Some sort of continental drift without expansion was proposed by Frank Bursley Taylor, who suggested in 1908 ( published in 1910 ) that the continents were dragged towards the equator by increased lunar gravity during the Cretaceous, thus forming the Himalayas and Alps on the southern faces.

The 4000-seat Harrison Stand on the ground ’ s southern side was built in 1908 followed by the 8000-seat Wardill Stand in 1912.

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )

From 1890 to 1908, southern states passed new constitutions and laws that disfranchised most blacks and tens of thousands of poor whites with new voter registration and electoral rules.

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 ".

In 1908, the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway was built on the southern border of Albertson.

The southern side of the quad consists of the Chapel, built in 1908 by Jackson, which has a particularly good acoustic.

In 1908, he also contrived a bold and audacious military venture in China called the “ Red Dragon Plan ” that called for organizing a revolutionary conspiracy to conquer the two southern Kwang provinces.

The London, Tilbury and Southend Railway trains from Fenchurch Street used the southern platforms when the Metropolitan District services began but stopping was reduced to a few a week in 1908 and to nil in 1913.

A 1908 Railway Clearing House map of lines in South East London, including the southern portion of the East London Line

At the southern end of the Rotherhithe station platforms, the approach ramp for the 1908 Rotherhithe Tunnel passes above the railway on a low and angled road bridge which is highly unusual for being located below water level.

File: Bricklayers Arms & New Cross, Midhurst RJD 91. jpg | A 1908 Railway Clearing House map of lines in South East London, including the southern portion of the East London Line

A 1908 Railway Clearing House map of lines in South East London, including the southern portion of the East London Line

Schles., 1908 – 1945 Neustadt O. S ') is a town in Poland, located in the southern part of Opole Voivodeship.

His first residence in southern France was in Cabasson, near Le Lavandou, then he settled a short distance away, in the small hamlet of Saint-Clair, where he spent the remainder of his life, leaving only for Italian trips in 1903 and 1908, and for his annual Indépendants exhibits in Paris.

The line 4 platforms were opened on 30 October 1909 when the southern section of line 4 was opened between Raspail and Porte d ' Orléans ; this was temporarily separated from the section of line 4 opened on 21 April 1908 between Châtelet and Porte de Clignancourt.

On April 5, 1908 the Italian Parliament enacted a basic law to unite all of the parts of southern Somalia into an area called " Somalia Italiana ".

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.

When Albert Henry Baskerville's NZ All Golds with their guest Australian star Dally Messenger arrived in Britain for the inaugural tour by a southern hemisphere side, the first full international was against Wales on New Year's Day 1908.

Garces National Forest was established by the U. S. Forest Service in southern Arizona on July 1, 1908 with from portions of Baboquivari, Tumacacori and Huachuca National Forests.

The result is that other southern states copy these provisions in their new constitutions and amendments through 1908, disfranchising most African Americans and tens of thousands of poor whites until the 1960s.

Dudley Leavitt ( August 31, 1830 – October 15, 1908 ) was an early patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Mormon pioneer and an early settler in southern Utah.

The map attached to C. W. Gwynn's account of his 1908 / 09 triangulation survey of southern Ethiopia shows that Gore had a telegraph station.

On 18 November 1908, the État absorbed the Chemins de fer de l ' Ouest and in 1934 took over the Paris-Orléans company's lines in southern Brittany.

*" Droopy " Gun — Gun from USS Monongahela, warped by fire which burned vessel in 1908, located on tip of Deer Point.

According to his 1908 obituary, Beverly Jefferson was " a likeable character at the Wisconsin capital, and a familiar of statesmen for half a century ".

This had already been tried following the 1890 flood — the result was the " Long Wooden Bridge " that connected Jefferson Boulevard in Oak Cliff and Cadiz in Dallas, but the resulting unstable bridge was easily washed away by the 1908 flood.

" If It's Good Enough for Washington It's Good Enough for Me " with words by Ren Shields, from 1908, was a song about a homeless man sleeping on a bench in a public square with statues of Washington, Jefferson, McKinley, Grant and Lee.

* Le Veillard Copy, returned by Thomas Jefferson in May 1786 and lost, Veillard ’ s translation of this text was acquired in 1908 by the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

Eston and Julia Ann Hemings had three children: John Wayles Jefferson ( 1835 – 1892 ), Anne Wayles Jefferson ( 1836 – 1866 ), and Beverly Frederick Jefferson ( 1838 – 1908 ).

", he played first-class cricket for a record-equalling 44 seasons, from 1865 to 1908, during which he captained England, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, the Gentlemen, MCC, the United South of England Eleven and several other teams.

With the demise of London County as a first-class team, the number of Grace's appearances dwindled over the next four seasons until he called it a day in 1908.

* The current Lafayette County Courthouse built in 1908.

* The Marion County Republican ( 1908 – 1909 )

In the presidential election of 1908 Winkler County supported William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic candidate.

* 1908 Current Hays County Courthouse in San Marcos erected.

In 1908 the northern portion of the County along the Congaree River was separated and included in the newly formed Calhoun County, with its seat at Saint Matthews.

Stark County received a minor boundary change in 1908 when Dunn County was formally organized.

Sheridan County was formed by the 1872 – 1873 territorial legislature but was attached to McLean County for judicial purposes until the 1908 general election, when voters decided to split Sheridan from McLean County entirely.

The name was then brought back in the 1908 general election under a proposal to divide Ward County.

At the November 3, 1908, general election, a vote was held in Ward County on whether to recreate Mountrail with different boundaries.

However, Clark County, Nevada, including Las Vegas, was separated from Lincoln County effective July 1, 1908, by act of the Nevada Legislature.

Morrill County was formed in 1908 " carved out of Cheyenne County ".

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.

Forrest County was carved out of the western portion of Perry County in 1908.

That building burned in 1907, and the fourth and current Warren County courthouse was completed on the same site in 1908 at a cost of $ 115, 000.

* Forsyth County News, Your " Hometown Paper " Since 1908