Through 1911 and 1912, as the Cubist facet-plane's tendency to adhere to the literal surface became harder and harder to deny, the task of keeping the surface at arm's length fell all the more to eye-undeceiving contrivances.

* 1912 – The British passenger liner sinks in the North Atlantic at 2: 20 a. m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg.

* 1912 – The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.

* 1912 – The British passenger liner hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11: 40pm.

* 1912 – Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.

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.

Members founded the organization as the South African Native National Congress ( SANNC ) on 8 January 1912 at the Waaihoek Wesleyan Church in Bloemfontein to increase the rights of the black South African population.

He also wrote an orchestral tone poem on A Shropshire Lad ( first performed at Leeds Festival under Arthur Nikisch 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.

He became adjutant of the 1st Battalion of his regiment at Shorncliffe in 1912.

The apple of discord: King George I of Greece and Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria at Thessaloniki, December 1912.

Finally, in the German Imperial War Council of 8 December 1912 the consensus was that Germany would not be ready for war until at least mid-1914 and passed notes to that effect to the Habsburgs.

Because of the Balkan Wars, the Second International held an extraordinary congress at Basel in 1912.

Attlee became a lecturer at the London School of Economics in 1912, but promptly applied for a Commission in August 1914 for World War I.

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

The first multilateral competition at international level was the 1912 Triangular Tournament, a Test cricket tournament played in England between all three Test-playing nations at the time: England, Australia and South Africa.

Tiger Stadium ( Detroit ) | Tiger Stadium, home of the Detroit Tigers from 1912 – 1999 at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull in the Corktown, Detroit | Corktown district of Detroit.

In 1912 at the request of the German Society of Psychiatry, he began plans to establish a centre for research.

Having played at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground from 1882 to 1921, and having won four VFA premierships ( 1891 – 1894 ) and four VFL premierships ( 1897, 1901, 1911, ( 1912 ) whilst there, Essendon were looking for a new home, and were offered grounds at the current Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, at Victoria Park, at Arden St, North Melbourne, and the Essendon Cricket Ground.

In the 1922 season, back at Essendon at last, they reached the final four for the first time since 1912, finishing in third place.

From 1863, he was privatdozent in comparative anatomy and zoology ; from 1866 extraordinary professor ; and from 1873 to 1912 full professor, first holder of the chair in zoology and director of the zoological institute at Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in Breisgau.

In 1912, at the age of twenty, he enrolled at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, but, at summer semester's end, returned to Berlin, then matriculated into the Humboldt University of Berlin, to continue studying philosophy.

He made his public debut at a concert at Freiburg on 17 May 1912.

Later he went to Strasbourg and studied at the university there, as well as in Freiburg and Munich, where he and graduated in 1912.

In 1845, Ralph Waldo Emerson, alluding to the development of European civilization out of the medieval Dark Ages, wrote in his private journal of America as the Utopian product of a culturally and racially mixed " smelting pot ", but only in 1912 were his remarks first published.

* The International, a literary journal founded in 1912 by George Sylvester Viereck

Born into an upper-middle class family, Gómez de la Serna refused to follow his father into law or politics and soon adopted the marginal lifestyle of a bohemian bourgeois artist, finding his literary feet in the journal Prometeo, which, funded by his indulgent father between 1908 and 1912, introduced into Spain a whiff of scandal from the likes of Oscar Wilde, Remy de Gourmont and Marinetti.

From 1912 he was a co-editor of the influential Russian-language journal Ukrainskaya zhizn ’ ( Ukrainian life ) until May 1917.

Also of note is a contemporary obituary of Keulemans which was recorded in the journal British Birds ( 1912 ).

Squire had been appointed literary editor when the New Statesman was set up in 1912 ; he was noted as an adept and quick journalist, at ease with contributing to all parts of the journal.

In addition to writing and publishing a steady stream of books and pamphlets, Atkinson started writing articles for Elizabeth Towne's New Thought magazine Nautilus, as early as November 1912, while from 1916 to 1919, he simultaneously edited his own journal Advanced Thought.

That fame perished quickly was shown by Hermann Wagner in his article of 1912, when he commemorates the merits of the Gotha epoch under Petermann and finds that nobody up till then had written about the making of the history of geography and cartography and that all those pioneers were all but forgotten, even though the journal carried Petermann ’ s name since 1879.

He became editor in 1912 and over the next few years turned into America's leading social work journal.

On 6 January 1912 he publicized his first thoughts about continental drift in a lecture at a session of the Geologischen Vereinigung at the Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main and in three articles in the journal Petermanns Geographischen Mitteilungen.

The monthly journal Skjulte Skatter, (" Hidden Treasures ") has been published every month since 1912.

When the Eugenics Record Office was founded in 1912, he served as a member of its scientific advisory board, and in 1916 he was one of the 10 founders of the scientific journal Genetics.

She quickly became prominent in the National Union, and was editor of its weekly journal, The Common Cause from 1909 – 1912.

Eduardo J. Correa, his old mentor, hired him in 1912 to collaborate on La Nación, a monthly Catholic journal in Mexico City.

In 1912 Granet sent Chavannes a paper, “ Coutumes matrimoniales de la Chine antique ” upon the latter ’ s request, which Chavannes submitted for publication in the T ’ oung Pao, a major sinological journal.

In 1912 Shifu founded the Society of Cocks Crowing in the Dark ( aka Cock-Crow Society ), whose journal, People's Voice, was the leading organ of Chinese anarchism in the 1910s.

In January 1912 the journal of Cercle Proudhon was first published, entitled Cahiers du cercle Proudhon.

The History of Science Society ( HSS ) is the primary professional society for the academic study of the history of science. It was founded in 1924 by George Sarton and Lawrence Joseph Henderson, primarily to support the publication of Isis, a journal of the history of science Sarton had started in 1912.

Published in the journal Historisk Tidsskrift in 1912, it featured an elaboration on Koht's theory about class and the nation.