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Later that year, the struggling company was taken over by James H. Whiting ( 1842 – 1919 ), who moved it to his hometown of Flint, Michigan, and brought in William C. Durant in 1904 to manage his new acquisition.
In 1904, local entrepreneur William C. Durant was brought in to manage Buick, which became the largest manufacturer of automobiles by 1908.

1904 and began
In 1904, he travelled to Berlin to study philosophy, but set aside his studies soon and began a career as a professional chess player that same year.
In 1904, William Randolph Hearst began publishing his own newspaper in Boston called The American.
He lived with the Elkingtons until 1904, when he moved into his own bungalow and began earning a living working on the Non Pareil tea estate below the Horton Plains.
During these years Trotsky began developing his theory of permanent revolution, which led to a close working relationship with Alexander Parvus in 1904 – 1907.
In 1904, Weber began to publish some of his most seminal papers in this journal, notably his essay The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, which became his most famous work and laid the foundations for his later research on the impact of cultures and religions on the development of economic systems.
The revolution of August 1904 began as a popular movement, but Liberal rule quickly degenerated into factional feuding, military coups, and civil war.
From 1900 on, he began lecturing about concrete details of the spiritual world ( s ), culminating in the publication in 1904 of the first of several systematic presentations, his Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos, followed by How to Know Higher Worlds ( 1904 / 5 ), Cosmic Memory ( a collection of articles written between 1904 and 1908 ), and An Outline of Esoteric Science ( 1910 ).
Production at Spindletop began to decline rapidly after 1902, and the wells produced only by 1904.
According to Crowley, the story began on 16 March 1904, when he tried to " shew the Sylphs " by use of the Bornless Ritual to his wife, Rose Edith Kelly, while spending the night in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Around 1904, however, dryer French vermouths began to be used in the cocktail.
Having ended his international career, Grace then began the last phase of his overall first-class career when he joined the new London County Cricket Club, based at Crystal Palace Park, which played first-class matches between 1900 and 1904.
In 1904, the British School at Athens began a thorough exploration of Laconia, and in the following year excavations were made at Thalamae, Geronthrae, and Angelona near Monemvasia.
In his first term, President Theodore Roosevelt, following President McKinley's assassination of 1901, began trust-busting and anti-corporate-influence activities, but fearing defeat, turned to bankers and industrialists for support in what turned out to be his 1904 landslide campaign.
The campus began to take shape in the Beaux-Arts architecture style of Henry Hornbostel, winner of the 1904 competition to design the original institution and later the founder of what is now the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture.
Stratemeyer began writing other series books: The Bobbsey Twins first appeared in 1904, under the pseudonym Laura Lee Hope, and Tom Swift in 1910, under the pseudonym Victor Appleton.
At the age of 20 ( 1904 ) he began studying in the military institute founded by Lu Jianzhang at Beijing and had since become Lu's favorite.
Fauvism as a style began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910, the movement as such lasted only a few years, 1904 – 1908, and had three exhibitions.
The joint collection of Gertrude and Leo Stein began in late 1904 when Michael Stein announced that their trust account had accumulated a balance of 8, 000 francs.
In 1904 Stein began this fictional account of a scandalous three-person romantic affair involving a dean ( M. Carey Thomas ) and a faculty member ( Mary Gwinn ) from Bryn Mawr College and a Harvard graduate ( Alfred Hodder ).
The Woodstock Art Colony in Woodstock, New York began as two colonies: first Byrdcliffe, founded in 1902 by Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Hervey White, and Bolton Brown, and then the Maverick Colony, founded by Hervey White after seceding from Byrdcliffe in 1904.
When the red turn-downs were added to the socks in 1904, the strip began to look more like the modern day Rangers home kit.
The Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland ( 1905 – 1907 ) began in Częstochowa as early as May 1904, when first patriotic rallies took place.
Legal powers were granted that year, and extensive groundwork and slum clearance were carried out until 1904, when construction on the terminus proper began.

