Featured image: Illustration of Blackbeard’s Jolly Roger flag. It depicted a skeleton piercing a heart, whilst toasting the devil. Traced from a scanned image of Konstam’s book. (Angus Konstam, Blackbeard the Pirate, 2007, page 177) SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons. (This file is from the Open Clip Art Library, which released it explicitly into the public domain, using the Creative CommonsCC0 1.0 Universal Public DomainDedication).
Sunken treasure lies 25 feet beneath the sea off North Carolina, where archaeologists are probing the wreck of the Queen Anne’s Revenge — the flagship in the dread pirate Blackbeard’s flotilla.
But this treasure won’t sparkle and gleam, and it definitely isn’t locked in a dead man’s chest. . . . Read Complete Report