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 ).

) Their original " Red Stockings " nickname lives on in three ways: in the Boston Red Sox of the American League, who adopted it in 1908 after the National Leaguers had given up their red trim briefly ; in the Cincinnati Reds of the National League, who reclaimed their city's old nickname in the 1880s during their days in the then-major American Association ; and in the perennial red trim that the Braves wear in their uniforms.

By 1908 problems with river silting and bar strandings meant that coastal shipping was avoiding Foxton.

In 1901, the Cheltenham Loop, now known as the Gloucester avoiding line, was re-instated primarily for goods traffic, but also for passengers from 1908.

The Epimenides paradox appears explicitly in " Mathematical Logic as Based on the Theory of Types ", by Bertrand Russell, in the American Journal of Mathematics, volume 30, number 3 ( July, 1908 ), pages 222 – 262, which opens with the following:

The name " quine " was coined by Douglas Hofstadter, in his popular science book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, in the honor of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine ( 1908 – 2000 ), who made an extensive study of indirect self-reference, and in particular for the following paradox-producing expression, known as Quine's paradox:

The Grelling – Nelson paradox is a semantic self-referential paradox formulated in 1908 by Kurt Grelling and Leonard Nelson and sometimes mistakenly attributed to the German philosopher and mathematician Hermann Weyl.

Unlike more general concepts of autology and self-reference, this particular distinction and opposition of " autological " and " heterological words " is uncommon in linguistics for describing linguistic phenomena or classes of words, but is current in logic and philosophy where it was introduced by Kurt Grelling and Leonard Nelson for describing a semantic paradox, later known as Grelling's paradox or the Grelling-Nelson paradox .< ref > Grelling and Nelson used the following definition when first publishing their paradox in 1908: " Let < big > φ </ big >( M ) be the word that denotes the concept defining M. This word is either an element of M or not.

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

The college was suppressed in 1908 by Pope Pius X and their duties were transferred to the protonotarii apostolici participantes.

Serbia's aspirations towards Bosnia and Herzegovina were thwarted by the Austrian annexation of the province in October 1908, and so the Serbs focused their attention onto their historic cradle, Kosovo and to the south for expansion.

The 1908 pennant races in both the AL and NL were among the most exciting ever witnessed.

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

Thus, dark blue jerseys, were introduced with white shorts and the red socks of 1908.

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.

At first the predictions of Einstein's formula were seemingly refuted by a series of experiments by Svedberg in 1906 and 1907, which gave displacements of the particles as 4 to 6 times the predicted value, and by Henri in 1908 who found displacements 3 times greater than Einstein's formula predicted.

But Einstein's predictions were finally confirmed in a series of experiments carried out by Chaudesaigues in 1908 and Perrin in 1909.

By 1908, James Dewar and H. Kamerlingh Onnes were successfully able to liquify hydrogen and then newly-discovered helium, respectively.

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.

Among his 69 Ph. D. students in Göttingen were many who later became famous mathematicians, including ( with date of thesis ): Otto Blumenthal ( 1898 ), Felix Bernstein ( 1901 ), Hermann Weyl ( 1908 ), Richard Courant ( 1910 ), Erich Hecke ( 1910 ), Hugo Steinhaus ( 1911 ), and Wilhelm Ackermann ( 1925 ).

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.

Experiments with color films were made as early as the late 19th century, but practical color film was not commercially viable until 1908, and for amateur use when Kodak introduced Kodachrome for 16 mm in 1935 and 8 mm in 1936.

Silent versions were released in 1907, 1908, 1910, 1913, 1917, and 1920.

By 1908, Mathers and Brodie-Innes were in complete accord.

The initial sparks of the first Balkan War in 1912 were ignited by the Albanian uprising between 1908 and 1910 which were directed at opposing the Young Turk policies of consolidation of the Ottoman Empire.

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.

" Similar proposals were made at the sessions of the International Congress of Navigation held at St. Petersburg in 1908 and again in 1912.

Particularly important was the work of Paul Ehrlich, who proposed the side-chain theory to explain the specificity of the antigen-antibody reaction ; his contributions to the understanding of humoral immunity were recognized by the award of a Nobel Prize in 1908, which was jointly awarded to the founder of cellular immunology, Elie Metchnikoff.

His parents were Henry Kern ( 1842 – 1908 ), a Jewish German immigrant, and Fannie Kern née Kakeles ( 1852 – 1907 ), who was an American Jew of Bohemian parentage.

In 1908 the islands were visited by the Swedish Magellanic Expedition and Carl Skottsberg is believed to have been the last to have seen the Santalum fernandezianum tree alive.

His father was cashiered from the Imperial German Army in 1908 — after repeatedly disparaging Kaiser Wilhelm II for his alleged homosexuality — and the Ribbentrop family were often short of money.