Image: 16th Century Barbary Corsairs Flag
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Description: The skull and crossbones symbol may have originated with the Barbary pirates in the 16th century. A 1625 reference to a slave raid on Cornwall describes Muslim corsairs flying a skull symbol on a green flag.
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