nov 8, 1913 - World Fair
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Apr 6 The World's Fair opens in Ghent, Belgium, to run to October. Also in Belgium, in this Age of Empire, at the Palais du Congo, an open book commemorates Belgium's imperialism. It reads: "Does she [Belgium] not owe it to herself, to her honor, to continue the work of civilisation begun by the valiant colonizers, sleeping in the African bush, far from the Mother Country?" (from 1913, by Charles Emmerson, p 4)Added to timeline:
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nov 8, 1913
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~ 111 years ago