In 1906, the Sint Anna mental hospital for women was built by the Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary.

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.

In 1906, he was appointed to the " Armstrong Insurance Commission " to investigate the insurance industry in New York as a special assistant to U. S. attorney general.

The recommendations of the Brent Commission were endorsed by the United States Department of State and in 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt called for an international conference, the International Opium Commission, which was held in Shanghai in February 1909.

The Lord Mayor is also the head of the Commission of Lieutenancy, which represents the Sovereign in the City of London ( other counties usually have Lord Lieutenants, as opposed to Commissions ), and annually attends the Treloar Trust ( named after Sir William Treloar, Lord Mayor in 1906 ), in Hampshire.

The Hepburn Act is a 1906 United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission ( ICC ) the power to set maximum railroad rates.

* The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission, Andrew C. Lawson, chairman, Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 87, 2 vols.

During his term as Chief, the Dawes Commission of 1902 / 1906 divided the Cherokee lands into allotments of approximately 110 acres per household, breaking up the communal lands.

* The Congo Report of Commission of Inquiry ( New York, 1906 )

The committee's work nevertheless led in 1906 to the first federal regulation of telephone and telegram service by the Board of Railway Commissioners, the ancestor of the current Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

In the early Twentieth Century, there was concern about monopolistic practices in the grain elevator industry, leading to testimony before the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1906.

In 1906 Whitney appointed Beck the first chairman of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission.

In November 1906, Chief Engineer John Stevens ordered that most blacks on the Gold Roll be placed on a silver roll instead ( a few remained in such roles as teachers and postmasters ); the following month the Canal Commission reported that the 3, 700 Gold Roll employees were " almost all white Americans " and the 13, 000 Silver Roll workers were " mostly aliens ".

On May 7, 1906, the Normal School Commission selected the site of the former Central University campus to be the location of the new school.

Their second son, James S. Harlan, practiced in Chicago and served as attorney general of Puerto Rico before being appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1906 and becoming that body's chairman in 1914.

* 1906 – Establishment of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario by the government of Sir James P. Whitney at the urging of Sir Adam Beck.

The three largest and most well-established such organizations are the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ), the International Electrotechnical Commission ( IEC ), and the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ), which have each existed for more than 50 years ( founded in 1947, 1906, and 1865, respectively ) and which are all based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Ontario Hydro was the official name from 1974 of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario which was established in 1906 by the provincial Power Commission Act to build transmission lines to supply municipal utilities with electricity generated by private companies already operating at Niagara Falls.

Energy policy focused on hydro-electric power and the formation in 1906 of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario ( HEPC ).

* 1906 — The fort is deeded to what becomes the California State Parks Commission.

The following year, work by the New Jersey Federation of Women's Clubs led to the creation of Palisades Interstate Park Commission, headed by George W. Perkins, which was authorized to acquire land between Fort Lee and Piermont, New York ; its jurisdiction was extended to Stony Point, New York in 1906.

Captain Ashford was a founding member of the Puerto Rico Anemia Commission and, by special authority of the Secretary of War, served on the Commission from 1904 – 1906.

In 1906, the Government of Western Australia appointed Alfred Canning to survey the route.

From 1893 and 1906, under the direction of Solon Bailey, the telescope at this site was used to survey photographically both the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.

In 1906, Berkshire County began survey and construction of another approach, the first direct route from the south to the summit.

From 1906 to 1913 he worked on the team assigned to survey the Alaskan-Canadian border and advanced from the position of surveyor to become the United States Engineer-in-Charge.

Beginning with Reginald Fessenden's audio demonstrations in 1906, it was also the original method used for audio radio transmissions, and remains in use today by many forms of communication —" AM " is often used to refer to the mediumwave broadcast band ( see AM radio ).

From 1907 on, English language articles sometimes used the term " Maximalist " for " Bolshevik " and " Minimalist " for " Menshevik ", which proved confusing since there was also a " Maximalist " faction within the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1904 – 1906 ( which after 1906 formed a separate Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists ) and then again after 1917.

During this time Attlee also played football for Fleet Town F. C .. Attlee then trained as a lawyer, and was called to the Bar in 1906.

In 1906, Reginald Fessenden transmitted the first audio radio broadcast in history also playing the first record, that of a contralto singing Handel's Largo from Xerxes.

He also wrote St Thomas of Canterbury, his Death and Miracles ( 1898 ), Johannine Vocabulary ( 1905 ), Johannine Grammar ( 1906 ).

" In 1954, Stagg disputed Cochems ' claim to have invented the forward pass :" Eddie Cochems, who coached at St. Louis University in 1906, also claimed to have invented the pass as we know it today ...

In an attempt to quell the general unrest, the system of estates was abolished in the parliamentary reform of 1906, which also introduced universal suffrage.

He would also successfully establish the border with Nicaragua and resist an invasion from Guatemala in 1906.

At the second convention in 1906, also held in Berlin, 27 countries attended.

He was also Aide-de-Camp to the King from 8 March 1906 to 8 February 1907.

Polish Deputies were members of the Austrian State Council ( from 1867 ), and from 1906 were also elected to the Russian Imperial State Duma ( lower chamber ) and to the State Council ( upper chamber ).

Lee De Forest's 1906 " audion " was also developed as a radio detector, and soon led to the development of the triode tube.

** Dahlmann and Waitz, Quellenkunde ( Leipzig, 1906 ), p. 401 ; also the supplementary vol.

In 1906 – 10, he attempted to curtail the influence of social elites by abolishing the upper-class eating clubs and moving the students into colleges, also known as quadrangles.

Most of Stein's important works utilize this technique, including the novel The Makings of Americans ( 1906 – 08 ) Not only were they the first important patrons of Cubism, Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo were also important influences on Cubism as well.

Unauthorized stage performances were also undertaken in Amsterdam in 1905, 1906 and 1908.

Hermann ( 1906 ) identifies as such * ansulaikom the victory songs of the Batavi after defeating Quintus Petillius Cerialis in the Batavian rebellion of 69 AD ( according to Tacitus ' account ), and also the " nefarious song " accompanied by " running in a circle " around the head of a decapitated goat sacrificed to ( he presumes ) Wodan, sung by the Lombards at their victory celebration in 579 according to the report of Pope Gregory the Great ( Dialogues ch.

It is also the second-longest continuously running Chinese community outside of Asia, only because the 1906 San Francisco earthquake all but destroyed the chinatown in San Francisco in California.

See also with reference to this text Louis Halphen, Êtude sur les chroniques des comtes d ' Anjou et des seigneurs d ' Amboise ( Paris, 1906 ).

From October 1906 until his retirement, Drygalski was a professor in Munich, where he also presided the Geographic Institute, founded by him, until his death.

In 1906, 7 members of the Oregon House were also elected as candidates of the People's party and either the Democratic or Republican parties.

It was also included in two Savoy repertory seasons, in 1906 – 07 and 1908 – 09.

It had also published The Yattendon Hymnal in 1899 and, more significantly, the first edition of The English Hymnal in 1906, under the editorship of Percy Dearmer and the then largely unknown Ralph Vaughan Williams.