SH Archive 1908: National Exposition of Brazil at Rio de Janeiro

[KD Archive]

These worldwide expositions are fascinating. It appears there is no country in the world without one. When we don't find one, we probably did not look good enough. Not like I was specifically looking for this one, but the Monroe Palace kind of pushed me into it. This 1908 exposition was known under the following names:

• Exhibition of the centenary of the opening of the Ports of Brazil
• Brazilian National Exposition of 1908
• National Exposition of Brazil at Rio de Janeiro

Reason for celebration:

• It marked a hundred years since the opening of the Brazilian ports celebrated Brazil's trade and development.

Interesting: The fair was opened (a month later than planned) by President of Brazil Afonso Pena. The main entrance was through a hundred foot high illuminated gateway designed by René Barba. On arrival, the president was escorted from Catete Palace to the opening gate by lancers from the 9th cavalry, and then escorted by the exhibition's commissioners to the central palace while canons were fired and the national hymn was played.

• I really start to wonder what the significance of this One Unit (month, or year) delay is. In the United States we are normally One Year Late.

Some Exposition Stats:

• Participants: 2 countries
• Opened: 11 August 1908
• Closed: 15 November 1908
• Total: 96 days
• Audience: More than 1 million paying
• Area: 182,000 square metres (18.2 ha)
• Held between 2 hills: Babylon and Urca

Is this a temporary bldg with columns on right?


View of the Expo
...well some of it, I guess...


Night View


Buildings


Palace of Industries - not a temp...




Zoom in on this one please: flagpoles or tech?




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There were pavilions from Brazilian states of Bahia, São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Minas Gerais, and the Federal District of Brazil, along with a Portugal pavilion and ones for industry, Post and Telegraph, the Fire Department, a theater and a music pavilion.

• They did not have too many buildings. As you can see below, we are talking about less than 40 here.​

Construction​

Pretty sure we are talking about plaster and horse hair buildings again. I assume that the image below is our construction process. I'm still not sure about that columned building on the right. Is it a permanent one, or a temp?

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Sources:

• Boletim commemorativo da Exposição nacional de 1908 - book in Portuguese + images
• Photo Library Images - recommended
• Exhibition of the centenary of the opening of the Ports of Brazil - Wikipedia
• The Brazilian national exposition of 1908 - Bbook in English + images

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KD: This exposition is classified as "Unrecognized exposition" per its wiki page. For us that would mean that there could be hundreds of "under the radar" expos like this one.

• Our 1908 Rio Expo only lasted for 3 months.
• Why to go through all of this to run the place for such a short period of time?
• What about the lame "centenary of the opening of the Ports of Brazil" reason?

What could be the real purpose of so many of these? What were TPTB really accomplishing by building, running and destroying these marvels? Were these so-called expositions like "gateways to a new life" of sorts? Could it be that people were getting brought in for education, familiarization and indoctrination from somewhere? Here I mean either cloning/producing "Artemis" facilities, or from some lands not listed on our classroom globe?

Diploma?

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Username: HulkSmash
Date: 2019-10-25 13:59:02
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I think these Expos were elaborate 'stageshows', elaborate ruses, that advertised a technological and engineering achievement level that was actually a front, fraud, and a theft of historical truth. We put up these temporary, fascade buildings that mirror the style of the real, permanent buildings. History from that point on credits the actual buildings as ones they constructed themselves. The crazy costs, the temporary design of these expos, the mixing of fascade buildings and real ones, the curious almost concerted effort to have all these expos in a fairly small period of time across the globe. It really seems like these were designed as a massive history 'lesson'/fabrication. These were a cover-up for the stolen history BS they had in their 'grand chessboard', like Zbigniew Brzezinski, wrote about. The dupe sure worked for a long long time, and still is working for most. This is one of the beginning 'lies' that started the entire history rewrite. It is also my opinion that all the wars from around 1600 on ( and maybe earlier ) were all about the same thing, wipe out the traces of the cool, harmonious, freedom oriented, civilization that we colloquially call 'tartarian'. Then, use the expos to steal credit for the style.

 

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Username: Starmonkey
Date: 2019-10-25 14:22:31
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At least there were some peeps wearing white down there. Although they might just be sailors.
Keep the Victorians off the beaches! No thongs! NO THONGS!!

 

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Username: CryoApple
Date: 2019-10-26 03:20:06
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Nice tents these guys are living in!

Also interesting is the removal of these world-wide structures (antediluvian if we can call them that) and how is just seems phenomenal to waste so much time and energy.

Having worse camera quality after these expo's makes no sense, did a war break out over the removal of these structures?

New York, Development or Apocalypse? This coincides with the pictures of unearthed New York. Why are these people living in tents and huts next to these things, are they playing a giant game of civ6?

 

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Username: Banta
Date: 2019-10-26 04:28:13
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Held between 2 hills: Babylon and Urca

Those hills are interesting.

