Learn about the amazing life of Zheng Shi, also called Ching Shih, the female pirate admiral from China and one of the most successful pirates in world history.
When many or most people think of pirates, the image that most often comes to mind is probably somebody like the notorious Blackbeard, with thick facial hair do
Gertrude Koch wasn’t like other 17 year old girls. What with her living under Nazi rule in Cologne, Germany, during WW2, that’s not exactly surprising; after all, her days were spent recovering fro…
When her husband was unjustly executed, this French noblewoman-turned-pirate became the terror of France.
The first European woman to end up in New Zealand, Charlotte Badger was part pirate, part adopted Maori, and part mom. Which part is which is somewhat lost to history.
With the death of her pirate husband Zheng Yi in 1807, the former prostitute Ching Shih took command of several hundred ships, extorting money throughout the South China Sea. Her Red Flag Fleet...
The execution of the Romanov family marked the end of imperial rule in the Soviet Union, and the details are quite gruesome.
Blackbeard and his pirates stole the ship The Queen Anne's Revenge in 1717 and wrecked it in South Carolina in 1718, but it was only found in 1996. Historians and conservators studying the wreckage have recovered most of the ship's 27 cannons. Inside one of the cannons was a wad of garbage that turned out to be small bits of paper. And some had readable text! So what were these pirates reading i their spare time? Work by conservationists from North Carolina’s Department of Natural and Cultura...
Until recently, history books rarely noted the exploits of Jewish pirates.
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