BelchSpeak
Miss Celenia,
Many pirate afficianados will recognize the reign of terror that was Cheng. She was a scourge in her day and only avoided the gallows by using her influence over the fleet to help bring a peace to the region’s tribes.
If you like this story of a woman who kicked ass in Pirate times, you would love the story of Mary Carleton.
http://www.belch.com/blog/2006/10/05/well-behaved-women-rarely/
Rob
As far as successful pirates, arguably Dick Cheney controls more ships and sailors, and is probably even wealthier, but I seriously doubt he’ll get to retire peacefully. Unless prison is more peaceful than reports suggest.
artbot
My son is going through his requisite pirate phase, so I’ve been learning a lot about pirates, both real and imaginary. The thought that keeps going through my head is, Why haven’t more of these stories been made into movies? And I mean *real* pirate movies, not the comical Disney kind.
I’d like to see something along the lines of Master & Commander, but with pirates. These movies (any movie, for that matter) are notoriously expensive to make, but as digital effects get cheaper and faster to create, I hope they’ll start to tell more of these stories.
Oh yeah, and pirates are better than ninjas.
Dan
I thought this article was going to be about Roberto Clemente. Oh well.
the Asocial Ape
i came home from work early, and drank way too many beers.
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