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  Exposition Park Information
Exposition Park evolved from the redevelopment of what was known as Agricultural Park early in this century.
The state would build an exposition building and armory if the county would construct and operate a history and art museum and the city would maintain the grounds.
Exposition Park is bounded by Figueroa Street to the east, King Boulevard to the south, Vermont Avenue to the west, and Exposition Boulevard to the north.
www.nhm.org /expo/expopark.htm   (123 words)

  
 Exposition Universelle (1900) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a world's fair held in Paris, France, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next.
The Exposition Universelle was where talking films were first unveiled and where the escalator debuted.
A number of Paris' most noted structures were built for the Exposition including the Gare de Lyon, the Gare d'Orsay (now the Musée d'Orsay), the Pont Alexandre III, the Grand Palais, La Ruche, and the Petit Palais.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1900)   (282 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Exposition is a manner of honouring the Holy Eucharist, by exposing It, with proper solemnity, to the view of the faithful in order that they may pay their devotions before It.
There can be no reasonable doubt that the practice of exposition came in the wake of that most epoch-making liturgical development, the Elevation of the Host in the Mass.
The decree enacted at Cologne in 1452, under the presidency of Cardinal Nicholas de Cusa, altogether forbids the reserving, or carrying of the Blessed Sacrament in such monstrances, except during the octave of Corpus Christi.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05713a.htm   (1123 words)

  
 Century of Progress Exposition
As was the case with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, the Century of Progress Exposition was conceived in an atmosphere of economic, political, and social crisis, shaped this time by the economic recession that followed America's victory in World War I, the ensuing Red Scare, Chicago's 1919 Race Riots, and Chicago's notorious gangster violence.
Furthermore, despite early promises from exposition directors, African Americans were discriminated against in exposition employment practices and were refused service in several restaurants on the fairgrounds.
Perhaps the exposition's most lasting bequest was to remind Chicagoans and Americans alike of the distance they had traveled and of the distance they had yet to journey in defining the meaning of progress.
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/225.html   (1652 words)

  
 Pan-American Exposition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
airs and expositions were held in numerous locations worldwide in the late nineteenth century as a way for the city holding the fair or exposition to boast about their past accomplishments and future promise.
On September 19, 1901, then-President William McKinley was fatally shot by self-proclaimed anarchist Leon Czolgosz, an event that overshadowed the magnificence of the Exposition itself.
Rumsey had let the Special Committee choose his farm for the grounds of the Exposition, but only after being promised it would be returned to him in the exact condition in which he agreed to let them use it.
ah.bfn.org /h/panam/north.html   (3544 words)

  
 Panama-California Exposition, San Diego 1915
Aubrey Davidson, president of the Panama-California Exposition Company, declared the Exposition's purpose was to build an empire extending from the back country of the Pacific slope to the west shores of the Missouri River.
The Plaza de Panama was the hub of the Panama-California Exposition.
The Cafe Cristobal at the entrance to the Alameda and the Alhambra Cafeteria at the entrance to the Isthmus were the Exposition's main restaurants.
www.sandiegohistory.org /pancal/sdexpo33.htm   (3660 words)

  
 The Writer's Writing Guide: Exposition
Exposition is the background material a reader needs to know for the story to move forward.
With indirect exposition, the writer gives the reader the data in subtle but clear ways, thereby allowing the reader to be a partner when it comes to laying the foundation of the story.
After all, if exposition is delivered directly, it might feel as if it is a block of who, what, when, and where which breaks the flow of a story, or, if it begins the story, delays the action.
www.rachelsimon.com /wg_exposition.htm   (2515 words)

  
 Exposition, Script Directory @ Theatre with Anatoly
The point of exposition is to put the initial dramatic question on the table, or to introduce, at least in part, to the dramatic situation.
The exposition ends with the inciting moment, which is the single incident in the story's action without which there would be no story.
In the exposition to William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," two servants of the house of Capulet discuss the feud between their master and the house of Montague, thereby letting the audience know that such a feud exists and that it will play an important role in influencing the plot.
script.vtheatre.net /exposition.html   (2366 words)

  
 Exposition (plot device) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Because exposition generally does not advance plot and may impede present-time action, it is usually best kept in short and succinct form, though in some genres, such as the mystery, exposition is central to the story structure itself.
Exposition is also necessary in some dramas since it is can be from the point of view and perception of a character, and may or may not accurately reveal the facts.
An early form of exposition known as the "prologue" was practiced in theatre, for example, Oedipus the King by the Greek dramatist Sophocles.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Exposition_(plot_device)   (1509 words)

