It was for this reason, and no other that I can see, that in September 1912, Braque took the radical and revolutionary step of pasting actual pieces of imitation-woodgrain wallpaper to a drawing on paper, instead of trying to simulate its texture in paint.

The `` Poems of 1912 - 13 '' offer a good example of Hardy's style as it was manifested in the later productive decade.

Even before it was formally dissolved in 1912, the A.L.A.M. was succeeded by the Automobile Board of Trade, the direct lineal ancestor of the present-day Automobile Manufacturers Association.

The prevailing view in the industry was summed up in 1912 by a group of auto makers who told a Senate committee: `` The exceedingly unsatisfactory and uselessly expensive conditions, including delays surrounding legal disputes, particularly in patent litigation, are items of industrial burden which must be written large in figures of many millions of dollars of industrial waste ''.

or `` Carmine Theater, 1912 '', the only canvas with an ash can ( and foraging dog ), although Sloan was a member of the famous `` Eight '', and of the so-called `` Ash-Can School '', a term he resented.

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.

While there he collaborated with American physician Charles Claude Guthrie in work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs as well as the head, and Carrel was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for these efforts.

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

However, both Julius and Ethel wanted their children to be brought up in England, so they moved to Maida Vale, London, where Turing was born on 23 June 1912, as recorded by a blue plaque on the outside of the house of his birth, later the Colonnade Hotel.

The Australian Labor Party ( also ALP and Labor, was Labour before 1912 ) is a social-democratic political party in Australia.

He was made a " Knight of the Indian Empire " by Queen Victoria, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire by Edward VII ( 1902 ), and a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India by George V ( 1912 ).

Even as late as 1912 it was normal in the West to assume that all art aims at beauty, and thus that anything that wasn't trying to be beautiful couldn't count as art.

The first proposal for a tank was by the Austrian Oberleutenant Günther Burstyn who, in 1911, proposed a design for " motor artillery " ( Motorengeschütz ) with a turret, but his design never progressed beyond a German patent in 1912.

In 1912, the Anthroposophical Society was founded.

The SANNC was founded in the subsequent year on 8 January 1912.

In December, 2007, St. George Absinthe Verte, produced by St. George Spirits became the first brand of American-made absinthe to be legally produced in the United States since a ban was enacted in 1912.

Only several years after its liberation ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became a regional military power and was involved in several major wars – Serbo-Bulgarian War ( 1885 ), First Balkan War ( 1912 – 13 ), Second Balkan War ( 1913 ), First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) and Second World War ( 1941 – 1944 ), during which the Army gained significant combat experience.

Brigitte Bardot was born in Paris to Anne-Marie ' Toty ' Mucel ( 1912 – 1978 ) and Louis ' Pilou ' Bardot ( 1896 – 1975 ).

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.

As a result Asquith was forced to introduce a new third Home Rule bill in 1912.

The First Balkan War broke out when the League attacked the Ottoman Empire on 8 October 1912 and was ended seven months later by the Treaty of London.

With the initial encouragement of Russian agents, a series of agreements was concluded between Serbia and Bulgaria in March 1912.

The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica called the series of wars the Great Rebellion, while some historians, especially Marxists such as Christopher Hill ( 1912 – 2003 ), have long favoured the term English Revolution.

The first recorded use of regimental ( the original name for the color now called Persian indigo ) as a color name in English was in 1912.

Tibetan text and translation of a section of the work called, Bzo gnas nyer mkho ' i za ma tog by ' Jam-mgon ' Ju Mi-pham-rgya-mtsho ( 1846 – 1912 ) describing various traditional Tibetan techniques of making inks from different sources of soot, and from earth, puffball s, dung, ser-sha-a yellow fungus, and the fruit of tsi dra ka ( Ricinus communis ).

The Bolsheviks started a new workers-oriented newspaper in St. Petersburg on 22 April 1912, and also called it Pravda.

