1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). 1909 - Events. January 16 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. January 28 - United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War. February 12 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded. February 23 - The Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the ...

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1909 - Date unknown. Gideon T. Stewart, American educator and politician (b. 1824) ...

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The 1909 census was undertaken by the independent Principality of Montenegro. Ethnicity was decided according to the mother tongue, the official then being the Serbian language. Total: 317,856 inhabitants Orthodox Christians: 94.38% Serbs: about 95% others mostly Albanians Today it is considered that the total population was overestimated for political reasons and that it was at about 220,000. ...

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Demographic history of Montenegro, Demographic history of Montenegro - 1909, Demographic history of Montenegro - 1921, Demographic history of Montenegro - 1931, Demographic history of Montenegro - 1948, Demographic history of Montenegro - 1953, Demographic history of Montenegro - 1961, Demographic history of Montenegro - 1971, Demographic history of Montenegro - 1981, Demographic history of Montenegro - 1991, Demographic history of Montenegro - 2003, Demographic history of Montenegro - Source

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BP plc, LSE: BP, NYSE: BP, TYO: 5051 , originally British Petroleum, is a multinational energy company with headquarters in London, one of the top four vertically integrated private sector oil, natural gas, and gasoline companies in the world (along with Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, and Total). In August 1998, BP merged with the American Oil Company (Amoco), forming "BP Amoco". This move was widely viewed as a takeover of Amoco by BP, and was only officially described as a merger for legal reasons (after ...

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BP - 1909 - 1955 BP - 1960s and 1970s BP - 1980s and 1990s
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Binocular rivalry is a phenomenon of visual perception in which perception alternates between different images presented to each eye. When one image is presented to one eye and a very different image is presented to the other, instead of the two images being seen superimposed, one image is seen for a few moments, then the other, then the first, and so on, randomly for as long as one cares to look. For example if a set of vertical lines is presented to one eye, and a set of horizontal lines to the same region of the retina of the other ...

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Binocular rivalry - Types of binocular rivalry Binocular rivalry - Why binocular rivalry is interesting Binocular rivalry - History of binocular rivalry Binocular rivalry - Early theories of binocular rivalry Binocular rivalry - Empirical studies of binocular rivalry: B. B. Breese 1899 1909

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The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Arabic: الجماعة الأحمدية; transliterated: al-Jamā'a al-Ahmadīya; sometimes called the 'Qadiani' community, after the locality of Qadian, India) is based on the Ahmadiyya movement founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian in 1889. The original movement split into two factions soon after the death of the founder. (The Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement, ...

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Ahmadiyya Muslim Community - Al-Haaj Maulana Hakeem Nooruddin 1841-1914 Ahmadiyya Muslim Community - The Split in 1914 Ahmadiyya Muslim Community - Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad 1889-1965 Ahmadiyya Muslim Community - Hafiz Mirza Nasir Ahmad 1909-1982 Ahmadiyya Muslim Community - Mirza Tahir Ahmad 1928-2003 Ahmadiyya Muslim Community - Mirza Masroor Ahmad 1950- date

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For the former National Basketball Association player, see Andrew Lang (basketball). Andrew Lang Born in Selkirk, Scotland (March 31, 1844 - July 20, 1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. Andrew Lang - Education. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the ...

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The Australian cricket team is (together with England) the oldest team in international cricket having played their first Test match in 1877. Over the years they having won 309 of the 676 Test matches they have played against other countries and they are today regarded as the leading Test playing nation. Australia is also a leading international one day team having won 365 of the 603 One Day Internationals they have played against other countries. Australia won the Cricket World Cup in 1987, 1999 and 2003. Austral ...

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Australian cricket team - 2005/06 Cricket Australia Contracted Players Australian cricket team - 2005-2006 numbers

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Aristide Briand (March 28, 1862 – March 7, 1932) was a French statesman. He was born at Nantes, of a bourgeois family. He studied law, and soon went into politics, associating himself with the most advanced movements, writing articles for the anarchist journal Le Peuple, and directing the Lanterne for some time. From this he passed to the Petite République, leaving it to found < ...

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Upstairs, Downstairs was a 1970s British television series set in a grand Edwardian town house in London and depicting the events of the early twentieth century as they affected the servants ('downstairs') and masters ('upstairs'). The series was originally conceived by Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins as a comedy, called Behind the Green Baize Door, about two housemaids (to be played by themselves) who worked in a Victorian country house. After approaching a development company in 1969 their ideas were expanded and d ...

