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2313440 | Lemon (automobile) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lemon%20(automobile) | Lemon (automobile)
attempts have not corrected the problem) or where defects have caused a new vehicle to be out of service for a prolonged period (typically 30 days or longer) for repairs.
Lemon laws primarily serve to force manufacturers to buy back defective vehicles or exchange them. Depending on the jurisdiction,... | 6,119,600 |
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or export from the jurisdiction.
# Used vehicles.
While used cars may be plagued with the same problems that beset new vehicles, used vehicles may also have been abused, improperly maintained or poorly repaired, been unprofessionally rebuilt after a collision or tampered with in some manner to conc... | 6,119,601 |
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come apart due to the weaknesses of the welds or pins connecting the two segments of the vehicle or mismatches of segments. In the UK "cut and shut" cars are treated like any car that has had major repair work resulting in what is essentially a new car. They must first be inspected for road-worthines... | 6,119,602 |
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repaired collision-damage vehicles also carry the risk of unibody problems. Unlike heavy trucks and lorries, most passenger cars manufactured since 1987 employ unibody construction instead of a separate body and frame. This saves weight, but the unibody is prone to bend (it is designed to do so in an... | 6,119,603 |
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number (VIN). These reports will indicate items of public record, such as vehicle title branding, lemon law buybacks and recalls. They may indicate minor/moderate collision damage or improper vehicle maintenance. An attempt to identify vehicles that have been previously owned by hire car rental agenc... | 6,119,604 |
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"hide" lemon law buybacks from these reporting services through such unscrupulous methods as holding the buyback vehicle in a dealer's inventory for a short period of time, then funneling it through routine inventory (so-called "dealer only") auctions where the buyback vehicle re-enters the used mark... | 6,119,605 |
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List of World War II aces from Canada
This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from Canada. For other countries see List of World War II aces by country
# Notes.
## Abbreviations.
- "KIA" in Notes means Killed in action (dates are included where possible).
- "KIFA" in No... | 6,119,606 |
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red months later.
- "POW" in Notes means Prisoner of War.
- "FAA" in Notes denotes that the person served with the Fleet Air Arm, rather than with the Royal Air Force.
- "Battle of Britain" in Notes denotes that the person flew during the Battle of Britain and were awarded the B... | 6,119,607 |
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Ten Little Indians (1965 film)
Ten Little Indians is a 1965 film directed by George Pollock. It is the second film version of Agatha Christie's detective novel of the same name.
Although its background story is the same as the 1945 adaptation ("And Then There Were None"), with ten peopl... | 6,119,608 |
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the weekend. They discover that none of them has actually ever met Owen, including his secretary as well as a married housekeeper and cook, all hired through an agency.
Framed copies of the children's nursery rhyme "Ten Little Indians" are hung on the walls of each guest's bedroom. Dinne... | 6,119,609 |
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and a little Indian from the centerpiece tray is broken away. In the morning, the cable tram is cut, killing the cook, Mrs. Grohmann who attempted to escape. General Mandrake conducts a search of the chalet's catacombs, splitting everyone into pairs, ultimately leading to his demise, stab... | 6,119,610 |
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to make his escape down the mountain peak, Devil's Leap, ending in his death after his lifeline is severed with an axe. Ilona bitterly confesses to having driven her husband to suicide, and is later found dead in her bedroom, killed with a syringe. By now, the five remaining guests fall u... | 6,119,611 |
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head.
Dr. Armstrong intimates his suspicions of Ann, which Lombard angrily rebuffs. Lombard later comes to Ann's room and confides that his real name is Charles Morley, and that the real Lombard had committed suicide and he took his place for the weekend. Morley gives Ann his revolver fo... | 6,119,612 |
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upstairs and discovers Judge Cannon very much alive, who explains how he enticed Dr. Armstrong to help him fake his death and that he intends to poison himself leaving Ann the last remaining survivor, who must hang herself and fulfill the rhyme, or be punished by the law instead.
As Judg... | 6,119,613 |
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y had faked his death after the bullet missed. Ann and Morley had planned the fake shooting scene as they had figured out that neither one of them was the killer. As he dies, Judge Cannon realizes his plan has failed, and Ann and Morley kiss in relief. They see the cat sitting among the f... | 6,119,614 |
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. Local, state, and federal funds totaling $15 million were used to... | 6,119,615 |
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average person who attended the fair, it primarily promoted entertainment, consumer goods and popular culture.
