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Senior citizens age 60 and over will be admitted to the fair free of charge from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. Special "Golden Age" parties will be held at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the Gospel Tent, where ...
Emperor Xiaowen of the Xianbei-led state of Northern Wei in northern China, eventually decreed the changes of Xianbei names to Han names. [79] Prior to Tanshihuai, the Xianbei did not have a hereditary system , and their chieftains were chosen by electing a member of their tribe based on their character and abilities.
The oldest state fair is that of The Fredericksburg Agricultural Fair, established in 1738, and is the oldest fair in Virginia and the United States. [1] The first U.S. state fair was the New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually since. [2] The second state fair was in Detroit, Michigan, which ran from 1849 [3] to 2009.
The first Illinois State Fair was celebrated in 1853 in Springfield. In that first year, the admission fee was 25 cents. The fair moved to Chicago in 1855. [2] The 1850s were a golden age of agricultural journalism, with a wide variety of editors offering many suggestions, well-founded or not, to increase farm productivity.
Grab your grandmas and grandpas, nanas and pop-pops, meemaws and peepaws, because it's all about them on Wednesday, Aug. 21. Aug. 21 marks National Senior Citizens Day, and the 36th year since ...
Sep. 10—For those who haven't yet been to Expo New Mexico for the State Fair, Wednesday is Dollar Day and the cheapest way to get in. For just a $1 admission (cash only), it's a start to ...
Seniors are feeling squeezed by higher prices. The older workforce has roughly quadrupled in size to about 11 million since the mid-1980s, the Pew Research Center reported, ...
Chicago Cultural Center. The city of Chicago, Illinois, has many cultural institutions and museums, large and small.Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop;