In the summer of 1902 Stravinsky stayed with the composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and his family in the German city of Heidelberg, where Rimsky-Korsakov, arguably the leading Russian composer at that time, suggested to Stravinsky that he should not enter the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire, but instead study composing by taking private lessons, in large part because of his age.

But when comparing Sherman's scorched-earth campaigns to the actions of the British Army during the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 )— another war in which civilians were targeted because of their central role in sustaining an armed resistance — South African historian Hermann Giliomee declares that it " looks as if Sherman struck a better balance than the British commanders between severity and restraint in taking actions proportional to legitimate needs ".

It first opened on 31 July 1902 and runs on a daily basis from late March to late October taking visitors to the summit of The Great Orme, climbing a mile of track to the summit complex at a height of 679 ft ( 207 ) m. There are panoramic views of the Welsh mountains and as far as the Isle of Man, Blackpool and the Lake District.

The Virginian, a seminal 1902 western novel by Owen Wister, solved the problem by taking the side of the wealthy ranchers, creating a myth dealing with the themes of the Johnson County war but bearing little resemblance to the events.

In 1903, Terry formed a new theatrical company, taking over management of the Imperial Theatre with her son, after her business partner, Irving, ended his tenure at the Lyceum in 1902.

Porter was planning on taking possession of the house by September 1, 1902.

Wister's most famous work remains the 1902 novel The Virginian, the loosely constructed story of a cowboy who is a natural aristocrat, set against a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War and taking the side of the large land owners.

In 1902 he became affiliated with the Northern Motor Car Company and the same year helped organize Cadillac before taking orders at the New York Automobile Show in January 1903.

After taking part in a student demonstration in 1902 he was briefly exiled to Siberia.

Though steering clear of any controversial subjects and stressing national unity and identity during his first months, in late 1901 and early 1902, he had committed several constitutional faux pas by publicly taking positions on political matters.

During its life the county council gradually acquired more powers, such as taking over the functions of school boards in 1902, boards of guardians in 1930 and various town planning and housing responsibilities from 1949.

Ennoblements continued even after the estates had lost their political importance, with the last ennoblement of explorer Sven Hedin taking place in 1902 ; this practice was formally abolished with the adoption of the new Constitution January 1, 1975, while the status of the House of Nobility continued to be regulated in law until 2003.

* Daughters of the Dust, 1991, film by Julie Dash taking place in 1902 off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia.

Barnes played in 22 first-class matches in 1902, taking 95 wickets at an average of 21. 56 with a best analysis of 6 – 39 and one match in which he took 10 wickets.

Cristea became a monk at the Hodoş Bodrog Monastery, Arad County in 1902, taking the monastic name of Miron.

Until the P & T-leased Connecting Railway ( which was consolidated into The Connecting Railway in 1902 ) opened in June 1867, taking trains to 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, most traffic to Philadelphia used the Camden and Amboy Railroad to Camden due to the distance from Kensington to downtown.

Lanham was elected Governor of Texas in 1902, taking office in January 1903.

It supplied the bulk of the coal used in the iron and steel making taking place in the city, producing an average of 3, 000 tons a day in 1902, and primarily employed recent immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe.

After taking 52 wickets on his first tour of England in 1890, his other four visits to England — in 1893, 1896, 1899 and 1902 — saw him take over 100 wickets in first-class matches.

Benjamin Barker Odell Jr., Roosevelt's successor as governor, had not only acted independently of Platt, but by 1902 insisted on taking over from Platt as leader of the party.

In 1902, the IMM was carrying a total of 64, 738 passengers, with his companies taking advantage of the high immigration to the United States.

He took orders and from 1892 to 1902 was pastor at Hemme, taking his degree as doctor of theology at Heidelberg in 1903.

Law took advantage of this, making his first major speech on 22 April 1902, in which he argued that while he felt a general tariff was unnecessary, an imperial customs union ( which would put tariffs on items from outside the British Empire, instead of on every nation but Britain ) was a good idea, particularly since other nations such as Germany and the United States had increasingly high tariffs.

Lasker, simultaneous exhibition, Breslau c. 1902 ) Qd7 !, with a large advantage for Black in view of his bishop pair and pawn center.

By September 4, 1902, the Oregon Journal reported that “ the fair officials are hot on the trail of a site and it is confidently predicted that ‘ something will be doing ’ shortly .” The next day, they reported that the committee had narrowed its choices to “ two tracts … Willamette heights on the west side and Hawthorne Park, with a portion of the Ladd tract, on the east side ,” and that Willamette Heights was to be chosen, as “ It is claimed that the natural advantages offered by the Willamette Heights outweigh all other considerations and that … Guild ’ s Lake, it is said, can be utilized to great advantage and made a scene of beauty ….” With this voting, “ the Lewis and Clark Exposition had its site – a grove of trees, of pasture, and of waist-high stagnant water at the site ’ s center .”

In 1902, on attaining his 16th year, the King assumed control of the state.

After spending months in a sanatorium during the summer and fall of 1900, Weber and his wife travelled to Italy at the end of the year and did not return to Heidelberg until April 1902.

Year 1902 ( MCMII ) was a common year starting on Wednesday ( link will display calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar.

Gibbs's derivation of the phenomenological laws of thermodynamics from the statistical properties of systems with many particles was presented in his highly-influential textbook Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, published in 1902, a year before his death.

The modern automobile drum brake was invented in 1902 by Louis Renault, whose unique genius inspired him to use woven asbestos lining for the drum brakes lining as there were no other alternatives that dissipated heat like the asbestos lining, though a less-sophisticated drum brake had been used by Maybach a year earlier.

Introduced to each other in 1902 by their mutual friend Mark Twain, Tarbell who had become an investigative journalist and Rogers, who knew of her work, shared meetings and information over a two year period which led to her epoch work, The History of the Standard Oil Company, published in 1904, which many historians feel helped fuel public sentiment against the giant company and helped lead to the court-ordered break-up of it in 1911.

The town of Geary, which also received a post office in the same year as the land run, became an agricultural trade center in the county and had a population of 2, 561 by 1902.

He moved to Nanjing in 1902, after he was reported to have given speeches attacking the Qing government, and then to Japan the same year.

Electricity was introduced to Twickenham in 1902 and the first trams arrived the following year.

This mine operated for a ten year period between 1902 and 1912, and for a time Carter County ranked 16th in the State of Missouri in iron ore production.

Paul Barbarin's year of birth is often given as 1901, but his brother Louis Barbarin ( born 1902 ) said he was quite sure that Paul was several years older than he was, and Paul Barbarin simply refused to answer the year of his birth in an interview at Tulane's Jazz Archives.

The weekly newspaper, The Wrangell Sentinel, was founded in 1902, and printed its first issue on November 2 of that year.

* The Thomas Ranch, a family-owned and operated beef cattle ranch since 1902, the year Bisbee was incorporated.

The Adams post office opened in 1902, and changed its name later that year to Corte Madera.

The following year, in 1902, Chataignier became an established church and separate parish for the second time and has remained such to this day.

Upon the station burning down in a 1902 fire, a new one was built the next year.

The year 1902 was also the date of Youngwood's railroad station, which still stands on Depot Street.

The Cheraw & Lancaster Railroad arrived in 1902, then Ruby incorporated the same year.

Between August of that year and August 1902, approximately 1, 967, 725 bushels of wheat were received in Ritzville warehouses for shipment and 1, 990 rail cars of wheat and flour were billed out.

Rosholt ’ s first mill burned in 1901, but it was rebuilt later that year and into 1902.

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In 1902 the group incorporated the Indian Hotels Company to commission the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, the first luxury hotel in India, which opened the following year.