair that Spain got all that gold and stealing gold off a ship was prime activity.  Pirates could be hired.  Pirates were sometimes female.  And some of the most famous pirate characters we hear about today were not hiding out when they were on land.  They were celebrated.

You may want to see this film or read on the subject of pirates and women pirates and compare it to what you see in the famous Disney series "Pirates of the Caribbean."

4TH ANNIVERSARY OF SIRENS LINK TO SEA

Anniversary! 
Four years of learning, expanding awareness... 
Thanks for reading!

HMS BOUNTY HISTORICAL SHIP SUNK BY SUPERSTORM SANDY

HMS BOUNTY SUNK : FORBES REPORTS

You saw this ship if you saw the movies PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN!

WANT TO SEE WHAT ELSE SIREN POSTED ON PIRATES?

Use the search feature of Google Blogger using the word PIRATE to see what other games, stories, pictures, and information about PIRATES has been posted in the past!

PIRATES AT THE COVE

BLACK BEARD THE PIRATE

Black Beard is a Historical pirate, and so he was a real person.  Read about him in this National Geographic article on line!

BLACK BEARD NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LINK

WOMEN CAN BE PIRATES TOO

So much has been made of mermaids as females... but not so much about women as pirates though there were women pirates and are some today... 

I'm celebrating pirates these next few weeks as many of us indulge in our fantasies for the upcoming Halloween season.

PIRATES FULL SAIL

PIRATE MAZE 1

ARTIC RUSSIAN SHIP HELD FOR RANSOM - MODERN PIRACY!

JIM HEINTZ, Associated Press Writer Jim Heintz, reports on this Crime at Sea... "Crew members had reported the ship was attacked on July 24 in the Baltic Sea off the Swedish island of Oland. They said a dozen masked men boarded the ship, tied them up, beat them, questioned them about drug trafficking and searched the freighter before leaving."