Mr. Catsimatidis has based his campaign in part on dreamy ideas, kicking it off with a promise to bring the World's Fair to New York for a third time in 2014.
It recently renovated the centerpiece of its 1958 World's Fair, a giant construction of tubes and silver spheres called the Atomium.
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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.
Today it's one of the world's most recognizable and most-visited monuments but in its day, the tower, erected for the 1889 World's Fair, was a controversial emblem of industrialization.
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In 1964, visitors at the New York World's Fair lined up to use a slightly improved device, placing calls between the fairgrounds in Queens and an exhibit in Disneyland.
''America is one of the world's leading democracies and he will receive a fair trial there.
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Enter Ziolkowski, a prolific sculptor who had won the prize for sculpture at the 1939 New York World's Fair and had helped Borglum at Rushmore.
The Enterprise has been a showpiece for years, on display at the Smithsonian Institution and on tour to London, Paris and the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans.
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