Under the treaty, the Panamanians received $ 10 million, much of which the United States required to be invested in that country, plus annual payments of $ 250, 000 ; with those payments made, as well as for the purchase of the French company assets, the Canal Zone was formally turned over by Panama on May 4, 1904, when American officials reopened the Panama City offices of the canal company and raised the American flag.

In 1900, he started his own company which he sold in 1904 to purchase his first nickelodeon.

He persuaded his company to purchase rights to the Buster Brown name, and the brand was introduced to the public at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

After the purchase of a piece of land known as the ' bog meadows ' just off lower Windsor Avenue in 1904, the club settled in what has become the permanent home of Linfield FC., Windsor Park, a ground that has hosted international matches since its opening.

The station would have served a new residential development being planned to the north of the heath but Henrietta Barnett instigated the purchase of the land in 1904 to form the Hampstead Heath Extension instead.

Boyle continued his career as the 19th Governor of Mauritius from 20 August 1904 to 10 April 1911, after which he retired to Brighton, England.

Manchester then had two competing power companies until 1904, when the Manchester Light and Power Company purchased the transmission system of the Vail Company.

From 1902 to 1904, in addition to the building of the Shrine of the Báb that ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was directing, he started to put into execution two different projects ; the restoration of the House of the Báb in Shiraz, Iran and the construction of the first Bahá ' í House of Worship in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

The two factions were in a state of flux in 1903 – 1904 with many members changing sides.

Sweden's conservative party, the Moderate Party, was formed in 1904, two years after the founding of the liberal party.

Due to his two periods of exile in 1904 – 1909, to escape the British invasion of 1904, and from 1910 – 1912 to escape a Chinese invasion, he became well aware of the complexities of international politics and was the first Dalai Lama to become aware of the importance of foreign relations.

The events of 1904 preceded a series of hospitalizations at intervals of two or three years.

* Madama Butterfly, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa ( in two acts – premiered at La Scala, 17 February 1904 )

In 1966 Erhard lost support and Kurt Kiesinger ( 1904 – 1988 ) was elected as Chancellor by a new CDU / CSU-SPD alliance combining the two largest parties.

* 1904 – The distress signal " CQD " is established only to be replaced two years later by " SOS ".

He led the Grand Fleet to two startling victories in 1904 and 1905, completely destroying Russia as a naval power in the East, and thereby contributing to the failed revolution in Russia in 1905.

Two ships of the Prinz Adalbert class were commissioned in 1904, followed by two similar Roon class commissioned in 1905 and 1906, at costs around 17 million GM each.

By that time, Reinitzer had discovered and described three important features of cholesteric liquid crystals ( the name coined by Otto Lehmann in 1904 ): the existence of two melting points, the reflection of circularly polarized light, and the ability to rotate the polarization direction of light.

Mitchell's two favorite children's books were by author Edith Nesbit: Five Children and It ( 1902 ) and The Phoenix and the Carpet ( 1904 ).

C. Wood in 1904 and was survived by his widow, two sons and a daughter.

* 1904 – Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.

The generally upbeat and optimistic mood of paintings in this period is reminiscent of the 1899 – 1901 period ( i. e. just prior to the Blue Period ) and 1904 can be considered a transition year between the two periods.

The most important works of the Paris period were Neue Gedichte ( New Poems ) ( 1907 ), Der Neuen Gedichte Anderer Teil ( Another Part of the New Poems ) ( 1908 ), the two " Requiem " poems ( 1909 ), and the novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, started in 1904 and completed in January 1910.

The Saar Protectorate was headed by a military governor from 30 August 1945: Gilbert Yves Édmond Grandval ( b. 1904 – d. 1981 ), who remained on 1 January 1948 as High Commissioner, and January 1952 – June 1955 as the first of two French ambassadors, his successor being Eric de Carbonnel ( b. 1910 – d. 1965 ) until 1956.

The Tripartite Convention of 1899 partitioned the Samoan Islands into two parts: the eastern island group became a territory of the United States ( the Tutuila Islands in 1900 and officially Manu ' a in 1904 ) and is today known as American Samoa ; the western islands, by far the greater landmass, became known as German Samoa after Britain vacated all claims to Samoa and accepted termination of German rights in Tonga and certain areas in the Solomon Islands and West Africa.

* British — Knight, Laura: Clown ( n. d .); Sickert, Walter: Pierrot and Woman Embracing ( 1903 – 1904 ), Brighton Pierrots ( 1915 ; two versions ).

The Woodstock Art Colony in Woodstock, New York began as two colonies: first Byrdcliffe, founded in 1902 by Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Hervey White, and Bolton Brown, and then the Maverick Colony, founded by Hervey White after seceding from Byrdcliffe in 1904.

* American Record Company ( 1904 – 1908, re-activated 1979 ), one of two United States record labels by this name

The history of Silja Line can be traced back to 1904 when two Finnish shipping companies, Finland Steamship Company ( Finska Ångfartygs Aktiebolaget, FÅA for short ) and Steamship Company Bore, started collaborating on Finland – Sweden traffic.

Suffering from gout and neuralgia, Chamberlain took a two month holiday in February 1904.