The first inklings of a wider family came in 1912, when Diedrich Westermann included three of the ( still independent ) Central Sudanic families within Nilotic in a proposal he called Niloto-Sudanic ; this expanded Nilotic was in turn linked to Nubian, Kunama, and possibly Berta, essentially Greenberg's Macro-Sudanic ( Chari – Nile ) proposal of 1954.

There, in 1912, he began the poem cycle called the Duino Elegies, which would remain unfinished for a decade because of a long-lasting creativity crisis.

In late 1911, President Taft called for a “ central organization in touch with associations and chambers of commerce throughout the country .” Just four months later, on April 12, 1912, Taft created the United States Chamber of Commerce as a counterbalance to the rise of the labor movement at the time.

A 1912 article called " Some Knots and Splices " by Drew appears in the bibliography of The Ashley Book of Knots.

Kazimierz Funk ( February 23, 1884 – November 20, 1967 ), commonly anglicized as Casimir Funk, was a Polish-American biochemist, generally credited with the first formulation of the concept of vitamins in 1912, which he called vital amines or vitamines.

The city is called Nice la Belle ( Nissa La Bella in Niçard ), which means Nice the Beautiful, which is also the title of the unofficial anthem of Nice, written by Menica Rondelly in 1912.

In 1644, after the Ming Dynasty's capital of Beijing was sacked by the peasant rebels, the Jurchens ( now called Manchus ) allied with Ming general Wu Sangui and seized control of Beijing, overthrowing the short-lived Shun Dynasty and establishing Qing Dynasty rule ( 1644 – 1912 ) over all of China.

Arthur Hammerstein asked Harbach in 1912 to write the lyrics to an operetta with Rudolf Friml, called The Firefly.

Some trace the modern history of fast food in America to July 7, 1912, with the opening of a fast food restaurant called the Automat in New York.

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

The Wireless Ship Act of 1910 called for Congress to modestly regulate the wireless industry and the Radio Act of 1912 was their first attempt to make more legislative oversight to the entire radio industry.

In 1912 he began promoting his dream of a transcontinental highway, and at a September 10 dinner meeting with industry friends in Indianapolis, he called for a coast-to-coast rock highway to be completed by May 1, 1915, in time for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

He mobilized the old Tungmenghui at the core with the merger of a number of new small parties to form a new political party called the Guomindang ( Chinese nationalist party ) on 25 August 1912 at Huguang Guild Hall Beijing.

American anarchist Voltairine de Cleyre wrote a famous essay called " Direct Action " in 1912 which is widely cited today.

The post office, originally called Westmoreland, opened in 1909, closed in 1912, re-opened in 1919, renamed to Westmorland in 1936.

In 1912, the school district constructed a new high school and enlarged this building ( then called Park Primary School ) using brick salvaged from the Center Union School.

In 1894, there was one called the Weekly Star, and in 1912 there was The People ’ s Advocate.

The 825 foot Tuckerton Wireless Tower () was built in 1912 by the German " Hochfrequenzmaschin Aktiengesellschaft Fuer Drahtlose Telegraphie " company ( The High Frequency Machine Corporation for Wireless Telegraphy, often referred to as HOMAG ) when the present-day Mystic Island was called Hickory Island.

The Tuckerton Wireless Tower () was built in 1912 by the German " Hochfrequenzmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft für drahtlose Telegraphie " company ( The High Frequency Machine Corporation for Wireless Telegraphy, often referred to as HOMAG ) when the present-day Mystic Island was called Hickory Island.

) so that it is called for in, for example, Jules Massenet's Esclarmonde ( 1889 ), Visions ( 1891 ) and Suite parnassienne ( 1912 ); Maurice Ravel's Shéhérazade overture ( 1898 ), Rapsodie espagnole ( 1907 ) and L ' heure espagnole ( 1907 – 09 ); Ignacy Jan Paderewski's Symphony in B minor " Polonia " ( 1903-08 ; 3 sarrusophones are called for ); Frederick Delius's Requiem ( 1913-16 ); and Arrigo Boito's Nerone ( 1924 ).