The Zionist Organisation ( ZO ) founded the Palestine Bureau ( also known as " Eretz Yisrael Office ") in Jaffa in 1908, under Arthur Ruppin, and began to adopt a systematic effort to buy and settle land in Ottoman Palestine.

In 1908 the Zionist Organization founded the Palestine Office, under Arthur Ruppin, for land acquisition, agricultural settlement and training, and later for urban expansion.

In 1908, when the Zionist organization sent Arthur Ruppin and set up the Palestine Land Development Corporation, Hankin joined.

With his rehabilitation in public esteem came the enormous rise in values, and, at the Secretan sale in 1889, the portrait of Pieter van de Broecke Danvers was bid up to 4, 420, while in 1908 the National Gallery paid 25, 000 for the large group from the collection of Lord Talbot de Malahide.

In those early years, there came some specialist organizations into existence, for example the Universala Medicina Esperanto-Asocio of 1908.

The Mission's chapel functioned as a parish church for the City of San Gabriel from 1862 until 1908, when the Claretian Missionary Fathers came to San Gabriel and began the job of rebuilding and restoring the Mission.

A small private church dedicated to St. Audrey was built by Lord Sackville Cecil, son of the Marquess of Salisbury, on the site of Olive's Mill in 1889 ; The church and other mill premises came into the possession of the parish in 1908, and since 1925 the former Olive's Mill House has been used as the rectory.

The " Black Patch Wars " came to an end around 1908.

Designed in the Catalan modernista style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, it was built between 1905 and 1908 for the Orfeó Català, a choral society founded in 1891 that was a leading force in the Catalan cultural movement that came to be known as the Renaixença ( Catalan Rebirth ).

Many of the stately homes, commercial buildings, and schools in and around Beeville, including the Bee County Courthouse, were designed by architect William Charles Stephenson, who came to Beeville in 1908 from Buffalo, New York.

On October 13, 1908, several Holiness Christian groups came together and formed the Church of the Nazarene at Pilot Point.

However, Eddie Cicotte apparently also came up with the pitch while at Indianapolis, and brought it to the modern major leagues two years later in 1908.

McLaughlin who prior to his 100th birthday stated that he, Durant and Durant's son-in-law Dr Campbell from Port Perry and a lifelong friend of Sam were dickering after the Buick Motor deal for 15 years in 1907 and the exchange of $ 500, 000. 00 Buick stock for $ 500, 000. 00 McLaughlin stock with a name for their company and called it General Motors. This came to be in 1908.

In late 1908, a group of surveyors came across the camp inhabited by an elderly native woman, a man, and young girl — Ishi's elderly mother, Ishi, and his sister.

In 1908 the H. J. Heinz company came to Leamington, bringing many jobs to the area and contributing to Leamington's growth.

Another blow came in 1908 when Kérimé, upon moving with her husband to Saint Petersburg, ended their affair.

While " melting " was in common use the exact term " melting pot " came into general usage in 1908, after the premiere of the play The Melting Pot by Israel Zangwill.

The exact term " melting pot " came into general usage in the United States after it was used as a metaphor describing a fusion of nationalities, cultures and ethnicities in the 1908 play of the same name, first performed in Washington, D. C., where the immigrant protagonist declared:

The first Japanese immigrants ( 791 people, mostly farmers ) came to Brazil in 1908 on the Kasato Maru from the Japanese port of Kobe, moving to Brazil in search of better living conditions.

She came from an upper class background, being the daughter of Captain Sir St Vincent Hawkins-Whitshed, 3rd Baronet ( 1837 – 1871 ) ( see Hawkins-Whitshed Baronets ) by his wife Anne Alicia ( née Handcock ) ( 1837 – 1908 ), and further back was descended from the aristocratic Bentinck family, and was therefore related to the Dukes of Portland.

Pataki's paternal grandfather was János ( later John ) Pataki ( 1883 – 1971 ) of Aranyos-Apáti, Austria-Hungary, who came to the United States in 1908 and worked in a hat factory.

Changes came about in 1908, when Hotel Algonquin was opened at Joe Lake.

In 1908 he came into conflict with Heemskerk, who had not involved him in the formation of the CHU / ARP / Catholic General League cabinet, thereby denying him the chance to return as minister.

The third arrest came in 1908 when an infiltrator was able to testify against Makhno.

One day in November 1908 Edith came home from school saying that she was restless and that she did not feel well.

O ' Keeffe had first visited 291 in 1908, but did not speak with Stieglitz then, although she came to have high regard for him and to know him in the spring of 1916, when she was in New York at Teachers College.

In the 1908 election the two parties came to a tie getting 18 seats each out of the 36 seats.

New laws came into force in 1908 which allowed the sentencing judge discretion, giving the option of life imprisonment.

One of Baum's worst financial endeavors was his The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays ( 1908 ), which combined a slideshow, film, and live actors with a lecture by Baum as if he were giving a travelogue to Oz.

Scouting in Pennsylvania has a long and rich tradition, from 1908 to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live.

The Kincaid Free Fair is an annual three day event that began in 1908 and features a carnival, a Saturday parade, turtle races, kids races, live entertainment, and Fair Queen Judging.

In 1908 at the age of thirteen, Bolduc was sent to live with her half-sister Mary-Ann in Montreal.

Allison did not live to see the 1908 general election or a seventh term.

Kindley joined his father in Manila, where he lived until 1908, when he moved to Gravette, Arkansas to live with his uncle.

The Melbourne Age in 1908 described Eliza Furlong as someone who had ' notably stimulated and largely helped to mould the prosperity of an entire state and her name deserved to live for all time in our history ' ( reprinted Wagga Wagga Daily Advertiser January 27, 1989 ).

He moved in during the winter of 1908 building the bungalow where he would live.

In 1908, Peter sent Dorothy to Chicago to live with his two sisters to avoid further conflict.

After he retired as a preacher in 1882, he went to live with his daughter in Voorburg, where he died and was interred in 1908.

In Chicago in 1908 he made The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays which had its writer, L. Frank Baum present a slide show and films as a live travelogue presentation of his Oz story.

It has been stated that the Kaingang rarely live long in one place causing them to move a lot, however some sources such as Juracilda Veiga, and ethnographic registers ( José Francisco Tomás do Nascimento 1886, Telêmaco Borba 1908 etc.

In 1908 in Yalta the technically savvy Slastion helped Lesia Ukrainka and her husband Klyment Kvitka make live recordings ( on phonograph cylinders ) of the dumy performed by the blind virtuoso Hnat Honcharenko ( circa 1837-circa 1917 ).

Since the publication of Scouting for Boys in 1908, all Scouts and Guides around the world have taken a Scout ( or Guide ) promise or oath to live up to ideals of the movement, and subscribed to a Scout Law.