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* 1902: Bryan's Carnegie Library was opened with a $ 10, 000 grant from Andrew Carnegie.
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He gave $ 2 million in 1901 to start the Carnegie Institute of Technology ( CIT ) at Pittsburgh and the same amount in 1902 to found the Carnegie Institution at Washington, D. C.
In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).
He applied in 1902 to the newly formed Carnegie Institution for a grant to write a systematic book of his life's work.
* 1902 – The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D. C. with a $ 10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
The beginning of the 20th century marked important steps for Crawfordsville, as Culver Union Hospital and the Carnegie Library were built in 1902.
In 1902 the city of Port Huron secured money from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to erect a municipal library.
Joplin began to add cultural amenities ; in 1902 residents passed a tax to create a public library, and gained matching funds that enabled them to build the Carnegie Library.
In 1902, he met with Andrew Carnegie and became one of the founders and incorporators of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
He retired from Johns Hopkins in 1901, but accepted the presidency ( 1902 – 4 ) of the newly founded Carnegie Institution of Washington.
File: carnegie lib 640 03 2. jpg | Detail of the entrance to the Carnegie Library in Avondale, Cincinnati ( 1902 ) ( Spanish colonial style )
Located in the center of Mount Vernon Square in Washington, the society occupies a Beaux-Arts building built by Andrew Carnegie in 1902 ( one of his many Carnegie libraries ), originally used as the District of Columbia Public Library.
On March 4, 1902, the first public library, the Carnegie Library, opened on the site of the current Central Library.
The other seats on the board were held ex-officio by the presidents of the five previously established Carnegie organizations in the United States-Carnegie Institute ( of Pittsburgh ) ( 1896 ), CIW ( 1902 ), Carnegie Hero Fund Commission ( 1904 ), CFAT ( 1905 ), and CEIP ( 1910 ).
The most notable surviving architectural feature in this area, the former Public Halls, was opened in 1902 and designed by William B. Whitie, who also designed Springburn's Public Carnegie library.
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The library was started in 1902 with 1, 370 books in a small building on Thompson Hill, now known as the Ellen Larned Memorial Library.
Guardians of the Lost Library was later referenced in Part 10: The Invader of Fort Duckburg ( 1994 ), of Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck where in 1902 the first three Junior Woodchucks ( seen as ripe old men half a century later at the beginning of Guardians of the Lost Library ) are expelled from their former headquarter, the ruins of Fort Drakeborough recently bought by Scrooge.
* Francis Elrington Ball ( 1902 ): A History of the County of Dublin – Dublin: Greene's Bookshop ; the HSP Library – Ir 94133 1: 6 volumes
* Karl Friedrich Gauss, General Investigations of Curved Surfaces of 1827 and 1825, ( 1902 ) The Princeton University Library.
His son Frederick ( 1839 – 1904 ), a numismatist of note, was Secretary and Bursar of Brighton College 1874 – 88 and then Chief Librarian of Brighton Public Library 1888 – 1902.
Underlining Clydebank's status as a police burgh after 1886, the Town Hall and Public Library were designed by James Miller ( architect ) | James Miller and opened in 1902.
The Free Library building, designed by the architect Frank Shayler of Shrewsbury, was built in 1902.
After coming to light following its move to the Vatican Library in 1902 this luxury Gospel book had been largely ignored by the academic community until it became the subject of a doctoral dissertation in 2004.
This greatly increased Smith's power, a change which he himself opposed ; in 1902 a new Library Board would be established, again gaining supervisory rather than merely advisory power.
Along with this event in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed Prince Henry of Prussia to Shooters Island, as shown in footage in the Library of Congress.
* " The plant of the Fore River Ship & Engine Company ", 1902 article Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy MA
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Lane was still burning because he had narrowly missed election as governor of California in 1902 and laid his defeat to the antagonism of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner.
Jean Boucher's statue of the seated skeptical thinker Ernest Renan, shown to the left, caused great controversy when it was installed in Tréguier, Brittany in 1902.
The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).
A large geode, or " amethyst-grotto ", from near Santa Cruz in southern Brazil was presented at the 1902 exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Several vapour-vesicles may unite while the rock is still viscous, and thus form a large cavity which may become the home of an agate of exceptional size ; thus a Brazilian geode lined with amethyst and weighing 35 tons was exhibited at the Düsseldorf Exhibition of 1902.
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.
He was made a " Knight of the Indian Empire " by Queen Victoria, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire by Edward VII ( 1902 ), and a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India by George V ( 1912 ).
When he came of age in 1902, the week of his majority was marked by festivities, bullfights, balls and receptions throughout Spain.
It was created by a deed which he signed on June 7, 1901, and it was incorporated by Royal Charter on August 21, 1902.
Besides fulfilling other journalistic engagements, Beckett was on the staff of Punch from 1874 to 1902, edited the Sunday Times 1891-1895, and the Naval and Military Magazine in 1896.
By 1902, however, due to the Governor of ` Akka being supportive of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, the situation was greatly eased ; while pilgrims were able to once again visit ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, he was confined to the city.
From 1902 to 1904, in addition to the building of the Shrine of the Báb that ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was directing, he started to put into execution two different projects ; the restoration of the House of the Báb in Shiraz, Iran and the construction of the first Bahá ' í House of Worship in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
The term was first used in the early 20th century by Paul Lapie, in 1902, and Eduard von Hartmann, in 1908.
The party was saved after Salisbury's retirement in 1902 when his successor, Arthur Balfour, pushed a series of unpopular initiatives such as a new education bill and Joseph Chamberlain called for a new system of protectionist tariffs.
Writing in the Meiji era, Lafcadio Hearn ( 1902 ) described a baku with very similar attributes that was also able to devour nightmares.
In 1902, under Leo XIII, a commission under the presidency of Monsignor Louis Duchesne was appointed to consider the Breviary, the Missal, the Pontifical and the Ritual.
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