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	Non-explosion volcanic seismicity at Mount Erebus
		Volcanotectonic (VT) events represent shear slip on fractures within or beneath a volcanic edifice and they often accompany an anomalous influx, migration, or evacuation of material, and corresponding change in the deviatoric stress field, before, during or after eruption.
		Unlike the long-period (LP) events observed at other volcanoes, Erebus low-frequency events occurring in the vicinity of ABB and BOM exhibit a range of spectra across the network, from nearly monochromatic to rather broadband.
		In 1908, members of the Shackleton expedition reported fumarolic activity in the vicinity of Abbott Peak, as observed from some distance down the flanks of the volcano.
	www.ees.nmt.edu /Geop/mevo/seismic/otherevents.html (562 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1908
		Events and Trends Technology The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell.
		The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no...
		See also: 1907 in music, other events of 1908, 1909 in music and the list of years in music.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1908 (9150 words)

	1908 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).
		June 30 - The Tunguska impact event, also known as the "Russian explosion" occurs in Siberia.
		The Irish Universities Act, 1908 is passed and creates the National University of Ireland at Dublin and the Queen's University of Belfast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1908 (1908 words)

	Architecture
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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/architecture.html (5848 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Crusades
		The French from the south, under the leadership of Raymond of Saint-Gilles, Count of Toulouse, and of Adhemar of Monteil, Bishop of Puy and papal legate, began to fight their way through the longitudinal valleys of the Eastern Alps and, after bloody conflicts with the Slavonians, reached Constantinople at the end of April, 1097.
		At the news of these most extraordinary events, in which he had had no hand, Innocent III bowed as in submission to the designs of Providence and, in the interests of Christendom, determined to make the best of the new conquest.
		Persuaded that Christian defeat in the Orient was largely due to the mercantile relations which the Italian cities Venice and Genoa continued to hold with the Mohammedans, these authors sought the establishment of a commercial blockade which, within a few years, would prove the ruin of Egypt and cause it to fall under Christian control.
	newadvent.org /cathen/04543c.htm (11618 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rhodesia
		For some fourteen years the missionaries held their ground awaiting events and it was only through the conquest of the country by the company that free missionary work was rendered possible.
		Events seemed to justify his prognostications, for the mission, owing to fever and the hardships of travel, seemed to be losing more workers than it made converts.
		There are other stations of more recent date at Salisbury, Driefontein, Hama's Kraal, and Mzondo, near Victoria, all under the charge of the Jesuit Fathers.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13025a.htm (1320 words)

	Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life Chapter 4 -- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the years before 1908, the Olympic athletes entered as individuals not as members of a nation’s entry in the games.
		This is fine provided all other parameters impacting these numbers remain the same from Olympiad to Olympiad.
		Events are introduced and dropped in every Olympics.
	occawlonline.pearsoned.com /bookbind/pubbooks/bbt_awl/chapter4/essay1/deluxe-content.html (1369 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1908 Olympics were originally awarded to Rome, but were reassigned to London.
		The event that caught the public imagination around the world was the dramatic ending of the marathon.
		He won the running deer single-shot event and took his second gold the next day in the team event.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1908 (421 words)

	Chronology of the Middle East, 1908 to 1966
		Other prominent ex-Sharifians who later become PM include Ja‘far al-‘Askari (PM from Nov23-Aug24, Nov26-Jan28), Jamil al-Midfa‘i (much of period 1933-38; again in 1941 and 1953) and ‘Ali Jawdat al-Ayyubi (Aug34-Feb35; again in Dec49-Feb50 and in 1957).
		This however masks an ongoing process of centralisation and growing power for the army, which was using certain tribes to win political significance; other tribes who revolted were suppressed rapidly by the army.
		However, other tendencies in Bevin’s (Foreign Minister) White Paper, further restricting Jewish immigration and creating an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in Oct, comprising of 6 Brits and 6 Americans, mandated to interview all sides.
	middleeastreference.org.uk /Chronology.html (10204 words)

	American Experience \| The Rockefellers \| People & Events
		But in other respects, Nelson couldn't have been more different from the Rockefeller patriarch.
		Turning his back on the intense privacy that had shielded the family for generations, he took the Rockefellers in a bold new direction.
		Born on July 8, 1908 in Bar Harbor, Maine, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller soon showed signs of the irrepressible temperament that would be his trademark.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/rockefellers/peopleevents/p_rock_n.html (1086 words)

	Some historic events of the year 1908
		The year is 1908; a fiery serpent has scorched the Tungus, and a genie is seen sleeping in a vial.
		There were, however, other revelations being made in 1908 that drew people's attention far more than the beautiful glowing nights of early July which were all the outside world was to then know of the object that the Evenki call a visitation from Ogdy, their god of fire.
		It was curious to reflect, for example upon the remarkable legend of the philosopher's stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not seem to be able to trace to its source.
	abob.libs.uga.edu /bobk/1908.html (1682 words)

