The year is 1714 and the place is the Caribbean. The sound you will hear is a pair of scissors snipping away. The young lady who is using them is trimming her husband’s beard. . He had been in a battle and was very vain about his beard. It is a black beard which caused some eighteenth century pundit to dub him Blackbeard. His real name is Edward Teach, profession pirate.
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