In 1909, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, under the direction of physicist Ernest Rutherford, bombarded a sheet of gold foil with alpha rays — by then known to be positively charged helium atoms — and discovered that a small percentage of these particles were deflected through much larger angles than was predicted using Thomson's proposal.

A minority of the exchanges ( i. e. distributors ) stayed outside the MPPC, and in 1909 these independent exchanges immediately began to fund new film producing companies.

Between 1892, when Harvard and Yale met in the first intercollegiate debate, and 1909, the year of the first Triangular Debate of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, the rhetoric, symbolism, and metaphors used in athletics were used to frame these early debates.

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 ).

Of these works, Elk-Foot of the Taos Tribe, painted in the summer of 1909, is considered Couse's masterwork.

Relatively few works of fiction have Tintagel as a setting: these include Anthony Trollope's short story Malachi's Cove and the Williamsons ' epistolary novel Set in Silver, 1909 ( by Charles and Alice Williamson ).

Among these was his son, David G. ( Dode ) MacKenzie, who, in December 1909, was shot ( possibly murdered ) in La Beau, South Dakota, while also working for Matador.

However, the print runs of these rather expensive albums did not come close to that produced in 1909 by the German publisher Karl Robert Langewiesche ( 1874 – 1931 ): His choice of watercolours, drawings and text by Carl Larsson, titled Das Haus in der Sonne ( The House in the Sun ), immediately became one of the German publishing industry's best-sellers of the year-40, 000 copies sold in three months, and more than 40 print runs have been produced up to 2001.

Dwight was laid out on 30 January 1854 by Richard Price Morgan, Jr. ( 17 September 1828-20 May 1910 ), James C. Spencer ( 29 July 1828 – after 1990 ), and John Lathrop ( 6 March 1909 – May 1870 ), each of these three men took a quarter of the land.

Between 1909 and 1929, a series of school buildings and additions were built on the 1000 block of Main ; only the original gymnasium remains from these structures.

In February 1909, balloting in New Haven and Connellsville resulted in these two boroughs joining and becoming the first city in Fayette County on May 12, 1911.

Collectors today sometimes classify Model Ts by build years and refer to these as " model years ", thus labeling the first Model Ts as 1909 models.

Among these works are Le donne curiose ( 1903 ), I quatro rusteghi ( 1906 ), and Il segreto di Susanna ( 1909 ), all of them comedies, and all of them successful at their German premieres.

Some of these works were originally published by Crowley in 1909 under the title " ΘΕΛΗΜΑ.

It was these experiments that led to the formal creation of the Gyro Motor Company in 1909.

The Gyro Motor Company manufactured these and other improved versions of the Gyro Engine between 1909 and roughly 1926.

Responding to these civil failures and discontent, the Qing Imperial Court attempted to reform the government in various ways, such as the decision to draft a constitution in 1906, the establishment of provincial legislatures in 1909 and the preparation for a national parliament in 1910.

During these four years preceding World War I, membership of those affiliated to the Scottish Trades Union Congress rose from 129, 000 in 1909 to 230, 000 in 1914.

In 1909, the school was renamed the New York School of Fine and Applied Art to reflect these offerings.

The first of these branch mints were the Charlotte, North Carolina ( 1838 – 1861 ), Dahlonega, Georgia ( 1838 – 1861 ), and New Orleans, Louisiana ( 1838 – 1909 ) branches.

One of these as a recording called Cuarteto Coculense by Columbia, Edison and Victor in 1908 and 1909, recognized as the “ first ” mariachi recordings.

Some of these blocks had before the earthquake modern concrete buildings built after the great fire of 1909.

In fact, Merola's initial visits to the city were as conductor of some of these troupes — the first in 1909 with the International Opera Company of Montreal.

In 1909, Obregón invented a chickpea harvester and soon founded a company to manufacture these harvesters, complete with a modern assembly line.

On 15 May 1909, The Young Turks, continuing their former policy of denying the Albanians national rights, sent a military expedition to Kosovo to stop the growth of hostile attitudes to the government and break resistance of the peasants, who refused to pay taxes which Istanbul had introduced.

From 1909 a small number of American films, and even one or two European ones, came to include a few dialogue titles, or " spoken titles " as they were called at the time.

