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Expo 2010 Shanghai is scheduled to begin...
which is undoubtedly the 1889 World"s Fair, for which the Eiffel Tower had been specially constructed that fall. The heroine famously chose a different fate. Had she gone, she would have seen the Eiffel Tower, and may even have avoided the villain"s bullet.There are few epithets with which Parisians did not curse the new tower back then. It was detested in those days, seen as an absurdity, although it was only Alexander Gustave Eiffel"s answer to the British. The first Universal Exposition took place in London, then the capital of the world, in 1851. It was held in the Crystal Palace, a three-story building made of metal and glass, like some sort of enormous greenhouse. The palace was destroyed by the fire in 1936, but both structures came to symbolize the advent of a new century and a new lifestyle, and gave the Universal Exposition a reputation as the kind of space that could produce such novelties.
The Chinese are not simply trying to revive this reputation
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