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Iceland jails its bankers

Why Iceland jailed 40 bankers after the 2008 crash, the birth of the EU plus America's first female airline pilots and homeless, drunk and yet a genius in the USSR.

Why Iceland jailed 40 bankers after the 2008 financial crisis, how the Maastricht Treaty gave birth to the EU, plus America's first female airline pilots, Cameroon's historic referendum and homeless, drunk and yet a genius in the USSR.

(Photo: Protesters on the streets of Reykjavik demand answers from the government and the banks about the country's financial crisis, Nov. 2008. (Halldor Kolbeins/AFP/Getty Images)

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