Quotes About 1898

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.

In January 1898 Zola took an important part in the defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew unjustly accused of selling military secrets to Germany.

The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 1898, and Roosevelt became a Texas folk hero overnight.

The masthead said The Colonial Services Gazette, in beautiful Gothic characters. Beside the name was a dateline: 'Calcutta, the twelfth of January, 1898'.

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.

But in that novel he would memorialize this moment—Paris in 1898—where two cultures edged up against each other in darkness. He would set that novel in this époque, in the days when France was torn apart over the fate of a Jewish officer named Alfred Dreyfus and over the courage of an elderly writer to speak truth to power.

By 1898, Russia overtook the United States to become the world's biggest petroleum producer.

invented Pepsi-Cola in New Bern, North Carolina. He called it Brad's Drink at first and changed it to Pepsi-Cola in 1898. Why? Because "dyspepsia" means indigestion, and Pepsi was supposed to calm the stomach.

The roots of the tangled relationship between Filipinos and Americans dated back nearly fifty years, to 1898 and the Treaty of Paris, which marked the end of the Spanish-American War. The treaty gave the United States control over the Philippines, much to the chagrin of the Filipino people, who ached for independence after three centuries under Spanish rule.