Every kid wants to be a pirate when he or she grows up—at least on Halloween on October 31 in North American when children and adults dress up as a popular character. In folklore, pirates are popular because they are depicted as carefree seafarers who venture out in search of buried riches but are usually generous enough to share the loot with ordinary folks. It is that popular mythology that ensured that Disney’s movie series Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and its sequels Dead Man’s Chest (2006) and At World End (2007) grossed more than $2.7b at the box office worldwide. Which kid would not want to be the free-wheeling, adventure-loving Captain Jack Sparrow character? He is after all the hero. More on Ensuring peace in Somalia will bring piracy to an end

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