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Expo 2015 was a World Expo hosted by Milan, Italy. It opened on May 1 at 10:00 CEST and closed on October 31. [1] [2] Milan hosted an exposition for the second time; the first was the 1906 Milan International. The Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) general assembly in Paris decided in favour of Milan on March 31, 2008. [3]
World Expos are also massive in scale, sometimes 300 or 400 hectares in size (Montreal's Expo 67 was 410 hectares, Osaka's Expo 70 was 330 hectares, Seville's Expo '92 was 215 hectares and Shanghai's Expo 2010, 528 hectares). Pavilions participating at a World Expo can also be large, sometimes 5,000 to 10,000 square metres in size, mini city ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 October 2024. Large international exhibition Poster advertising the Brussels International Exposition in 1897 A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition or an expo, is a large global exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations. These exhibitions vary in character and are held ...
Urso Chappell was an American graphic designer, writer and world's fair historian [1] born in 1967 in St Louis who died in December 2020. [2] He created ExpoMuseum.com in 1998 [3] and the World's Fair Podcast in 2009. [4] In 2004, he won the international competition to design the exterior of the Expo 2005 Linimo train. [5]
This article contains the details of the pavilions in Expo 2015. The 2015 World Expo Milan covers more than 2.9 square kilometers and contains more than 70 exposition pavilions. More than 145 countries and 50 international organizations registered to participate in the 2015 Milan Expo.
India '89 World Philatelic Exhibition, New Delhi, 20–29 January 1989 (FIP) Indepex '97 world philatelic exhibition, New Delhi, 15–22 December 1997 (FIP) INDEPEX ASIANA 2000 (14th Asian International Stamp Exhibition), Calcutta (now Kolkata, 7–12 December 2000. [4] Indipex 2011, New Delhi, 12–18 February 2011 (FIP)
EXPO CHICAGO is an international contemporary and modern art exhibition held each year in Chicago, Illinois. In 2012, it subsumed the role of Art Chicago, which was Chicago's longest-running major contemporary art exposition, [ 1 ] running from 1980 until its cancelation after the 2011 fair due to financial problems.
Bermuda Islands, page of Cram's 1901 world atlas. George Franklin Cram (1842-1928) was an American map publisher. He served in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War as a first sergeant in Company F of the 105th Illinois Volunteers serving until the end of the war. [1]