* 1914 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian ( b. 1840 )

The key leader was Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz ( 1849 – 1930 ), who greatly expanded the size and quality of the Navy, while adopting the sea power theories of American strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan.

He created popular magazines about the navy, arranged for Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History, which argued the importance of naval forces, to be translated into German and serialised in newspapers, arranged rallies in support and invited politicians and industrialists to naval reviews.

However, it became more widely known when American naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan used the term in 1902 to ' designate the area between Arabia and India '.

* 1840 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian ( d. 1914 )

* Davis, Richard Harding, and Alfred Thayer Mahan.

One fraction led by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz were avid followers of the teachings of the American historian Alfred Thayer Mahan and believed in building a “ balanced fleet ” centred around the battleship that would, if war came, seek out and win a decisive battle of annihilation ( Entscheidungsschlacht ) against the Royal Navy.

* Mahan, Alfred Thayer ( 1906 ).

Plan of the fleet deployment during the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 </ br > by Alfred Thayer Mahan During the night came the sounds that the English fleet had been waiting to hear – the signal guns of the Spanish ships in the fog.

At a time when industrialisation was reaping major advances in naval technology, one American strategist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, almost single-handedly brought the field of naval strategy up to date.

* Alfred Thayer Mahan, U. S. Rear Admiral, geopolitician and historian

The Navy was modernized in the 1880s, and by the 1890s had adopted the naval power strategy of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan -- as indeed did every major navy.

Influenced by the American geostrategist Alfred Thayer Mahan, Ratzel wrote of aspirations for German naval reach, agreeing that sea power was self-sustaining, as the profit from trade would pay for the merchant marine, unlike land power.

Alfred Thayer Mahan, a frequent commentator on world naval strategic and diplomatic affairs, believed that national greatness was inextricably associated with the sea, with its commercial usage in peace and its control in war.

Mackinder's doctrine of geopolitics involved concepts diametrically opposed to the notion of Alfred Thayer Mahan about the significance of navies ( he coined the term sea power ) in world conflict.

Ostensibly based upon the geopolitical theory of American naval officer Alfred Thayer Mahan, and British geographer Halford J. Mackinder, German geopolitik adds older German ideas.

* Davis, Richard Harding, and Alfred Thayer Mahan.

The United States possessed more naval power and, more significantly, Alfred Thayer Mahan's theories were needed to secure the growing influence of the United States in Latin America.

* Alfred Thayer Mahan-The Influence of Sea Power upon History

Alfred Thayer Mahan ( September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914 ) was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called " the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century.

Letters and Papers of Alfred Thayer Mahan ( 3 vol 1975 ) v. 1.

* Mahan, Alfred Thayer.

Nicholas J. Spykman could be considered as a disciple and critic of both geostrategists Alfred Mahan, and Halford Mackinder.

Alfred T. Mahan as a Captain

Mahan's name became a household word in the German navy, as Kaiser William II ordered his officers to read Mahan, and Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz ( 1849 – 1930 ) used Mahan's reputation to finance a powerful surface fleet.

Governor Alfred E. Smith was the official host at the children's party.

One of the people who was afraid of Alfred was his own brother, Lew.

Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.

It was in the spring of the year when he took to his bed and Tessie and Alfred found out that they didn't know each other.

The store was their marriage, and when Alfred had to leave it there was nothing to hold them together.

Tessie, everybody thought, was a strong woman, but she was only strong because she had Alfred to lean on.

And when Alfred was forced into his bed, Tessie left the front porch of the store and sat at home, rocking in her rocker in the living room, staring out the window -- the rose still in her hair.

Spring was life -- and Alfred Alpert in his sickroom was death.

My father, who liked Alfred very much, was a constant visitor.

Alfred was getting too sick to stay in his own home.

Alfred was dressed for his trip to the hospital.

Harry ran to the side of the car where Alfred was sitting and looked at him, begging him to speak.

Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.

He was able to smell a bargain -- and a masterpiece -- a continent away, and the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr said of him: `` I have never mentioned a new artist that Thompson didn't know about ''.

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski () ( July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950 ) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).

The family was impoverished, and only Alfred and his three brothers survived past childhood.

Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.