This name of a grand duchess of the 20th century comes from a word meaning "resurrection" in Greek
His burial site at the London church of St. Giles' Cripplegate includes a figure of a snake holding an apple
On June 12, 1942 she wrote, "I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone"
Some 200 years after her birth, she was awarded the rank of General in Maryland's National Guard on Veterans Day 2024
He was riding back from the conquest of Granada when he was summoned to a royal meeting that would change history
In 1824, President Monroe invited him back to the adopted country of his youth, which has always cherished his "important services"
Before her death in 2022, she pledged her collection of more than 200 pins to the National Museum of American Diplomacy
Adding to her nickname, one legend claimed that earlier in life, she was saved from drowning by family friend Mark Twain
In his 1999 memoir he wrote, "I had been shot down a short walk's distance from the French-built prison, Hoa Lo"
Vying with Eiffel, this engineer wanted to create big; an admiring account said the obelisk of Luxor is too short to be a spoke
In 1966, the year of his death, he shared plans for an experimental prototype community in Florida
In 2001 he published a book called "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall"; in 2002, "Existencilism"
Perhaps the most famous picture of him was taken in New Jersey in 1951 as he was annoyed by paparazzi on his 72nd birthday
DNA from 2 living descendants of Anne of York was used to identify the remains of this man
He was buried in 1969 in one of the World War II uniform jackets named for him
On his deathbed in France in 1890, he told his brother, "The sadness will last forever"
A cemetery on this island has the graves of Robert Fulton & 2 of the first 4 Treasury Secretaries
Of the 3 pioneering women in their field to be dubbed the "Trimates", this one got her PhD from Cambridge in 1966
Following his death in 2018, his ashes were interred at Westminster Abbey between the remains of fellow scientists Darwin & Newton
In 1983, 20 years after her famous first, she was honored on a one-ruble coin
In 1897 she was accused of a much lesser crime, shoplifting in Rhode Island
Will Smith & Lennox Lewis were pallbearers at this man's 2016 funeral
A new Election Day ritual is leaving “I Voted” stickers on the headstone of this historic woman at a Rochester, New York cemetery
The death penalty has been carried out only once under Israeli law--in 1962, for this man
When he died in Samoa in 1894 his obituary said, "He loved Samoa better than any other place, except Scotland"
Almost 100 when he died in 2018, this North Carolina man became just the 4th private citizen to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol
She declared, "By blood, I am Albanian... as to my calling, I belong to the world"
Calling him a red-headed madman, in 1889 a group of his neighbors signed a petition to ban him from his home in Arles, France
On her passing in 1913, Booker T. Washington called her heroic, "not unlike some of the heroic figures... in the Bible"
In 1902, 25 years after his death, a New York Times article about a family reunion listed his direct descendants at more than 1,000
In an 1864 letter, he congratulated Abraham Lincoln on reelection on behalf of "the workingmen of Europe"
Of his greatest accomplishment, he humbly remarked, "Pilots... take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle"
He died in New Orleans on December 6, 1889, a little over 20 years after his treason case had been dropped
The only time the pope & the U.S. president shared a name ended when both died in this year
On an 1851 visit to Europe, Mathew Brady had hoped to meet this man who inspired him, but he died just as Brady set sail
In 1909 this Oxford student surveyed Crusader castles in the Mideast; a few years later he returned for less peaceful activities
On January 5, 1939, in a Los Angeles probate court, this national heroine was declared legally dead
In 1982, 72 years after his death, he became the first person inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians
In 1936 at age 79, he published an article in Esquire magazine in which he described how to pick a jury
During a jubilee celebration in 2003, he became the first foreigner to be made an honorary citizen of Nepal
In August 2012 the Telegraph of London ran the headline "Paralympics 2012:" he "opens ceremony with a 'Big Bang'"
At his death in January 2010, he was called "the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous"
In 1909 he sent the message "Stars and Stripes nailed to the pole"
The last time the University of Michigan retired a football number was in 1994, in honor of this center who graduated in 1935
In 1886 he published his first book, "The Trumpet and Drum", an instructional handbook with 8 compositions
About him F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "In the spring of '27, something bright and alien flashed across the sky..."
Often described as a redhead, this accused killer called her hair light brown on her 1890 passport application
Halls of fame into which she's been inducted include the California, National Women's, National Aviation & U.S. Astronaut
When Galveston was devastated by a hurricane in 1900, she traveled 1,500 miles to head up the relief effort
Ayn Rand wrote to him, "I felt that 'The Fountainhead' had not quite completed its destiny until I had heard from you about it"