In the early morning hours of May 29, 1945, sirens wailed on Amsterdam's respectable Kaisergracht street.

Two black police cars pulled up in front of the house of the artist van Meegeren. The sleepy owner didn't realize what had happened, and handcuffs were snapped on his wrists.

While the unnoticed events, the whole world was witnessing the story of the hijacking of a passenger airliner.

The 186-meter transatlantic liner "Santa Maria" built in the early 50's in Belgium belonged to the Lisbon-based company "Colonial de Navegasan" and worked on passenger lines connecting Portugal with the United States and Latin America. On January 9, 1961, the Santa Maria departed Lisbon for another voyage to Miami. On board were 612 passengers, many of them U.S. citizens, and 300 crew members.

Giants have captured people's attention since ancient times, being the subject of numerous myths, tales, and religious stories. From the iconic Goliath in the Old Testament to the titans of Hajime Isayama, giants have always meant more to humanity than just someone who was a head taller than others. In the late 1860s, the body of a giant was found on a farm in New York State (USA) that shocked scientists and religious leaders to the core. It was called the Cardiff Giant.

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.