" Heath comments that " The last phrase is curious, but the meaning of it is obvious enough, as also the meaning of the phrase about ending " at one and the same number "( Heath 1908: 300 ).

* 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France.

* Bronson Alcott at Alcott house, England, and Fruitlands, New England ( 1842-1844 ) ( 1908 ) by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

He gained a BSc with Gold Medal in 1908, and became a lecturer at St Mary's until 1914.

In 1908, he commissioned ( at no pay ) Napoleon Hill, then a journalist, to interview more than 500 wealthy achievers to find out the common threads of their success.

Great Britain also entered a team at the Olympics Games in 1900 and in 1908, but they were organised separately from the Lions.

Albert Calmette, a French bacteriologist, and his assistant and later colleague, Camille Guérin, a veterinarian, were working at the Institut Pasteur de Lille ( Lille, France ) in 1908.

On 8 October 1908, just two days after Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina, many men, some of them ranking Serbian ministers, officials and generals, held a meeting at City Hall in Belgrade.

Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena, Calif, 1908, on its original campus at downtown Pasadena.

* 1908 – Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two

Swedish high diver Arvid Spangberg at the 1908 Olympic Games from the fourth Olympiad

1908 ), 1: 1 – 6, at Perseus Digital Library.

Following the decisive Ethiopian victory at Adwa, Menelik II rapidly negotiated a series of treaties fixing Ethiopia's boundaries — with French Somaliland in March 1897, British Somaliland a few months later in June 1897, with Italian Eritrea in 1900, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1902, British East Africa in 1907, and Italian Somaliland in 1908 — which simplified this problem on one level.

Satie would follow these courses at the Schola, as a respected pupil, for more than five years, receiving a first ( intermediate ) diploma in 1908.

The litigation over patents between all the major American film-making companies had continued, and at the end of 1908 they decided to pool their patents and form a trust to use them to control the American film business.

This was set up at the beginning of 1908 to make films of a serious artistic nature.

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.

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.

A game of hockey being played between Germany and Scotland at the 1908 London Olympics

Field hockey was played at the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1920.

Madero spent the bulk of 1908 writing a book at the directions of the spirits, which now included the spirit of Benito Juárez himself.

Poudre Valley Bank, now Nature's Own at Linden and Walnut, Fort Collins, Colorado ( 1908 )

In 1908 Hans Geiger, under the supervision of Ernest Rutherford at the Victoria University of Manchester ( now the University of Manchester ), developed an experimental technique for detecting alpha particles that would later be used in the Geiger-muller tube.

Also in 1908, Peano took over the chair of higher analysis at Turin ( this appointment was to last for only two years ).

On August 13, 1908, the league celebrated " Cy Young Day.

The first four lines had appeared in 1880, rising to 13 by 1897, all horse-drawn, but after electrification between 1898 and 1902 the number of lines had soared to 35 by 1908 and ultimately reached 40, carrying between them 600 trams every hour, day and night.

* Krasnoyaretz newspaper, July 13, 1908

* July 13 – Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born photographer ( b. 1908 )

* February 13 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ( d. 1908 )

13, 145, ( 1908 ) pp. 267 – 271, Weber-Gauss electrodynamics applied to gravitation.

On May 27, 1908, the bill passed the House on a mostly party-line vote of 166 – 140, with 13 Republicans voting against it and no Democrats voting for it.

Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí () ( October 10, 1908 – April 13, 1983 ) was a Catalan Spanish novelist in the Catalan language.

Astaire was married for the first time in 1933, to the 25-year-old Phyllis Potter ( née Phyllis Livingston Baker ; born 1908, died September 13, 1954 ), a Boston-born New York socialite and former wife of Eliphalet Nott Potter III ( 1906 – 1981 ), after pursuing her ardently for roughly two years, and despite the objections of his mother and sister.

Schoenberg experienced triskaidekaphobia ( the fear of the number 13 ), which possibly began in 1908 with the composition of the thirteenth song of the song cycle Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten Op.

* 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.

* Herman Koppel ( 1908 – 1998 ) who wrote 13 symphonies, numerous concertos, and 20 string quartets.

Walter Hubert Annenberg ( March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002 ) was an American publisher, philanthropist, and diplomat.

Walter Annenberg was born to a Jewish family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 13, 1908.

He was educated, like Siegfried Sassoon, at Marlborough College ( 1908 – 13 ).

On May 13, 1908 a tornado struck the community around dinnertime, killing 34 people and devastating the town.

Eight miles ( 13 km ) west of the city below Johnson Mesa is Wild Horse Arroyo where in 1908 a Black cowboy named George McJunkin discovered the bones of an extinct bison.

* Ira D. Sankey, ( August 28, 1840 – August 13, 1908 ), gospel singer and composer

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

Yousuf Karsh, CC (; December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002 ) was an Armenian-Canadian photographer, and one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time.

He was Attorney-General in Andrew Fisher's three Labor governments in 1908 – 09, 1910 – 13 and 1914 – 15.

The claim that Mary Davenport Engberg had previously appeared as " a featured soloist for several years with the Seattle Symphony " contrasts with her being listed as a soloist only twice in a three-week period in news articles and surviving Seattle Symphony programs: a Sunday afternoon pops concert in the Moore Theatre on December 13, 1908 and a benefit concert on January 3, 1909 for victims of an earthquake in Italy.

Hupp grille badge, on 1941 SkylarkRobert Craig Hupp ( June 2, 1877 in Grand Rapids, Michigan – 1931 ), a former employee of Oldsmobile and Ford, founded the company with his brother Louis Gorham Hupp ( November 13, 1872 in Michigan – December 10, 1961 in Michigan ) in 1908.