National Talk Like a Pirate Day

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Avast, ye lubbers! Learn of pirates who plundered the American shores so many years ago through National Museum of American History's exhibition, "On the Water": http://s.si.edu/1972IGB

(Image: Courtesy of the Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations)