Electricity Lights Up the World's Columbian Exposition: October 1893.

1893年10月电力点亮世博会。

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The World's Columbian Exposition, or the Chicago World's Fair, commemorated the 400-year anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas.

世界哥伦比亚博览会，或称为芝加哥世博会，庆祝了克里斯托弗哥伦布抵达美洲400周年。

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Also they showed images in clear detail, hence the elegant print of a woman gazing down upon the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

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Anniversaries have always been important culturally, he said, and he points to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, which famously celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World.

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In 1893 Chicago held a huge fair, the World's Columbian Exposition, ostensibly to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas but in reality to bind together the city's squabbling immigrants and fractious social groups with a bit of cultural adhesive.

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