Project is about pirates in the Caribbean, but this is no family film. The drama is set in the Cayman Islands in the 1800s and Saldana plays Ercell, a Caribbean woman whose secret past is revealed ...

Also known as Ching Shih, the Chinese widow took over her husband’s impressive fleet of pirate ships in the early 1800s. But her leadership came with conditions: no female captive could be harmed.

Charles Gibbs was a pirate out of Newport, Rhode Island who was active in the early-1800s. According to the testimony at his trial, the Newport native was responsible for the deaths of over four ...

They were the Schuylkill Rangers, the Irish pirate gang of 19th century Philadelphia, and they were by all accounts "a horde of daring wretches and vagabonds." MORE CULTURE An 1861 theater fire in ...

in the late 1800s Congress set it to life at hard labor, and then in 1909 to life. Last week, a U.S. District Court judge found it unconstitutional as applied to some Somali pirates, in United ...

According to Tom Hambright, director of history at the Key West Library, almost any black pirate who lived during the 1700s and 1800s was apt to be called Black Caesar. Census records stored in ...

This largely forgotten folk art form — created by whalemen at sea in the 1800s — is filled with ... A popular 1837 book about pirates inspired a bunch of scrimshanders to copy an image they ...

pirates became an increasingly popular literary genre, arguably peaking in the 1800s with the publication of works like 1879's "The Pirates of Penzance" and 1883's "Treasure Island." In those ...

In the mid-1800s, northern Michigan was the new frontier ... And where’s there’s gold, there’s pirates. Hear the true story of Michigan’s timber pirates in the latest episode of “Yes ...

While that would have taken place in the early 1800s, the earliest reference to Pirate Alley found in The Times-Picayune archive -- which dates to 1837 -- came much more recently, in 1926 ...