Hans Egede's Hope Colony was organized under the auspices of the Bergen Greenland Company prior to its bankruptcy in 1727 ; it was succeeded by the merchant Jacob Severin ( 1733 – 1749 ), the General Trade Company ( Det almindelige Handelskompagni ; 1749 – 1774 ), and finally the Royal Greenland Trading Department ( KGH ; 1776 – 1908 ).

* Geiger Counter ( measures radioactivity ) invented by Hans Geiger in 1908

( Rushton had previous experience with the V & A when he had pulled a prank on the institution by labelling an electric plug socket in one of the galleries: " Plug hole designed by Hans Plug ( b. 1908 )" which remained for a full year – to the great annoyance of a cleaner who had to use a hefty extension lead for 12 months so as not to damage the exhibit.

It was named after Hans Geiger who invented the principle in 1908, and Walther Müller who collaborated with Geiger in developing it further in 1928.

Hans Schaffner ( December 16, 1908 in Interlaken – November 26, 2004 ) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1961 – 1970 ).

The pre-history of the Vienna Circle began with meetings on the philosophy of science and epistemology from 1908 on, promoted by Philipp Frank, Hans Hahn and Otto Neurath.

* 1908 Hans Reissner with Junkers ' help starts work on all-metal aircraft

Excavation was continued in a more limited way by Dörpfeld between 1908 and 1929 but a new systematic excavation was begun in 1936 on the occasion of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin under Emil Kunze and Hans Schleif.

* Hans Jürgen Kallmann ( 1908 – 1991 ) — German painter

The syndrome was originally described by Austrian educator Theodor Heller in 1908, 35 years before Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger described autism, but it has not been officially recognised until recently.

Sweden's first national football team, from left Thor Eriksson, Gustaf Bergström, Karl Gustafsson, Nils Andersson, Ove Erickson, Thodde Malm, Erik Börjesson, Kalle Ansén, Sven Olsson, Erik Bergström and Hans Lindman ( 1908 )

* 1908: Hans Holzwarth starts work on extensive research on an " explosive cycle " gas turbine, based on the Otto cycle.

Books produced under this arrangement by Dulac include Stories from The Arabian Nights ( 1907 ) with 50 colour images ; an edition of William Shakespeare's The Tempest ( 1908 ) with 40 colour illustrations ; The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ( 1909 ) with 20 colour images ; The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales ( 1910 ); Stories from Hans Christian Andersen ( 1911 ); The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe ( 1912 ) with 28 colour images and many monotone illustrations ; and Princess Badoura ( 1913 ).

* Hans Jakob ( 1908 – 1994 ), German soccer player

The first performance was given by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Hans Richter in Manchester, England, on 3 December 1908.

The toothbrush was taken up by German folk hero Hans Koeppen in the famous 1908 New York to Paris Race, cementing its popularity among young gentry.

The original operating principle was discovered in 1908 and Geiger counters remain popular instruments for use in radiation dosimetry, health physics, experimental physics, the nuclear industry, geological exploration and other fields, due to their robust sensing element and their relatively low cost.

* 1908 – Rupprecht Geiger, German painter ( d. 2009 )

Geiger spent most of his enlisted time at the Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C. where he was also promoted to Corporal on June 2, 1908.

The Geiger counter, invented in 1908, is one of the earliest and most successful applications of sonification.

In 1908 ( the affair is known under the name Bombaška afera ) the Serbian nationalists tried to kill the king of Montenegro, because they considered him as an obstacle to the unification of all the Serbs in one state.

In 1908, under international pressure, Leopold ceded administration of the colony to the government of Belgium as the Belgian Congo.

Except for an abortive royal colony established under Major Claus Paarss between 1728 and 1730, colonial Greenland was administered by companies under royal charter until 1908.

Records show that he trained in Tenjin Shin ' yō-ryū jujutsu under Tozawa Tokusaburō for a short period in 1901 in Tokyo ; Gotō-ha Yagyū Shingan-ryū under Nakai Masakatsu from 1903 to 1908 in Sakai, and judo under Kiyoichi Takagi 1911 in Tanabe.

In 1908 two companies, under the protection of El Roghi, a chieftain then ruling the Rif region, started mining lead and iron some 20 kilometres from Melilla.

During this period he studied under, among others, Alexander Winkler, Anatoly Lyadov, Nikolai Tcherepnin and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ( though when Rimsky-Korsakov died in 1908, Prokofiev noted that he had only studied orchestration with him ' after a fashion ' – that is, he was just one of many students in a heavily attended class — and regretted that he otherwise ' never had the opportunity to study with him ').

Power was finally transferred to Belgium in 1908 under considerable international pressure following numerous reports of gross misconduct and abuse to native labourers.

* Austrian — Noetzel, Hermann: Pierrot's Summer Night ( 1924 ); Schnitzler, Arthur: The Transformations of Pierrot ( 1908 ), The Veil of Pierrette ( 1910 ; with music by Ernö Dohnányi ; see also " Stuppner " among the Italian composers under Western classical music ( instrumental ) below ); Schreker, Franz: The Blue Flower, or The Heart of Pierrot: A Tragic Pantomime ( 1909 ), The Bird, or Pierrot's Mania: A Pantomimic Comedy ( 1909 ).

* French — Burguet, Paul Henry: The Imprint, or The Red Hand ( 1908 ; Gaston Séverin plays Pierrot ); Carné, Marcel: Children of Paradise ( 1945 ; see above under The Pantomime of Deburau at the Théâtre des Funambules ); Carré fils, Michel: The Prodigal Son a. k. a. Pierrot the Prodigal ( 1907 ; the first feature-length film and the first film of a stage-play Carré's pantomime of 1890 ; George Wague plays Pierrot père ); Feuillade, Louis: Pierrot's Projector ( 1909 ), Pierrot, Pierrette ( 1924 ); Guitry, Sacha: Deburau ( 1951 ; based upon Guitry's own stage-play # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues above ); Guy, Alice: Pierrot, Murderer ( 1904 ); Leprince, René: Pierrot Loves Roses ( 1910 ); Méliès, Georges: By Moonlight, or The Unfortunate Pierrot ( 1904 ).

