Word: panth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sold at auction: the world's second largest oil painting,* the Panthéon de la Guerre, 18,090 square feet of World War I battlefield scenes, completed in 1919 by a task force of more than 120 French artists and last exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933. Purchaser: Baltimore Restaurateur William H. Haussner, who bought the painting for $3,400 from the storage warehouse where it had lain unclaimed for the past seven years...
...their own. They unearthed Braille's remains, and, keeping a relic for themselves, sent the coffin to Paris. There, escorted by a column of blind men, each armed with a white cane, Braille's body was finally placed where Frenchmen felt it rightfully belonged-in the Panthéon, France's Westminster Abbey...