World's fair

Enormous public buildings with soaring domes and intricate stonework.

buildings like the chicago world's fair of eighteen ninety three which covered six hundred acres with elaborate neoclassical architecture that looked like something from ancient rome or a fantasy novel mud flood theorists look at these buildings and ask a reasonable question How did people in the 1890s, supposedly primitive by our standards, create architecture this sophisticated? They didn't have computer-aided design, they didn't have modern construction equipment, they had horses and hand tools, and yet they built structures that modern architects struggle to replicate.

Doesn't that suggest these buildings weren't actually built in the 1890s? Doesn't that suggest they were inherited from a more advanced civilization and the Victorians just claimed credit? Here's where we need to talk about the World's Fair conspiracy.

Because this is where mud-flood theory intersects with some genuinely fascinating architectural history.

The 1893 Chicago World's Fair really did look impossibly grand.

photographs show enormous neoclassical buildings dozens of them covered with elaborate sculptures and decorative elements visitors described it as the most beautiful place they had ever seen it looked permanent eternal like it had been there for centuries but here's the thing those buildings weren't made of stone they were made of staff a mixture of plaster cement and fibre coated over wooden frames they were temporary structures designed to last just long enough for the fair after the fair ended most of them were demolished or destroyed by fire they never were permanent buildings they were essentially movie sets elaborate faades designed to create an impression of grandeur this is where the conspiracy gets interesting Because if you didn't know those buildings were temporary, if you just saw photographs of this elaborate city that appeared seemingly overnight and then vanished just as quickly, you might think something strange had happened.

You might think the official story that they were built in just a few years for a temporary fair was a cover-up.

The buildings themselves were designed as resonance chambers, their specific proportions and materials creating harmonic frequencies that amplified and distributed electrical energy.

So Nancy Green was born enslaved in Kentucky in 1834.

She was hired by R.T. Davis Milling Company in 1890 and debuted as Aunt Jemima at the 1893's World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, aka the World's Fair.

where her cooking demonstration

and storytelling made her one of the first black corporate spokespeople in American advertising through the character, though the character itself was built on the racist mammy character, which is part of why the brand was retired and renamed in 2021.

I mean, that's just, that, that is a mind-boggling number.

One out of every three Americans alive went to the Chicago World's Fair.

Yeah, think about that.

One out of three.

How did that happen?

Well, here's how.

In 1889, Paris threw a world's fair, and they built the Eiffel Tower, and the U- n- the entire United States lost its mind along the way.

Well, of course they did.

But we had no idea, of course, that the world was to listen, mouth open, 25 years later, to the stories of the marvelous traveling kitchens of the Teuton Army, serving meals piping hot on the road to Brussels, an idea gained from the Buffalo Bill Wild West show when we toured Germany." Two years more were left for Annie Oakley in Europe, a part of which time was consumed during a tour of Scotland with the show and the rest being spent again at Earl's Court as an added attraction of the horticultural exhibit of 1892.

Then back to American soil came the aggregation and the beginning of its present-day reputation with its engagement as a part of the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.

For then, in truth, did Colonel Cody's show become Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World.

You know what? It sucks to be bored.

Outing garment houses copied her dresses.

Annie Oakley was a fixture, or as much of a fixture as this country can possess, in the minds of the American populace.

For seven years after the World's Fair, she continued to travel with the Buffalo Bill show, watching, incidentally, the processes which gradually led to its disintegration.

There was, of course, the ending of the partnership between Nate Salisbury and Buffalo Bill and the beginning of a new one with James A. Bailey.

So technically we could say Thomas Edison was partly responsible for video games.

But the first video game that debuted at the World's Fair.

So I guess that sounds pretty official.

This was at the World's Fair in New York.

La Expo, as you say, Exposición Mundial.

And this was in the year 1940.

What does the album title Cascade mean to you and what ties the songs together for you on this album?

Well, the title comes from, we got a lot of inspiration from a book that was like an old book about the World's Fair that was in the 1800s.

Yeah.

One in Chicago.

So, they phoned me to Los Angeles, or if I'd come up and pitch for him.

I said, of course I'll come up and pitch for you, because I'm going to Los Angeles, or San Francisco anyhow, because the World's Fair was on.

See, it was after the season.

I said, well, you don't want to make my expense any, I thought.