Arrr! Can you talk like a pirate? Sep 19, 2021

Arrr! Can you talk like a pirate?

Ahoy matey! Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day so we present to you a fortress that was really used to defend against pirates. Arrr! This is Le Castella, a magnificent fortification on the Calabrian coast of Italy. For centuries it served as a defense against warring nations and rampaging pirates from the Ottoman Empire.

© mRGB/Shutterstock

palette

Today in History

Sep 19, 2018Talk like a pirate—or walk the plank
Sep 19, 2019Fall for birding
Sep 19, 2020Arrr, it be Talk Like a Pirate Day
Sep 19, 2022State funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
Sep 19, 2023Splügen Pass, Switzerland
Sep 19, 2024International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Sep 19, 2025Thousand Islands region, St. Lawrence River, US-Canada border

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Oct 20, 2019Meet the slowest flirt in the animal world
Oct 16, 2020It s harvest time on World Food Day
Jun 9, 2019Crown Fountain by Jume Plensa at Millennium Park in Chicago
Aug 25, 2025Yellowstone for the National Park Services birthday
Jul 9, 2025Independence Day of the Argentine Republic
Mar 8, 2025International Womens Day
Jan 22, 2026Karlovy Vary, Bohemia, Czechia
Jul 28, 2024Bathing huts in Skåne County, Sweden
Feb 28, 2025Tibetan New Year
Jun 28, 2022Tafilalet oasis in Morocco
Mar 16, 2020I ll call for pen and ink
Sep 24, 2024Skaftafell, Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland
Feb 26, 2023Tambopata National Reserve, Peru
Mar 17, 2020It s a good day to be green
Dec 14, 2024Christmas Bird Count turns 125
Dec 16, 2018Holidays in the Venetian Lagoon
Oct 14, 2019Canadian Thanksgiving
Jan 31, 2018Sunbeams across Tartu County, Estonia
Feb 21, 2019Sounds of Bach come to Bath
Aug 28, 2023Dubrovnik, Croatia
Apr 6, 2026Castle Day Japan
Sep 14, 2020Tiny fliers head south
Mar 21, 2022World Poetry Day
Sep 18, 2018A red knot on the Shetland Islands, Scotland
Nov 23, 2025Fibonacci Day
Jan 20, 2020A march toward a dream
Sep 1, 2018Let the Highland games begin
Nov 29, 2019Opt outside today
Mar 20, 2024National Cherry Blossom Festival
Jun 24, 2023Nha Phu Bay, Nha Trang, Vietnam