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world and expositions
Both sections are patterned after the types of exhibits found at world expositions.
Both sections are patterned after the types of exhibits found at world expositions.
Since their inception in 1851, the character of world expositions has evolved.
In these days, world expositions were especially focused on trade, and were famous for the display of technological inventions and advancements.
World expositions were the platforms where the state-of-the-art in science and technology from around the world was brought together.
From Expo ' 88 in Brisbane onwards, countries started to use world expositions more widely and more strongly as a platform to improve their national images through their pavilions.
Today's world expositions embody elements of all three eras.
On November 13, 1962, the BIE changed the location of the World Exhibition to Canada, and Expo 67 went on to become the fourth-best attended BIE-sanctioned world expositions, after Shanghai, Osaka, and Paris.
It implements these goals through independent scholarly research into policy issues of concern to Muslims ; publication of scholarly and popular expositions of such research ; translation of appropriate works on the free market into the languages of the Muslim world ; and the operation of a scholars exchange program.
Some buildings ( far more than in any other world expositions ) were ' saved ', including the Netherlands Pavilion.
The 1st and 2nd-century texts that would later be canonized as the New Testament several times imply or indirectly refer to Jesus ' divinity ; though there is scholarly debate as to whether or not they call him God Within 15 – 20 years of the death of Jesus, Paul, who authored the largest early expositions of Christian theology, refers to Jesus as the resurrected " Son of God ", the savior who would return from heaven and save his faithful, dead and living, from the imminent destruction of the world.
Previous world expositions in Europe were fraught with national factionalism and a superabundance of awards.
Eli began exploring the potential of the world wide wide in streaming live his bible expositions.
While working with Baird, Goode led research sponsored by the United States Fish Commission, and oversaw many Smithsonian displays and exhibitions, for the museum itself and for expositions around the world ; Goode's first of these were the preparations for the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, for which the Smithsonian was responsible for all the government displays.
In later years, it was loaned to important expositions around the world, with the renewal of interest in Victorian art.
Between 1925 and 1929, Heap, as the new editor, made The Little Review “ the American mouthpiece for all the new systems of art that the modern world had produced .” Under Heap ’ s editorship, the magazine published more art in addition to literature and organized two expositions in conjunction with the magazine.

world and 1851
Young took out a patent on his process and the resulting products in 1850, and built the first truly commercial oil-works in the world at Bathgate in 1851, using oil extracted from locally mined torbanite, shale, and bituminous coal.
The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India ( 1838 ), The Straits Times ( 1845 ), The New York Times ( 1851 ), The Irish Times ( 1859 ), the Los Angeles Times ( 1881 ), The Seattle Times ( 1891 ), The Daily Times ( Malawi ) ( 1900 ), The Canberra Times ( 1926 ), The Times ( Malta ) ( 1935 ) and The Times of Israel ( Israel ) ( 2012 ).
The discovery of gold in Australia in 1851 led to an influx of immigrants from all around the world.
The huge, modular, wood, glass and iron structure at the top of Sydenham Hill was originally erected in Hyde Park in London to house The Great Exhibition of 1851, showcasing the products of many countries throughout the world.
However, it was with his religious paintings that he became famous, initially The Light of the World ( 18511853, now in the chapel at Keble College, Oxford ; a later version ( 1900 ) toured the world and now has its home in St Paul's Cathedral.
* Edward Lawrence Levy ( 1851 – 1932 ), English world champion weightlifter
By 1838, the Spen Valley, centred around Cleckheaton had at least 11 card clothing factories and by 1893 it was generally accepted as the card cloth capital of the world, though by 2008 only two manufacturers of metallic and flexible card clothing remained in England, Garnett Wire Ltd dating back to 1851 and Joseph Sellers & Son Ltd established in 1840.
The longitude meridians of world maps based on the prime meridian, placing Greenwich, London in the centre, has been in use since 1851.
The first oil refinery in the world was built in 1851 at Bathgate, Scotland, by Scottish chemist James Young shortly followed by Ignacy Łukasiewicz near Jasło, Poland from 1854 to 1856, but they were initially small as there was no real demand for refined fuel.
The species was not encountered during the Lewis and Clark Expedition, nor was it seen by Nuttall or Townsend, and it was not until it was first described in Audubon and Bachman's Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America in 1851 that it became known to the scientific world.
Adolf Anderssen was one of the strongest players of his time, and was considered by many to be the world champion after winning the London 1851 tournament.
Samuel George Morton ( 1799 – 1851 ) collected hundreds of human skulls from all over the world and started trying to find a way to classify them according to some logical criterion.
1851 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
This find was published in the Melbourne Argus on 8 September 1851, leading to a rush to the Mount Alexander or Forest Creek diggings, centred on present-day Castlemaine, claimed as the richest shallow alluvial goldfield in the world.
The English derives its name from the English ( unofficial ) world champion, Howard Staunton, who played it during his 1843 match with Saint-Amant and London 1851, the first international tournament.
Beginning with Lachmann ( in Germany, 1840 ), reservations about the pericope became more strongly argued in the modern period, and these opinions were carried into the English world by Samuel Davidson ( 1848 – 1851 ), Tregelles ( 1862 ), and others ; the argument against the verses being given body and final expression in Hort ( 1886 ).
The term " Victorian " was first used during The Great Exhibition in London ( 1851 ), where Victorian inventions and morals were shown to the world.
The discovery on August 21, 1851 by James Dunlop and James Reagan that sparked the Ballarat Gold Rush was at the base of the hill a couple of hundred metres from Sovereign Hill park and the " Welcome " nugget — found by a group of Cornish miners in 1858, and being the second largest gold nugget in the world — was also found in Ballarat in the Red Hill mine which is recreated in Sovereign Hill.
For almost forty years, from 1851 to 1887, the Arithmometer was the only type of mechanical calculator in commercial production and it was sold all over the world.
She toured around the world between 1851 and 1856.
Henry Grinnell, father of Sylvia and Walton, was a partner in Grinnell, Minturn & Co., owners of the Swallowtail shipping line which included Flying Cloud, in 1851 the fastest clipper ship in the world.
He had a passion for the sea, and in 1841 started round the world with Benjamin Boyd ( 1796 – 1851 ), afterwards well known as a great Australian squatter, in the latter's ship Wanderer, and having got to New South Wales, made his home at Boyd's private whaling and trading village of Boyd Town in Twofold Bay on the New South Wales coast for ten years.
He sailed around the world from 1848 until 1851.

