1904

One of the seven wonders of the modern world, the Panama Canal is a man-made waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key point for international trade. The earliest idea of a canal going across the Isthmus of Panama goes back to 1534 when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, ordered a route through the Americas that would make it easier for ships traveling between Spain and Peru. The route…

1904, St Petersburg What has happened to the powerful, almighty, motherland Russia? Since 1893, Finance (?) Minister Witte’s successful economic reforms to industrialise the nation encouraged my family and I to move to the city in the late 1890s; the promise of work and better standards of living too enticing for us to refuse as peasants. Upon arrival, the industrialisation of St Petersburg was obvious and astounding, the economic reforms that have strengthened Russia’s place as a country of…

later found his way into the world of business. He started Carnegie Steel Corporation in 1889 and in 1901 he sold his business and dedicated the rest of his life to his philanthropic work, including the founding of Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1904. Although he had little education, Andrew grew up in a family that believed in the importance of books and learning. This later influenced him to donate to libraries, school programs, and the building of universities. When his family…

Ivan pavlov was born in Rtazan,Russia in 1849. His father was a priest and wanted Ivan to become a priest as well( Famous scientists.org,2016) . His father's name was Peter Dmitrievich Pavlov, and his mother's name was Varvara Ivanovna Uspenskaya(Ivan Pavlov,2016). Ivan was one of eleven children, Ivan was the eldest sibling in the group(Ivan Pavlov,2016). As a young boy he spent a lot of time in the garden, which got him interested in science(). He attended Ryazan Ecclesiastical high school;…

Two prominent examples of this are Lincoln Steffens' "The Shame of the Cities" (1904) and David Graham Phillips' "The Treason of the Senate" (1906). Steffens' work focused on the political corruption in New York City, and uncovered the underlying causes of corruption and the ways in which the corrupt system functioned. “wrote about…

Mary Church Terrell There is a girl that was made to go to New York at age six for a better educational opportunity. This little girl’s name was Mary Church Terrell. Throughout Mary’s life she accomplished many things such as founding the National Association of Colored Women, becoming the first African-American woman ever appointed to a school board, and even placed on a committee to serve as someone to investigate police mistreatment on African Americans. Mary was born in Memphis, Tennessee…

The advances in hygiene resulted in a relatively low death toll during the construction; still, 5,609 workers died during this period (1904–1914). This brought the total death toll for the construction of the canal to around 27,500.In 1907 Roosevelt appointed George Washington Goethals as Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal. The building of the canal was completed in 1914, two years ahead…

Although, her ideas apply specifically to narrative cinema, it was narrative cinema that directly followed in the footsteps of Méliès’ The Wonderful Living Fan(Méliès, 1904) and therefore adapted his same approach to Narrative cinema. Much like Méliès’s main character in the film, the conjuror, Mulvey explains how the male protagonist in Narrative films “is free to command the stage, a stage of spatial illusion in which…

States Atomic Energy Commission, where he lobbied extensively for the international control of nuclear power to prevent the apparent probability of Nuclear Proliferation and an arms race with the Soviet Union. (Hewlett) Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904 to Jewish parents. His father was a wealthy textile merchant and his mother…

The first major land battle took place from April 30-May 1, 1904, near the Yalu River located between North Korea and China. With the war still being in the early stages, the Russians’ focused on defending their Trans-Siberian Railway from the Japanese and to guard the Yalu River as a deterrent to keep the Japanese…