Their interest remains chiefly biographical, for they throw some light on the utter despair which overtook Thompson in the spring and early summer of 1900.

These include from the time of the Great Chicago Fire to about 1900, what became known as the Chicago Literary Renaissance in the 1910s and early 1920s, and the period of the Great Depression through the 1940s.

Civil wars through the 19th century to early 20th century tended to be short ; the average length of a civil war between 1900 and 1944 was one and half years.

There were isolated examples of this very early, and the first of these, Williamson's Attack on a China Mission ( 1900 ) has already been mentioned.

However, this story is now considered baseless: although no birth certificate has ever been found, his birth notice did appear in a New York newspaper in early January 1900, which supports the December 1899 date, as do other sources, such as the 1900 census.

The Indus Valley Civilization ( IVC ) was a Bronze Age civilization ( 3300 – 1300 BCE ; mature period 2600 – 1900 BCE ) which was centred mostly in the western part of the Indian Subcontinent, considered as early form of Hinduism performed during this civilization.

In 1900, author Meredith Nicholson wrote The Hoosiers, an early attempt to study the origins of the word as applied to Indiana residents.

The term was originally coined by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling ( 1775 – 1854 ) to depict early stages of monotheism, however Max Müller ( 1823 – 1900 ), a German philologist and orientalist, brought the term into common usage.

The stringed, chord-playing rhythm instrument typical of jazz ensembles from 1900 until the early 1920s was the banjo, an instrument which was much louder than guitars of the time.

Around 1900 an English translation was made by Baha ' i Anton Haddad, which circulated among the early American Bahá ' í community in a typewritten form.

Industrialist Collis P. Huntington ( 1821 – 1900 ) provided crucial funding to complete the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad ( C & O ) from Richmond, Virginia to the Ohio River in the early 1870s.

The first, Album des vers anciens ( Album of ancient verses ), was a revision of early but beautifully wrought smaller poems, some of which had been published individually before 1900.

Méliès began hand-tinting his work as early as 1897 and the 1899 Cendrillion ( Cinderella ) and 1900 Jeanne d ' Arc ( Joan of Arc ) provide early examples of hand-tinted films in which the color was a critical part of the scenography or mise an scene ; such precise tinting used the workshop of Elisabeth Thuillier in Paris, with teams of female artists adding layers of color to each frame by hand rather than using a more common ( and less expensive ) process of stenciling.

Electronic interception appeared as early as 1900, during the Boer Wars.

An early form of show jumping first was incorporated into the Olympic Games in 1900.

In the resulting Battle of Spion Kop, British troops captured the summit by surprise during the early hours of 24 January 1900, but as the early morning fog lifted they realised too late that they were overlooked by Boer gun emplacements on the surrounding hills.

Late in the century, Gustav Mahler wrote his early Das klagende Lied on his own words, between 1878 and 1880, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor created a successful trilogy of cantatas The Song of Hiawatha between 1898 and 1900.

Ranching increased significantly from 1900 to 1920, but a series of agricultural related economic downturns in the early 1920s left many ranchers destitute.

It is also unclear exactly when they started producing wax crayon products but ads featuring their Centennial and Falcon brands of crayons began appearing as early as Jan 1900.

Romesh Chunder Dutt argued as early as 1900, and present-day scholars such as Amartya Sen agree, that some historic famines were a product of both uneven rainfall and British economic and administrative policies, which since 1857 had led to the seizure and conversion of local farmland to foreign-owned plantations, restrictions on internal trade, heavy taxation of Indian citizens to support British expeditions in Afghanistan ( see The Second Anglo-Afghan War ), inflationary measures that increased the price of food, and substantial exports of staple crops from India to Britain.

By 1900 the population had fallen to 1 million and by the early 1980s it was less than 200, 000.

Wall painting from the early catacombs, Rome, Christianity in the 4th century | 4th century.

A spectacular find in 2006 was the richly detailed bronze and silver brooch ( fibula ) modeled with the figure of Mars, on which Quintus Sollonius, a Gaul to judge by his name, had carefully punched his name before he lost it in the early second century ; nothing comparably fine has been recovered along the Wall.

Wall Street analysts noted that Daley began drawing on the city ’ s reserves as early as 2006, before the recession began.

Other early clients were the Environmental Protection Agency, Library of Congress, and the Department of Energy and later the Wall Street Journal and Encyclopædia Britannica.

* Buttonwood ( Finance ) — named for the buttonwood tree where early Wall Street traders gathered.

As a result of the fall of the Berlin Wall in the early 1990s a refreshed form of nationalism paved the way for a new youth culture-hip hop.

Among the most famous early independent producers are the famed songwriting-production duo Leiber & Stoller, " Wall of Sound " creator Phil Spector and British studio pioneer Joe Meek.

Historically part of Cumberland, the early history of Carlisle is marked by its status as a Roman settlement, established to serve the forts on Hadrian's Wall.

Dramatic changes occurred in the Soviet Union during the 1980s and early 1990s, with perestroika, the dramatic fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, and finally ending in the Collapse of the Soviet Union ( 1985 – 1991 ).

Despite the early success of MP3. com on Wall Street ( the day of the stock IPO ( ticker: MPPP ), the stock rose from $ 28 to peak at $ 103 ), Robertson quickly led his company into a firestorm of lawsuits generated by the major record labels and music publishing concerns.

In the early 1920s, this small-time operation was taken over by Charlie Wall, the rebellious son of a prominent Tampa family, and went big-time.

Around this same period, De La Hoya was featured in an early 2007 online advertising campaign by the Wall Street Journal that featured celebrity readers.

The early post office was located on the corner of Wall St. and Carson Ave. After many delays, Frostproof first received rail service in 1912.

Joseph Wall was one of the early settlers of Belle Rive.

The early settlers of the area were: Reuben Moss, George Robards, George Eakins, Bennett Sandefur, Jordan Moss, Enoch Spencer, Thomas Reidout, Ben Wall, Nathan Smith, T. W. Royster, James McMullin, Samuel McMullin, Sr.

This early Gothic Revival architecture church was designed by Richard Upjohn, who also designed Trinity Church at the foot of Wall Street in Lower Manhattan.

North Versailles, East McKeesport, Wilmerding, and Wall consolidated school systems in the early 1960s to form the East Allegheny School District.

In The Door in the Wall, Marguerite de Angeli's juvenile fiction set in early 14th century England, Brother Luke soothes lame Robin's anger at being called Crookshanks by explaining to him that they are all named for some quality unique to themselves.

The Chateau Club on Wall Street hosted some musical greats in the early seventies.

Despite the Liaodong Wall, the Ming Liaodong was conquered by the Manchus in the early 17th century, decades before the rest of China fell to them.

It has been noted for being one of the most influential soft rock albums of the early 1980s, and famously beat Pink Floyd's The Wall for that year's Grammy.

Wall painting from the early catacombs, Rome, 4th century.

The Writing's on the Wall peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 and number two on R & B chart in early 2000.

Other early use in the US were the Earth Day Wall Street Action in 1990 and the February 1991 protests against the Gulf War.