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Life in a Man's World: Mary Read

A brief biography of a woman who lived a life of deception and adventure. Mary Read was born in London, England in the late seventeenth century to the wife of a sea captain. Some historical documents claim that Mary Read was disguised as a boy so that her father would believe that she was his son,
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Anne Bonny: Queen of the Sea

A brief chronicle of the life of Anne Bonny, female pirate. Anne Bonny, whether you believe her to have been a woman full of grit and gumption or a conscienceless criminal, is a fascinating historical figure. Amazingly, her appeal is due to what is not known about her as much as it is due to what
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Molly Pitcher: Revolutionary Heroine

Brief biography of one of the American Revolution's most famous women. Molly Pitcher, christened Mary Ludwig, was born on October 13, 1754 to German immigrants who had moved to the colonies and settled on a dairy farm near Trenton, New Jersey. Mary was a lively girl who could often be found playing
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A Perspective

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following: There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from
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Age Gap Relationships

I am 42 years old and my partner is 30. I did not consciously choose my partner because he was younger, but because we were on a level spiritually and emotionally and he possessed all the qualities that I would want in the ideal partner. The age that you are chronologically doesn't necessarily equate
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