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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Cantonese Female Pirate

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

One of the most successful pirates of all time was a woman: a Cantonese prostitute who eventually ran four hundred junk ships operated by forty to sixty thousand pirates.

http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/miscellany/sink-sank-sunk.php

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