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In 1899 Bruce, by then Britain's most experienced polar scientist, applied for a post on Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery Expedition, but delays over this appointment and clashes with Royal Geographical Society ( RGS ) president Sir Clements Markham led him instead to organise his own expedition, and earned him the permanent enmity of the British geographical establishment.
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On 20 April 1899 Beatty was appointed executive officer of the small battleship HMS Barfleur, flagship of the China Station, Captain Stanley Colville under Rear-Admiral James Bruce.
** Bruce Catton, American Civil War historian, Pulizer Prize winner ( 1954 ) ( b. 1899 )
Alexander Balmain Bruce ( January 31, 1831 – August 7, 1899 ) was a Scottish churchman and theologian.
Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, 13th Earl of Kincardine, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC ( 16 May 184918 January 1917 ), known as Lord Bruce until 1863, was a British statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1894 to 1899.
It is uncertain how Bruce was employed after his return from Spitsbergen in autumn 1899.
On 15 March 1899 Bruce wrote to Sir Clements Markham at the RGS, offering himself for the scientific staff of the National Antarctic Expedition, then in its early planning stages.
Charles Bruce Catton ( October 9, 1899 – August 28, 1978 ) was an American historian and journalist, best known for his books on the American Civil War.
Bruce Peebles & Co. Ltd. was an Edinburgh industrial electrical engineering company founded as D. Bruce Peebles & Co. by Scottish engineer David Bruce Peebles ( 1826 – 1899 ) in Edinburgh in 1866.
* Alexander Balmain Bruce ( 1831 – 1899 ), Scottish churchman and theologian
It was founded in 1899 as " The Technology Review ", and was re-launched without the " The " in its name on April 23, 1998 under then publisher R. Bruce Journey.
* Concentration of Energy: Bruce Uses Plain Language in Emphasizing the Power of Organization, 1899
This replaced the " unequal treaty " signed by James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin in 1858 and led to the abolition of extraterritoriality in Japan in 1899.
Bruce Stuart ( November 30, 1881 in Ottawa, Ontario-October 28, 1961 in Ottawa, Ontario ) was a Canadian amateur and professional ice hockey forward who played for the Quebec Bulldogs, Ottawa Senators and Montreal Wanderers from 1899 to 1911.
Bruce and his brother Hod played for Ottawa in 1899.
Along with his brother Bruce, Stuart joined the Ottawa Hockey Club of the Canadian Amateur Hockey League ( CAHL ) for the 1899 season.
* Reverend George Bruce ( 1899 – 1900 )
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In 1899 he astonished Widor by explaining figures and motifs in Bach's Chorale Preludes as painter-like tonal and rhythmic imagery illustrating themes from the words of the hymns on which they were based.
Alpha particles were first described in the investigations of radioactivity by Ernest Rutherford in 1899, and by 1907 they were identified as He < sup > 2 +</ sup > ions.
In 1899, the Japanese government passed an act labeling the Ainu as former aborigines, with the idea they would assimilate — this resulted in the land the Ainu people lived on being taken by the Japanese government, and was from then on under Japanese control.
Germain Morin broke new ground by suggesting in 1899 that the writer was Isaac, a converted Jew and writer of a tract on the Trinity and Incarnation, who was exiled to Spain in 378-380 and then relapsed to Judaism ; but he afterwards abandoned this theory of the authorship in favour of Decimus Hilarianus Hilarius, proconsul of Africa in 377.
* 1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
During the Second Boer War on 15 November 1899, Winston Churchill, then a war-correspondent, was travelling on board an armoured train when it was ambushed by Boer commandos.
In 1899, the memorial, by the Berlin sculptor Ernst Gustav Herter ( 1846 – 1917 ), finally came to rest, although subject to repeated vandalism, in the Bronx, at 164th Street and the Grand Concourse, or Joyce Kilmer Park near today's Yankee Stadium.
In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance ; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation ( Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy ).
Despite its on-field success, it was one of the four teams contracted out of existence by the National League after the 1899 season.
He eclipsed the long-standing record of 51. 88 per cent by the South African J. H. Sinclair ( 106 out of 177 and 4 out of 35 ) against England at Cape Town in an 1898 – 1899 series.
In 1899, Mile-a-Minute Murphy became the first man to ride his bicycle a mile in under a minute, which he did by drafting a locomotive at New York's Long Island.
* Cléopâtre ( 1899 film ), a French short film written and directed by Georges Méliès
Censuses are being conducted by the Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek since 1899.
* A 1912 book, The Depths of the Ocean by Sir John Murray, records the depth of the Challenger Deep as, reporting the sounding taken by the converted navy collier USS Nero in 1899.
