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in 1903
Tasmanian Aboriginal woman Fanny Cochrane Smith makes the only surviving record of her language on wax cylinder
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in Poland
Polish art critic and art collector Feliks "Manggha" Jasie?ski 1861-1929 wearing a helmet and kimono Krakow or 1904 889x1000
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in London
playing cello Queens College between -1905 Check out for more: tco WhHQR3H8aD tco 0ULzZIZigh
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in US
was founded in by She was first African-American woman to establish and serve as president of a bank She said: Let us put our money together; let us use our See more images here: tco Di68c8LJXh tco iUIiIiydsk
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in US
was founded in by She was first African-American woman to establish and serve as president of a bank She said: Let us put our money together; let us use our money; More pictures: tco Di68c8LJXh tco tJUnRYhxZh
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Maskelyne was a British magician and inventor who in would publicly hack into ’s radios to leave insulting messages to the public making him perhaps the first troll to use mass communication
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in Austria
Russian Tsar and Emperor Franz Joseph I in hunting trip together somewhere in 1200 x 700
in 1903
in North Carolina
Taday in The Wright Brothers make the first sustained motorized aircraft flight at : AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
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in New York
Madame Grs Alix Barton French 1993 Evening dress ca 1965 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Gift of Mrs 1994 199419212 See more photos: tco K7uH9OBOMa tco TMewSDJuxF
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in Tarentum
view of in PA in operation from a series of stereoscopic photos linked in comments 3281×3341
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in Greece
The sisters Princess Olga of and Denmark 1997; later Princess Olga of Yugoslavia of and Denmark 19041955; later Countess of Toerring-Jettenbach and Princess Marina of and Denmark See more pictures: tco fnCkdMzSEN tco 6Ro1dpGid0
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in the South Pole
Roald Amundsen: The explorer who reached the South Pole and North Pole first Ca
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in Phoenix Park
C S Rolls of fame races against J E Hutton for 50 Guinea Cup Dublin in See more pics: tco bA1vgkZrAS tco 10qMxV0Hwc
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in Bucharest
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in Britain
Amy English aviator -1941 One of first women to gain a pilots licence won fame when she flew solo from to Australia in 1930 Her dangerous flight took 17 days Later she flew solo to India and J More photos here: tco JBtFP1DwiO tco tZdkidbxtO
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June 22 -John Dillinger American gangster most notorious bank robber is born See more pictures: tco kF8FDWBwRI tco fdQ8xhzehi
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in France
The airship built by s Lebaudy brothers glided past Eiffel Tower in Paris at 11:15 am on November 20 The name The Yellow came from a coat of yellow lead chromate that was used See more images here: tco uAEkuKSJD7 tco 1JYMFOVIkO
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and successfully accomplished the worlds first powered flight 120 years ago today on December 17th
in 1903
Hand-tinted photograph of Alice Roosevelt, taken 1903. A striking beauty, her outspokenness and antics won the hearts of the America people who nicknamed her "Princess Alice" Source Library of Congress/ LC-USZC4-6245, Public Domain
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Roosevelt family in 1903 with Quentin on the left, TR, Ted, Archie, Alice, Kermit, Edith, and Ethel.
in 1903
"Considering the question as one of principle, it is evident that much depends on one?s political theory. If we believe that government has no jurisdiction over men unless they have consented to it, and that every man is entitled to equal civil and political rights, regardless of his fitness for them, then it follows that to deprive any man of the suffrage for any cause, or any people of self-government for any cause, is a departure from democratic principles . . . . If on the other hand, it is b"
in 1903
"In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.?[Progressive]"
in 1903
"The exigencies of modern industrial and urban life have forced the state to intervene at so many points where an immediate individual interest is difficult to show, that the old doctrine has been given up for the theory that the state acts for the general welfare. It is not admitted that there are no limits of the action of the state, but on the other hand it is fully conceded that there are no natural rights which bar the way. The question is now one of expediency rather than principle.?[Progre"
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"The present tendency, then, in American political theory is to disregard the once dominant ideas of natural rights and the social contract, although it must be admitted that the political scientists are more agreed upon this point than is the general public.?[Progressive]"
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"[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain individuals or races.?[Progressive]"
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"[N]ot only are men created unequal?but this very inequality must be regarded as one of the essential conditions of human progress . . . . This fundamental fact that individuals or races are unequal is not an argument against, but rather in favor of, social and political advancement.?[Progressive]"
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"[F]rom the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political capacity enough to use it, and they were also right in maintaining that two greatly unequal races cannot exist side by side on terms of perfect equality.[Progressive]"
in 1903
"[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of the function of the state. The theory that the state originates in an agreement between men was assailed by the German thinkers and the historical, organic, evolutionary idea substituted for it.?[Progressive]"
in 1903
The Williamsburg (East River) Bridge under construction as viewed southeastward from the Manhattan shore.
![Picture of Apostle Bartholomew in 1903 Credi, Louvre, 715. [Study for a St. Bartholomew, painted for Orsammichele [sic].]](http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1582692&t=w)
![Picture of David, King of Israel in 1903 Fra Angelico, British museum, 162. [The youthful David with a crown on his curly head, sitting on a settle, singing and playing on the psaltery.]](http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1582663&t=w)
in 1903
Fra Angelico, British museum, 162. [The youthful David with a crown on his curly head, sitting on a settle, singing and playing on the psaltery.]
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