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Jenna Allman
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Jan. 23, 2007

Big and nasty looking (12)
Awful singing voice (12)
Long black hair (12)
Black eyebrows and mustache (12)
Monstrous black beard with four pigtails, braided and tied with ribbons on the ends (13)
Four pistols and one wicked-looking cutlass (13)
Craziest, meanest pirate of all times (13)
Crazy-looking red eyes (21)
He yelled at his mates (28)
Follows Brethren-of-the-coast Rules (32)
Attacked by the King’s Navy (35)
Would be hanged if caught in New York (44)
Wore a three-cornered hat (46)
Drank rum (45)

His ship was called Queen Anne’s Revenge(24)
Real name: Edward Teach(13)
He braided rope in his hair and burned it(21)
Settled in the town of Bath, NC(55)
Received the Royal Pardon from the Governor of NC in June, 1718(54)
Returned to pirating in November, 1718 and faced Lieutenant Maynard of His Majesty’s Royal Navy in the Battle of Ocracoke Inlet(55)
Died in that battle and was beheaded (55)

Sometime in the early eighteenth century, Teach left Bristol for Jamaica to sail on the ships of privateers
Benjamin Hornigold took Teach under his wing and taught him everything he knew about taking ships
The death of Blackbeard signaled the end of “The Golden Age of Piracy.”
born in the English town of Bristol around the year 1680
little is known of his life before he began his career as a pirate