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unusual facts about ''September Morn'' by Paul Chabas, 1910–1912, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art



40-Mile Loop

In 1912, another city planner, Edward H. Bennett, also recommended developing a ridgetop park long the West Hills.

Albert Wright

Chalky Wright (1912-1957), born Albert Wright, Mexican-American featherweight boxer and world champion

Alexander Behm

He tried to develop an iceberg detection system using reflected sound waves after the Titanic disaster on 15 April 1912.

Alf Bonnevie Bryn

He made several first ascents in Switzerland, Corsica and Norway, including the first successful ascent of Stetind in 1910 (together with Ferdinand Schjelderup and Carl Wilhelm Rubenson).

Alick Maclean

From 1912 to 1935 he conducted the Spa Orchestra at Scarborough.

American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century

The book is about the October 1, 1910 bombing of The Los Angeles Times building by union members that caused later attacks, but the later ones failed.

André Perchicot

André Perchicot (August 9, 1888 - May 3, 1950) was a French cyclist who won the bronze medal at the 1912 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's Sprint in Newark, New Jersey and the 1912 French National Track Championships.

C. Pope Caldwell

He was appointed by Governor John Alden Dix a delegate to the Atlantic Deeper Water Ways Convention in 1910.

Camp follower

A notable example was the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20 where female soladeras filling traditional camp roles, carrying equipment and often acting as combatants were a marked feature of Zapatista, Villistas and Federale forces at all times.

Charles Mallet

In March 1910 Prime Minister H. H. Asquith appointed him Financial Secretary to the War Office, a position he held until he was defeated in the December general election of the same year.

Clifford Bias

Born in Huntington, West Virginia in 1910, he claimed that since the age of five he had been able to communicate with people who had long since died.

Corneal transplantation

Russian eye surgeon Vladimir Filatov's attempts at transplanting cornea started with the first try in 1912 and were continued, gradually improving until on 6 May 1931 he successfully grafted a patient using corneal tissue from a deceased person.

Cumberland Gap, Tennessee

In 1888, a work camp was established at Cumberland Gap by Scottish-born entrepreneur Alexander Arthur (1846–1912) to house workers needed to build a tunnel for the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louisville Railroad.

De Havilland Iris

Notable as the first aero engine to be designed by Geoffrey de Havilland it was produced in small numbers between 1909 and 1910 by the Iris Motor Company of Willesden from which it took its name.

Doniach

Deborah Doniach (1912–2004), clinical immunologist and pioneer in the field of autoimmune diseases

Ekdahl

Lennart Ekdahl (1912–2005), Swedish sailor who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics

Englewood, Kansas

The northern terminus was actually established in 1912 at Forgan, Oklahoma, then later rail service to Forgan ended in 1973, as Altus, Oklahoma became the northern terminus of the successor company.

Evandro Chagas

He was born in Rio de Janeiro, the eldest son of Carlos Chagas (1879-1934), noted physician and scientist who discovered Chagas disease, and brother of Carlos Chagas Filho (1910-2000), also a noted physician and scientist who was president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

Fred S. Jackson

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress.

Fruitlands Museum

The property was purchased in 1910 by Clara Endicott Sears, who opened the farmhouse to the public in 1914 as a museum.

Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy

In 1910 he travelled with H. Hesketh Prichard from Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador to Indian House Lake on George River, and contributed a chapter on fishing to Prichard's Through trackless Labrador (1911).

George H. Utter

Utter was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1911, until his death from liver cancer in Westerly, Rhode Island, November 3, 1912.

George Willis Kirkaldy

George Willis Kirkaldy (1873, Clapham –1910, San Francisco) was an English, entomologist who specialised on Hemiptera.

Gungsangnorbu

In 1912, in the aftermath of the Xinhai Revolution, Gungsangnorbu made some attempts to form an alliance with Bogd Khan and the Khalkha Mongols in the newly independent state of Mongolia, with the Pan-Mongolist aim of annexing China's Inner Mongolian territories to an independent, Mongol-dominated Greater Mongolia.

Harvey Allen

Harry Julian Allen (1910–1977), also known as Harvey Allen, NASA engineer and administrator

John Cade

Dr John Frederick Joseph Cade AO (18 January 1912 – 16 November 1980) was an Australian psychiatrist credited with discovering (in 1948) the effects of lithium carbonate as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of bipolar disorder (then known as manic depression).

