GO to MOOT POINT: the 1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR

1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR poster, a new humanism

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."

1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR

entry tickets were printed in both Belgian languages, and apparently
cost 30 franks ... attendance was 41 million people

1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR

the Atomium ... a giant model of a unit cell of an iron crystal

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1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR

the Atomium now see full size

1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR

an escalator inside the Atomium      see full size

1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR

1958 Atomium momentos

1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR

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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1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR

Russian pavilion interior 1958 wf Grand Prix winner

part of the Russian pavilion ... a map shows nuclear icebreaker routes
(the Soviet exposition was awarded with a Grand Prix)

1958 BRUSSELS WORLD'S FAIR