Michelle talks about a pirate gal who ruled the Mediterranean Sea for 30 years! The gal-pals also talk about why they’d most likely be forced to walk the plank.
Show Notes
- We’re back on Zoom so that means the YouTube has live video of our silly and beautiful faces!
- The gal pals this month are Dr. Leah Leach, Bonnie Fillenwarth, Katie Harris, and Michelle Hammond
- Get-to-know-you question: Let’s say you are forces to walk the plank. What is the likely reason you’re being punished?
- Perfectly matched faces
- Michelle’s 1 Cool Pirate Gal is Sayyida al Hurra
- “Free and independent woman who exercises power”
- Basically Beyonce
- Barbary Corsairs groundwork
- “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!”
- Early life of Sayyida
- Married off
- Helped her ruler husband resettle the town of Tétouan
- 1515 husband’s death
- Governor
- Learns how to pirate
- Ruled the Mediterranean Seas
- Married the Sulton…but he came to her
- The she disappears from history
- Jefferson gets pissed and makes the Navy
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