Morro da Babilônia is an environmentally protected area... In the 18th century the Portuguese constructed a fortress on the top of the hill to protect the entrance to Guanabara Bay.[1] In the beginning of the 20th century, the engineer Augusto Ferreira Ramos, projected a connection of Babilônia hill with Urca Hill, as part of the festivities of Centenary of Ports Opening. This project never went from paper to reality.

Morro da Babilônia - Wikipedia

Urca did get connected to Sugarloaf Mountain just four years after this failed plan though.

• 1907 – Brazilian engineer Augusto Ferreira Ramos had the idea of linking the hills through a path in the air.
• 1910 – The same engineer founded the Society of Sugar Loaf and the same year the works were started. The project was commissioned in Germany and built by Brazilian workers. All parts were taken by climbing mountains or lifted by steel cables.
• 1912 – Opening of the tram, first lift of Brazil: The first cable cars were made of coated wood and were used for 61 years.

Sugarloaf Mountain - Wikipedia
Of course, Urca is also a nationally protected area now.

Sugarloaf Mountain and Urca Hill Natural Monument - Wikipedia

 

[BStankman]

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Username: BStankman
Date: 2019-10-26 14:25:41
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please: flagpoles or tech?

Dunno. Do you usually tie all your flag ropes together or put S hooks on them?



This image we have clear white washing in progress



It looks like they have spruced up something older.
Still working the front stoop.


A crack in the facade.

 

[Timeshifter]

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Username: Timeshifter
Date: 2019-10-26 15:41:25
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This does not look so new... and what are these books? slates?





More white washing below? and a shadow....



A pretty poor scan of the original image too when you look at it closely....

 

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Username: Banta
Date: 2019-10-26 16:59:16
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This does not look so new... and what are these books? slates?

Floor tiles or flat stones? Containers of old film from the previous reset? Really depends on what stack you're looking at. Doesn't look uniform, which again makes me think it's random flooring that was maybe ripped out but was in good enough shape to be reused. Whatever they are, doesn't look new, to my eye.

 

[EUAFU]

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Date: 2019-10-27 00:04:40
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Probably this Rio exhibition was just a copy of those made in the USA. Brazil has a long tradition of wanting to imitate the US (unsuccessfully in the best things). What surprises me is the speed of construction.

In 1922 they made another exhibition of this, but with more countries and lasted longer to celebrate 100 years of independence. It was even sponsored by a beer brand.

The Monroe "palace" was demolished in 1976. In 1904 he was taken to the US for the St.Louis world exposition and then returned to Rio. Official sources say the structure was metal. It seems that there was a fever of world exhibitions sweeping the world.

A strange thing is that in Rio and Sao Paulo there were dozens, or hundreds of statues of American President James Monroe. Well, they say it was his. Unfortunately I didn't research it and I live in a city that is only 60 years old, Brasilia which is the current capital of Brazil.

In the case of Rio I don't think they wanted to hide architecture from a previous civilization, it was just the good old spirit of imitating the US that is very strong around here.

But you have been at it for a long time so you are better off noticing inconsistencies.

 

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Username: KorbenDallas
Date: 2019-10-27 00:48:56
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I do not believe things are that simple. When did our might fleet visit Brazil?

• Real mission of the 1907-1909 US Great White Fleet, what was it?

 

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Username: notsogreat
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I was hoping I had more to add when I saw the thread title but as usual it looks like KD has the basics covered.

I have got a few images from when I researched this topic that haven't been posted however.

An interesting looking obelisk /wind vain to the right of this building.

Some more interesting photos that I haven't seen posted

Different view of main Pavillion

A little Star Wars comparison I made

Buildings with mud

More...

 

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Username: Starmonkey
Date: 2019-11-15 16:20:00
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Nice pics. Really got the ghost town vibe going there in a couple.
Old school. More like Paris and Europe than US. BAROQUE.
Great view. And SPOOKY. The oceans are SPOOKY.

 

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Date: 2019-11-30 08:48:48
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Nice tents these guys are living in!

You just found something what was temporary and definitely built in this time frame.

 

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Zoom in on this one please: flagpoles or tech?
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Tech, these cant be flagpoles. Look at how many, and they look more like antennas than flagpoles. You can notice the flagpoles are actually spears, whereas these poles have balls at their ends.
The first building in the first picture also looks suspect. That tower looks similar to some towers from buildings said to capture energy from the air, and there is already that history about the trams moving without electrical cables. Also, both buildings reminded me of some architecture in eastern Asia. Maybe these buildings were evidence of tartarian settlement in Brazil.

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Look at those two towers, in the building on the left. I have the impression they are hiding a Tesla coil in each one of them.

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This picture proves the mud flood have actually happened. This is a victorian building without the mud flood. I dont believe it was part of the exposition, as it dont have those antennas and domes.
You can see the door and windows intact. In places where the flood happened, they are under the street. This picture can be used to refute people who are skeptical of the mud flood.
I think these expositions were set to show how electrical energy could be captured through stone.