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    A leper colony, also known by many other names, is an isolated community for the quarantining and treatment of lepers, people suffering from leprosy....
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    The Culion leper colony is a former leprosarium located on Culion, an island in the Palawan province of the Philippines. It was established by the U.S...
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  • Leper Colony (EP)
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    their first demo release, immediately followed by their first EP titled Leper Colony released on January 17. On February 5, 2010, the band played their first...
    18 KB (959 words) - 22:02, 14 June 2025
  • Party at the Leper Colony
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    would end up as a Wikipedia entry. "Party at the Leper Colony" is a dance song set in a leper colony. The song makes heavy use of wordplay, lampooning...
    36 KB (3,690 words) - 07:59, 6 June 2025
  • Kalaupapa Leper Colony)
    wrote the short stories, "Lepers of Molokai" and "Koolau the Leper" in response. He also wrote about his visit to the colony and the people he met there...
    18 KB (1,897 words) - 21:35, 30 June 2025
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    the northern side of Molokaʻi, followed by Kalaupapa as the sites of a leper colony that operated from 1866 to 1969. Because Kalaupapa had a better climate...
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  • Toussaint (c. 1890 – after 1934) was the chief of a leper colony in South America, known for his appearance in the novel Papillon. The semi-autobiographical...
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    Kalaupapa, Hawaii (category Leper colonies)
    a law that resulted in the designation of Molokaʻi as the site for a leper colony, where patients who were seriously affected by leprosy (also known as...
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  • interact normally with the surprised leper patients. At the end of the film, after his sojourn at the leper colony, Guevara confirms his nascent egalitarian...
    38 KB (3,708 words) - 16:00, 26 May 2025
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    missionary. From 1947 until 1986, he served as the resident chaplain to the leper colony, including their educator, counselor, sewing-room director and recreational...
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    Molly Maguires, as a corrupt gambler in Farewell, My Lovely, as the leper colony chief Toussaint in the 1973 historical drama prison film Papillon, as...
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  • mumps, measles, smallpox, and leprosy (which lead to the creation of a leper colony on Molokai in the mid-1800s). While each disease brought a different...
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  • Alexis is shocked and surprised to learn the deserted island was Greece's leper colony for much of the 20th century. It is here that Alexis meets an old friend...
    5 KB (522 words) - 06:24, 29 September 2024
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    Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. He ministered to a leper colony in Molokaʻi, Kingdom of Hawaii, from 1873 until his death in 1889. De...
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