  
 Exposition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Exposition (plot device), undepicted plot elements are elaborated in dialogue
Expository writing, a genre in which the purpose is to inform, explain, describe or define
Eucharistic adoration, in which the Blessed Sacrament is exposed and adored
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Exposition   (129 words)

  
 ACM1: Exposition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Join the ACM1 Exposition team as they lead you on a journey of unlimited directions to pursue dreams and meet the challenges of our changing world.
Open to all conference attendees and the public, the ACM1 Exposition will encourage the visitor to enter a technological wonderland that will challenge previously held ideas and concepts about IT.
We are planning massive campaigns to target teachers in local schools to bring their classes and are partnering with local media to have the ACM1 Exposition as a fun and educational weekend destination for families.
www.acm.org /acm1/exposition/index.html   (311 words)

  
 Exposition, That Cruel Mistress
Exposition is the process by which we explain who our characters are, their relationships to one another, and their positions in the story.
Exposition allows us to be in the moment, to know who these people are, where they've been, and where they're going.
At the same time, that sort of code simply doesn't work in low-context exposition: when you are speaking with someone you have never met.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/playwrights/35327   (449 words)

  
 exposition. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Expositions grew out of the traditional medieval cloth fairs (see fair).
The international exposition as we know it today began with the exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London in 1851; its huge success inspired a series of international expositions throughout the world.
The Bureau of International Expositions in Paris regulates and sanctions world’s fairs and international expositions.
www.bartleby.com /65/ex/expositi.html   (186 words)

  
 Exposition Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Exposition Park is bounded by Figueroa to the east, King to the south, Vermont to the west, and Exposition Boulevard to the north.
With the support of fellow civic leaders such as USC President George Finley Bovard, Bowen garnered the commitments of city, state and county to develop the land as a public educational, cultural and recreational center.
On November 6, 1913, the day after William Mulholland opened the Owens River aqueduct, Exposition Park was formally dedicated, home to a state Exposition Building and the county Museum of History, Science and Art, and slated to gain a National Guard Armory.
www.usc.edu /dept/CCR/theme/expo.html   (442 words)

  
 Delirious LA | Exposition Park
Yet this calculation assumes that all of Exposition Park is verdant green space, when in fact much of the park is dedicated to surface parking for 3800+ cars, various museums and sports facilities - including the under-utilized 101,000 seat LA Coliseum and the 22,400 seat LA Memorial Sports Area.
Exposition Park was established 1872 as privately owned showground equipped with stables, paddocks and a racetrack for agricultural and horticultural fairs, livestock and farm equipment shows, and horse races.
By the mid-90s, Exposition Park had been divided north-south between culture and sports, and any sense of cohesion had long been lost - the architecture and planning firm Zimmer Gunsal Frasca was commissioned in 1991 to develop a master plan to bring the disparate elements of the park into order.
www.deliriousla.net /essays/2003-expopark.htm   (1012 words)

  
 World's Columbian Exposition
The WCC quickly laid the groundwork for the exposition and formally notified the President of the United States that all of the preliminary requirements of the Congressional act had been fulfilled.
Karl Bitter was the director os sculpture at the 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo (New York), the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis (Missouri), and the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition.
Total cost for the exposition was $27,245,566.90, excluding the $3-4 million spent by state, federal, and foreign governments on their exhibit buildings.
users.vnet.net /schulman/Columbian/columbian.html   (2755 words)

  
 exposition — Infoplease.com
exposition or exhibition,term frequently applied to an organized public fair or display of industrial and artistic productions, designed usually to promote trade and to reflect cultural progress.
Memory and the politics of forgetting Paris, the Commune and the 1878 Exposition universelle.
The Center of It All: NAA targets Orlando for its 2002 Education Conference & Exposition.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/sci/A0818047.html   (378 words)

  
 johnaugust.com » Dialogue versus exposition
If the answer is the latter, you’re writing exposition and not dialogue.
At its worst, you risk “M Syndrome,” named for the James Bond boss whose sole function seems to be telling 007 all the backstory so he knows who to shoot.
In certain genres, like police procedurals, exposition is pretty much par for the course.
johnaugust.com /archives/2004/dialogue-versus-exposition   (479 words)

  
 Pan-Am Exposition, 1901   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Pan-American Exposition, staged in Buffalo, New York, presented in microcosm all of the trends, developments, innovations, and attitudes of the McKinley years.
The exposition was opened in the spring of 1901 by the new vice president, Theodore Roosevelt.
On the morning of September 5th, the president and first lady crossed the Triumphal Causeway and entered the fair grounds in an open carriage preceded by troops, military bands, and a mounted honor guard.
lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/papr/mckpanex.html   (378 words)