	Other Latin Events 2
		Some clubs or events may have closed, changed their venue, or may have Latin or salsa only on certain nights.
		EVENTS AND CLUBS IN Be sure to call these events and places before going to them.
		See any additional events outside of NYC on the Calendars at the top of the main Other Latin Events page.
	www.salsanewyork.com /other2.htm (5092 words)

	events
		She is the recipient of multiple Ohio Art Council Fellowships and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in addition to other honors.
		Whereas Mary focused on glazes, frequently using pots thrown by others, Buck was more attuned to working on the potter’s wheel and producing his own pots.
		In no event shall the AAPA be liable for any damages resulting from use of these links.
	www.amartpot.org /events.htm (2021 words)

	The American Experience \| Race for the Superbomb \| Edward Teller, (1908 - )
		The man who would one day be known as the father of the hydrogen bomb in the U.S. was born into a Jewish family on January 15, 1908 in Budapest, Hungary.
		Bethe remembers that "he declined to take charge of the group which would perform the detailed calculation on the implosion and since the theoretical division was very shorthanded it was necessary to bring in new scientists to do the work that Teller declined to do."
		When his initial concept for the bomb didn't appear to work, he insisted that the problem was caused by a shortage of theoreticians at Los Alamos and a lack of imagination.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX73.html (965 words)

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		Blessed with a gift for friendship, she was a vigorous champion of the art of photography, although too modest to style herself as anything other than a "photojournalist".
		In 1981 she was asked to take what, in France at least, is no doubt her best known if most anonymous work: the official presidential photograph of François Mitterrand which decorated French town halls and official buildings for nearly a decade and a half.
		Gisele Freund stopped taking photographs in the 1980s to devote herself to that other great passion expressed in the subjects and sensibility of her portraits: reading.
	www.temple.edu /photo/photographers/gisele/gisele.htm (1517 words)

	The Arts & Crafts Society - Events Calendar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A form is available if you would like to submit event information.
		The Second Annual Durango Arts and Crafts Conference and Market will be held at the historic Strater Hotel in downtown Durango, CO. Enjoy a full weekend of events including exhibits of Craftsman furnishings and accessories, tours and lectures led by renowned experts, a Tiffany Exhibit, and special evening events.
		The David B. Gamble House, constructed in 1908, is an internationally recognized masterpiece of the turn-of-the-century Arts and Crafts movement in America.
	www.arts-crafts.com /events/events.shtml (1265 words)

	History: Massachusetts 4-H
		The foundation of what was to become 4-H Club work in Massachusetts was laid during a six-month period in 1908.
		The trend of events between 1908 and 1916 gave 4-H work its general direction.
		By the late-1960s, the emerging pattern of state 4-H work included cooperation with other educational organizations, emphasis on new rural area programs utilizing non-traditional experimental activities, and greater use of the mass media as a tool to educate large numbers of young people.
	www.mass4h.org /about/history.html (619 words)

	1908 in sports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also: 1907 in sports, other events of 1908, 1909 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.
		First ISU Championships for Pairs Figure Skating held in St.
		1908 Summer Olympics takes place in London, United Kingdom
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1908_in_sports (206 words)

	M. M. Noah's Ararat: Blueprint for Mormon Zion: Part 2a
		My impression is, that I have seen in some other work that eleven thousand dollars was the consideration; and for the other small islands, Spafford states that the consideration was one thousand dollars and an annuity of five hundred dollars.
		Great numbers of raccoons, squirrels, and other small furry quadrupeds inhabited the woods, while myraids of ducks and other game-birds thronged the shores and waters in their proper season.
		In proper season, ducks and other game birds thronged the shores, and inland fields and woods, while the waters surrounding the island were the habitation of the finest muskellunge, yellow pike, sturgeon, fl bass, pickerel, mullet and smaller members of the finny tribe.
	olivercowdery.com /gathering/ararat2b.htm (15390 words)

	The History Place - Holocaust Timeline
		Louis, a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, the United States and other countries and returns to Europe.
		Foreign currency, gold, jewels and other valuables are sent to SS Headquarters of the Economic Administration.
		During his imprisonment, a (now repentant) Hans Frank states, "A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased." Frank and the others are hanged and the bodies are brought to Dachau and burned (the final use of the crematories there) with the ashes then scattered into a river.
	www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html (4366 words)

