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unusual facts about Australian federal election, 1906


Archibald Stewart

He helped found the Ballarat branch of the Labor Party in 1902 and was its secretary from 1905 to 1906; he was involved in James Scullin's ultimately unsuccessful attempt to unseat Alfred Deakin at the 1906 federal election.


A.S.D. Sarzanese Calcio 1906

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Sarzanese Calcio 1906 is an Italian association football club located in Sarzana, Liguria.

Arnould Galopin

Galopin also wrote a number of science fiction novels in the Jules Verne and H.G. Wells style, including the remarkable Doctor Omega (1906), La Révolution de Demain (Tomorrow’s Revolution) (1909) and Le Bacille (1928), an uncannily prophetic tale of a mad scientist who uses biological warfare for revenge.

Arthur Grant Duff

In 1906 Arthur Grant Duff married Kathleen, younger daughter of General Powell Clayton, who had been U.S. Ambassador to Mexico when Grant Duff was posted there.

Athen

SS Athen (1893), German merchant ship lost off Portland Bill in the English Channel in 1906, and now a dive site

Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof

Behind all this, the huge iron and glass train-shed roof by writer and engineer Heinrich Seidel (1842-1906) measured 171 m long by 62 m wide (covering 10,600 m², under which 40,000 people could stand), and rose to 34 m in height along its centre line.

Blount Building

It was built by Charles Hill Turner in 1906-1907 for local attorney William Alexander Blount on the site of the three-story Blount-Watson Building, which had burned on Halloween night in 1905.

Bob Cremins

Robert Anthony Cremins (February 15, 1906 – March 27, 2004) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1927 season.

Carl Heinrich von Siemens

Carl Heinrich von Siemens (often just Carl von Siemens) (March 3, 1829 in Menzendorf, Mecklenburg - March 21, 1906 in Menton, France) was a German entrepreneur, a child (of fourteen) of a tenant farmer.

Carl Schuricht

In 1906 he heard Frederick Delius's Sea Drift in Essen with the composer present, and promised to Delius that when he had his own orchestra he would conduct it himself, which he did in Frankfurt with Delius again in the audience.

Cuniberti

Vittorio Cuniberti, an Italian military officer who envisioned the concept of the all big gun battleship, best exemplified by HMS Dreadnought.

Danny Bernardi

Bernardi has cited his main influences on his writing as being the Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, playwrights such as Stephen Berkoff and Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) as well as such diverse sources such as The Clash, Billy Childish, Benjamin Zephaniah.

Delille

Daniel Armand-Delille (1906–1957), French bobsledder who competed in the early 1930s

Dennis K. Stanley

Dennis Stanley was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England on Easter Sunday 1906, the youngest of seven children.

Dick Frahm

Herald Samuel Frahm (April 11, 1906 – October 19, 1977) was an American football halfback for the Staten Island Stapletons, the Boston Redskins, and the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League and the St. Louis/Kansas City Blues of the 1934 version of the American Football League.

Edmund J. Stack

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.

Elinor Darwin

She married Bernard Darwin, the golf writer grandson of the British naturalist Charles Darwin in 1906.

Faustino Aguilar

As a novelist, he authored the Tagalog-language novels Busabos ng Palad (Pauper of Fate) in 1909, Sa Ngalan ng Diyos (In the Name of God) in 1911, Ang Lihim ng Isang Pulo (The Secret of an Island) in 1926, Ang Patawad ng Patay (The Pardon of the Dead) in 1951, Ang Kaligtasan (The Salvation) in 1951, and Pinaglahuan (Place of Disappearance) in 1906 (published in 1907).

Franklin E. Brooks

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.

Franklin J. Moses

Franklin J. Moses, Jr. (1838-1906), Governor of South Carolina from 1872 to 1874, son of the above

G. Waldo Dunnington

Guy Waldo Dunnington (January 15, 1906, Bowling Green, Missouri – April 10, 1974, Natchitoches, Louisiana) was a writer, historian and professor of German known for his writings on the famous German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.

George Clarke Chandler

George Clarke Chandler was born in Ontario, March 18, 1906 and died in Vancouver, BC April 20, 1964 at the age of 56.

Harry Cole

Harold Cole (1906–1946), known as Harry, British soldier and traitor

Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm

Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm was also active as a translator of plays, and she was also an instructor and a teacher of drama, both in private-tutoring and in Högre lärarinneseminariet in Stockholm, where she tutored until 1906.

Henry William Clothier

In 1905 Clothier went to Tyneside to work with Charles Hesterman Merz and Bernard Price and joined Mr Alphonse C. Reyrolle at A. Reyrolle & Company in 1906, and remained employed with them for the rest of his life.

