The exposition also demonstrated the power of emerging technologies, particularly electricity, with displays coordinated by George Westinghouse using alternating current systems championed by Nikola Tesla.
The World’s Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, was one of the most ambitious and influential world’s fairs ever staged, conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s 1492 voyage.
“The little apple of death.”
All through the coasts of the Caribbean, Central America, the northern edges of South America, and even in south Florida, there can be found a pleasant-looking beachy sort of tree, often laden with small greenish-yellow fruits that look not unlike apples.
June 11, National Corn on the Cob Day
Corn is a wild grass. Over 10,000 years ago, people from Southern Mexico collected and consumed a wild grass called ‘teosinte’, which is now what we call ‘maize’ (field corn). From Mexico, maize spread during migrations, into the southwest areas of the U.S.A and south to Peru. Corn is now America’s biggest crop and a staple of the global food supply.
