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A guy by the name of Lear formerly held limericks in such high regard. His final resting place is in an unusual location, and most people are unaware that he is there.
Every time a major fair or exhibition ends, its pavilions are usually dismantled and become nostalgia, imprinted in memories and photos only. There are a few notable exceptions-in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Queens, New York, for example. The Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, should have been demolished, but instead became a symbol of the city known the world over. The 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts also in Paris was dedicated to the rich and sophisticated Art Deco style, but famed Swiss architect Le Corbusier submitted, with fellow architect Pierre Jeanneret, a project called Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau. His rejoinder to ornate Art Deco was a white geometric box, decorated with industrial production and built-in furniture, and intersected by a courtyard tree that passed through an open hole in the attic. Too essential and minimalist many argued. But there was something else.
