gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:World's_Fair
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gptkbp:annualVisitors
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over 27 million
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gptkbp:architect
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gptkb:Daniel_Burnham
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gptkbp:area
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over 600 acres
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gptkbp:chief_landscape_architect
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gptkb:Frederick_Law_Olmsted
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gptkbp:endDate
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October 30, 1893
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gptkbp:exhibits
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gptkb:Court_of_Honor
gptkb:Japanese_Ho-o-den_Pavilion
gptkb:Nikola_Tesla's_alternating_current_system
gptkb:Edison_Electric_Light_Company
gptkb:Grand_Basin
gptkb:Liberty_Bell
gptkb:Palace_of_Fine_Arts
gptkb:U.S._Government_Building
gptkb:casino
gptkb:lake
gptkb:Music_Hall
gptkb:Illinois_State_Building
gptkb:Mines_and_Mining_Building
gptkb:Transportation_Building
gptkb:Agricultural_Building
gptkb:Anthropology_Building
gptkb:Electricity_Building
gptkb:Fisheries_Building
gptkb:Forestry_Building
gptkb:Horticultural_Building
gptkb:Machinery_Hall
gptkb:Manufactures_and_Liberal_Arts_Building
gptkb:Woman's_Building
gptkb:Administration_Building
gptkb:Wooded_Island
gptkb:Westinghouse_Electric_Company
gptkb:Fine_Arts_Building
gptkb:Statue_of_the_Republic
Peristyle
Colonnade
Viking ship replica
Frederick Douglass (Haitian Pavilion)
Susan B. Anthony (Woman's Building)
first moving walkway
Ida B. Wells (pamphlet on African Americans at the fair)
first voice recording of a U.S. president (Grover Cleveland)
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (adjacent to fairgrounds)
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Great Exposition of 1893
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:City_Beautiful_movement
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gptkbp:introduced
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gptkb:Shredded_Wheat
gptkb:Aunt_Jemima_pancake_mix
gptkb:Cracker_Jack
gptkb:Juicy_Fruit_gum
gptkb:Pabst_Blue_Ribbon_beer
first public demonstration of the dishwasher
first public demonstration of the zipper
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gptkbp:legacy
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inspiration for L. Frank Baum's Emerald City
inspiration for Walt Disney's father, Elias Disney, who worked at the fair
Museum of Science and Industry (in former Palace of Fine Arts)
Jackson Park (site of the fair)
inspiration for the City Beautiful movement in urban planning
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gptkbp:location
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gptkb:Chicago,_Illinois,_United_States
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gptkbp:notableFeature
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gptkb:Ferris_Wheel
gptkb:The_White_City
gptkb:Midway_Plaisance
Electric lighting
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gptkbp:officialName
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gptkb:World's_Columbian_Exposition
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gptkbp:purpose
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celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World
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gptkbp:startDate
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May 1, 1893
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Great_Exposition_Refractor
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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8
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