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* 1914 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian ( b. 1840 )
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Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevelyan Huxley ( 1891 – 1914 ), who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression.
* 1845 – Ödön Lechner, Hungarian architect, designed the Museum of Applied Arts and the Church of St. Elisabeth ( d. 1914 )
* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
* 1995 – H. Adams Carter, American Alpine Club President, 10th Mountain Division trainer ( b. 1914 )
A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.
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For Raeder as for other naval officers, the defeat of 1918 was especially humiliating because under the charismatic leadership of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the Naval State Secretary from 1897-1917, the Navy had been promoted as the service which would give Germany the " world power status " that her leaders craved, and to that end, vast sums of money had been spent in the Anglo-German naval race before 1914.
* Austrian — Kubin, Alfred: From Different Planes ( 1922 ); Schiele, Egon: Pierrot ( Self-Portrait ) ( 1914 ).
Joyce Kilmer ( Born: Alfred Joyce Kilmer, 6 December 1886 – 30 July 1918 ) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled " Trees " ( 1913 ), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914.
It was first published in Alfred Kreymborg's little magazine The Glebe and was later published in 1914 by Alfred and Charles Boni in New York and by Harold Monro at the Poetry Bookshop in London.
Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ), Rudolf Steiner ( 1861 – 1925 ), Alfred Adler ( 1879 – 1937 ), Erich Adickes ( 1866 – 1925 ), Eduard Spranger ( 1914 ), Ernst Kretschmer ( 1920 ), and Erich Fromm ( 1947 ) all theorized on the four temperaments ( with different names ) and greatly shaped our modern theories of temperament.
While Esmarch and Jessen had asserted as early as 1857 that syphilis caused general paresis, progress toward the general acceptance by the medical community of this idea was only accomplished later by the eminent nineteenth-century syphilographer Alfred Fournier ( 1832 – 1914 ).
In 1914, Alfred Fabian Hess theorised that rubella was caused by a virus, based on work with monkeys.
Alfred Hellmuth Andersch ( 4 February 1914 – 21 February 1980 ) was a German writer, publisher, and radio editor.
Alfred Thayer Mahan ( September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914 ) was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called " the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century.
It was founded by Alfred Harmsworth, who sold it to his brother Harold Harmsworth ( from 1914 Lord Rothermere ) in 1913.
Alfred Harmsworth sold the newspaper to his brother Harold Harmsworth ( from 1914 Lord Rothermere ) in 1913.
It was constructed in 1914 and 1915 at a cost of $ 13, 000, a gift of early BBG benefactor and trustee Alfred T. White, and it first opened to the public in June 1915.
George Alfred Brown, Baron George-Brown, PC ( 2 September 1914 – 2 June 1985 ) was a British Labour politician, who served as the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970, and served in a number of positions in the Cabinet, most notably as Foreign Secretary, in the Labour Government of the 1960s.
To meet these needs, the IRE established professional journals ( most notably the Proceedings of the IRE, established 1913 and edited for 41 years by Alfred N. Goldsmith ); participated actively in all aspects of standardization and regulations of the frequency spectrum, modulation techniques, testing methods, and radio equipment ; and organized regional and professional groups ( starting in 1914 and 1948, respectively ) for cooperation and exchange between members.
After Godley departed with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in October 1914, Major General Alfred William Robin commanded the New Zealand Military Forces at home throughout the War as commandant, and was pivotal in ensuring the on-going provision of reinforcements and support to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
( 1914 – 1918 ) G. Frederick Barnes, William Barnett, Arthur Brackley, William C. Collins, George F. Craddock, Trevor Durrant, Robert G. Fuller, Albert Giles, William Giles, Alan F. M. Grant, David Millard, Archibald Muir, Maurice Simmonds, W. Kenneth Sinclair, Robin R. Skene, Ernest Tickner, Jack Tickner, Herbert W. Walls, Ernest A. Whapshot, Sidney Wright, Alfred Wye.
Alfred and Margaret had two children: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II ( 1912 – 1999 ), businessman and racehorse breeder, and George Washington Vanderbilt III ( 1914 – 1961 ), yachtsman and a scientific explorer.
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