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In 1895 the stadium was refurbished a second time for the 1896 Olympics, with completion funding provided by the Greek benefactor George Averoff, whose marble statue now stands at the entrance, based on designs by the architects Anastasios Metaxas and Ernst Ziller.
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It has been the home of the Wisconsin Badgers football team in rudimentary form since 1895, and as a complete stadium since 1917.
Derby County Football Club had occasionally used the stadium for their home matches and, with their partner baseball club in decline, made it their permanent home in 1895 and renamed it The Baseball Ground.
Deemed by the NCAA as the oldest stadium still operating for football, it was the site of the nation's first scoreboard in 1895.
Motherwell moved to the stadium in 1895, previously playing their football at Dalziel Park.
In 1895, the organizer of UC's first football team, Arch Carson, introduced a plan to build a stadium complete with wooden bleachers on the site upon which Nippert Stadium currently stands.
The stadium was refurbished in 1895, its second refurbishment in the 19th century, using white marble from Mount Penteli pursuant to Averoff's request.
Sincil Bank known as of August 2012 as The 12th Man Sincil Bank Stadium is a football stadium in Lincoln, England and has been the home of Lincoln City since 1895.
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After 1895 the number increases, and in the next thirty years there is only one year for which there is no dated poem -- 1903, when Hardy was at work on The Dynasts.
The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).
In 1880, the Aachen tramway network was opened, and in 1895 it was electrified.
Allowing himself to be involved in the ecclesiastical disputes that divided Hungary in 1895, he was made the subject of formal complaint by the Hungarian government and in 1896 was recalled.
Nowadays the castle still belongs to the Academy of Science to which it was bequeathed in 1895 on condition of its producing within fifty years a catalogue of half-a-million stars.
The American explorations of the Argive Heraeum, concluded in 1895, also failed to prove that site to have been important in the prehistoric time, though, as was to be expected from its neighbourhood to Mycenae itself, there were traces of occupation in the later Aegean periods.
Richard Buckminster " Bucky " Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983 ) was an American systems theorist, architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.
Fuller was born on July 12, 1895, in Milton, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Buckminster Fuller and Caroline Wolcott Andrews, and also the grandnephew of the American Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller.
George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).
Berthe Morisot ( January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895 ) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.
Berthe Morisot died of pneumonia contracted while attending to her daughter Julie's similar illness on March 2, 1895, in Paris and was interred in the Cimetière de Passy.
In 1895 the library was opened on Moseley Road and in 1907 Balsall Heath Baths were opened in an adjoining building.
In late 1895, after advancing deep into Ethiopian territory, a small Italian-led unit was defeated by a much larger Ethiopian group at the Battle of Amba Alagi.
A very early comedy short was Watering the Gardener ( 1895 ) by the Lumière brothers.
Caving was pioneered by Édouard-Alfred Martel ( 1859 – 1938 ) who first achieved the descent and exploration of the Gouffre de Padirac, France as early as 1889 and the first complete descent of a 110 metre wet vertical shaft at Gaping Gill, in Yorkshire, England in 1895.
The significance of this lemma was recognized by Émile Borel ( 1895 ), and it was generalized to arbitrary collections of intervals by Pierre Cousin ( 1895 ) and Henri Lebesgue ( 1904 ).
John Perry had written an 1895 paper proposing that the earth's interior was fluid, and disagreeing with Lord Kelvin on the age of the earth.
J. Brooking Rowe, writing in 1895, states that the tomb was re-erected in 1890 under the direction of Mr. E. Fearnley Tanner, who said that he was dissatisfied with the result because several stones were missing and it was difficult to recreate the original character of the monument.
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In 1895, the University Trustees acquired 11 Ashburton Place, which was refurbished and named Isaac Rich Hall in honor of the third founder of Boston University.
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In 1895, the Amir found himself unable, by reason of ill-health, to accept an invitation from Queen Victoria to visit England ; but his second son Nasrullah Khan went instead.
Young led his league in wins five times ( 1892, 1895, and 1901 – 1903 ), finishing second twice.
* 1895 – Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the second war for Cuban independence, that ends with the Spanish-American War in 1898.
After he was ennobled by the Kaiser in 1895, he adopted the name August Kekule von Stradonitz, without the French acute accent over the second " e ".
South Australia granted restricted women's suffrage in 1861, and in 1895 became the second place in the world to grant universal suffrage ( after New Zealand ), and the first where women had the dual rights to vote and to stand for election.
The second, collected by MCC, the county of Gloucestershire, the Daily Telegraph and The Sportsman, amounted to £ 9, 703 and was presented to him in 1896 in appreciation of his " Indian Summer " season of 1895.
The Post Office released a second and third Sherman issue of 1895, both almost identical to the first issue, with slight changes in the framework design and color.
During Itō's second term as prime minister ( August 8, 1892 – August 31, 1896 ), he supported the First Sino-Japanese War and negotiated the Treaty of Shimonoseki in March 1895 with his ailing foreign minister Mutsu Munemitsu.
María Eva Duarte de Perón (; 7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952 ) was an Argentine political leader, the second wife of President Juan Perón ( 1895 – 1974 ) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.
The second emigration from the Netherlands to Chile was in 1895.
The first was published in 1895 and contained 1, 520 objects, while the second was published in 1908 and contained 3, 866 objects, for a total of 5, 386 IC objects.
The most comprehensive collection of Chemehuevi history, culture and mythology was gathered by Carobeth Laird ( 1895 – 1983 ) and her second husband, George Laird, one of the last Chemehuevi to have been raised in the traditional culture.
Barker was born the second daughter and last child of Walter Barker, a partner in a seed supply company and an amateur artist, and his wife Mary Eleanor ( Oswald ) Barker on 28 June 1895 at home at 66 Waddon Road in Croydon, Surrey, England.
In the second year of the establishment of the Revive China society on 26 October 1895, the group planned and launched the First Guangzhou uprising against the Qing in Guangzhou.
Annexation was attempted a second time in 1895, when the legislature passed legislation expanding the boundaries of Stark, Billings and Mercer Counties, subject to approval by the counties ' voters.
Roys of Wroxham, dubbed the world's largest village store, was founded in Coltishall by Alfred Roy in 1895, with a second store opening in Hoveton in 1899.
Later a second petition was filed this time on April 19, 1895 and the election was held at a schoolhouse.
The first floor of A. M. Becker's massive general store was constructed in 1891, followed by a second in 1895.
Cliffside Park was formed based on the results of a referendum held on January 15, 1895, from portions of Ridgefield Township at the start of the second year of the Boroughitis phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County.
There is some evidence that the sets for the Met's production had been taken from some of their other operas, and at the second performance that season the work was given in concert, with the ballet sequences omitted ; in this form the work traveled to Boston, where it was performed on 3 March 1895.
After the Carey Avenue Bridge was completed in the spring of 1895, the Wilkes-Barre & Wyoming Valley Traction Co. built a second railway line across the bridge, providing a second, more direct route to Wilkes-Barre's public square.
The current flag of the state of Alabama ( the second in the state's history ) was adopted by Act 383 of the Alabama state legislature on February 16, 1895:
* Wee Burn Country Club – formed in 1895, it is the first organized golf club in the state and " either the second or third in the United States.
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