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People who got out — of prisons, asylums, conventions, or their own reputations.
The Best of Them
Her court priest kept a diary of what the widow queen of Jhansi did before breakfast, and the list begins with weightlifting.
The Only Englishman to Win the Iron Cross
What does a Soho safecracker have to do to get personally decorated by the Nazis?
The Long Walk Home
In 1841 a celebrated English poet walked out of his asylum and covered eighty miles in four days, eating grass and his own pipe tobacco, to reach a childhood sweetheart he was certain was waiting for him.
The Shoemaker Who Became a Bear
A grizzly attack left him with a silver-dollar-sized hole in his skull — and that bear ended up on the California state flag.
The Man Nobody Could Find
The FBI sent the fastest plane ever built to find him, and it was defeated by clouds.