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  1. 1904 In 1904 it enlarged the traffic department, placing it under an experienced indu... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1904 it enlarged the traffic department, placing it under an experienced industrialist, Frank G ●●
  2. 1904 On the basis of this information on fixed and working capital, Pierre’s departme... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On the basis of this information on fixed and working capital, Pierre’s department was by 1904 presenting the executive committee with monthly figures on costs, income, and rate of return on total capital investment for each of the company’s thirteen products ●●
  3. 1904 As early as November 1904, the executive committee’s members decided that they w... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As early as November 1904, the executive committee’s members decided that they were not appropriating capital systematically enough ●●
  4. 1904 President Barclay of Liberia reports on a crippling 1871 loan rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Liberia's President Arthur Barclay documented how an English loan originally worth 100,000 pounds, taken out in 1871, had grown into a debt burden the country could not shake off. ●●
  5. 12 January 1904 Herero and Nama Genocide Begins 1 cit. Herero fighters rose against German colonial rule; General Lothar von Trotha responded with an extermination order driving the Herero into the Omaheke desert to die of thirst. Nama fighters who rose the following year met the same policy. Historians estimate that 24,000 to 100,000 Herero and roughly half the Nama population died, making this the first genocide widely recognized as such in the 20th century. politics / war ●●●
  6. 1904 The First Maasai Agreement and Move contested 7 cit. In 1904 the administration pressed the Maasai, through the laibon Lenana, to sign an agreement giving up the central Rift Valley grasslands and move into two reserves, one on the Laikipia plateau to the north and one to the south around Ngong and Loita. The treaty said the arrangement would last as long as the Maasai existed. Historians dispute how freely Lenana acted and whether he spoke for all the Maasai sections, but the effect was to clear prime pasture for white ranchers. diplomacy / society ●●●
  7. 1904 The Gusii Resistance and the 1904 Expedition 4 cit. When the British first pushed into the Gusii highlands in 1904, a military force met resistance, killed many people, and raised the Union Jack over the district. The Gusii, or Abagusii, a Bantu farming people ringed by pastoralist neighbours, had a reputation for independence and would not submit quietly. The 1904 violence opened a period of raids and reprisals that ran on for years. politics / war ●●
  8. August 1904 The 1904 Anglo-Maasai treaty carves out two reserves 3 cit. In August 1904 an agreement signed for the Maasai by Olonana moved them off the central Rift and into two reserves, a northern one on Laikipia and a southern one near the Tanganyika border, linked by a stock corridor. The document promised the Maasai the reserves for as long as they existed as a people. It also opened the fertile central highlands to European settlement. diplomacy / economy / politics ●●●●
  9. 1905 Bloody Sunday at the Winter Palace, 1905 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1905 the priest Gapon led a mass workers' march to the Winter Palace to petition the tsar; troops fired on them and hundreds were shot, helping ignite the 1905 revolution. ●●
  10. 1905 Chinese imperial examinations abolished (1905) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1905 the old literary examination system for the civil service and mandarinate was abolished and a Ministry of Education modeled on Japan was established, reforms that weakened rather than strengthened the imperial regime. ●●
  11. 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth ends Russo-Japanese War (1905) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth, Russia renounced influence in Korea and yielded southern Sakhalin and the Liaotung lease to Japan after its land and naval victories. ●●
  12. 1905 Schlieffen Plan drawn up (1905) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The German war plan, the Schlieffen Plan, was drawn up in 1905 and modified after 1906 by the younger Moltke, calling for a swift wheeling attack through Belgium to annihilate France. ●●
  13. 1905 Milner's farewell speech urges loyalty to imperial unity ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In his farewell speech of March 1905 Milner called on his hearers, especially the Kindergarten, to stay faithful to the idea of imperial unity. Quigley quotes it as the group's guiding creed. ●●
  14. 1905 Beit endows a chair of Colonial History at Oxford ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The year before his death Alfred Beit was persuaded to fund a Beit Professorship and Lectureship in Colonial History at Oxford. Quigley says the surplus income served other imperialist purposes. ●●
  15. 1905 Morley pushes through the Morley-Minto reforms in India ai_extracted 1 cit. no story John Morley was Secretary of State for India from 1905 to 1910 and put through the Morley-Minto reforms. Quigley says he drew on members of the Milner and All Souls groups to do it. ●●
