Decade - 1900s

The right of citizens to place a measure or issue before the voters or legislature for approval is known as "direct democracy" or the process of "ballot initiatives" and "referendums." This allows citizens to propose legislation or constitutional amendments and gather signatures to qualify their proposals for a vote. If enough support is garnered, the measure is then presented to the electorate or legislative body for approval. This mechanism empowers citizens to directly influence decision-making and policy outcomes in their government.

In 1900, the average wage in England varied significantly depending on the industry and occupation. Generally, skilled workers earned around £1 to £2 per week, while unskilled laborers made approximately 10 shillings to £1 per week. This period also saw stark differences in wages based on gender and region, with women typically earning less than men for similar work. Overall, the average wage reflected the economic conditions and social structures of the time.

Helen Keller did not go to her doctor every day. While she did require medical attention and support throughout her life due to her disabilities, regular visits to a doctor were not a daily occurrence. Instead, her healthcare was managed as needed, often in conjunction with her educational and personal development.

they hoped to bring about radical political change by organizing all workers

I never even heard of that hospital til yesterday. When I looked inside it looked really scary.

Influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, gastrointestinal infections, heart disease and cerebrovascular disease were the leading causes of death in the early 1900s. Heart disease, chronic airways disease, cerebrovascular disease and accidents are the most leading causes of death as of 2010.

Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds

1900's Man acted good and polite they respect their fiancee parent and they mostly start by talking to the parent first and they ask their fiancee parent if they could marry her.

I own a 1900 year masons sword from a massachusettes brother hood of the free masons

(For Apex Learning) Assimilation.

As far as I knew, on those days and all, there were severe and aggression training and education should have been undergone to become a lawyer.

Conscription has become a source of dread for many young Russian men and their families; an estimated 18,000 dodged military service in 2003, usually on health grounds. Given the current state of the Russian army, it's not hard to understand their lack of enthusiasm for the military.

In September 2003 a Ministry of Defence report revealed that some 1,200 military personnel had died in the previous year in non-combat situations. Year on year there are more deaths caused by accidents, negligence, bullying and suicide than by actual combat. Young conscripts are, of course, more likely to be the victims of bullying (that is beatings by other soldiers and officers) than anyone else.

Two months later, the Russian public was scandalised when a TV company showed pictures of conscripts who, rather than learning the arts of war, were working long shifts for no pay in a cardboard box factory. To make matters worse, they had in fact been hired out by their own commander, who was earning a dollar per day for each of them.

The most recent headlines came in January of this year. Fifty soldiers were hospitalised with severe respiratory illnesses after being forced to stand outside at a Siberian railway station without adequate clothing. One eighteen-year old boy died of pneumonia.

Amidst this picture of misery, a law came into effect on the 1 January allowing alternative civil service. A welcome development certainly, though it is unlikely to be of huge comfort to potential conscripts.

Firstly, applicants must make their case at least six months in advance of the call-up, often when they are seventeen years old.

Secondly, civilian service lasts 42 months -three and a half years- rather than the standard 24. The service is reduced to 36 months if it is carried out in a military establishment!

Finally, the jobs on offer to those who object to military service are resolutely harsh and unrewarding: cleaning in hospitals and retirement homes, working on farms in remote villages.

In any case, there can hardly be talk of an end to compulsory military service when a mere 216 people have been granted ACS, out of the total 166,050 called up.

Meanwhile, in Malaysia, military service has been introduced as of 2004. Service is only for three months, and roughly 20% of eighteen year olds -both boys and girls- are selected for the scheme by way of a lottery.

Although at games held in the US, other countries are still expected to dip their flag in mutual respect, America is the only country refusing to return the gesture. This originated from the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, where countries, as historically done, dipped their flag to the head of state in whose country they were guests: the team was dominated by anti-British Irish-Americans and started the tradition of not showing respect by dipping a flag whilst participating in international games abroad. For a full in depth explanation of the history of this 'tradition' see http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv7n3/JOHv7n3i.pdf

Americans rejected Wilson's ideals.

