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| | Timeline 1895-1897 |
 | | 1897 The US Supreme Court ruled that "Seamen are... | | | 1897 Dec 1, Stephen J. Field (1816-1899), US Supreme Court Justice, left office after serving on the court for 34 years. | | | 1897 Feb 17, The US National Congress of Mothers was founded in Washington, D.C. It later became the National congress of Parents and Teachers known as the PTA (Parent Teachers Association). |
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http://timelines.ws/1895_1897.HTML
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| | USA-Presidents.Info - William McKinley First State of the Union Address |
| | Special authority was given to the President by the Act of Congress approved July 24, 1897, to divide that Territory into two land districts and to designate the boundaries thereof and to appoint registers and receivers of said land offices, and the President was also authorized to appoint a surveyor-general for the entire district. | | | Under the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1897, for the promotion of an international agreement respecting bimetallism, I appointed on the 14th day of April, 1897, Hon. | | | For the relief of our own citizens suffering because of the conflict the aid of Congress was sought in a special message, and under the appropriation of May 24, 1897, effective aid has been given to American citizens in Cuba, many of them at their own request having been returned to the United States. |
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http://www.usa-presidents.info/union/mckinley-1.html
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| | Mansfield in the News: 1897-99 digest |
| | 1897 Jul 2: At the Quarter Sessions in Nottingham, the bankrupt Mr D. Barrows was found not guilty of fraud, after the chairman of the Bench ruled that they must consider "whether it was an attempt at concealment" and not "accuse the man simply because he was stupid and blundering in his affairs". | | | 1897 Mar 12: The debts of the defunct Greenhalgh football club were being pursued in the M County Court. | | | 1897 Nov 12 (Tue prev.): The Council chose Alderman J.E. Birks as mayor for the next year. |
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http://web.ukonline.co.uk/lost-mansfield/mnews/news1899.htm
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| | MARIPOSA GAZETTE VITALS-1897 |
| | His eccentricities when in Fresno county were common gossip, and in spite of his age and wealth, he would frequently strip off his coat and work with his hired hands in the fields. | | | HARRIS- In San Bernardino, August 1st, 1897, Major Benjamin Butler HARRIS formerly a resident of Mariposa county a native of Virginia, aged 73 years. | | | CAMIN- ANAYA married December 18, 1897 Mariposa Gazette |
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http://www.mariposaresearch.net/DISVIT6.html
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| | Iowa's 1897 Cigarette Manufacturing Ban Law, As Tobacco Hazards Were Already Then Known |
| | Iowa residents, please contact your governor, senators, and representatives, asking that the 1897 law be re-introduced and re-passed. | | | Lizars also said that in 1857, the medical journal The Lancet had provided guidance on "excess smoking" in context of a 10-year programme for youth avoidance of tobacco, that if followed, would have led to abolition of smoking by 1867. | | | In the same era, Rev. Benjamin Lane, in The Mysteries of Tobacco (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845), pp 50-51, had proposed an immediate tobacco ban with "severe penalties." |
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http://medicolegal.tripod.com/iowalaw1897.htm
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| | The UFO Airships of 1896-1897 |
| | Some airships were sighted in Washington state in early 1897. | | | Sightings occurred in Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota, most of them in April 1897. | | | This rediscovery led to renewed interest by modern airship and UFO researchers. |
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http://www.weeklyuniverse.com/2004/airships.htm
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| | Princeton Public Library - African American History - 1897 Marriages |
| | Robeson, William Henry Freeman, of Princeton, N. J., and Ellen Pannel, of Princeton, N. The Princeton Press, Sat., Nov. 27, 1897: | | | Princeton Public Library - African American History - 1897 Marriages | | | Richard Wilson and Miss Mabel Davis, daughter of Mr. |
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http://www.princeton.lib.nj.us/history/1897marr.html
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| | The Aurora, Texas UFO Crash of 1897 |
| | The year was 1897, and this was the year of the "great airships" reports in the United States. | | | Aurora was designated a "historical site" by the State of Texas. | | | Only a couple of days later, UPI followed up the first report with another from Aurora. |
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http://ufocasebook.com/Aurora.html
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| | 1897 |
| | Banned by judge in Britain as "filth masquerading as science." | | | Douche après le bain (1897) - Louis Lumière | | | 1897 - Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Scientific Humanitarian Committee on May 14 to organize for gay rights and the repeal of Paragraph 175 --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_rights_timeline [Jul 2004] |
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http://www.jahsonic.com/1897.html
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| | MWP: William Faulkner (1897-1962) |
| | William Cuthbert Falkner (as his name was then spelled) was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons born to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner. | | | He was named after his great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, the “Old Colonel,” who had been killed eight years earlier in a duel with his former business partner in the streets of Ripley, Mississippi. |
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http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/faulkner_william
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| | 1897 in sports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | January 31 - The first known organized hillclimbing race was held in France from Nice to La Turbie. | | | See also: 1896 in sports, other events of 1897, 1898 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1897_in_sports
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| | Sigmund Freud: 1897 |
| | In a letter to Fliess of September 21 1897 he confesses that he has abandoned his "seduction theory" according to which neuroses were caused by actual sexual abuse in childhood. | | | Through a systematic study of his own dreams Freud seeks to explain his own psychology and development. | | | My self-analysis, which I consider indispensable in the elucidation of the whole problem, has continued in dreams over the last four days and provided me with invaluable information and clues... |
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http://www.freud-museum.at/freud/chronolg/1897-e.htm
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| | J.J. Thomson - Biography |
| | On his return from America, he achieved the most brilliant work of his life - an original study of cathode rays culminating in the discovery of the electron, which was announced during the course of his evening lecture to the Royal Institution on Friday, April 30, 1897. | | | In 1896, Thomson visited America to give a course of four lectures, which summarised his current researches, at Princeton. | | | These lectures were subsequently published as Discharge of Electricity through Gases (1897). |
