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Malamud offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Internet Exposition of 1996--a worldwide event which embraced the new technologies of the Internet--and profiles
The World's Fair
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Pages: 228
Authors: Thomas L. Tedrow
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While reporting the events of the St. Louis World's Fair for her local newspaper in 1906, Laura Ingalls Wilder teams up with Alice Roosevelt to stop the inhuman
Time Capsules
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Authors: William E. Jarvis
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Time capsules have been used for thousands of years to store for posterity a selection of objects thought to be representative of life at a particular time. Suc
Fair America
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Authors: Robert W. Rydell
Categories: History
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Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures
We’ll Show the World
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Pages: 236
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How did one long and expensive party change a city forever? World Expo 88 was the largest, longest, and loudest of Australia's bicentennial events. A shiny 1980