Hints and tips:
...As Neil Rennie writes in Treasure Neverland: Real and Imaginary Pirates, it was a “long dissolve”: what starts with Blackbeard ends with Pugwash, Playmobil and Jack Sparrow....
...The most striking example is the Blackbeard well in the Gulf of Mexico, which Exxon drilled in 2005-06. It had spent $187m, and the oil reserves looked promising....
...In an early scene, Cromwell, standing in the shadows, is called a “butcher’s dog” by an angry Thomas Boleyn....
...Since their heyday, pirates have been transformed from bogeymen, such as the 18th-century sea bandit Blackbeard, into genial rascals, such as Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow in the Disney franchise Pirates...
...But he’s still more Brooks Brothers than Blackbeard. He favours loafers, pleated trousers, has hands instead of hooks. He lives in Connecticut and travels the world in his spare time....
...“Dear Mrs Blackbeard – Thank you again for choosing All-You-Can-Eat Broadband as your internet service provider....
...OK so it’s not Blackbeard’s treasure but, on the bright side, I don’t have to report it to my local antiquities liaison officer....
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