A leprechaun counts his gold in this engraving c. 1900

Falguière's Victor of the Cockfight, book engraving c. 1900, with added drapery

Short received, amongst other distinctions, the gold medal for engraving at the Paris International Exhibition, 1889, and another gold medal ( Rappel ) 1900.

He received a medal of the first class at the Paris Exhibition of 1900, and the only grand prize given for wood engraving at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St Louis, Missouri, in 1904.

The engraving shown at right, based on that drawing, was published in Alice Morse Earle, Stagecoach and Tavern Days ( 1900 ).

Babylonia emerged out of the Amorite dynasties ( c. 1900 BC ) when Hammurabi ( c. 1792 – 1750 BC ), unified the territories of the former kingdoms of Sumer and Akkad.

The percentage of world Jewry living in area of the former Palestinian Mandate has steadily grown from around 78, 000 in 1900 ( 12 % of the population of the Ottoman Palestine ) to nearly 6 million in 2005 ( 76 % of the population of Israel ).

The Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, founded in 1988 by the Swedish art collector and financier Fredrik Roos and housed in a former power station which had been built in 1900, was one of the foremost centres for contemporary art in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s.

The city's boundaries were also significantly extended to take in former suburban villages: Piotrowo and Berdychowo in 1896, Łazarz, Górczyn, Jeżyce and Wilda in 1900, and Sołacz in 1907.

In 1900 alone, the Prussian provinces of East Prussia, West Prussia, Posen, Silesia, and Pomerania lost about 1, 600, 000 people to the cities, where these former agricultural workers were absorbed into the rapidly growing factory labor class ; One of the causes of this mass-migration was the decrease in rural income compared to the rates of pay in the cities.

In the German regions on the left bank of the Rhine ( Rhenish Palatinate and Prussian Rhine Province ), the former Duchy of Berg and the Grand Duchy of Baden, the Napoleonic code was in use until the introduction of the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch in 1900 as the first common civil code for the entire German Empire.

It is housed in the former Gare d ' Orsay, an impressive Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900.

* Sherman Billingsley ( 1900 – 1966 ), American former bootlegger and founder and owner of New York's Stork Club nightclub

The borough was formed in 1965, by the London Government Act 1963, as an amalgamation of the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham and the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford, which had been created in 1900 as divisions of the County of London.

The first Mayor of Wandsworth was Sir Luke Brown of Dempster Road ( alleged to be a former Opium Baron ), who was elected to the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth in 1900.

* Greenwich District ( Metropolis ), former local government district, 1855 — 1900

* Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich, former local government district, 1900 — 1965

The son of railroad employee Tillman Arthur Pullig ( 1898 – 1976 ) and the former Eula Finley ( 1900 – 1984 ), Pullig had resided since 1983 in Jasper, Texas, where he died in a hospital on June 1, 2011, at the age of eighty-eight.

* Harrison Welborn Ayres ( 1900 – 1985 ), a graduate of the former Ashland High School, practiced law from 1925-1942 in Arcadia and Jonesboro.

Shortly after 1900, another company built an electric interurban railroad parallel to the B & P and also electrified the former A & ER.

* Fred Waring ( 1900 – 1984 ) – former musician / bandleader and radio-television personality

The first mayor elected under the new incorporation was former Comanche County Judge John Lambert, who took office in April 1900.

George H. Mahon ( 1900 – 1985 ), a former county attorney, district attorney, and U. S. representative from the Lubbock-based congressional district is interred at Loraine City Cemetery.

In 1897, President William McKinley appointed George B. Jackson, an African American former buffalo soldier as customs collector at Presidio, a position that he held until his death in 1900.

Public education began in Rutherford prior to 1900, but the oldest school structure that is still standing is the former Park School, built in 1902.

Population statistics for the former Kingdom of Württemberg's four departments ( Kreise ) for 1900 and 1905 appear below.

File: Former Cox & Co Bank, Whitehall, London. JPG | The former Cox & Co Bank ( 1884-86 ), Whitehall, designed by Ewan Christian ( 1814-95 ) whose offices were nearby in Whitehall Place, the lower extension to the corner of Craig's Court is of 1900, designed by J. H. Christian, Ewan's cousin and a partner in his practice.

His wife was Ghislaine Dommanget ( 1900 – 91 ), a French film actress and former wife of actor André Brulé.

* Edward Stettinius, Jr. ( 1900 – 1949 ), former United States Secretary of State

By 1900 the demand for Beaux's work brought clients from Washington, D. C., to Boston, prompting the artist to move to New York City ; it was there she spent the winters, while summering at Green Alley, the home and studio she had built in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College, where she lived in Briggs Hall, South House.

* 1847 – Roger Wolcott, American politician, 39th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1900 )

Curry was born on September 12, 1900, in Millis, Massachusetts, to Samuel Silas Curry and Anna Baright Curry, who ran a school for elocution.

The first match, between the United States and Britain ( which competed under the name " British Isles "), was held at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston, Massachusetts in 1900.

In 1900 Cram married Elizabeth Carrington Read at New Bedford, Massachusetts.

For the first two years it was located in Watertown, Massachusetts, but production was transferred to Bridgeport, Connecticut during 1900 where it remained until the company's demise in 1929.

Elizabeth Storrs Billings Mead taught for two years at Oberlin College and subsequently, from 1890 to 1900, served as president of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Tang had been educated in the United States ( elementary school in Springfield, Massachusetts, high school in Hartford, Connecticut, and finally one year at Columbia University ) and had since then followed a career that had been closely linked to Yuan Shikai: He had been a diplomat with Yuan Shikai's staff in Korea and was appointed head of the Shandong Bureau of Foreign Affairs under governor Yuan Shikai in 1900.

In 1900, 27 observers took part in the first count in 25 places in the United States and Canada, 15 of them in the northeastern U. S. from Massachusetts to Philadelphia.

By 1900 the river was already considered polluted and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health said in a report, " The Department finds that the condition of the Blackstone River is offensive throughout its course, from Worcester to the state line at Blackstone.

By 1900, the Xaverian Brothers had opened schools in New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

Upon his second return to the United States, in 1891, Crafts became professor of organic chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( 1892 – 97 ), where he also served as president from 1898 to 1900.

In 1900, she left the union to set up the parole department of the Massachusetts State Industrial School for Girls.

* Roger Wolcott ( 1847 – 1900 ), governor of Massachusetts

******* Charles Codman Cabot ( b. 1900 in Brookline )-associate judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Boston Bar Association president

In 1900, he wrote a letter to the President of the Massachusetts Single Tax League, declaring himself a supporter of the reform Henry George had proposed.

He served as the 40th Governor of Massachusetts between 1900 and 1903.

He was a Justice of the Peace from 1875 – 1900, a member of the Massachusetts Legislature ( Massachusetts General Court ) from 1881 – 1884, the 36th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1893-1897.

In 1889 he moved to the United States to attend school in Auburndale, Massachusetts, and then Harvard University 1898 – 1900.

Augustus Lowell ( January 15, 1830 – 1900 ) was a businessman and philanthropist from Massachusetts.

He was promoted to captain on 3 March 1899 and left his position on Massachusetts on 10 May 1900.