# Background.
In 1904, St. Louis hosted a World's Fair to celebrate the centennial of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. The idea for such a commemorative event seems to have emerged ... | 6,119,616 |
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An additional $5 million was generated through private donations by interested citizens and businesses from around Missouri, a fundraising target reached in January 1901. The final installment of $5 million of the exposition's $15 million capitalization came in the form of earmarked funds ... | 6,119,617 |
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to allow for full-scale participation by more states and foreign countries. The exposition remained in operation from its opening until December 1, 1904. During the year of the fair, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition supplanted the annual St. Louis Exposition of agricultural, trade, and sc... | 6,119,618 |
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than a week. The Palace of Agriculture alone covered some .
Exhibits were staged by approximately 50 foreign nations, the United States government, and 43 of the then-45 U.S. states. These featured industries, cities, private organizations and corporations, theater troupes, and music scho... | 6,119,619 |
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Exposition the U.S. Post Office issued a series of five commemorative stamps celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase. The 1-cent value portrayed Robert Livingston, the ambassador who negotiated the purchase with France, the 2-cent value depicts Thomas Jefferson, who exe... | 6,119,620 |
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Law Olmsted, who had died the year before the Fair, designed the park and fair grounds. There are several reasons for this confusion. First, Kessler in his twenties had worked briefly for Olmsted as a Central Park gardener. Second, Olmsted was involved with Forest Park in Queens, New York.... | 6,119,621 |
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of Works for the fair, supervising the overall design and construction. Taylor quickly appointed Emmanuel Louis Masqueray to be his Chief of Design. In the position for three years, Masqueray designed the following Fair buildings: Palace of Agriculture, the Cascades and Colonnades, Palace ... | 6,119,622 |
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of Machinery.
According to a claim in a 1923 edition of "The Colored Citizen" of Pensacola, Florida, the majority of work in building the fair was done by African Americans, including all the engineering calculations for the layout of the park. Many African Americans contributed to archit... | 6,119,623 |
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In exchange for this information, she requested an appointment as roving commissioner to Europe.
Former Mayor of St. Louis and Governor of Missouri David R. Francis, LPEC president, made the appointment and allowed Hayward to travel overseas to promote the fair, especially to women. The f... | 6,119,624 |
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items were all to be shown in exhibits at the fair.
Pleased with her success in Europe, Francis put her in charge of historical exhibits in the anthropology division, which had originally been assigned to Pierre Chouteau III. Despite being the only woman on the Board of Commissioners, cre... | 6,119,625 |
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to the average person. At the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, many of the inventions displayed were precursors to items which have become an integral part of today's culture. Novel applications of electricity and light waves for communication and medical use were displayed in the Palac... | 6,119,626 |
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for the modern day.
## Communication contributions.
Wireless telephone – The "wireless telephony" unit or "radiophone" installed at the St. Louis World Fair was a thing of wonder to the crowds. Music or spoken messages were transmitted from an apparatus within the Palace of Electricity t... | 6,119,627 |
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mobile phones.
Early fax machine – The telautograph, the precursor to the modern day fax machine, was invented in 1888 by the American scientist, Elisha Gray who at one point in time contested Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone. The telautograph was a device which could se... | 6,119,628 |
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light – The Finsen light, a phototherapy unit invented by Niels Ryberg Finsen, utilized ultraviolet light to treat a form of lupus caused by the bacteria "Mycobacterium tuberculosis". Finsen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1903 for his contributions and his invent... | 6,119,629 |
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low pressure. After Rontgen's discovery, he took an x-ray of his wife's hand, showing the bones and her fingers along with her wedding ring, and sent it to several of his scientist colleagues. One of the scientists that learned of the discovery was Thomas Edison and he soon began to experi... | 6,119,630 |
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incubators were invented in the year 1888 by Drs. Alan M. Thomas and William Champion, these devices were not immediately widely used. To increase awareness of the benefits these units provided, infant incubators containing premature babies were displayed at the 1897, 1898, 1901, and 1904 ... | 6,119,631 |
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the World Fair in 1904, E. M. Bayliss brought these devices for exhibition on The Pike where approximately ten nurses cared for twenty-four neo-natal babies while in the infant incubators. The exhibit required an entrance fee of twenty-five cents and visitors could also purchase souvenirs ... | 6,119,632 |
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The science and technology behind the incubators has since been expanded upon. Now known as "isolettes," these units are a vital component to caring for neonates in modern neonatal intensive care units.
## Transportation contributions.
Electric streetcar – Although street railways had be... | 6,119,633 |
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many cities today.
