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'Female monster' disguised as a nurse amid the Spanish flu pandemic

Julia Lyons portrayed herself as a busy home-care nurse in Chicago during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, but she was actually a fraud boss.

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Congressman ever escaped murder for 'temporary crazy'

USDr. Dan Sickles pulled out a pistol and shot his wife's mistress right near the White House in 1859.

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