1904 and building
Casa Batlló () is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904 – 1906 ; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia ( passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue ), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia ( the " Block of Discord ") in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain.
From 1902 to 1904, in addition to the building of the Shrine of the Báb that ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was directing, he started to put into execution two different projects ; the restoration of the House of the Báb in Shiraz, Iran and the construction of the first Bahá ' í House of Worship in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
The main building of the Bauhaus-University Weimar ( built 1904 – 1911, designed by Henry van de Velde to house the sculptors ’ studio at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School.
Next door, the Herrenhaus, or Prussian House of Lords ( the Upper House of the Prussian State Parliament ), occupied a former porcelain factory for a while, before moving to an impressive new building erected on the site of the former Mendelssohn family home in 1899 – 1904 by Friedrich Schulze Colditz ( 1843 – 1912 ).
His son, the wine wholesale dealer William (“ Willy ”) Huth ( 1877 – 1967 ), took over the business in 1904 and, a few years later, commissioned the replacement of the building by a new one on the same site.
The East Front of the Capitol building was rebuilt in 1904, following a design of the architects Carrère and Hastings, who also designed the Senate and House office buildings.
A corrupt politician and leading land boomer, he stood to benefit from construction of the line, through the increased value of his large land holdings in the area, and pushed through the legislation to enable to building of the line by the VR in 1904.
** Built for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis and the only major building of the fair built as a permanent structure.
Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, and other impoverished artists lived and worked in a commune, a building called Le Bateau-Lavoir, during the years 1904 – 1909.
Pre-1937 buildings that survive include: Dambadarjaalin monastery in Sukhbaatar District ( 1765 ), Dashchoilin monastery's large yurt chapels ( built in 1778 ), Gandan monastery's golden-roofed Gandantegchinlen temple also called the Tsogchin dugan ( 1838 ), Vajradhara temple ( 1841 ), Zuu temple ( 1869 ), Didan Laviran temple ( 19th century ), the restored Russian Consulate building ( 1863 ), Erdem Itgemjit temple ( 1893 ) at the Bogd Khan's Winter Palace, rest of the buildings at the same Palace ( 1893 – 1906 ), the Museum of Ulaanbaatar's History which was formerly the private residence of the rich Buryat merchant Tsogt Badamjav ( 1904 ), Zanabazar's Art Museum building which was formerly called the Ondor Khorshoo ( 1905 ), the two-storey brick headquarters of the mining company " Mongolore " ( 1905 ), the tall Megjid Janraisig temple ( 1913 – 1914 ), the residence of Chin Wang Khanddorj, a prominent noble and politician in the early years of Mongolia's independence ( 1913 ), the first telephone building where Russian Orthodox choir singers stayed ( 1914 ), Marshal Zhukov Museum etc.
The building was declared a national monument in 1904.
Visitors will also find the Mississippi County Historical Center located in a 1904 building that once housed a dry goods store.
Wheeler ’ s son Dwight donated one of the family ’ s stores to become the town hall in 1904 ( today this building is the Old Town Hall ).
In 1904, Martin and Oakes purchased the lots made vacant by the fire and erected the corner building now occupied by the Cornelia Pharmacy.
The church building was moved to its present location in 1904, according to the Ladies Club.
In 1904, Ochs moved the New York Times to a newly-built building on Longacre Square in Manhattan, which the City of New York then renamed as Times Square.
On New Year's Eve 1904, he had pyrotechnists illuminate his new building at One Times Square with a fireworks show from street level.
The current building ( which replaced the 1904 McKinley Building complex ) was constructed in 1994.
The Tenney Fire Hall, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was a small wood frame building with a bell tower and flag mast, built in 1904.
In 1904, Beemer carried out further modernization of the village water works by installing new, larger underground pipes in many parts of town, additional fire hydrants, and building a large water standpipe 10 feet in diameter and 85 feet in height that would become an icon of Beemer's main street for decades to come.
In 1904, it moved to a new building on the northwest corner of Third and Fraisier Streets.
The library was organized as early as 1890, moving into its own building in 1904.
That building burnt down on December 9, 1902, and a new building was erected in 1904 as an elementary school.

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