  
 Wisconsin Exposition Center at State Fair Park
The Wisconsin Exposition Center is centrally located in the greater Milwaukee area in the friendly neighborhood setting of West Allis, WI, on the grounds of Wisconsin State Fair Park.
The Wisconsin Exposition Center was built and designed with all the amenities our clients and their patrons expect from an exposition facility.
The Exposition Center's ceiling height, floor load capacity, surface-level loading docks, drive-in bays, full utilities, computerized box office operations, 35,000 sq/ft+ pre-function areas, 3,000 sq/ft meeting room(s) and 10,000+ on-site parking spaces, combine to offer a complete show venue ready to host your next event.
www.wiexpositioncenter.com   (222 words)

  
 World's Fairs and Expositions in Stereoscopic 3-D   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
As planning for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo was getting underway in December of 1899, its Director-General, William I. Buchanan, wrote that it "is the first and best opportunity we have had to justify, by means of the most available object lessons we can produce, the acquisition of new territory; to demonstrate...
The expositions held in the United States in the first decades of the twentieth century promoted the country's new international role by highlighting technological progress, military strength, and visions of what the country would become during the century.
Louis World's Fair of 1904, the Lewis and Clark exposition in Oregon in 1905, the Jamestown Exposition of 1907, and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909, Filipinos brought to the United States for display were among the most popular exhibits.
www.boondocksnet.com /stereo/eracards.html   (536 words)

  
 Congress of Cities & Exposition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Congress of Cities and Exposition serves as NLC's "annual convention" and offers a broad range of learning opportunities combined with conducting organizational business.
This conference is unique in it partners with the Hosting city to develop educational programs which allow the city to display its accomplishments.
This is the only NLC conference with an exposition.
www.nlc.org /Conferences___Events/Congress_of_Cities___Exposition   (210 words)

  
 Paris 1900
The Exposition Universelle, Paris 1900 was part of a remarkable tradition of International Expositions that were held in Europe and America from the middle of the Nineteenth Century to the time of the First World War.
The Exposition Universelle, Paris 1900 is most remembered for its influence on the Art Deco movement and architectural gems like Eliel Saarinen's Finnish pavilion.
Trocadero Entrance to the Exposition, Colonial Section in Foreground, Paris Exposition, 1900
www.education.miami.edu /ep/Paris/html/paris_1900.html   (194 words)

  
 Welcome to the Champlain Valley Exposition
Mid-November: The Soccer Center at Champlain Valley Exposition  Opens with Nordic and Far Post Indoor Futsal and 7v7 Soccer leagues.
Now is the time to make plans for your event at the Champlain Valley Exposition in 2007 and 2008.
To sponsor an event at the Exposition, call George or Tom at (802) 878-5545.
www.cvfair.com   (312 words)

  
 exposition - Definitions from Dictionary.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
a large-scale public exhibition or show, as of art or manufactured products: an exposition of 19th-century paintings; an automobile exposition.
the act of expounding, setting forth, or explaining: the exposition of a point of view.
the act of presenting to view; display: The singer gave a splendid exposition of vocal talent.
dictionary.reference.com.cob-web.org:8888 /search?q=exposition   (250 words)

  
 Panama-California Expo, San Diego 1915   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Not included here are the many other views of San Diego and California sold with Exposition logos to promote the Exposition.
A few postcards were made for both the Panama-California and the Panama-Pacific Exposition, held in San Francisco, held also in 1915.
Exposition Station postage cancellations were made only at this post office.
www.sandiegohistory.org /pancal/sdexpo3.htm   (126 words)

  
 exposition
an exposition of 19th-century paintings; an automobile exposition.
The students prepared expositions on familiar essay topics.
The singer gave a splendid exposition of vocal talent.
www.infoplease.com /dictionary/exposition   (121 words)

  
 The Big E
We are a not-for-profit educational institution committed to excellence in providing year-round opportunities for the development and promotion of agriculture, education, industry and family entertainment while preserving our New England heritage.
The Big E hosts participants and guests that come from along the eastern seaboard as well as throughout the country.
Hosting more than 100 events that are presented by a number of promoters, there are many reasons to visit us all year long.
www.thebige.com   (173 words)

  
 American Society of Hematology: Annual Meeting
This year, over 300 pharmaceutical companies, medical suppliers, clinical diagnostic and research-based companies, publishers, and nonprofit organizations will be participating in the 2006 ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.
The exposition will be held in Halls C and D of the West Building of the Orange County Convention Center, and badges will be required for entrance.
Children under 12 years of age will not be allowed in the exhibit hall.
www.hematology.org /meetings/2006/attendee/exposition.cfm   (370 words)

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