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"Typhoid Mary" Mallon quarantined for life on North Brother Island, New York City, 1915
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Picture of Hanafi Mat Hassan, a infamous Malaysian murderer who raped and killed 24 year-old Noor Suzaily Mukhtar as he smiles at the victims brother. Circa 2000. 330x228
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Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein touching the black stone of the Kaaba in Mecca while performing an Islamic pilgrimage, 1980's. Although Iraq's Ba'ath party was originally secular, Saddam still publicly claimed to be a pious muslim. (1340x960)
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'The Lost German girl' - A beaten German woman, as she stood on the roadside in Czechoslovakia - she was one of thousands of refugees in the weeks following the end of the war in Europe, c. May - July 1945.
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1948 - My mother when she worked for the Department of Water and Power in Los Angeles
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Larry Hillblom, billionaire co-founder of DHL disappeared mysteriously in 1995.
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Woodie Guthrie, the man who created the song This Land Is Your Land and antics enthusiast, pictured with his guitar in 1943
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The CEO of America’s largest mail-order retailer is hauled out of his office by the Army National Guard for refusing to negotiate with workers under the National War Labor Board, resulting in the company being seized entirely by the U.S. War Department. April, 1944
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