Some described lower-middle class life ( Kipps ; The History of Mr Polly ), leading him to be touted as a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay ( 1909 ), a diagnosis of English society as a whole.

In fact, renowned American architect Daniel Burnham borrowed liberally from Haussmann's plan and even incorporated the diagonal street designs in his 1909 Plan of Chicago.

Strauss's next opera was Elektra ( 1909 ), which took his use of dissonance even further, in particular with the Elektra chord.

During the election campaign Lloyd George talked of “ guarantees ” and Asquith ( in his Albert Hall Speech, December 1909 ) of “ safeguards ” which would be necessary before forming another Liberal government, but in fact the King informed Asquith that he would not even be willing to contemplate creating peers until after a second General Election.

From 1887 to 1909, the city grew to become one of the largest lumber milling centers in the country and even had a population at the time of close to 3, 000 people.

By 1909, the town had a bank, three dry goods stores, two general stores, three grocery stores, two barber shops, five saloons, four hotels, a newspaper, a blacksmith, and even an opera house.

Zoning laws are, of course, the classic example, see Hadacheck v. Sebastian, 239 U. S. 394 ( 1915 ) ( prohibition of brickyard operations within certain neighborhoods ); Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U. S. 365 ( 1926 ) ( prohibition of industrial use ); Gorieb v. Fox, 274 U. S. 603, 608 ( 1927 ) ( requirement that portions of parcels be left unbuilt ); Welch v. Swasey, 214 U. S. 91 ( 1909 ) ( height restriction ), which have been viewed as permissible governmental action even when prohibiting the most beneficial use of the property.

News articles frequently used the name Lucy Stone Blackwell, even one as late as 1909 which quoted her husband.

The death of Law's wife on 31 October 1909 led him to work even harder as a coping strategy, and as a result he saw his political career not only as a job but as a cure for his loneliness.

It even has the aircraft ( still airworthy ) that Louis Blériot used to cross the English Channel in 1909.

Mis-assembly of just this nature led to a fatal boiler explosion in 1909 at Cardiff on the Rhymney Railway, even though the boiler was almost new, at only eight months old.

They even built an early design of helicopter in 1909 and in their final years they were involved in hovercraft development in the form of the Denny D2 Hoverbus.

In the diary his wife kept during his 1909 Russian tour, she mentions his raising his eyebrows when he saw Brahms ' Handel Variations on a program — a piece he had not played or even looked at for two and a half years.

Waldo is a neighborhood located in Kansas City, Missouri on 75th Street & Wornall Road that has continued to maintain its own unique character, even though it was annexed by Kansas City in 1909.

Very early aircraft, such as the Wright Flyer I, Blériot XI and Fokker Eindecker used a system of wing warping where no conventionally hinged control surfaces were used on the wing, and sometimes not even for pitch control as on the Wright Flyer I and original versions of the 1909 Etrich Taube, which only had a hinged / pivoting rudder in addition to the warping-operated pitch and roll controls.

In 1909 he converted to Catholicism and shortly thereafter he began passing himself off as a Catholic priest and styling himself the " Reverend Alphonsus Joseph-Mary Augustus Montague Summers ", even though he was never a member of any Catholic order or diocese.

In 1907 he sailed in the Kara Sea north of Siberia, and in 1909 went even further north into the Arctic Ocean.

McKie encouraged the expansion of the Limelight Department, the creation of additional Biorama Companies and even the reshooting of Soldiers of the Cross in 1909, titled Heroes of the Cross.

He was born on 11 February 1891 in Hillingdon, and was highly successful in local games even as a teenager, so that Middlesex engaged him soon after his eighteenth birthday in 1909.

In 1909, Norman Angell relied only upon the second leg, arguing that modern commerce made war necessarily unprofitable, even for the technically victorious country, and therefore the possibility of successful war was The Great Illusion.

1909, a summer equally as wet as 1907, was little better even if Hallam was twice unplayable against weak opponents on dreadful pitches.

He continued in this role on a regular basis until 1909, and even umpired at Lord's in an emergency in 1911.

Some residential portions of the neighborhood consist mainly of relatively large homes built between the 1920s and the 1950s, although some homes date even earlier to 1909 – 1912.