1903

The Alaskan a Gold Rush. It was a big deal in the late 1800s. It attracted many people all over North America from Canada to Mexico. Everyone wanted to go to Alaska just got this. It was a out burst of people. It drew a lot of attention! There we many stories and novels written about the gold rush, such as "Gold Rush Fever" or the Last Great Gold a Rush. But there are two stories by Jack London that he had written about gold in this time era. The two books that he had wrote are "the Love of…

The Pulitzer Prize came about as part of an attempt by newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer to upgrade the profession of journalism. Pulitzer, the owner of the New York world and the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, made a proposal in 1903 to Columbia University for the dual purposes of establishing a school of journalism at the university and also establishing prizes for exceptional work in journalism and other fields. However, the university didn’t initially respond as one might to expect to such a seemingly…

In 1903 Mark Rothko (born Marcus Rothkowitz) was born in Dvinsk, Russia (now Daugavpils, Latvia). When Rothko was 10 years old he and his family immigrated to the united stated resettling in Portland, Oregon. After Rothko graduated from high school having excelled in academics, he attended Yale University intending to study the liberal arts and the sciences. He left without graduating and moved to NEW YORK CITY. In the 1930’s Rothko was shown in one-person exhibitions and also exhibited with a…

The building of the Panama Canal is considered one of the greatest engineering feats in history. In the 1820s, at the time of initial American interest in the Panama Canal, Panama was part of Gran Colombia. The building of the Panama Canal would create a new alliance for the U.S. while gaining financially and acquiring independence from Colombia. The building and maintaining of the Panama Canal in the early 1900s allowed the United States to develop and gain economically while Panama received…

Lou Gehrig Lou Gehrig was born June 19, 1903. He played for the New York Yankees from 1923-1939 until a big moment changed his entire life. Baseball changed his life Lou Gehrig was born in the Bronx in New York. His full name was Henry Louis “Lou” or “Buster” Gehrig. When he was young, his two sisters died of whooping cough and his brother died at infancy. He was an only child so he helped his mother with choices. In 1923, Lou Gehrig signed a contract with the New York Yankees on April 30…

Theodor Herzl founded the Zionist political movement. He was born in Budapest in 1860. In 1878 the Herzl’s moved to Vienna, where Theodor Herzl studied law in the University of Vienna, graduating in 1884. Instead of studying law, Herzl became a writer and a journalist acting as Paris correspondent for an influential liberal Vienna newspaper. Herzl probably first experienced anti-Semitism while studying at the University of Vienna. He thought of the Jewish problem as a social issue and wrote a…

commission decisions were routinely appealed by railroad owners in the federal courts for periods as long as ten years. In order to gain more control over an integral part of the nations economic infastructure, I led the fight for the passage of the 1903 Elkins Act. The act empowered the federal government to impose huge fines on both the railroads offering rebates and on the shippers accepting them. This undermined the older "pool" combinations in which railroad owners secretly agreed to divide…

Henry Ford originally designed a quadricycle which is the base of what most of us drive (Ford History, 2017). In 1903, Ford Motor Company officially became a company (Ford History, 2017). According to ford.com, Henry Ford wanted to keep the company privately traded (Ford History, 2017). However, in 1956 Ford became a publicly traded company, and the initial public offering was the highest in history (Ford History, 2017). There is a level of risk when becoming a publicly traded company. When a…

children but she had one miscarriage so they ended up with five in total. One girl and four boys, their names were Anna, James (after Franklin’s father) Elliot, Franklin D. Jr, and John. While in his many different careers he did multiple things. In 1903 when he received a B.A. degree from Harvard. In 1910 he was elected as the New York State Senate. 1913 became the assistant secretary of the U.S. navy. In 1920 he was nominated for the Vice President. When 1928 came he was elected as the…

the 1880s and concluded around 1903 (Opp. 1-29). This period was highly romantic in style as Scriabin was heavily inspired by the works of Frédéric Chopin. These works were highly tonal and were composed in genres common for that time. Representative works from this time include his Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3, Fantaisie in B minor, 12 Preludes Op. 8 (including No. 12 in D# minor), Symphonies 1-2, and 24 Preludes Op. 11. His Middle Period took place for around 4 years, 1903 to 1907 (Opp. 30-58) and…