José Leite de Vasconcelos

In 1910 Miuçalhas gallegas was published; drawing attention to various aspects of Galician studies, it contained a brief discourse on the linguistic boundary between Fala and Galician, corresponding to Ribadavia, Ferreiros and San Miguel de Lobios in Ourense, much of Hermisende and Zamora—although the last of these is, strictly speaking, a separated or transmontane Fala.

Joseph Wijnkoop

Joseph David Wijnkoop (Amsterdam, 14 August 1842 - Amsterdam, 1 October 1910) was a Dutch rabbi and scholar in Jewish studies.

La Citoyenne

That same year, activist Maria Martin (1839-1910) launched Le Journal des femmes and on December 9, 1897, high-profile actress and journalist Marguerite Durand (1864-1936) continued the cause and opened another feminist newspaper called La Fronde.

Lee Caplin

Caplin is co-owner of Keystone Studios the successor to America's first motion picture studio, founded by Mack Sennett in 1912.

Lie Kim Hok

In the following years he translated several books featuring Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail's fictional adventurer Rocambole, beginning with Kawanan Pendjahat in 1910.

Manuel Belisario Moreno

He is the father of the sculptor Alfredo Palacio Moreno (1912-1998) and the grandfather of the former Ecuadorian President Alfredo Palacio González (in office 2005-2007).

Marchant

Stephen Marchant (1912–2003), Australian geologist and amateur ornithologist

Marxism and the National Question

"Marxism and the National Question" (Russian:Марксизм и национальный вопрос) is an article written by Joseph Stalin at the end of 1912–1913 in Vienna, at the insistence of Lenin.

Midtown Atlanta

The High has collaborated with major art museums to house temporary collections of masterpieces, most notably the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Montrose Swing Bridge

1910 to carry the Canada Southern Railway over the river (click the link to see a discussion of companies who used the Canada Southern tracks over the years).

Otto Flugmaschinenfabrik

In 1910, Gustav Otto founded the "Aeroplanbau Otto-Alberti" workshop at the Puchheim airfield, where Gustav, along with a few others, flew machines made of wood, wire, and canvas and were powered by an engine.

Ranade Institute

Built in 1910, the building contains the University of Pune's Department of Communication & Journalism and Department of Foreign Languages.

Revaz Gabashvili

Briefly fleeing police persecution to Paris, he returned in 1907 and enrolled in the University of St. Petersburg, from where he was excluded on charges of being involved in students’ disorders in 1910.

Ripa Teatina

The father of boxing World Champion Rocky Marciano, Pierino Marchegiano, immigrated to the United States from Ripa Teatina in 1912.

Roy O. Woodruff

In 1912, Woodruff defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Representative George A. Loud to be elected as the candidate of the Progressive Party from Michigan's 10th congressional district to the 63rd Congress, serving from March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1915.

Royal Selangor Club

The building was later redesigned by architect Arthur Benison Hubback (who was notably credited for the design of the Kuala Lumpur Railway Station) and rebuilt in 1910, with two additional wings on either side of the main building and a Mock Tudor styling.

Sabiha Al Khemir

Between 1991–1992 Al Khemir was a consultant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York for the exhibition ‘Al-Andalus: Islamic Arts of Spain.’ She traveled in Europe and North Africa in search of objects and history that would provide the basis for the show.

SS Westfalen

SS Westfalen (1912) was built as the 170 ton minesweeper FM-29 in 1919, by Nobiskrug in Rendsburg, Germany.

Swastika Laundry

The Swastika Laundry was a laundry founded in 1912, located on Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, a district of Dublin, Ireland.

Teribersky

Teriberskaya Volost (1912–1927), an administrative division of Alexandrovsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire, and later of Murmansk Governorate of the Russian SFSR

Terrance Hanold

Terrance Hanold (1912–1996) was an American attorney, food industry executive, and President of the Pillsbury Company.

Wee Boon Teck

#Opium and empire: Chinese society in Colonial Singapore, 1800-1910 By Carl A. Trocki

Yiddish Book Center

In 2001 Ruthe B. Cowl (1912–2008) of Laredo, Texas, donated $1 million to create the Jack and Ruthe B. Cowl Center, which promotes "Yiddish literary, artistic, musical, and historical knowledge and accomplishment" at the Amherst headquarters.

Zofia Wasilkowska

Zofia Wasilkowska (9 December 1910 in Kalisz – 1 December 1996 in Warsaw), was a Polish communist politician.


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