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[1] After five years of work and schooling, Gaudi qualified as an architect in 1878. As Elies Rogent signed Gaudí's degree he declared, "Qui sap si hem donat el diploma a un boig o a un geni. El temps ens ho dirà." ("Who knows if we have given this diploma to a nut or to a genius. Time will tell.") Gaudi immediately began to plan and design.
[11] [19] [20] Grace gave Julia a list of city parks where her husband could be buried, [10] [12] and she agreed to have Ulysses's remains interred in New York City. [21] Grace wrote a letter to prominent New Yorkers on July 24, 1885, to gather support for a national monument in Grant's honor: [ 18 ] [ 21 ]
Name Death Occupation Final known burial place Images Notes Claudio Abbado: 2014 Conductor Reformierte Kirche Fex Crasta [], Sils im Engadin/Segl, Switzerland: Ten months after his death the urn containing his remains was buried in a cemetery belonging to a 15th-century church in Sils-Maria, a village in the Swiss canton of Graubünden where Abbado had a vacation home.
Gaudí was born on 25 June 1852 in Riudoms or Reus [10] to coppersmith Francesc Gaudí i Serra (1813–1906) [11] and Antònia Cornet i Bertran (1819–1876). He was the youngest of five children, and far outlived the other two who survived to adulthood: Rosa (1844–1879) and Francesc (1851–1876).
The Lamar County Historical Museum is a local history museum that documents Lamar County, Texas, and its county seat, Paris. It is located on West Kaufman Street in an area of Paris known as Heritage Park, where it is situated immediately south of Heritage Hall. [1] [2] The museum is operated by the Lamar County Historical Society. [3]
This category lists people who were buried at the Panthéon in Paris. Pages in category "Burials at the Panthéon, Paris" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total.
Kiki (1901–1953), singer, actress, painter, "Queen of Montparnasse" (although she was probably buried in Thiais) Adamantios Korais (1748–1833), Greek writer and philosopher; Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), Greek writer and philosopher
The Passion façade was built according to the design that Gaudi created in 1917. The construction began in 1954, and the steeples, built over the elliptical plan, were finished in 1976. It is especially striking for its spare, gaunt, tormented characters, including emaciated figures of Christ being scourged at the pillar; and Christ on the Cross .