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Significant Books and Music of the Century, Year by Year
1903 was the year that the Wright brothers made their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; Pierre and Marie Curie were awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for discovering radioactivity; and Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company.


Significant Book of 1903:
Jack London's The Call of the Wild

BOOK A classic story of survival, THE CALL OF THE WILD is the gripping story of Buck, a heroic dog thrust into the brutal world of the Alaskan Gold Rush. This book is widely regarded as London's masterpiece.

  Significant Music of 1903:
 Edward Elgar's The Apostles

BOOK English composer Edward Elgar's oratorio THE APOSTLES had its premiere in Birmingham, England; the work is a dramatic, richly romantic setting of a biblical text.




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