Today we remember six interesting people who died in the past year.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

World War One has an enormous impact on the way people viewed themselves, in France and everywhere; everybody knew people who died in the war.

一战对人们如何,看待自己产生巨大的影响,在法国和其他所有地方,每个人都有认识的人在战争中死去

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Might I be one of the people who didn't die when I died?"

我会成为那个幸存者吗

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The doctors studied the remains of twenty people who died long ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

Goncourt, one of the writers, the Goncourts, the one who hadn't died yet, was no friend of ordinary people, but there's an amazing scene in his memoirs when he's down by the Hotel de Ville and he sees these women chained together, being walked around, and he says, "What, where are they going?"

龚古尔,龚古尔两兄弟都是作家,当时还活着的那一个,和平头百姓从来合不来,但在他的回忆录里有这样惊人的一幕,他路过市政厅的时候,看见一些被锁链串成一列的妇女们,正在被游街,他就问,"怎么,她们这是要去哪"

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Harvard research shows that more than half of the 450,000 people who died from breast cancer last year lived in developing countries.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

The round stone structure honors people from the District of Columbia who died in World War One.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Almost any time of day, you can see people looking for the name of a family member or friend who died in the war.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

In addition,almost half a million people who were infected with tuberculosis and with H.I.V.also died.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

But the information we had from Mexico, the first cases were all from people who had died."

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

Her daughter, who was with her, later died. More than 30 people died in American Samoa.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

By late December,WHO reported that more than 10,000 people had died from H1N1.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"Turkey will always be secular," tens of thousands of people chanted as they followed the coffin of professor Turkan Saylan who died of breast cancer on Monday.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

At the site where the commemoration was to take place a funeral service was held with people, some of them crying, saying prayers for those who died.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10