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Publication: Newsday (Melville, NY)

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COPYRIGHT 2006 Newsday

Byline: Ronnie Gill

May 31--GLOBAL EXPOS They're a fair deal BY RONNIE GILL STAFF WRITER Ask anyone younger than 30 what a world's fair is and you'll probably get a blank stare. If there is a flicker of recognition, it is probably associated with the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Park, remnant of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, which wasn't even an officially sanctioned fair. World's fairs and expositions have existed since the mid-18th century, but the Bureau International des Expositions, which regulates all noncommercial international exhibitions to which invitations to other nations are issued through diplomatic channels, recognizes The Great Exhibition, also known as the Crystal Palace Exhibition and held in London in 1851, as the first official World's Fair. When Robert Moses, head of the corporation established to run the 1964-65 NYWF, could not come...

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