* International Year Book: 1907 ( 1908 ) 1002pp, worldwide coverage online edition

A fantastical Parrish illustration titled Cadmus | Cadmus Sowing the Dragon's Teeth, which appeared in Collier's in 1908 and A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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Gwenogvryn Evans produced a facsimile copy of the Book of Aneirin in 1908 and an edition with a translation in 1922.

In 1908, Sears issued its first specialty catalog for houses, Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans, featuring 22 styles ranging in price from US $ 650 –$ 2, 500 ($ 15, 388 –$ 59, 187 in 2008 dollars ).

* Tales of Laughter: A Third Fairy Book ( 1908 )

* Year Book Australia 1908

* La Course de printemps op. 95 ( 1908 – 25 ) ( Jungle Book Cycle )

* Japanese Fairy Tales ( 1908 ), aka The Japanese Fairy Book

About a quarter of Hardy's poems carry an appended date line, usually the year of completion, but sometimes inclusive years ( `` 1908 - 1910 '' ) or two separate dates when Hardy worked on the poem ( `` 1905 and 1926 '' ) or an approximate date ( `` During the War '' ).

The Aberdare Athletic Ground was the venue of the first rugby league international between Wales and the New Zealand All Golds on New Year's Day 1908, which was won by the Welsh 9-8.

However, in 1908 with the Scottish and Irish unions refusing to be involved, the Anglo-Welsh side only sported red jerseys with a thick white band on their jerseys on tour to Australia and New Zealand.

The Red Sox logo worn on uniforms in 1908, announcing the team's first official nicknameIn, the upstart American League established a competing club in Boston.

Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena, Calif, 1908, on its original campus at downtown Pasadena.

Some sort of continental drift without expansion was proposed by Frank Bursley Taylor, who suggested in 1908 ( published in 1910 ) that the continents were dragged towards the equator by increased lunar gravity during the Cretaceous, thus forming the Himalayas and Alps on the southern faces.

* General lectures on electrical engineering, edited by Joseph Le Roy Hayden, Robson & Adee, 1908.

In an article in the Columbia Law Review in 1908, Roscoe Pound of the University of Chicago mounted a vigorous attack on " mechanical jurisprudence ," the judicial practice of " rigorous logical deduction from predetermined conceptions in disregard of ... the actual facts.

He was made captain of the battleship HMS Queen on 15 December 1908 until replaced 4 January 1910.

The Detroit River became the busiest commercial river in the world and was dubbed " the Greatest Commercial Artery on Earth " by The Detroit News in 1908.

Sapir's work on Takelma became his doctoral dissertation which he defended in 1908.

Following the decisive Ethiopian victory at Adwa, Menelik II rapidly negotiated a series of treaties fixing Ethiopia's boundaries — with French Somaliland in March 1897, British Somaliland a few months later in June 1897, with Italian Eritrea in 1900, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1902, British East Africa in 1907, and Italian Somaliland in 1908 — which simplified this problem on one level.

* The boundary between these two countries is based on three treaties between Ethiopia and Italy, in 1900, 1902, and 1908.

The Epimenides paradox appears explicitly in " Mathematical Logic as Based on the Theory of Types ", by Bertrand Russell, in the American Journal of Mathematics, volume 30, number 3 ( July, 1908 ), pages 222 – 262, which opens with the following:

They joined FIFA in 1906 and played their first ever games against countries other than the Home Nations on a tour of Central Europe in 1908.

In May 1908, Roosevelt sponsored the Conference of Governors held in the White House, with a focus on natural resources and their most efficient use.

It was first shown in Melbourne, Australia on 26 December 1906 and in the UK in January 1908.

* 1904 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.

Sorel promoted the legitimacy of political violence in his work Reflections on Violence ( 1908 ) and other works in which he advocated radical syndicalist action to achieve a revolution to overthrow capitalism and the bourgeoisie through a general strike.

Writing the book The Presidential Succession in 1910 ( 1908 ), he called on voters to prevent the sixth re-election of Porfirio Díaz, which he considered anti-democratic.

The more severe program of Russification, called " the second period of oppression 1908 – 1917 " by the Finns, was halted on 15 March 1917 by the removal of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II.

* 1908 5 August – The British Ambassador in Madrid informed the Spanish Minister of State ' as an act of courtesy ', of the British Government's intention to build a fence along the line of British sentries on the isthmus to prevent smuggling and reduce sentry duty.

He became an assistant professor in 1907, associate professor on 1908, and full professor in 1911.

In 1908 he published the first of several papers on relativity, in which he derived the mass-energy relationship in a different way from Albert Einstein's derivation .< ref >

The National Association of Realtors was founded on May 13, 1908 as the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges, the founding group being located in Chicago, Illinois.

Officially founded in 1908 ( records show earlier denominations, as 1903's Foot Ball Club de Murcia and 1906's Murcia Football Club ), Real Murcia was named as such, in 1923 – 24, by king Alfonso XIII.

* 1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.

Although Wrigley Field has been the home of the Cubs since 1916, it has yet to see the Cubs win a World Series, even though it has hosted several ( 1929, 1932, 1935, 1938, and 1945, the last time the Cubs appeared in a World Series ), the last World Series win by the Cubs ( 1908 ) happened while the Cubs called West Side Park home.

A " Father's Day " service was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia, in the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church.

West Second Street, 1908

A cotton planter and his laborers in West Point, Mississippi, 1908

In 1908, the people of the West Long Branch section of Eatontown became unhappy with paying taxes to Eatontown and not getting what they thought was a fair return.

On May 5, 1908, the referendum was held in West Long Branch, with voters approving the separation.

Portions of the township were taken to form West Long Branch ( April 7, 1908 ) and Oceanport ( April 6, 1920 ).

Long Lake West was the site of a fire that destroyed most of the town in 1908.

Stewart, 1821 – 1908, was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., and served throughout the American Civil War as a commanding officer in the Confederate States ' Army of Tennessee.

Like West Somerton, Martham Mill was also built by Dan England, but consists of four storeys and was completed in 1908.

West JP ( 1906 – 1908 )

* 1908: Charles Henry Allan Bennett a British national previously ordained as a Theravada monk as Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya in Burma leads the First Buddhist Mission to the West.

Robert LeRoy Parker ( April 13, 1866 – November 6, 1908 ), better known as Butch Cassidy, was a notorious American train robber, bank robber, and leader of the Wild Bunch Gang in the American Old West.

Huddersfield Town Football Club ( or ) is an English football club formed in 1908 and based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

* Leeds Road ; Huddersfield, West Yorkshire ( 1908 – 1994 )

* William West Jones ( 1838 – 1908 ), second Bishop and first Archbishop of Cape Town

Image: Main Street, Looking West, Littleton, NH. jpg | Main Street in 1908

* 1897 to 1908 -- The Wright Cycle Co. at 1127 West Third Street.

A Naturalist's Impressions in West Cornwall ( 1908 )

* R. Granville, The King's General in the West ( 1908 ).

He later won an appointment to West Point ( class of 1908 ) from President Theodore Roosevelt.

* Gibraltar Hole, the 10th hole of the Golf Course in Moortown, West Yorkshire, UK built in 1908

The completion of the Tidal Basin Inlet Bridge in 1908 helped to facilitate the recreational usage of East and West Potomac Parks.