WebHerman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing information and, later, in accounting. His invention of the punched card tabulating machine, patented in 1884, marks the …

WebThe 1887 Yellow River flood in Qing China began in September 1887 and killed at least 930,000 people. It was the single deadliest flood in China, in turn making it one of the largest disasters in China by death toll. History. For centuries, the farmers living near the ...

WebThe Canon de 305 mm Modèle 1887 was a heavy naval gun used as the main armament of a number of French pre-dreadnoughts and coastal defense ships during World War I. Eight were converted to railway artillery in World War I and four were used during World War II Construction. The Canon de 305 mm Modèle 1887 45 ...

WebNikolai Ivanovich Vavilov ForMemRS, HFRSE (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Вави́лов, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ vɐˈvʲiləf] (); 25 November [O.S. 13 November] 1887 – 26 January 1943) was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist who identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants. He devoted his life to the study and improvement of ...

WebAugust Wilhelm Heinrich Günther Viktor von Preußen (* 29.Januar 1887 in Potsdam; † 25. März 1949 in Stuttgart) war als Sohn Wilhelms II. ein Angehöriger der Kaiserfamilie Hohenzollern.Unter dem Kurznamen „Auwi“ wurde er in der Endphase der Weimarer Republik und der frühen Zeit des Nationalsozialismus durch sein begeistertes Eintreten …

Webパリ時代の1887年4月に描かれたとされる自画像のうちの一枚は、2011年にファン・ゴッホ美術館の鑑定により、弟テオを描いたものであると断定されている。 ゴッホの写真

WebThe Thames Torso Murders, often called the Thames Mysteries or the Embankment Murders, were a sequence of unsolved murders of women occurring in London, England from 1887 to 1889.The series included four incidents which were filed as belonging to the same series. None of the cases were solved, and only one of the four victims was identified.

WebEdward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel Looking Backward.Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of numerous "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas.After working as a journalist and writing …

WebThe Winchester Model 1887 (Dellosso Shotgun) and Winchester Model 1901 are lever-action shotguns originally designed by famed American gun designer John Browning and produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The shotgun has become iconic for its use in the 1991 film Terminator 2: …

WebViolet Constance Jessop (2 October 1887 – 5 May 1971), often referred to as the "Queen of sinking ships" or "Miss Unsinkable," was an Argentine woman of Irish heritage who worked as an ocean liner stewardess, memoirist, and nurse in the early 20th century. Jessop is most well known for having survived the sinking of both the RMS Titanic in 1912 and her sister …

WebThe shoes have gone by a variety of names, depending on geography and changing over the decades. The term "sneakers" is most commonly used in Northeastern United States, Central and South Florida, Australia New Zealand, and parts of Canada. However, in Australian, Canadian, and Scottish English, running shoes and runners are synonymous …

WebA Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle.The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in literature.The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his …

WebFrench Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China), officially known as the Indochinese Union and after 1947 as the Indochinese Federation, was a grouping of French colonial territories in Southeast Asia until its demise in 1954. It comprised Cambodia, Laos (from 1899), the Chinese territory of Guangzhouwan (from 1898 until 1945), and the …

WebJohann Ludwig „Lutz“ Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, geboren als Johann Ludwig von Krosigk (* 22.August 1887 in Rathmannsdorf/Anhalt; † 4. März 1977 in Essen), war ein deutscher Jurist und Politiker.Vom 2. Juni 1932 bis zum 23. Mai 1945 war er Reichsminister der Finanzen.Er war parteilos, bis er 1937 durch Annahme einer Parteiehrung in die NSDAP …