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Main Building (Crystal Palace) in 1878. The Canadian National Exhibition is an annual fair held at the end of August in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It was established in 1879 as a modest agricultural and industrial exhibition and has expanded to an annual fair that attracts over one and a half million persons during its two-and-a-half week run.
CNES (French: Centre national d'études spatiales, lit. 'National Centre for Space Studies') is the French national space agency . Headquartered in central Paris , the agency comes under the supervision of the ministries of the Armed Forces , Economy and Finance and Higher Education, Research and Innovation .
The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), also known as The Exhibition or The Ex, is an annual fair that takes place at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on the third Friday of August leading up to and including Labour Day, the first Monday in September. With approximately 1.6 million visitors each year, the CNE is Canada's largest ...
www.cne-siar.gov.uk Comhairle nan Eilean Siar ( Scottish Gaelic for 'Council of the Western Isles'; Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈkʰõ.ərˠʎə nə ˈɲelan ˈʃiəɾ] ) is the local authority for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (the Western Isles, also known as the Outer Hebrides ), one of the 32 council areas of Scotland .
Exhibition Stadium was the fourth stadium to be built on its site since 1879. [1] When the original grandstand was lost due to a fire in 1906, it was quickly rebuilt. [1] A second fire destroyed the stadium in April 1946, which led to the city constructing a covered north-side grandstand (known as CNE Grandstand) for CA$3.5 million in 1948.
Until 2013, the CNE held the CNE Horse Show, a competitive event in the Coliseum. At one time run during the Ex, it changed to be a pre-CNE event in 2005. [30] It has been used by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride. During the 2009, 2010 and 2011 CNE, it was used for a figure skating show. The arena is also used for trade shows.
OSTM/Jason-2, or Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 satellite, [1] was an international Earth observation satellite altimeter joint mission for sea surface height measurements between NASA and CNES.
In September of 2022 the PNE Amphitheatre hosted the two day rap and hip-hop festival known as Breakout Festival. On the second day of the festival fights broke out inside and outside the venue, and vandalism occurred when concert-goers became hostile following an announcement that the headliner, American rapper Lil-Baby, would not be taking the stage.