Mary Read She accepted the King's pardon c. 1718–1719, then took a commission to privateer, but joined the crew in mutiny. In 1720 she joined pirate John "Calico Jack" Rackham and his companion, Anne Bonny, who both believed her to be a man. On 22 August 1720, the three stole an armed sloop named "William" from port in Nassau. Scholars are uncertain how female pirates like Read and Bonny concealed their sex in a male-dominated environment. Some scholars, however, have theorized that the wearing of breeches by female pirates may have been either a method of hiding their identity or simply as
Mary Grace Kovar Mary Grace Kovar Mary Grace Kovar (July 6, 1929 – September 21, 2015) was an American biostatistician. Kovar worked as chief of the Analytical Coordination Branch of the Division of Analysis at the National Center for Health Statistics. For many years she was the coordinator of "Health, United States", a series of books reporting the health statistics of Americans. By 1996, she had retired from the NCHS, and had became a senior research scientist at NORC at the University of Chicago. She was a vice president at NORC by 2000. She married (as his second wife) another biostatistician at the