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OBDM940 - Howdie Mickoski: A Curated History, The Worlds Fair and the Exit Door for Reality

Our Big Dumb Mouth

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The World's Fair, Is It Real?

The world's fairs of the 18th and 19th century were financed by, i guess what you call the robber barons of the time. The first one was in philadelphia in 18 76, and it lost like four million dollars,. which is a massive amount of money. So if we get to the buildings, ok. Where did the buildings from? How did they actually get this constructed? And then too, why were they really building it? What was the real reason for wanting to put this amount of maa, material, man power, money?

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