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Battle During the Retreat of Germanicus (Kampf beim Rückzug des Germanicus), oil on canvas painting by Ferdinand Leeke, 1898. Berlin State Museums, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Photo by Andres Kilger. The painting presents the...

A map illustrating the systematic European colonization of North America during the Age of Exploration, spanning from the 1490s to the outbreak of the French and Indian War in the 1750s. It captures how Spanish, French, English, and Dutch...

An early 18th-century print of the English pirate John Rackham, otherwise known as 'Calico Jack' (d. 1720). The illustration appeared in an early edition of A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates by Captain...

Toby Schmitz as the English pirate John Rackham, aka 'Calico Jack' (d. 1720) in the TV series Black Sails. ©2017 Starz Entertainment

An image of a pirate using a telescope from the TV series Black Sails. The actor is Graham Hopkins. © 2014 Starz

An image of a pirate crew from the TV series Black Sails. © 2014 Starz

The backside of P.Mich.inv. 5552, showing portions of the Book of Enoch in Greek. Part of the Chester Beatty Papyri, most likely originated in Egypt, 4th century CE. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Library

Tom Hopper as the fictional pirate William "Billy Bones" Manderly in the TV series Black Sails. Billy Jones is a character in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island. © 2014 Starz

Capture of the Galleon' by Howard Pyle, an illustration which first appeared in Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main in an 1887 edition of Harper's Magazine.

He Led Jack up to a Man Who Sat upon a Barrel' by Howard Pyle, an illustration for a 1921 edition of Jack Ballister's Fortunes by Howard Pyle and Merle De Vore (ed).