The Prodigal Son: a dramatic renarration () written by Norwegian author and philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe ( 1899 – 1990 ) in 1951, is a dramatized reproduction of the circumstances around the Jesus figure, named Immanuel in Zapffe's play.

Founded in 1899, the town provided the main railroad access for Lincoln County and the town experienced significant population growth in the early decades of the 1900s.

* Record League victory – 11 – 3 v. Lincoln City ( 23 March 1895, most goals scored ) 10 – 0 v. Darwen ( 18 February 1899, widest margin of victory )

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

He served as the head football coach at Ohio Wesleyan University ( 1897 ), the University of Nebraska – Lincoln ( 1898 ), the University of Kansas ( 1899 ), Stanford University ( 1900 ), San Jose State University ( 1900 ), and the University of Michigan ( 1901 – 1923, 1925 – 1926 ), compiling a career college football record of 198 – 35 – 12.

He was a Representative from New Mexico ; born on Greenwood plantation, near Bayou Sara, Louisiana., April 3, 1861 ; attended the public schools ; moved to the Territory of New Mexico in 1879 and worked on a cattle ranch until 1881 ; acted as post trader at Fort Stanton ; engaged in the mercantile and stock business until 1886 ; deputy treasurer of Lincoln County in 1886 and 1887 ; elected county clerk in 1888, county assessor in 1890, and sheriff in 1892 ; member of the Territorial senate in 1894 and 1896, serving as president the latter year ; lieutenant of the First Volunteer Cavalry, known as “ Roosevelt ’ s Rough Riders ,” in the Spanish-American War ; sheriff of Otero County in 1899 ; resigned to join the Eleventh Volunteer Cavalry ; lieutenant, provost marshal, and provost judge, with service in the Philippine Islands from December 16, 1899, to March 20, 1901 ; Governor of the Province of Camarines, Philippine Islands, in 1901 ; chief of police of the city of Manila, 1901 ; Governor of the Province of Isabela 1903-1905 ; Governor of the Province of Samar from 1905 to 1907, when he resigned ; Governor of the Territory of New Mexico 1907-1911 ; upon the admission of New Mexico as a State into the Union was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress and served from January 8, 1912, to March 3, 1913 ; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1912 ; engaged in the hotel business in Socorro, N. Mex.

Sir James William Francis Hill CBE ( 1899 – 1980 ) was a solicitor and leading historian of Lincoln and Lincolnshire.

Dr. Lorenzo Johnston Greene ( 1899 – 1988 ) taught history at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri from 1933-1972.

Lincoln Park High School in 1899

He also donated £ 50, 000 to help set up the University of Birmingham in 1899.

They also started the All England Open Badminton Championships, the first badminton competition in the world, in 1899.

In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance ; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation ( Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy ).

Chile also temporarily resolved its border disputes with Argentina with the Puna de Atacama Lawsuit of 1899, the Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina and the 1902 General Treaty of Arbitration.

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.

Workers ' activism after 1899 had been directed toward opposing Russification, and had also sought to develop a domestic policy that tackled social problems and responded to the demand for democracy.

Geelong holds a number of league records including the longest winning streak in AFL / VFL history ( 23 games ); the most goals kicked in a single game ( on two occasions-37. 17 ( 239 ) against Brisbane in 1992 and 37. 11 ( 233 ) against Melbourne in 2011 ); the highest score recorded in a single game ( 37. 17 ( 239 ) against Brisbane in 1992 ; the highest-ever aggregate season total for points scored ( 3, 334 points in 1992 ); the record for restricting an opponent to the lowest ever score in a game ( St Kilda 0. 1 ( 1 ) in 1899 ); the most consecutive 100-point victories ( 3 games in a row, in 1989 ); the longest winning streak in interstate games ( 12 games ) and achieved the longest home ground winning streak in VFL / AFL history — 29 games straight at Simonds Stadium ( also known as Kardinia Park ).

Not all his scientific romances ended in a happy Utopia, and in fact, Wells also wrote a dystopian novel, When the Sleeper Wakes ( 1899, rewritten as The Sleeper Awakes, 1910 ), which pictures a future society where the classes have become more and more separated, leading to a revolt of the masses against the rulers.

Hen wlad fy nhadau was also one of the first Welsh-language songs recorded when Madge Breese sang it on 11 March 1899, for the Gramophone Company, as part of the first recording in the Welsh language.

During that time Dewey also initiated the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where he was able to actualize the pedagogical beliefs that provided material for his first major work on education, The School and Social Progress ( 1899 ).

This period also saw the development of international law, with the first Geneva Conventions establishing laws dealing with humanitarian relief during wartime, and the international Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 governing rules of war and the peaceful settlement of international disputes.

For times predating 1899, usage of the term " Sudan " for the territory of the Republic of Sudan is somewhat anachronistic, and may also refer to the more diffuse concept of the Sudan region

The Vehmgericht also appear as antagonists in The Strong Arm, an 1899 novel set in the Holy Roman Empire by British-Canadian author Robert Barr.

The accomplished publisher also gained a flair for public speaking, and Harding in 1899 was elected to fill the Ohio State Senate seat for the 13th Senatorial District, despite Amos Kling's financing of a primary opponent.

He was the eighth ( and also the longest-serving ) Librarian of the United States Congress from 1899 to 1939.

Four of his brothers also became actors: Arthur ( 1888 – 1972 ), an actor and sculptor, and Clifford ( 1892 – 1978 ), Cyril ( 1899 – 1987 ) and Kenneth ( circa 1901-1979 ).

