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-	[[Image:Trente-six vues de la tour Eiffel - Planche 3, Le tour en construction, vue du Trocadéro.jpg|thumb|left|200px|One of the ''[[Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower]]'' (1902) by Henri Rivière]]	+	#REDIRECT [[1900s]]
-	[[Image:Le Voyage dans la lune.jpg|200px|thumb|right|''[[A Trip to the Moon]]'' ([[1902]]) [[Georges Méliès]]]]	+
-	[[Image:The Big Swallow.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Extreme [[close-up]] from the movie "[[The Big Swallow]]" ([[1901]]), produced and directed by [[James Williamson]] (1855-1933)]]	+
-	[[Image:Danae.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Danaë]]'' ([[1907]]-[[1908|08]]) - [[Gustav Klimt]]]][[Image:Eugene Atget.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Rue de la Colonie'' ([[1900]]) - [[Eugène Atget]]]]	+
-	[[Image:Great Train Robbery still, public domain film.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Great Train Robbery]]'' ([[1903]]) [[western film]]]]	+
-	[[Image:Chimpanzee Typing (1907) - New York Zoological Society.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Chimpanzee Typing]]'' (1907) - New York Zoological Society]]	+
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-	! style="text-align:right; width:310px;"|<< [[1890s]]	+
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-	This article is about the [[decade]] starting in 1900 and ending in 1909. "The aughts" (aught-aught through aught-nine) was one of the more popular terms for this decade at the time. For historiographical reasons, it is generally lumped in with the years leading to [[WWI]].	+
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-	==Events and trends==	+
-	===Technology===	+
-	* [[Lawrence Hargrave]] makes the first stable wing design for a heavier-than-air [[aircraft]]	+
-	* Mass production of the [[automobile]]	+
-	* Wide popularity of home [[phonograph]]	+
-	* [[Panama Canal]] is built by the [[United States]]	+
-	* The [[Photostat machine]] begins modern era of document imaging	+
-	* [[Wright Brothers]] fly at Kitty Hawk, NC.	+
-	===Science===	+
-	* [[Planck's law of black body radiation]]	+
-	* [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]]'s theory of [[special relativity]]	+
-	* Einstein explains [[Brownian motion]] and the [[photoelectric effect]]	+
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-	===Literature and art===	+
-	* [[Pablo Picasso]] paints [[Les Demoiselles d'Avignon]], considered by some to be the birth of modern art.	+
-	* [[Joseph Conrad]] publishes [[Heart of Darkness]]	+
-	* [[Thomas Mann]] publishes [[Buddenbrooks]]	+
-	* [[Cubism]]	+
-	* [[Fauvism]]	+
-	* [[Joseph Conrad]] publishes the novella [[Heart of Darkness]] in 1902, after the serial release in 1898	+
-	* [[Joseph Conrad]] publishes [[The Secret Agent]] in 1907	+
-	* [[Jack London]] publishes [[The Call of the Wild]] in 1903	+
-	*[[Abduction of Europe (Félix Vallotton)]]	+
-	* "[[Ornament and Crime]]" (1908) by Adolf Loos	+
-	* ''[[L'Art profane à l'église]]'' (1908) by Gustave-Joseph Witkowski	+
-	* ''[[The Intermediate Sex]]'' (1908) by Edward Carpenter	+
-	* ''[[Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance]]'' (1908) by Julius von Schlosser	+
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-	===War, peace and politics===	+
-	* The [[New Imperialism]]	+
-	* Demand for Home Rule for [[Ireland]]	+
-	* [[Second Boer War]] ends	+
-	* American proclamation of the end of the [[Philippine-American War]]	+
-	* British colonies in Australia [[Australian Federation|federate]], forming the [[Commonwealth of Australia]]	+
-	* [[Russo-Japanese War]] establishes the [[Empire of Japan]] as a world power	+
-	* The [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]] and the [[French Third Republic]] sign [[Entente Cordiale]]	+
-	* The [[Russian Revolution of 1905]].	+
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-	==People==	+
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-	* President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] ([[United States]]), 1901-1909	+
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-	===Important personalities===	+
-	*[[Fatty Arbuckle]]	+
-	*[[Béla Bartók]]	+
-	*[[Ferruccio Busoni]]	+
-	*[[Enrico Caruso]]	+
-	*[[Claude Debussy]]	+
-	*[[Antonín Dvořák]]	+
-	*[[Edward Elgar]]	+
-	*[[Sigmund Freud]]	+
-	*[[Percy Grainger]]	+
-	*[[D. W. Griffith]]	+
-	*[[Harry Houdini]]	+
-	*[[Scott Joplin]]	+
-	*[[Rudyard Kipling]]	+
-	*[[Leadbelly]]	+
-	*[[Gustav Mahler]]	+
-	*[[Jules Massenet]]	+
-	*[[Georges Méliès]]	+
-	*[[Charles Pathé]]	+
-	*[[Edwin S. Porter]]	+
-	*[[Giacomo Puccini]]	+
-	*[[Sergei Rachmaninoff]]	+
-	*[[Maurice Ravel]]	+
-	*[[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]]	+
-	*[[Arnold Schoenberg]]	+
-	*[[Alexander Scriabin]]	+
-	*[[Edgard Varèse]]	+
-	*[[Anton Webern]]	+
-	*[[Israel Zangwill]]	+
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