Shiver me timbers and walk the plank—it’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Celebrated annually on Sept. 19, the parodic yo-ho-ho-holiday gives every swashbucker and hornswaggler the ...

Friends John Baur and Mark Summers came up with International Talk Like a Pirate Day on June 6, 1995, when they began using pirate slang while playing racquetball "for reasons we still don't quite ...

Pirate Captain Shawn-A-Sea (Shawn Panuline), of North Carolina, takes a photo of Pirate Alley as he takes part in the NOLA Pyrate Week Parade in New Orleans, La., Friday, March 23, 2012.

-- The Pirate Bay, a controversial file-sharing website that has survived for more than a decade, was knocked offline following a police raid in Sweden. The raid marked the first time in a while ...

4. They had a health care system. A common aspect of pirate codes was injury compensation. Each pirate code made provisions for certain injuries and their monetary worth. For example, the loss of ...