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    The 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, or simply Expo 86, was a World's Fair held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from May...
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  • Expo 86 is the third full-length album by Canadian indie rock band Wolf Parade. It was released on 29 June 2010. Expo 86 received positive reviews from...
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  • Expo 86 was a World's Fair held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1986. Expo 86 may also refer to: Expo 86 (album), 2010 album by Wolf Parade "Expo...
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    World's fair (redirect from World expo)
    Vancouver: Expo 86 Brisbane: Expo '88: now represented with the South Bank Parklands Seville: Expo '92 Daejeon (Taejŏn): Expo '93 Lisbon: Expo '98 was divided...
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    Millennium Line, the original line was given the name "Expo Line". The new name was in recognition of Expo 86 (the World's Fair that Vancouver hosted in 1986)...
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  • 1986. Slow are known for a controversial incident which both marred the Expo 86 festivities and effectively ended the band's career. While performing their...
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    to early 1986, Harry Home led efforts to restore CN 6060 and run it to Expo 86 in Vancouver. The 6060 was rebuilt in Jasper, Alberta, and was run under...
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    The Highway 86 art installation was a 217-metre long absurdist highway created for Expo 86 by James Wines and SITE. Highway 86 did not survive beyond the...
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    2024. The name "SkyTrain" was coined for the system during Expo 86 because the first line (Expo) principally runs on elevated guideway outside of Downtown...
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    McBarge (category Expo 86)
    restaurant, built on a 187-foot-long (57 m) barge for Expo '86 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Moored on Expo grounds in Vancouver's False Creek, it was the...
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    such as Expo 86 and Expo 88, were intended as full-fledged World Expos. Others, such as Expo 74, the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, or Expo '85, were...
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    Science World (Vancouver) (category Expo 86)
    government in 1987, the building was built as Expo Centre for the Expo 86 world's fair. Following the end of Expo 86, the building was re-purposed as a science...
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    False Creek (category Expo 86)
    Creek just west of the Cambie Bridge. In 1986, it was the location of the Expo 86 World's Fair. False Creek South is a neighbourhood that runs along south...
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    conferences and events, including the 1954 Commonwealth Games, UN Habitat I, Expo 86, APEC Canada 1997, the World Police and Fire Games in 1989 and 2009; several...
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    For the 1986 World's Fair (Expo 86), held in Vancouver, a Buckminster Fuller-inspired Geodesic dome was designed by the Expo's chief architect Bruno Freschi...
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    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, managed by TransLink. The Expo Line was built for the Expo 86 World's Fair; the Millennium Line opened in 2002, followed...
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    restored again by Home and the Rocky Mountain Rail Society in time for the Expo 86 event in Vancouver, British Columbia. After the event, it stayed in Vancouver...
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    The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, commonly known as Expo 67, was a general exhibition from April 28 to October 29, 1967. It was a category...
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    Pattison led the organization of Expo 86 in Vancouver as the chief executive officer and president of the Expo 86 Corporation. When he was appointed...
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    One Wall Centre Audain Art Museum Woodward's Building Telus Garden The Expo 86 World Exposition that was hosted on former railway and industrial lands...
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  • system in Greater Vancouver, Canada, was conceived as a legacy project of Expo 86 and was finished in time to showcase the fair's theme: "Transportation...
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    1986, 4466 ventured to Vancouver, British Columbia, to be part of Steam Expo '86. The engine and tender were loaded onto flatcars in Sacramento, and headed...
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    Rockwell in some of its early-1990s editions. Informational signage at Expo 86 made extensive use of the Rockwell typeface. Docklands Light Railway used...
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    Canada Place (category Expo 86)
    R. Bennett, Premier of BC to initiate the first concrete pour. During Expo 86, the Canada Pavilion at Canada Place was opened by Prince Charles and Brian...
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    Expo 58 and Disneyland were built as Circarama theaters. The latter would be upgraded to the Circle-Vision 360° system. Although the theater at Expo 61...
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    Parade reconvened in November 2009 to begin work on their third album, Expo 86. In an interview with Exclaim! magazine, Dan Boeckner stated that the album...
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  • Christopher Walla – guitar, keyboards, samples, production, mixing (except “Expo 86” and "The Sound of Settling"), recording, vocals on "Transatlanticism"...
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    commissioned by the government of the Northwest Territories for its pavilion at Expo 86, and later given to the City of Vancouver.[citation needed] An inunnguaq...
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    Moonface name. In June 2010, Wolf Parade released their third full album, Expo 86. A world tour supporting the new album followed, after which the band went...
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    Punchlines' "No Name Player" before joining the Second City comedy ensemble at Expo 86. He continued performing with Second City in Toronto and later in Los Angeles...
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