The '''World's Fair''' (also called the '''International Exposition''' or '''Expo''') is an international festival of arts and sciences. Participating countries present artistic and educational displays in national '''pavilions''' to showcase their country's history or world issues.
[http://www.bie-paris.org/ International Exhibition Bureau] - governing body of the World's Fair
History
The first international exhibition in the form we know it today was held in London in 1851. Paris hosted several world's fairs in the late 19th century, and the idea was soon copied by several other cities.
Rising popularity of the World's Fair concept brought conflicts of schedule and interest. In 1928, a convention to schedule regular World's Fairs was created, and the International Exhibition Bureau was created to coordinate World's Fair organization.
List of World's Fair sites
1851: London
1855: Paris
1862: London
1867: Paris
1873: Vienna
1876: Philadelphia
1878: Paris
1880: Melbourne
1884: New Orleans
1888: Barcelona
1889: Paris
1893: Chicago
1897: Brussels
1900: Paris
1904: St. Louis
1905: Liege
1906: Milan
1910: Brussels
1913: Ghent
1915: San Francisco
1929: Barcelona
1933: Chicago
1935: Brussels
1936: Stockholm
1937: Paris
1938: Helsinki
1939: Liege and New York
1947: Paris
1949: Port-au-Prince, Stockholm, and Lyon
1951: Lille
1953: Jerusalem and Rome
1954: Naples
1955: Turin and Helsingborg
1956: Beit Dagon
1957: Berlin
1958: Brussels
1961: Turin
1962: Seattle
1964: New York
1965: Munich
1967: Montreal
1968: San Antonio
1970: Osaka
1971: Budapest
1974: Spokane
1975: Okinawa
1981: Plovdiv
1982: Knoxville, Tennessee
1984: New Orleans
1985: Tsukuba and Plovdiv
1986: Vancouver
1988: Brisbane
1991: Plovdiv
1992: Seville and Genoa
1993: Taejon
1998: Lisbon
2000: Hannover
2005: Expo 2005 site in Aichi, Japan
2008: Expo 2008 in Zaragoza, Spain
2010: Expo 2010 in Shanghai
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