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Great Exhibition) Dickinson's picture of the ‘India’ section at the Great Exhibition, in London, England, in 1851. The building in which it was staged, the Crystal Palace, was 564 m/1,851 ft long (deliberately, to mark the year), 139 m/456 ft wide, 20 m/66 ft high, and enclosed a floor space of 74,320 sq m/800,000 sq ft. There were more than 13,000 exhibitors. World fair held in Hyde Park, London, UK, in 1851, proclaimed by its originator Prince Albert as ‘the Great Exhibition of the Industries of All Nations’. In practice, it glorified British manufacture: over half the 100,000 exhibits were from Britain or the British Empire. Over 6 million people attended the exhibition. The exhibition hall, popularly known as the Crystal Palace, was constructed of glass with a cast-iron frame, and designed by Joseph Paxton. |
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| Passepartout, though he had not been able to study or rehearse a part, was designated to lend the aid of his sturdy shoulders in the great exhibition of the "human pyramid," executed by the Long Noses of the god Tingou. you who are born into these racing railroad times, when there's a Great Exhibition, or some monster sight, every year, and you can get over a couple of thousand miles of ground for three pound ten in a five-weeks' holiday, why don't you know more of your own birthplaces? |
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