The first Forest Lawn, in Glendale, was founded in 1906 by businessmen who hired Dr. Hubert Eaton, a firm believer in a joyous life after death, who was convinced that most cemeteries were " unsightly, depressing stone yards ," and pledged to create one that would reflect his optimistic beliefs, " as unlike other cemeteries as sunshine is unlike darkness.

he did moderately well in that field, but a crop failure in 1906 convinced him to move to Oklahoma and then to New Mexico.

However, by 1906, the English Court of Appeal had made it clear in the decision of Automatic Self-Cleansing Filter Syndicate Co v Cunningham 2 Ch 34 that the division of powers between the board and the shareholders in general meaning depended on the construction of the articles of association and that, where the powers of management were vested in the board, the general meeting could not interfere with their lawful exercise.

In Potsdam in 1906, the Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung noticed that the reddest stars — classified as K and M in the Harvard scheme — could be divided into two distinct groups.

In 1906 the Burke Act ( also known as the forced patenting act ) further amended the GAA to give the Secretary of the Interior the power to issue allotees a patent in fee simple to people classified ‘ competent and capable .’ The criteria for this determination is unclear but meant that allotees deemed ‘ competent ’ by the Secretary of the Interior would have their land taken out of trust status, subject to taxation, and could be sold by the allottee.

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.

Then, on December 6, 1906, " owing to the carelessness of one of the contractors employed in shifting some of the supporting cables ," the Machrihanish radio tower collapsed, abruptly ending the transatlantic work before it could ever go into commercial service.

Unlike other mines where skilled whites and unskilled blacks could be played against each other by the owners, the Brookside miners were tightly organized and carried out a successful ( albeit violent ) strike in 1906.

After the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, the lumberjacks returned to Woodside to cut the second growth of redwood so they could be used for the rebuilding of San Francisco again.

Hedwig Village's name originates from Hedwig Road, which was built on the property of Hedwig Jankowski Schroeder ; Schroeder and her husband immigrated from Germany to Texas in 1906 so they could farm.

Chamberlain could, perhaps, have led the Unionists despite these drawbacks, but in July 1906 he suffered a stroke, which left him physically crippled.

As he could not charge these boats for use of the locks, the situation was resolved for a time in 1906 by the formation of the River Ouse Locks Committee, who rented the locks between Great Barford and Bedford.

The first claimed audio transmission that could be termed a broadcast occurred on Christmas Eve in 1906, and was made by Reginald Fessenden.

The carriage of the mle 1906 was hinged and could be broken down into four mule loads for transport.

While not sensitive enough to detect distant earthquakes, this instrument could indicate the direction of the pressure waves and thus help find the epicenter of a local earthquake – such instruments were useful in the analysis of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

The Association formed the Toledo Maroons in 1906 as a farm team for teenagers who could later move up to playing for the Association's senior team.

In 1905, Irishman Conor Neeson ( 1877 – 1944 ) of Detroit, Michigan, and his employer, American chemist, electrical engineer, inventor and entrepreneur William Hoskins ( 1862 – 1934 ) of Chicago, Illinois, invented ( and in 1906 patented ) chromel, an alloy from which could be made the first high-resistance wire of the sort used in all early electric heating appliances ( and many modern ones ).

In the same year, after the 1906 Atlantic City train wreck, Lee issued what is often considered to be the very first press release, convincing the company to openly disclose information to journalists, before they could hear information from elsewhere.

The term was originally coined in 1906 when the Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung noticed that the reddest stars — classified as K and M in the Harvard scheme — could be divided into two distinct groups.

In 1906, Beatrice Hastings whose real name was Emily Alice Haigh hailing from Port Elizabeth, a green-eyed beauty of twenty six with literary ambitions, could be seen with Orage and would eventually become a regular contributor to the New Age.

Though women's suffrage could not be introduced in the province, he admitted women into the practice of law in 1906, and began the first major hydroelectric project in New Brunswick at Grand Falls.

Although later drawings of the Robie House show a date of 1906, Wright could not have started the design for the building earlier than the spring of 1908 because Robie had actually purchased the property only in May of that year.

