Episode 6 - The Golden Age of Pirates

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A Long Overdue Return. 

Les pirates sont souvent représentés avec un perroquet sur l'épaule pour plusieurs raisons historiques, culturelles et symboliques.

La représentation populaire des pirates avec des perroquets provient en grande partie de la littérature et des œuvres de fiction. Le ro ...

Ahoy, matey! How cold are yer timbers?

Andrew & Polly ask some friends about the steps to talking like a pirate, sprinkled in with some historical pirate factoids and Andrew's dad shares buccaneer tales from Post Office Bay in the Galapagos Islands.

To learn ...

The history of pirates is a thrilling kaleidoscope of adventure, devastation, violence and political intrigue, and never more so than during the 17th and 18th centuries: the golden age of piracy. This saw the rise of some of the most famous pirates of all time, many of them unite ...  Show more

The real Pirates of the Caribbean were far more complex—and sometimes more brutal—than the swashbuckling legends in movies. From the late 1600s to the early 1700s, this region was a hotspot for piracy, where sailors turned outlaw raided ships for gold, goods, and freedom. Figures ...  Show more