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1914 Russian poster depicting the Triple Entente – Britannia ( right ) and Marianne ( left ) in the company of Mother Russia.
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1914 and Russian
* 1914 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.
The world's first four-engined bomber was the Russian Il ' ya Muromets created in 1914 and successfully used in World War I.
But most damaging, the new situation effectively trapped Russian foreign policy: After 1913, Russia could not afford losing its last ally in this crucial area and thus had no alternatives but to unconditionally support Serbia when the crisis between Serbia and Austria broke out in 1914.
In 1914 there were still dragoon regiments in the British, French, German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, Peruvian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Spanish armies.
By some accounts, in the St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament, the title " Grandmaster " was formally conferred by Russian Tsar Nicholas II, who had partially funded the tournament.
The " long nineteenth century ", from 1789 to 1914 sees the drastic social, political and economic changes initiated by the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, and following the reorganisation of the political map of Europe at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the rise of Nationalism, the rise of the Russian Empire and the peak of the British Empire, paralleled by the decline of the Ottoman Empire.
By 1914, Hoover stood eventually to obtain what he later described as " a large fortune from these Russian industries, probably more than is good for anybody ".
On 3 August 1914, at the outbreak of World War I which pitted Austria-Hungary against the Russian empire, Trotsky was forced to flee Vienna for neutral Switzerland to avoid arrest as a Russian émigré.
During World War I, the Battle of Tannenberg and the First and Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes between Imperial Germany and the Russian Empire took place within the borders of Masuria in 1914.
After 1862 the spiked helmet ceased to be generally worn by the Russian Army, although it was retained until 1914 by the Cuirassier regiments of the Imperial Guard and the Gendarmerie.
Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, troops of the Russian Empire captured Allenstein in 1914, but it was recovered by the Imperial German Army in the Battle of Tannenberg.
1914 and poster
Anti-German poster from the interwar years in Britain, calling for boycott of German goods and depicting German businesspeople selling their products in Britain as " the other face " of German soldiers who committed atrocities during the 1914 – 1918 ( British Empire Union poster ).
Between 1901 and 1914, he created several hundred posters in a style that revolutionised the art of poster design.
1914 and depicting
* The Woman of Mystery 1920 — US Action-Adventure directed by Grace Cunard & Francis Ford depicting submarines & submarine train ; edited with additional footage from 1914 silent film serial Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery
A Japanese illustration of 1914 depicting the nations as animals-with Russia as a bear smoking a pipe, " 支那 China " as a pig consulting a barometer, India an elephant, Britain a carp, Germany a boar, etc.
A 1914 postcard depicting Campus Martius Park | Campus Martius, with the old Detroit City Hall in the far left and the Michigan Soldiers ' and Sailors ' Monument in the far right.
" The Chain of Friendship ", an American cartoon from 1914 depicting the web of alliances, captioned, " If Austria attacks Serbia, Russia will fall upon Austria, Germany upon Russia, and France and England upon Germany.
Urban's most celebrated Kinemacolor film was a two and a half hour epic With Our King and Queen Through India ( 1912 ), also known as The Durbar in Delhi, depicting the December 1911 Delhi Durbar which celebrated the coronation of George V. Kinemacolor expanded its operations to produce fictional feature films such as The World, the Flesh and the Devil ( 1914 ), but the company soon foundered.
The tradition of giving flowers as a gift on Mother's Day was started by Leyendecker's May 30, 1914 Saturday Evening Post cover depicting a young bellhop carrying hyacinths.
At Chobham Common, Surrey, a video was shot for " Pipes of Peace ", depicting the famous 1914 Christmas truce between British, French and German troops.
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