  16. 1905 United States leads world coal production ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto gives 1905 coal-production figures to show the United States produced almost as much coal as the other three school-bound nations combined. He argues coal power underlay the creation of mass schooling. ●●
  17. 1905 Corporations employ most American wage earners ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports that by 1905 industrial corporations employed 71 percent of all wage earners and mining another 10 percent, as forced-schooling laws gained enforcement power. ●●
  18. 1905 Beatrice Webb joins the Royal Commission on the Poor Law ai_extracted 1 cit. Gatto cites Kitty Muggeridge's claim that the welfare state's first foundation was laid in November 1905, when Beatrice Webb was appointed to the Royal Commission on the Poor Law and drafted a cradle-to-grave plan. ●●
  19. 1905 Banker Frank Vanderlip praises German schooling to the NEA ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports that in 1905 Frank Vanderlip, vice president of the National City Bank of New York, told the NEA convention that Germany's economic success could be summed up in one word: schoolmaster. ●●
  20. 1905 The First Moroccan Crisis ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In March 1905 the Kaiser visited Tangiers and backed Moroccan independence, challenging French dominance in North Africa. France's premier Rouvier defused the confrontation and began the talks that led to the Anglo-French entente. ●●
  21. 1905 —President Theodore Roosevelt, 1905 BY THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, T... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story —President Theodore Roosevelt, 1905 BY THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THE TITANS OF BANKING WERE replacing the barons of industry as the beacons of economic supremacy in the... ●●
  22. 1905 Maji Maji uprising crushed in German Tanganyika ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As many as one hundred thousand Africans died in the German repression of an uprising in Tanganyika in 1905 ; in Southwest Africa, the Herero revolt m... ●●
  23. 1905 Russia defeated in the Russo-Japanese War ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Russia defeated in Russo-Japanese War ●●
  24. 1905 Braden Copper Company begins mining at El Teniente ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1905 the Braden Copper Company, which would later be absorbed into Kennecott Copper Corporation, began mining at El Teniente, a mountain of ore set (1905) ●●
  25. 1905 “I expect there is little sympathy and less confidence betwe rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “I expect there is little sympathy and less confidence between father and son,” said Revelstoke, who was also afraid of being smothered by Pierpont.24 Soon after these talks collapsed in 1905, Dawkins... ●●
  26. 1905 By tearing down an intervening house, Jack and his father li rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By tearing down an intervening house, Jack and his father lived as next-door neighbors, with a common garden in between, from 1905 until Pier-pont’s death, in 1913. Jack continued to manage emotional ... ●●
  27. 1905 Though the series was published as a two-volume rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Though the series was published as a two-volume book in November 1904, she then capped it with a scathing two-part character study of Rockefeller in McClure’s in July and August of 1905. It does not detract from her achievement to state that she enjoyed the services of a first-rate research assistant, John M. ●●
  28. 1905 How dismayed Tarbell would have been to find rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story How dismayed Tarbell would have been to find Rockefeller writing to Archbold in July 1905: “I never appreciated more than at present the importance of our taking care of our business—holding it and increasing it in every part of the world.”118 Faced with Tarbell’s invective, Rockefeller was too proud to give the world the satisfaction of knowing that he was wounded. ●●
  29. 1905 Then a sudden opportunity for heroism arose during rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Then a sudden opportunity for heroism arose during the winter of 1904–1905, when three thousand New Yorkers died in a cerebrospinal meningitis epidemic. In response, Flexner developed a serum in horses to treat the disease. ●●
  30. 1905 General Education Board funds higher education ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1905, the GEB extended its purview to higher education with a $10 million gift from Rockefeller, followed by another $32 million in 1907—hailed by the board as “the largest sum ever given by a man in the history of the race for any social or philanthropic purposes.”19 (It would be equivalent to $500 million today.) Much of this last gift was routed to the University of Chicago. ●●
  31. 1905 La Follette said in 1905, “I read yesterday rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story La Follette said in 1905, “I read yesterday that Rockefeller has been to prayer meeting again; tomorrow he will be giving to some college or university. He gives with two hands, but he robs with many. If he should live a thousand years he could not expiate the crime he has committed. ●●
  32. 1905 In July 1905, he turned up at the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In July 1905, he turned up at the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in an excellent mood, if slightly worn out, and chatted jovially with old friends. He even allowed himself some drollery at the end of his Sunday-school speech. ●●
