Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here is your 30-second summary!

53 times more powerful than the original Captain Morgan,

200 times more powerful than Blackbeard,

and 80,000 times more powerful than Jack Sparrow.

This Chinese pirate queen made waves during chain dynasty China,

but left little of herself behind for history to discover.

The End.

Let's talk about Qing Shi.

But first, let's drop her into history.

In 1807, although Kruter methods had been in use since 500 BC,

what we think of as gas streetlights were first used in London.

In Philadelphia, a pharmacist sold the first fruit-flavored carbonated beverages.

Only they weren't soda. They were a health drink.

Robert Fulton designed the first successful steamboat,

and it began making runs up and down the Hudson River in New York.

Napoleon Bonaparte and his wars were in full swing in Europe.

Thomas Jefferson was in his second term as President of the United States,

and King George III was barely hanging on to reality, but still ruling Great Britain.

Both US Congress and UK Parliament took legal steps to end the slave trade.

Robert E. Lee and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow were born.

Martin and Hannah Van Buren were married.

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