Here's an interesting article on piracy. You might be wondering why pirates flew the jolly roger at all, since it identifies them as criminals. Also, there were two versions, black and red, with different meanings.

Another thank you for today's post. Oscar Wilde certainly had a quick wit. I stumbled upon a list of his clever remarks one day and thoroughly enjoyed the read,

I learned it slightly differently. There were a diversity of beliefs, practices and even written works among early Christian communities and the differences were leading to difficulties and fractious relationships. The purpose of the Council of Nicaea was to try to have some uniformity in dogma, to standardize doctrine and to also choose which written works would be used and which ignored. As a part of that, there was a choosing of what's now called the Canonical Gospels - Mark, Matthew, Luke and John - and the agreement to ignore the others, of which there are many more. There are differences between the canonical and non-canonical gospels, to be sure, and also many unresolved differences among the canonical gospels themselves.

I have never seen a primrose path, have you? If so, lead me down it! Where I have lived primroses get zapped so fast by spring heat that one would be foolish to plant them.