  33. 1905 CHAPTER 25 The Codger By the close of rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story CHAPTER 25 The Codger By the close of the Tarbell series in 1905, Rockefeller’s infamy as a businessman still overshadowed his budding philanthropic fame. He continued to cherish Forest Hill and Pocantico Hills as peaceful oases, sealed off from the outer world. ●●
  34. 1905 House urges antitrust probe of Standard Oil ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Then, in February 1905, by a unanimous resolution, the House of Representatives urged an antitrust investigation of Standard Oil, a result of the oil boom in Kansas. ●●
  35. 1905 Roosevelt denounces 'muckrakers' at Gridiron Club ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As Rockefeller assured Gates, “The owner of the World is also a large owner of property, and I presume that, in common with other newspaper owners who are possessed of wealth, his eyes are beginning to be opened to the fact that he is like Samson, taking the initiative to pull the building down upon his head.”27 By 1905, Rockefeller and his entourage were picking up hints that investigative zeal was ebbing among the editors at McClure’s, where, Starr Murphy reported, “the thing has now gone so far that they themselves are getting disgusted and heartily wish they were out of it.”28 In March 1906, Teddy Roosevelt delivered his famous speech at Washington’s Gridiron Club in which he borrowed a term from Pilgrim’s Progress and denounced the new investigative reporters as muckrakers who kept their eyes fixed on lowly matters instead of occasionally lifting them up to heaven. ●●
  36. 1905 “I weigh nearly two hundred pounds, without my rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “I weigh nearly two hundred pounds, without my five wigs,” he wrote in December 1905. “You should see them! They are real works of art, and most satisfactory. ●●
  37. 1905 Eager to levy an eye-popping fine against the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Eager to levy an eye-popping fine against the trust, Landis asked its attorneys for figures on its capitalization and earnings between 1903 and 1905. The Standard lawyers, Landis knew, were in a tight spot: If they furnished the true figures, they might invite a punitive fine; if they withheld them, they would look guilty. ●●
  38. 1905 Oil Industry Development candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After the Armstrong investigation of 1905 exposed massive double-dealing between insurance companies and their bankers, reform legislation was enacted in 1911 that forced the Equitable Life Assuran... ●●
  39. 1905 Death of Alphonse de Rothschild ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Alphonse de Rothschild, head of the Paris branch and one of the most influential bankers of the nineteenth century, died in 1905, marking the start of generational decline. ●●
  40. 1905 1905 Military Campaign rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The army, Stavka concluded, “is simply a huge, weary, shabby, and ill-fed mob of angry men united by their common thirst for peace and by common disappointment.”211 All that Russia... ●●
  41. 1905 Théophilie Warburg dies rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Théophilie, the francophile matriarch of the Alsterufer Warburgs, died after living in grandiose fashion with servants and winters on the Riviera. Aby S. took over the Alsterufer house. ●●
  42. 1905 Engraving after portrait by Gilbert Stuart. Page 1... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Engraving after portrait by Gilbert Stuart. Page 17 The United Nations General Assembly. Page 29 Left: Theodore Roosevelt, August 1905. ●●
  43. 1905 The Kaiser chose to make his point while on a crui... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Kaiser chose to make his point while on a cruise in March 1905. ●●
  44. 1905 Einstein explains the photoelectric effect ai_extracted 1 cit. no story that eventually won for him the Nobel Prize, Einstein connected Planck’s idea of limited, discontinuous energy levels to the problem of the photoelectric effect. ●●
  45. 1905 Nobel laureate Philipp Lenard, seeing relativity hailed and Einstein come to fame, retreated into a rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Nobel laureate Philipp Lenard, seeing relativity hailed and Einstein come to fame, retreated into a vindictive anti-Semitism and lent his respectability to the Committee, which attacked relativity theory as a Jewish corruption and Einstein as a taste ●●
  46. 1905 Event of 1905 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ticipant in Asian groupings such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, even if over three-quarters of its population lives in the European portion of Russian territory. The United States in modern times has occasionally been invited to act as a b ●●
  47. 1905 Einstein's doctoral dissertation accepted at Zurich ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Einstein completed his doctoral dissertation titled 'A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions' on April 30 and submitted it to University of Zurich in July. It was accepted after minor revisions, making him Dr. Einstein. ●●
  48. 1905 Einstein publishes his Brownian motion paper ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Eleven days after finishing his dissertation (May 1905), Einstein produced a paper on Brownian motion explaining why particles suspended in liquid jiggle, settling the phenomenon that had puzzled scientists for eighty years. ●●
