In 1912, Adolph Zukor established Famous Players Film Company -- advertising " Famous Players in Famous Plays " -- as the American distribution company for the French film production Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth starring Sarah Bernhardt.

Image: DeMeyer-Casati. jpg | Adolph de Meyer, " Marchesa Casati ", 1912

1913 photo of Paterson silk strike of 1913 | Paterson silk strike leaders Patrick Quinlan ( activist ) | Patrick Quinlan, Tresca, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Adolph Lessig, and Bill HaywoodTresca joined the revolutionary syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) in 1912, when he was invited by the union to Lawrence, Massachusetts to help mobilize the Italian workers during a campaign to free strike leaders Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, jailed on false murder charges.

Construction on the neighborhood began in 1912, on land originally owned by Adolph Sutro was purchased from his heirs by a private firm.

The Famous Players Film Company was founded in 1912 by Adolph Zukor in partnership with the Frohman brothers, the powerful New York City theatre impresarios.

Gerhard Adolph Bading ( August 31, 1870 – April 11, 1946 ) was an American physician, and politician who served as mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from 1912 to 1916. he was the U. S. Envoy to Ecuador from 1922 to 1929.

Moguls such as Adolph Zuckor, founder of Famous Players in 1912, brought theater actresses such as Sarah Bernhardt into the movies however audiences wanted movie stars.

The process of cosmopolitanism had begun in earnest about 1912, but the First War and the depression virtually stalled that process in its tracks.

the death of Emma Hardy in 1912, which had a profound emotional effect on Hardy for which he found release in poetry ; ;

The Lummus Cotton Gin Co. has had a sales and service office in Dallas since 1912.

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* 1912 – U. S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U. S .- backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.

In mid-December 1915, Dr. Alzheimer fell ill on the train on his way to the University of Breslau, where he had been appointed professor of psychiatry in 1912.

For the latter Bulgaria had a secret agreement with Serbia to divide it between them signed at 13 March 1912 during the negotiations that led to the establishment of the Balkan League.

By the summer of 1912 Heelis had proposed marriage and Beatrix had accepted, although she did not immediately tell her parents who once again disapproved because Heelis was only a country solicitor.

#** Prince Louis Napoléon Murat ( Paris, December 22, 1851-Paris, September 22, 1912 ), married in Odessa, 23 November, 1873 Eudoxia Mikhailovna Somova ( Kharkov, February 17, 1850-Nice, May 6, 1924 ), related to Orest Somov, and had issue now extinct in male line ( great-grandfather of actor René Auberjonois )

The hypothesis that the continents had once formed a single landmass before breaking apart and drifting to their present locations was first presented by Alfred Wegener to the German Geological Society on 6 January 1912.

Wegener was the first to use the phrase " continental drift " ( 1912, 1915 ) ( in German " die Verschiebung der Kontinente " – translated into English in 1922 ) and formally publish the hypothesis that the continents had somehow " drifted " apart.

There was also a complication: Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds were in need of a facility to replace the antiquated, obsolete Crosley Field, which they had used since 1912.

She had a major exhibition of 35 paintings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., in 1912.

In August 1912, Lee De Forest, the inventor of the audion, had also observed oscillations in his amplifiers, but he didn't understand its significance until he read Armstrong's patents in 1914, which he promptly challenged.

By 1912, public interest had waned, and Cahill's enterprise was bankrupt.

By 1911 there were enough independent and foreign films available to programme all the shows of the independent exhibitors, and in 1912 the independents had nearly half of the market.

Up to this point artificial lighting in studio scenes had always been put on from the front or side-front, but in 1912 there began to be a few cases where light was put onto the actors from arc floodlights out of shot behind them and to one side, to give a kind of backlighting.

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company had been formed in 1912 as an umbrella company for many of the independent producing companies, and continued to grow during the war.

( 2 ) In March 1912, Madero's former general Pascual Orozco, who was personally resentful of how Madero had treated him, launched a rebellion in Chihuahua with the financial backing of Luis Terrazas, a former Governor of Chihuahua who was the largest landowner in Mexico.

Mises had earlier applied the concept of marginal utility to the value of money in his Theory of Money and Credit ( 1912 ), in which he also proposed an explanation for " industrial fluctuations " based on the ideas of the old British Currency School and of Swedish economist Knut Wicksell.

By 1912, United Fruit had two concessions which it had purchased with government approval.

He had been a registered Republican before the war, though in 1912 he had supported Theodore Roosevelt's " Bull Moose " Progressive Party.

In 1912, these countries formed the Balkan League.

The provisional government of the Republic of China was formed in Nanjing on 12 March 1912.

Other independent companies were grouped under the Mutual banner in 1912, and there were also important new entrants, particularly the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company, and Famous Players, which were both formed in 1913 to take advantage of the fact that films could reproduce the real substance of a stage play ( plus embellishments ), and so the best plays and actors from the legitimate stage could be enticed into films.

The councils, formed as part of the Councils Act of 1912, administer the Canary Islands and have two principal functions.

Through spring 1912, a series of bilateral agreements between the Christian Balkan states ( Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Serbia ) formed the Balkan League, which in October 1912 declared war on the Ottoman Empire.

The Vincennes program began in 1903, however, no teams were formed from 1910 – 1912 and 1931-1950.

In 1912 the city was conquered by the Kingdom of Serbia during the Balkan Wars and after the First World War the city became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( Kingdom of Yugoslavia ).

Although the Whigs at first formed the most important part of the coalition, the Whiggish elements of the new party progressively lost influence during the long leadership of the Peelite William Ewart Gladstone, and many of the old Whig aristocrats broke from the party over the issue of Irish home rule in 1886 to help form the Liberal Unionist Party — which itself would merge with the Conservative Party by 1912.

A good example of fumarole activity on Earth is the famous Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, which was formed during the 1912 eruption of Novarupta in Alaska.

It was formed in 1963 by the merger of the Institute of Radio Engineers ( IRE, founded 1912 ) and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers ( AIEE, founded 1884 ).

* 1912 – Alfred Wegener proposes that all the continents once formed a single landmass called Pangaea that broke apart via continental drift

Until 1912, when the Canadian YMCAs formed their own national council, the YMCAs were jointly administered by the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations of North America.

Near the headwaters of the Appomattox River, the Town of Farmville was formed in 1798, and was incorporated in 1912.

It was formed in 1912 from portions of Hampton County and Beaufort County.

McCreary County was formed on March 12, 1912, the final county in order of formation.

Today's Wildlife Trust movement began life as The Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves ( SPNR ), which was formed by Charles Rothschild in 1912.

" Girl Scouts " formed March 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low in Savannah, GA and years later they could not work out a deal to merge with the Campfire Girls.

Originally formed in 1912 as the New Haven Council of the Boy Scouts of America, its headquarters was located in New Haven.

An article in the Stamford Advocate from 1941 ( Tercentenary Edition ) stated that on March 22, 1912, the city's first Boy Scout Troop was being formed at the St. John's Episcopal Church.

The Fair Oaks Library Association formed in 1908 and constructed a permanent building in 1912.

Tylertown was part of Pike County until 1912 when Walthall County was formed from Pike and Marion Counties.