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Encyclopedia4U - 1900 - Encyclopedia Article (1108 words) |
 | November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1900: Republican incumbent William McKinley is reelected by defeating Democrat challenger William Jennings Bryan. |
| 1900 released in 1976 followed two men from different classes in Italy from 1900 to 1945. |
| 1900 is not a leap year even though the number is divisible by 4. |
| 34. A Law of Acceleration (1904). Adams, Henry. 1918. The Education of Henry Adams (2546 words) |
| Science has quite enough trouble in measuring its material motions without volunteering help to the historian, but the historian needs not much help to measure some kinds of social movement; and especially in the nineteenth century, society by common accord agreed in measuring its progress by the coal-output. |
| Loosely guessing that science controls habitually the whole range from absolute zero to 3000° Centigrade, one might assume, for convenience, that the ten-year ratio for volume could be used temporarily for intensity; and still there remained a ratio to be guessed for other forces than heat. |
| With the correctness of their science, history had no right to meddle, since their science now lay in a plane where scarcely one or two hundred minds in the world could follow its mathematical processes; but bombs educate vigorously, and even wireless telegraphy or airships might require the reconstruction of society. |
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