Word: popocatepetl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...architect, like its architecture, was Italian: Adamo Boari. Other Latins and one Hungarian did some sculpture. A feature is the Tiffany glass screen-a glass mosaic fireproof curtain weighing 27 tons, academically decorated to illustrate the legend of volcanoes Ixtaccihuatl and Popocatepetl, Aztec lovers. When the theatre's site was excavated, workmen uncovered the steeple of a church which had sunk in the swampy ground. For months giant pumps injected concrete under the foundation, uselessly. The dome is unfinished but the structure has a roof. It is used for automobile shows, concerts. To raise more money the government once...
...ship dwindles swiftly. Off between the stately peaks of Ixtaccihuatl and Popocatepetl it is a speck against the fires of dawn...
...Spanish Viceroy Don Matias de Galvez (1783), the coffin of Señora Calles was lifted from the hearse and borne into one of the huge, resplendent grand salons. An airplane droned overhead, scattering roses; and through a blue haze the sacred mountains Iztaccihuatl (White Woman) and Popocatepetl (Smoke Mountain) seemed brooding. Simple peons, kneeling in the lovely, verdant Bosque de Chapultepec, muttered prayers half pagan, half Roman Catholic to Iztaccihuatl who they fancy resembles the white, reclining form of a pagan goddess -now somewhat confused with the Virgin Mary...
...Popocatepetl is due for another eruption in a year's time, greater than any which have yet taken place." So says Professor Atl, celebrated Mexican geologist, whose prediction of an eruption in 1920 was fulfilled...
...Popocatepetl is situated 50 miles to the south of Mexico City...