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It was very similar, though with some tweaks that meant less scrummy at individual consoles - I wasn't that keen either
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wf256 replied to Bill Cotter's topic in 1962, Seattle, United States - Century 21 Exposition
It does look like a model of a bateriaphage - maybe the display to the left is a world map showing where a particular virus is active -
Hostess Uniform
wf256 replied to Randy Treadway's topic in 1968, San Antonio, United States - HemisFair '68
I think she, and the suit, look great -
I was hoping for Łódź (and had learned how to pronounce it) - but the Buenos Ares master plan looks sound on the expo website: http://en.expo2023argentina.com/masterplan/ and I certainly hope to go
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Hi all, Not on the BIE web site yet - but according to their twitter page https://twitter.com/bieparis it will be Argetina for the next specialise exhibition
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wf256 started following Lacto-Vegetarian / Pure Vegetarian Options at the Expo, Norway Building in Wisconsin going back to Norway, photo album 1939 SF and and 7 others
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Dreadful thing - must have been so frightening Glad you are OK
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Queues and Lines at Expo Astana 2017
wf256 replied to blueexpo's topic in 2017, Astana, Kazakhstan - Expo 2017
As the fair is much busier after noon the queues for even Korea and the sphere are quite short early on For us just 10 mins for both Korea and for the sphere -
Hello Amysh, I don't know much about architecture and lead times - but I;m wondering if there will be enough (peer-revied/any kind) ofliterature about the pavilion in the timescales necessary for your thesis? Perhaps a pavilion from an earlier exposition would yield more results? The Iranian pavilion in Milan 2015 was stunning. As were the UAE, Venke and Azerbaijan pavilions. The first two designed by famous architects (Foster and libeskind) so likely to be a lot of literature and opinion about them. There could also be an opportunity to consider relocated pavilions (Chile in 1889, UAE in 2010 and planned Monaco and UAE from 2015) and how planning for this constrains design. Good luck
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I wonder what became of this statue from the Denmark Pavilion
wf256 replied to Bill Cotter's topic in International Area
though the fact that it was absent meant one of the few trips to World's Fairs when I have returned and collegues knew about it: several Swedish collegues had travelled across the bridge to Copenhagen and seen the video link to Shanghai -
Lacto-Vegetarian / Pure Vegetarian Options at the Expo
wf256 replied to blueexpo's topic in 2017, Astana, Kazakhstan - Expo 2017
Hi blueexpo, Because of your post I kept an eye out when i was there - and it's slim pickings. I suspect a vegetarian would always say that meat is pointless, but I'm a meat eater and I'd get a dish that was mainly rice (plov/pilaf) - and it would have been fine like that - but there were dollops of meat on it. Even the meat free section of the German pavilion menu had only one vegetarian dish - the other two had fish in it. (the vegetable pancakes were nice though) Someone said that the Kazakhstan population were the second biggest meat eaters in the world - so that might be the cause. -
Stamps and Passports at the Expo
wf256 replied to blueexpo's topic in 2017, Astana, Kazakhstan - Expo 2017
Hello, Just come back from Astana - and yes passports are available and most national pavilions are providing stamps. BUT it does seem as though supplies of the books are not getting distributed to all the merchandise outlets / or they are being filtered out with most supplies going to the shop within the Kazakhstan pavilion. (And other shops and volunteers telling people that that;s where to go) As I said most national pavilions have stamps (some gaps in Africa plaza), Almost all with someone doing the stamping rather than it be help yourself which is understandable given pilfering in earlier expos - but it does mean that if a pavilion is a one person operation and on a break then you miss out. One person operation commoner in the plazas. Japan only stamps between 12 at 6 (the busiest hours) - and I stupidly forgot to return - ach South Korea has a stack of stamps from which to choose and a pair of stampers. -
The former Japanese prime minister died in August - maybe for him (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayato_Ikeda)
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> found the design a bit intriguing. To me it looks like a styalised carp
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Hi CofP33, Did you notice if/where a gift shop was on site? Just with the aim of getting a passport early in my visit (assuming there are any!) Tia wf256
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Hi all, For those going to Astana, this map of food and drink locations: There is a Line Brew restaurant in Astan itself which gets good reviews - I'm guessing that this is a branch of the same Regards