1903

George Katkov (November 17, 1903 – January 20, 1985) was a philosopher and historian, but the events of World War II caused him to abandon his plan to pursue a career of being a teacher in philosophy, but later become a lecturer in Soviet Institutions at Oxford University. Published in 1967, Katkov’s work titled Russia 1917: The February Revolution asserts that the Russian monarchy failed, not because of the common perspective of the Tsar being incompetent or the Russian civilian’s discontent of…

Wassily Kandinsky was one of many influential artists during the Expressionist Movement. This movement lasted 20 years, from 1905 to 1925. This time period holds few historical significances, which influenced expressionism very much so. The end of World War I left Europe in ruins. Many people fluttered to America to escape the warfare. Artists began to express happy thoughts through painting to hopefully bring joy into one's lives. Kandinsky's contribution of paintings filled with shapes and…

He was first married in the year of 1903 to a girl named Maric Winteler. He fell in love with her when boarding at her families house. They divorced in the year of 1919 on February 14. He married his second wife in the year of June 2 of 1919. She was also his first cousin and wife at the…

Kate Chopin's first child was born on May 22, 1871. Twenty-three years after the birth of her first son, Kate Chopin wrote the following account of her childbirth experience: I can remember yet that hot southern day on Magazine Street in New Orleans. The noises of the street coming through the open windows, that heaviness with which I dragged myself about; my husband's and mother's solicitude; old Alexandrine the quadroon nurse with her high bandana tignon, her hoop-earrings and placid smile;…

COLES Coles Myer Ltd is one of the leading retailer supermarket in Australia and it has more than 1,800 number of stores and selling area, but to look back how it was started is way even more interesting. The first Coles store was opened on Smith St, Collingwood, in Victoria, it was Thursday April 9, 1914, but before Coles opened; the food that people acquired is from the local butcher and greengrocer by using horse and cart and the milk was delivered in front of the house’s front step. Sir…

Emmeline Pankhurst, born July 15 1858 in Manchester, United Kingdom, was raised in a politically active family, in which both her parents were abolitionists and supporters of female suffrage. Pankhurst was exposed to social issues at a young age and attended her first women’s suffrage meeting at age fourteen. Pankhurst was fifteen when she left the country to receive an education in Paris at École Normale Supérieure. She returned to Great Britain in 1878 and married Richard Pankhurst in December…

Two major experiences overwrite the many more Henry had, these experiences are boxing and the Millers’ Bakehouse. According to Josh “Boxing was his hobby during ‘Coota’s’ late twenties and early thirties, and that he stopped this hobby after his second child.” I assume that boxing prepared him for fatherhood, also boxing would have kept him fit. Visual #1 (http://www.aihw.gov.au/ deaths/life-expectancy/) shows the life expectancy in 1890 at 45. Henry almost doubled this age. Could boxing have…

1896: henry ford built Quadricycle 1899: Henry joined Detroit Automobile Company 1903: Ford Motor Company is incorporated. 1904: Ford Motor Company of Canada is established 1907: Ford introduces the scripted typeface of its trademark. 1908: Model T is introduced. 1908: First overseas sales branch in Paris. 1913: Ford Assembly line in auto production is initiated. 1914: The famous $5 per day is instituted. 1917: Ford Motor Company first ever produces Ford Truck 1919: Edsel Ford succeeds…

auguste Comte (1798-1857) • He Invented the term "sociology". • His Status of social addition during times of rapid change. • He belief that you need to understand society as it really is not wants to be. • His importance on logical observation and social order. Herriet Martineau (1802-1857) • She is the earliest obverver of american society and culture. • She is the one of the founder of early sociological thought. • She used power of social observation to record and study American society.…

I selected Grace Hopper for my famous mathematician project. I chose this Mathematician because she seemed like an interesting person and I wanted to learn more about her. Grace Hopper was born on December 9, 1906 in New York, New York and she died on January 1, 1992. She died at the age of 85 years old. Some historical events that happened in the world during Grace Hopper's life were: in 1906 the San Francisco earthquake happened. Also in January of 1933 Hitler started to take over in Germany.…