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http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1906/thomson-bio.html
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| | RAILTOWN 1897 STATE PARK |
| | Railtown 1897 opened as a historic "living" museum in 1971 and now is an official operation of the California State Railroad Museum Foundation. | | | Historic Railtown 1897 is located in equally historic Jamestown, California. | | | Known as "The Movie Railroad," Railtown's survival has had a major assist from Hollywood. |
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http://www.yosemitegold.com/yosemite/railtown.htm
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| | Railtown 1897 State Historic Park - Welcome |
| | Located in Jamestown, California, Railtown 1897 State Historic Park is home to one of America’s last authentic, operating railroad roundhouses. | | | Open daily (April-October, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; November-March, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.) except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day, Railtown 1897 State Historic Park is operated by California State Parks with assistance from the nonprofit California State Railroad Museum Foundation. | | | Known as “The Movie Railroad,” Railtown’s locomotives and cars have appeared in over 200 film and TV productions, including High Noon, Back to the Future 3, Petticoat Junction. |
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http://www.csrmf.org/railtown
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| | 1897 OHS |
| | as published in The Oberlin News, Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, June 15, 1897, p. |
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http://www.oberlin-high.org/1897
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| | Biographies of American Architects, 1897-1947 |
| | Between 1897 and 1947 the American Art Annual and its successor volume Who's Who in American Art included brief obituaries of prominent American artists, sculptors, and architects. | | | Transcribed from the American Art Annual by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., Director, Maine Historic Preservation Commission. |
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http://www.sah.org/oldsite06012004/aame/bioint.html
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| | 2004 U.S. Open - Past Champions |
| | Having successfully bid for the competitions, the West also bid strongly for the titles, but Joe Lloyd, an English professional who worked at the Essex County Club, Manchester, Mass., in the summer and at Pau, France, in the winter, returned the Open to the East, scoring 83-79-162 to lead a field of 35. | | | Willie Anderson, who was later to win four times, played for the first time and finished second, a stroke back. | | | Chicago Golf Club entertained the 1897 men's championships on its 18-hole course in September. |
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http://www.usopen.com/2004/history/past-champs/1897.html
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| | This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. | | | Network Working Group R. Hinden Request for Comments: 1897 Ipsilon Networks Category: Experimental J. Postel ISI January 1996 IPv6 Testing Address Allocation Status of this Memo This document specifies an Experimental protocol for the Internet community. | | | One possible algorithm to generate values for this field is to use the bits in the IPv4 address which identify the IPv4 subnet. |
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http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1897.txt
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| | Photographic Journals - British Journal of Photography - 1897 |
| | However the brief comments on the Meetings often gave a little insight into who spoke at the Meetings. | | | Each edition of The British Journal of Photography in 1897 included brief comments on the activities of British Photographic Societies - often about 10 societies were listed, sometimes including Edinburgh. | | | LINKS: Please click on any underlined word or any pictures on this site. |
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http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_P/1_photographic_journals_-_bjp_1897.htm
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| | Suicide (1897) |
| | The Rules of Sociological Method, therefore, Durkheim began his 1897 work with a warning against | | | It is interesting to see how little Durkheim claimed to understand this process in 1897 (cf. | | | Explanation requires comparison; comparison requires classification; classification requires the definition of those facts to be classified, compared, and ultimately explained. |
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http://www.relst.uiuc.edu/durkheim/Summaries/suicide.html
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| | Story of Countrywoman Soap |
| | You see, she had set her standards high. | | | Perhaps it wasn't all that different from what she had read before in the other old books and encyclopedias, but somehow this author spoke to her in a whole new way. | | | She said to herself, "I will never sell soap I wouldn't use on my own face." Then inspiration and motivation followed after she read an article in an 1897 Encyclopedia Britannica. |
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http://www.countrywoman.com/story.html
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| | Latvia / Riga circa 1897, The National Encyclopedia |
| | RIGA, the capital of the Russian government of Livonia, is situated on the right bank of the Düna, about 7 miles above its entrance into the Gulf of Riga, and had 282,943 inhabitants in 1897. | | | Unfortunately, at least three different encyclopedias (!) have been published with that title. | | | The width of the river and the distance of the town from the sea make the port very spacious and secure, and the merchantmen come up to the quays. |
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http://www.latvians.com/en/Reading/RigaNatlEncy/riga1897.php
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| | THE CINDERELLA BIBLIOGRAPHY: MENU OF ARTISTS |
| | "The Prince took her by the hand and led her into the Palace...." (1897) | | | "Her godmother, who was a Fairy, came to her...." (1897) | | | "And her sisters fell down on their knees and begged her pardon for using her so badly..." (1897) |
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http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cinder/cinartpa.htm
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| | Railtown 1897 SHP |
| | Located in Jamestown, three miles south of Sonora, the park is the place where the Sierra Railway Company began its short-line operation in 1897. | | | Every effort is made to keep our content current and up-to-date. | | | Please call Railtown 1897 SHP prior to arrival as conditions may change. |
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http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=491
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| | 1897 Brooklyn Bridegrooms Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com |
| | Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org. | | | You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Teams > Los Angeles Dodgers > 1897 Statistics / Transactions |
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http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BRO/1897.shtml
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| | Easton's Bible Dictionary |
| | The illustrated portion of the Dictionary have not been included. | | | These Dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. |
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http://www.ccel.org/e/easton/ebd/ebd.html
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