WebThe 1904 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the III Olympiad and also known as St. Louis 1904) were an international multi-sport event held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from 29 August to 3 September 1904, as part of an extended sports program lasting from 1 July to 23 November 1904, located at what is now known as Francis Field on the campus …

Web1904 fue un año bisiesto comenzado en viernes en el calendario gregoriano Acontecimientos Enero. 1 de enero: en Uruguay se inicia la última guerra civil de su historia, con el levantamiento del caudillo blanco Aparicio Saravia contra el gobierno de José Batlle y Ordóñez. 3 de enero: en ...

WebThe 1904–1905 Welsh revival was the largest Christian revival in Wales during the 20th century. It was one of the most dramatic in terms of its effect on the population, and triggered revivals in several other countries. The movement kept the churches of Wales filled for many years to come, seats being placed in the aisles in Mount Pleasant Baptist …

WebWardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917), also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early experimental wireless transmission station designed and built by Nikola Tesla on Long Island in 1901–1902, located in the village of Shoreham, New York.Tesla intended to transmit messages, telephony and even facsimile images across the Atlantic to England …

WebA 1904 film, The Great Fire of Toronto, created by George Scott & Co. about the event, was the first to be shot in Toronto. A fictionalized account of the Fire was central to the Murdoch Mysteries episode, "Great Balls of Fire". Part of the area cleared by the fire became the site of Union Station, built during the following decade.

WebHMS Pathfinder was the lead ship of her class of two British scout cruisers, and was the first ship ever to be sunk by a self-propelled torpedo fired by submarine (the American Civil War sloop-of-war USS Housatonic had been sunk by a spar torpedo).She was built by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, launched on 16 July 1904, and commissioned on 18 July 1905. She …

WebHMS Black Prince was a Duke of Edinburgh-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the early 1900s. She was stationed in the Mediterranean when the First World War began and participated in the pursuit of the German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and light cruiser SMS Breslau.After the German ships reached Ottoman waters, the ship was sent to the …

WebIl fu Mattia Pascal è un celebre romanzo di Luigi Pirandello che apparve dapprima a puntate sulla rivista Nuova Antologia nel 1904 e che fu pubblicato in volume nello stesso anno. Fu il primo grande successo di Pirandello, scritto, secondo la leggenda, nelle notti di veglia alla moglie, Maria Antonietta Portulano, paralizzata alle gambe, circostanza che in …

WebPablo Neruda, seudónimo y posterior nombre legal [1] de Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (Parral, 12 de julio de 1904-Santiago, 23 de septiembre de 1973), fue un poeta y político chileno.. Es considerado entre los más destacados e influyentes artistas de su siglo; además de haber sido senador de la república chilena, miembro del Comité Central del …

WebTinker Bell is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelisation Peter and Wendy.She has appeared in a variety of film and television adaptations of the Peter Pan stories, in particular the 1953 animated Walt Disney picture Peter Pan.She also appears in the official 2006 sequel Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine …

WebThe 1904 United States presidential election was the 30th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1904.Incumbent Republican President Theodore Roosevelt defeated the Democratic nominee, Alton B. Parker.Roosevelt's victory made him the first president who ascended to the presidency upon the death of his predecessor to …

WebEl Tratado de Paz y Amistad del 20 de octubre de 1904 es un tratado de paz firmado por representantes de la República de Bolivia y la República de Chile con el fin de terminar el estado de guerra existente entre ambos países luego del estallido de la Guerra del Pacífico en 1879.. Tras años de disputa, el 14 de febrero de 1879, tropas chilenas invadieron el …

WebHMS Britannia was a King Edward VII-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy.She was named after Britannia, the Latin name of Great Britain under Roman rule. The ship was built by Portsmouth Dockyard between 1904 and 1906. Armed with a battery of four 12-inch (305 mm) and four 9.2 in (234 mm) guns, she and her sister ships marked a …

WebNostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard is a 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". It was originally published serially in monthly instalments of T.P.'s Weekly.. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Nostromo 47th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.It is frequently regarded as …