Pirates have turned the Red Sea into hell for ships around the world. With an exception: the Chinese

The Red Sea right now is the main commercial route around the world and millions European industries depend on it to be able to receive products from the Asian continent. But in recent months, it has become one of the most dangerous seas on the planet, taking months blocked by the attack of pirates. With … Read more

We always imagine Berber pirates as teachers of pillage, but their greatest art was another: negotiation

Centuries ago Berber pirates They supposed a true headache for Spanish sailors, a threat to stalking from the coast of Tunisia, Tripoli or Algiers that could make an expedition end up the worst of the ways: with the prey crew, turned into captives of The privateers Or, worse, in slaves who sold to the highest … Read more

We usually think that all pirates used the same flag. Actually, it was a personalized presentation letter

“The old Truhan, captain of a ship that had a pair of warm and a skull,” Sabina sang in his ‘a lame pirate’. Surely there is large countries flags that we do not recognize the first, but one that we have in mind is the pirate flag. But there is something interesting in the world … Read more

In 1759 pirates bought a US island. Since then they speak such an English version of English that nobody understands them

Languages ​​(and their dialects) are possibly one of The great wonders of our civilization. There are, for example, those Latinos in southern Florida who have been mixing English and Spanish for years creating a new language. Not far from there, but some centuries earlier, some pirates arrived to establish what was never seen in the … Read more

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