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...early 1900s, the only Harvard band was a group of banjo players who entertained the fans at home football games, according to records on file in the University archives...
Then, in the early 1900s, large numbers of Neanderthal skeletons were discovered, mainly in the Dordogne region of southern France. With these specimens in hand, scientists felt that they could better describe the physical appearance of a Neanderthal man, and the task of reconstructing one fell to noted French paleontologist Marcellin Boule...
Legend has it a Harvard coach came up with that idea in the 1900s but it was quickly banned across the nation for its "homicidal tendencies...
Salt Lake City is covered for the next 30 years by the Central Utah Project. But Denver's hydrological future is far less certain. Because the Rockies impede rainfall, the city enjoys 300 days of sunshine a year. The weather, though, comes at a price. Ever since the early 1900s, elaborate water projects have sought to capture snow melts, pumping water across the mountains from the moist west to the dry east. That engineering worked satisfactorily until 1990, when the Environmental Protection Agency outlawed the building of the giant Two Forks dam in order to protect a trout-rich river...
Barnes was the classic American self-made man. The son of a black-Irish Philadelphia butcher, he went through medical school and made his fortune in the early 1900s on an antiseptic, which he developed in partnership with a German chemist and registered under the trade name Argyrol. Even before World War I, Barnes was a millionaire -- a word with meaning then. And he was developing a curiosity about modern...