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    Spring on Leper's Island (Japanese: 小島の春, romanized: Kojima no haru, lit. 'Spring on a Small Island') is a 1940 Japanese drama film directed by Shirō...
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    adaptations with a humanistic touch, in particular Uguisu (1938) and Spring on Leper's Island (1940). After World War II, Toyoda adapted the works of writers...
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    (1935) The Daughter of the Samurai (1937) Young People (1937) Spring on Leper's Island (1940) Listen to the Voices of the Sea (1950) Story of a Beloved...
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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 Water Magician (1933) The Straits of Love and Hate (1937) Spring on Leper's Island (1940) Sanshiro Sugata (1943) The Most Beautiful (1944) Sanshiro...
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    returned to the screen with Shirō Toyoda's Spring on Leper's Island. She played many secondary roles in films and on television after the war. Natsukawa's...
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    hi (1937) Uguisu (1938) Wedding Day (1940) Okumura Ioko (1940) Spring on Leper's Island (1940) – Yokogawa's wife Ōhinata-mura (1940) Waga ai no ki (1941)...
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    Ambae (redirect from Leper's Island)
    known as Aoba, Omba, Oba, or Opa and formerly LepersIsland, is an island in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, located near 15°30′S 167°30′E...
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    Rumours of a plot broke out in the spring of 1321 and terrified the people of southern France. Torture of lepers ensued, and eventually confessions were...
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    the island in 1851, before it was turned into a quarantine station in 1875, a hospital during the influenza epidemic of 1907, and a small leper colony...
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    convalescence quarters, and an isolation hospital that was known as the "leper's house". Even with the new construction, the facilities were lacking in...
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    of Lazareta (a former leper colony) effectively joining the two islands into one larger island, though it was however built on land already part of Skiathos...
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    largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily...
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    coordinated attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island; and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The attack on Pearl Harbor...
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    site of the state's only leper colony in the early 20th century, and is currently a bird sanctuary and site of the Penikese Island School, a 35-year-old...
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    Leprosy (redirect from Leper)
    contracting leprosy, ministered to lepers who had been placed under a government-sanctioned medical quarantine on the island of Molokaʻi in the Kingdom of...
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    located in Kalaupapa, Hawaiʻi, on the island of Molokaʻi. Coterminous with the boundaries of Kalawao County and primarily on Kalaupapa peninsula, it was...
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    northern tip of Matiu / Somes Island lies tiny Mokopuna Island, also known as Leper Island. The much smaller Mākaro / Ward Island is about 5 kilometres (3 mi)...
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    Hawaii (category Articles containing Cook Islands Māori-language text)
    an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southwest of the U.S. mainland. It is the only state not on the...
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    breed on the island, and numerous migratory species have been recorded. There is a profusion of wild flowers, including mountain everlasting, spring squill...
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    "indomitable spiritually—a ... magnificent rebel". This character is based on Hawaiian leper Kaluaikoolau, who in 1893 revolted and resisted capture from forces...
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    worked at the Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium. She wrote a book, "Spring in a small island" in 1938, about her experiences in persuading leprosy patients...
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    Battle of Nuʻuanu (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    1795 on the southern part of the island of Oʻahu, was a key battle in the final days of King Kamehameha I's wars to conquer the Hawaiian Islands. It is...
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    and southern Germany and obtained a foothold in Austria. Moving into the Spring of 1782, the handful of students that had started the order had swelled...
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    Comoros, Bangladesh, the Malay Peninsula, the island of Java, the Chagos Archipelago, Cook Island, the Island of New Guinea, and New Caledonia. Vanilla planifolia...
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    Tickle Your Soul. Colorado Springs, CO: Faith Kids Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7814-3512-9 Scheck, Joann. The Water That Caught On Fire. St. Louis, Missouri:...
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  • Bohemian Grove (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    guests to the Grove. Guests may be invited to the Grove for either the "Spring Jinks" in June or the main July encampment. Bohemian Club members can schedule...
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    Mary Reed (missionary) (category Articles having same image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    This Mission carried on work among lepers in 34 centers in India, Burma, Ceylon, and China, establishing and maintaining leper asylums. A letter from...
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    island. Thus, a leper colony was established at the island, which was chosen for that purpose due to its relative distance from the principal islands...
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    occupied the islands, and from 1942 until 1945 Ocean Island which was home to the headquarters of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony (GEIC). On 29 November...
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