1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). 1906 - Events. January 8 - Landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20. January 31 - Earthquake in Ecuador (8.6 in Richter scale). February 11 - Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos. February 15 - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in the UK parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party. March 10 - Explosion in coalmine in Courrières, Fra ...

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West Side Park, Chicago, Illinois 1906 World Series - Game 2 October 10. South Side Park, Chicago, Illinois 1906 World Series - Game 3 October 11. West Side Park, Chicago, Illinois 1906 World Series - Game 4 October 12. South Side Park, Chicago, Illinois 1906 World Series - Game 5 October 13. West Side Park, Chicago, Illinois 1906 World Series - Game 6 October 14. South Side Park, Chicago, Illinois ...

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The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake at San Francisco, California, estimated to be approximately 7.8 on the Richter Scale [1], on the early morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906. Foreshocks and the main quake occurred at about 5:12am along the San Andreas Fault, with an epicenter close to the city. Its violent shocks were felt from Oregon to Los Angeles, and inland as far as central Nevada. The earthquake and fire would go down as one of the worst natural disasters to hit a major city in United Stat ...

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Karl Friedrich Benz (November 25, 1844 – April 4, 1929) was a German automobile engineer. He is generally regarded as one of the inventors (with contemporary Gottlieb Daimler) of the petrol-powered automobile. Born in a modest home and a prodigy student, Karl Benz loved to ride his bicycle through his natal Karlsruhe and since then he pursued the dream of creating some motorized vehicle to replace it. Something finally accomplished with his Tri-Car of 1886 powered by a gas engine, and later by petrol. Though the genius also invented -- among other things - ...

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Since the 2nd International Olympic Games in Athens now had become an exception, the personal views of various IOC chairmen caused the IOC to retroactively downgrade the 1906 games, and the explanation for the games became that they had been a 10th anniversary celebration. As more stress was placed on the continuing sequence of four-year Olympiads, the games of 1906 did not fit in. Hence, today the IOC does not recognize Athens 1906 as Olympic Games, and does not regard any events occurring there, such as the setting o ...

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The Greeks were unable to keep the schedule for 1910. On the one hand problems in the Balkans made things difficult, but on the other, the modern Greeks found out the ancient Greeks were right: A two year interval was too short. Where there had been a gap of six years before Athens 1906 (because of the almost All-American nature of the 1904 St Louis games), a gap of two years after London 1908 did not leave people enough time to prepare. With Athens 1910 a failure, the faith in Athens diminished, and as a result Athens 1914 got even l ...

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Since there were no wintersports at the First Intercalated games, the idea has risen that this was because the IOC had made such an explicit requirement. In reality, though the IOC had intended some wintersports to be Olympic, before London 1908 none of the games included any wintersports, and Athens 1906 was no exception. There is however a different connection between Intercalated Games and wintersports. For 1994 the idea of intermediate games was reintroduced when the cycle for the Winter Olympic Games was shifted two years, resulting in Olympics every tw ...

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The Games were held from April 22 to May 2, 1906, in Athens, Greece. For the first time, the registration of athletes had been handled entirely through the NOCs. The games excluded several disciplines that had occurred during the past two games; it was unclear whether they ought to have been part of the Olympic Games or of the World Exhibitions. Added to the program were the javelin throw and the pentathlon. The games were a success, with large crowds following the events each day. They also saw, probably for the first time, opening c ...

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The first Intercalated Games had been scheduled by the IOC in 1901 as part of a new schedule, where every four years, in between the internationally organised games, there would be intermediate games held in Athens. This was apparently a bit of a compromise: After the successful games of Athens 1896 the Greeks suggested they could organise the games every four years. Since they had the accommodations, and had proven to be able to hold well-organised games, they received quite a bit of support. However, Pierre de Coubertin did not like this a ...

