The Crystal Palace

This idea of a glass house was quite as new as the idea of having an exhibition at all, and the Prince was delighted with it.

Very soon a palace of glass began to rise in Hyde Park, and it seemed so beautiful that the people called it the Crystal Palace.

And very beautiful indeed it looked on the opening day.

It gleamed and glittered like a fairy thing.

Never before had there been so many people from strange countries gathered together in London.

Never before had so many beautiful and curious things been seen all at once.

When it was over, the Crystal Palace was not destroyed, but was taken down and built up again at another place.

There it has remained ever since, and is still one of the sights of London.

And see that.

And just the Crystal Palace.

It must have looked stunning.

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Therefore Craddock Knoll was hot, footsore, and slightly jaded as he came to the foot of Sydenham Hill on the second day of his journey.

The Crystal Palace, which long had been his landmark through country crossroads, shone with blue and airy light as the sun was sinking.

Craddock admired more and more, as the shadows sloped along it, the fleeting gleams, the pellucid depth, the brightness of reflection framed by the softness of refraction.

He had always loved that building, and now at the top of the hill he resolved, weary as he was, to enter and take his food there.

Both planes were only at the airport because they had been diverted from Los Palmas due to a bomb explosion.

simultaneous radio messages cancelled each other out and non-standard language was used between the cockpits and the control tower after the crash important changes were made to international regulations including strict requirements for standard phrases and an emphasis on english as the common working language Originally built in Hyde Park to showcase the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palace was eventually moved to a suburb of London now known as Upper Norwood, where between 1854 and 1936 it became a popular destination for thousands of Victorian pleasure seekers.

After its move from Hyde Park, the huge wrought iron and glass edifice wound up being about 560 metres in length and around 50 metres high.

It was created by Joseph Paxton, who received a knighthood for his efforts.

A few weeks earlier, two French aeronauts, a Monsieur and Madame du Rouff, making an ascent from Calais, had been carried out to sea, and dropping into the Channel, had passed through enough perils to make them a nine days' wonder.

Arrangements had been completed for them to make a fresh ascent from the grounds of the Crystal Palace, and half London seemed to have gone down to Sydenham to see them off.

I was young and eager then, and having but lately joined the staff of the Daily News as a special correspondent, was burning for an opportunity to distinguish myself.

So I went off to the Crystal Palace, resolved to go up in the balloon.

No, said Mr. Coxwell, when I asked him if there were a seat to spare in the car.

No, I am sorry to say that you are too late.

I had an idea that we should go up with a rush and be instantly in the cold current of air, in view of which the preparation of extra raiment, the nature of which has been already indicated, had been made.

But here we were, a thousand feet above the level of the palace gardens, sailing calmly along in bright, warm sunlight, and no more motion perceptible than if we were sitting on chairs in the gardens and had been so sitting whilst the balloon mounted.

When Americans visited London, they called upon the genial, true-hearted banker, whose integrity they could always depend upon, and transacted their business with him.

In 1851, the World's Fair was opened at the Crystal Palace, London, Prince Albert having worked earnestly to make it a great success.

Congress neglected to make the needed appropriations for America, and her people did not care, apparently, whether Power's Greek slave, Ho's wonderful printing press, or the McCormick Reaper were seen or not.

But George Peabody cared for the honor of his nation, and gave $15,000 to the American exhibitors, that they might make their display worthy of the great country which they were to represent.

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A little way from London, England, at Denmark Hill, looking toward the Crystal Palace, is a mansion which is fit for royalty.

The grounds, covering from thirty to forty acres, are beautifully terraced, dotted here and there with lakelets, fountains, and artificial caverns, while the great clumps of red rhododendron, yellow laburnum, pink hawthorn, and white laurel make an exquisitely colored picture.