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The Tale of Pirate Queens Anne Bonny and Mary


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Last week Mike Dash told a tale of high seas adventure that put me in mind of another, somewhat earlier one. Not that Anne Bonny and Mary Read had much in common with kindly old David O’Keefe—they were pirates, for one thing, as renowned for their ruthlessness as for their gender, and during their short careers challenged the sailors’ adage that a woman’s presence on shipboard invites bad luck. Indeed, were it not for Bonny and Read, John “Calico Jack” Rackam’s crew would’ve suffered indignity along with defeat during its final adventure in the Caribbean. But more on that in a moment…

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2011/08/09/if-theres-a-man-among-ye-the-tale-of-pirate-queens-anne-bonny-and-mary-read/

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