Picasso ’ s Blue Period ( 1901 – 1904 ) consists of somber paintings rendered in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors.

The current flag of South Australia was adopted on 13 January 1904, and is a British blue ensign defaced with the state badge.

In 1904, the Army " Gillespie " version was the first to change, to a smaller gold-finished bronze star and the suspension ribbon and rosette to light blue with thirteen white stars representing the 13 original states in the form of a three chevrons.

A flag with blue and white stripes and a Magen David in the center flew with those of other nationalities from one of the buildings at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904.

The club was formed in 1904, taking the crest of Leeds as the club badge and adopting blue, yellow and white as the club's colours.

The Uttersons ' copy was bound in blue straight-grain Morocco leather with gilt edges, inserted with a print by Samuel William Reynolds of a portrait of her by Alfred Edward Chalon and six original water colour drawings ; it was sold with the library of Frederick Clarke of Wimbledon in 1904 to B. F. Stevens for £ 3 3s.

The Blue Period () is a term used to define to the works produced by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso between 1901 and 1904, when he painted essentially monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors.

A 1904 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing railways in the vicinity of Whitehaven ( FR in blue ; LNWR in red )

The image has a dark brown color, as it was sculpted in clay ( resulting in many of its replicas being painted black ), and it is covered by a stiff dark blue robe of richly embroidered thick cloth with golden clasps, and wears an imperial crown which was added in 1904.

After a comparison of the substances half-lives determined by Debierne, Hariett Brooks in 1904, and Otto Hahn and Otto Sackur in 1905, Debierne's chosen name for the new element was retained because it had seniority.

However, the idea that electrons might revolve around a compact nucleus with definite angular momentum was convincingly argued at least 19 years earlier by Niels Bohr, and the Japanese physicist Hantaro Nagaoka published an orbit-based hypothesis for electronic behavior as early as 1904.

Casa Batlló () is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904 – 1906 ; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue ), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia ( the " Block of Discord ") in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.

One was intended to be a show house, but on being completed in 1904 was put up for sale, and as no buyers came forward, Gaudí, at Güell's suggestion, bought it with his savings and moved in with his family and his father in 1906.

He founded the Carnegie Hero Fund for the United States and Canada in 1904 ( a few years later also established in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany ) for the recognition of deeds of heroism.

School ( 1904 ) Sanskriti ... The School ( 2004 ) and Sophia Girls ' School ( 1918 / 1935 ) & College ( 1942 ), Rashtriya Military School Ajmer ( Since 2010-Established in 1930 as King George ’ s Royal Indian Military School ), and the historic Ajmer Music College, founded in 1942, the first accredited institution in Rajputana for teaching Hindustani classical music.

Still, Thomson's model ( along with a similar Saturnian ring model for atomic electrons, also put forward in 1904 by Nagaoka after James Clerk Maxwell's model of Saturn's rings ), were earlier harbingers of the later and more successful solar-system-like Bohr model of the atom.

Later, navigation was stopped in 1904 and the canal has since then, been exclusively used for irrigation purposes only.

In Ó Duinnín's Irish dictionary ( 1904 ) it is referred to as Céadamh ( ain ) which it explains is short for Céad-shamh ( ain ) meaning " first ( of ) summer ".

From 1904, there was low intensity warfare in Macedonia between the Greek and Bulgarian bands and the Ottoman army ( the Struggle for Macedonia ).

From 1907 on, English language articles sometimes used the term " Maximalist " for " Bolshevik " and " Minimalist " for " Menshevik ", which proved confusing since there was also a " Maximalist " faction within the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1904 – 1906 ( which after 1906 formed a separate Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists ) and then again after 1917.

In 2004, London, the Parliament, Effects of Sun in the Fog ( Londres, le Parlement, trouée de soleil dans le brouillard ) ( 1904 ), sold for US $ 20. 1 million.

NCR Corporation | National Cash Register expressly built for a merchant in Nové Město nad Metují, Austro-Hungary, 1904

" During the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, the commander of the torpedo boat destroyer IJN Akatsuki described " being in command of a destroyer for a long period, especially in wartime ... is not very good for the health.

Theodor Seuss Geisel (; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991 ) was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone.

John Dewey, a principal figure in this movement from the 1880s to 1904, set the tone for educational philosophy as well as concrete school reforms.

Madero responded by founding the Benito Juárez Democratic Club and ran for municipal office in 1904, though he lost the election narrowly.

In 1904, the Royal Society awarded Cantor its Sylvester Medal, the highest honor it can confer for work in mathematics.

His list could easily be increased, for the Greek Orthodox see still exists ; it was raised in 1904 to the rank of a metropolis without suffragans, after the manner of most Greek metropolitan sees.

After his stay in Nernst's lab, Lewis returned to Harvard as an instructor for three more years, and in 1904 left to become Superintendent of Weights and Measures for the Bureau of Science of the Philippine Islands in Manila.

In 1885, he became professor of hygiene at the University of Berlin, then in 1891 he was made Honorary Professor of the medical faculty and Director of the new Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases ( eventually renamed as the Robert Koch Institute ), a position from which he resigned in 1904.