" By the Way " was originally a column in the Globe, consisting of unsigned humorous pieces ; P. G. Wodehouse was assistant editor of the column from August 1903 and editor from August 1904 to May 1909, during which time he was assisted by Herbert Westbrook.

Nicaragua's legal system also is a mixture of the English Common Law and the Civil Law through the influence of British administration of the Eastern half of the country from the mid-17th century until about 1905, the William Walker period from about 1855 through 1857, USA interventions / occupations during the period from 1909 to 1933, the influence of USA institutions during the Somoza family administrations ( 1933 through 1979 ) and the considerable importation between 1979 and the present of USA culture and institutions.

Meanwhile, he wrote entries, ultimately thousands during 1883 – 1909, on philosophy, logic, science, and other subjects for the encyclopedic Century Dictionary.

However, the success did not last and Lajoie resigned during the 1909 season as manager but remained on as a player.

Between 1906 and 1909 the Hawks family began to spend more time in Pasadena, California during the cold Wisconsin winters in order to improve Helen Hawks's ill health.

But during a summer holiday in Switzerland in 1909, Ribbentrop fell in love with a wealthy young socialite named Catherine Bell, from a Montreal banking family, which led him to substitute Canada for Tanganyika as his preferred destination.

The opera introduced a new character called ' the dancing missionary ', who was to appear in several episodes of the comic strip during 1909, and the word whiffenpoof.

* 1909 – Eugene Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first ' pilot ' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.

To solve an impasse during the 1909 tariff debate, Taft proposed income taxes for corporations and a constitutional amendment to remove the apportionment requirement for taxes on incomes from property ( taxes on dividends, interest, and rents ), on June 16, 1909.

The IWW first attracted attention in Goldfield, Nevada in 1906 and during the Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909 at McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.

According to Cooper there was " Early Cubism ", ( from 1906 to 1908 ) when the movement was initially developed in the studios of Picasso and Braque ; the second phase being called " High Cubism ", ( from 1909 to 1914 ) during which time Juan Gris emerged as an important exponent ; and finally Cooper referred to " Late Cubism " ( from 1914 to 1921 ) as the last phase of Cubism as a radical avant-garde movement.

* Robert Brasillach ( 1909 – 1945 ), fascist author and journalist, executed for advocating collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II.

Looking to expand his contacts and career, Ravel made his first foreign tours to England and Scotland during 1909 and 1911.

Ravel began work with impresario Sergei Diaghilev during 1909 for the ballet Daphnis et Chloé commissioned by Diaghilev with the lead danced by the famous ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky.

On 14 January 1909 he paid 5 guineas for Sanskrit classes during the spring and summer terms of that year.

In 1914 – 15, one section of the northern arm of the Red Main was straightened and widened after areas along the river had been flooded during a period of high water in 1909.

Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, and other impoverished artists lived and worked in a commune, a building called Le Bateau-Lavoir, during the years 1904 – 1909.

Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).

O ' Neill was married to Kathleen Jenkins from October 2, 1909 to 1912, during which time they had one son, Eugene O ' Neill, Jr. ( 1910 – 1950 ).

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker ( October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934 ) and Clyde Chestnut Barrow ( March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934 ) were well-known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression.

Hooper's association with The Times ceased during 1909, and he negotiated with the Cambridge University Press to publish the 29-volume eleventh edition.

The share of warships from all delivered new constructions came to about 50 % in 1909 / 10 and increased to nearly 100 % in 1916 during wartimes.

Sahachiro Hata discovered the antisyphilitic activity of this compound in 1909 in the laboratory of Paul Ehrlich, during a survey of hundreds of newly synthesized organic arsenical compounds.

The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.

In gratitude, the city of Milan awarded, in 1909, the " commemorative medal of deliverance ", which still adorns the regimental flags of the Second Regiment.

On 24 March 1909, he had taken the Admiralty-based appointment of naval assistant to the Second Sea Lord which placed him conveniently in London.

His most famous are the First Suite in E-flat for Military Band of 1909 and the Second Suite in F for Military Band of 1911 ( see also Hammersmith, below ).

) The Second Part of Henry the Sixt ( The Arden Shakespeare, 1st Series ; London: Arden, 1909 )

The vocabulary was vastly expanded in " Webster's New International " editions of 1909 and 1934, totaling over half a million words, with the 1934 edition retrospectively called " Webster's Second International ," or simply " The Second Edition.

* The Red Owl, originally titled The Robber ( One-Act Play, August 9, 1909, London Coliseum ; published in One-Act Plays for Stage and Study, Second Series, Samuel French, Ltd., 1925, pgs 47 – 80 )

* Among Thieves ( One-Act Play, September 6, 1909, Palace Theatre, London ; published in One-Act Plays for Stage and Study, Second Series, Samuel French, Ltd., 1925, pgs.

On 4 November 1909, he decided to take up a passenger, a piglet, which he named Icarus the Second, thereby debunking the old adage that pigs can't fly.

* September 12-Albert Bruce Matthews, commander of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division during the Second World War ( born 1909 )

In 1909 the company first made use of the famous Union Flag Badge, a feature of the radiator emblem until after the Second World War.

François Faber, winner of the 1909 Tour de France, died here fighting in the Second Battle of Artois, on 9 May 1915, during World War I.

The previous highest position Hull City had finished in the Football League was third in the old Second Division in 1909 – 10, which they matched in 2007 – 08 when they gained promotion.

He gained a Second Class in the first History Tripos in 1909, and won the English Essay Prize with an essay on political satire in English poetry.

Following a series of professional examinations and the passing of a Naval Medical Board he accepted his commission as a Second Lieutenant on February 5, 1909.

* The Tragic Week ( Catalonia ) of 1909 was a series of confrontations between the Spanish army and the working classes of Catalonia ( Spain ), caused by the calling-up of reserve troops to be sent as reinforcements to the Second Rif War in Morocco.

He received his appointment as a Second Lieutenant in January 1909, and underwent his basic training as a Marine officer at the Marine Barracks, Port Royal, South Carolina.

Reimond Tollenaere ( Oostakker June 29, 1909 – Koptsy, near Veliki Novgorod January 22, 1942 ) was an SS-Untersturmführer ( Second Lieutenant ) and member of the Vlaams Nationaal Verbond ( V. N. V.

A small fringe group of the Dani, living south of Puncak Trikora and presenting themselves as the Pesegem and the Horip tribes, were met on October 29, 1909, by the Second South New Guinea Expedition led by Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz, who stayed several nights in their village.

In 1909, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Royal Artillery.

There were also a number of other famous people from Athea, including the Ahern brothers of Olympian fame, David Quaid served with the Royal Munster Fusiliers from 1897 – 1909 he fought at the battles of Belmont, The Modder River and the Relief of Ladysmith during the Second Boer War in South Africa 1899 – 1902, he later served with his regiment in India under Lord Kitchener.

It was the site of the original park entrance and accommodation area from 1909 to the Second World War.

In 1909, the Independiente team that took part in the Second Division won the Copa Bullrich, the first official trophy.

In 1892 the Agricultural School became the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts with funding from the Second Morrill Land Grant Act of 1890, later becoming Rhode Island State College in 1909 and the University of Rhode Island in 1951.