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229 件

Tulsa Race Massacre, 1921

1921

Thirty-five blocks burned in eighteen hours, then kept out of the record for fifty years

Greenwood District, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Battle of Verdun, 1916

1916

Ten months on one small piece of ground; the bones of 130,000 lie unnamed

Douaumont Ossuary, Fleury-devant-Douaumont, Meuse

Carmen Miranda

1909–1955

Highest-paid woman in Hollywood, and unforgiven at home for it

Cemitério São João Batista, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro

Manuel Belgrano

1770–1820

Designed the Argentine flag and died with nothing to pay his doctor

Convent of Santo Domingo, Buenos Aires

Aleijadinho

1738–1814

Carved the prophets of Congonhas with his tools strapped to his hands

Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Antônio Dias, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais

Alfonsina Storni

1892–1938

Poet who walked into the sea at Mar del Plata

La Chacarita Cemetery, Buenos Aires

Clarice Lispector

1920–1977

Brought to Brazil as an infant refugee; rewrote what a Brazilian novel could be

Cemitério Comunal Israelita, Caju, Rio de Janeiro

Juan Rulfo

1917–1986

Wrote two thin books and changed Latin American literature

San Gabriel, Jalisco — the town of his childhood; his grave is not publicly recorded

Hannah Arendt

1906–1975

Reported the Eichmann trial and gave the world the banality of evil

Bard College Cemetery, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

Rosa Luxemburg

1871–1919

Wrote that freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently

Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde, Berlin

Robert Schumann

1810–1856

Ruined his hand, so wrote instead; spent his last years in an asylum

Alter Friedhof, Bonn

Heinrich Heine

1797–1856

Wrote that where books are burned, people will be burned in the end

Montmartre Cemetery, Paris

Colette

1873–1954

Her first four novels were published under her husband's name

Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris

Blaise Pascal

1623–1662

Invented the calculating machine and the wager; died at thirty-nine

Church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, Paris

Joséphine Baker

1906–1975

Music-hall star, Resistance agent, and the first Black woman honoured in the Panthéon

Monaco Cemetery, Monaco — a cenotaph stands in the Panthéon, Paris

Camille Claudel

1864–1943

Sculptor held thirty years in an asylum; her remains were never recovered

Montfavet cemetery, Avignon — buried in a communal plot, since lost

Berthe Morisot

1841–1895

Impressionist from the first exhibition; her death certificate listed no profession

Cimetière de Passy, Paris

Billie Holiday

1915–1959

Sang Strange Fruit knowing what it would cost her

Saint Raymond's Cemetery, the Bronx, New York

Thurgood Marshall

1908–1993

Won Brown v. Board, then sat on the court that decided it

Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia

Theodore Roosevelt

1858–1919

Broke the trusts and put 230 million acres under protection

Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, New York

Woody Guthrie

1912–1967

Wrote This Land Is Your Land as an argument, not a hymn

Highland Cemetery, Okemah, Oklahoma — a marker; his ashes were scattered at sea

Frances Perkins

1880–1965

Watched the Triangle fire from the street and spent her life answering it

Glidden Cemetery, Newcastle, Maine