100 things blogging challenge - 58: The Great Exhibition

[birdienl]

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[msantimacassar]

Ahh, this is one of my favorite historical events! I only wish I could have been there to witness it all myself!

[birdienl]

Oh yes, me too! (Though being modern people, we would maybe have been underwhelmed by it?)

[msantimacassar]

Perhaps! But I like to think it would still be dazzling! The building itself was incredible!

[vexena_sky]

Very interesting! Thank you for this.
It's fascinating to imagine how people might have looked around and discussed about modern technology just like today. Also the picture looks very interesting :)

[birdienl]

It looks so pretty right? It's a pity the building itself burned down (in the 1930's I believe?) so we can't even visit that now to get an idea of what it was like.

[ever_maedhros]

There were 13,000 exhibits? Goodness, I had no idea the number was so huge!

[birdienl]

I guess you could hardly visit all of them in one day!

[ever_maedhros]

It would take that long just to count them, let alone actually look at anything. :)

[elysium_22]

Excellent post!

What a shame this edifice doesn't exist today. It must have been so very fascinating to see!

[birdienl]

Oh yes, I agree, it must have been very impressive, so large and with all the glass.