Once the herald of Blackbeards and Jack Sparrows, the Jolly Roger is now being used by protesters as a symbol of justice and freedom Pirates, ahoy! You may be visualising RL Stevenson's Treasure ...

In early December 1941, Rear Admiral Isaac Kidd was the commander of Battleship Division One at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Kidd quickly went ...

In Japanese pop culture, the Jolly Roger flag from the anime One Piece is a widely recognized symbol. It features a skull wearing a straw hat and represents the Straw Hat Pirates, a group of ...

The Straw Hat Pirates’ Jolly Roger flies in front of the Singha Durbar after people set fire to the seat of Nepal government in Kathmandu. Sunil Pradhan/Anadolu via Getty Images From Paris and Rome to ...

According to the site, ships throughout the centuries used various flags to send messages and identify themselves. Pirates did the same thing, but perhaps purposely misidentified themselves so those ...

As Nepal’s famed Singha Durbar palace went up in flames last week, protesters determined to rattle the government hung a manga flag showing a skull wearing a straw hat against the building’s ornate ...

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There have been a number of different explanations of the origin of the most famous of the pirates’ flags: the ‘skull and cross bones’, which was first used around the year 1700. In the book Socialism ...

The “pirate brand” has long been tied to the skull and crossbones—the Jolly Roger—as a symbol of terror on the high seas. This article was published in ...