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Gen Z protesters are flying this pirate flag. Here's what it means.

Young people are attending anti-government protests around the world beneath the banner of a fictional pirate flag from a ...

Guillaume Calafat, historian: 'Across the world, Gen Z is waving the One Piece flag in defiance of authorities'

OP-ED. In an op-ed for Le Monde, the Mediterranean world specialist traces the history of the pirate flag, which has become a ...
Daily Mail

Student restores rare Jolly Roger pirate flag to former glory

A rare 18th century pirate flag has been restored to its former glory. The crudely-stitched Jolly Roger was captured in battle on the Barbary Coast of North Africa in 1780 by Lieutenant Richard Curry, ...
scmp.com

How the Jolly Roger evolved from feared pirate flag to One Piece social justice symbol

Flags, comprising a piece of fabric, usually oblong, with particular colours or designs, are well recognised as symbols for sovereign states, organisations, armed forces, offices and individuals. A ...
Independent.ie

Jolly Roger flag flying as pirates invade Malahide

THE weekend saw Malahide invaded by a fleet of marauding pirates with the dreaded skull and cross-bones Jolly Roger flag flying from their masts.But if you live in the seaside village, there was no ...
Daily Mail

Council bans boy, 6, from flying Jolly Roger at pirate party - because it is 'unneighbourly'

As his sixth birthday approached, Morgan Smith's parents thought hoisting the Jolly Roger would be the perfect way to make the pirate-mad youngster's day. The flag was duly run up the pole in the back ...
WRAL

Jolly Roger Aside, Historians Say Pirates Weren't As Bad as We Think

In the lore of Jolly Roger movies, Disneyland and Long John Silver, pirates were drunken, peg-legged bandits who made captives walk the plank and eat their own ears. Now historians are taking a second ...