This is the grave of Evel Knievel. Born in 1938, Robert Knievel was a crazy motherfucker. He was born in Butte, home of many crazy people. The elevation, the space, the poverty, the mine tailings, it's a lot. His parents split when he was boy...
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This is the grave of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Born in 1825 in Baltimore, Watkins grew up in the city's free Black community. Both of her parents were free. But.
This is the grave of Louis Lassen. Born in 1865, Ludvig Lassen came from Schleswig, which was part of the land Denmark lost to the Prussians in 1864 that helped.
This is the grave of James Doolittle. Born in 1815 in Hampton, New York, Doolittle went to local schools and then the Middlebury Academy before attending Hobart College, where he graduated in 1834. It was onto the law, passing the bar in 1837. He started...
This is the grave of Vernon Jarrett. Born in 1917 or 1918 in Salisbury, Tennessee (accounts differ, you'd be surprised how many dates on graves are incorrect; in fact, there.
This is the grave of Alexander Hesler. Born in 1823 in Montreal, Hesler grew up in Quebec and then Vermont, before his family moved to Racine, Wisconsin in around 1833..
This is the grave of Geoffrey Chaucer. Born sometime around 1343 in London, Chaucer grew up in a very upwardly mobile family. His great-grandfather was a tavern owner, his grandfather sold wines, and his father was a major wine merchant who sold to the royal...
This is the grave of John Wesley Dobbs. Born in 1882 in Atlanta, Dobbs grew up in the rural areas outside of that city, around modern Marietta. Like much of.
This is the grave of Edward Sanford. Born in 1865 in Knoxville, Tennessee, Sanford grew up the son of a prominent Tennessee unionist, one who had moved down from Connecticut.
This is the grave of William Pitt the Elder. A lot to basically discuss mid-18th century England in one post, but I'll make a couple of points. Interestingly, the Pitt family fortune was largely based on luck. Pitt the Elder's grandfather Thomas Pitt was the...
This is the grave of King William III and Queen Mary II of England. More interesting than the biographies themselves here is the issues around the Glorious Revolution. The very.
This is the grave of Queen Elizabeth I, who is buried on top of Queen Mary. Hmmm.....there's a lot one could say about these two queens. So let's just make.