Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most important events of 1898 were the Spanish American war, the death of Bismarck, and the calling of the Peace Conference. The first two had an important bearing on the last event. The war showed that America was destined to become an important factor in international affairs, while the death of Bismarck showed that his policy of preventing war, by being prepared for it, was about to come to an end. These two events led to the Peace Conference, called by the Czar...
...fellowships have been offered by the Archaelogical Institute of America for the year 1900-1901. At the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, three in Greek archaelogy will be offered, two of which will have stipends of 600 dollars and the third will have a stipend of 1000 dollars. At the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, three fellowships will be given, two in Roman archaelogy with stipends of 600 dollars each and a third for the study of Christian archaelogy with a stipend of 500 dollars...
Question: "Resolved, That the America's cup races should be held off Marblehead...
Question: "Resolved, That the America's cup races should be held off Marblehead...
...this exhibition will be granted. It will consist of reports from the Cambridge, Arequipa and Blue Hill observatories. Among the collection of photographs of heavenly bodies will be the stellar charts and photographs of stellar spectra produced with the aid of the great photographic telescope now in South America, the gift of Miss C. W. Bruce of New York. There also will be an exhibit of glass photography illuminated by electricity. The part that Harvard will play in astronomy at the exposition is made doubly important by the probable meeting in Paris next summer of the Astro-Photographic Congress, composed...