Trick or Treat: A Pirate in Sheep's Clothing

Trick or Treat: A Pirate in Sheep's Clothing

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Fab Four: The Only Real Female Pirates of the Golden Age

Sometimes, and it happens with all scurvy sea dogs, male or female, there just isn't enough evidence left behind to know for certain that a person was a real part of history, or if they're just a fictional composite of several people. And because of that, there are just four c ...

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Meet Lady Killigrew, the Aristocratic Pirate

When Mary Wolverston married Sir John Killigrew, she married into a pirate family, and was very hands-on with the family business. She would ultimately be accused of preying on shipping vessels that passed along the coastline, arrested, and convicted -- yet not executed. Holly ...

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The Golden Age of Pirates didn’t have just men floating on the high seas. Some women became very successful pirates and today you’ll learn about two of them.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

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