In 1931, the Spanish Second Republic gave the castle to the city of Palma, along with the forest surrounding it.

Between 1931 and 1937 the castle was used by the county council to train police officers.

The preparations started in earnest and in 1931 Czech Scouts prepared the " All-Slavonic Jamboree " as the test for the World Jamboree, a successful festival which culminated in a march through Prague and an address by President Masaryk at Prague castle.

* Count Dracula's castle exteriors in Dracula ( 1931 ) and other scenes.

The castle was home to the Gilbert family until the estate was sold in 1785 whereupon it gradually declined until a descendent bought it back in 1931 ; he gave it to the National Trust in 1951 on the condition that members of the family should continue to occupy the castle.

In the early hours of 25 February 1931 a fire destroyed the Queen's Hall, though both the College and the winter gardens escaped.

However, following the opening of Whitton railway station in Percy Road in 1931, housing development rapidly replaced the market gardens and the former Argyll Estate, having been sold for development in the 1890s.

At the end of the 19th century, " the resort relied almost entirely for its attraction on its delightful gardens ", but by 1931 the formalism had entirely disappeared.

The gardens were the site of the Trentham Ballroom, which opened in 1931 and closed in 2002.

The Connecticut College Arboretum is a 300 ha ( 750 acres ) arboretum and botanical gardens, founded in 1931, and located on the campus of Connecticut College and in the towns of New London and Waterford, Connecticut, USA.

He died in Aranjuez in 1931 while painting its famous gardens.

The historic Forest Hill clubhouse on Magellan Avenue is also home of the Forest Hill Garden Club, the neighborhood women's social organization founded in 1931 to promote the cultivating of flowers and gardens in the community.

Albert ( 1949 ) has concluded that the most active preparations of TSH made during this period, from 1931 to 1945, were probably about 100 to 300 times as potent as the starting material.

Therefore, pure antimony is not used to make hard objects: coins made of antimony were issued in China's Guizhou province in 1931, but because of their rapid wear, their minting was discontinued.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

His own ideas, especially those expressed in his masterworks, French Rural History ( Les caractères originaux de l ' histoire rurale française, 1931 ) and Feudal Society, were incorporated by the second-generation Annalistes, led by Fernand Braudel.

Franciszek Bujak ( 1875 – 1953 ) and Jan Rutkowski ( 1886 – 1949 ), the founders of modern economic history in Poland and of the journal Roczniki Dziejów Spolecznych i Gospodarczych ( 1931 – ), were attracted to the innovations of the Annales school.

Organized sports competition on Sundays was illegal in Pennsylvania until 1931, when challenged by the Philadelphia A's, the laws were changed permitting only baseball to be played on Sundays.

Yet there were a few recruits, such as Clement Davies, who had deserted to the National Liberals in 1931 but now returned to the party during the World War II and who would lead it after the war.

Britain remained on the gold standard until 1931 when the gold and foreign exchange reserves were transferred to the Treasury.

The Lower Houses were built in 1931 and were originally intended to house theology students at Emmanuel College, whose current building was opened the same year.

The conclusions of the imperial premiers conference of 1926 were restated by the 1930 conference and incorporated in the Statute of Westminster of December 1931, by which the British parliament renounced any legislative authority over dominion affairs, except as specifically provided in law.

Population censuses in Bosnia and Herzegovina were conducted in 1879, 1885, 1895, 1910, 1910, 1921, 1931, 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981 and 1991.

During the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, censuses were conducted in 1931 and 1921 ; the census in 1941 was never conducted due to the outbreak of WWII.

The first censuses in Uganda were taken in 1911, 1921 and 1931.

The production vehicle was called the Datson Type 10, and " approximately ten " of these cars were sold in 1931.

There were also enormous war reparations to be paid over a period of 70 years, although they ended in 1931 ( but were resumed after World War II ).

Such observations of Heidegger, along with a critique of Max Scheler, were put into a lecture Husserl gave to various Kant Societies in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Halle during 1931 entitled Phänomenologie und Anthropologie.

Giving Expressionist-affiliated filmmakers particularly free stylistic rein were Universal horror pictures such as Dracula ( 1931 ), The Mummy ( 1932 )— the former photographed and the latter directed by the Berlin-trained Karl Freund — and The Black Cat ( 1934 ), directed by Austrian émigré Edgar G. Ulmer.

