Before D. W. Griffith started directing at Biograph in May 1908, he had seen the two Pathé films just mentioned, and a number of Vitagraph films as well.

In the aftermath of the failed revolution of 1905 – 7, Bolshevik revolutionaries were forced back into exile in 1908 in Switzerland as well as other anti-Tsarist revolutionaries including the Mensheviks, the Socialist Revolutionaries, and anarchists.

However, the Court did uphold some economic regulation such as state prohibition laws ( Mugler v. Kansas ), laws declaring maximum hours for mine workers ( Holden v. Hardy, 1898 ), laws declaring maximum hours for female workers ( Muller v. Oregon, 1908 ), President Wilson's intervention in a railroad strike ( Wilson v. New, 1917 ), as well as federal laws regulating narcotics ( United States v. Doremus, 1919 ).

In 1905 the German Army adopted a shortened ( 370mm or 14. 6-inch ) bayonet, the Seitengewehr 98 / 06 for engineer and pioneer troops, and in 1908, a short rifle as well, the Karabiner Model 1898AZ, which was produced in limited quantities for the cavalry, artillery, and other specialist troops.

Canning left Perth in March 1908, along with 30 men, 70 camels, four wagons, 100 tonnes of food and equipment and 267 goats ( for milk and meat ), and travelled the route again to commence the construction of well heads and water troughs at the 54 water sources identified by his earlier expedition.

* 1908 The first oil well comes in near Trickham.

The grounds once housed a football ground, which hosted the FA Cup final from 1895 to 1914 as well as London County Cricket Club games from 1900 to 1908, when they folded, and Crystal Palace F. C.

Boise City was founded in 1908 by developers J. E. Stanley and A. J. Kline, who published and distributed brochures promoting the town as an elegant, tree-lined city with paved streets, numerous businesses, railroad service, and an artesian well.

On 23 February 1908, Della Chiesa took possession of his new dioceses, which included 700, 000 persons, 750 priests, as well as 19 male and 78 female religious institutes.

Beecham conducted the full premiere of A Mass of Life in London in 1909 ( he had premiered Part II in Germany in 1908 ); he staged the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet at Covent Garden in 1910 ; and he mounted a six-day Delius festival in London in 1929, as well as making gramophone recordings of many of Delius's works.

Outside Europe, he conducted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York ( 1908 – 1915 ) as well as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra ( 1926 – 1936 ).

In 1908 the church received its first warm air heating system, which did not work well due to heat losses in long air ducts, and heated only the eastern and northern sanctuaries.

View toward Missouri State University's Historic QuadrangleFacing National Avenue is the " Historic Quadrangle ," containing Carrington Hall ( 1908 ), Hill Hall ( 1923 ) and Siceluff Hall ( 1927 ), as well as Cheek Hall ( 1955 ) and Ellis Hall ( 1959 ).

Important publicans in the past included Johann Friedrich Gerlach from 1801 to 1834, Carl Eduard Nehse between 1834 and 1850, who brought out a map of the Brocken in 1849 and the Brocken Register ( Brockenstammbuch ) in 1850, as well as Rudolf Schade from 1908 to 1927, who considerably increased the repute and the size of guest facilities on the Brocken.

Knox, a brilliant classicist, won the Craven, the Hertford and the Ireland scholarships in classics, as well as the Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse Composition in 1908 and the Chancellor's Prize for Latin Verse Composition in 1910.

Four of his daughters ( of whom the youngest, Mary, married Charles Cowden Clarke ) were gifted singers ; but the most famous was Clara Novello ( 1818 – 1908 ), whose beautiful high soprano and pure style made her one of the greatest vocalists, in opera as well as in oratorio and on the concert stage, from 1833 onwards.

* Pablo de Sarasate ( 10 March 1844 – 20 September 1908 ), who was a well known Romantic Era Spanish composer born in Pamplona, Spain, died in this city.

Its early history is very well covered by Walter Rouse Ball's 1908 book, A History of The First Trinity Boat Club, which is available online in its entirety.

He was elected president of the American Philological Association in 1877 and again in 1908 and became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as of various learned societies.

As well as producing silver and base metal coins for everyday use, the new Canadian mint also turned the recently discovered gold into sovereigns striking intermittently between 1908 and 1919.

Around this time, she became well known for chartering a hospital ship to care for those wounded in the Boer War, and in 1908, she wrote The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill.

Bečkerek got a theatre hall in 1839 and a gymnasium in 1846, as well as City Hall in 1820 and the Palace of Justice in 1908.