HNLMS O 11

21 June 1926, O 11, together with the O 9, Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, Jacob van Heemskerck, Z 7 and Z 8, sailed from Den Helder to the Baltic Sea to visit the port of Kiel, Göteborg and Trondheim.

HNLMS O 9

21 June 1926, O 9, together with the O 11, Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, Jacob van Heemskerck, Z 7 and Z 8, sailed from Den Helder to the Baltic Sea to visit the port of Kiel, Göteborg and Trondheim.

Independent Nationalist

Some others were elected as Independent Nationalists outside of the above groupings, such as Timothy Harrington (1900) & (1906), Joseph Nolan (1900), D. D. Sheehan (1906), Laurence Ginnell (1910), William Redmond and James Cosgrave (1923), Michael O'Neill (1951), John Hume (1969), Paddy O'Hanlon (1969) and Ivan Cooper (1969).

James Taylor Ellyson

In his long political career, he went on to serve in the Senate of Virginia, as mayor of Richmond (1888–1894), and for twelve years (1906–1918) as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.

Joe Gladwin

He was baptised on 28 January 1906 at Mount Carmel RC Church, Ordsall and educated at the parish school.

John P. Koehler

He served as the head football coach at Lawrence Institute in Wisconsin, now Lawrence University, from 1904 to 1905, at the University of Denver from 1906 to 1910, and at Marquette University from 1914 to 1915, compiling a career college football record of 39–29–4.

Kalicharan Brahma

He joined a new religion called Brahmo Dharma / Brahmoism Adi Brahmo Samaj faction in Calcutta around 1906, and he is reverentially called Gurudev or Guru Brahma by Bodo people of lower plains of Assam along holy Brahmaputra river.

King Dick

Richard Seddon (1845–1906), Prime Minister of New Zealand 1893-1906

Laves

Fritz Laves (1906-1978), a German mineralogist and crystallographer, best known for his description of the intermetallic Laves phases.

Luis Rivera

Luis Mariano Rivera (1906–2002), Venezuelan singer, composer, poet and dramatist

Mary Celine Fasenmyer

Sister Mary Celine Fasenmyer, R.S.M., (October 4, 1906, Crown, Pennsylvania – December 27, 1996, Erie, Pennsylvania) was a mathematician.

Nat Emerson

They lost to future International Tennis Hall of Famers Fred Alexander and Harold Hackett in 1906, and Raymond D. Little and Beals Wright in 1908.

Otto Stenroth

He served as a member of Kansallis-Osake-Pankki bank executive board from 1889 to 1893, and deputy director general of Kansallis-Osake-Pankki bank executive board from 1893 to 1906.

Paul Stevenson

More recently, Stevenson has become politically involved and in the upcoming 2013 Federal Election he will stand as the lead Senate candidate in Queensland for the Australian Democrats.

Pierre Janet

While he did not publish much in English, the fifteen lectures he gave to the Harvard Medical School between 15 October and the end of November 1906 were published in 1907 as The Major Symptoms of Hysteria, and he received an honorary doctorate from Harvard in 1936.

Ross Lee Finney

-- III? --> (December 23, 1906–February 4, 1997) was an American composer born in Wells, Minnesota who taught for many years at the University of Michigan.

Salur

The Leprosy Mission Salur began in 1906 to help Leprosy patients.

St George, Queensland

It gained national attention with the election of local accountant Barnaby Joyce to the Australian Senate following the 2004 federal election.

Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester

Lord Leicester served as Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk from 1846 to 1906 and was a member of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall and Keeper of the Privy Seal.

Tissandier

Albert Tissandier (1839–1906), Gaston's brother, French architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist

Vasily Vasilievsky

The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890-1906) noted that "almost every modern Byzantinist is Vasilievsky's disciple".

Viburnum australe

Viburnum australe was described as a separate species by Conrad Vernon Morton in 1933, from a specimen collected in 1906 by Cyrus Guernsey Pringle.

Waramanga, Australian Capital Territory

Links to Waramanga polling place results for the 2004 Federal Election and 2004 ACT Legislative Assembly election are listed in the External Links section below.

Warren McDonald

McDonald ran unsuccessfully for the Country Party in the 1946 federal election, a fact which did not prevent the Chifley government appointing him to advise the prices commissioner in 1947.

Wood End, Kingsbury, Warwickshire

Wood End became a village in 1906 with the opening of the parish church, St Michael & All Angels Church.

Woodstock Road, Oxford

Lord Recliffe-Maud, GCB, CBE (1906–1982), civil servant, diplomat, and Master of University College, Oxford, and Lady Redcliffe-Maud (1904–1993), pianist


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