1901

Richard Cavendish, “Dunant had spent far more time on the Red Cross than on business and in 1867 he went bankrupt…” (qtd. in Richmand 10). Dunant being the head figure of the Red Cross movement is rather forgotten despite winning a nobel Peace Prize in 1901. (“Henry…

Sir Edmund Barton the former Prime Minister of Australia, barrister, and Judge. Born 18 January 1849, Glebe, Sydney and died 7 January 1920, Medlow Bath, NSW. one of the main learner profiles edmund demonstrated was a communicator, he was a communicator in that he gave a voice to the people who did not have a say in federal Australia. Sir Edmund, being one of ten children was the third youngest, his parents were William Barton and Mary Louise Barton. William had arrived in Sydney from London in…

Pearl Mary (Gambanyi) Gibbs (1901-1983) was a leader and activist for Aboriginal rights and the rights of women. Throughout her life she contributed to several impactful social justice campaigns including the 1967 referendum, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, and the Aboriginal Day of Mourning. She is remembered as a trailblazer for her life in the political sphere and efforts to fight against racism and inequality during her lifetime. Early Life Gibbs was born in 1901 to Margaret Brown, a Ngemba…

In 2012, the Supreme Court struck down an Arizona law aimed at illegal immigration. The ruling stated that the state could not supercede federal statutes (Sorenson). This power play between the Court and the state is an example of how federalism did not fulfill the framers’ vision of an institution that protected states’ rights from an ever-growing national government. In forming the Constitution, the framers had designed it to be a solution to unifying the states without taking all their…

Theodore Roosevelt was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. A trailblazer of the Republican Party, he was a leading force of the Progressive Era. Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858. He was the second of four children born to Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. They lived in New York City. Roosevelt had a very difficult childhood in fighting a sickly form of asthma,…

After becoming president in 1901, Roosevelt used his authority to protect wildlife and public lands by creating the United States Forest Service (USFS) and establishing 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, 4 national game preserves, 5 national parks, and 18 national monuments…

presenting his musical talents he startled the world with his accomplished master piece, compiled, with all the vigor and vitality of youth, when he was eighty years of age. In Milan, January 21, 1901 Giuseppe had a stroke, which caused him to gradually feeble and he died six days later on January 27, 1901. Giuseppe was honored with a state funeral, which was marked with combined orchestras and choir by Italian musicians; this was conducted by Arturo Toscanini. Although Giuseppe’s body was…

Army engineer Colonel Samuel H. Yonge to supervise the construction of concrete structure called a breakwater. Colonel Yonge built the breakwaters to prevent further erosion of the Jamestown site (Standard 1904:5). In May of 1901, n civil engineer working on the breakwater project named John Tyler, Jr. helped the APVA to conduct an excavation of in the Jamestown churchyard (Standard 1904:5). The Jamestown Memorial Church archaeological site consists of the original church…

Airplane; a powered flying vehicle with fixed wings and a weight greater than that of the air it displaces. Airplanes to many are just aircrafts able to get them from point A to point B. They are also known to fly through the air for military uses. We all know what they are, but do we ever take the time to think about how they ever came around and who was able to invent such a great invention? On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilber Wright were the first people ever to fly a gasoline powered,…

musician, wrote one of the first big ragtime hits, “Maple Leaf Rag” and then three years later, “The Entertainer.” The music was very loveable in the United States. However, the mass popularity in Ragtime left a negative message on some people. In 1901, the same year, President McKinley was assassinated, Ragtime music was suppressed by the American Federation of Musicians. "Resolutions were adopted characterizing 'Ragtime' as 'unmusical rot.' Members were encouraged to 'make every…