People

While most pirates were men, there were women in these ranks of raiders who were just as merciless, notorious, and feared.

These men and women are truly historical badasses.

There's a fine line between 'eccentric duke' and 'poop-smeared psychopath,' and the following folks skipped gaily across that line.

Whether flamboyant, miserly, or paranoid, some of history's weirdest people put modern-day eccentricities to shame.

Fierce German mercenary knight Götz von Berlichingen loved a good feud. As a soldier for hire in the early 1500s, he and his rogue crew of rabble-rousers...

The FBI documented Old Blue Eyes’ every move for 40 years.

Born to slave parents,Bass Reeves would become the first black U.S. Deputy Marshal west of the Mississippi River and a great frontier hero.

Princess of the Chinese Seas, she was arguably the most successful pirate in history.

The daughter of English poet Lord Byron, Augusta Ada King, better known as "Ada Lovelace," expanded on Charles Babbage's theoretical device in an article published in the mid-1800s, creating the first computer program.

Find out more about the unusual life and “reign” of one of America’s most famous eccentrics.

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