I went to the World's Fair that year many times in '82, but I don't remember ever buying the official guidebook. The copy I own now was inherited from my grandparents. It's full of ads and references to institutions from my youth that don't exist anymore: Heritage USA, Hills Stores, Magnavox...

Knoxville may seem like an odd place to host a world's fair, but it is headquarters to the TVA and close enough to Oak Ridge that kids from Knoxville bragged about getting blown up first by the Russkies when the nukes inevitably fell...

In 1982, my hometown of Knoxville hosted an international expo with "energy" as its theme.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here?

JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here

TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply?

JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law

T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

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