Personal automobile – One of the most popular attractions of the Exposition was contained in the Palace of Transportation: automobiles and motor cars. The automobile display contained 140 models including ones powered by gasoline, steam, and electricity. The private aut... | 6,119,634 |
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Lee de Forest.
Airplane – The 1904 World's Fair hosted the first ever "Airship Contest" as aerial navigation was still in its infancy at this time. The Exposition offered a grand prize of $100,000 to the airship or other flying machine with the best time through a course marked out by sta... | 6,119,635 |
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and has been mastered since the 1904 Exposition. Air travel has become a vital component in today's global society.
# Legacy.
As many people were curious about this up and coming city, many reporters and photographers attended the World Fair to document and understand the city. What they... | 6,119,636 |
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primarily concerned with their ports and access to the city. Though transportation by water had always been important to the city (St. Louis had originated as a trading post), it was becoming even more important that the port be open, but efficient for all visitors. It also needed to show ... | 6,119,637 |
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grand, neo-Classical exhibition palaces were temporary structures, designed to last but a year or two. They were built with a material called "staff," a mixture of plaster of Paris and hemp fibers, on a wood frame. As at the Chicago world's fair, buildings and statues deteriorated during t... | 6,119,638 |
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University. A similar building was erected at Northwest Missouri State University founded in 1905 in Maryville, Missouri. The grounds' layout was also recreated in Maryville and now is designated as the official Missouri State Arboretum.
Some mansions from the Exposition's era survive alo... | 6,119,639 |
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at Los Angeles. Birmingham, Alabama's iconic cast iron Vulcan statue was first exhibited at the Fair in the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy.
The Missouri State building was the largest of the state buildings, as Missouri was the host state. Though it had sections with marble floors and hea... | 6,119,640 |
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World's Fair Pavilion in Forest Park was built on the site of the Missouri building with profits from the fair in 1909–10.
Festival Hall, designed by Cass Gilbert and used for large-scale musical pageants, contained the largest organ in the world at the time, built by the Los Angeles Art ... | 6,119,641 |
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at the fair. Wanamaker's became a Lord & Taylor store and more recently, a Macy's store.
Completed in 1913, the Jefferson Memorial building was built near the main entrance to the Exposition, at Lindell and DeBalivere. It was built with proceeds from the fair, to commemorate Thomas Jeffer... | 6,119,642 |
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which was a rustic cabin, was transported to Point Lookout, Missouri where it overlooked the White River by sportsmen who formed the Maine Hunting and Fishing Club. In 1915, when the main building at the College of the Ozarks in Forsyth, Missouri burned, the school relocated to Point Looko... | 6,119,643 |
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Fair when it became a hazard near Niagara Falls and needed to be removed because in the wintertime, ice from the fall's mist would form on the steel structure, and eventually fall onto the buildings below. It served as a communications platform for Lee DeForest's work in wireless telegraph... | 6,119,644 |
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the fair. The most popular claim is that the waffle-style ice cream cone was invented and first sold during the fair. However, it is widely believed that it was not invented at the Fair, but instead, it was popularized at the Fair. Other claims are more dubious, including the hamburger and... | 6,119,645 |
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Missouri. The exposition awarded Fisher's biscuits a gold medal. They would later be enjoyed by President William Howard Taft on his 1911 visit to Missouri.
Though not the debut as many foods as claimed, the fair offered what was essentially America's first food court. Visitors could samp... | 6,119,646 |
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Billy Murray. Both the fair and the song are focal points of the 1944 feature film "Meet Me in St. Louis" starring Judy Garland, which also inspired a Broadway musical version. Scott Joplin wrote the rag "Cascades" in honor of the elaborate waterfalls in front of Festival Hall.
## People ... | 6,119,647 |
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on "display" at the fair. Such displays included the Apache of the American Southwest and the Igorot of the Philippines, both of which peoples were dubbed as "primitive". Similarly, members of the Southeast Alaskan Tlingit tribe accompanied fourteen totem poles, two Native houses, and a ca... | 6,119,648 |
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orangutan in 1906, but public protest ended that.
## Exhibits.
After the fair was completed, many of the international exhibits were not returned to their country of origin, but were dispersed to museums in the United States. For example, the Philippine exhibits were acquired by the Muse... | 6,119,649 |
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sorts in the tiny Forest Park Lake. Many Floatopias have occurred since, including the infamous San Diego Floatopia of '83 and the Santa Barbara Floatopia that has been happening for years.
One exhibit of note was Beautiful Jim Key, the "educated" Arabian-Hambletonian cross horse in his S... | 6,119,650 |
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national celebrities along the way. Rogers invented highly successful marketing strategies still in use today. Jim Key could add, subtract, use a cash register, spell with blocks, tell time and give opinions on the politics of the day by shaking his head yes or no. Jim thoroughly enjoyed h... | 6,119,651 |
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for young people.
# 1904 Summer Olympics.
The Fair hosted the 1904 Summer Olympic Games, the first Olympics held in the United States. These games had originally been awarded to Chicago, but when St. Louis threatened to hold a rival international competition, the games were relocated. No... | 6,119,652 |
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ordered police to halt the fight in light of Missouri's anti-bullfighting laws. Disgruntled spectators demanded refunds, and when they were turned away, they began throwing stones through the windows of the arena office. While police protected the office, they did not have sufficient numbe... | 6,119,653 |
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the concession featured a British Army encampment, several South African native villages (including Zulu, San, Swazi, and Ndebele) and a arena in which soldiers paraded, sporting events and horse races were held and major battles from the Second Boer War were re-enacted twice a day. Battle... | 6,119,654 |
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to construct, grossed over $630,000, and netted about $113,000 to the fair—the highest-grossing military concession of the fair.
# Notable attenders.
The Louisiana World fair was opened by US president, Theodore Roosevelt, by telegraph, but he did not attend personally until after the fe... | 6,119,655 |
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by the waterfalls at the Grand Basin, and presumably attended the fair.
Helen Keller, who was 24 and graduated from Radcliffe College, gave a lecture in the main auditorium.
J.T. Stinson, a well-regarded fruit specialist, introduced the phrase, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" (at ... | 6,119,656 |
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become known as special relativity.
Jelly Roll Morton did not visit, stating in his later Library of Congress interview and recordings that he expected jazz pianist Tony Jackson would attend and win a jazz piano competition at the Exposition. Morton said he was "quite disgusted" to later ... | 6,119,657 |
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story entitled "The Man Who Was King" in the school magazine of Smith Academy, St. Louis, Missouri that he was attending. Inspired by the ganza dance which the Igorot people presented regularly in the Village and their reaction to "civilization," the poet explored the interaction of a whit... | 6,119,658 |
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Fair whiskey competition. After four hours of deliberation, the eight judges awarded Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey the Gold Medal for the finest whiskey in the world. The award was a boon for the Jack Daniel's distillery.
Novelist Kate Chopin lived nearby and purchased a season ticket t... | 6,119,659 |
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in Philadelphia. He also purchased the organ from the fair, which at the time was the biggest concert organ in the world.
Benedictine monk, artist and museum founder, Fr. Gregory Gerrer, OSB exhibited his recent portrait of Pope Pius X at the fair. Following the fair, Gerrer brought the p... | 6,119,660 |
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man put on display in the Bronx Zoo
- Owney (dog)
- Pyreliophorus
- Saint Louis Exposition (1884)
- St. Louis, Missouri
- University City, Missouri
- World's Largest Cedar Bucket
- List of world expositions
- List of world's fairs
# Further reading.
- Afable, Patricia O. 'The Exh... | 6,119,661 |
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Pelle. Jefferson, NC and London:McFarland, 2008.
- Brownell, Susan, "The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games". Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
- Fox, Timothy J. and Duane R. Sneddeker, "From the Palaces to the Pike: Visions of the 1904 World's Fair". St. Loui... | 6,119,662 |
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NCCF-Japan. Nagoya: Kougaku Shuppan, 2013.
- Narita, Tatsushi, "T. S. Eliot and his Youth as 'A Literary Columbus"', Nagoya: Kougaku Shuppan, 2011.
- Parezo, Nancy J. and Don D. Fowler, "Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition". Lincoln and London: Universit... | 6,119,663 |
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governor of Missouri.
# External links.
- Official website of the BIE
- Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis Public Library Digital Collections
- Online Exhibition by the Missouri Historical Society
- Louisiana Purchase Exposition collection at the University of Delaware Library
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– includes 69 photos taken at the fair.
- The Louisiana Purchase Exposition: The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair from the University of Missouri Digital Library – scanned copies of nearly 50 books, pamphlets, and other related material from and about the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (The 190... | 6,119,665 |
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is, 1904
- Official Guide to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
- Official Catalogue of Exhibits, Universal Exposition St. Louis 1904
- Kiralfy's Louisiana Purchase Spectacle
- The Opening: Universal Exposition, 1904
- On The Pike
- Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghous... | 6,119,666 |
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List of World War II aces from Bulgaria
This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from Bulgaria. For other countries see List of World War II aces by country.