The first was in 1906, when the Scottish Rugby Union chose to play their match against the touring South Africans at Hampden because no rugby ground could satisfy the demand to see the visitors.

This library was recognized as being too small, and a new larger library in a separate building was begun, but it was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake before it could be occupied.

MacKenzie secured $ 30, 000 from Andrew Carnegie in 1906, declaring that he could find other donors to give an additional $ 30, 000.

The hotel's Coney Island theme could be seen in its facade with an original 1906 parachute jump ride and a wooden ( non-functioning ) roller coaster.

By 1906, he was studying music full-time ; by 1907, he began composition lessons.

Following a Royal Commission report in 1906, work began on a new prayer book, work that was to take twenty years due in part to the demands of the Great War ( 1914 – 18 ) and in part to the constitution of the Church Assembly in 1920 which " perhaps not unnaturally wished to do the work all over again for itself.

He began his military education at the Baoding Military Academy, in 1906.

By 1906, Beaux began to live year-round at Green Alley, in a comfortable colony of " cottages " belonging to her wealthy friends and neighbors.

In 1906 construction began on the Post Office, with local cricketer George Wilder laying an inscribed brick.

Following the Welsh Revival, the Azusa Street Revival in 1906 began the spread of Pentecostalism in North America.

Once the 1906 season got underway, many programs began experimenting with the forward pass.

Such racing began in 1906 and, in the second half of the 20th century, became the most popular kind of racing internationally.

Between 1906 and 1909 the Hawks family began to spend more time in Pasadena, California during the cold Wisconsin winters in order to improve Helen Hawks's ill health.

During sporadic excavations at Boğazköy ( Hattusa ) that began in 1906, the archaeologist Hugo Winckler found a royal archive with 10, 000 tablets, inscribed in cuneiform Akkadian and the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta — thus confirming the identity of the two names.

Meanwhile the Muslims for the first time began to organize, setting up the All India Muslim League in 1906.

However, when in 1906 two city teams chose the city's Roman amphitheatre as a venue to showcase the game, crowd enthusiasm and media interest began to rise.

Left and right defence began to replace the point and cover point positions in 1906 in the OHA.

The IEC held its inaugural meeting on 26 June 1906, following discussions between the British Institution of Electrical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and others, which began at the 1900 Paris International Electrical Congress, and continued with Colonel R. E. B. Crompton playing a key role.

His early style was that of an illustrator ; he only began to work regularly in oils in 1906.

The word kulak originally referred to independent farmers in the Russian Empire who emerged from the peasantry and became wealthy following the Stolypin reform, which began in 1906.

William Everdell, for example, has argued that modernism began in the 1870s, when metaphorical ( or ontological ) continuity began to yield to the discrete with mathematician Richard Dedekind's ( 1831 – 1916 ) Dedekind cut, and Ludwig Boltzmann's ( 1844 – 1906 ) statistical thermodynamics.

Initially inhabited by Micronesian and Polynesian peoples, Nauru was annexed by Germany in the late 19th century, and extraction of the island's phosphate began in 1906.

Between 1906 and 1910, he served an apprenticeship with painter Carl Senff, and began painting his first landscapes.

The political history of the nation began with the birth of the All India Muslim League in 1906 to protect Muslim interests, amid neglect and under-representation, in case the British Raj decided to grant local self-rule.

Following the passage of the Papua Act, 1905, British New Guinea became the Territory of Papua, and formal Australian administration began in 1906, although Papua remained de jure a British possession until the independence of Papua New Guinea in 1975.

At the same time, the first Romanian language newspapers and journals began to appear: Basarabia ( 1906 ), Viața Basarabiei ( 1907 ), Moldovanul ( 1907 ), Luminătorul ( 1908 ), Cuvînt moldovenesc ( 1913 ), Glasul Basarabiei ( 1913 ).

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed parts of the Main Quad ( including the original iteration of Memorial Church ) as well as the gate that first marked the entrance of the school ; rebuilding on a somewhat less grandiose scale began immediately.