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Upstairs Downstairs - Upstairs Characters and Cast Members
Upstairs Downstairs - The Bellamy Family Upstairs Downstairs - Recurring Friends of the Upstairs
Upstairs Downstairs - Downstairs Characters and Cast Members
Upstairs Downstairs - The Servants Upstairs Downstairs - Recurring Friends of the Downstairs
Upstairs Downstairs - DVD releases Upstairs Downstairs - Influence

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Arthur Dee (July 13, 1579 – September 1651) was the eldest son of Dr John Dee, and educated at Westminster School. Arthur accompanied his father in his peregrinations across Bohemia. He became a physician to Michael I of Russia, the founder of the Romanov Dynasty and resided in Moscow for fourteen years where he wrote his Fasciculus Chemicus, a collection of writings upon alchemy. Returning to England upon the death of his wife in 1637, Dee became physician to King Charles I. Upon his retirement Arthur Dee resided in N ...

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1909 in aviation - February. February 23 - John McCurdy makes the first aeroplane flight in Canada in the Silver Dart 1909 in aviation - May. May 14 - Samuel Cody makes the first aeroplane flight in the UK longer than 1 mile (1.6 km) in British Army Aeroplane No. 1. 1909 in aviation - July. The International Exhibition of Aviation opens in Frankfurt-am-Main (now known as ILA and regularly held in Berlin). ...

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1909 in rail transport - January events. January 26 - The Jamestown, Franklin and Clearfield Railroad, a predecessor of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, is formed from the merger of four smaller railroads in Pennsylvania.[1] January 29 - The final spike is driven in the construction of the Virginian Railway at Glen Lyn, Virginia. 1909 in rail transport - March events. March 7 The Winona Interurban ...

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Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1909 World Series - Game 2 October 9. Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1909 World Series - Game 3 October 11. Bennett Park, Detroit, Michigan 1909 World Series - Game 4 October 12. Bennett Park, Detroit, Michigan 1909 World Series - Game 5 October 13. Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1909 World Series - Game 6 October 14See also:

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Notes: * Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. 1 Two candidates are counted twice: R. McBride (Conservative), who contested and was elected in both Victoria City and Yale, and J. Oliver (Liberal) who contested but was defeated in both Delta and Victoria City. 2 Organized in 1906. Not the same as the CLP that contested the 1924 election. ...

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British Columbia general election 1909, British Columbia general election 1909 - Results, British Columbia general election 1909 - Results by Riding

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BP - 1909 - 1955. In May 1901, William Knox D'Arcy was granted a concession by the Shah of Persia to search for oil, which he found in May 1908. This was the first commercially significant find in the Middle East. In 1909, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company was created to exploit this find. The company grew slowly until World War I when its strategic importance led the British Government to acquire a controlling interest in the company and it became the Royal Navy's chief source o ...

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BP, BP - History, BP - 1909 - 1955, BP - 1960s and 1970s, BP - 1980s and 1990s, BP - Present, BP - Image

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Earle was born February 14, 1855 on a farm in Mount Holly, Vermont. He married Agnes Lincoln in 1874 and they had a son, Romeo Horatio Earle in 1878. Agnes died from tuberculosis later that year. Earle worked a series of jobs until becoming a traveling salesman for farm equipment at age 31. He married Anna Maria Keyes in 1882 and they had a son, George Lewis Earle the following year. At the end of 1888 the family moved to Detroit, Michigan and shortly thereafter Earle bega ...

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Horatio Earle, Horatio Earle - The Early Years, Horatio Earle - Road Advocacy Timeline 1898-1909, Horatio Earle - Later Years, Horatio Earle - Quotes from Earle's 1929 Autobiography

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He was a Choshu samurai's adopted son and gained samurai status for himself in 1863, but a visit to England in the same year convinced him of the necessity of modernising Japan by adopting Western ways. He was one of the Choshu Five who studied at University College London. In 1864 he returned to Japan with fellow student Inoue Kaoru to attempt to warn the Choshu clan against going to war with the foreigners over the right of passage through the Straits of Shimonoseki. At that time he met Ernest Satow ...

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Ito Hirobumi, Ito Hirobumi - Prime Minister of Japan, Ito Hirobumi - Early Years, Ito Hirobumi - After the Meiji Restoration, Ito Hirobumi - Korea 1906-1909, Ito Hirobumi - Other, Ito Hirobumi - Family

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However, in 1909, the United States provided political support to conservative-led forces rebelling against President Zelaya. U.S. motives included differences over the proposed Nicaragua Canal, Nicaragua's potential as a destabilizing influence in the region, and Zelaya's attempts to regulate foreign access to Nicaraguan natural resources. On November 18, 1909 U.S. warships were sent to the area after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) were executed by order of Zelaya. The U.S. justified the intervention by claiming the protectio ...

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History of Nicaragua, History of Nicaragua - Early history, History of Nicaragua - US involvement 1909 - 1933, History of Nicaragua - The Somozas 1936 - 1979, History of Nicaragua - Anastasio Somoza García's rule, History of Nicaragua - The younger Somozas, History of Nicaragua - American economic involvement, History of Nicaragua - Sandinista insurrection 1961 - 1979, History of Nicaragua - Sandinista period 1979 - 1990, History of Nicaragua - U.S. and Contras, History of Nicaragua - Post-Sandinista period

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