Blackbeard amusement park rides. Much of what is known about him can be sourced to Charles Johnson's "A General Historie of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates", published in Britain in 1724. A recognised authority on the pirates of his time, Johnson's descriptions of such figures as Anne Bonny and Mary Read were for years required reading for those interested in the subject. Readers were titillated by his stories and a second edition was quickly published, though author Angus Konstam suspects that Johnson's entry on Blackbeard was "coloured a little to make a more sensational story." "A General
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