Named Whydah, after the 1700s ship of pirate "Black Sam" Bellamy, the home took four years to build and was finished earlier this month.

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The pirate captain Black Stache (Christian Borle), a dyslexic prince of darkness, expertly fits the bill.

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That event, known in the pirate underground as Black Sunday, probably destroyed tens of thousands of bogus cards.

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The notorious Welsh pirate, Black Bart, promised a pension of 800 pieces of eight- that's silver- to any of his crew who lost a limb or were disabled in battle.

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Take, for example, the fear of a child who has to endure the harrowing experience of a CT Scan.. In a TED talk in 2012, Kelley spoke about children who walk into the CT room and are handed a black felt pirate cap.

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The Assassin's Creed video game series -- beyond its trademark murderous historical fiction -- is known for arriving in annual installments. 2013 is no exception, with French publisher Ubisoft recently revealing Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, a pirate-centric next entry in the long-running franchise.

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