The world's first developing country to host a world fair is ending up creating the largest one ever.
Patented in the U.S. in the mid-nineteenth century, the first postcard was created for the world fair in Chicago in 1893.
He was still studying architecture in 1989, aged 23, when he was selected to design the Finnish pavilion at the Seville World Fair.
In 2003, her children brought it to the American Numismatic Association's World Fair of Money, where the other four Liberty nickels were on display.
Federal law prohibits government funding of world fair exhibitions in the absence of express Congressional authorization, and in the downturn American companies were reluctant to dole out cash for the Shanghai event.
In 1939 Sarnoff, with great fanfare, introduced TV at the New York World's Fair.
Kennedy got him to oversee the American stand at the Seattle World's Fair in 1962.
The most famous images, such as Olympics and World's Fair subjects, can be terrifically expensive.
Most psychologists believe that entitlement comes from a deep inner belief that the world is not fair.
In 1893 Hershey visited the Chicago World's Fair, where he saw an exhibit of German chocolate-making equipment.
Our tasks are to use all of the possibilities to make our new world much more fair and just.
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The sulphur and ash Iceland is pumping out is going to cool the world for a fair chunk of time.
The story's timeline runs from the early '20s to 1934, ending at the close of the World's Fair in Chicago.
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To get there, take the monorail , another World's Fair remnant, from the Westlake Center (Pine Street at 4th Avenue).
It recently renovated the centerpiece of its 1958 World's Fair, a giant construction of tubes and silver spheres called the Atomium.
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But it's still the same building that opened in 1964, right next door to the grounds of the New York World's Fair.
The city's skyline is dominated by the incongruous, spindly Space Needle , part of the Seattle Center , built for the 1962 World's Fair.
In a fair world Crenshaw would be richer than Katy Perry and his sharp, jangly, immaculately constructed guitar pop would play from every car radio.
Enter Ziolkowski, a prolific sculptor who had won the prize for sculpture at the 1939 New York World's Fair and had helped Borglum at Rushmore.
Finally, they brought the coin to the 2003 American Numismatic Association World's Fair of Money in Baltimore, where the four surviving 1913 Liberty nickels were being exhibited.
The Enterprise has been a showpiece for years, on display at the Smithsonian Institution and on tour to London, Paris and the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans.
It is three times larger than the old museum, the cavernous exhibit hall at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, which was originally built for the 1915 World's Fair.
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In 1964, visitors at the New York World's Fair lined up to use a slightly improved device, placing calls between the fairgrounds in Queens and an exhibit in Disneyland.
Today it's one of the world's most recognizable and most-visited monuments but in its day, the tower, erected for the 1889 World's Fair, was a controversial emblem of industrialization.
They joined the thousands that had descended during the 1893 World's Fair, disreputable men and women who stayed long after the Ferris Wheel was dismantled and Buffalo Bill skipped town.
Mr. Catsimatidis has based his campaign in part on dreamy ideas, kicking it off with a promise to bring the World's Fair to New York for a third time in 2014.
My father and I were disappointed to arrive at the 1965 New York World's Fair after the scoreboard-style lighted display on the Earth's population changed from 2, 999, 999, 999 people to a bit over 3 billion.
The annual pilgrimage to Switzerland is in full force as a hodgepodge of contemporary art collectors, artists and A-list celebrities from around the world gather in Basel for the biggest and most prestigious contemporary art fair in the world.
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