There is also information on size of the company from 1899 police report investigating child labor complaints ( the company had 72 employees that year ).

It had also published The Yattendon Hymnal in 1899 and, more significantly, the first edition of The English Hymnal in 1906, under the editorship of Percy Dearmer and the then largely unknown Ralph Vaughan Williams.

MacArthur entered West Point on 13 June 1899, and his mother also moved there to a suite at Craney's Hotel, overlooking the grounds of the Academy.

Holst also wrote an orchestral Walt Whitman Overture in 1899, which was given a world premiere recording by the Munich Symphony Orchestra, as well as a recording by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).

The Conference led to the signing of the Hague Convention ( of 1899 ) that led to rules of declaring and conducting warfare as well as the use of modern weaponry, and also led to the setting up of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

* Major F. G. L. Chester ( 1899 – 1946 ), also known as Gort Chester, British soldier and member of Z Special Unit in Borneo

* Jack Mealey ( born 1899 ) -- minor league baseball catcher, who also managed in the minor leagues and served as president of the Sooner State League

Her two sisters, Alice ( later spelled Alyse ) ( 1899 – 1965 ) and Ethel ( 1902 – 1990 ), also became singers.

* A. K. Chesterton ( 1899 – 1973 ), fascist, and first Chairman, National Front, 1967 – 1971

In Front Street there were two other churches, the Catholic Parish of Our Lady & St Oswins, opened in 1899, and also Tynemouth Congregational Church, which closed in 1973 and is now a shopping arcade.

Queensland Rugby team 1899: Front row-F. Kent, S. Boland, W. Tannee, E. Currie, A. Colton.

In December 1959, Bassett bought a property on Front Street West and in 1963 moved the Telegram to a new building at that location from the site at Bay and Melinda Street where the paper had been produced since 1899.

* STARHEMBERG, Ernst Rüdiger Camillo Maria, 7th Prince of ( 1899 – 1956 ) Freikorps Oberland, Nazi Party and Fatherland's Front activist.

His father Patrick was said to be a member of the Irish National Invincibles, a revolutionary organization that, among other activities, was reputed to have assassinated the Lord Mayor of Dublin and his secretary in 1881, the infamous Phoenix Park Murders, who then fled to the U. S. The elder Hallinan became a streetcar conductor in San Francisco, and was one of the leaders of the Great Front Strike of 1899 – 1900.

* 1899 – Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.

This statue of Benjamin Franklin donated by Justus C. Strawbridge to the City of Philadelphia in 1899 now sits in front of College Hall ( University of Pennsylvania ) | College Hall.

The Marguerites Club is one of the oldest surviving College societies, reformed in 1899 by Gilbert Jessop the then captain of CUCC.

Elizabethtown College was established in 1899, and the Masonic Homes ( now the Masonic Village ) followed in 1910.

In 1899, after a year of unhappy, initial employment at the College for Women of Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio, he became an instructor in psychology at Teachers College at Columbia University, where he remained for the rest of his career, studying human learning, education, and mental testing.

Tarleton State University was founded in 1893 as Stephenville College but was renamed in 1899 after local rancher John Tarleton rescued the institution from financial difficulties.

Construction of McCabe College, the first school in Alaska to offer a college preparatory high school curriculum, began in 1899.

In 1899, it moved to Chicopee as St. Joseph's Normal College.

Early schools established in Macon were Johnson College ( Methodist ), 1866 ; St. James Academy and St. Agnes Hall ( Episcopal ), 1875 and 1884 ; outstanding Blees Military Academy, 1899 ; and south at College Mound, noted McGee ( Presbyterian ) College, 1853.

In a private printing of 1899 Provost Shadwell lists thirteen Gaudies observed by the College during the 18th century ; by the end of the 19th century all but two, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and the Purification of the Virgin, had ceased to be celebrated.

Ruskin College was established in 1899 specifically to provide educational opportunities for working class men, who were denied access to university.

The school was to change its name twice more ( Durant Presbyterian College in 1900, and Oklahoma Presbyterian College in 1910 ), and by 1899 it had attracted an enrollment of 300.

The State College record low of-20 was set in 1899 and the record high of 102 was set in 1988.

The community was the home of the Seneca Institute-Seneca Junior College, which was an African-American school from 1899 to 1939.

: In February 13, 1899, she went on a typical lecture tour — leaving Chicago on February 13, she spoke at Wells College in Aurora, New York on the 14th ; at Auburn Seminary the next day ; at Wells again on the 16th ; then to New York for a quick stopover ; then to Boston where she made two appearances at woman's clubs on the 18th ; two more appearances on Sunday ; on to the University of Vermont on Monday ; back to Boston for two more appearance on Tuesday ; two more on Wednesday, and two on Thursday ; then she was off to Meadville, Pennsylvania ; to Harrisburg, Richmond, Virginia, and Columbia, South Carolina, before returning home.

In 1899, the school became the Michigan State Normal College when it created the first four-year curriculum for a normal college in the nation.

By 1899, the school had been made a state institution by the Texas Legislature, becoming North Texas State Normal College under its fourth president, Joel Sutton Kendall.

( The Victoria University of Wellington's predecessor, Victoria College – later Victoria University College – opened in 1899.

The College of Law and the College of Medicine were founded in 1899, the College of Letters in 1906, expanding the university's activities to areas outside natural science.