In 1908 however the six British lancer regiments in existence resumed use of this impressive but obsolete weapon for active service.

Edison sued to gain control of the patent ; however, after a federal court upheld the validity of the patent in 1907, Edison began negotiation with Biograph in May 1908 to reorganize the Edison licensing system.

Fresh material having come to light, a new edition of the poems ( Die Gedichte des Paulus Diaconus ) has been edited by Karl Neff ( Munich, 1908 ), who denies, however, the attribution to Paul of the most famous poem in the collection, the Ut queant laxis, a hymn to St. John the Baptist, which Guido d ' Arezzo fitted to a melody which had previously been used for Horace's Ode 4. 11.

By 1907, REO had gross sales of $ 4. 5 million and the company was one of the four wealthiest automobile manufacturers in the U. S. After 1908 however, despite the introduction of improved cars designed by Olds, REO's share of the automobile market decreased due in part to competition from emerging companies like Ford and General Motors.

Much of Chatterton, however, was recorded by the Gramophone Company ( later HMV ) as early as 1908, and remastered on CD almost 100 years later by Marston Records.

In 1908, Frankel sold the diamond for $ 400, 000 to a Salomon or Selim Habib, a wealthy Turkish diamond collector, reportedly in behalf of Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey ; however, on June 24, 1909, the stone was included in an auction of Habib's assets to settle his own debts, and the auction catalog explicitly stated that the Hope Diamond was one of only two gems in the collection which had never been owned by the Sultan.

The city of Cook was known initially as Little Fork, because of the river of the same name that runs through the city, later being known as Ashawa, which stands for " by the river or across the river "; however its name was changed to its current name on August 1, 1908 ; at the request of the U. S. Postal Service " because confusion with a village in southern Minnesota named Oshawa ".

Burton and Orpha Westcott however, are better known for having contracted the world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design their home in 1908 at 1340 East High Street.

Formed in 1908 the Federal Bureau of Investigation began as an entity which could investigate and enforce specific federal laws as an investigative and " law enforcement agency " in the United States ; this, however, has constituted only a small portion of overall policing activity.

The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1908, however, states:

The team originated in 1908 as a semi-pro team named the Akron Indians, however name was changed to the Pros in 1920 as the team set out to become a charter member of the American Professional Football Association Fritz Pollard, the first African-American head coach in the NFL, co-coached the Pros in 1921.

Gounaris himself, however, joined the government in 1908 as Finance Minister, hoping to implement a reformist program, thereby causing the dissolution of the group, although he was soon forced to resign.

Walsall's first cinema opened in the town centre in 1908 ; however, the post World War II decline in cinema attendances brought on by the rise in television ownership resulted in that and all of Walsall's other cinemas eventually being closed.

It is not the original station, however, and was built after the old station burnt down due to a lightning strike on August 4, 1908.

After Panamanians objected, the Gold Roll was reopened to them in December 1908 ; however, efforts to remove blacks and non-Americans from the Gold Roll continued.

The quotas in the capitals however, were increased slightly in 1908 and 1915.

At the annual conference of 1908, Crumpler was re-elected president of the body ; however, with a majority of the delegates having experienced tongues, he permanently disaffiliated himself from the church.

By 1908, however, problems began to arise — his wife and son were both ill and a daughter died at birth.

He opened the Philadelphia Opera House in 1908, which, however, he sold early in 1910.

The Liberals had been in power since 1883, however, and voters opted for a change in the 1908 election which brought the Conservatives to power.

The original Star had only six points ; however, the proclamation in 1905 of the Territory of Papua led to the addition of the seventh point in 1908 to represent it and future territories.

It was the Germans, however, who first gained formal control over the area, establishing the eastern border through negotiations with France between 1885 and 1908.

He did however, receive a United States patent in 1908 for an inflatable, contoured chest protector, which protected his body better and, thanks to hinging, allowed more freedom of movement than the normal model.

Eastern Rumelia or Eastern Roumelia was an autonomous province ( vilayet ) in the Ottoman Empire from 1878 to 1908 ; however it was under Bulgarian control beginning in 1885 ( see Bulgarian unification ).

About a quarter of Hardy's poems carry an appended date line, usually the year of completion, but sometimes inclusive years ( `` 1908 - 1910 '' ) or two separate dates when Hardy worked on the poem ( `` 1905 and 1926 '' ) or an approximate date ( `` During the War '' ).

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

Use of the name " Ashes " was suggested by the Australian team when rugby league matches between the two countries commenced 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.

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

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

* The boundary between these two countries is based on three treaties between Ethiopia and Italy, in 1900, 1902, and 1908.

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.

Kinemacolor ( 1908 – 1914 ), Technicolor processes 1 through 4 ( 1917 – 1954 ), and Cinecolor used one, two or three strips of monochrome film stock sensitized to certain primary colors or exposed behind color filters in special cameras.

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

Kenesaw Mountain Landis ( at left ) and his four brothers, two of whom served in Congress, as illustrated in 1908.

Between 1908 and 1912 two Moltke class battlecruisers were constructed, adding an extra turret on the centre line astern, raised above the aft turret, but still using 28 cm guns.

They had two children together, Lev Sedov ( 1906 – 16 February 1938 ) and Sergei Sedov ( 21 March 1908 – 29 October 1937 ), both of whom would predecease their parents.

* 1908 – American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.

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.

The US explorer Frederick Cook claimed to have reached the North Pole on 21 April 1908 with two Inuit men, Ahwelah and Etukishook, but he was unable to produce convincing proof and his claim is not widely accepted.

The two haploid and diploid terms were borrowed from German through William Henry Lang's 1908 translation of a 1894 textbook by Eduard Strasburger and colleagues.

Among the major hotels at or near Potsdamer Platz were two designed by the same architect, Otto Rehnig ( 1864 – 1925 ), and opened in the same year, 1908.

The most important works of the Paris period were Neue Gedichte ( New Poems ) ( 1907 ), Der Neuen Gedichte Anderer Teil ( Another Part of the New Poems ) ( 1908 ), the two " Requiem " poems ( 1909 ), and the novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, started in 1904 and completed in January 1910.

Dogs from the Anadyr River and surrounding regions were imported into Alaska from 1908 ( and for the next two decades ) during the gold rush for use as sled dogs, especially in the " All-Alaska Sweepstakes ," a 408-mile ( 657-km ) distance dog sled race from Nome, to Candle, and back.

This was followed by two more films, " Le Cauchemar du fantoche " Puppet's Nightmare ", now lost and " Un Drame chez les fantoches " Puppet Drama ", called " The Love Affair in Toyland " for American release and " Mystical Love-Making " for British release, all completed in 1908.

The place-name derived from a 1908 Christmas story about three black men who died in a blizzard ; the next day, the bodies of two were found at the foot of the mountain.

In spite of the Orthodox Church's opposition to marriage between first cousins, the couple married on 23 January 1906: their first two children, Fyodor ( Theodore ) and Ludmila, were born in 1907 and 1908, respectively.

The 47-story Singer Building, completed in 1908, was also designed by Flagg, who designed two landmark residences for Bourne.

* Ernestine Gilbreth ( April 4, 1908 – November 4, 2006 ) ( age 98 ); married Charles E. Carey ; two children ( Charles E. Carey, Lillian Barley ).