Today I Found Out

Today I Found Out

The Female Pirate Whose Armada Took on the Chinese, British, and Portuguese Navies and Won (2017x139)


Date de diffusion: Jun 06, 2017

→Thanks to Skillshare for sponsor→’t uncommon off the coast of Asia in the 18th and 19th centuries, one woman stood above them all. Her birth name isn’t known, but this Cantonese pirate went by the name Ching Shih (also, by Zhèng Yi Sao, “wife of Zhèng”, and Zhèng Shì, “widow of Zhèng”. For the purpose of this article, I’ll just refer to her as Ching Shih to avoid any confusion.) Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/06/the-female-prostitute-that-rose-to-become-one-of-the-most-powerful-pirates-in-history-and-whose-armada-took-on-the-chinese-british-and-portuguese-navies-and-won/ Sources: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0646492500/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0646492500 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1609494199/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1609494199 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih http://history.cultural-china.com/en/48History5542.html http://articles.cnn.com/2007-08-27/living/woman.pirate_1_pirate-piracy-business-cheng-i-sao?_s=PM:LIVING http://www.badassoftheweek.com/chingshih.html http://voices.yahoo.com/the-prostitute-became-pirate-ching-shih-819873.html http://www.colorq.org/articles/article.aspx?d=asianwomen&x=shixianggu http://www.theworldofchinese.com/2012/06/the-greatest-pirate-who-ever-lived/ http://www.helium.com/items/1010600-historical-pirate-ching-shih http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bonny http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Read Image Credit: https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-147950201/stock-photo-angry-pirate-woman-holding-sword https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-184937131/stock-photo-an-old-intelligent-man-reading-a-book-in-his-library-at-home-retirement-retro-style https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-15688409/stock-photo-%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA%2C-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%8F-%D0%B8-%D0%BF%

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