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In 1896, Booker T. Washington, the first principal and president of the Tuskegee Institute, invited Carver to head its Agriculture Department.
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The main developer of the Arts and Crafts style was William Morris ( 1834 – 1896 ), although the term " Arts and Crafts " was not coined until 1887, when it was first used by T. J. Cobden Sanderson.
He edited the last twelve books of the Odyssey, with valuable appendices on the composition of the poem, its relation to the Iliad and the cyclic poets, the history of the text, the dialects, and the Homeric house ; a critical text of the poems and fragments ( Homeri opera et reliquiae, 1896 ); Homeri opera ( 1902, with T. W. Allen, in the Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis ); and an edition of the Iliad with notes for schools.
In 1896, shortly after his death, An Emigrant's Home Letters, a small collection of Parkes's letters to his family in England between 1838 and 1843, was published at Sydney, edited by his daughter, Annie T. Parkes.
The first commercial building on Fifth Avenue was erected by Benjamin Altman who bought the corner lot on the northeast corner of 34th Street in 1896, and demolished the " Marble Palace " of his arch-rival, A. T. Stewart.
* David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito, " Gold Democrats and the Decline of Classical Liberalism, 1896 – 1900 ," Independent Review 4 ( Spring 2000 ), 555 – 75.
Against his father's wishes, in August 1896 he married Grace Graham Wilson, the youngest child of New York banker Richard T. Wilson, Sr.
The Edinburgh Gazette of 17 November 1896 announces " INTIMATION is hereby given that the Reverend THOMAS ANGUS MORRISON, Minister of the Parish of Kirkintilloch, in the Presbytery of Glasgow and County of Dumbarton, has, under and by virtue of " The Glebe Lands ( Scotland ) Act, 1866 ," presented a ; Petition to the Lords of Council and Session, Commissioners for the Plantation of Kirks and Valuation of Teinds, for authority to Feu the GLEBE OF KIRKINTILLOCH ; and that an Interlocutor has been pronounced therein in the following terms ...." After depositing £ 400 with the " Lord of the Manor " or " Patron " T Angus Morrison becomes Minister of St Mary's.
He assumed the gubernatorial duties as Acting Governor in 1896 as a result of the death of Frederic T. Greenhalge and was later elected as the 39th Governor in November, serving from 1897 until 1900.
* David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito, " Gold Democrats and the Decline of Classical Liberalism, 1896 – 1900 ," Independent Review 4 ( Spring 2000 ), 555 – 75.
In the 1900s, Jack London ( 1876 – 1916 ), Theodore Dreiser ( 1871 – 1945 ), Sherwood Anderson ( 1876 – 1941 ), Eugene O ' Neill ( 1888 – 1953 ), Clifford Odets ( 1906 – 1963 ), T. S. Eliot ( 1888 – 1965 ), John Dos Passos ( 1896 – 1970 ), Francis Scott Fitzgerald ( 1896 – 1940 ), and Henry Louis Mencken ( 1880 – 1956 ).
The second batch of 2-8-0 locomotives to appear in Australia, between 1896 and 1916, was the NSWGR T class engines.
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Consequently, on October 31, 1896, Mrs. King wrote to Thompson, quite against her daughter's wishes, asking him not to `` recommence a correspondence which I believe has been dropped for some weeks ''.
If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.
From 1896 until 1910 John H. Whipple was manager of Western Union at the Center in the drugstore he purchased from Clark Wait.
On the fateful day in 1896 when the great waves approached Japan, fishermen at sea noticed no unusual swells.
At the Fifteenth Anniversary ( 1896 ) as already quoted, Miss Upton projected with force and eloquence the Spelman of the Future as a college of first rank, with expanding and unlimited horizons.
* In 1896 Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo from Norway became the first people to ever row across the Atlantic Ocean.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.
Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.
* The Philippines celebrates National Heroes Day in commemoration of the First Cry of the Philippine Revolution on August 23, 1896.
* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
* 1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history ( 09: 00 to 09: 45 ) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
Schweitzer saw many operas of Richard Wagner at Straßburg ( under Otto Lohse ), and in 1896 he pulled together the funds to visit Bayreuth to see Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal, and was deeply affected.
In 1896 England under the captaincy of W G Grace won the series 2 – 1, and this marked the end of England's longest period of Ashes dominance.
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