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Existing battleship designs of the era typically mounted four large guns in twin turrets fore and aft, with a number of smaller guns lining the sides of the ship, in a fashion similar to earllier sail warships. Not only did this mask nearly half of the ship's guns at any one time (while turrets were free to either broadside), it also allowed water into the ship through the many gunports, a clear hazard in heavy sea. Furthermore, each calibre of gun had different ballistic properties, something which greatly complicated gunnery, especially wh ...

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As damaging as the earthquake and its aftershocks were, the fires that burned out of control afterwards destroyed much more property. Fires broke out in many parts of town, some initially fueled by natural gas mains broken by the quake. Other fires were the result of arson, and campfires set by refugees. Some property owners set fire to their damaged buildings, because most insurance policies covered fire losses while prohibiting payment if the building had only sustained earthquake damage. Captain Leonard D. Wildman of the U.S. Army Signal ...

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(Host nation in bold.) The mixed team of Belgian/Greek is in the Coxed Pairs 1 mile rowing event. The silver medal for the team from Smyrna and the bronze medal for the team from Thessalonika in the football event are counted for Turkey (Ottoman Empire), both cities were at the time indisputably Ottoman possessions. ...

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The concept was simple, and had been a consideration among naval planners for a few years. Dreadnought would use steam turbines in place of the older triple-expansion engines that had powered almost all previous ships, with a design speed of a steady 21 knots (39 km/h). This would allow her to outrun any battleship afloat, and outgun any cruiser or torpedo boat able to catch her (making it impossible for them to close range and attack), in keeping with a well-known axiom. Submarines were largely ignored. Thus protected from smaller sh ...

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When the Second Duma was convened on February 20, 1907, the Kadets found themselves in a difficult position. Their leadership was not represented in the Duma after the Vyborg Manifesto fiasco and their numbers were reduced to about 100. Although still the largest faction in the Duma, they no longer dominated the parliament and their attempts to concentrate on lawmaking were frustrated by radicals on the Left and on the Right who saw the Duma as a propaganda tool. Although the Kadets had moderated their position in the Second Duma, in May 190 ...

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The 1906 games were quite successful. Unlike the 1900, 1904 or 1908 games, they were neither stretched out over months nor overshadowed by an international exhibition. Their crisp format was most likely instrumental in the continued existence of the games. These Games also were the first games to have all athlete registration go through the NOCs. They were the first to have the Opening of the Games as a separate event; an event at which for the first time the athletes marched into the stadium in national teams, each f ...

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1906 World Series - Notable Performances. 1906 World Series - Cubs. Wildfire Schulte (2B): 7-for-26 (.269 BA); 1 run; 3 doubles; 3 RBI Solly Hoffman (OF): 7-for-23 (.304 BA); 3 runs; 1 double; 2 RBI 1906 World Series - White Sox. George Davis (SS): 4-for-13 (.308 BA); 4 runs; 3 doubles; 6 RBI Jiggs Donahue (1B): 6-for-18 (.333 BA); 2 doubles; 1 triple; 4 RBI Frank Isbell (2B): 8-for-26 (.308 BA); 4 runs; 4 doubles; 4 RBI < ...

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So convinced that construction of the design would be ordered, Fisher started stockpiling steel for use on the ship before a construction slip was even available. This proved a fortunate decision, as during the stockpiling phase a new hull shape was identified that would decrease drag, and therefore increase speed. Fisher, happy with the original 21 knot (39 km/h) speed, used up the additional performance by further increasing the weight of armor. The final design mounted 11 inches (279 mm) of armor on the sides and turrets, about 3 inches ( ...

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From 1907–1912 Dreadnought served as flagship of the Royal Navy's Home Fleet, as famous in its days as the Concorde SST sixty years later. In 1910 it attracted the attention of notorious hoaxer Horace de Vere Cole, who persuaded the Royal Navy to arrange for a party of Abyssinian royals to be given a tour of a ship. In reality, the "Abyssinian royals" were some of Cole's friends in blackface and disguise, including a young Virginia Woolf and her Bloomsbury Group friends; it became known as the Dreadnought hoax. Cole had picked Dreadnought because she was the most prominent and visible symbol o ...

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