Mistinguett biography of mahatma
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Daimler cars develop a new brand using the name Mercedes, that of the ten-year-old daughter of the investor and distributor Emil Jellinek
Giacomo Puccini's Tosca brings in the new century with a January premiere in Rome
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The faction founded in Bohemia by Tomas Masaryk becomes known as the Progressive party
Isadora Duncan dances professionally for the first time in Europe in London's Lyceum Theatre
Paul Kruger flees after the British take Pretoria and annexe both the Boer republics
Puerto Ricans are granted limited democracy in a bill of rights introduced after two years of US military occupation
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Frank Baum introduces children to Oz, in his book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Scottish music-hall artist Harry Lauder makes his first London appearance at Gatti's music
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Peas in a Matchbox
At the turn of the 20th century, Gaston Gallimard was one of many suave young men about Paris with exquisite taste in literature, music and art. Then he became friends not only with Proust, but also with Gide, who in 1908 started the monthly Nouvelle Revue Française in the hope of helping a ‘rising generation’ to escape the suffocating plushness of ‘yesterday’s writers’. The distinctive dust jackets of the NRF – plain vit with austere typography in black and red – proclaimed its radical elegance, and it soon had a team of contributors that included Alain-Fournier, Paul Claudel, Jean Giraudoux, Valery Larbaud, Jacques Rivière, Jean Schlumberger and Paul Valéry. Gide then proposed that they branch out into publishing ‘beautiful books’. Neither he nor his colleagues had the means to run a publishing house, but their friend Gallimard had time on his hands and plenty of money so
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Eugene B. Ely lands his Curtiss biplane on the US cruiser Pennsylvania, pointing the way to the future development of the aircraft carrier
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Charles Wilson, using his cloud chamber to detect the passage of charged particles, obtains his first photographs of alpha and beta rays
The lost Inca city of Machu Picchu is reached bygd US archaeologist Hiram Bingham
Ernest Rutherford proposes the concept of the nucleus as a positively charged mass at the centre of an atom
Richard Strauss changes musical direction with his opera Der Rosenkavalier, once again with libretto by Hugo von Hoffmannsthal
Ethel Smyth's The March of Women has its premiere at a suffragette event in London's Albert Hall
Go to Smyth, Ethel (1858) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.)
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Nearly 150 New York garment worker