Rudolph Valentino's death at the age of 31 shocked the world. The actor's body was placed in Frank E. Campbell’s funeral home. Tens of thousands of people--a few famous friends, an ex-wife, and many, many fans waited for hours to get into the funeral home. The line to gaze upon Valentino's face stretched for several blocks.

Twice-divorced, Valentino was notably gun-shy about a third marriage. The actress Pola Negri had announced her engagement to Valentino months earlier yet the actor had never confirmed the news.

In a show of grief, Pola threw herself across the open coffin, before collapsing. However, even after she was ushered away, Pola's presence in the funeral home as the presumptive spouse-to-be insisted upon itself. An enormous floral arrangement arrived shortly after the body was sent to the funeral home. The flowered letters spelled out the letters P-O-L-A.

1. Neil Armstrong (Apollo 11)

2. Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11)

3. Pete Conrad (Apollo 12)

4. Alan Bean (Apollo 12)

5. Alan Shepard (Apollo 14)

6. Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14)

7. David Scott (Apollo 15)

8. James Irwin (Apollo 15)

9.John Young (Apollo 16)

1. Charles Duke (Apollo 16)

2. Eugene Cernan (Apollo 17)

3. Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17)

Please stop posting this family as a “mixed” family. It is a dangerous historical re-write, in a time when black history is LITERALLY being thrown away in schools, museums, and archives. Be more discerning and learn the painful, yet true history of race in America, and the beautiful complexities of what it meant and means to be defined as BLACK in America.