The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage …

The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) is a science museum located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago.It is housed in the former Palace of Fine Arts from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.Initially endowed by Julius Rosenwald, the Sears, Roebuck and Company president …

28 avril : combat de Kori-Kori et prise de Bandiagara le 29 avril par la colonne d’Archinard [11] ; le 4 mai, Aguibou, frère d’Ahmadou, qui s’est rallié à la France, est proclamé roi du Macina, mais il sera déposé le 12 février 1903 [12].; 19 mai : prise de Douentza [11]. Ahmadou, vaincu, échappe à Archinard et poursuit la résistance à l’est jusqu’à sa mort en 1895 dans ...