Hungarian Pavilion in Shanghai Draws 2 million

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The two-millionth visitor was Zhou Xiaoxiao, a young woman who came to the pavilion with her boyfriend Wang Zhonglong. The couple came from Nantong in Jiansu province, where she works in a clothing store and her boyfriend is studying electronics. They said it was their first visit to the Expo grounds, and the Hungarian pavilion was the third place they had seen.

 
Deputy Director of the pavilion Katalin Szöllősi presented the couple with a commemorative sheet of stamps issued by the Hungarian Post showing Budapest landmarks as well as an aluminium cast of the Gömböc, an object at the centre of the Hungarian pavilion.
 
The Gömböc (pronounced 'goemboets'), a self-righting object created by two Hungarian inventors. The Gömböc rights itself when in stable equilibrium, much like a roly-poly toy, but because of its shape, not because of its weight. The Gömböc is thus the first known homogenous object with one stable and one unstable equilibrium point.