Blackbeard’s odd plunder, Bonnet’s downfall, Phil Manzanera’s pirate heritage, and a week of revelry in Jamaica.

Today we toast Jean Lafitte’s birthday, relive the time Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates, peek into the Department of Naval Intelligence’s piracy chart, and meet a modern woman claiming her share of a £60 million pirate fortune. Add Halloween plunder and the Weymouth Pirate Fest, and ye’ve got a hold full o’ treasure.

Today be no ordinary Friday — it be Talk Like a Pirate Day, when scallywags, landlubbers, and salty sea dogs alike raise their voices in a chorus of “Arrrs!” and “Avasts!” The whole world be speakin’ our tongue, if only for a day, and The Pirate Republic aims to make sure ye’ve got the sharpest lingo on the seven seas.

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This week we chart the tides where history, mystery, and treasure collide. From King George’s pardon to Henry Every’s legendary heist, the chronicles of piracy still echo across the waves.

Hollywood’s horizon is dark with sails, mateys. Amazon MGM Studios has hooked a wild new script, tentatively titled The Pirate, and it’s not shackled to Disney’s treasure chest.

Anne Bonny’s distraction, Rackham’s daring, Mary Read’s steel — on Aug 22, 1720, the trio stole the sloop William and carved their legend into pirate history. We also chase ghostly witches on Cape Cod, scour the wreck of a billion-dollar steamer off Nantucket, and set our spyglass toward Whitby Harbor, where England’s coast prepares for a festival of sea shanties and cutlasses. And aye, there’s a plunder pick so fine it might bankrupt Blackbeard himself.

Sharpen yer cutlasses, pour yerself a tankard o’ rum, and prepare to chart a course through history, mystery, and modern mischief. The seas be callin’, mates… and this week’s plunder is not to be missed!

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