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From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: World's Fair
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Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 13:32:33 EST
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[This is a corrected version; the first posting was cancelled]

	I thought like the Olympics, the fair was held only every 4 years.

No, World's Fairs happen at random intervals.  There is an organization that
you can go to if you are planning to hold an exhibition and they can say,
yes, you meet the requirements, you can call it a World's Fair.  Two require-
ments that I seem to remember is that it can't run for more than 6 months
in one year, and that the buildings have to be demolished when it's over
(or at least most of them).  There was a 2-year WF in New York in 1965-66,
one in 1967 in Montreal, then 1970 in Osaka, but what with the state of the
global economy, there have only been one or two since then (and I'll believe
in future ones when I see them).  The last one was in Knoxville about 1983
and was much smaller than they have been generally in recent decades.

Like Olympics, WFs generally lose money.  Montreal and its long-time mayor
Jean Drapeau are sometimes resented in the rest of Canada for having lost
money on one of each in less than 10 years.  (They are also praised because
Olympics and WFs attract tourists and are generally good PR.)

Mark Brader (Toronto)