the 1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR

Expo '58,  the first world's fair after World War II,  took place in Belgium during the cold war:

 from Wikipedia . . . "The autograph of Mozart's Requiem was placed on display.  At some point, someone was able to gain access to the manuscript, tearing off the bottom right-hand corner of the second to last page (folio 99r/45r), containing the words "Quam olim d: C:".  As of 2012 the perpetrator has not been identified and the fragment has not been recovered.  If the most common authorship theory is true, then "Quam olim d: C:" might very well be the last words Mozart wrote before he died.  It is probable that whoever stole the fragment believed that to be the case."
     
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entry tickets were printed in both Belgian languages,  and apparently
cost 30 franks ... attendance was 41 million people
     
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  the Atomium ... a giant model of a unit cell of an iron crystal 

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the Atomium now       see full size

     
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an escalator inside the Atomium       see full size
     
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1958 Atomium momentos

     
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  the American pavilion (above) used Walt Disney's 'Circarama',  a completely
surrounding projection technology that was later called Circle-Vision 360°
at Expo 67 in Canada ... the Soviet pavilion had a model of Sputnik which
mysteriously disappeared,  and they accused the US of stealing it 

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part of the Russian pavilion ... a map shows nuclear icebreaker routes
(the Soviet exposition was awarded with a Grand Prix)
     
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an interior of the Luxembourg pavilion       see full size
     
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the Thailand pavilion,  seen from under the walkway       see full size
     
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  the 'Pavillon des Postes et Télécommunication'       see full size
     
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  in the Atomium was George Nelson's modular design,  'Marshmallow Sofa' 

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the Czech pavilion

      
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the USSR pavilion       see full size

       
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these buildings are old now,  and they show it a little
     
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the walkway at night in 1958       see full size