Tell me a story
Today is all about Pirates:
Óscar Domínguez
Spanish, 1906–1958
“Le pirate”, 1943
Meet Legendary Pirate Zheng Yi Sao
Forget Blackbeard, this is most successful pirate from history
Howard Pyle (1853-1911). Pyle’s story captures the dangers of piracy in waters around the Spanish colonial ports of Central and South America in the seventeenth century, when ships carrying the wealth of Central and South America to the Spanish crown were often attacked by pirates who later divided the riches among themselve
From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggedy beasties and things that go ‘bump’ in the night, Good Lord, deliver us.
– attributed to a traditional Scottish Prayer
Good Lord, Deliver us?
Ha.
If it weren’t for ghoulies and ghosties and long leggedy beasties and things that go ‘bump’ in the night, I wouldn’t have anything to write about!
Edvard Munch, Moonlight, 1893
Deliver
