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1905
As the second year of the massive
Russo-Japanese War
began, more than 100,000 died in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos lead to a
revolution
against the
Tsar
. (
Shostakovich
's
11th Symphony
is subtitled "The Year 1905" to commemorate this.) Canada and the U.S. expanded west, with the
Alberta
and
Saskatchewan
provinces and the founding of
Las Vegas
. 1905 is also the
annus mirabilis
of
Albert Einstein
, who published papers which lay the foundations for
quantum physics
, introduced the
special theory of relativity
, explained
Brownian motion
, and established
mass–energy equivalence
.
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