* Riehle, Dave, Say it Ain't So, Charlie: The 1897 Dispute Between Charles Comiskey and the St. Paul Labor Trades, Ramsey County History Quarterly V39 # 2, Ramsey County Historical Society, St Paul, MN, 2004.

So when the great naval review of June 1897 for the Queen ’ s diamond Jubilee took place, it was in an atmosphere of unease and uncertainty.

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.

DECT operates in the 1880 – 1900 MHz band and defines ten channels from 1881. 792 MHz to 1897. 344 MHz with a band gap of 1728 kHz.

Over the next ten years, they had five children: Émile ( 1874 – 1955 ); Aline ( 1877 – 1897 ); Clovis ( 1879 – 1900 ); Jean René ( 1881 – 1961 ); and Paul Rollon ( 1883 – 1961 ).

Nickelodeons usually showed films about ten to fifteen minutes in length, and in a variety of styles and subjects, such as short narratives, " scenics " ( views of the world from moving trains ), " actualities " ( precursors of later documentary films ), illustrated songs, local or touring song and dance acts, comedies, melodramas, problem plays, stop action sequences, sporting events ( e. g. the 1897 Corbett-Fitzsimmons championship fight or the 1899 Jeffries-Sharkey fight ) and other features which allowed them to compete with vaudeville houses.

There have been a number of organizations with this name, including one formed in 1897, which lasted ten years, and another formed in 1930, which lasted eleven.

It was said of her, that of all foreign princesses married into the Swedish royal house, she was perhaps the one best suited to be Queen consort of Sweden, and for the first ten years in Sweden, she almost was: from 1897 until 1907, Queen Sophia seldom showed herself at public occasions and Crown Princess Victoria spent most of her time abroad, so Princess Ingeborg thereby filled the position of first lady at the Swedish court.

* Royal Liverpool Golf Club: This course, often referred to simply as " Hoylake ", joined the rotation in 1897 and hosted ten Opens up to 1967.

In the spring of 1897, ten years after it was established, the B. A. A.

* A large monastery with ten courtyards and 1897 bays ; this monastery was home to the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda ( built in 652 ), which still stands today at a height of 64 m tall.

The Henry Martyn Trust based in Cambridge, England can trace its history back to 1897, at a time of great enthusiasm in Cambridge for overseas missions, when an appeal was launched for a ' Proposed Missionary Library for Cambridge University ', to be housed in the Henry Martyn Hall, erected ten years previously.

It opened to Weston-super-Mare in 1897, was extended to Portishead ten years later, and closed in 1940.

The so-called ' Golden Age ' of Australian test cricket occurred around the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, with the team under the captaincy of Joe Darling, Monty Noble and Clem Hill winning eight of ten tours it participated in between the 1897 – 98 English tour of Australia and the 1910 – 11 South African tour of Australia.

The smoothness of this system had no equal in 1897, and for at least another ten years.

Starting in 1897, Alfvén travelled much of the next ten years in Europe.

Surviving receipts and existing account books belonging to Saunière, preserved by his servant Marie Dénarnaud and inherited by Noël Corbu, reveal that the renovation of the church, including works on the presbytery and cemetery, cost 11, 605 Francs over a ten year period between 1887 and 1897.

On the fateful morning of 2 December 1897 the distress flares and rockets of ‘ The Persian Empire ’ were seen off Margate, and thirteen boatmen on the ‘ Friend ’ launched into the surf at 5: 20am, a full ten minutes ahead of the larger Margate R. N. L. I.

In 1947 Onderdonk donated his unpublished biography and ten surviving volumes ( out of 13 ) of Tainter's Home Notebooks to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History ; volumes 9, 10 and 13 unfortunately having been destroyed in a fire in September 1897.

The line expanded slowly and piecemeal to the west and north of Nashville during this period, falling into receivership twice, in 1897 and 1912, on the latter occasion operating in technical insolvency for ten years.

The nave and its aisles were completed just ten years later, and the building was finally consecrated for use in 1897.

This edition, in ten volumes, of which the first appeared in 1862, was not completed until 1897.

Although against formal rules, on December 17 1897, they officially agreed that no fewer than ten artists would be members at any time, and each of these would contribute to every annual exhibition.

His short story The Great Crellin Comet, published in 1897, was the first story to not only include a ten second countdown for a space launch, but also the first story to suggest that a cometary collision with the earth could be stopped by human intervention.

To begin with, he was the Belgian champion of the 110-meter hurdles in 1897, and he competed for ten years ; secondly, he was the Belgian Division of honor champion with the Racing-Club of Brussels ' team in 1900, and captain of the university team of Brussels in 1898 and 1899.

In less than ten years four folio volumes of the Chartularium appeared as follows: 1889, volume I, A. D. 1200-1286 ( xxxvi-714 pp. ), 530 original documents, with fifty-five from the preparatory period, 1163 – 1200 ; 1891, volume II, 1286-1350 ( xxiii-808 pp. ), 661 documents ; 1894, volume III, 1350-1384 ( xxxvii-777 pp. ), 520 documents ; 1897, volume IV, 1384-1452 ( xxxvi-835 pp. ), 988 documents, and two volumes of the Auctarium.