Using this period-luminosity relation, in 1913 the distance to the SMC was first estimated by Ejnar Hertzsprung.

* Report on the nonexistence of Peary Channel in Meddelelser om Grønland, ( 50 volumes, Copenhagen, 1876-1912 ), volume xli ( 1913 ), edited by Ejnar Mikkelsen.

In the period 1911 – 1913, together with Henry Norris Russell, he developed the Hertzsprung – Russell diagram.

A second German edition was published in 1913, containing theologically significant revisions and expansions: but this revised edition did not appear in English until 2001.

His father died in the winter of 1913, while Edwin was still in England, and in the summer of 1913, Edwin returned to care for his mother, two sisters, and younger brother, as did his brother William.

After the death of his father in 1913, Edwin returned to the Midwest from Oxford, but did not have the motivation to practice law.

Although D. W. Griffith did not invent any new film techniques, he was the best film director working up to 1913, and this was because he made better dramatic and artistic use of the medium than other directors.

Preoccupied with internal problems, France played little attention to foreign policy in the 1911-14 period, although it did extend military service to three years from two over strong Socialist objections in 1913.

The letters were first annotated in 1913 by Theo's widow Johanna van Gogh-Bonger who explained that she published them with ' trepidation ' because she did not want the drama in the artist's life to overshadow his work.

In 1913, he enrolled in an engineering course at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, in part because he did not wish to study in Russian ; instruction in Polish was prohibited.

Oskar Barnack built his prototype Ur-Leica in 1913 and had it patented, but Ernst Leitz did not decide to produce it before 1924.

In 1913, it completed construction of its Los Angeles Aqueduct, But it did not take long for Los Angeles water officials to realize that Owens River water was not enough to supply the rapidly growing metropolis.

Around 95 % of French Indochina's population was rural in a 1913 estimate, although urbanization did slowly grow over the course of French rule.

The first newspaper reports did not appear until January 1913, about six months after the Stockholm Games had concluded.

In 1913, Martin Harvey staged a major production at the Prince of Wales Theatre, as did William Bridges Adams in 1919, where the Induction was completely omitted.

The earliest uses of the term appear to have been commercial — for example, the Delmarva Heat, Light, and Refrigerating Corp. of Chincoteague, Virginia, was in existence by 1913 — but general use of the term did not occur until the 1920s.

The United States did not pass a law, but instead placed a " punitive tax " on white phosphorus-based matches, one so high as to render their manufacture financially impractical, in 1913.

The boy was brought up to believe that he was Adolphe Bizet's child ; only on her deathbed in 1913 did Reiter reveal her son's true paternity.

When Johnson finally did agree to take on a black opponent in late 1913, it was not Sam Langford, the current coloured heavyweight champ, that he gave the title shot to.

Construction of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company of Texas across Pecos County in 1913 caused a boom in land speculation and community growth, as did irrigation projects along the Pecos River.

However, the term Expressionism did not firmly establish itself until 1913.

When the City of San Marino was first incorporated in 1913 it did not have its own police department.

In 1913, Carl Jung proposed the Electra complex as he both believed that bisexuality did not lie at the origin of psychic life, and that Freud did not give adequate description to the female child.

Only in 1913 did Norbert von Hellingrath, a member of the circle around poet Stefan George, bring out the first two volumes of what eventually became a six-volume edition of Hölderlin's poems, prose and letters ( the ' Berlin Edition ', Berliner Ausgabe ).

The Brushaber Court noted that the 1913 Income Tax Act was written as an indirect tax and did not violate the rule of uniformity, so it was not written as a direct tax and was not subject to the rule of apportionment.

The 1913 Handbook of Indians of Canada ( reprinting 1907 material from the Bureau of American Ethnology ), claims that North American natives practicing cannibalism included "... the Montagnais, and some of the tribes of Maine ; the Algonkin, Armouchiquois, Iroquois, and Micmac ; farther west the Assiniboine, Cree, Foxes, Chippewa, Miami, Ottawa, Kickapoo, Illinois, Sioux, and Winnebago ; in the South the people who built the mounds in Florida, and the Tonkawa, Attacapa, Karankawa, Caddo, and Comanche (?

According to some scholars, Howard's conception of Conan and the Hyborian Age may have originated in Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology ( 1913 ) which inspired Howard to " coalesce into a coherent whole his literary aspirations and the strong physical, autobiographical elements underlying the creation of Conan.

However, it took some years to catch on with other American film-makers, but by 1913, it was starting to occur with greater frequency in the work of a few directors.

* 1913 – The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.

The Gambler's fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy ( because its most famous example happened in a Monte Carlo Casino in 1913 ), and also referred to as the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the belief that if deviations from expected behaviour are observed in repeated independent trials of some random process, future deviations in the opposite direction are then more likely.

Crawford Gribben has shown that there were successful rapture fiction novels as early as 1913, with some earlier works identified as dating from 1905.

The team had some prominent success in Philadelphia, winning three of four World Series from 1910 to 1913 ( the " First Dynasty ") and two in a row in 1929 and 1930 ( the " Second Dynasty ").

The Giants experienced some hard luck in the early 1910s, losing three straight World Series starting in 1911 to the A's, the Red Sox, and the A's again ( the Giants and the A's both won pennants in 1913 ; two seasons later, both teams finished in eighth place ).

Instead, the address was written and then sent to Congress to be read by a clerk until 1913 when Woodrow Wilson re-established the practice despite some initial controversy.

Bayreuth's monopoly on Parsifal ended on 1 January 1914 and some theatres began their performances at midnight on 31 December 1913.

There is also some evidence that Thorpe's amateur status had been questioned long before the Olympics, but the AAU had ignored the issue until being confronted with it in 1913.

He subsequently worked for the railroad, first as a brakeman and later a surveyor, as a professional marble sculptor, and was assistant to the head architect of the 1913 San Francisco World's Fair, where some of his work was displayed.

In 1913, Stann Creek Railway operated between Dangriga and Middlesex Estate and was abandoned in 1937 leaving some railway bridges along the Hummingbird Highway.

Nevertheless, the Treaty of Bucharest in 1913 gave some territorial gains to Bulgaria.

The episode of McCay's newspaper comic In the Land of Wonderful Dreams published in newspapers on the 21st of September 1913 showed the reader some of the creatures from the upcoming film: a " dinosaurus ", a sea serpent and a four-winged lizard.

At its most basic, " creative destruction " ( German: schöpferische Zerstörung ) describes the way in which capitalist economic development arises out of the destruction of some prior economic order, and this is largely the sense implied by the German Marxist sociologist Werner Sombart who has been credited with the first use of these terms in his work Krieg und Kapitalismus (" War and Capitalism ", 1913 ).

Another Claude Renoir ( 1913 / 14-93 ), the son of Pierre, was a cinematographer who worked on some of some of his uncle's films.

Websters 1913 Revised Unabridged Dictionary lists this version of pussy as an alternate spelling of " pursy ", an otherwise obsolete English word meaning " fat and short-breathed ; fat, short, and thick ; swelled with pampering ..." The interpretation is often misconstrued, as it contains multiple meanings which some consider derogatory.

Skirmishes between government troops and armed groups lasted until 1913, and some historians consider these unofficial extensions part of the war.

" Although it owed much of its character and some of its ideas to radical political movements, it was not much involved in politics until the autumn of 1913.

By 1913 the total had risen to some 1. 5 million net tons, but the disruption caused by the First World War produced a major decline in traffic.

Her first published writings, some stories for children, were published in The Comrade, a Philadelphia Presbyterian Church paper, between 1909 and 1913, mostly under the name Edith Gray.