Word Exhibitions: Bringing People Together (Advanced Program)

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In twenty twenty five, twenty eight million people will gather in Osaka, Japan. It will not be to watch the FIFA World Cup of Football. It will not be to watch the Olympic Games. It will not be a gathering of world leaders. Instead, all these people will travel to Osaka to see the World Exhibition.

Today's spots site is on the World's Exhibition. The World's Exhibition is a gathering of many country It collects the best each country has to offer in one place. It pulls together building, design, technology, and culture. Then people come to see the exhibitions or shows. In this way, they get a small experience of the world's most important ideas. It is like traveling around the world in one place.

Today it is easy to learn about the world. The Internet makes information faster to get than ever before. But things have not always been this way, and people have always wanted to learn about other parts of the world.

In the year eighteen fifty one, there were few ways for people to communicate over large distances. New information spread through newspapers and books. The telegraph, a long distance's form of communication, was very new. Information moved slowly from place to place.

For many people, the best place to learn anything was at the local market or fair. People would come from far away to meet at the market. People gathered in the market to buy and sell food, clothes, and other products. They also shared ideas and stories. So in the year eighteen fifty one, Prince Albert of England proposed a different kind of market. It would gather the whole world together. That year he held the First World Exhibition.

Countries came to London, England and set up displays. These displays were a place to show art, design or culture. England built a new building just for the event. It was made of steel and glass. They called it the Crystal Palace. Many exhibits were new machines, but there were also clothes and art. It was the most important social events of its time. Over six million people visited the first Exhibition.

Soon, other countries wanted to welcome the best designers and thinkers to their countries. They wanted to show the world what they could do. Most European countries have held exhibitions. France has held several, but the exhibition has gone all around the world. It has gone to Australia, Peru, Japan, and Chile. Large countries like the United States and Russia have held exhibitions, but smaller countries like Ireland, Haiti and Belgium have also held exhibitions.

However, controlling and organizing WHILELD exhibitions was a problem, so in nineteen twenty eight, different governments created an organization to manage the world exhibitions. It was called the Bureau International des Exposision or BIE. The BIE is now responsible for managing where and when the world's exhibitions.

Are held today.

The BIE authorizes two kinds of world exhibitions. These are called specialized expos and world expos. World expos are closer to the presentations of the earliest world exhibitions. Specialized expos have special themes. World expos are larger, they show off more general ideas, and world expos only happen every five years.

A world exhibition improves many sites that it visits. Often famous buildings remain after the exhibition finishes. The Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Space needle in Seattle are two examples. Cities such as Lisbon, Chicago, and Vancouver have made the buildings from their World Exhibition into public places. Many supporters of the World Exhibitions see them as a chance to renew their city.

The World Exhibition is also the first place many technologies appeared. These technologies include the telephone, television, the sewing machine, computer technology, and atomic energy. At the nineteen seventy World Exhibition, there were even rocks from the moon.

Eric Larsen wrote about Chicago's eighteen ninety three World Exhibition in his book The Devil in the White City. It was called the White City because so many of the exposition's buildings were painted white. He wrote about a new ride called a Ferris wheel.

George W. Ferris invented the wheel just for the exhibition. It was an answer to France's Eiffel Tower. The wheel required amazing engineering. It was supported by two one hundred forty foot steel towers and connected by a forty five foot center bar. This was the largest single piece of steel made at the time. The wheel was two hundred and fifty feet across. It had thirty six cabins that held six riders each The ferris wheel carried almost one and a half million people during the exhibition.

As time went on, the aim of holding a World Exhibition became less about showing the latest technology or design. It became more about solving global problems. In two thousand and eight, the new Bie President thought water was an important international subject.

He said, World exhibitions are educational and fun events. They show great creativity and imagination. These global problems are very important, especially clean water. They create a duty in the countries of the world. These countries need to share at the fair their best experiences in solving the problems people of this planet face.

Other problems that exhibitions examined have included city planning, caring for the oceans, and how people live in their homes. The twenty twenty five World Exhibition is in Osaka, Japan. It will examine how to design a better society. This includes ways to connect, save and empower lives. Different weeks of the exhibition will focus on special issues as well. These include solving world hunger, eliminating discrimination, and preserving diverse life on Earth.

Today, some people believe that the World Exhibitions are no longer necessary. Information can move quickly around the world. It costs a lot of money to hold a World Exhibition, and there are many smaller global gatherings for people in different areas, such as medicine, design, sports or food.

However, many people argue that the World Exhibition still has value. These people believe that World exhibitions are about more than receiving information. These exhibitions are about gathering the people of the world together. These show the problems that people can solve when they work together. Dmitri Ka Kansas is the Secretary General the BIE. He spoke of the twenty twenty du Bai Exhibition.

He said, more than ever, the world is asking for what the expos stand for. It asks for new ideas, a desire for unity and positive thinking for the future. This World's Expo was a place to meet and connect. It has encouraged positive change. It has strengthened the will to make the world of tomorrow more caring than it is today. It is this message of firm positive belief that Expo Dubai twenty twenty has given to the world.

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This program revised a previous program called World's Fares bringing Cultures together. Writer Dan Christman revised the current program. The producer was Dan Christman. The voices you heard were from the United States and the United Kingdom. All quotes were adapted for this program and voiced by Spotslight. This program is called the World Exhibition Bringing People Together.

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