The later Chola paintings were discovered in 1931 within the circumambulatory passage of the Brihadisvara Temple in India and are the first Chola specimens discovered.

In 1944, General Jorge Ubico ’ s thirteen-year dictatorship ( 1931 – 44 ) of Guatemala was overthrown by the October Revolutionaries, a group of Guatemalan nationalists — politically dissident military officers, university students, and liberal professionals — who were politically empowered, by the almost-simultaneous revolutions that deposed superannuated dictatorships in Venezuela, Cuba, and El Salvador.

All the governors-general until 1965 were British, except Sir Issac Isaacs ( 1931 – 36 ) and Sir William McKell ( 1947 – 53 ).

General elections were held in 1931 to replace the government, with Republican and anticlerical candidates winning the majority of votes.

The prospect for tranquility was further advanced in 1931 when Ferrera and his insurgents were killed, while leading one last unsuccessful effort to overthrow the government, after government troops discovered their hiding place in Chamelecon.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

The first attempts to isolate TSH came a decade later, when Janssen and Loeser ( 1931 ) used trichloroacetic acid to separate the soluble TSH from insoluble impurities.

* In 1931, Bert Hinkler made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight across the South Atlantic in an aircraft.

* Two People ( 1931 ) ( Inside jacket claims this is Milne's first attempt at a novel.

The first recorded aircraft hijack took place on February 21, 1931, in Arequipa, Peru.

According to Volume I of her diaries, 1931 – 1934, published in 1966 ( Stuhlmann ), Nin first came across erotica when she returned to Paris with her mother and two brothers in her late teens.

Prior to 1931, as soon as the first necessary run to win the game scored, the play was over, and the batter was credited only with the number of bases needed to drive in the winning run.

Bacardi's transition into an international brand was due mostly to Schueg's " business genius "; Schueg " branded Cuba as the home of rum, and Bacardi as the king of rums " and expanded overseas, first to Mexico ( 1931 ), then to Puerto Rico ( 1936 ), under the brand name Ron Bacardi.

The Fetha Negest remained the supreme law in Ethiopia until 1931, when a modern-style Constitution was first granted by Emperor Haile Selassie I.

Albert Einstein arrived on the Caltech campus for the first time in 1931 to polish up his Theory of General Relativity, and he returned to Caltech subsequently as a visiting professor in 1932 and 1933.

The publication of the first six volumes of the Collected Papers ( 1931 – 35 ), the most important event to date in Peirce studies and one that Cohen made possible by raising the needed funds, did not prompt an outpouring of secondary studies.

* The Mi-go aliens in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, first appearing in the story " The Whisperer in Darkness " ( 1931 ), can transport humans from Earth to Pluto ( and beyond ) and back again by removing the subject's brain and placing it into a " brain cylinder ", which can be attached to external devices to allow it to see, hear, and speak.

The first prototype Datson was completed in the summer of 1931.

The first, at Paris in 1929, led to Méditations cartésiennes ( Paris 1931 ).

The first electrically amplified guitar was designed in 1931 by George Beauchamp, General Manager at National Guitar Corporation with Paul Barth who was Vice President.

In 1931, Marcel Pagnol filmed the first of his great trilogy, Marius, Fanny, and César.

Lang's magnum opus, M — released in 1931, two years before his departure from Germany — is among the first major crime films of the sound era to join a characteristically noirish visual style with a noir-type plot, one in which the protagonist is a criminal ( as are his most successful pursuers ).

After finishing 5th, seventh and ninth ( out of twenty-two teams ) in their first three seasons in the Third Division South, Fulham won the division in the 1931 – 32 season.

She and Lang co-wrote all of his movies from 1921 through 1933, including 1922's Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ( Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ), which ran for over four hours in two parts in the original version and was the first in the Dr. Mabuse trilogy, 1924's five-hour Die Nibelungen, the famous 1927 film Metropolis, and the 1931 classic, M, his first " talking " picture.

In 1931, after Woman in the Moon, Lang directed what many film scholars consider to be his masterpiece: M, a disturbing story of a child murderer ( Peter Lorre in his first starring role ) who is hunted down and brought to rough justice by Berlin's criminal underworld.

The first successful magnetic pickup for a guitar was invented by George Beauchamp, and incorporated into the 1931 Ro-Pat-In ( later Rickenbacker ) " Frying Pan " lap steel ; other manufacturers, notably Gibson, soon began to install pickups in archtop models.