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1904 resources on the Web

Jorn Barger March 2000 (updated June 2000)

New: PBS's 1900 House site; Time magazine compares 1900 and 1998

Timelines: genealogical, Dresden; auto; media; DT's, PBS 1900


June 1904

Postcard from Odessa

Adventure in Guatemala

Interview with Jules Verne

Library opens in Ontario

Death of Dr George Fitch

Birth of mathematician John Semple 10 June in Belfast

Manu'a islands ceded to USA

Far Eastern Review founded?

Physicist Davisson to Chicago

baseball


Timeline

3 Jan: Lady Gregory writes to John Gray [summary]

6 Jan: Henry Adams returns from Paris to Washington [etext]

25 Jan: coalmine explosion inspires Carnegie Medal

7 Feb: Baltimore fire

Feb: record highs in El Paso, Texas

23 Feb: Korea-Japan treaty

12 March: Papal encyclical

March thru 8-10 April: Aleister Crowley's visions in Egypt, founds religion Thelema [bio] fictionalised

8 April: NYC rent protests; England-France entente cordiale

25 April: newspaper article

30 April: 1904 St. Louis World's Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition) [stereo pix] eBay crap

16 June: James Joyce's Bloomsday

[p&f c1905] Picasso is living at the Bateau Lavoir [pix] [map] and meets his first S.O. Fernande around this time, so poor he paints over the same canvases with multiple pictures

29 Aug: St Louis Olympics [fiasco?]

Russo-Japanese war Alexandra's pov [game]

Broadway subway opened in New York City [info]; trams in Nova Scotia [info]

8 Oct: Vanderbilt Cup auto race

Oct: Hottentot revolt

Nov: Theodore Roosevelt elected President [cartoons] [convention]

Nov: revival movement in Wales

5 Dec: volcanic island appears off Japan

Mormons distance themselves from polygamy

Historical role-playing [more], ditto

Prices: Dublin


Creation

Picasso

[RealAudio]

Wiener Werkstatte

Ano Nuevo lighthouse [awesomely derelict]

Gaudi's storage shed

Klimt's Water Serpents

Rossine's Kiosque

Delauney's pic

Oregon bridge

Puccini composed "Madame Butterfly"

O. Henry wrote "Cabbages and Kings" (short stories)

Early movies: [descriptions]

Thomas Aldrich Ponkapog Papers

Anonymous Octave Thanet

Mary Austin Blue-eyed Grass, Mahala Joe

L Frank Baum Marvelous Land of Oz

Gamaliel Bradford An Odd Sort of Popular Book

Alice Brown Bachelor's Fancy

Arthur Brown New Forces in Old China

David Carvalho Forty Centuries of Ink

Charles Chesnutt Baxter's Procrustes

Winston Churchill The Crossing

Joseph Conrad Nostromo

Rebecca Davis A Middle-aged Woman ; Bits of Gossip

Arthur Conan Doyle: Adventures of: C A Milverton; Solitary Cyclist; Six Napoleons; Second Stain; Priory School; the Abbey Grange; Black Peter; Three Students; Golden Pince-Nez; Missing Three-Quarter

WEB DuBois Credo

Mary Freeman Humble Pie

Hamlin Garland Two Stories of Oklahoma

Susan Glaspell The Awakening of the Lieutenant-Governor

John Gordon Reminiscences of the Civil War

Howard Hamill The Old South

Thomas Higginson Books Unread

Thomas Hughes A Boy's Experience in the Civil War

William James Does Consciousness Exist?

J. M. Judy Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes

Peter Kropotkin Maxim Gorky

Jack London The Scab, The Faith of Men, The Sea Wolf [cite]

John G Neihardt The Last Thunder Song

John Oskison Quality of Mercy

Henry Oyen The Last Protest

David Phillips The Cost

Walter D Scott Psychology of Advertising

Miles Sherrill A Soldier's Story

Robert Stiles Four Years under Marse Robert

John Thomas's Elpis Israel

Edith Wharton The Other Two; The Letter; The House of the Dead Hand; The Last Asset; The Descent of Man; The Pot-Boiler

Andrew White Fra Paolo Sarpi

Stewart White The Mountains; The Silent Places

Henry Williams History of Science

history of Kansas

Work began on the Panama Canal [info]

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY OF THE BEHAVIOR OF LOWER ORGANISMS BY HERBERT S. JENNINGS etext

F. S. Kipping discovered silicones

Dan Beard political cartoons

Aleister Crowley: The Argonauts, Snowdrops From A Curate's Garden, The Sword Of A Song, Why Jesus Wept, Rosa Mundi [cite]


Places

China: pix

Palestine: pix

Czech: magazine

Glasgow: pipe organs

Westinghouse plant RealVideo

Athens: electrification

Macedonia: census

Scandinavia? [pic]

Ohio: coal miner [pic&info]

Pennsylvania: Gettysburg memorials

Missouri: [map]

Michigan: [Indian census]

Australia: [ministers]


Things

Rambler, Cadillacs; Japanese steam auto; Richard-Brasier

camera; diode vacuum tube

steam yacht, steamships

box o' pix

doll

Everybody's magazine cover


Deaths

11 March: John S McPeake [funeral pic]

2 July: Chekhov

Dvorak

Eadweard Muybridge

Lafcadio Hearn

Theodor Herzl

Kate Chopin

various politicians

various Texans (w/causes)


Births

Cary Grant

Count Basie

Salvador Dali

Margaret Bourke-White

BF Skinner

J Robert Oppenheimer

George Balanchine [cite]

Arshile Gorky [info]

Bernard Lonergan [info]

various politicians

various Texans


Milestones

US population 82,166,000 (est)

Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe College

Charlevoix (MI) Sentinel [highlights]

Millburn (IL) News [highlights]

Jersey Island [highlights]

Bahai [highlights]

Mark Twain: [pic]

Married: various Texans


Companies founded

Rolls-Royce Company founded [pix]

Washington Training College

Picayune (MS) Item newspaper

Assoc of Amer Geographers

Theta Tau engineering fraternity

Gulbransen musical instruments (Chicago)

Blanks Fabrics (Maryland)

Alexander film and video (Iowa)

Imperial Hotel (Park City, Utah)

Butchart Gardens (Victoria, BC, Canada)

Hamburg, Germany housing cooperative

Baetzoldt's landscape gardening (Germany)

National Ski Association of America


Prizes

Nobel: Pavlov (medicine), Rayleigh (physics); Ramsay (chemistry); Institut de Droit International (peace); Mistral (literature)

Sports

soccer

baseball, ditto, AL, NL; basketball, football

motorcycling (Australia)


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