  49. 1905 Millikan verifies Einstein's photoelectric effect law ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Robert Millikan performed experiments that verified Einstein's photoelectric effect formulas and law of photoelectric effect. Einstein would later win his only Nobel Prize for discovering this law, though Millikan initially rejected the theory. ●●
  50. 1905 Einstein submits special relativity paper ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Einstein submitted his groundbreaking paper 'On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies' to the journal Annalen der Physik on June 30, 1905. The paper introduced special relativity and overturned Newton's concepts of absolute time and space. ●●
  51. 1905 Event of 1905 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story New national organizations emerged to unite eugenicists, begin- ning with Germany’s Society for Race Hygiene in 1905 ●●
  52. 1905 Congress, which had been excluded from the micromanagement of land sales back in 1905, reinserted it rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Congress, which had been excluded from the micromanagement of land sales back in 1905, reinserted itself. ●●
  53. 1905 Having been unsettled first by the revolution of 1905, Backe found himself in 1914 as an internee in rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Having been unsettled first by the revolution of 1905, Backe found himself in 1914 as an internee in the Urals. ●●
  54. 1905 1904-05 - Korea - January rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1904-05 - Korea - January 5, 1904 to November 11, 1905: To guard the American Legation in Seoul ●●
  55. 1905 The nature of and reason for such controls was well expressed in the Bureau of C... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The nature of and reason for such controls was well expressed in the Bureau of Corporations report published in 1905: On account of their perishability the handling of fresh meat is a peculiarly delicate business ●●
  56. 1905 Journal of Accountancy begins monthly publication ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1905 the association that had published the proceedings of its meetings began to support the monthly Journal of Accountancy ●●
  57. c. 1905 Shark Island Concentration Camp 1 cit. German colonial authorities operated a camp on Shark Island near Lüderitz where captured Herero and Nama prisoners, mostly women and children, were held in extreme cold and forced into hard labor. Death rates were catastrophic, with some historians calling it a death camp. The camp closed in 1907 after most of the surviving prisoners had died; it is frequently cited as the earliest link in the chain that runs to the German camps of the 1930s and 1940s, though the two systems were built decades apart by different regimes. society / war ●●
  58. 19 October 1905 Killing of Koitalel arap Samoei 6 cit. Koitalel arap Samoei, the orkoiyot who led Nandi resistance, was shot dead by a party under British officer Richard Meinertzhagen, ending organised Nandi opposition. The circumstances are contested: Nandi tradition and many historians hold that he was killed treacherously during a meeting arranged under a truce, while Meinertzhagen claimed self-defence. The killing is remembered in Kenya as a colonial assassination. politics / war ●●●
  59. c. 1905 The colonial state turns "Dorobo" into a tribe 2 cit. British administrators misread il-torrobo as the name of one ethnic group and applied Dorobo to scattered, unrelated forager bands across the highlands and Rift Valley. This lumped together peoples with different languages and histories under a single administrative label. The colonial habit of fixing fluid identities shaped how these groups were governed and counted. politics / society ●●
  60. 8 September 1906 Ota Benga displayed in the Bronx Zoo 1 cit. Ota Benga, a Congolese man, was put on display in the monkey house of the Bronx Zoo as a living example of a "lower" race. The exhibit drew protest from Black clergy and stands as a cruel case of scientific racism in practice. science / society ●●
  61. 1906 Algeciras Conference resolves First Moroccan Crisis (1906) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When the conference over Morocco met at Algeciras in 1906, Germany found itself supported only by Austria, and the crisis eased as belligerent leaders were removed on both sides. ●●
  62. 1906 Liberal landslide of 1906 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The 1906 election was a Liberal triumph, giving that party a plurality of 220 over the Conservatives and a majority of 84 over all other parties. Labour representation jumped from three to forty-three seats. ●●
  63. 1906 Curtis organizes 'Closer Union Groups' in South Africa ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1906 Curtis resigned his official posts to organize 'Closer Union Groups' pushing for a federation of South Africa. Quigley presents this as the model later scaled up to the whole Empire. ●●
  64. 1906 Milner declares himself an imperialist at Wolverhampton ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Campaigning for Amery in 1906, Milner spoke at Wolverhampton with unorthodox views. He declared himself a deep-dyed imperialist and tariff reformer who believed in universal military training. ●●