It's best to set this in context by comparison with modern transport.

If you were travelling more than a few miles or so in the 1900s, the railways offered the speediest, most reliable and most comfortable of the few options - and still do - but you still had to travel between home and station at each end of the journey. And still have!

For most people in the 1900s the only road options were cycle, horse (on its back or in a carriage) or on foot - unless you were rich enough to buy one of these new-fangled motor-cars. Travelling long distances by car then was neither fast, reliable nor very comfortable, and garages (filling-stations now-called) were rather few and far between. They are going that way again, in rural areas anyway.

The Edwardian railways were more difficult to operate in bad weather then they are now. Heavy snow obviously blocks the lines, and ice blocked point and signal mechanisms; but fog was the much more common obstacle. It made it very hard for the drivers to see the signals, forcing much reduced speeds hence long delays. Nowadays, although bad Winter weather can still play havoc with schedules, the High-Speed Trains on Britain's main-line network can still maintain 100+mph running even on foggy nights.

A problem peculiar to the early American railways was the timber trestle viaduct. They were relatively easy and cheap to build with plentiful local wood, but suffered badly from fires, flood damage or decay. (The early British railways did use timber viaducts in a few places, but these were replaced fairly quickly by the much more commonly-used brick, masonry or steel structures.)

Air travel is obviously now the fastest means of actually moving - about an hour to an hour-&-a-half for roughly 400 miles from Southern English airports to Glasgow or Edinburgh depending on aeroplane type; but a law of diminishing returns sets in with decreasing flight distance, thanks to the travelling to and from the widely-scattered airports, and the requirement to arrive at the airport at least an hour before take-off.

For most journeys now, as in the 1900s, rail often gives the fastest overall journey time for most journeys of much less than perhaps 400 miles by road, rail and now air; and despite considerable negative publicity from the Press; is probably the most reliable.

For international travel, and in many cases for long distances within continents, the only way available in the 1900s was by ship; but the steam-ship by then was well developed and certainly quicker, more reliable, more comfortable, healthier and safer than their all-sail predecessors.

in 1908 all the things price in paise, but now its in rupees..

Many dogs and other animals have been in the White House. FDR had a Scottie, Bush had two Scotties, LBJ had a pair basset hounds, Clinton's had a chocolate lab, Obama has a water dog. The Lincoln children had dogs as well as a pet goat. A dog is pictured with Grant and his 6 children.

The Aboriginal people did not stay in one place for long, so they never set up permanent shelters. Sometimes they slept on platforms they built. When it was cold, they sometimes built temporary shelters close to fires in order to stay warm.

Many people hold as a general principle that "the ends never justify the means." Those who hold this view would say that Stalin's ends did not justify his means.

There are people who believe that certain ends are so important that anything is justified if it furthers those ends. If they supported his goals and thought them important enough, they would say that his ends did justify his means. Others would disagree, either because they do not think his goals important enough or because they oppose his goals completely.

Vasco Núñez de Balboa the explorer was one in the 16th century. Panama was a Spanish colony and afterwards remained a part of Colombia until 1903 and then owed its independence largely to the USA supporting the movement to separate Panama from Colombia. Afterwards it was effectively ruled by a group of powerful commercial families, until a miltary coup led by Omar Torrijos Herrera ousted the then ruling president Arias. Omar Torrijos remained in power from 1968 as leader of the military junta until he died in a plane crash in 1981. Panama had no indigenous kings, only the kings of Spain during the colonial period. Of them, Philip II was the only historically 'important' king.

The suffragists were members of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and were lead by Millicent Garrett Fawcett during the height of the suffrage movement, 1890 – 1919. They campaigned for votes for middle-class, property-owning women and believed in peaceful protest.

United Kingdom: in the Third Anglo-Afghan War May 6, 1919 - August 8, 1919 as well as the current war in Afghanistan

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primarily engaged in the slaughtering (for their own account or on a contract basis for the trade) of cattle, hogs, sheep, lambs, and calves for meat to be sold or to be used on the same premises in canning, cooking, curing, freezing, and in making sausag