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    Expo 58, also known as the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (French: Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles de 1958; Dutch: Brusselse Wereldtentoonstelling...
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  • Expo 58 is the tenth novel by Jonathan Coe. First published by Viking in 2013, much of the novel's action centres around the British pavilion at the Brussels...
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    Atomium (category Expo 58)
    originally constructed as the centrepiece of the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58). Designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn and the architects André and...
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    World's fair (redirect from World expo)
    in most of Europe and Asia; other terms include World Expo or Specialised Expo, with the word expo used for various types of exhibitions since at least...
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    typographer and graphic designer. He is best known for the design of Expo 58, the Brussels World's Fair in 1958. Lucien De Roeck was born in Dendermonde...
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    well as the patio. In 1958, 58 additional buildings were constructed in preparation of the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58), and the Atomium was also...
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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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    Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58) took place. The Atomium, a symbolic 103-metre-tall (338 ft) modernist structure, originally built for Expo 58, is the most impressive...
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    Brussels waffle and the Liège waffle. Originally showcased in 1958 at Expo 58 in Brussels, Belgian waffles were introduced to the United States by a...
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    Maddox, p. 293. "Expo 58". Archived from the original on 30 January 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2015. Devos, Rika (2011). "Expo 58: the catalyst for Belgium's...
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    collaborated, and the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58), which Xenakis designed by himself.[citation needed] Giannis Klearchou...
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    183 families. Eight-month-old baby Juste Bonaventure Langa died during Expo 58; he rests in the Tervuren cemetery. In mid-July the Congolese protested...
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  • Atomium Philips Pavilion Seattle Center Seattle Center Monorail Space Needle Expo 67 pavilions Habitat 67 Tower of the Americas Palácio de Cristal Garden Palace...
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    Magician's Lantern (category Expo 58)
    representative cultural programme devised with the aim to promote the at Expo 58, which took place from 17 April to 19 November 1958 in Brussels. The project...
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    America the Beautiful was a 360° movie attraction in Circarama created by Walt Disney Productions for the American exhibit at the 1958 Brussels World's...
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    Philips Pavilion (category Expo 58)
    in Brussels, Belgium, constructed for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58). Commissioned by electronics manufacturer Philips and designed by the...
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    more conservative Spokane, Washington—Expo '74 took environmentalism as its central theme. The theme of Spokane's Expo '74 was "Celebrating Tomorrow's Fresh...
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    Brussels International Exposition of 1935 and the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58). During World War I, Brussels was an occupied city, but German troops...
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  • company was founded in 1957 by Helena Z. Benitez and debuted May 27, 1958 at Expo '58, the Brussels World Fair responding to the request of then President Ramon...
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    May 2007 Julot Verbeeck Press officer of the Cirque Royal 17 April 2008 Expo 58 hostesses 12 October 2009 William Vance 24 February 2010 David Susskind...
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  • – Berlin International Building Exposition 1958 – Brussels, Belgium – Expo '58 (Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles) – Atomium 1959...
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    US Navy Steel Band performing outside US Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58)....
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    Poème électronique (category Expo 58)
    The Philips Pavilion during the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58)...
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    pralines such as the Caprice and the Tentation which were first displayed at Expo 58. Suzanne Neuhaus, his wife, specialized in decoration and gift wrapping...
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  • played by Wilfred Hyde-White in the final film. In Jonathan Coe's novel Expo 58, a pair of Foreign Office employees called Radford and Wayne appear, in...
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    he was asked to design a building for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo '58) that would symbolise Belgian engineering skills. Waterkeyn owned the copyrights...
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    of the new terminal, preparing the airport for the 1958 World's Fair (Expo 58). The grass runway 12/30 had to make way to allow for the new passenger...
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    Belvedere 21 (category Expo 58)
    Originally constructed as the Austrian pavilion or temporary showroom for the Expo 58 in Brussels, it was later transferred to Vienna to house the Museum of...
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    Monument to Lenin in Luzhniki (category Expo 58)
    The monument to Lenin in Luzhniki (Russian: Памятник Ленину) is a statue of Vladimir Lenin outside the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. It was installed in...
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  • Agata in the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's Maria Golovin at the Expo '58 in Brussels on August 20, 1958; later the same year she portrayed the role...
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