http://www.metafilter.com/tags/whitecity Posts tagged with 'whitecity' at MetaFilter. Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:57:02 -0800 Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:57:02 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/23485/The%2DWhite%2DCity <a href="http://www.devilinthewhitecity.com/home.html">This book</a> was discussed last week, but in all the fuss about serial killers, we may have missed the extraordinary <a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/WCE/title.html">setting</a> of the book: The <a href="http://users.vnet.net/schulman/Columbian/columbian.html">1893 World's Fair</a>. The <a href="http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/cassatt8.html">white city</a> had some of the most beautiful architecture Chicago has ever seen, <a href="http://www.osakagarden.org/whitecity-hooden.htm">some</a> of which still survives today. Of course, there are <a href="http://expomuseum.com/1964/">better remembered world's fairs,</a> but the Chicago fair of 1893 is where the <a href="http://mathforum.org/dynamic/jrk/ferris_dir/">ferris wheel</a> was invented, the <a href="http://history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm">pledge of allegiance</a> was popularized, and <a href="http://www.pabst.com/flashsite/ourbeer.htm">PBR</a> made its national debut. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.23485 Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:57:02 -0800 ferris killer pbr whitecity sodalinda