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Booker T. Washington
1914 - Tuskegee, Alabama
At Tuskegee, a man who built an institution from nothing reflects on the cost of compromise with a nation that never intended to keep its promises.
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1910s with Oyster Bay, New York in view: 6 lives, 5 place stories, and 2 named historical windows to move through.
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Edgar Degas
1917 - Paris
I am eighty-three years old, and if the matter is to be stated without the sentimental falsity with which old age is usually surrounded by those who do not yet suffer it, I am blind enough for the practical arts to have been taken from me and not blind enough to be spared the humiliation of knowing precisely what has been taken.
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Theodore Roosevelt
1919 - Oyster Bay, New York
Physical decline, post-power irrelevance, and appetite refusing retirement.
In Oyster Bay, a former president burns with unfinished energy and the knowledge that the country moved on without him.
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Harriet Tubman
1912 - Auburn, New York
At Auburn, a woman who freed hundreds through the Underground Railroad sets down the journeys that no document ever recorded.
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Wilbur Wright
1912 - Dayton, Ohio
With his lungs burning in Dayton, knowing he will not survive the year, the man who achieved powered flight sets down what the history books will get wrong.
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Adolf Hitler
1913 - A working men's hostel in the Brigittenau district of Vienna, spring 1913 (the Männerheim, Meldemannstraße 27, XX. Bezirk; the figure resident since February 1910 and three weeks from departing for München).
A failed Academy of Fine Arts entrance candidate of twenty-four sits at the writing and painting table of a working men's hostel in the Brigittenau district of Vienna in the spring of 1913, paints a view postcard of the Karlskirche for the resale trade the hostel sustains, reads the day's pan-German pamphlet, and builds the account that keeps his circumstances from being his own fault.
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Oyster Bay, New York
Alive in this timeline around 1919 / story span 1890s-1919
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7 Hawthorn Street, Dayton
Alive in this timeline around 1912 / story span 1870s-1912
Connected to 1 life including Wilbur Wright.
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Oyster Bay, New York · 1910 CE to 1919 CE
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Theodore Roosevelt dies at Oyster Bay
1919 · Oyster Bay, New York
Oyster Bay turns public ferocity into sudden private finality, forcing reform, empire, war, and performance back into one household death.
Roosevelt keeps the event human because national vigor is reduced here to one exhausted body in one Long Island home.
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Harriet Tubman
1912 - Auburn, New York
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At Auburn, a woman who freed hundreds through the Underground Railroad sets down the journeys that no document ever recorded.
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