Introduction -- Death of the fantastic: dragons (3000 BC-1735) -- Death of a founding father: Thomas Paine (1737-1809) -- Forgotten forerunner: Elizabeth Jenning (1827-1901) -- Death of an influencer: Beau Brummell (1778-1840) -- Death of an American story: Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874) -- Death of representation: the black congressmen of Reconstruction (1870-1901) -- Forgotten forerunner: Lois Weber (1879-1939) -- Death of medieval science (800-1928) -- Death of a sports team: Los Dragones de Ciudad Trujillo (1937-1937) -- Forgotten forerunner: Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) -- Death of a country: Prussia (1525-1947) -- Death of a funny girl: Fanny Brice (1891-1951) -- Before and after: the pre-presidency: Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) and the post-presidency: John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) -- Forgotten forerunner: Moses Fleetwood Walker (1857-1924) -- Death of a diagnosis: homosexuality as a mental illness (1952-1973) -- Reputation assassination: a story of three killings: Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), and Disco (1970-1979) -- Forgotten forerunner: the Washingtonian Movement (1840-1860) -- Death of a brother: Billy Carter (1937-1988) -- Death of an entertainer: Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990) -- Death of a square: Lawrence Welk (1903-1992) -- Death of an icon: Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) -- Forgotten forerunner: Bessie Coleman (1892-1926) -- Death of a career: Vaughn Meader (1936-2004) -- Died the same day: Farrah Fawcett (1947-2009) and Michael Jackson (1958-2009) -- Death of a leviathan: the station wagon (1949-2011) -- Forgotten forerunner: Hadrian's Wall (128-1746) -- Celebrities who put their butts on the line: Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011), Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992), and Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Death of a tree: the live oaks of Toomer's Corner (1937-2013) -- Dedication: Marcel "Jack" Rocca (1929-2004).
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