The Daughters of Zelophehad ( illustration from the 1897 Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us by Charles Foster )

Abraham, Sarah and Hagar, imagined here in a Bible illustration from 1897 ; Muslims maintain that Hagar was taken as Abraham's wife, which is mentioned also in Genesis 16: 3 but not as a slave or concubine as noted in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Abraham, Sarah and Hagar, imagined here in a Bible illustration from 1897.

Other major illustration projects included an 1896 edition of The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope, and the collection A Book of Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley ( 1897 ).

Launched by a commission to illustrate L. Frank Baum's Mother Goose in Prose in 1897, his repertoire included many prestigious projects including Eugene Field's Poems of Childhood ( including 8 color plates ) ( 1904 ) ( see illustration ) and such traditional works as Arabian Nights ( including 12 color plates ) ( 1909 ).

Image: Cardinalis cardinalis ( small illustration ). jpg | Cardinal, from Citizen Bird ( 1897 )

1897 illustration of La Peau de chagrin, drawn by Adrien Moreau and published by George Barrie & Son

In 1884 he began teaching illustration, and after 1897 founded a school, where his students included F. G. Stevenson.

In 1897, the shoal became a French possession, later being placed under the administration of a commissioner residing in Réunion in 1968.

Population censuses have been taken in Estonia in 1881, 1897, 1922, 1934, 1959, 1970, 1979, 1989 and 2000, and is being taken in January 2012.

The said ruler's nation logically becomes an " Empire ", despite having no additional territory or hegemony such as Central African Empire or the Korean Empire proclaimed in 1897 when Korea, far from gaining new territory, was on the verge of being annexed by the Empire of Japan, the last to use the name officially.

On 2 January 1897 Gladstone wrote to Francis Hirst on being unable to write a preface to a book on liberalism: " I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism ".

As a result a Great Barrier Island pigeon post service was set up, the first message being flown on 14 May 1897.

Some scholars, however, believed in regard to the 1897 census that "[...] the census enumerator generally has instructions to count everyone who understands the state language as being of that nationality, no matter what his everyday speech may be.

The philologist and Sanskritist Professor Chlodwig Werba, of the Institute of Indology at the University of Vienna, regards the 1883 translation as being second only in accuracy to the academic German-Latin text published by Richard Schmidt in 1897.

Today, it is still a major industrial centre, being home to industries such as textiles, metallurgy, chemicals, pharmaceuticals ( Aspirin was invented in Wuppertal in 1897 by Bayer ), electronics, automobiles, rubber, vehicles and printing equipment.

After being launched on 17 May 1897, it was eventually purchased by the Navy and renamed USS Holland.

From 1897 onwards the latter group staged many rebellions, the most famous one being led by Luo Fuxing ( 羅福星 ), who was arrested and executed along with two hundred of his comrades in 1913.

However, the city quickly rebounded, with electricity arriving in 1896, the first theater being built in 1897 and a major train station opened in 1898.

Such rumours resulted in the coffin being opened in 1897, which confirmed that his remains were still present.

These discoveries would have secured greatness indeed, as together with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron in 1897, they finally replaced John Dalton ’ s theory of atoms being solid spherical particles.

Buchan won both the Stanhope essay prize, in 1897, and the Newdigate Prize for poetry the following year, as well as being elected as the president of the Oxford Union and having six of his works published.

Euphemia Chalmers Millais, Lady Millais née Gray, known as Effie Gray, Effie Ruskin or Effie Millais ( 1828 – 23 December 1897 ) was the wife of the critic John Ruskin, but left her husband without the marriage being consummated, and after the annulment of the marriage, married his protégé, the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais.

Even though the Quebec Conservative Party dominated politics in that province for the first thirty years of Confederation at both the federal and provincial levels, in the 20th century the party was never able to be a force in provincial politics, being out of power starting in 1897, and ultimately dissolved into the Union Nationale in 1935 which took power in 1936 under Maurice Duplessis.

V, 13 January 1897 ) an article on Burne-Jones stated that ".... his pet grandson used to be punished by being sent to stand in a corner with his face to the wall.

