* April 2: Death of Mirabeau ; first person to be buried in the Pantheon, formerly the Abbey of St Genevieve

In 609, the Byzantine emperor Phocas gave the building to Pope Boniface IV, who converted it into a Christian church and consecrated it to Sancta Maria ad Martyres, now known as Santa Maria dei Martiri: " Another Pope, Boniface, asked the same Phocas, in Constantinople to order that in the old temple called the Pantheon, after the pagan filth was removed, a church should be made, to the holy virgin Mary and all the martyrs, so that the commemoration of the saints would take place henceforth where not gods but demons were formerly worshipped.

Greaves visited Rome in 1639, and measured, among other things, the foot measure on the tomb of Titus Statilius Aper, that on the statue of Cossutius formerly in the gardens of Angelo Colocci, the congius of Vespasian previously measured by Villalpandus, a number of brass measuring-rods found in the ruins of Rome, the paving-stones of the Pantheon and many other ancient Roman buildings, and the distance between the milestones on the Appian Way.

Category: Burials in the Pantheon of Kings at El Escorial

Category: Burials in the Pantheon of Kings at El Escorial

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

Those of the Pantheon are similar in design, with narrow horizontal panels in addition, at the top, bottom and middle.

The dynasty that is so concerned to be authenticated in this myth is the new dynasty of Zeus and the Olympian Pantheon, and the goddesses at Delos who bear witness to the rightness of the birth are the great goddesses of the old order.

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Twelve years later, in 1842, at the request of President José Antonio Páez, they were moved from Santa Marta to Caracas, where a monument was set up for his interment in the National Pantheon of Venezuela.

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Tomb of Victor Emanuel II at the Pantheon In 1870, after two failed attempts by Garibaldi, he also took advantage of the Prussian victory over France in the Franco-Prussian War to capture Rome after the French withdrew.

Animation of a Foucault pendulum at the Pantheon in Paris ( 48 ° 52 ' North ), with the Earth's rotation rate greatly exaggerated.

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In the 1770s fashionable Londoners went to the masquerades organized by Teresa Cornelys at Carlisle House in Soho Square, and later to the Pantheon.

Another, a splintered, repainted ghost of its former self, is venerated at the Pantheon, that great architectural wonder of the Ancient Roman Empire, that was rededicated to Mary as an expression of the Church's triumph.

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In 1796 he began to lecture at the École Centrale du Pantheon, and at the opening of the National Institute in April, he read his first paleontological paper, which was subsequently published in 1800 under the title Mémoires sur les espèces d ' éléphants vivants et fossiles.

in 1798 Cuvier published his first independent work, the Tableau élémentaire de l ' histoire naturelle des animaux, which was an abridgment of his course of lectures at the École du Pantheon, and may be regarded as the foundation and first statement of his natural classification of the animal kingdom.

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And because the distance between the angles of the octagon were even farther apart at 45. 5 meters, the average span of the dome would be marginally wider than that of the Pantheon.

The round room, about 42. 6 meters in diameter and inspired by the Pantheon, was surmounted by a dome with a ring of windows at the base and an oculus at the top.

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The remains of Alfonso XIII's wife, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, as well as those of his third son Juan, Count of Barcelona and daughter-in-law Maria de las Mercedes ( the father and mother of the current king, Juan Carlos I ), lie at a prepared place called a pudridero, or decaying chamber, awaiting interment in the Pantheon of the Kings.

There are two pudrideros at El Escorial, one for the Pantheon of the Kings and the other for the Pantheon of the Princes.

The book consisted simply of an introduction followed by 32 annotated plates, with views from the Pantheon illustrating the Corinthian order and the Theatre of Marcellus for the Doric order.

Nintendo of America and Nintendo of Europe went further in that games released for Nintendo consoles could not feature nudity, sexuality, profanity ( including racism, sexism or slurs ), blood, graphic or domestic violence, drugs, political messages or religious symbols ( with the exception of widely unpracticed religions, such as the Greek Pantheon ).

* John Dinges John Dinges was a correspondent for the " Washington Post " in South America from 1975 to 1983, author of The Condor Years: How Pinochet and his Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents ( The New Press 2004 ) and with Saul Landau Assassination on Embassy Row ( Pantheon 1980 ), ( Asesinato en Washington, Lasser 1980, Planeta 1990 )

Thornton was inspired by the east front of the Louvre, as well as the Paris Pantheon for the center portion of the design.

Phocas gave the Pantheon to Pope Boniface IV for use as a church and intervened to restore Smaragdus to the Exarchate of Ravenna.

* Stephen Weinberg ( 1992 ), Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature, Pantheon Books.

The Pantheon is an example of this, particularly in the version rebuilt by Hadrian, which remains perfectly preserved, and which over the centuries has served, particularly in the Western Hemisphere, as the inspiration for countless public buildings.

For example, the Pantheon was an amazing engineering feat created for religious purposes, and its design ( the large dome and open spaces ) was made to fit the requirements of the religious services.

Their Roman sojourn was decisive for the entire development of Italian art in the 15th century, for it was during this period that Brunelleschi undertook his measurements of the Pantheon dome and of other Roman buildings.

He invented a new hoisting machine for raising the masonry needed for the dome, a task no doubt inspired by republication of Vitruvius ' De Architectura, which describes Roman machines used in the first century AD to build large structures such as the Pantheon and the Baths of Diocletian, structures still standing which he would have seen for himself.

Later phases of the conversion were by local architect Robert Rippon Duke including his design for what was the world's largest unsupported dome with a diameter of 44 m ( 144. 356 ft ), beating the Pantheon () and St Peter's Basilica 42 m ( 137. 794 ft ) in Rome, and St Paul's Cathedral ().

In fact, many commentators cite the Pantheon as an example of the revolutionary possibilities for monolithic architecture provided by the use of Roman pozzolana concrete.

It takes inspiration from the Pantheon in Rome for its oculus and much of its interior decoration, although the pointed dome is structurally similar to other Lombard domes, such as that of the later Cremona Baptistery.

This inland route is also the access route for the neighbouring Niut and Pantheon Ranges.

However, some consider the Count of Barcelona to have been de jure King of Spain from 1941-1977, which in turn would make him, his mother, Queen Victoria Eugenie and his wife, the Countess of Barcelona eligible for interment in the Pantheon of Kings.

During the 19th century, the Royal Pantheon was built in Khmer style to the east of the temple, which is kept open for only one day in year, in the month of October to commemorate the founding of the Chakri dynasty.

Brunelleschi looked to the great dome of the Pantheon in Rome for solutions.