A cricket tournament, played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes.The only match of the tournament was played between teams representing Great Britain and France and was won by 158 runs by Great Britain. The team for the French club included at least 11 British nationals, two of whom were born in France, and it …

The Colt Model 1900 is a short-recoil operated "self-loading", or semi-automatic.38 caliber handgun introduced by Colt's Manufacturing Company at the turn of the 20th century. It also marked the introduction of .38 ACP, the round for which it is chambered (not to be confused with the shorter-cased .380 ACP), and was the first handgun to utilize short-recoil operation.

The century from 1800 to 1899, almost synonymous with the 19th century (1801–1900) 1800s (decade), the period from 1800 to 1809 This page was last edited on 15 January 2022, at 15:58 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 ...

The Free Church of Scotland is a Scottish denomination which was formed in 1843 by a large withdrawal from the established Church of Scotland in a schism known as the Disruption of 1843. In 1900, the vast majority of the Free Church of Scotland joined with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland to form the United Free Church of Scotland (which itself mostly re-united …

Benito de Nursia (Nursia, Umbría; 480-Montecasino, Lacio; 21 de marzo de 547) fue un monje católico, considerado el iniciador de la vida monástica en Occidente y venerado como santo por las Iglesias católica, Iglesia ortodoxa y luterana.Fundó la orden de los benedictinos cuyo fin era establecer monasterios basados en la autarquía, es decir, autosuficientes; comúnmente …

1900 (titre original : Novecento [a]) est un film franco-ouest-germano-italien réalisé par Bernardo Bertolucci et sorti en 1976.Le scénario a été écrit en collaboration avec Franco Arcalli dont le père avait été assassiné par les fascistes alors que l'enfant avait cinq ans. Le titre du film et le style de la photographie font référence au tableau de Giuseppe Pellizza, Le Quart état.

The following list compiles known earthquakes that have caused one or more fatalities since 1900. The list incorporates high quality earthquake source (i.e., origin time, location and earthquake magnitude) and fatality information from several sources. Earthquake locations are taken from the Centennial Catalog and the updated Engdahl, van der Hilst and Buland earthquake catalog, …

1900 DCS–IMT Gap No No No No No China (China Mobile) No 40 TDD 2300 S-Band No — — Latvia , Lithuania , United Kingdom , Russia (Tele2) Zambia Yes Yes 41 TDD 2500 BRS: USA (C Spire, T-Mobile), Canada — Trinidad and Tobago No Madagascar China (China Mobile), Japan ...

Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900 – March 14, 1973) was an American physicist and a pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer. Biography. Aiken studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and later ...

Adam Brinley Woodyatt (born 28 June 1968) is an English actor. He is known for his role as Ian Beale in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, which he played between 1985 and 2021.

Belle Époque [bɛleˈpɔk] (frz. für „schöne Epoche“) ist die Bezeichnung für eine Zeitspanne von etwa 30 Jahren um die Wende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert, hauptsächlich in Europa.Meist wird die Zeit von 1884 bis zum Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges 1914 genannt. Für die Zeit vor der Jahrhundertwende ist auch der Begriff Fin de Siècle („Jahrhundertende“) gebräuchlich.

Joseph B. Friedman (October 9, 1900 – June 21, 1982) was an independent American inventor with a broad range of interests and ideas. Friedman was a first generation American and the fifth of eight children of Jacob David Friedman and Antoinette Grauer Friedman Early years. Friedman ...

Aurora, właściwie Awrora (ros. Аврора) – rosyjski okręt klasy krążownik, z początku XX wieku, spopularyzowany jako symbol rewolucji październikowej w Rosji. Obecnie okręt muzeum w Petersburgu (). „Aurora” to krążownik pancernopokładowy (w klasyfikacji rosyjskiej: krążownik I rangi), należący wraz z dwoma bliźniaczymi okrętami: „Diana” i „Pałłada” do typu ...

Fashion in the period 1900–1909 in the Western world continued the severe, long and elegant lines of the late 1890s.Tall, stiff collars characterize the period, as do women's broad hats and full "Gibson Girl" hairstyles.A new, columnar silhouette introduced by the couturiers of Paris late in the decade signaled the approaching abandonment of the corset as an indispensable garment.