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In 1928 Slovenian Herman Potočnik ( 1892 – 1929 ) published his sole book, The Problem of Space Travel — The Rocket Motor ( German: Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums — der Raketen-Motor ), a plan for a breakthrough into space and a permanent human presence there.
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At the end of 1928 the Austro-Hungarian rocket engineer Herman Potočnik set out a plan for a breakthrough into space and the establishment of a permanent human presence there.
The notion of a geosynchronous satellite for communication purposes was first published in 1928 ( but not widely so ) by Herman Potočnik.
Herman Potočnik was the first to publish the concept of placing a geosynchronous satellite in geostationary orbit, in 1928.
In the introduction to its second edition in the 1928 Shorter Novels of Herman Melville, he declared: " In Pierre, Melville had hurled himself into a fury of vituperation against the world ; with Billy Budd he would justify the ways of God to man.
The Last Command is a 1928 silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg, and written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz, from a story by Lajos Biró.
Shea attended Annesley College in Ottawa, before transferring in 1928 to Houghton College ( Houghton, New York ), where he studied singing with Herman Baker.
1928 and 1892
Roberts County voters supported Democratic presidential candidates in all elections from 1892 through 1948, with the exception of Al Smith in 1928.
* Neil Thomas ( 1892 – 1963 ), sheriff of Jackson Parish from 1928 – 1948 ; state parole director under the second Jimmie Davis administration, originally a barber in Jonesboro ; father-in-law of Bob Reese
From 1892, the 9th Duke of Devonshire rented the villa to Doctors T S and C M Tuke, and it was used by them as a mental hospital for wealthy male and female patients until 1928.
Theda Arnold, present ( 1979 ) Post Master has copies of the National Archives Records showing later post masters to include, S. J. Robb, 1889 ; Dement Brown, 1891 ; Martha A. LaGrange, 1892 ; Benjamin F. Yoder, 1893 ; Jerome S. Rice, 1895 ; Wiliam H. Beck, 1899 ; Oscar Yoder, 1901 ; Martha A. LaGrange, 1903 ; Martha A. Miskimins, 1904 ; William R. Kirlin, 1928 ; Verna Bess Coen, 1954 ( acting ); Dale E. Howery, 1956 ; Theda Arnold, 1972, up to present day.
Walburga Stemmer ( March 1892 – October 1928 ) was a fruit-seller living in Weingarten ( Württemberg ) who allegedly had an affair with Erwin Rommel and gave birth to his daughter, Gertrud Stemmer ( later Mrs. Gertrud Pan ), on December 8, 1913.
* Ellen Terry ( 1847 – 1928 ) actor, bought and lived in a summer house called Tower Cottage in Winchelsea beginning in 1892.
He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).
* Walburga Stemmer ( 1892 – 1928 ), German fruit-seller living in Weingarten ( Württemberg ) who allegedly had an affair with Erwin Rommel and gave birth to his daughter, Gertrud Stemmer ( later Mrs. Gertrud Pan ), on December 8, 1913.
Manfred was a prominent local architect responsible for many of the buildings in the city, including the first public swimming baths opened in 1892 ; the old Town Hall constructed in 1888 ; the Goulburn Base Hospital designed in 1886 ; the old Fire Station built in 1890 ; the Masonic Temple built in 1928 ; he also designed the earlier building of 1890 it replaced.
** Winners ( 22 ): 1885 – 86 1886 – 87, 1887 – 88, 1888 – 89, 1890 – 91, 1892 – 93, 1893 – 94, 1896 – 97, 1900 – 01, 1902 – 03, 1906 – 07, 1913 – 14, 1923 – 24, 1924 – 25, 1927 – 28, 1928 – 29, 1931 – 32, 1935 – 36, 1961 – 62, 1968 – 69, 1984 – 85, 2000 – 01
He was an ancestor of Vita Sackville-West, ( 1892 - 1962 ), who was the subject of Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando.
Renée Jeanne Falconetti ( July 21, 1892 – December 12, 1946 ), sometimes credited as Maria Falconetti, Marie Falconetti, Renée Maria Falconetti, or, simply, Falconetti, was a French stage and film actress, notable for her role as Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent film, La Passion de Jeanne d ' Arc.
* Sir Charles Hamilton, 1st Baronet ( 1845 – 1928 ), British Member of Parliament for Rotherhithe, 1885 – 1892
The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).
Samuel Pond " Sad Sam " Jones ( July 26, 1892 – July 6, 1966 ) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played in the American League with the Cleveland Indians ( 1914 – 15 ), Boston Red Sox ( 1916 – 21 ), New York Yankees ( 1922 – 26 ), St. Louis Browns ( 1927 ), Washington Senators ( 1928 – 31 ) and Chicago White Sox ( 1932 – 35 ).
Elizabeth Hamilton ( 1847 – 1901 ); Agnes Crooks ( 1849 – 1889 ); James ( 1851 – 1920 ); Alexander ( 1853 – 1900 ); Marion ( 1855 – 1892 ); Mary Jean ( 1862 – 1928 ); Emily Ellen ( 1864 – 1944 ); Jessie Sophia ( 1866 – 1946 ); Annie Euphemia ( 1868 – 1952 ); Henrietta Maude ( 1872 – 1950 ).
Gesellschaft, 1892 ), and in 1894 he was able to write a little manual of Egyptian for beginners ( Ägyptische Grammatik, 4th ed., 1928 ), centering on the language of the standard inscriptions of the Middle and New Kingdoms, but accompanying the main sketch with references to earlier and later forms.
la grande vie ( 1891 ), Une Election à Tigre-sur-mer ( 1890 ), based on Gyp's experience supporting a boulangiste candidate, Marriage civil ( 1892 ), Ces bons docteurs ( 1892 ) De haut en bas ( 1893 ), Le Mariage de Chiffon ( 1894 ), Leurs âmes ( 1895 ), Le Cœur d ' Ariane ( 1895 ), Le Bonheur de Ginette ( 1896 ), Totote ( 1897 ), Lune de miel ( 1898 ), Israel ( 1898 ), L ' Entrevue ( 1899 ), Le Pays des champs ( 1900 ), Trop de chic ( 1900 ), Le Friquet ( 1901 ), La Fée ( 1902 ), Un Mariage chic ( 1903 ), Un Ménage dernier cri ( 1903 ), Maman ( 1904 ), Le Cœur de Pierrette ( 1905 ), Les Flanchards ( 1917 ), Souvenirs d ' une petite fille ( 1927 – 1928 ), etc.
1928 and –
Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other personalities of the filmmaking industry of the time for their works during the 1927 – 1928 period.
Percy Bysshe Shelley composed a " Hymn of Apollo " ( 1820 ), and the god's instruction of the Muses formed the subject of Igor Stravinsky's Apollon musagète ( 1927 – 1928 ).
Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928 – 29 series.
Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.
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