Other notable pilots include:
- Chudomir M. Toplodolski - 4
- Ivan Nenov Bonev - 4
- Gentcho DIMITROV - 3
- Ge... | 6,119,667 |
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Japan and the United Nations
Japan became the 69th member of the United Nations on December 18, 1956. Since then, Japan holds many international cooperations within the United Nations as a basic principle of its foreign policy. When Japan joined the UN in 1956, it did so with great enthusi... | 6,119,668 |
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almost total dependence on the United States for its security. The government saw the UN as an ideal arena for its risk minimizing, omnidirectional foreign policy.
# Role in the UN.
After the late 1950s, Japan participated actively in the social and economic activities of the UN's various... | 6,119,669 |
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Security Council (UNSC) with the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France, and China.
# UN peacekeeping efforts.
By 1990, Japan's international cooperation efforts had reached a new level of involvement and activism. Japan contributed about 11 percent of the regular UN ... | 6,119,670 |
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members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces.
# Reform of the UNSC.
As of 2005, Japan is again a strong advocate of a UNSC reform, in a joint campaign with Germany, India, and Brazil. All four nations strive to gain a permanent seat in the chamber. While the United Kingdom and France, and the... | 6,119,671 |
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countries of Western Europe and North America. In 1952, Japan became a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and of the World Bank, where it played an increasingly important role. In 1955, it joined the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). In 1966, Japan was admitted to ... | 6,119,672 |
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t (OECD), which brought it into what was essentially a club of leading industrialized countries. Japan has participated actively since 1975 in the annual summit meetings of the seven largest capitalist countries, the Group of Seven, or G8, since Russia joined after the end of the Cold War.
... | 6,119,673 |
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Century 21 Exposition
The Century 21 Exposition (also known as the Seattle World's Fair) was a world's fair held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in Seattle, Washington.
Nearly 10 million people attended the fair. Unlike some other world's fairs of its era, Century 21 made a profit.
As plan... | 6,119,674 |
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Playhouse), most of which have since been replaced or heavily remodeled.
The site, slightly expanded since the fair, is now called Seattle Center; the United States Science Pavilion is now the Pacific Science Center. Another notable Seattle Center building, the Museum of Pop Culture (earlier call... | 6,119,675 |
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house and sports center needed to attract the fair. Eventually the council approved a $7.5 million bond issue with the state of Washington matching that amount.
# Cold War and Space Race context.
The fair was originally conceived in 1955 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1909 Alaska–Yukon–Paci... | 6,119,676 |
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of a "Festival of the [American] West".
In June 1960, the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) certified Century 21 as a world's fair. Project manager Ewen Dingwall went to Moscow to request Soviet participation, but was turned down. Neither the People's Republic of China, Vietnam nor North... | 6,119,677 |
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any dramatic social change, one rooted in the 1950s rather than in the cultural tides that would emerge in the 1960s. Affluence, automation, consumerism, and American power would grow; social equity would simply take care of itself on a rising tide of abundance; the human race would master nature ... | 6,119,678 |
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Seattle were Duwamish Head in West Seattle; Fort Lawton (now Discovery Park) in the Magnolia neighborhood; and First Hill—even closer to Downtown than the site finally selected, but far more densely developed. Two sites south of the city proper were considered—Midway, near Des Moines, and the Army... | 6,119,679 |
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Seattle Center Coliseum, rebuilt 1993 as KeyArena). Some of the land had been donated to the city by James Osborne in 1881 and by David and Louisa Denny in 1889. Two lots at Third Avenue N. and John Street were purchased from St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, who had been planning to build a ne... | 6,119,680 |
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were torn down; they had been run down to the point of being known as the "Warren Avenue slum". The old Fire Station No. 4 was also sacrificed.
As early as the 1909 Bogue plan, this part of Lower Queen Anne had been considered for a civic center. The Civic Auditorium (later the Opera House, now M... | 6,119,681 |
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Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church, who had recently built Sacred Heart Church there; they did a bit better with the Freemasons' Nile Temple, which they were able to use for the duration of the fair and which then returned to its previous use. It served as the site of the Century 21 Club. Th... | 6,119,682 |
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Thiry was the fair's chief architect; he also designed the Coliseum building. Among the other architects of the fair, Seattle-born Minoru Yamasaki received one of his first major commissions to build the United States Science Pavilion. Yamasaki would later design New York's World Trade Center. Vic... | 6,119,683 |
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a number of which originally stood tall over the southern entrance to the fair. This replica stood outside the Washington State Capital Museum until 1990, when it was taken down.
