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The Jolly Roger pirate flag of the English pirate Edward 'Ned' Low (d. 1724). Low was one of the cruelest of all pirate captains during the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1730), notorious for torturing and mutilating his captives...

Tadhg Murphy as the English pirate Edward 'Ned' Low (d. 1724) in the TV series Black Sails. Low was one of the cruelest of all pirate captains during the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1730), notorious for torturing and...

A woodblock print presenting actor Arashi Rikan II as the famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584-1645). Created by Gigadō Ashiyuki around 1832. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A brick stamp of Legio XXI Rapax. Terra-Sigillata-Museum, Rheinzabern.

Thusnelda at the Triumphal Entry of Germanicus into Rome, oil on canvas painting by Karl Theodor von Piloty, 1875. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Horace Russell, 1887. The painting presents...

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...

The systematic European colonization of North America unfolded between the first voyages of the 1490s and the outbreak of the French and Indian War in the 1750s. Spanish, French, English, and...

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...

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