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4 giorni fa · Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris. Next. Brussels International (1897) in Brussels. The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1492. [1]
- 690 acres (280 hectares)
- Historical Expo
- Universal exposition
- World's Columbian Exposition
2 giorni fa · 1889–1890: 1889–1890 pandemic kills 1 million people. 1890 : First use of the electric chair as a method of execution. 1892 : The World's Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World .
2 giorni fa · 1890: Robert Gair would invent the pre-cut cardboard box. 1891: Whitcomb Judson invents the zipper. 1892: Léon Bouly invents the cinematograph. 1892: Thomas Ahearn invents the electric oven. 1893: Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel engine (although Herbert Akroyd Stuart had experimented with compression ignition before Diesel).
5 giorni fa · An Anglo-German agreement (1890) resolved conflicting claims in East Africa; Great Britain received large territories in Zanzibar and Uganda in exchange for the small island of Helgoland in the North Sea.
- Himself
- James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury (father), Frances Mary Gascoyne (mother)
- Eton College (did not finish)
- Conservative
1 giorno fa · Much of its expansion had taken place in the 17th century, culminating in the first Russian settlement of the Pacific in the mid-17th century, the reconquest of Kiev, and the pacification of the Siberian tribes. [91] However, a population of only 14 million was stretched across this vast landscape.
14 ore fa · Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon Guggenheim Museum completed in 1959 [12] Modernism is a cultural movement that impacts the arts as well as the broader zeitgeist. It is commonly described as a system of thought and behavior marked by self-consciousness or self-reference, prevalent within the avant-garde of various arts and disciplines. [13]
14 ore fa · Storia delle donne fotografe. Le donne hanno svolto un ruolo attivo nella storia della fotografia fin dai tempi della sua nascita, convenzionalmente collocata nel 1839, con la presentazione al pubblico dell'invenzione del dagherrotipo attribuita al francese Louis Daguerre [1] . A differenza della pittura e della scultura, l'arte della ...
