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| | | | | Classic romanticized buccaneers! The pirate captain and his woman ashore on a Caribbean island or an isolated part of the Main, perhaps to share plunder or while careening, or simply to celebrate the holiday. We can always count on Howard Pyle to make the romantic appeal to our imaginations. And indeed, buccaneers did celebrate Christmas... | |
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| | | | | The Wicked Wench engaging the Spanish fort at Isla Tesoro. Notably, according to the original narration for the ride, the ship appears to have been first named Black Mariah. Disney publicity still. It's an epic image, one that anyone who's ever cruised through the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at one of the Disney theme... | |
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| | | | | A brief place-holder blog post (and at the bottom a not quite shameless plug for Blood & Plunder by Firelock Games) while I finish several more challenging posts in the queue. Before the advent of CGI, many swashbuckler films used models of ship and shore, along with full-size ships built on sound stages, to both... | |
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| | | Boston in 1694, by Cyprian Southack, legendary Massachusetts privateer during King William's War and Queen Anne's War. In the former he commanded the Mary and Province Galley privateers, and in the latter the old and new Province Galley. (Leventhal Map and Education Center.) In recognition of the Thanksgiving Holiday, a few words from fictional... | ||
