* Robert W. Speer, also known as Robert Walter Speer, mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1904 – 1912

Speer is remembered for becoming Denver ’ s first mayor under home rule in 1904, his three terms as mayor, his exuberance for Denver ’ s City Beautiful Movement, his support for the Denver park system, his boss-style politics, and his personal gains from real estate investments.

Between 1904 and 1919, Denver Mayor Robert Speer completed his ambitious plan for the Civic Center area, adding many civic institutions and a neoclassic park to the north of the neighborhood, and placing a leafy concrete urban canyon around Cherry Creek, creating Speer Boulevard, the neighborhood's western and southern border.

The plum pudding model of the atom by J. J. Thomson, who discovered the electron in 1897, was proposed in 1904 before the discovery of the atomic nucleus in order to add the electron to the atomic model.

As British public opinion was turned against Germany, Admiral Sir John Fisher twice – in 1904 and 1908 – proposed using Britain ’ s current naval superiority to ' Copenhagen ' the German fleet, that is, to launch preemptive strikes against the Kiel and Wilhelmshaven naval bases as the Royal Navy had done against the Danish navy in 1801 and 1807.

In 1904 the Union formally proposed " an international congress which should meet periodically to discuss international questions ".

In 1904, after having returned to Germany he proposed a nationwide merger of the producers of dye and pharmaceuticals in a memorandum to Gustav von Brüning, the senior manager at Hoechst.

Huber was the first ( 1904, Lwów ) who proposed the criterion of shear energy ( see S. P. Timoshenko, p.

In the plum pudding model, proposed by J. J. Thomson in 1904, the atom is composed of electrons surrounded by a ' cloud ' of positive charge to balance the electrons ' negative charge.

Mrs. Eddy's response dated February 12, 1904, was a letter including her proposed changes to the By-laws of her Church known as the Manual of The Mother Church, which, with a few changes, would allow for the establishing what today are known as Christian Science College Organizations ( in Article XXII Section 8 ).

The term kouros, meaning ( male ) youth, was first proposed for what were previously thought to be depictions of Apollo by V. I. Leonardos in 1895 in relation to the youth from Keratea, and adopted by Lechat as a generic term for the standing male figure in 1904.

A global system for " the transmission of electrical energy without wires " called the World Wireless System, dependent upon the high electrical conductivity of plasma and the high electrical conductivity of the earth, was proposed as early as 1904.

Throughout the 1890s, Chant was concerned about how little the University did for astronomy, and in 1904 he proposed adding several undergraduate courses for fourth-year students, and six such courses were added to the 1905 calendar.

However, modern scholars follow the argument first proposed by Adolf von Harnack in 1904 that sees the story as a deriving from a scribal error substituting Britanio, referring to Britannia, for Britio, referring to Birtha or Britium in what is now Turkey.

It was proposed by the Marconi Company and adopted in 1904, but was replaced between 1906 and 1908 by the SOS code.

In 1904, Colonel Holman Stephens proposed construction of an extension of the Kent & East Sussex Railway line from Headcorn to Maidstone via Sutton Valence.

A syndicate of American railroad magnates proposed in 1904 ( via a French spokesman ) a Siberian-Alaskan railroad from Cape Prince Wales in Alaska through a tunnel under the Bering Strait and across northeastern Siberia to Irkutsk via Cape Deshnev, Verkhnekolymsk and Yakutsk.

In 1904, Hillquit attended the International Socialist Congress at Amsterdam and was involved in moving the proposed Anti-Immigration Resolution, which opposed any legislation which forbade or hindered the immigration of foreign working men, some of which were forced by misery to migrate.

Gray was proposed as a nominee for the Presidency at the 1904 and 1908 Democratic Conventions.

In 1904 Lord Curzon, on a visit to East Bengal, stayed in this palace on 18 and 19 February to win public support for the proposed Partition of Bengal.

It was first proposed in a talk to the Danish Botanical Society in 1904 and briefly described in the society's journal Botanisk Tidsskrift.

In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt sought to beautify American coinage, and proposed Saint-Gaudens as an artist capable of the task.

The aim, as it was first proposed by Albert Abraham Michelson in 1904 and then executed in 1925, was to find out whether the rotation of the Earth has an effect on the propagation of light in the vicinity of the Earth.

The 1901 Plan for Washington, D. C. ( report of the McMillan Commission ) proposed consolidating the region's rail operations, including a new Washington Union Station ( approved 1903, completed 1908 ) and a New Long Railroad Bridge ( completed 1904 ).

