The Nordisk company was set up there in 1906 by Ole Olsen, a fairground showman, and after a brief period imitating the successes of French and British film-makers, in 1907 he produced 67 films, most directed by Viggo Larsen, with sensational subjects like Den hvide Slavinde ( The White Slave ), Isbjørnenjagt ( Polar Bear Hunt ) and Løvejagten ( The Lion Hunt ).

The first written set of team handball rules was published in 1906 by the Danish gym teacher, lieutenant and Olympic medalist Holger Nielsen from Ordrup grammar school north of Copenhagen.

* 1906 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States ( later the National Collegiate Athletic Association ) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.

The Mariners won 116 games in, which set the American League record for most wins in a single season and tied the 1906 Chicago Cubs for the Major League record for most wins in a single season.

** Alexandre Trauner, Hungarian set designer ( b. 1906 )

The oldest ghost town in Antarctica is on Deception Island, where in 1906, a Norwegian-Chilean company set up a whaling station at Whalers Bay, which they used as a base for their factory ship, the Gobernador Bories.

In 1906, Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos Dumont designed, built and piloted an airplane that set the first world record recognized by the Aéro-Club de France by flying the 14 bis in less than 22 seconds.

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).

In addition to being set in the same period and location as several of Nesbit's stories, The Magician's Nephew also and has some similarities with Nesbit's The Story of the Amulet ( 1906 ).

The Hepburn Act is a 1906 United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission ( ICC ) the power to set maximum railroad rates.

In 1903, the firm of Ernst & Ernst was established in Cleveland by Alwin C. Ernst and his brother Theodore and in 1906 Arthur Young & Co. was set up by the Scotsman Arthur Young in Chicago.

For example, the British had been fascinated by Edgar Wallace's ( 1875 – 1932 ) crime novels ever since the author set up a competition offering a reward to any reader who could figure out and describe just how the murder in his first book, The Four Just Men ( 1906 ), was committed.

He set up a trading post, remnants of which were reported still standing in 1906.

On November 12, 1906, Santos-Dumont set the first world record recognized by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale by flying 220 metres in 21. 5 seconds.

This centralisation inevitably enhanced the power of the Prime Minister, who moved from being the primus inter pares of the Asquith Cabinets of 1906 onwards, with a glittering set of huge individual talents leading powerful departments, to the dominating figures of David Lloyd George, Stanley Baldwin and Winston Churchill.

On November 12, 1906, Santos-Dumont set the first world record recognized by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale by flying 220 meters in 21. 5 seconds.

First set aside as Pinnacles Forest Reserve in 1906, Pinnacles has had several different federal management agencies, ranging from the United States Forest Service to the General Land Office and ultimately to the National Park Service.

His 1: 55 unofficial record for the pacing mile was set in 1906 at the Minnesota State Fair, but not officially recognized because of the use of a prompter with a windshield.

His initial idea to set up a large-scale tax-exempt foundation occurred in 1901, but it was not until 1906 that Senior's famous business and philanthropic advisor, Frederick Taylor Gates, seriously revived the idea, saying that Rockefeller's fortune was rolling up so fast his heirs would " dissipate their inheritances or become intoxicated with power ", unless he set up " permanent corporate philanthropies for the good of Mankind ".

Thus, in 1906, five men from Fort Saskatchewan put forward $ 5000 and petitioned the federal government to set up an elk sanctuary, calling it “ Elk Park ”.

Railways that set Ōsaka Station as the terminal or built their terminal around Ōsaka Station include Osaka Railway ( present-day east half of the Osaka Loop Line ) in 1895, Nishinari Railway ( west half of the Osaka Loop Line ) in 1898, Hanshin Electric Railway in 1906, Minoo Arima Electric Tramway ( Hankyu Railway ) in 1910, and Osaka Municipal Subway in 1933.

The opening scene of the 1997 film version of Henry James's The Wings of the Dove was set on the east-bound platforms at both Dover Street and Knightsbridge stations, both represented by the same studio mock-up, complete with a working recreation of a 1906 Stock train.

Bury in 1906, Gavro Manojlović in 1910, and Ljudmil Hauptmann in 1931 through 1942 published comprehensive analyses of the entirety of De Administrando Imperio which showed that it was written as a set of files each concentrating on different topics, dating from various time periods, that were subsequently redacted several times, causing the interpretation of the resulting text to vary significantly.

A pie chart comparing the seismic moment release of the three largest earthquakes for the hundred year period from 1906 to 2005 with that for all earthquakes of magnitudes < 6, 6 to 7, 7 to 8 and > 8 for the same period

In 1906 he wrote a paper analyzing seismic arrival times of various recorded earthquakes.

Global seismic release from 1906 to 2005, the graph shows that almost 25 % of the world earthquake energy in a century was concentrated in the Great Chilean Earthquake alone.

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

On December 21, 1906, Fessenden made an extensive demonstration of the new alternator-transmitter at Brant Rock, showing its utility for point-to-point wireless telephony, including interconnecting his stations to the wire telephone network.

In 1906 twelve fathers and twelve brothers were working in thirteen stations, and several Sisters of St. Francis left Luxembourg to take charge of the ten schools, in which were 262 children.

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

Modern whaling for Bryde's whales is thought to have begun from coastal stations in Japan in 1906, where it continued uninterrupted until 1987 — they were also caught offshore in the western North Pacific by both Japanese ( 1971 – 79 ) and Soviet ( 1966 – 79 ) fleets, as well as from Taiwan ( 1976 – 80 ), the Bonin Islands ( 1946 – 52 and 1981 – 87 ) and the Philippines ( 1983 – 85 ).

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

The opening scene of the 1997 film version of Henry James's The Wings of the Dove was set on the east-bound platforms at both Dover Street and Knightsbridge stations, both represented by the same studio mock-up, complete with a working recreation of a 1906 Stock train.

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906

Category: Railway stations opened in 1906