* March 20 – Ota Benga, a Congolese pygmy brought to America as part of a racist exhibition at the Bronx zoo.

Ota Benga, a Congolese Pygmy, was featured at the fair.

* Ota Benga, Congolese man put on display in the Bronx Zoo

* Ota Benga ( c. 1884 – March 20, 1916 ), Congolese pygmy who was featured in an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo alongside an orangutan

* Ota Benga

* Ota Benga

In 1906, as Secretary of the New York Zoological Society, he lobbied to put Ota Benga, a Congolese pygmy, on display alongside apes at the Bronx Zoo.

Ota Benga, a human exhibit, in 1906.

In 1904, Apaches, Igorots ( from the Philippines ) and the famous Ota Benga were displayed, dubbed as " primitive ", at the Saint Louis World Fair.

In 1906, socialite and amateur anthropologist Madison Grant, head of the New York Zoological Society, had Congolese pygmy Ota Benga put on display at the Bronx Zoo in New York City alongside apes and other animals.

At the behest of Grant, a prominent eugenicist, the zoo director William Hornaday placed Ota Benga displayed in a cage with the chimpanzees, then with an orangutan named Dohong, and a parrot, and labeled him The Missing Link, suggesting that in evolutionary terms Africans like Ota Benga were closer to apes than were Europeans.

Ota Benga in 1904

Ota Benga ( circa 1883 – March 20, 1916 ) was a Congolese Mbuti pygmy known for being featured with other Africans in an anthropology exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904, and later in a controversial human zoo exhibit in the Bronx Zoo in 1906.

A member of the Mbuti people, Ota Benga lived in equatorial forests near the Kasai River in what was then the Belgian Congo.

Verner discovered Ota Benga while ' en route ' to a Batwa village visited previously ; he negotiated Benga's release for a pound of salt and a bolt of cloth.

They immediately became the center of attention ; referred to variously by the press as Artiba, Autobank, Ota Bang, and Otabenga, Ota Benga was particularly popular.

Ota Benga at the Bronx Zoo in 1906.

The African Pigmy, " Ota Benga.

William Hornaday, the Bronx Zoo director, considered the exhibit as a valuable spectacle for his visitors, supported by Madison Grant as Secretary of the New York Zoological Society, who lobbied to put Ota Benga on display alongside apes at the Bronx Zoo.

Local oral history indicates that Hayes and Ota Benga were eventually moved from the Old Cemetery to White Rock Cemetery, a burial ground that later fell into disrepair.

Phillips Verner Bradford, the grandson of Samuel Phillips Verner, wrote a book on the Congolese entitled Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo ( 1992 ).

He became known for the “ Classification of Ota and Langeron ”, based on morphology.

* Expo ' 70 is the main setting for the Canadian director Robert Lepage's 1998 film entitled Nô, based on his play The Seven Branches of the River Ota.

It is believed that Ota Fink, hero of these books, is such a success for his detective insight is based on a detailed knowhow of common industrial professions and small problems of plain Czech people this in a way of method resembling the books of Dick Francis.

It was based on one segment in Lepage's play Seven Streams of the River Ota.

* Nevus of Ito and Nevus of Ota: congenital, flat brownish lesions on the face or shoulder.

On July 23, 1999, an All Nippon Airways Boeing 747-481D with 503 passengers, including 14 children and 14 crew members on board, took off from Tokyo International Airport ( Haneda Airport ) in Ota, Tokyo, Japan and was en route to New Chitose Airport in Chitose, Japan, near Sapporo when it was hijacked by.

* In 1977, " Belltown ," located in front of Ōta Station opens ( Uni Ota store was also opened at the same time ※ closed on January 2007 )

The Haniwa unearthed in Ota are the only Haniwa to be designated as national treasures, and are on display in the National Museum in Tokyo.

Television host and actor Dudu Topaz describes Kol as his mentor and his spiritual father: “ He was the first to give me a chance as a TV host on the show Sachek Ota, which brought us winning the Kinor David prize.

Tokyo Tech's main campus is located in the Ōokayama on the boundary of Meguro and Ota, with its main entrance facing the Ōokayama Station.

Raised beaches are found in a wide variety of coast and geodynamical background such as subduction on the pacific coast of South America ( Pedoja et al., 2006 ), of North America, passive margin of the Atlantic coast of South America ( Rostami et al., 2000 ), collision context on the Pacific coast of Kamchatka ( Pedoja et al., 2006 ), Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Japan ( Ota and Yamaguchi, 2004 ), passive margin of the South China sea coast ( Pedoja et al., in press ), on west-facing Atlantic coasts, such as Donegal Bay, County Cork and County Kerry in Ireland ; Bude, Widemouth Bay, Crackington Haven, Tintagel, Perranporth and St Ives in Cornwall, the Vale of Glamorgan, Gower Peninsula, Pembrokeshire and Cardigan Bay in Wales, the Isle of Jura and Isle of Arran in Scotland, Finistère in Brittany and Galicia in Northern Spain and at Squally Point in the Cape Chignecto Provincial Park, Nova Scotia.

He graduated from Kobe municipal Ota junior high school and went on to the Kobe municipal Suma high school.

In March 1990 Ota retired from the university and in November of the same year was elected governor of Okinawa prefecture on a non-party platform but with broadly leftist support.

However, Kamiyama's replacement, Ota Masahiro, also took a harsh approach to controlling Taiwan's indigenous peoples: certain tribes were disarmed and left unprotected, giving their aboriginal enemies an opportunity to annihilate them on behalf of the Japanese administration.

It was given its premiere performance on 6 November 1924 in Brno conducted by František Neumann, with Ota Zítek as director and Eduard Milén as stage designer.

The reader feels a close kinship to Ota Fink, as the books use the familiar places and professional tricks as cornerstones of the story on the same level as psychology and action.

The similarities between Ota Benga and Ishi, the sole remaining member of a Native American tribe, who was displayed in California around the same period – including the subsequent publication of a book on the subject by the descendants of the scientist involved – have been observed.

Coincidentally, Ishi died on March 25, 1916, five days after Ota.

* The Brooklyn-based band Pinataland have a song titled " Ota Benga's Name " on their album Songs from the Forgotten Future Volume 1, which tells the story of Ota Benga.

During his research for the book, he visited the American Museum of Natural History in New York, which holds a life mask and body cast of Ota Benga.