Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevelyan Huxley ( 1891 – 1914 ), who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression.

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

It was part of the ' Big Push ' ( later known as the Battle of the Somme ) that was intended to force the German Army into a retreat from the Western Front, a line they had held since late 1914.

Gropius's design for the Dessau facilities was a return to the futuristic Gropius of 1914 that had more in common with the International style lines of the Fagus Factory than the stripped down Neo-classical of the Werkbund pavilion or the Völkisch Sommerfeld House.

Since the award was not as effective at advertising as Chalmers had hoped, it was discontinued after 1914.

Since the House of Lords no longer had the power to block the bill, the Unionist's Ulster Volunteers led by Sir Edward Carson, launched a campaign of opposition that included the threat of armed resistance in Ulster and the threat of mutiny by army officers in Ireland in 1914 ( see Curragh Incident ).

In late 1905 Balfour had requested of Charles Dreyfus, his Jewish constituency representative, that he arrange a meeting with Weizmann, during which Weizmann asked for official British support for Zionism ; they were to meet again on this issue in 1914.

Friendly relations had fairly well cooled by 1914.

But most damaging, the new situation effectively trapped Russian foreign policy: After 1913, Russia could not afford losing its last ally in this crucial area and thus had no alternatives but to unconditionally support Serbia when the crisis between Serbia and Austria broke out in 1914.

The Maritz Rebellion or the Boer Revolt or the Five Shilling Rebellion or the Third Boer War, occurred in South Africa in 1914 at the start of World War I, in which men who supported the re-creation of the old Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa because they did not want to side with the British against Germany so soon after they had had a long bloody war with the British.

His second wife, Alice, died in 1911 and his oldest son Jean, who had married Alice's daughter Blanche, Monet's particular favourite, died in 1914.

In his definitive study of the taxonomy of the coyote, Jackson had, in response to Miller, queried whether Heller had seriously looked at specimens of coyotes prior to his 1914 article, and thought the characters to be “ not sufficiently important or stable to warrant subgeneric recognition for the group ”.

Elsie had copied illustrations of fairies from a popular children's book of the time, Princess Mary's Gift Book, published in 1914.

In September 1914 cavalry comprised 9. 28 % of the total manpower of the British Expeditionary Force in France — by July 1918 this proportion had fallen to 1. 65 %.

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

By 1914, Europeans had migrated to the colonies in the millions.

Hunter College – so-named in 1914, originally Female Normal and High School and later the Normal College – had existed since 1870, and later expanded into the Bronx in the early 20th century with what became Herbert Lehman College, but CCNY and Hunter resisted merging.

The DAT corporation had been selling full size cars to Japanese consumers under the DAT name since 1914 ( Madely, pg.

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.

Though large numbers of Irishmen had willingly joined Irish regiments and divisions of the New British Army at the outbreak of war in 1914, the likelihood of enforced conscription created a backlash – particularly as the Government of Ireland Act 1914 ( as previously recommended in March by the Irish Convention ) was controversially linked with a " dual policy " enactment of the Military Service Bill.

The Supreme Council of the IRB met on 5 September 1914, a month after the British government had declared war on Germany.

He returned to the German diplomatic service in the Ottoman Empire ( 1914 – 1916 ), where he witnessed the Armenian Genocide.

By 1914, the Armenian population had decreased slightly to 40 % while the Azeri population increased to roughly 60 %.

In November 1914, he had the second battalion of the Armenian volunteers.

1914, Staff of Armenian volunteers ; Khetcho, Drastamat Kanayan, and Karekin Pastermadjian

One third of the population of Bitlis was ethnic Armenian prior to World War I ( 1914, whereas the majority of the population was Kurdish Muslim ( Alevi as well as Sunni Muslims ).

Ottoman Armenian casualties refers to the number of deaths of Ottoman Armenian people between 1914 to 1923.

McCarthy calculated an estimate of the pre-war Armenian population, then subtracted his estimate of survivors, arriving at a figure of a little less than 600, 000 for Armenian casualties for the period 1914 to 1922.

While there is no clear consensus as to how many Armenians lost their lives during the Armenian genocide and what followed, there seems to be a consensus among Western scholars with the exception of few dissident and Turkish national historians, as to when covering all the period between 1914 to 1923, over a million Armenian might have perished, and the tendency seem recently to be, either presenting 1. 2 million as figure or even 1. 5 million, while more moderately, " over a million " is presented, as the Turkish historian Fikret Adanir provides as estimation, but excludes what followed 1917.

In terms of the boundaries of 1914, Germany in 1700 had a population of 16 million, increasing slightly to 17 million by 1750, and growing more rapidly to 24 million by 1800.

In 1909, he became Vice-Mayor of Cologne, an industrial metropolis with a population of 635, 000 in 1914.

Total Ottoman population losses from 1914 – 1922 were approximately 5 million including the Spanish flu deaths, the Turkish War of Independence from 1919 – 1922 and the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey, these other population losses are not included with the casualties of World War I.

In 1914 they numbered 25 % of the population in the Ottoman Empire.

Between 1905 and 1914 half the population of the western plains region died.

Following a plague epidemic in 1914, the authorities forced most of the African population out of old neighborhoods, or " Plateau ", and into a new quarter, called Médina, separated from it by a " sanitary cordon ".

In 1914, before the beginning of World War I, it had a population of a bit under 530, 000 inhabitants.

Based on the official 1914 Ottoman Census the population of Van province consisted of 179, 422 Muslims and 67, 797 Armenians.

After Kittanning merged with Wickboro ( 1910 population 2, 775 ), in 1914, an estimated 10, 000 residents lived in Kittanning in that year.

A public water system began operation in 1914 and its population had increased to 1, 300 residents.

By 1914 Gallatin had a population of 350, several churches, two general stores, a drugstore, a school, and a cotton gin.

The community had an estimated population of 600 by 1914.

The population decreased and numbers like 225 people in 1914 appeared.

By 1914 Rocksprings had a population of around 500.

By 1914 the estimated population of 400 supported three churches, two banks, a newspaper, and a tomato cannery.

In 1914 it had a telephone connection, a general store, a hardware store, and a population of thirty-two.

It incorporated in 1910, and by 1914 it had a cottonseed-oil mill, three cotton gins, two banks, a weekly newspaper, the Wortham Journal, and a population of 950.

Its population peaked at 713 in 1914 and has declined since.

The town was incorporated in 1913 and had a population of 2, 000 by 1914.

: * after the loss to Germany of most of Alsace in 1871, the Belfort population was boosted by the arrival of large numbers of refugees from " germanisation ": the years between 1871 and 1914 saw the development of large factories, with the mechanical and textile sectors prominent growth areas.

The community had an estimated population of 250 by 1914.

By 1914, Christoval had an estimated population of 200, two general stores, and a newspaper – the Christoval Observer.

In 1914 the Turkish authorities estimated the nomadic population at 55, 000, The Bedouin component of the population was estimated at 72, 898 out of a total of 75, 254 for the Beersheba sub-district.