Nellie Bly
1864–1922
Had herself committed to an asylum to report from inside it
Woodlawn Cemetery, the Bronx, New York
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George Washington Carver
1864–1943
Born into slavery; taught the South to rebuild its soil
Tuskegee University campus, Tuskegee, Alabama
Clara Barton
1821–1912
Nurse who followed the wagons to the front and founded the American Red Cross
North Cemetery, Oxford, Massachusetts
Henry David Thoreau
1817–1862
Went to the woods to live deliberately; refused a tax and changed politics
Authors Ridge, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts
Louisa May Alcott
1832–1888
Author of Little Women, who wrote it for the money
Authors Ridge, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts
Gabriel García Márquez
1927–2014
Novelist of Macondo
Cloister of the University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia
Violeta Parra
1917–1967
Songwriter who collected the music of rural Chile
Cementerio General, Santiago, Chile
Gabriela Mistral
1889–1957
Poet and teacher, first Latin American to win the Nobel in Literature
Montegrande, Elqui Valley, Coquimbo, Chile
Anne Frank
1929–1945
Diarist, died at fifteen in Bergen-Belsen
Memorial stone, Bergen-Belsen, Lower Saxony — she lies in a mass grave
Rosalind Franklin
1920–1958
Chemist whose photograph showed the shape of DNA
Willesden Jewish Cemetery, London
The Sycamore Gap Tree
1870–2023
A tree in a dip in Hadrian's Wall, felled overnight
Hadrian's Wall, near Crag Lough, Northumberland
Ellis Island
1892–1954
Twelve million people entered the United States through this hall
Ellis Island, Upper New York Bay
Auschwitz-Birkenau
1940–1945
About 1.1 million people were murdered here
State Museum, Oświęcim, Lesser Poland
Robben Island
1961–1991
The prison where Nelson Mandela spent eighteen years
Robben Island, Table Bay, off Cape Town
The Atomic Bomb Dome
1945
Hiroshima · the one building left standing under the blast
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima
The Secret Annexe
1942–1944
Prinsengracht 263 · eight people hidden for 761 days
Prinsengracht 263, Amsterdam
The Battle of Puebla
1862
1862 · a smaller, poorer army beat the best in the world
Forts of Loreto and Guadalupe, Puebla
The Hillsborough Disaster
1989
1989 · 97 football supporters crushed, and twenty-seven years of lies
Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
1918–1920
1918–20 · at least fifty million dead worldwide
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — where a parade helped it spread
The Wall Street Crash
1929
1929 · the week the twenties ended
New York Stock Exchange, Broad Street, New York City
The November Pogrom
1938
1938 · synagogues burned across Germany and Austria in one night
New Synagogue, Oranienburger Straße, Berlin
The Night of the Barricades
1968
1968 · the night the Latin Quarter was torn up
Rue Gay-Lussac, Latin Quarter, Paris