E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

* Robert E. Cox ( 1917 – 1989 ) who conducted the " Gleanings for ATMs " column in Sky and Telescope magazine for 21 years.

* 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany ( see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress ).

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – Leonora Carrington, British surrealist painter ( d. 2011 )

* 1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.

* 1917 – Helen Forrest, American singer ( d. 1999 )

* 1877 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player ( d. 1986 )

* 1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.

* 1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor ( d. 1997 )

Category: Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( 1917 – 1925 )

* 1917 – Sid Gordon, American baseball player ( d. 1975 )

* 1917 – Scott Joplin, American musician and composer ( b. 1868 )

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

* 1917 – Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader ( d. 1995 )

* 1917 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician ( b. 1849 )

Bloch was highly interdisciplinary, influenced by the geography of Paul Vidal de la Blache ( 1845 – 1918 ) and the sociology of Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ).

* 1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer ( d. 1917 )

* 1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch spy ( d. 1917 )

( Ten American Girls from History 1917 )

But it was mostly his international critical renown which enabled Eisenstein to direct October ( aka Ten Days That Shook The World ) as part of a grand tenth anniversary celebration of the October Revolution of 1917, and then The General Line ( aka Old and New ).

The international critical renown that Eisenstein garnered from this film enabled the Russian filmmaker to direct October ( aka Ten Days That Shook The World ) as part of a grand tenth anniversary celebration of the October Revolution of 1917, and then The General Line ( aka Old and New ).

Eastman raised the money to send the radical John Reed to Russia in 1917, and Eastman's journal published Reed's articles later collected as Ten Days That Shook the World, his notable account of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Ten days later, he was killed in action, at Cambrai, France, on 30 November 1917.

Her many successes include A Successful Calamity ( 1917 ), A Little Journey ( 1918 ), Spring Cleaning ( 1923 ), The Distaff Side ( 1934 ), The Importance of Being Earnest ( which she also directed, 1939 ), When We Are Married ( 1939 ), Ladies in Retirement ( 1940 ), The Pirate ( 1942 ), Ten Little Indians ( 1944 ), Lady Windermere's Fan ( 1947 ), and The Madwoman of Chaillot ( 1948 ).

* Big Ten Champions: 1915, 1917, 1924, 1935, 1937, 1942-1943, 1949, 1951-1952, 1963, 1984, 1998, 2001-2002, and 2004-2005

* Big Ten Champions: 1914, 1917, 1922, 1924, 1926-1928, 1932, 1946, and 1997-2005

* Big Ten Champions: 1913, 1917, 1920-1922, 1924-1928, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1946-1947, 1952, and 2005

There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917.

With the revision of the Code of Canon Law promulgated in 1917 by Pope Benedict XV, only those who are already priests or bishops may be appointed cardinals.

In mathematical logic, there are two quantifiers, " some " and " all ", though as Brentano ( 1838 – 1917 ) pointed out, we can make do with just one quantifier and negation.

An early example is in Maurice Tourneur's The Pride of the Clan ( 1917 ), in which there is a series of shots of waves beating on a rocky shore which are shown when the locale of the story, which is about the harsh lives of fisher folk, is being introduced.

* 1917 – World War I: Battle of Messines – Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge are detonated, killing 10, 000 German troops.

* 1917 – Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.

A prolific writer, Remey wrote numerous published and personal articles promoting the Bahá ' í Faith, including ` Abdu ' l-Bahá – The Center of the Covenant and the five volume A Comprehensive History of the Bahá ' í Movement ( 1927 ), The Bahá ' í Revelation and Reconstruction ( 1919 ), Constructive Principles of The Bahá ' í Movement ( 1917 ), and The Bahá ' í Movement: A Series of Nineteen Papers ( 1912 ) are a few of the titles of the many works Remey produced while ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was still alive.

* 1917 – October Revolution: In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anvelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government ( As Estonia and Russia are still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date ).

* 1917 – World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins – British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.

These shoes, first sold in 1917, are double-layer canvas shoes with rubber soles and toe caps, and a high heel ( known as a " high top ") for added support.

There are various theories and critiques of state capitalism, some of which have existed since the 1917 October Revolution or even before.

Main Building, built in 1854, and Dalton Hall, built between 1917 and 1919, are on the registry of Historic Places of Canada.

* May 21 – Over 300 acres ( 73 blocks ) are destroyed in the Great Atlanta fire of 1917.

Titanic causes the deaths of nearly 1, 500 people and attracts global and historical attention ; Title bar: All the events below are part of World War I ; French Army lookout at his observation post in 1917 ; Russian troops awaiting a German attack ; A ration party of the Royal Irish Rifles in a communication trench during the Battle of the Somme ; Vladimir Lenin addresses a crowd in the midst of the October Revolution of 1917 ; A flu pandemic in 1918 kills tens of millions worldwide .| 420px | thumb

The attack on Aqaba ( one of the more stirring and memorable scenes in the film with a spectacular pan shot of dust rising up from behind the charging Arabs while Turkish cannons are aimed harmlessly out to sea ) was reconstructed in a dried river bed in southern Spain ; it consisted of over 300 buildings and was meticulously based on the town's appearance in 1917.

In the case of the United Kingdom only casualties before 16 August 1917 are commemorated on the memorial.

Reunited as professionals, the two find their passion rekindled as they are swept up in the fall of Russia's Czarist regime and the events of the 1917 Revolution.

" The Rosary and the Scapular are inseparable " were words attributed to the Virgin Mary by Lucia Santos, one of the three children who reported the Marian apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima in 1917 and later the Pontevedra apparitions in 1925, Fátima, Portugal and Pontevedra in Galicia, Spain.

On 30 November 1917, King George V issued Letters Patent defining who are members of the Royal Family ; the text of the notice from the London Gazette is as follows:

Use of the style His Royal Highness or Her Royal Highness ( HRH ) and the titular dignity of Prince or Princess are governed by letters patent issued by George V on 30 November 1917 and published in the London Gazette on 11 December 1917.

Structures built after 1917 are considered non-contributing.