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The Female Pirate Whose Armada Took on the Chinese, British, and Portuguese Navies and Won (2017x139)
Data de estreia: 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.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih
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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
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