In 1917 Alfred Loomis and Landon K. Thorne, the wealthy husband of Loomis's sister Julia, purchased of Hilton Head Island, which they established as a private preserve for riding, boating, fishing, and hunting.

The genealogical collection, originally housed in the Julia Ideson Building in Downtown Houston, moved to the William Clayton Home, a Georgian-style house built in 1917, in the Museum District in 1968.

In 1917, Laura won a Pulitzer Prize for Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, a biography, which she co-authored with her sister, Maud Howe Elliott.

* 1917 – Robert Ward, American composer

* Ward Lambert-Purdue University's basketball coach from 1916 – 1917, 1918 – 1946, brother of Eleanor Lambert

Robert Ward ( born September 13, 1917 ) is an American composer.

Lesser known projects by Pope's firm include Union Station, Richmond, Virginia ( 1917 ), with a central rotunda capped with a low saucer dome, now housing the Science Museum of Virginia ; Branch House ( 1917 – 1919 ), a Tudor-style mansion in Richmond, now housing the Virginia Center for Architecture ; the Baltimore Museum of Art ; and in Washington, D. C., the National City Christian Church, Constitution Hall, American Pharmacists Association Building, Ward Homestead, and the National Archives Building ( illustration, left ).

In 1917 he was president of the Association of Young Republicans of Missouri ; in 1918-1920 as a member of the executive committee of the Republican State Committee of Missouri ; and in 1919 as president of the 28th Ward Republican Club of St. Louis .< ref >

From 1904 to 1908, he was a member of the board of commissioners of Cook County, Illinois, and he then served on the Chicago City Council from 1915 to 1917 as alderman of the 2nd Ward, Chicago ’ s first black alderman.

* John Stanton Ward ( 1917 – 2007 ), English painter

Ward served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1915 to 1917, and as chair of the Democratic state central committee of Wicomico County from 1918 to 1926.

In 1917, Ward showed that owing to the lack of the distinct anterior cone and the fact that vitellaria are confined to the region ventral to the intestinal branches, he established a new genus Fascioloides and rename it to Fascioloides magna ( Bassi 1875 ) Ward 1917.

Before Hawks was called for active duty, he took the opportunity to go back to Hollywood and by the end of April 1917 was working on Cecil B. DeMille's The Little American, where he met and befriended the then eighteen-year-old slate boy James Wong Howe.

From 1913 to 1917 Early was the Associated Press correspondent covering the Navy Department, during which time his acquaintance with Roosevelt and Louis Howe grew.

* Howe, a proposed Admiral-class battlecruiser, was laid down in 1916 and cancelled in 1917.

He was the first player in NHL history to achieve what was later called a " Gordie Howe hat trick ", doing so on December 26, 1917.

In 1917, Fort Anne was acquired by the Dominion Parks Branch, the predecessor organization to Parks Canada, and was designated as Canada's second " National Historic Park " ( Fort Howe in Saint John, New Brunswick was the first ).

The first of these involved the replacement of the Tsar by a liberal Provisional Government in March, 1917 ; ;

After the Revolution of 1917, views expressed by anthropologists in the USSR, and later the Soviet Bloc countries, were highly shaped by the requirement to conform to Marxist theories of social evolution.

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

Carnegie was honored for his philanthropy and support of the arts by initiation as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity on October 14, 1917, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

* Edition of the Gesta by Bernhard Schmeidler, Digitale Bibliothek der Monumenta Germaniae Historica 1917, including current edition of the Latin text

To the east of Batalha is the world famous location of Fátima and a point of pilgrimage for the Roman Catholic religion due to the vision of the Virgin Mary in 1917 by three young children whilst tending their flock.

In 1899, the memorial, by the Berlin sculptor Ernst Gustav Herter ( 1846 – 1917 ), finally came to rest, although subject to repeated vandalism, in the Bronx, at 164th Street and the Grand Concourse, or Joyce Kilmer Park near today's Yankee Stadium.

* The Fishing Bell, a 1917 Hungarian film directed by Michael Curtiz

After the Globes closure, it was reestablished as a society news column in the Daily Express from 1917 onwards, initially written by social correspondent Major John Arbuthnot who invented the name " Beachcomber ".

The paper was purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1917.

This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

Jefferson likely moved to Deep Ellum in a more permanent fashion by 1917, where he met Aaron Thibeaux Walker, also known as T-Bone Walker.

Hussein learned of the agreement when it was leaked by the new Russian government in December 1917, but was satisfied by two disingenuous telegrams from Sir Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner of Egypt, assuring him that the British government's commitments to the Arabs were still valid and that the Sykes-Picot Agreement was not a formal treaty.

Three obtained commutations to long prison terms, but Apis and three comrades were executed by firing squad on 26 June 1917.

* MacKenzie, David, The " Black hand " on Trial: Salonika, 1917 ( East East European Monographs, No. 423 ; Boulder, Colo .: East European Monographs ; New York: distributed by Columbia University Press, 1995 )

Almost immediately after Álvarez's death, four women and seven children ( the last survivors ) were picked up by the US Navy gunship on July 18, 1917.

The White Sox were a strong team during their first two decades, winning the 1906 World Series with a defense-oriented team dubbed " the Hitless Wonders ", and the 1917 World Series led by Eddie Cicotte, Eddie Collins, and Shoeless Joe Jackson.

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.

* Cleopatra ( 1917 film ), an American film directed by J. Gordon Edwards

The work having been begun by Pius X, it was sometimes called the " Pio-Benedictine Code " but more often the 1917 Code.

Claude Monet, in his garden, by Étienne Clémentel, c. 1917

The first of the five photographs, taken by Elsie Wright in 1917, shows Frances Griffiths with the alleged fairies.

It was created on December 20, 1917, after a decree issued by Vladimir Lenin, and was subsequently led by aristocrat-turned-communist Felix Dzerzhinsky.

* Laura M. Mac Donald, Curse of the Narrows: the Halifax Explosion of 1917

A Figure from the booklet Burmese Textiles, published in 1917 by Laura E. Start.