He was a consultant for the Norwegian Nobel Institute from 1904 to 1913, with the task of examining proposed candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The events of 1904 preceded a series of hospitalizations at intervals of two or three years.

Later reissued in the Famous Characters of History series, and in the 1904 series Makers of History:

In " His Last Bow ", Holmes has retired to a small farm on the Sussex Downs in 1903 – 1904, as chronicled by Watson in his preface to the series of stories entitled " His Last Bow.

In the autumn of 1904, liberals started a series of banquets celebrating the 40th anniversary of the liberal court statutes and calling for political reforms and establishment of a constitution.

Claude Monet | Monet's Trouée de soleil dans le brouillard, Houses of Parliament series ( Monet ) | Houses of Parliament, London, Sun Breaking Through the Fog, 1904

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.

From 1886 to 1904, he published a six-volume Bible study series originally entitled Millennial Dawn, later renamed Studies in the Scriptures, nearly 20 million copies of which were printed and distributed around the world in several languages during his lifetime.

* Doris Packer ( 1904 – 1979 ), actress ( played Mrs. Rayburn, Theodore Cleaver's principal in the television series Leave It to Beaver )

Episodes ( chapters ) in Ulysses relate a series of encounters and incidents in Bloom's contemporary odyssey through Dublin in the course of the single day of 16 June 1904 ( although episodes 1 to 3, 9 and to a lesser extent 7, are primarily concerned with Stephen Dedalus, who in the plan of the story is the counterpart of Telemachus ).

Between 1894 and 1904 Sickert made a series of visits to Venice, initially focussing on the city's topography ; it was during his last painting trip in 1903-04 that, forced indoors by inclement weather, he developed a distinctive approach to the multiple figure tableau that he further explored on his return to Britain.

Little Black Sambo was part of a series of small-format books called The Dumpy Books for Children, published by British publisher Grant Richards between 1897 and 1904.

** David George Hogarth, The Penetration of Arabia (" Story of Exploration " series ) ( 1904 ).

The series was later published as a book, The History of the Standard Oil Company in 1904.

A numbered series of cruisers began with Newark ( Cruiser No. 1 ), although Charleston ( Cruiser No. 2 ) was the first to be launched, in July 1888, and ending with another Charleston, Cruiser No. 22, launched in 1904.

From 1900 to 1904 a remarkable series of early sound recordings were made at the Met by Lionel Mapleson ( 1865 – 1937 ).

At the end of November 1904 his young wife fell ill. Van Mieghem depicted her in an impressive series of drawings and pastels that rate alongside similar work by such artists as Rembrandt ( The Series of Saskia ) and Ferdinand Hodler ( Valentine Godé ).

* Hugh Clifford, " Further India ", in the Story of Exploration series ( 1904 ).

In 1904 the United Kingdom and France signed a series of agreements called the Entente cordiale.

However, although the current series of the Championship has run since 1904, it has never been held in Northern Ireland.

The first volume of L ' Evolution de genres dans l ' histoire de la littérature, lectures in which a formal classification, founded on Darwinism, is applied to the phenomena of literature, appeared in 1890 ; and his later works include a series of studies ( 2 vols, 1894 ) on the evolution of French lyrical poetry during the 10th century, a history of French classic literature begun in 1904, a monograph on Honoré de Balzac ( 1906 ), and various pamphlets of a polemical nature dealing with questions of education, science and religion.

Lester Dent ( October 12, 1904 – March 11, 1959 ) was a prolific pulp fiction author, best known as the creator and main author of the series of novels about the superhuman scientist and adventurer, Doc Savage.

His first surviving works ( a series of 50 pencil drawings ) are dated from between 1904 and 1906.

The two universities disagree as to the overall series record due to their dispute over the 1904 game.

Other books by him which indicate his interests in literature include: Robert Southey ( in the " English Men of Letters " series, 1880 ), his edition of Southey's Correspondence with Caroline Bowles ( 1881 ), and Select Poems of Southey ( 1895 ), his Correspondence of Sir Henry Taylor ( 1888 ), his edition of Wordsworth's Poetical Works ( 1892 ) and of his Lyrical Ballads ( 1890 ), his French Revolution and English Literature ( 1897 ; lectures given at Princeton University in 1896 ), History of French Literature ( 1897 ), Puritan and Anglican ( 1900 ), Robert Browning ( 1904 ) and Michel de Montaigne ( 1905 ).