In pictures: World Expo time machine, look back on 162 years of history

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As Dubai and the UAE celebrate the future of the World Expo winning the 2020 event we take a look back on its rich past from its beginnings in 1851 in London’s Crystal Palace, of which an upcoming writer named Charles Dickens said: “I’m not saying there’s nothing to see, but that there’s too much to see.”