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In 1905 the city of Houston commissioned a statue of Lt. Dowling, and it was erected at city hall until 1939 when it was moved to Sam Houston Park.
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Aachen's railway station, the Hauptbahnhof ( Central Station ), was constructed in 1841 at the Cologne-Aachen railway line and replaced in 1905, moving it significantly closer to the city centre.
It was originally in the street in front of city hall, but was moved to its present location in front of the town church in 1905 due to increased traffic.
A convention hall, the Festhalle, was built in Art Nouveau style, 1905 – 07 on a rise overlooking the city park and facing the modernist Bundesamt, the regional government building.
Although it was based on a 1905 story written by Heinrich Mann, the film is often seen as topical in that it depicts the doomed romance between a Berlin professor and a cabaret dancer, reflecting the popular image of the city during the era.
The city became the capital of Regierungsbezirk Allenstein, a government administrative region in East Prussia, in 1905.
Research conducted for the 100th anniversary of the Treaty in 1905 explored participants ' diaries, local newspapers and government documents to explain the causes of the war, the military conflict on land and sea, President Theodore Roosevelt's back channel diplomacy, and the peace negotiations hosted by the United States Navy and the State of New Hampshire, as the nearby city of Portsmouth acted as host to the diplomats.
Between 1897 and 1914, applications were received from a number of other boroughs, but only one was successful: in 1905, Cardiff was designated a city and granted a lord mayoralty as " the Metropolis of Wales ".
The city was first connected to the Glogau-Grünberg-Guben railway line in 1871, followed by connections to Christianstadt in 1904, Wollstein in 1905, and a local line to Sprottau in 1911.
Due to its height, from the late 17th century it became an important watchout post for the city for centuries until 1905 ; the last keeper of the tower was forced to leave in 1926.
The County was created on August 17, 1905, and is named for Nelson Tift, founder of the Georgia city of Albany and a United States Representative.
Between 1905 and 1910 the farm became more of an agricultural training facility, and city boys who had been trained at the farm quickly found work on the land.
In 1905, a group of four German artists, led by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, formed Die Brücke ( the Bridge ) in the city of Dresden.
Named after the first mayor of Greenfield, it will showcase the history of the city as far back as 1905.
By 1905, cultivation of oranges and other agricultural produce had begun in the area, and Romoland and nearby Hemet entered in a dispute over which city would obtain a lucrative terminus for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
He developed city plans for San Francisco ( 1905 ), Chicago ( 1909 ), Manila and the Mall in Washington D. C. His company designed many noteworthy buildings in Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and other cities in the US.
Alachua got a post office in 1887 and was incorporated as a city on 12 April 1905, at which time it had a population of 526 people.
The town was rebuilt after the war and in 1881 the city of Millen was incorporated by an act of the Georgia State Legislature, becoming the county seat of the newly-created Jenkins County in 1905.
The city traces its roots back to 1905, with the arrival of its founder, William B. Strang Jr., who plotted subdivisions along a military roadway on 600 acres ( 2. 4 km² ) he purchased that are now part of the old downtown area.
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* Temple Lea Houston, 1860 – 1905 ( named after Margaret's father ) ( state senator of Texas legislature, 1885 – 1888 )
Named for Samuel Houston Mayes, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1895 to 1899, it was originally created at the Sequoyah Convention in August 1905.
The town is named for the celebrated trial lawyer of Texas and Oklahoma Territory, Temple Lea Houston ( 1860 – 1905 ), the youngest son of General Sam Houston.
Temple Lea Houston ( 1860 – 1905 ), the eighth and last child of the legendary Sam Houston, built a home near Panhandle.
As a grown man he became a student at a newly formed bible school founded by Charles Parham in Houston, TX in 1905.
Oveta Culp Hobby ( January 19, 1905 – August 16, 1995 ) was the first secretary of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first commanding officer of the Women's Army Corps, and chairperson of the board of the Houston Post.
File: Sam Houston by Elisabet Ney, 1905. jpg | Sam Houston Given by Texas to the National Statuary Hall Collection
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Two ships of the Prinz Adalbert class were commissioned in 1904, followed by two similar Roon class commissioned in 1905 and 1906, at costs around 17 million GM each.
In 1905 Oskar von Miller ( 1855 – 1934 ) of the Deutsches Museum in Munich commissioned updated versions of a geared orrery and planetarium from M Sendtner, and later worked with Franz Meyer, chief engineer at the Carl Zeiss optical works in Jena, on the largest mechanical planetarium ever constructed, capable of displaying both heliocentric and geocentric motion.
The submarine USS Holland ( SS-1 ), the first commissioned submarine in the U. S. Navy, along with six other Holland Torpedo Boat Company submarines were based in New Suffolk between 1899 and 1905 prompting the hamlet to claim to be the " First Submarine Base " in the United States.
The post office's most interesting feature is a mural installed in 1938 by the noted artist Jared Blanford French ( 1905 – 1988 ) entitled " Mealtime, The Early Coal Miners ," one of more than 1, 200 works of art commissioned by the U. S. Treasury between the years 1934 and 1943 through a program intended to embellish Federal buildings and encourage the arts during the Great Depression.
After leaving school he became a Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, on 20 December 1905.
The statue of Boudica or Boudicea near Westminster Pier has her in a scythed chariot as commissioned by Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Prince Albert and executed by Thomas Thornycroft ( completed in 1905 ).
After leaving Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 16 August 1905.
It was commissioned on the 12th July 1888 and saw continuous duty from that time until late in 1905, when it was relegated to standby duty for stormwater pumping.
The church was commissioned by Jane Stanford ( 1828 – 1905 ) as a memorial to her husband, Leland Stanford ( 1824 – 93 ).
Forbes was born on 3 February 1885 in East Hayes, Cheltenham, the only son of Sandford and Alice F. Kilby, He was educated at Bilton Grange near Rugby and Winchester College and later graduated from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst in 1905 when he was commissioned into the Staffordshire Regiment.
He joined the German Army as an officer cadet in 1905, was commissioned as a Lieutenant in 1906 and served as a cavalry officer during World War I, reaching the rank of Rittmeister.
In 1905 he was commissioned to work on a statue of the poet Vörösmarty to be erected in Budapest, and another of Kossuth in Kecskemét, having been awarded both these commissions as a result of competition.
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