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In 1901, Egyptologist Gustave Jéquier, a member of an expedition headed by Jacques de Morgan, found the stele containing the Code of Hammurabi in what is now Khūzestān, Iran ( ancient Susa, Elam ), where it had been taken as plunder by the Elamite king Shutruk-Nahhunte in the 12th century BC.
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Kazimierz Józef Marian Michałowski ( b. November 11, 1901 in Tarnopol – January 1, 1981 in Warsaw, Poland ) was a Polish archaeologist and Egyptologist, and the founder of Nubiology.
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Another major Victorian benefactor was Constantine Alexander Ionides, who left 82 oil paintings to the museum in 1901, including works by Botticelli, Tintoretto, Adriaen Brouwer, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Rousseau, Edgar Degas, Jean-François Millet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, plus watercolours and over a thousand drawings and prints
* 17 January – Gustave Whitehead claims a circling 11 km ( 7 mi ) flight over water in a 40 hp-29. 9-kW-engine-powered flying machine with wheels and an amphibious boat-shaped hull, reportedly rebuilt from the Whitehead Aeroplane No. 21 of 1901.
Joseph Gustave Van Belleghen ( September 6, 1901 in St. Vital, Manitoba – January 5, 1967 ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
More recent authors include Charles Ferdinand Ramuz ( 1878 – 1947 ), whose novels describe the lives of peasants and mountain dwellers, set in a harsh environment, the poets Blaise Cendrars ( born Frédéric Sauser, 1887 – 1961 ), Gustave Roud ( 1897 – 1976 ), Maurice Chappaz ( 1916 – 2009 ) and Philippe Jaccottet (* 1925 ) and the novelists Catherine Colomb ( 1892 – 1965 ), Monique Saint-Hélier ( 1895 – 1955 ), Alice Rivaz ( 1901 – 1998 ) and Prix Goncourt winner Jacques Chessex ( 1934 – 2009 ).
* André Durand: The first Nobel Prize ( 1901 ) Henry Dunant, Gustave Moynier and the International Committee of the Red Cross as candidates.
1901 and member
This story is reported by Dunn ( 1907: 16-17 ) as being told in 1901 by a man who heard this story from a Hoosier family member while traveling in southern Tennessee.
He was inducted as a foreign member of the Royal Society of London in 1897 and received the Society's Copley Medal in 1901.
At King's College, Cambridge, between 1897 and 1901, he became a member of a discussion society known as the Apostles ( formally named the Cambridge Conversazione Society ).
In 1901, he was appointed a school inspector and in 1928 he became a member of the board of education.
He served on the Castlerea board of guardians and was a member ( later chairman, 1901 ), of Roscommon County Council.
* Carl C. Rasmussen ( 1901 – 52 ), Los Angeles City Council member, owned a hardware store in Lakeside.
* W. Scott Heywood ( 1872 – 1950 ), member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1932 – 1936, author of homestead exemption ; discovered oil in Jeff Davis Parish in 1901
In 1901, train robber Kid Curry ( whose real name was Harvey Logan ), a member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch was captured after shooting two deputies on Knoxville's Central Avenue.
On the night of April 2, 1901 William Carver, a member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, was shot and killed in Jack Owen's Bakery by Sheriff E. S.
He was the last member of the original Australian Parliament elected in 1901 still in the Parliament when he died.
French also became a member of the National Academy of Design ( 1901 ), the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Architectural League, and the Accademia di San Luca, of Rome.
Edmonds was only a member for a brief period as she died September 5, 1898, however she was given a funeral with military honors when she was reburied in Houston in 1901.
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ( née Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott ; 25 December 1901 – 29 October 2004 ) was a member of the British Royal Family, the wife and then widow of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of George V and Mary of Teck.
James Stephens ( 1825 – 1901 ) at one time lived at 82 George's Avenue, Blackrock and was a founding member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
J. Burns ( 1901 to 1957 ), Massachusetts Superior Court Justice and a member of the Boston College Class of 1921.
In 1889 he became a member of the Swiss Conseil National ( Swiss National Council ), and remained so until 1917, being elected President of the Swiss National Council in 1901.
The word was introduced to Australia by King O ' Malley, an American-born Labor member of the first federal Parliament in 1901 ; it presumably entered New Zealand politics at a similar time.
Connie Douglas Reeves ( September 26, 1901 – August 16, 2003 ) was the oldest member of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, and one of the first women to study law at a Texas law school.
Morison attended Noble and Greenough School ( 1897 – 1901 ) and St. Paul's ( 1901 – 1903 ) prior to entering Harvard University, where he was a member of the Phoenix S K Club.
1901 and expedition
The expedition ended in October 1898 and Rivers returned to England .” In 1900, Rivers joined Myers and Wilkin in Egypt to run tests on the colour vision of the Egyptians ; this was the last time he saw Wilkin, who died of dysentery in May 1901, aged 24.
In 1895, von Neumayer had established the German Commission for South Polar Exploration, which culminated in the First German Antarctica Expedition in 1901, the so-called Gauss expedition.
In the spring of 1901, he and some relatives – including a half-brother, Mohammed, and several cousins – set out on a raiding expedition into the Najd, targeting for the most part tribes associated with the Rashidis.
In 1901, Beebe returned to Nova Scotia on his first expedition for the zoo, with the goal of collecting marine animals by searching tide pools and with additional dredging.
In 1900 he, along with Langley, would travel to Wadesboro, North Carolina to observe a solar eclipse, followed by another eclipse expedition to Sumatra in 1901.
The American industrialist John Munroe Longyear visited Spitsbergen as a tourist in 1901, where he met with an expedition prospecting for coal.
On the first, from 1901 to 1904, Wilson acted as Junior Surgeon, Zoologist and expedition artist, setting off with the expedition on 6 August 1901.
Filipino Insurrectionist forces in the southern Philippines were commanded by General Capistrano, and American forces conducted an expedition against him in the winter of 1900 – 1901.
Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition ( 1901 – 04 ), it is named for Sir Clements Markham, who, as President of the Royal Geographical Society, planned the expedition and chose Robert Falcon Scott as its leader.
Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition ( 1901 – 04 ) under Scott, who named it for Sir George and Lady Baxter of Dundee, supporters of the expedition.
She took part in Merriam's 1901 expedition to Fossil Lake in Oregon, and his 1902 and 1903 expeditions to Mount Shasta in northern California.
In 1901 one of his lectures on paleontology inspired the young Annie Montague Alexander, who financed and took part in his expedition that year to Fossil Lake in Oregon.
Borchgrevink's credibility was not helped by the boastful tone sounded in various articles which were published in Newnes's magazines, nor by the journalistic style of his rapidly-written expedition account, First on the Antarctic Continent, the English edition of which appeared in 1901.
There was no further correspondence between the two, beyond a short conciliatory note from Markham, in February 1901, which read " I can now see things from your point of view, and wish you success "— a sentiment apparently not reflected in Markham ’ s subsequent attitude towards the Scottish expedition.
He also discovered and named the plague vector flea, Xenopsylla cheopis ( Rothschild ), also known as the oriental rat flea, at Shendi, Sudan, on an expedition in 1901, publishing his finding in 1903.
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