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Alexander Graham Bell
1921 - Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia
Hearing little now except the inner rushing of his own blood, the inventor of the telephone reflects on the sounds that changed everything.
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1921 to 1928
1921 to 1928 opens onto 8 lives, 5 place stories, and 1 named historical windows.
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Ernest Shackleton
1921 - London
In London, with the weight of another departure pressing, the explorer whose greatest achievement was bringing every man home alive prepares for one last voyage.
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Gustave Eiffel
1922 - Rue Rabelais, Paris
In his ninetieth year on the Rue Rabelais, the builder of the tower that defined Paris reflects on the difference between monuments and memory.
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Adolf Hitler
1923 - Munich
Munich, 1923.
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Adolf Hitler
1924 - Landsberg fortress prison (the Festungshaft cell where the dictation is conducted), Bavaria
A failed putschist sits in a fortress cell dictating a book that assembles his personal grievances and the doctrines of his small party into a single system of self-justification, converting the catastrophe of November 1923 into the manuscript that will later be used to license violence against the categories the manuscript names as enemies.
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Claude Monet
1926 - Giverny
I am eighty-five years old and the garden is still outside the window.
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London, England
Alive in this timeline around 1921 to 1928 / story span 1797-1928
Connected to 2 lives including Ernest Shackleton, Emmeline Pankhurst.
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Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia
Alive in this timeline around 1921 / story span 1885-1922
Connected to 1 life including Alexander Graham Bell.
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War and mass politics
1914 to 1980
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Alexander Graham Bell
1921 - Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia
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Hearing little now except the inner rushing of his own blood, the inventor of the telephone reflects on the sounds that changed everything.
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