Bob Jacobson

You would have to ask Professor Lu. Why the fixation on heavy armor?...

I would agree that the "USA" pavilion -- it was actually a private pavilion, the only privately run national pavilion at the Expo -- may have had some mildly entertaining fare for its Chinese visitors...

PS For those who are wondering what Blogaholic's talking about when it claims "he has the cheek to 'thank' the commenter who exposes him for giving the opportunity to tell us who he really is," it's Z...

Oh Blogaholic, give it a rest. Everyone knows who I am. In fact, I did identify myself in the various posts and additionally pointed readers to the BH&L Group website where the archives of this deba...

Several Chinese companies are sponsors including the company that built the pavilion and the company that's building its online companion. The only thing Americans have done is to make the movies tha...

All three of you have it wrong. As a prelude, the US participated in the 1986 Vancouver Expo, the 1992 Seville Expo (a half-hearted effort due to a spiteful Congressman, the guy who wrote the law req...

Super, just like everywhere else. Grease rules. Except here in Sweden. Here we have Max: organic, free-trade, healthy-ingredients fast food. It looks like hamburgers and fries to me, though. N...

I don't know, Adam, about the Caribbean Community Pavilion dominating the Shanghai Expo's food scene. I heard that the US Pavilion will be the Food Court par Excellence what with Yum! (KFC, Taco Be...

The Pavilion suffers from the fact that because the Bush and now Obama Administrations chose to rely on private donors to support the US Pavilion, rather than funding it directly as has always been cu...

And one more: the online Expo Museum http://expomuseum.com/ by Urso Chappell....

So you know what you're talking about: http://en.expo2010china.com/ B....

Zaragoza 2008 - Clean Water and Its Preservation Aichi 2005 - Intellectual Promise Hanover 2000 - The EU's Coming Out Party Lisbon 1998 - Exploration Sevilla 1992 - Culture The next two Expos, after ...

You can read the TV2 debate about moving the Little Mermaid here: http://1234-dyn.tv2.dk/article.php/id-15409664.html Use Google Language Tools to translate the entire page from Danish to the langua...

The Folkpartiet (People's Party) is xenophobic and reactionary. It represents racists, conservative farmers, and cynical business folk who like that it holds back social services in order to reduce t...

Thanks to Talhansie for some insights to which we on this side of the ocean aren't privy. It seems to me and many other observers, however, that if China wanted merely another domestic spectacle it c...