Arthur J. Hayes spent a few days in Bahir Dar in early February 1903, which he described as a village surrounded by a marsh of papyrus plants ; nearby were " two or three huts " inhabited by the Weyto, an ethnic group which were considered outcasts by the Amhara, yet " proud of their isolation.

In the following year he became provisional Principal of the Theological College of Saint Thomas ( from which he had just graduated ), and in 1903 his appointment was made permanent.

In 1903, the British sportswriter Henry Chadwick published an article speculating that baseball derived from a British game called rounders, which Chadwick had played as a boy in England.

It had been pointed out previously by J. J. Thomson in his series of lectures at Yale University in May 1903 that the dynamic equilibrium between the velocity generated by a concentration gradient given by Fick's law and the velocity due to the variation of the partial pressure caused when ions are set in motion " gives us a method of determining Avogadro's Constant which is independent of any hypothesis as to the shape or size of molecules, or of the way in which they act upon each other ".

The main weapons of assassination chosen organised the successful assassination of King Alexander I of Serbia and his consort Draga ; he confirmed that Captain Dragutin Dimitrijevic, who had personally led the group of Army officers who killed the royal couple in the Old Palace at Belgrade on the night of 28 / 29 May 1903 ( Old Style ), was also the Black Hand's leader.

The group encompassed a range of ideological outlooks, from conspiratorially-minded army officers to idealistic youths, sometimes tending towards republicanism, despite the acquisition of nationalistic royal circles in its activities ( the movement's leader, Col. Dragutin Dimitrijević or " Apis ," had been instrumental in the June 1903 coup which had brought King Petar Karađorđević to the Serbian throne following 45 years of rule by the rival Obrenović dynasty ).

The two had disagreed on the issue as early as March – May 1903, but it was not until the Congress that their differences became irreconcilable and split the party.

It was there that Young had pitched the first game of the 1903 World Series, as well as the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.

Influenced like Pound by German social and legal thinkers, Ely in 1903 had ascribed " the coercion of economic forces " in American society " to the unequal strength of those who make a contract.

The report of the British Consul Roger Casement led to the arrest and punishment of white officials who had been responsible for cold-blooded killings during a rubber-collecting expedition in 1903, including one Belgian national for causing the shooting of at least 122 Congolese natives.

Another summary, of the period prior to the Schola, also appeared in 1911: the, which was a kind of compilation of the best of what he had written up to 1903.

In 1903 Roosevelt toured the Yosemite Valley with John Muir, who had a very different view of conservation, and tried to minimize commercial use of water resources and forests.

His grandfather, an amateur naturalist by the name of Walter Drawbridge Crick ( 1857 – 1903 ), wrote a survey of local foraminifera ( single-celled protists with shells ), corresponded with Charles Darwin, and had two gastropods ( snails or slugs ) named after him.

It was a Roman Catholic convent run by French Ursuline nuns, who had been exiled from France after religious education was banned in 1903.

He had two sons with Jane: George Philip ( known as " Gip ") in 1901 ( d. 1985 ) and Frank Richard in 1903.

The Hoovers had two sons, Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. ( 1903 – 69 ) and Allan Henry Hoover ( 1907 – 93 ).

His father, Arthur Simon ( 1881 – 1948 ), was an electrical engineer who had come to the United States from Germany in 1903 after earning his engineering degree from the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt.

The great strain which he had undergone at this time undermined his health and he resigned his trusteeship in 1903.

By 1903 a five-team league had been founded.

The five Deutschland class battleships constructed between 1903 and 1908 had similar armament as the Braunschweig class, but heavier armour, for the slightly greater sum of 24. 5 million GM each.

Konoe ’ s father, Atsumaro, had been politically active, having organized the Anti-Russia Society in 1903.

By 1912, 16 % of peasants ( up from 11 % in 1903 ) had relatively large endowments of over per male family member ( a threshold used in statistics to distinguish between middle-class and prosperous farmers, i. e., kulaks ).

Foster had bowled leg-theory on that tour with his fielders placed close in on the leg side, as had George Hirst in 1903 – 04.

The Militia Act of 1903 divided what had been the militia into what it termed the " organized " militia, created from portions of the former state guards to become state National Guard units, and the " unorganized " militia consisting of all males from ages 17 to 45, with the exception of certain officials and others, which is codified in.

The photograph, Figure 1 of the completed frieze, shows how, having been separated from his fellows in useless isolation for eighty years, he has now been given a hand, and by juxtaposition ( and the permission of the Committee ), given a new job, to represent the witnesses of the first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903.

This has been translated either as 4, 080, 000 stadia ( 1903 translation by Edwin Hamilton Gifford ), or as 804, 000, 000 stadia ( edition of Édouard des Places, dated 1974-1991 ).

Although the term “ biochemistry ” seems to have been first used in 1882, it is generally accepted that the formal coinage of biochemistry occurred in 1903 by Carl Neuberg, a German chemist.

The subprefecture has been situated since 1978 in a maison mexicaine, the Villa l ' Ubayette, constructed between 1901 and 1903.

Since 1903 the pulpit of Notre Dame has been occupied by a succession of Dominicans.

The club's first recorded all-white club kit came in 1903, and ever since then the club has been playing in all-white shirts and black shorts, with socks going through various evolutions of black and / or white, but are now normally white-only.

Driving on the left has been compulsory since the introduction of motorcars in Federated Malay States in 1903 during British colonial era.

Since the establishment of the Faraday Society in 1903, Lowry had been its active member and served as its President between 1928 and 1930.

The ministry and Passion of Jesus, as portrayed in one or more of the New Testament Gospels, has also been a theme in film, almost since the inception of the medium ( e. g., " La Passion ", France, 1903 ).

Less than three weeks later, on November 18, 1903, the Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty was signed between Frenchman Philippe Bunau-Varilla, who had promptly been appointed Panamanian ambassador to the United States, representing Panamanian interests, and the United States Secretary of State John Hay.

While historically presidents initiated the process for going to war, critics have charged that there have been several conflicts in which presidents did not get official declarations, including Theodore Roosevelt's military move into Panama in 1903, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the invasions of Grenada in 1983 and Panama in 1990.

In 1903, Amundsen led the first expedition to successfully traverse Canada's Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ( something explorers had been attempting since the days of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson ), with six others in a 45-ton fishing vessel, Gjøa.

There are no active volcanoes ( aside from Baekdu Mountain on the border between North Korea and China, most recently active in 1903 ), and there have been no strong earthquakes.

Swaziland today is foremost ruled by a monarch, although for all of its administrative history prior to British colonization in 1903, it might have more properly been called a diarchy.

As with other painters, the reproduction rights for prints were often worth more than the canvas, and a painting with its rights still attached may have been sold to Gambart for £ 10, 000 in 1874 ; without rights it was sold again in 1903, when Alma-Tadema's prices were actually higher, for £ 2, 625.

A parallel theory of progressive social evolution has been advanced by followers of Herbert Spencer ( 1820 – 1903 ).

Early investigators had been only able to produce impure tantalum, and the first relatively pure ductile metal was produced by Werner von Bolton in 1903.