The grounds of the fair were divided into:
- World of Science
- World of Century 21 (also known as World of Tomorrow... | 6,119,684 |
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as high as off the ground. The Skyride was moved to the Puyallup Fairgrounds in 1980.
## World of Science.
The World of Science centered on the United States Science Exhibit. It also included a NASA Exhibit that included models and mockups of various satellites, as well as the Project Mercury ca... | 6,119,685 |
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for a simulated voyage first through the Solar System and then through the Milky Way Galaxy and beyond. Further exhibits presented the scientific method and the "horizons of science". This last looked at "Science and the individual","Control of man's physical surroundings", "Science and the proble... | 6,119,686 |
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there were neither the budgets nor the tight agreements on concept to realize that vision. In the end, he got exactly enough of a budget to design and build a 160,000 sq. ft. building suitable to hold a variety of exhibition spaces and equally suitable for later conversion to a sports arena and co... | 6,119,687 |
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Library Association (ALA), and RCA, as well as a Washington state tourist center.
In "The Threshold and the Threat", visitors rode a "Bubbleator" into the "world of tomorrow". Music "from another world" and a shifting pattern of lights accompanied them on a 40-second upward journey to a starry sp... | 6,119,688 |
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indicated as Seattle) and its suburban and rural surroundings, seen first by day and later by night. The next cluster of cubes zoomed in on a vision of a high-tech, future home in a sylvan setting (and a commuter gyrocopter); a series of projections contrasted this "best of the future" to "the wor... | 6,119,689 |
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"electronic storehouses of knowledge", and a vision of the many recreations that technology would free humans to pursue.
Finally, the tour ended with a symbolic sculptural tree and the reappearance of the family in the fallout shelter and the sound of a ticking clock, a brief silence, an extract ... | 6,119,690 |
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hours and minutes rather than in terms of chancy voyages over great distances. RCA (which produced "The Threshold and the Threat") exhibited television, radio, and stereo technology, as well as its involvement in space. The French government had an exhibit with its own take on technological progre... | 6,119,691 |
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and what is now the Broad Street Green and Mural Amphitheater. The Hall of Industry and some smaller buildings were immediately north of American Way. The latter included 15 governmental exhibitors and surrounded the World of Tomorrow and extended to the north edge of the fair.
Among the features... | 6,119,692 |
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for the car of the future, the Ford Seattle-ite XXI. The Electric Power Pavilion included a -high fountain made to look like a hydroelectric dam, with the entrance to the pavilion through a tunnel in said "dam". The Forest Products Pavilion was surrounded by a grove of trees of various species, an... | 6,119,693 |
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this was Seattle artist Paul Horiuchi's massive mosaic mural, the region's largest work of art at the time, which now forms the backdrop of Seattle Center's Mural Amphitheater.
Foreign exhibits included a science and technology exhibit by Great Britain, while Mexico and Peru focused on handicraft... | 6,119,694 |
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Community; and a joint pavilion by those countries of Africa that had by then achieved independence. Sweden's exhibit included the story of the salvaging of a 17th-century man-of-war from Stockholm harbor, and San Marino's exhibit featured its postage stamps and pottery. Near the center of this wa... | 6,119,695 |
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Robert Motherwell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Ben Shahn, and Frank Stella, as well as Northwest painters Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, Paul Horiuchi, and Mark Tobey. American sculptors included Leonard Baskin, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Louise N... | 6,119,696 |
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ranging from Titian, El Greco, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Rubens through Toulouse-Lautrec, Monet, and Turner to Klee, Braque, and Picasso, with no shortage of other comparably famous artists represented.
A separate gallery presented Northwest Coast Indian art, and featured a series of large paint... | 6,119,697 |
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in the mid-1980s it became the Intiman Playhouse. When the Intiman Theatre closed, Cornish College of the Arts took over the lease from the city of Seattle, and now operates it as the Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center.
### Opera House performances.
Scheduled groups performing at the Opera Hous... | 6,119,698 |
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orchestras; Lawrence Welk; Nat King Cole; and Ella Fitzgerald. Also during the fair, Memorial Stadium hosted the Ringling Brothers Circus, Tommy Bartlett's Water Ski Sky and Stage Show, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans' Western Show, and an appearance by evangelist Billy Graham.
The fair and the city we... | 6,119,699 |
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