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Free Speech fights (early 1900s USA: "...workers met on the streets, discussed contemporary issues, and listened to speakers; at the time, it was a very popular method of organization. The events often ended with the police arresting them...")
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Julio César Arana, the Peruvian rubber baron primarily responsible for the Putumayo genocide. Arana became the senator of Loreto in 1921, during his tenure he forced 6,719 indigenous people to migrate further into Peruvian territory. Half of that group died during the migration.
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Alan Mcilwraith is a Scottish former call centre worker from Glasgow who was exposed as a military impostor after he passed himself off as a much-decorated British Army officer.
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Christopher Thomas Knight, also known as the North Pond Hermit, is a former recluse and burglar who claimed to have lived without human contact (with two very brief exceptions) for 27 years between 1986 and 2013
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Garfield at Large: 1st compilation book of Garfield comic strips, originally published in the US in 1980. This book introduced the "Garfield Format" to the comic book market, being shorter & much wider than the average paperback book. The book was #1 on the NYT bestseller list for almost two years.
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