They had several children including Charles Henry ( 1832 – 1897 ), who ran away from home at the age of thirteen to lead an adventurous life on the seas which included being shipwrecked on one of the islands off Hawaii, for a brief period, where he was married to a native.

The Great Central Railway ( GCR ) was a railway company in England which came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897 in anticipation of the opening in 1899 of its London Extension ( see Great Central Main Line ).

The Graf von Dracula, after being expelled from Great Britain in 1897, spread his brand of unstable vampirism ( and with it raging lycanthropy ) throughout the Russian Imperial Family.

By 1897, it was clear the buildings being used were no longer suitable, and so £ 25, 000 was raised to build ' a very handsome school that would be enormous credit to the town and … so that it would answer its purpose for the next 100 years '.

By 1897, Maundy recipients were being urged to sell the small pieces at a premium ; there are tales of Americans paying high prices for a set that year, wishing a souvenir of Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

The salad was first created between 1893 and 1896 at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City ( the precursor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, which came into being with the merger of the Waldorf with the adjacent Astoria Hotel, opened in 1897 ).

Except for the 15c value which was in use as late as 1897, the Large Queens had a relatively short life, being replaced in 1870 by the " Small Queens ", smaller stamps of the same basic design, adopted to be able to produce more stamps more quickly.

* Publisher Albert Lewis Kanter ( 1897 – 1973 ), created Classic Comics for Elliot Publishing Company in 1941 with its debut issues being The Three Musketeers.

As Captain of the US Revenue Cutter " Bear ", Francis Tuttle was ordered to the rescue of 14 ships of whalers trapped in ice off Point Barrow, Alaska, in 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.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

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.

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 ).

* Addington Palace: purchased as a replacement for Croydon Palace in 1807 ; sold in 1897.

Forgotten for many years, the grave was discovered in 1897 and the Premier of New South Wales, Sir Henry Parkes, had it restored.

Antoine Thomson d ' Abbadie d ' Arrast ( January 3, 1810 – March 19, 1897 ) was an Irish-French and Basque explorer, geographer, ethnologue, linguist and astronomer notable for his travels in Ethiopia during the first half of the 19th century.

Achurch played Nora again for a 7-day run in 1897.

The family returned home once for the Lambeth Conference in 1897, and Bernard and his brother Harold were educated for a term at The King's School, Canterbury.

On November 24, 1897, French naval authorities found three Americans on Clipperton working for the American Guano Company, who had raised the American flag on the island.

Max and Moritz provided an inspiration for German immigrant Rudolph Dirks, who created the Katzenjammer Kids in 1897.

The one who did the most to help Peirce in these desperate times was his old friend William James, dedicating his Will to Believe ( 1897 ) to Peirce, and arranging for Peirce to be paid to give two series of lectures at or near Harvard ( 1898 and 1903 ).

The term " Cheer Leader " had been used as early as 1897, with Princeton's football officials having named three students as Cheer Leaders: Thomas, Easton and Guerin from Princeton's classes of 1898, 1898 and 1899, respectively, on October 26, 1897 ; these students would cheer for the team also at football practices, and special cheering sections were designated in the stands for the games themselves for both the home and visiting teams.

* 1897: Adolphus Busch licenses rights to the Diesel Engine for the USA and Canada.

Beatty gained recognition in the campaign for the recapture of the Sudan ( 1897 – 1899 ) commanded by Lord Kitchener.

On 9 January 1897, he was given his first command, the destroyer Ranger, continuing up to June 1897 when he was again seconded to the Egyptian government for the next phase of the campaign.

In 1897, Karl Ferdinand Braun introduced the cathode ray tube as part of an oscilloscope, a crucial enabling technology for electronic television.

To prepare him for the future life means to give him command of himself ; it means so to train him that he will have the full and ready use of all his capacities ; that his eye and ear and hand may be tools ready to command, that his judgment may be capable of grasping the conditions under which it has to work, and the executive forces be trained to act economically and efficiently ” ( Dewey, 1897, Para.