As the name suggests, the Fair was suggested as a way to celebrate the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
I get the chance to remember them all this time later.
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In the past, World's Fairs were a way of bringing new technology to the attention of the masses and this fair was no exception - the use of electricity the public feared it at the time , personal cars, airplanes, and the electric streetcar were all highlighted.
Subsequently, the French and British - as well as the United States when they entered World War 1 - developed and used lethal gas in war.
In 1900, by the time he was only 6 years old, artist Henri Matisse, born in 1869 in France, began the fauvist movement.