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Wadham College, Oxford ( BA, MA) Columbia University ( PhD) Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was an American urban planner and public official who worked in the New York metropolitan area during the early to mid-20th century. Moses is regarded as one of the most powerful and influential people in the history of New York City ...
20th Century Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1901) World's Book of Knowledge (1901) New Century Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1902) American Educator and Library of Knowledge (1902) Standard Library of Knowledge (1904) Student's Cycopaedia (1900) Student's Reference Work (1903) New Student's Reference Work (1909) How and Why Library ...
President John F. Kennedy Meets with Lord Mayor of Dublin Robert Briscoe (1962) He served in Dáil Éireann for 38 years and was elected 12 times in the Dublin South and from 1948, Dublin South-West constituencies – from the 6th Dáil to the 17th Dáil. He retired at the 1965 election, being succeeded by his son, Ben who served for a further ...
Seth Low (January 18, 1850 – September 17, 1916) was an American educator and political figure who served as the mayor of Brooklyn from 1881 to 1885, the president of Columbia University from 1890 to 1901, a diplomatic representative of the United States, and the mayor of New York City from 1902 to 1903. He was a leading municipal reformer ...
Jane Leaver, first woman elected mayor of Medina, Ohio, United States [6] Ellen O. Moyer, first woman elected mayor of Annapolis, Maryland, United States. Dubravka Šuica, first woman elected mayor of Dubrovnik, Croatia. Rosa Russo Iervolino, first woman elected mayor of Naples, Italy.
20th century. The 20th century began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000. The 20th century saw two world wars and a Cold War, the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, the coming of the telephone, sound recording, movies and television, airplanes, atomic weapons, genetics and DNA, computers and electronics in general.
Leading up to the initial publication of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Baker had compiled and edited three editions of A Dictionary of Musical Terms — published 1895, 1896, and 1897, respectively, by G. Schirmer, Inc. First edition. The first edition, published in 1900, has 647 pages plus an Appendix of 5 pages.