world and London
Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.
One of the first international anti-globalization protests was organized in dozens of cities around the world on June 18, 1999, with those in London and Eugene, Oregon most often noted.
His exploits had been gradually pushed backwards in time until already they extended into the fabulous world of the forties and the thirties, when the capitalists in their strange cylindrical hats still rode through the streets of London ..." In the year 1984 Big Brother appears on posters and the telescreen as a man of about 45.
File: London 307. JPG | Room 52-The Cyrus Cylinder ; is regarded by many as the world ’ s first documented charter of human rights
Among metropolitan areas, Chicago has the fourth-largest gross domestic product ( GDP ) in the world, just behind Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles, and ranking ahead of London and Paris.
The Government Department, whose prominent professors include Stephen Brooks, Richard Ned Lebow, and William Wohlforth, was ranked the top solely undergraduate political science program in the world by researchers at the London School of Economics in 2003.
The town was home to the civil engineer and calculating prodigy George Parker Bidder ( 1806 – 1878 ), who is notable for his work on railways over much of the world, as well as the docks of the East End in the Port of London.
The volume was critically acclaimed and won a contest run by the Sunday Referee, netting him new admirers from the London poetry world, including Edith Sitwell and Edwin Muir.
* 1852 – Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital providing in-patient beds specifically for children in the English-speaking world, is founded in London.
Although some physical events such as the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London continued to encourage belief in " the end of the world " ruled by carnal human beings ; the doctrine of the sect either died out, or became merged in a milder form of Millenarianism.
Upon his arrival in London, Hayek was quickly recognized as one of the leading economic theorists in the world, and his development of the economics of processes in time and the coordination function of prices inspired the ground-breaking work of John Hicks, Abba Lerner, and many others in the development of modern microeconomics.
In fact he decided to write of " certain aspects of the present that he set out to know " and " ventured into the East End of London – the first of the occasional sorties he would make to discover for himself the world of poverty and the down-and-outers who inhabit it.
Much of Banksy's artwork can be seen around the streets of London and surrounding suburbs, though he has painted pictures around the world, including the Middle East, where he has painted on Israel's controversial West Bank barrier with satirical images of life on the other side.
Because the governor was stationed in London, England, they needed to have reliable officers managing the trade posts halfway around the world.
In 2006, the value of initial public offerings conducted in Hong Kong was second highest in the world after London.
Early in the novella, Marlow recounts how London, the largest, most populous and wealthiest city in the world, was a dark place in Roman times.
Located in the London Borough of Hillingdon, in West London, Heathrow is the busiest airport in the United Kingdom and the third busiest airport in the world ( as of 2012 ) in terms of total passenger traffic, handling more international passengers than any other airport around the globe.
Heathrow is London's main airport, having replaced RAF Northolt, and together with Gatwick, Southend, Stansted, Luton and London City, London is the busiest city airport system in the world by passenger traffic ( with 133, 666, 888 passengers travelling through the six airports ); and second only to New York City in terms of traffic movements.
Glasgow became one of the largest cities in the world, and known as " the Second City of the Empire " after London.
Starting in the mid-1960s, and partly as a result of the success of such UK musicians as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, London became a centre for the worldwide youth culture, exemplified by the Swinging London subculture which made Carnaby Street a household name of youth fashion around the world.
This left London as the only large metropolis in the world without a central administration.

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