In 1899, Flinders Petrie opined,

Semerkhet's burial site was excavated in 1899 by archaeologist and Egyptologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie at Abydos and is known as " Tomb U ".

As a philosopher, Ernst Haeckel wrote Die Welträtsel ( 1895 – 1899, in English, The Riddle of the Universe, 1901 ), the genesis for the term " world riddle " ( Welträtsel ); and Freedom in Science and Teaching to support teaching evolution.

Not all his scientific romances ended in a happy Utopia, and in fact, Wells also wrote a dystopian novel, When the Sleeper Wakes ( 1899, rewritten as The Sleeper Awakes, 1910 ), which pictures a future society where the classes have become more and more separated, leading to a revolt of the masses against the rulers.

Sijthoff, who rose to prominence in the trade of translated books, wrote a letter in 1899 to Queen Wilhelmina regarding his opposition to becoming a signatory to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.

Holst also wrote an orchestral Walt Whitman Overture in 1899, which was given a world premiere recording by the Munich Symphony Orchestra, as well as a recording by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

In Bushido ( 1899 ), Inazō wrote:

James met the 27-year-old Andersen in Rome in 1899, when James was 56, and wrote letters to Andersen that are intensely emotional: " I hold you, dearest boy, in my innermost love, & count on your feeling me — in every throb of your soul ".

In 1899, when the Variations were being finished, Elgar wrote to Lady Mary Lygon to ask permission to use her initials, but as she and her brother were on the point of leaving for Australia ( he had been appointed Governor of New South Wales ) and there was not time for a reply Elgar used "***" instead.

* Jorge Luis Borges ( 1899 – 1986 ), the Argentine writer, wrote an acclaimed essay on Qin Shi Huang, " The Wall and the Books " ("") in the 1952 collection Other Inquisitions ().

Ernest Hardy wrote in his history of the college in 1899 that it had been becoming " increasingly evident for years ... that the exclusive connection with Wales was ruining the college as a place of education.

Strauss also wrote an opera, Ritter Pázmán, and was in the middle of composing a ballet, Aschenbrödel, when he died in 1899.

* The Polish composer Jan Maklakiewicz ( 1899 – 1954 ) wrote the ballet in three scenes Cagliostro w Warszawie which premiered in 1938.

In 1899 he wrote in the United Irishman:

During the succeeding 10 years, he wrote the six works which are ascribed to him and were published under his name by Pierre Mandonnet in 1899.

* Louis Adamic, 1899 – 1951 Slovenian-American novelist and journalist who wrote about American minorities and immigrants.

Freud wrote to his friend Wilhelm Fliess in 1899: ' Anna has become downright beautiful through naughtiness '.

In 1899 he wrote a short notice in favour of monarchy, " Dictateur et roi " (" Dictator and King "), and then in 1900 his " Enquête sur la monarchie " ( Investigations on Monarchy ), published in the Legitimist mouthpiece La Gazette de France, which made him famous.

* Apolinario Mabini – a Filipino political philosopher and revolutionary who wrote a constitutional plan for the First Philippine Republic, and served as its first Prime Minister in 1899.

Vivekananda wrote a preface and a translation of the Imitation in 1899.

The dramatist and actor Micheál MacLiammóir ( 1899 – 1978 ) included many poetic verses he wrote in the Irish-language in his works.

He also wrote a book titled Die Voraussetzungen des Sozialismus und die Aufgaben der Sozialdemokratie (" The Prerequisites for Socialism and the Tasks of Social Democracy ") in 1899.

Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing wrote in 1899:

Upon Harriman's death in 1909, naturalist John Muir, who had joined him on his 1899 Alaska expedition, wrote in his eulogy of Harriman, " In almost every way, he was a man to admire.

3 p 197 tr W S Hough, London 1899 ) wrote:

Amery later edited and largely wrote The Times History of the South African War ( seven volumes ; 1899 – 1909 ).

If Congress consented, the 1899 LC budget would nearly double and that for 1900 would be increased by 60 percent.

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.

If the summit had been climbed 22 times in 1854, by 1899 it had received 1, 600 ascents.

If his plea for castration and whipping as generally applicable methods of punishing criminals savors of the archaic ( Yale Law Journal, June 1899 ), he was capable also of starting nation-wide comment, as on the radically new ideas embodied in his " The Natural Right to a Natural Death " ( Journal of Social Science, 1889 ).

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.

The term became popular again in Australia first, when George Giffen, in his memoirs ( With Bat and Ball, 1899 ), used the term as if it were well known.

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.

The 1899 act mentioned above was replaced in 1997 — until then the government had stated there were no ethnic minority groups.

The slight differences were that the red hoops were slightly thicker than the white ( the opposite was true in 1896 ), and the white flash on the socks introduced in 1899 was partially retained.

In 1899, as part of a reform of local government in the County of London, the various parishes in London were reorganised as new entities, the ' metropolitan boroughs '.

The term " Cheer Leader " had been used as early as 1897, with Princeton's football officials having named three students as Cheer Leaders: Thomas, Easton and Guerin from Princeton's classes of 1898, 1898 and 1899, respectively, on October 26, 1897 ; these students would cheer for the team also at football practices, and special cheering sections were designated in the stands for the games themselves for both the home and visiting teams.

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.

There were two younger brothers, Hanly ( 1899 – 1983 ) and Carey ( 1902 – 1976 ), who were born after the family had moved to the nearby suburb of Beckenham — in Oakwood Avenue.

In 1853, gold was discovered in the interior, precipitating border disputes with Brazil and Suriname ( these were later settled in 1891, 1899 and 1915, though a small region of the border with Suriname is still disputed ).

The special popularity of his longer films, which were several minutes long from 1899 onwards ( while most other films were still only a minute long ), led other makers to start producing longer films.

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.

After 1899 Finnish-Russian relations worsened, and plans for disengagement from Russia or sovereignty for Finland were drawn up for the first time.

In 1899, Spain sold its remaining Pacific islands — the Northern Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands and Palau — to Germany and Spanish colonial possessions were reduced to Spanish Morocco, Spanish Sahara and Spanish Guinea, all in Africa.

A census of 1899 revealed that northern Honduras had been exporting bananas for several years and that over 1, 000 people in the region between Puerto Cortes and La Ceiba ( and inland as far as San Pedro Sula ) were tending bananas, most of them small holders.

The period from 1879 to 1899 saw power in the hands of moderate republicans and former " radicals " ( around Léon Gambetta ); these were called the " Opportunists ".

Moderates were deeply divided over the Dreyfus Affair, and this allowed the Radicals eventually to gain power from 1899 until World War I.

During the British Raj, famines in India, often attributed to failed government policies, were some of the worst ever recorded, including the Great Famine of 1876 – 78 in which 6. 1 million to 10. 3 million people died and the Indian famine of 1899 – 1900 in which 1. 25 to 10 million people died.

In the years that followed, other states subscribed to limitations of their conduct, and numerous other treaties and bodies were created to regulate the conduct of states towards one another in terms of these treaties, including, but not limited to, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in 1899 ; the Hague and Geneva Conventions, the first of which was passed in 1907 ; the International Court of Justice in 1921 ; the Genocide Convention ; and the International Criminal Court, in the late 1990s.