Word: mausoleum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hitler was taken on a triumphal tour of Paris. He paused at Napoleon's tomb, placed his cap over his heart, bowed and gazed at the crypt. Then the Fuhrer turned to a favorite and said somberly, "You will build my tomb." But construction had already begun on that mausoleum. At its completion five years later, it would also accommodate some 50 million others. It was called the Third Reich, and its designer was Adolf Hitler. The failed student was destined to be remembered as an architect after...
...trucks that had been set up as barricades, enabling the convoy to pass through. Suddenly soldiers of the People's Liberation Army seemed to be everywhere: pouring out of the ancient Forbidden City, poised on the rooftops of the Great Hall of the People and Mao ) Zedong's mausoleum, entering the vast, 100-acre square from side streets in a triple-fanged movement from the south, west and east. Ten thousand strong, the army mounted a deliberately vicious assault...
...foreign groups, however, have made major contributions. The University of Chicago's Oriental Institute has been documenting and helping to preserve the temples and tombs at Luxor since the late 1920s. And perhaps the model project is the spectacular effort to restore Nefertari's tomb. The 32-century-old mausoleum, discovered in 1904, has been officially closed since the early 1950s because of its fragile condition. Beginning in 1986, the Getty Institute, in partnership with the EAO, started the delicate, painstaking salvage of the remaining wall paintings...
...enactment of Louis XVI's trial, only 27% of French viewers favored beheading the hapless King. One French poll even found that 17% of the country wants the return of the monarchy. Seeking new heroes, Mitterrand said last week that he will place in the Pantheon, France's national mausoleum, the remains of the Marquis de Condorcet, an influential leader of the National Assembly who called for universal public education, and of the Abbe Gregoire, a revolutionary priest who advocated civil rights for Protestants and Jews...
...giant open-sided tents were built in the Shinjuku Imperial Gardens to accommodate 10,000 people for nearly two hours of religious and state funeral services. A hearse was provided for the trip to the nearby mausoleum in Hachioji...