10.The embattled head of the Brazilian football confederation is back at work despite facing charges of racketeering and money laundering in the FIFA football scandal.
12.Home to around 15,000 people, the Banda Islands were composed of village confederations controlled by rich men called orang kaya, who were expert traders.
14.According to nonprofit confederation Oxfam, the fortunes of the ten richest men in the world more than doubled during the first two years of the pandemic.
15.By 1810, increasing tension between the Red and Black Flag Fleets weakened the confederation from within and rendered it more vulnerable to attack from without.
17.Madame Zheng’s confederation drove five American schooners to safe harbor near Macao, captured a Portuguese brig, and blockaded a tribute mission from Thailand —all in a single day.
18.Nevertheless, from a weak confederation of thirteen colonies in the 18th century, in less than two hundred years, the US had become the most powerful nation in the world.
19.Their confederation was successfully and peacefully dismantled in April 1810, while Zhang Bao was allowed to retain 120 junks for personal use and became an officer in the Chinese navy.
20.A year after the defeat the entire Vietnamese Pirate Army in 1802, Zheng Yi and Shi Xiang Gu brought together pirates across the Chinese coastline into a unified confederation of six fleets.