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Actor. He was a highly acclaimed child actor who won a special Oscar (Juvenile Academy Award) for his starring role in 1949's The Window, and was the first child actor put under exclusive contract to Walt Disney Studios. Besides the suspense movie The Window, he is best known for his work in Song of the South (1946),...

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In the middle of New York's East River lies North Brother Island, a forgotten reminder of the city's anthropological history and development. Read here.

Hart Island - the largest mass burial site in America, where inmates bury the dead (pictured) - is the final resting place of New York City's poor, lost souls - as well as many beloved family members

The abandoned Hart Island is uninhabited today, but more than 800,000 dead has been buried there, making it the largest tax-funded cemetery in the world.

"They call it a 'mass grave.' But this is New York City."

HART ISLAND: NEW YORK CITY'S MASS BURIAL GROUND OF UNKNOWN DEAD #haunted #ghosts #cemetary

City workers are making emergency repairs to a grave site damaged by Sandy

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Hart Island is one of those places in New York that many

A few miles off the coast of the Bronx is Hart Island, a potter's field where New York City's poor and unclaimed dead are buried.

Hart Island

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This is the fourth installment of five-part series on New York City's tendency to put its undesirables on islands around the boroughs, based on this past...

Upper floor of the Fort Totten at the western mound of the Long Island Sound, guarding the entry to New York's East River. Wikipedia: Fort Totten is a former United States Army installation in the New York City borough of Queens. It is located on the north shore of Long Island, on a peninsula named Willets Point. Fort Totten is at the head of Little Neck Bay, which is also the place where the East River widens to become Long Island Sound. While the U.S. Army Reserve continues to maintain a…

There's a little-known island that serves as a cemetery for the homeless, stillborn babies and unclaimed remains. But visiting the island is a challenge — even for families of the deceased.

The LASS O’GOWRIE as gravel barge on the Mary River, Maryborough

Hart Island, the city’s graveyard for unclaimed bodies, holds many stories, myths, and visions. Can the most recent plan, of turning it into a publi...

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