Mary Reed and Anne Bonney were formidable pirates who held the entire merchant fleet of the Caribbean and Bahamas in terror in the early eighteenth century. These girls became friends in battle and pirated together for several years. Pirate life was not a hindrance to family happiness - during their lives the girls had 13 children, three of them during their pirate "career". How did they manage to be pirates at all, in an era when it was necessary to fight in hand-to-hand combat and where the stereotype "a woman on a ship - to bad luck" reigned? But, let's get to the point.

The story of one of America's most notorious financial fraudsters, posing as the daughter and heiress of steel millionaire Andrew Carnegie.

One of the most incredible hoaxes of the 18th century was the story associated with the charismatic, mysterious personage - George Salmanazar. This gentleman was first seen in the capital of Great Britain in the early 18th century. What he was doing and where he came from to witness those events was unknown. Today, by the way, the situation with this odious personality is not at all clear.

In 1963, a gang of criminals attacked a mail train traveling from Glasgow to London and stole 120 bags of money worth 2.6 million pounds.

An ordinary mail train, which for 125 years had followed the usual daily route from Glasgow to London, was stopped deep in the night, August 8, 1963 at 03:15, by a sudden traffic light signal. It later transpired that the green light was covered by a dense black bag and the red light came from a hand lamp operated by a gang member. The first to jump out of the head car was assistant driver David Whitby, who decided to check out what was wrong. The telephone line was not working - the wires had been cut beforehand by the intruders. Several gang members attacked Whitby and tied him up.