	1968: a timeline of events
		This brief document cannot hope to touch on all or even most of the important happenings in what was perhaps an uniquely "eventful" year, but focuses especially on events referred to in the text of the interviews.
		Benjamin Spock; William Sloan Coffin the chaplain of Yale University; novelist Mitchell Goodman; Michael Ferber, a graduate student at Harvard; and Marcus Raskin a peace activist are indicted on charges of conspiracy to encourage violations of the draft laws by a grand jury in Boston.
		The results of the popular vote are 31,770,000 for Nixon, 43.4 percent of the total; 31,270,000 or 42.7 percent for Humphrey; 9,906,000 or 13.5 percent for wallace; and 0.4 percent for other candidates.
	www.stg.brown.edu /projects/1968/reference/timeline.html (2597 words)

	1908 - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Years: 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 - 1908 - 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913
		June 30 - The Tunguska impact event occurs in Siberia.
		July 6 - Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic on the expedition on which he later makes his claim of reaching the North Pole.
	www.artpolitic.org /infopedia/19/1908.html (753 words)

	Galax, Virginia home of the Galax Fiddlers Convention
		The inaugural display, âHometown Stars,â was developed by the Blue Ridge Institute at Ferrum College and features posters, photos and other memorabilia associated with the many musicians and singers from southwest Virginia who recorded in the 1920s, 30s and early 40s.
		Other interpretive and conceptual programs are being planned to include âMountain Songs & Balladsâ, âPassing Traditionâ, featuring masters & students participating in apprenticeship programs, âFamily Traditionsâ, âAppalachian Fiddle & Danceâ, âVirginia Acappella Gospel Traditionsâ among others.
		Other events throughout the day include a parade, barbecue, games, country and bluegrass music and fireworks.
	www.ingalax.net /galax_city_virginia_events.aspx?Year=2005&Month=7 (2006 words)

	The Western Iowa Tourism Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Along with serving as an official welcome center for the states of Iowa and Nebraska, providing maps, brochures and travel assistance, the Sergeant Floyd River Museum and Welcome Center showcases a variety of permanent exhibits on historic riverboats, the Missouri River and Sioux City history.
		The Missouri River city where explorers Lewis and Clark left their mark is making a splash of its own with a revitalized downtown, a beautiful riverfront, and new attractions and events.
		Restored to reflect the era, the house where singer Andy Williams was born and lived until 8 years of age displays items donated by Andy and members of his fan club, along with other items of local historical interest.
	www.traveliowa.org /places.html (3605 words)

	National Building Museum: Lectures and Symposia
		James Carpenter expands the technical potential of glass and other materials to place light at the heart of architectural or sculptural design.
		The lecture series is intended to enliven dialogue in the United States about urban and regional growth and to stimulate development of communities of lasting value.
		This symposium, cosponsored with the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, will examine other cities’ experiences with a planning commission and suggest how such an independent body could help D.C. align the expenditure of public funds with planning visions and economic development objectives.
	www.nbm.org /Events/Calendar/Lectures_Symposia.html (1989 words)

	ipedia.com: 1908 in science Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The year 1908 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.
		See also: 1907 in science, other events of 1908, 1909 in science, and the list of years in science.
		A 40,000-year-old Neanderthal boy skeleton is found at Le Moustier in southwest France.
	www.ipedia.com /1908_in_science.html (218 words)

	William Saroyan - Armeniapedia.org
		William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 - May 18, 1981) was an American author who wrote many plays and short stories about growing up impoverished as the son of Armenian immigrants.
		In the title novella of The Assyrian and other stories (1950) and in The Laughing Matter (1953) Saroyan mixed allegorical elements within a realistic novel.
		Manuscripts of a number of his unperformed plays are now at Stanford University with his other papers.
	www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=William_Saroyan (1736 words)

	"Radio Days - Edward R. Murrow" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He was very bright and as drama was unfolding in the European stage, Murrow saw an opportunity for radio to bring events right into America's homes.
		Eventually, CBS came to realize that they had a good thing by having personal reports from their own reporters, who could offer as much an eyewitness view on the events unfolding as the others who appeared on the air.
		Murrow's reports and analysis along with those from the reporters he hired set the trend for broadcast journalism for many years to follow.
	www.otr.com /murrow.html (713 words)

	History of The Gamble House, by Greene and Greene \| Pasadena, California
		At the same time the Gambles were selecting their lot on Westmoreland Place, a house designed by the firm of Greene and Greene was being built for John Cole on the adjacent property.
		Perhaps meeting the architects at the construction site, and certainly impressed with the other Greene and Greene houses in the neighborhood, the Gambles met with the brothers and agreed on a commission.
		Drawings for the house were completed in February 1908, and ground was broken in March.
	www.gamblehouse.org /history (493 words)

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