Among English composers of the early-20th century there was some vogue for the use of a " bass oboe ", for example in Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets ( 1916 ), as well as in several works of Frederick Delius ( A Mass of Life, 1904-1905 ; Dance Rhapsody No. 1, 1908 ), Arnold Bax's Symphony No. 1 ( 1921 ), Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony ( 1919-1927 ) and Symphony No. 4 ( Das Siegeslied ), and supposedly in the original instrumentation of Ralph Vaughan Williams ' A London Symphony ( 1912-1913 ).

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

Poincaré's writings, unlike Einstein's, were well known leading up to and during the crucial years of the Cubism ( roughly between 1908 and 1914 ).

His best known innovation is the Horsley – Clarke apparatus ( developed together with Robert H. Clarke in 1908 ) for performing the so-called stereotactic neurosurgery, whereby a set of precise numerical coordinates are used to locate each brain structure.

Max Wall ( 12 March 1908 – 21 May 1990 ), was an English comedian and actor, whose performing career covered music hall, theatre, films and television.

These productions ushered in what is generally seen as the first great age of Yiddish theater, centered in New York and lasting approximately until a new wave of Jewish immigration, in 1905 — 1908 once again resulted in a vogue for broad comedy, vaudeville and light operettas, which the Thomashefskys embraced wholeheartedly, especially in performing Leon Kobrin's plays about immigrant life.

In 1908, he made his début in a talent contest at the London Music Hall in Shoreditch, performing conjuring tricks as ' Fargo, The Boy Wizard '.

O ' Mara gave many private concerts at the beginning of the new century, but happily returned to opera as leading tenor with the Moody-Manners Opera Company in London from 1902 to 1908, performing in Maritana, Cavalleria, Faust, Lohengrin, Pagliacci, Il trovatore, Carmen, Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, and the first English-language production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly ( 1907 ), also performing extensively in Ireland with the company.

Between 1905 and 1908 he composed his final masterpiece, Iberia ( 1908 ), a suite of twelve piano " impressions ".

In addition, classical composers were influenced by the form with, for example, Igor Stravinsky's solo piano work Piano-Rag-Music from 1919, and Claude Debussy's Golliwogg's Cakewalk ( from the 1908 Piano Suite Children's Corner ), and General Lavine ( from his Preludes ).

) With the sale of so many records, sheet music, and piano rolls, the song became one of the most popular hits of 1908.

* Gaspard de la nuit (" Demons of the night ") ( piano, 1908 )

* Ma Mère l ' Oye (" Mother Goose ") ( piano duet 1908 – 1910, orchestrated 1911, expanded into ballet 1912 )

* Pfohl, Ferdinand: 5 poems (" Moon-rondels, fantastic scenes from ' Pierrot Lunaire '") for voice and piano ( 1891 ); Marschalk, Max: 5 poems for voice and piano ( 1901 ); Vrieslander, Otto: 50 poems for voice and piano ( 46 in 1905, 4 more in 1911 ); Graener, Paul: 3 poems for voice and piano ( c. 1908 ); Marx, Joseph: 4 poems for voice and piano ( 1909 ; 1 of 4, " Valse de Chopin ", reset for voice, piano, and string quartet in 1917 ); Schoenberg, Arnold: 21 poems for speaking voice, piano, flute ( also piccolo ), clarinet ( also bass clarinet ), violin ( also viola ), and violoncello ( 1912 ); Kowalski, Max: 12 poems for voice and piano ( 1913 ); Prohaska, Carl: 6 poems for voice and piano ( 1920 ); Lothar, Mark: 1 poem for voice and piano ( 1921 ).

Works from this period include a piano fantasy based on themes from Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar, an attempt at a string quartet, three songs which would eventually be published in 1908 and the opening movement ( the only one completed ) of his First Piano Concerto.

* Sérénade for violin ( or flute ) and piano ( 1908 )

* Sonata in C minor for violin and piano ( 1908 )

In April 1912, Boulanger made her debut as a conductor, leading the Société des Matinées Musicales orchestra in her 1908 cantata La Sirène, two of her songs and then Pugno's Concertstück for piano and orchestra with the composer as soloist.

* Echo for SSA and piano ( 1908 / 9?

Gaspard de la nuit: Trois poèmes pour piano d ' après Aloysius Bertrand is a suite of pieces for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, written in 1908.

On 18 December 1908, he gave the world premiere performance of Claude Debussy's piano suite Children's Corner in Paris.