* Wingate H. Lucas ( 1908 – 1989 ), American politician from Texas

The school was founded in 1908 by Englishman Captain Algernon Lucas.

In 1908, the English-speaking elite of Montreal were in need of a suitable preparatory school, and a certain Captain Algernon Lucas was seeking a career.

During the time San Isidro Putot was established, the town had been under three rulers, who ruled in different terms, namely: Lucas Bonilla ( 1899 – 1901 ), Nazario Nacar ( 1901 – 1903 ), and Paulino Mendoza ( 1904 – 1908 ).

As Simmel ( 1908 ) and Dilthey ( 1922 ) indicated, questions of whether the value of life is individual or social are not questions, but assertions of faith made to appear as legitimate questions.

The assembly line developed by Ford Motor Company between 1908 and 1915 made assembly lines famous in the following decade through the social ramifications of mass production, such as the affordability of the Ford Model T and the introduction of high wages for Ford workers.

Likewise, their back-to-back World Series victories in 1907 and 1908 made them the first club to win two World Series.

He was made captain of the battleship HMS Queen on 15 December 1908 until replaced 4 January 1910.

Alone he made all the Biograph films from 1908 to 1910.

The technique got to Europe almost immediately, and Segundo de Chomon and others at Pathé took it further, adding clay animation, in which sculptures were deformed from one thing into another thing frame by frame in Sculpture moderne ( 1908 ), and then Pathé made the next step to the animation of silhouette shapes.

But Griffith's first use of cross-cutting in The Fatal Hour, made in July 1908, has a much stronger suspense story served by this construction than those in the earlier Pathé examples.

The earliest surviving feature film, the Antoś pierwszy raz w Warszawie ( Antoś for the First Time in Warsaw ) was made in 1908 by Antoni Fertner.

Experiments with color films were made as early as the late 19th century, but practical color film was not commercially viable until 1908, and for amateur use when Kodak introduced Kodachrome for 16 mm in 1935 and 8 mm in 1936.

In 1908, opponents of Davila made an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow him.

" Similar proposals were made at the sessions of the International Congress of Navigation held at St. Petersburg in 1908 and again in 1912.

In the fleet itself, complaints were beginning to be made in 1908 about underfunding and shortages of crews for the new ships.

* 1908 – At Masjed Soleyman ( مسجد سليمان ) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made.

He made four major expeditions to Central Asia — in 1900, 1906 – 1908, 1913 – 1916 and 1930.

The name " quine " was coined by Douglas Hofstadter, in his popular science book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, in the honor of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine ( 1908 – 2000 ), who made an extensive study of indirect self-reference, and in particular for the following paradox-producing expression, known as Quine's paradox:

Grace made his final first-class appearance on 20 – 22 April 1908 for the Gentlemen of England v Surrey at The Oval, where, opening the innings, he scored 15 and 25.

Special postage stamps were issued from October 1898 until 1908, when a new communications cable was laid to the mainland, which made the pigeon post redundant.

Scenery and costume designs were the same as used in Paris in 1908 — made in Russia by Golovin, Benois, and Bilibin, and shipped from Paris.

Gilbert and Sullivan trimmed the work for the London premiere, and Gilbert made further alterations up to and including the 1908 Savoy revival.

UEA founder Hector Hodler took it over in 1907 and made it the official UEA magazine in 1908.

The first deliveries were probably made in early 1908.

The building was finally completed in 1908 under the direction of the Belgian architect Julio Dormal who made some changes in the structure and left his mark in the French style of the decoration.

He made one last attempt at office in a race for governor of Illinois in 1908, at age 72, narrowly losing.

* 13 October 1908: A bankruptcy court decided to discharge Jonathan Smith's bankruptcy as from 13 October 1910, and reported that Jonathan Smith had earlier made an arrangement with his creditors.

From 1854 to 1908 several additions and changes were made to the courthouse.

The first animated projection in the traditional sense ( i. e., on motion picture film ) was " Fantasmagorie " by the French director Émile Cohl in 1908.

In 1908, Camille Saint-Saëns composed the first music specifically for use in a motion picture ( L ' assasinat du duc de Guise ), and releasing recordings of songs used in films became prevalent in the 1930s.

* D. W. Griffith ends his series of Biograph shorts, begun in 1908, and leaves the Biograph Company in New York City to make full length motion pictures.

When more American than British members were shown at their annual exhibit in 1908, a motion was introduced to disband the organization.

While Edison oversaw cursory sound-cinema experiments after the success of The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 ) and other Edison Manufacturing Company productions, it was not until 1908 that he returned in earnest to the combined audiovisual concept that had first led him to enter the motion picture field.

According to Patrick Robertson's Film Facts, " the earliest pornographic motion picture which can definitely be dated is A L ' Ecu d ' Or ou la bonne auberge " made in France in 1908.

David Clarke ( 30 August 1908 – 18 April 2004 ) was an American Broadway and motion picture actor.

In 1908 President Boothe C. Davis of Alfred University persuaded the New York State legislature to locate the New York State School of Agriculture at the Alfred University Campus ; the resulting allocation of $ 75, 000 for three buildings, a farm, livestock, and machinery would set plans for the school in motion.

He appeared in at least 186 motion pictures from 1908 to 1954.

Tom Moore appeared in his first silent motion picture in 1908.

Major flooding occurred on the Trinity River in the years 1844, 1866, 1871, and 1890, but a major event in the spring of 1908 set in motion the harnessing of the river.

In 1915, Russell appeared with Lionel Barrymore in the motion picture Wildfire, which was based on the 1908 play of the same name in which she appeared.

Based on the 1898 novel When Knighthood Was in Flower by Charles Major, it was originally made into a motion picture in 1908 and again in 1922.

In 1906, his associate George Albert Smith ( 1864 – 1959 ) developed a two-colour ( red-green ) additive motion picture system, which Urban launched in 1908.

Kinemacolor was the first successful color motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914.

The first motion picture exhibited in Kinemacolor was an eight-minute short filmed in Brighton titled A Visit to the Seaside, which was trade shown in September 1908.

Although no film copy exists, the book is believed to have been adapted to a 1908 motion picture of the same name or under the title When Knights Were Bold by D. W. Griffith and directed by Wallace McCutcheon.