Images Dated 25th January 2008

Corsaire En Peril

A pirate ship or corsair encounters bad weather off the Barbary Coast of North Africa, circa 1650. An engraving by A. Maisonneuve after A. Humblot. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Turtle Fishing

Buccaneers fish for turtles on Saint-Domingue (modern Haiti) in the Caribbean, 1571. An illustration from the Histoire Generale des Antilles Habitees par les Francais by Jean-Baptiste du Tertre. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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CARTOON: ARREST OF TWEED. William Marcy Tweed (1823-1878). American political leader

CARTOON: ARREST OF TWEED.
William Marcy Tweed (1823-1878). American political leader. The capture of Tweed - The picture that made the Spanish officials take him for a child-stealer. This cartoon led to Tweed's arrest in Spain and his return to New York City. Cartoon, 1876, by Thomas Nast

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