  65. 1906 Viscount Halifax defends Milner over Chinese labor ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When Milner was attacked in 1906 for importing Chinese laborers into South Africa, the second Viscount Halifax rallied to him. He carried a resolution of appreciation for Milner's work in the House of Lords. ●●
  66. 1906 Quigley: the Milner Group out of power (1906-1915) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley asserts the Milner Group was out of power from 1906 to 1915 but was content, since a Liberal government under Asquith and Grey pursued the foreign policy the Group wanted. ●●
  67. 1906 Rockefeller's General Education Board issues Occasional Letter Number One ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto quotes the 1906 Occasional Letter Number One, the first mission statement of Rockefeller's General Education Board, which spoke of molding a docile, responsive rural folk rather than educating scholars. ●●
  68. 1906 Manhattan schools perform tonsillectomies without parental consent ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto recounts that in 1906 immigrant public schools in Manhattan began performing tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies on children without notifying parents. He cites a New York Times report that parents stormed the schools in protest. ●●
  69. 1906 Harris publishes 'The Philosophy of Education' ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto quotes Harris's 1906 book The Philosophy of Education, in which Harris wrote that 99 of 100 students are automata who follow prescribed custom. Gatto reads this as an endorsement of producing compliant citizens. ●●
  70. 1906 Year 1906: An annex to the 1906 constitution made the Shah su rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story An annex to the 1906 constitution made the Shah supreme commander of the Iranian army but also required him to cooperate with the elected government on political matters. Prime min... ●●
  71. 1906 Iran's first Majlis convenes ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Iran's new constitutional parliament assembles for its historic first session, representing a landmark moment in the nation's attempt at democracy. ●●
  72. 1906 Iran adopts its first constitution ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Iran officially adopts its first constitution, modeled on Belgium's progressive constitution, establishing the framework for democratic governance. ●●
  73. 1906 Russian emperor convenes the first Duma ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1906, the Russian emperor convened a parliament-the Duma-of representatives elected unevenly from all regions and peoples of the empire. ●●
  74. 1906 By the time this happened, Russian 5 per cent bonds of the 1906 vintage were rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By the time this happened, Russian 5 per cent bonds of the 1906 vintage were trading at below 45 per cent of their face value. ●●
  75. 1906 In 1906, Pierpont vouchsafed a private tour of his art colle rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1906, Pierpont vouchsafed a private tour of his art collection at 13 Princes Gate, the townhouse he inherited from his father, to King Edward VII. He had given the king financial advice, and the tw... ●●
  76. 1906 In the feverish mental state of his final rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the feverish mental state of his final days in early 1906, he repeatedly babbled the names of the five children from his first marriage—John, William, Frank, Lucy, and Mary Ann. And he would stare at the loyal Margaret and suddenly cry out, “You are not my wife. ●●
  77. 1906 To retire any lingering doubt, Macdonald went to rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story To retire any lingering doubt, Macdonald went to the local library and found an obituary notice, dated May 11, 1906, for Dr. William Levingston, who had died at age ninety-six and was listed as the oldest man in Freeport. ●●
  78. 1906 Standard Oil of Ohio hires its first Black employee ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It is interesting to note in this context that Standard Oil of Ohio did not hire its first permanent black employee until 1906. At the beginning, the well-heeled GEB grafted its work onto that of the Southern Education Board, the shoestring operation started by Robert Ogden. ●●
  79. 1906 An internal memo written to George Rogers in rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story An internal memo written to George Rogers in 1906 sheds some light on this intriguing question. To assist Standard Oil in its political travails, Archbold asked Rockefeller in October 1906 to publish a list of the dozen or so colleges to which he had given significant endowments. ●●
  80. 1906 In 1906, a forbidding iron fence, eight feet rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1906, a forbidding iron fence, eight feet tall and topped by wire netting, suddenly rose around Forest Hill, closing off sections to the public. This caution was now warranted, since Rockefeller was inundated with death threats and hired Pinkerton detectives to protect himself. ●●
  81. 1906 Roosevelt signs the Pure Food and Drug Act ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1906, Roosevelt signed a stack of bills to curb industrial abuses. Profiting from the outcry prompted by Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, he signed the meat-inspection bill and the Pure Food and Drug Act. ●●
