Something caught our eye when we saw the ads for the new movie "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow." It was Angelina Jolie, who plays the rough-and-ready Capt. Franky Cook in the special ...

Wearing an eye patch meant pirates would have one eye adjusted to the sunlight above, ... His antagonist, Long John Silver, has served as the model for many other pop culture pirates, ...

Remember Long John Silver, the main pirate in the novel Treasure Island? He was wearing an eye patch. In fiction and history, pirates are often represented by iconic eye patches. Pirates are known ...