: Foundations of Geometry ) published by Hilbert in 1899 proposes a formal set, the Hilbert's axioms, substituting the traditional axioms of Euclid.
Beatty gained recognition in the campaign for the recapture of the Sudan ( 1897 – 1899 ) commanded by Lord Kitchener.
Following the example of New Jersey, which enacted corporate-friendly laws at the end of the 19th century to attract businesses from New York, Delaware played the game of fiscal competition by adopting in 1899 a general incorporation act aimed at attracting more businesses.
It was popularized by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin ( 1856 – 1926 ) in 1893, 1896 and 1899 in his first detailed textbook descriptions of a condition that would eventually be reframed into a substantially different disease concept and relabeled as schizophrenia.
Alpha rays ( alpha particles ) and beta rays ( beta particles ) were differentiated by Ernest Rutherford in 1899 through simple experimentation in 1899, but these proved not to be electromagnetic radiation, but rather charged particulate radiation.
Smith and the other lesser producers were joined by Cecil Hepworth in 1899, and in a few years he was turning out 100 films a year, with his company becoming the largest on the British scene.
The multi-shot films that Georges Méliès made in 1899 were much longer than those made by anybody else, but l ' Affaire Dreyfus ( The Dreyfus Case ) and Cendrillon ( Cinderella ) still contained no action moving from one shot to the next one.
The first cinema in Poland ( then occupied by the Russian Empire ) was founded in Łódź in 1899, several years after the invention of the Cinematograph.
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The 1899 act mentioned above was replaced in 1997 — until then the government had stated there were no ethnic minority groups.
Diarmuid Jeffreys has pointed out that Rasputin's healing suggestions included halting the administration of aspirin, a then newly available ( since 1899 ) pain-relieving ( analgesic ) " wonder drug ".
From 1894 to 1899 he then worked with Édouard Naville at Deir el-Bahari, where he recorded the wall reliefs in the temple of Hatshepsut.
Brown ( by then in partnership with Walter Boveri ) put these into service on the first electrified main line, the Burgdorf — Thun line, Switzerland, in 1899.
Reed served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1891 and then from 1895 to 1899, as well as being Chairman of the powerful Rules Committee.
The Marguerites Club is one of the oldest surviving College societies, reformed in 1899 by Gilbert Jessop the then captain of CUCC.
Gibbs succeeded in interesting his European correspondents in that work, which was translated into German ( then the leading language for chemistry ) by Wilhelm Ostwald in 1892 and into French by Henri Louis Le Châtelier in 1899.
The British attempted to annexe first the South African Republic in 1880, and then, in 1899, both the South African Republic and the Orange Free State.
It had also published The Yattendon Hymnal in 1899 and, more significantly, the first edition of The English Hymnal in 1906, under the editorship of Percy Dearmer and the then largely unknown Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Following the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, Shackleton transferred to the troopship Tintagel Castle where, in March 1900, he met an army lieutenant, Cedric Longstaff, whose father Llewellyn W. Longstaff was the main financial backer of the National Antarctic Expedition, then being organised in London.
If the nexus of Carte and the Savoy Theatre is used to define " Savoy Opera ," then the last new Savoy Opera was The Rose of Persia ( music by Sullivan, libretto by Basil Hood ), which ran from 28 November 1899 – 28 June 1900.
Santa Cruz County, formed on March 15, 1899, out of what was then Pima County, is named after the Santa Cruz River, which was named in the late 17th century by Father Kino.
The Geneseo Journal was originally called the Geneseo Herald from 1887 to 1899, then it became Geneseo Post from 1908 to 1909.
Stevens then reused the building's scheme, while reducing its size by two-fifths, to become The Bay of Naples Inn at Naples, Maine, which opened in 1899.
It was part of Hanover Township, then Chatham Township before being incorporated as Florham Park in 1899.
Fairmont was originally founded on the site of the Ashpole Institute, a small private academy, and was chartered in 1899 as Ashpole, then Union City and lastly as Fairmont.
Lawrence in 1899, who gave the island its current name ; before then it was known as Hunting Island or Long Island.
The site was initially known as Paton ( after John Paton ), then Whig, before being renamed White Deer in January 1899 – after nearby White Deer Creek.
Bruhl was U. S. consul to Italy from 1894 – 1899 and then opened the drugstore in Llano.
The Emery Stake Academy, founded in 1889 as the first high-school level educational institution in southeastern Utah, occupied a new two-story brick building in 1899, then moved in 1910 to a larger three-story building on the bench.
It housed business establishments, including the second-ever JCPenney store ( then called the Golden Rule Store ), financial institutions, local and county governmental buildings including Eureka City Hall ( 1899 ) and a Juab County Courthouse ( 1892 ), various churches, and the meeting places for numerous labor, social, and fraternal organizations.
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