  82. 1906 I sleep in one, and do not know rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story I sleep in one, and do not know how I got along all these years without the hair.”30 In spring 1906, frustrated by Bessie’s absence, Rockefeller and Cettie decided to spend seven weeks with the Strongs in France—an eternity abroad for these two provincials—at their summer residence in Compiègne, northeast of Paris. ●●
  83. 1906 “I have as my constant companions at golf rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “I have as my constant companions at golf, magazine writers and newspaper men,” Rockefeller wrote to Harold McCormick in September 1906. “They say they did not know me before, and seem entirely friendly and well disposed.” 57 As he abandoned his fearful attitude toward the press, he loosened up, as if liberated by the change. ●●
  84. 1906 Oil Industry Development candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Among his triumphs, he extended a six-million-dollar loan to the fledgling General Motors in 1906—about $98 million today—taking notes for his cash. When the notes were paid off, Rockefeller took p... ●●
  85. 1906 Again like Aby, he viewed the world through rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Again like Aby, he viewed the world through a filter darkened by his own depression and saw problems perhaps hidden to happier souls. In 1906 he warned the Chamber of Commerce, “I do not like to play ... ●●
  86. 1906 In 1906 he warned the Chamber of Commerce, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1906 he warned the Chamber of Commerce, “I do not like to play the role of Cassandra, but mark what I say. ●●
  87. 1906 And since most of the other countries after 1906 were turnin rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story And since most of the other countries after 1906 were turning their attention from Asia and Africa to developments in the Balkans and North Sea, it was perhaps not surprising that they tended to see t ●●
  88. 1906 19. AW Kopierbuch I Hamburg Transcript, p. 181 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 19. AW Kopierbuch I Hamburg Transcript, p. 181, letter to Max Warburg, February 1, 1906. ●●
  89. 1906 and some reports claim that a rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story and some reports claim that a son died as well, in a separate incident. ●●
  90. 1906 Algeciras Conference opens ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ch Germany had isolated itself became evident at the opening of the Algeciras Conference in January 1906. ●●
  91. 1906 G.R.S. Mead publishes Thrice Greatest Hermes ai_extracted 1 cit. no story G.R.S. Mead, a classical scholar and former secretary to Madame H.P. Blavatsky, published the three-volume Thrice Greatest Hermes, a comprehensive translation of Hermetic literature including the Corpus Hermeticum, two years before The Kybalion appeared. ●●
  92. 1906 1906: Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper (1906–92) with a part of Babbage’s Diffe rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper (1906–92) with a part of Babbage’s Difference Engine at Harvard in 1946. Jean Jennings and Frances Bilas with ENIAC. Jea ●●
  93. 1906 1906: vard and then for Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. Born Grace Brewster rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story vard and then for Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. Born Grace Brewster Murray in 1906, she was from a prosperous family on the Upper West Side of Manh ●●
  94. 1906 Information history in 1906 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story eating-its-tail feedback loop that seemed to turn on the possibility of self-contradiction. This was his firewall. ●●
  95. 1906 Lee De Forest invents the triode vacuum tube ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Numerical codes would be granted full control—including the power to modify themselves.1 The age of electronics began in 1906 with Lee De Forest’s in ●●
  96. 1906 Zworykin began working on the problem of television with Bor rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zworykin began working on the problem of television with Boris Rosing in Russia in 1906, and, after leading RCA’s development of commercial television ●●
  97. 1906 Lagos Colony merges with Niger Delta Protectorate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It was based on a merger of the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria and the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, the latter itself the product of a merger that had taken place between Lagos Colony and the Niger Delta Protectorate in 1906. ●●
  98. 1906 First modern law school opens in Beijing ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Two Japanese scholars, Okada Asataro and Matsuoka Yoshitada, established the first modern law school in Beijing in 1906. ●●
  99. 1906 1906-09 - Cuba - September rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1906-09 - Cuba - September 1906 to January 23, 1909: Intervention to restore order, protect foreigners, and establish a stable government after serious revolutionary activity ●●
  100. 1906 At this time, American Sugar sold, besides its holdings in the beet sugar compan rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At this time, American Sugar sold, besides its holdings in the beet sugar companies, its holdings of 12 percent in Cuban-American Sugar, a cane sugar ●●