* American — Bloch, Albert: Many works, including Harlequinade ( 1911 ), Piping Pierrot ( 1911 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( 1913 ), Three Pierrots and Harlequin ( 1914 ); Bradley, Will: Various posters and illustrations ( see, e. g., " Banning " under Poetry below ); Heintzelman, Arthur William: Pierrot ( n. d .); Hopper, Edward: Soir Bleu ( 1914 ); Kuhn, Walt: The White Clown ( 1929 ); Parrish, Maxfield: Pierrot's Serenade ( 1908 ), The Lantern-Bearers ( 1908 ), Her Window ( 1922 ); Sloan, John: Clown Making Up ( 1909 ).

* British — Bantock, Sir Granville: Pierrot of the Minute: Overture to a Dramatic Fantasy of Ernest Dowson ( 1908 ; see under England above ); Holbrooke, Joseph Charles: Ballet Suite # 1, " Pierrot ", for String and Full Orchestra ( 1909 ).

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )

Nonetheless, in the event of situations not covered under the 1963 Act, the courts in India continue to exercise their inherent powers in terms of Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, which applies to all civil courts in India.

A series of acts passed over the next seventy years, including the Children Act 1908 and the 1939 Adoption of Children ( Regulation ) Act, gradually placed adoption and foster care under the protection and regulation of the state.

For his final assault on the pole, he and 23 men, including Ross Gilmore Marvin, set off from New York City aboard the Roosevelt under the command of Captain Robert Bartlett on July 6, 1908.

Also released in 1908 was the seven minute La bisbetica domata ( La bisbetica domata was also the name under which the 1967 Franco Zeffirelli version would be released in Italy ), directed by Azeglio Pineschi and Lamberto Pineschi.

Other notable Feydeau farces include L ' Hôtel du libre échange, Le Dindon ( Sauce for the Goose, 1896 ) and the series of plays he wrote after 1908 grouped under the title " Du Mariage au Divorce " (" On purge bébé ", " Feu la mère de madame ", Léonie est en avance " and " Mais ne te promène donc pas toute nue ").

Amalgamation under the Earl of Dysart led to The British-Israel Association in 1886, which mutated into the Imperial British-Israel Association in 1908 and finally the British-Israel-World Federation in 1919.

Both companies decided to merge in November 1908 under the name of the Oakland Motor Car Company.

This section remained under the supervision of the Adjutant General's Office until War Department Orders on February 12, 1908 created the Division of Militia Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of War.

The result were two volumes ( J. S. Bach ), which was published in 1908 and translated in English by Ernest Newman in 1911.

* 1908 – Vivian Ernest Fuchs, English geologist ( d. 1999 )

Under Ernest Mangnall, who assumed managerial duties in 1903, the team finished as Second Division runners-up in 1906 and secured promotion to the First Division, which they won in 1908 – the club's first league title.

* 1984 – Ernest Buckler, Canadian novelist ( b. 1908 )

File: Ernest Rutherford 1908. jpg | Ernest Rutherford ( 1871-1937 ): considered " Father of Nuclear Physics ", showed how the atomic nucleus has a positive charge, first to change one element into another by an artificial nuclear reaction, differentiated and named alpha and beta radiation, awarded Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908

Baden-Powell wrote the principles of Scouting in Scouting for Boys ( London, 1908 ), based on his earlier military books, with influence and support of Frederick Russell Burnham ( Chief of Scouts in British Africa ), Ernest Thompson Seton of the Woodcraft Indians, William Alexander Smith of the Boys ' Brigade, and his publisher Pearson.

* February 18 – Ernest Fenollosa, Catalan American philosopher ( d. 1908 )

In the England of the Aesthetic Movement, Aubrey Beardsley's drawings attested profound kinship with the figure ; Olive Custance ( who would marry Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ) published the poem " Pierrot " in 1897 ; and Ernest Dowson wrote the verse-play Pierrot of the Minute ( 1897, illustrated by Beardsley ), to which the composer Sir Granville Bantock would later contribute an orchestral prologue ( 1908 ).

* Giraldus Cambrensis, The Itinerary and Description of Wales, Everyman's Library, Edited by Ernest Rhys, with an Introduction by W. Llewelyn Williams, January 1908

* Lord Rutherford ( Ernest Rutherford ) ( Chemistry, 1908 )

* Ernest Manning ( 1908 – 1996 ), Canadian politician

Mount Erebus was first climbed ( to the rim ) by members of Sir Ernest Shackleton's party in 1908.

** 4 December 1958 – 15 July 1960 Ernest de Nattes ( b. 1908 ), the last of the long list of governors since 10 March 1893 ( colony till 27 October 1946, then overseas territory )

The glacier was discovered by Ernest Shackleton during his Nimrod Antarctic Expedition of 1908.

* Ernest Dudley ( 1908 – 2006 ), British writer

* Comedy Overture, Pierrot of the Minute ( 1908, after Ernest Dowson )

Sir Vivian Ernest Fuchs FRS ( 11 February 1908 – 11 November 1999 ) was an English explorer whose expeditionary team completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica in 1958.

* Peter Clarkson, " Fuchs, Sir Vivian Ernest ( 1908 – 1999 ).

In January 1908, a month after Bill had turned two, the family moved to Murringo, after Ernest was appointed the headmaster.

* Sir John Mills CBE ( 22 February 1908 – 23 April 2005 ), born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.