The Joker wreaks havoc across Gotham City with no apparent aim, leading to spectacular explosions, high-rise confrontations and a spine-chilling character study from Ledger.

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They offer a unique geography, flora and fauna (including a pleasingly spine-chilling collection of venomous creatures), fascinating traces of the country's first inhabitants, and enough empty space to give visitors from more crowded places agoraphobia.

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He or an untrained staffer would induce labor, deliver the baby alive, and then perform the procedure they called by the chilling euphemism "snipping" slashing the infant to death with scissors to the neck and spine.

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