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The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, 1851 (photographer unknown)

The Crystal Palace was a glass and iron structure built to house the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in Hyde Park, London, in 1851. After the Exhibition, it was moved and expanded and rebuilt on Sydenham Hill overlooking London, where it enjoyed a second life from 1854 until a horrific fire destroyed it in 1936.

The Crystal Palace is a significant structure in many ways: it was the first structure of its size assembled from prefabricated parts; its system of horizontal trusses has since become one of the most widely-used construction methods in the world; it was at the time the world's largest enclosed open-air structure; and its success inspired the building of similar structures around the world, from the New York Crystal Palace in New York City to the Kibble Palace in Glasgow. It also symbolizes technological prowess and imperial power of enormous historical and cultural significance. In its second incarnation in Sydenham as a suburban pleasure palace it drew crowds away from the central metropolis and was also a concert hall, famous for its performances of Handel with a massed orchestra, choir, and the Palace's enormous organ; a recording of such a performance in 1888 is the earliest known recording of live music in existence. Its exterior park, with fountains, terraces, and an outdoor exhibition of life-size dinosaur sculptures, was also highly influential. It also housed, from 1933 to 1936, the experimental studios of the Baird television company, which made regular short-wave broadcasts from its South Tower.[more...]

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-'''[[Gross Domestic Product]]''' ('''GDP''')  is a total  of the outputs recorded in a country’s [[national income accounts]]. It is the best-known  of such totals, and  estimates of its growth rate are widely used as indicators of the prospects of inflation or unemployment. GDP ''per capita'' (that is, divided by total population) is the most frequently used measure of  a country's or region's level of economic development. For alternative measures, see [[Human Development Index]].
+[[Image:CrysPal 1851.gif|thumb|right|150px|The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, 1851 (photographer unknown)]]
+The '''[[Crystal Palace]]''' was a glass and iron structure built to house the [[Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations]] in [[Hyde Park]], [[London]], in 1851. After the Exhibition, it was moved and expanded and rebuilt on [[Sydenham]] Hill overlooking London, where it enjoyed a second life from 1854 until a horrific fire destroyed it in 1936.
-Gross domestic product is the principal summary statistic of [[national income accounts]]. The current  practice of national income accounting was developed during the Second World War  by Richard Stone and James Meade at the instigation of John Maynard Keynes  while they were working as civil servants  in the British Cabinet Office. In his 1984 Nobel prize lecture, Richard Stone ascribes the origins of the concept to essays by  William Petty in 1664 and Richard Gordon in 1802, and reproduces their estimates for the English economies of their times.
+The Crystal Palace is a significant structure in many ways: it was the first structure of its size assembled from [[prefabrication|prefabricated]] parts; its system of horizontal trusses has since become one of the most widely-used construction methods in the world; it was at the time the world's largest enclosed open-air structure; and its success inspired the building of similar structures around the world, from the [[New York Crystal Palace]] in [[New York City]] to the [[Kibble Palace]] in [[Glasgow]]. It also symbolizes technological prowess and imperial power of enormous historical and cultural significance. In its second incarnation in Sydenham as a [[suburbs|suburban]] pleasure palace it drew crowds away from the central metropolis and was also a concert hall, famous for its performances of [[George Frideric Handel|Handel]] with a massed orchestra, choir, and the Palace's enormous organ; a recording of such a performance in 1888 is the earliest known recording of live music in existence. Its exterior park, with fountains, terraces, and an outdoor exhibition of life-size [[dinosaur]] sculptures, was also highly influential. It also housed, from 1933 to 1936, the experimental studios of the [[John Logie Baird|Baird]] [[History of television|television]] company, which made regular [[short-wave]] broadcasts from its South Tower.<font size=1>[[Crystal Palace|['''more...''']]]</font>
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-'''[[Henry Kissinger]]''' (1923- ), American exponent of "realism" in foreign policy; he dominated in the Nixon and Ford administrations as National Security Adviser and Secretary of State. He won the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for reaching a peace that ended the [[Vietnam War]].  In close collaboration with Nixon, he created a détente policy that called for an end to the [[Cold War]] and for friendly relations with both the [[Soviet Union]] and [[China]].
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