Politics
More than 300 years ago, Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, whose whiskered visage virtually defines the image of the 18th century pirate, ran his flagship aground near Beaufort, N.C.
June 3, 2019
Blackbeard resumes his life of terrorizing ships and citizens along the east coast and Chesapeake Bay and in 1718, the most notorious pirate festival is hosted by Blackbeard on the beach at Ocracoke Inlet.Once a year visitors from all over the count
June 3, 2017
Television
Pirates, skulduggery, an assassin and John Malkovich as Blackbeard? It’s all quite good fun, though the dialogue can be a bit baroque.
May 30, 2014
Entertainment & Arts
Bald man, ahoy!
June 10, 2014
The real Blackbeard was a notorious English-born pirate who was chased down and beheaded by a Colonial naval force off the coast of North Carolina in 1718, when he was believed to be in his 30s.
May 23, 2014
In “The Jolly Roger, “ Sunday’s episode of “Once Upon a Time,” the question of who is the most ruthless scourge of the fairy tale seven seas is answered, and our lovable Captain Hook comes out on top over Blackbeard.
April 14, 2014
The Blackbeard of billboards
Jan. 30, 2009
Obituaries
Bill Blackbeard, who grew up in Newport Beach, created an exhaustive archive of newspaper comics, preserving an American art form and helping to legitimize the study of comics in popular culture.
May 9, 2011
World & Nation
Effort to tie North Carolina shipwreck to pirate Blackbeard advances
June 19, 2011
Nation Now
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Oct. 27, 2011