In 1908 the Zionist Organisation set up the Palestine Bureau ( also known as the " Eretz Israel Office ") in Jaffa and began to adopt a systematic Jewish settlement policy in Palestine.

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 Ruppin came to live in Palestine by decision of the eighth Zionist Congress.

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

Uriel Heilperin () was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1908 to a Zionist family.

* Current event description, as the Publication Committee of the New York Charity Organization Society wrote in Charities and the commons: a weekly journal of philanthropy and social advance, Volume 19 ( 1908 ): In spite of a heavy " nor ' easter ," the worst that has visited the New England coast in years, the hall was crowded.

A new Army Organization Statute was issued in 1904 ( revised in 1910 ), purchases of new artillery material ( including the 75 mm Schneider-Danglis 06 / 09 gun ) and of the Mannlicher-Schönauer rifle were made, and a new, khaki field uniform was introduced in 1908.

After studying at Trinity College, Cambridge, he travelled to the Andaman Islands ( 1906 – 1908 ) and Western Australia ( 1910 – 1912, with biologist and writer E. L. Grant Watson and Daisy Bates ) to conduct fieldwork into the workings of the societies there, serving as the inspiration for his later books The Andaman Islanders ( 1922 ) and The Social Organization of Australian Tribes ( 1930 ).

His first major commission, designed with Albert Kelsey, was the Pan-American Union Building ( now Organization of American States ) in Washington DC ( 1908 – 10 ), a breakthrough that led to many war memorials, civic buildings, court houses, and other solid, official structures.

He was a member of the Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party and in 1908 Sławek had taken part in the Bezdany raid organized and led by Józef Piłsudski — a train robbery that had financed Piłsudski's organization.

In the following year, 1908, public appreciation of his service was marked by the purchase and gift to himself of 84 Merrion Square, Dublin, which became the headquarters of the agricultural co-operative movement's Irish Agricultural Organization Society ( IAOS ), the industry body for farmer co-operatives, under the name The Plunkett House.

When Azef was revealed as an agent of the Okhrana in 1908, Savinkov became the head of the Fighting Organization, but it was too weak to conduct any serious operations.

An international daily newspaper, the Christian Science Monitor, founded by Eddy in 1908 and winner of seven Pulitzer prizes, is published by the church through the Christian Science Publishing Society.

In addition to the reviews above are the Revue Thomiste, founded by Père Thomas Coconnier ( d. 1908 ), and the Analecta Ordinis Prædicatorum ( 1893 ).

* 1908: Universala Esperanto-Asocio, the World Esperanto Association, is founded by Hector Hodler, a 19-year-old Swiss Esperantist.

Futurism that was both an artistic-cultural movement and initially a political movement in Italy led by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti who founded the Futurist Manifesto ( 1908 ), that championed the causes of modernism, action, and political violence as necessary elements of politics while denouncing liberalism and parliamentary politics.

" In April 1908 he founded Modern Electrics, the world's first magazine about both electronics and radio, called " wireless " at the time.

The Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace was founded in 1908 to govern international competitions, and the first European championships were won by Great Britain in 1910.

* 1908 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.

* 1908 – Ajinomoto is founded.

The first dedicated school for journalism, Missouri School of Journalism, was founded in 1908 in the United States of America by Walter Williams.

* 1908 – Dutch football / soccer club Feyenoord was founded

By 1894, Dewey had joined Tufts, with whom he would later write Ethics ( 1908 ), at the recently founded University of Chicago and invited Mead and Angell to follow him, the four men forming the basis of the so-called " Chicago group " of psychology.

Later that year he founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, which became the Oldsmobile division of General Motors in 1908, and he was also the founder of the REO Motor Car Company in 1904, both headquartered in Lansing.

The Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust ), founded in December 1908, was a trust of all the major American film companies ( Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig, Lubin, Kalem, American Star, American Pathé ), the leading film distributor ( George Kleine ) and the biggest supplier of raw film stock, Eastman Kodak.

* 1908 – Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.

* 1908 – The Pravda newspaper is founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.

New England-based Tri-Sum Potato Chips, originally founded in 1908 as the Leominster Potato Chip Company, in Leominster, Massachusetts claim to be America's first potato chip manufacturer.

The Reed Institute ( the legal name of the college ) was founded in 1908, and Reed College held its first classes in 1911.

* 1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.

* 1908 – University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.

The oldest football club in Estonia, Meteor Tallinn was founded in 1908 in the district Lasnamäe.

In 1908, Jung became an editor of the newly founded Yearbook for Psychoanalytical and Psychopathological Research.

Because the municipality of Espoo, to which the area of Kauniainen belonged, did not show much interest in the new community, the company was responsible for developing it ; roads were built, a school founded, electricity arranged and the company lobbied for a railway station ( opened in 1908 ) and a police office.

In the United States, Elmer Ambrose Sperry produced a workable gyrocompass system ( 1908: patent # 1, 242, 065 ), and founded the Sperry Gyroscope Company.

Blackburn Aircraft was founded by Robert Blackburn who built his first aircraft in 1908.

The football club Wilhelmina was founded in the pub De Vereeniging on 19 July 1908 and played in blue-sleeved red shirts and white shorts.

In 1908, following a trip to Palestine, Ginsberg moved to London to manage the office of the Wissotzky Tea company.

Shuqeiri was the father of Ahmad Shukeiri ( 1908 – 1980 ), the first leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation.

He traveled to Palestine in 1908 and the U. S. in 1910.

In 1908 the Ottomans turned Tulkarm into a major rail junction on the Hejaz Railway line running up from Egypt and southern Palestine to Haifa and Akka in the northwest, Jerusalem, Nablus and Ramallah to the south, Lebanon to the north, and Syria and Transjordan to the east.

Edward Bartlett ( 1836 – 1908 ) who was an English ornithologist, ( the son of Abraham Dee Bartlett, had accompanied Henry Baker Tristram to Palestine in 1863 – 1864.

Also included in the home video release were four unaired episodes made for the ABC network, Florence, May 1908, Prague, 1917, Transylvania, 1918, and Palestine, 1917.

Landon was private secretary to the Governor of New South Wales 1900 ; in 1903 he was special correspondent of the Daily Mail at the Delhi Durbar, in China, in Japan and in Siberia ; in 1903 – 1904 he was special correspondent of The Times on the British military expedition to Lhasa, Tibet ; in 1905 – 1906 he was special correspondent of The Times for the Prince of Wales ' visit to India ; and after that he was in Persia, India, and Nepal, 1908 ; Russian Turkestan 1909 ; Egypt and Sudan 1910 ; on the North Eastern Frontier of India and at the Delhi Durbar, 1911 ; in Mesopotamia and Syria, 1912 ; in Scandinavia and behind the British and French lines in 1914-1915 ; behind the Italian lines and to the Vatican in 1917 ( the war and Vatican visits with Kipling ); at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 ; in Constantinople, 1920 ; in India, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine 1921 ; on the Prince of Wales ' tour of India and Japan, 1921-1922 ; in China and North America 1922 ; at the Peace Conference in Lausanne, 1923 ; in China, Nepal and Egypt 1924 ; and in China in 1925 ( source except where noted: Who Was Who ).

In 1908 he went to Bombay, hoping to board a ship to visit Palestine but was refused a permit, and had to return to the north.