Golden Age of Piracy on a navy ship. Many of the most well known pirates in historical lore originate from this Golden Age of Piracy. While most pirates were men, there were at least fifty cases of women entering the career of piracy (usually disguised as men). The best known female pirates were Anne Bonny (also sometimes spelled Bonney) and Mary Read. Bonny developed a notorious reputation in Nassau, and when she was unable to leave an earlier marriage, she eloped with her lover, Calico Jack Rackham. Mary Read had been dressed as a boy all her life by her mother and had spent
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