Teddy Roosevelt would have known what to do with these pirates. In his day he went after them with everything he had. In 1907, there was a famous naval standoff in which Barbary pirates held an American for ransom. It was a ...Read More
From our headquarters here at GlobalPost, the boom of the cannon from the USS Constitution just sounded. The ceremonial firing of the cannon happens every night at exactly sunset and it echoes across Boston harbor to Lewis Wharf where we ...Read More
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