Just before the dedication, the slogan "Quebec Libre" (a reference to the Quebec sovereignty movement) was painted on the fountain at night, and the graffiti was erased.
Bartholdi had planned to put floodlights on the torch's balcony to illuminate it; a week before the dedication, the Army Corps of Engineers vetoed the proposal, fearing that ships' pilots passing the statue would be blinded.
But just a few days before the dedication this month, the city was surprised by the discovery that Mr. Silverman had eight bank accounts totaling $327,504.61.
A few weeks before that dedication, the architect mentioned to a board member that he had not been paid in months.
Visit to the Old Wills house, where Lincoln spent the night before the dedication of the National Cemetery.
In a statement released the day before the dedication ceremony, Esterino Montino, a regional leader of the Democratic Party, said, referring to the Nazi leader Hermann Goering: "It's as if some little village in some German province built a monument to Goering.
The opening, coming a month before the dedication on May 29, was approved by the American Battle Monument Commission to give as many World War II veterans as possible a chance to see an effort that survived 17 years of legislative, legal and artistic entanglements.
The honor guard drill team, right, performed before the dedication ceremony.
The lunar ephemeris program was not, NOT, checked out until a day or two before the dedication.
Actress Jennifer Siebel, a Stanford alumna, and her fiancé, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, chatted with civil engineering Professor Richard Luthy, right, before the dedication.
That fateful faculty meeting took place Sept. 26, 1907: 100 years and a day before the dedication of Whitman College, when Princeton finally tried a version of the quad plan.
