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In 1897, Joseph Conrad penned a novella titled The Nigger of the Narcissus, whose titular character, James Wait, is a West Indian black sailor on board the merchant ship Narcissus sailing from Bombay to London.
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The Dominicans of the province of France furnished Lacordaire ( 1835 – 1836, 1843 – 1851 ), Jacques Monsabré ( 1869 – 1870, 1872 – 1890 ), Joseph Ollivier ( 1871, 1897 ), Thomas Etourneau ( 1898 – 1902 ).
# 1893 – 1897 Dr. Joseph H. Senner ( Democrat )
* Joseph Smith ( aircraft designer ) ( 1897 – 1956 ), English aircraft designer who took over as Chief Designer for Supermarine
That resulted in the formulation of the so called Lorentz transformation by Joseph Larmor ( 1897, 1900 ) and Lorentz ( 1899, 1904 ), whereby it was noted by Larmor that the complete formulation of local time is accompanied by some sort of time dilation of moving electrons in the aether.
* 1897 – William Joseph Browne, Canadian politician ( d. 1989 )
* 1897 – Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda ( d. 1945 )
* Joseph Henry Allen, Sequel to our Liberal Movement ( Boston, 1897 )
** Joseph Goebbels, German Nazi propagandist ( suicide ) ( b. 1897 )
* October 10 – Joseph Darnand, Vichy France politician ( executed ) ( b. 1897 )
* January 18 – Joseph S. Skerrett, American admiral ( d. 1897 )
Nineteenth-century English ( language ) literature features usages of nigger without racist connotation, e. g. the Joseph Conrad novella The Nigger of the ' Narcissus ' ( 1897 ).
Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain explained in 1897:
In 1897 the company merged with the company of Armstrong ’ s old rival, Joseph Whitworth, and became Sir W. G.
The story is told in verse in ' Musings on Tintagel and its Heroes ' by Joseph Brown, 1897 ; the youth was buried in Tintagel Churchyard and the grave is marked by a wooden cross ( his name is given in the official Italian usage, surname first: Catanese Domenico ).
Charles Taze Russell was born to Scottish-Irish parents, immigrant Joseph Lytel () Russell ( d. December 17, 1897 ) and Ann Eliza Birney ( d. January 25, 1861 ), on February 16, 1852 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA.
The first leaders of the Soviet state Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin were in exile on the territory of the nowadays krai in 1897 – 1900 and in 1903 respectively.
Joseph Chamberlain at his desk at the Colonial Office The seizure of Kiaochow by Germany in November 1897 and Russia's occupation of Port Arthur signalled a scramble for western control of China that threatened British domination of China's foreign trade and control of her tariffs.
The office reopened as " Curtisville " on December 29, 1897, with cattle dealer Joseph Bell as postmaster.
Joseph II ( 1897 ), 222 pp full text online
* Ancient Bingley ( pdf ) transcription of an 1897 book by Joseph Horsfall Turner
The Joseph T. Barnes family moved to the settlement in 1897.
Joseph Rockley Merrick ( c. 1835 – 1897 ) was the son of London-born weaver Barnabas Merrick who moved to Leicester during the 1820s or 1830s, and his third wife Sarah Rockley.
* Dick Cox ( Elmer Joseph Cox, 1897 – 1966 ), American baseball player
* 1897, 29 October in Rheydt, Joseph Goebbels, † 1 May 1945 in Berlin, Minister of Propaganda and popular information in Nazi Germany
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* 1897 – Conrad Nagel, American actor ( d. 1970 )
The Nigger of the ' Narcissus ': A Tale of the Sea ( 1897 ) is a novella by Joseph Conrad.
* American writer and poet Stephen Crane lived in Oxted in 1897, where he met writers such as Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford.
When he left the position of Solicitor General in 1897, Conrad was retained by President William McKinley on behalf of the Federal government in Morris v. U. S. In October 1901 he joined the law faculty of Georgetown University as lecturer on the history of English law.
* Conrad Nagel ( 1897 – 1970 ), successful American screen actor and matinee idol of the silent film era and beyond
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The Chicago Tribunes Russell MacFall wrote that Baum explained the purpose of his novels in a note he penned to his sister, Mary Louise Brewster, in a copy of Mother Goose in Prose ( 1897 ), his first book.
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* Die böhmische Handschrift, novella 1897
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* Location of the fictional " Elspeth Hatch " murder trial .. defended by " Clarence Darrow " set in 1897 the book titled " Angel of darkness " by author " Caleb Carr "
Kjellén was inspired by the German geographer Friedrich Ratzel, who published a book in 1897 titled Politische Geographie ( political geography ).
As well, when the portrait of a young man on horseback titled The Polish Rider was discovered in 1897 it too was attributed to Rembrandt.
In 1897, teacher and writer Emma Trosse published a brochure titled Ist freie Liebe Sittenlosigkeit?
In 1897, he was invited to compose a special song, which he titled Kanashimi no kiwami, for the funeral of Empress Dowager Eishō ( widow of Emperor Kōmei ).
The painter of both portraits and landscapes, Pemberton was the first artist from the province of British Columbia to receive international acclaim when her work was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, including her award-winning 1897 work seen here titled " Little Boy Blue.
It was titled " Confession: and a Portrait Too, Upon a Background that I Rue " and appeared in The Lark, number 24 ( April 1, 1897 ):
An 1897 magazine article titled " The Greatest Nation on Earth " boasted " the sun never sets on Uncle Sam ".
The Day of Vengeance ( 1897 )— originally titled The Battle of Armageddon, suggests causes of the dissolution of the present order, with the biblical remedy as God's kingdom ;
New Pillow Fight, also titled Daughters ' Pillow Fight, is the name of a very early short comedy film, released in 1897.
" A version published by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( after the return of the manuscript from England in 1897 ) is titled ' Bradford's History " Of Plimoth Plantation "' while labeled " The Bradford History " on the spine.
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