Similarly lavish but less successful was Margaret Mather's production in New York in 1897.

Edmond Rostand, aged 29, at the time of the first performance of Cyrano, 1898 The production of his heroic comedy of Cyrano de Bergerac ( 28 December 1897, Theatre de la Porte Saint-Martin ), with Benoît-Constant Coquelin in the title-role, was a triumph.

The Act also included a unique provision that stated tin-plates should be admitted free of any duty after 1897, unless domestic production in any year reached one third the imports in that year.

24 enterprises were functioning in Tukums in 1897: tanneries, wood carding-mills, a glue plant and also pottery and food production facilities.

Among the productions staged at this theater was Margaret Mather's ill-fated production of Cymbeline in 1897.

Shaw had already used her as inspiration for some of his plays before their first meeting in 1897 when he unsuccessfully tried to persuade " Mrs Pat " to play the role of Judith Anderson in the first production of his play The Devil's Disciple.

Daimler Motor Company # Motors, launches, cars | Daimler shooting brake 6 hp, twin-cylinder, 1526 cc engine, mounted at the front of the car, four-speed gearbox and chain drive manufactured Coventry 1897 in Britain's first series production run Louwman Museum

They promptly began fitting imported Panhards and Canstatt-Daimlers with British patent plates, but actual production began there only in early 1897.

Lawson claimed to have made 20 cars by July 1897 making the Daimler Britain's first motor car to go into serial production, an honour that is also credited to Humber Motors who had also displayed, but in their case their production models, at the Stanley Cycle Show in London in 1896.

The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright.

The Arisaka Rifle ( 有坂銃 Arisaka-jū ) is a family of Japanese military bolt action service rifles, in production and use since approximately 1897, when it replaced the Murata Rifle ( 村田銃 Murata-jū ) family, until the end of World War II in 1945.

The production ran until March 6, 1897, and was an enormous critical and popular success.

Another Browning design, the Winchester Model 1893 was the first successful pump-action shotgun design ; as strengthened in 1897 for smokeless-propellant shells, it remained in production until the mid 1950s.

In 1897, at their father's urging, she and her sister performed in the San Francisco stock company production of Quo Vadis.

The M. 1897 75mm field gun was used as the main armament of the St Chamond ( tank ) | St Chamond tank, after the production of the 165th vehicle.

The Winchester Model 1897 was in production from 1897 until 1957.

Throughout the time period the Model 1897 was in production, over a million of the type were produced in various grades and barrel lengths.

Their popularity waned after the introduction of pump-action shotguns such as the Winchester Model 1897, and production was discontinued in 1920.

Joy Paul Guilford ( March 7, 1897, Marquette, Nebraska – November 26, 1987, Los Angeles ) was a US psychologist, best remembered for his psychometric study of human intelligence, including the important distinction between convergent and divergent production.

Subsequently he had songs used in Baron Golosh, The Circus Girl ( 1896 ), the London production of the American musical A Day in Paris ( 1897 ), Carl Kiefert's The Ballet Girl ( 1897 ) and The Yashmak ( 1897 ).

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

Australia resoundingly won the 1897 – 98 series by 4 – 1 under the captaincy of Harry Trott.

* 1897 – Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.

During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.

The distinction of a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire was conferred upon him by Queen Victoria in 1897 ( and later Knight Grand Commander in 1902 by Edward VII ) and he received like recognition for his public services from the German Emperor, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia and other potentates.

* 1897 – The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.

The credit for detecting its value belongs to Gaston Paris, although his edition ( 1897 ) was partially anticipated by the editors of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, who published some selections in the twenty-seventh volume of their Scriptores ( 1885 ).

The plum pudding model of the atom by J. J. Thomson, who discovered the electron in 1897, was proposed in 1904 before the discovery of the atomic nucleus in order to add the electron to the atomic model.

Greek officers, revolting in August 1909, had secured the appointment of a progressive government under Eleftherios Venizelos which they hoped would resolve the Cretan issue in Greece's favour and reverse their defeat of 1897 by the Ottomans.

Rebuffed by William Thiselton-Dyer, the Director at Kew, because of her gender and her amateur status, Beatrix wrote up her conclusions and submitted a paper On the Germination of the Spores of the Agaricineae to the Linnean Society in 1897.

The Journal of Beatrix Potter, 1881 – 1897, transcribed from her code writings by Leslie Linder.

The Achaemenid collection was enhanced with the addition of the Oxus Treasure in 1897, by acquisition from the German scholar Ernst Herzfeld, and then by the work of Sir Aurel Stein.

Blissymbols were invented by Charles K. Bliss ( 1897 – 1985 ), born Karl Kasiel Blitz in the Austro-Hungarian city of Czernowitz ( at present the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi ), which had a mixture of different nationalities that “ hated each other, mainly because they spoke and thought in different languages .”

One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term " culture " came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: “ Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society .” The term " civilization " later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.

The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.

After a disappointing record of 59-73 and a 9th-place finish in 1897, Anson was released by the Cubs as both a player and manager.

The technology of manipulating electron beams pioneered in these early tubes was applied practically in the design of vacuum tubes, particularly in the invention of the cathode ray tube by Ferdinand Braun in 1897. and is today employed in sophisticated devices such as electron microscopes, electron beam lithography, and particle accelerators.

In 1689, noted physician and collector Hans Sloane developed a milk chocolate drink in Jamaica which was initially used by apothecaries, but later sold to the Cadbury brothers in 1897.

The territory's border with Ethiopia, marked out in 1897 by France and Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia, was later reaffirmed by agreements with Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia in 1945 and 1954.

The Diesel cycle is the thermodynamic cycle which approximates the pressure and volume of the combustion chamber of the Diesel engine, invented by Rudolph Diesel in 1897.

* John Lorimer Worden, RADM USN ( 1818 – 1897 ), commanded the Union Navy's ironclad USS Monitor in its famous fight with the CSS Virginia ( formerly USS Merrimack during the American Civil War.

John Lorimer Worden ( 12 March 1818 – 19 October 1897 ) was a U. S. rear admiral who served in the American Civil War.

* Tess of D ' Urbervilles by Lorimer Stoddard, New York ( 1897 )