Historian Answers Pirate Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
56,367Historian Angus Konstam joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about pirates. Where did the stereotypical pirate accent come from? What did pirates do for fun? Why do we associate parrots and eyepatches with pirates? Who’s the most famous non-fictional pirate in history? Is Jack Sparrow real? Did pirates use sunscreen? Answers to these questions and many more await on Pirate Support.\n\n0:00 Pirate Support\n0:13 The pirate accent\n1:01 Pirates: Why?\n1:36 The Pirate Code\n2:10 Pirate pleasures\n2:50 Peg legs\n3:12 No-no-notorious\n3:53 Pirate democracy\n4:54 Walk the plank/Peter Pan\n5:41 He's the pauper of the surf, the jester of Tortuga\n6:30 Gay pirates\n6:59 Privateer vs Pirate\n8:12 A little rum and a classic film\n8:38 Women were pirates\n10:05 Beginning a life of piracy \n10:40 SPF Arrrr\n10:59 Have we found any treasure?\n11:53 Pirate life expectancy \n12:19 But why all the parrots\n12:37 The beard sounds extremely memorable\n13:04 Pirate wear\n14:09 Pirate weaponry \n15:21 Pirate ships\n16:08 Pirates attacked slave ships\n17:21 The skull and crossbones flag\n17:53 When nature called\n18:15 Where was home for a pirate?\n19:03 Also, why all the eyepatches?\n\nThank you to Osprey Publishing for kind permission to use several of their images in this video. You can discover more in these great books:\nPirates 1660-1730: https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/pirates-16601730-9781855327061/\nPirate: The Golden Age: https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/pirate-9781849084970/\nThe Pirate Menace: https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/pirate-menace-9781472857736/\n\nDirector: Anna O'Donohue\nDirector of Photography: Mateo Notsuke\nEditor: Richard Trammell\nExpert: Angus Konstam\nLine Producer: Joseph Buscemi\nAssociate Producer: Brandon White; Jasmine Breinburg\nProduction Manager: Peter Brunette\nProduction Coordinator: Rhyan Lark\nCasting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer\nCamera Operator: Cameron Hall\nGaffer: Jake Newell\nSound Mixer: Michael Panayiotis\nPost Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin\nPost Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant\nSupervising Editor: Doug Larsen\nAdditional Editor: Paul Tael\nAssistant Editor: Billy Ward
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