Between the abolition of serfdom and the beginning of World War I in 1914, the Stolypin reforms, the constitution of 1906 and State Duma introduced notable changes to the economy and politics of Russia, but the tsars were still not willing to relinquish autocratic rule, or share their power.

In the Russian Empire, a limited version of a Dry Law was introduced in 1914.

From 1906 to 1914, the two schools played rugby as their major sport, but they soon found that the objectionable practices they saw in football were introduced into rugby.

It was introduced in India in 1955 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ( 1914 – 2008 ).

The use of the π < sub > i </ sub > as the dimensionless parameters was introduced by Edgar Buckingham in his original 1914 paper on the subject from which the theorem draws its name.

It was initially adopted by the German states in 1865, ( from which point onwards till the middle of WWI approximately 5 % of every bayonet style was issued with a sawback version ) Great Britain in 1869, Belgium in 1868 and Switzerland in 1878, ( who introduced their last model in 1914 ).

Passed during the Wilson administration, the legislation was introduced by Alabama Democrat Henry De Lamar Clayton Jr. in the U. S. House of Representatives, where the act passed by a vote of 277 to 54 on June 5, 1914.

* 1914 – Kodak introduced the Autographic film system.

The term was first introduced by the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce ( 1839 – 1914 ) as " guessing ".

The philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (; 1839 – 1914 ) introduced abduction into modern logic.

When the British painter Nina Hamnett arrived in Montparnasse in 1914, on her first evening there the smiling man at the next table in the café introduced himself as Modigliani ; painter and Jew.

Meanwhile, string rewriting rules as formal, abstract systems were introduced and studied by mathematicians such as Axel Thue ( in 1914 ), Emil Post ( 1920s – 1940s ) and Alan Turing ( 1936 ).

In 1914, when the English painter Nina Hamnett arrived in Montparnasse, on her first evening the smiling man at the next table at La Rotonde graciously introduced himself as " Modigliani, painter and Jew ".

Pavlova was introduced to audiences in the United States by Max Rabinoff during his time as managing director of the Boston Grand Opera Company from 1914 to 1917 and was featured there with her Russian Ballet Company during that period.

In September 1914, when victory in the World War seemed at hand, Berlin introduced a Lebensraum plan for postwar peace terms.

His best known works include the trilogy about the long 19th century ( The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789 – 1848, The Age of Capital: 1848 – 1875 and The Age of Empire: 1875 – 1914 ), The Age of Extremes on the short 20th century and an edited volume which introduced the influential idea of ' invented traditions '.

Over 220 products were introduced in the following decades, including production of the first chocolate Easter egg in UK in 1873 and the Fry's Turkish Delight ( or Fry's Turkish bar ) in 1914.

Electric service was introduced to the community in 1914.

He was introduced to the Spanish pianist Ricardo Viñes in 1914, a champion of the music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, and became his pupil shortly afterwards.

In 1914, appeared the Takarazuka Revue a company solely composed by women who introduced the revue in Japan.

Former headquarters of WU, located at 60 Hudson, New York, NY, USA, in the early and middle 20th centuryIn 1914 Western Union offered the first charge card for consumers ; in 1923 it introduced teletypewriters to join its branches.

If Moslems could cite an Ottoman regulation of 1912 specifically forbidding objects like seating to be introduced, the Jews could cite testimonies to the fact that before 1914 certain exceptions had been made to improve their access and use of the Wall.

The term was introduced by Henry Tate in 1914 and has resisted change since then.

* Cabiria ( 1914 ) introduced the Maciste character

Category: Fictional characters introduced in 1914

At Méteren, near the Belgian border at Bailleul on 13 October 1914, during an Allied counter-offensive, he was shot through the right lung by a sniper.

Image: French heavy cavalry Paris August 1914. jpg | French cuirassiers, wearing breastplates and helmets, parade through Paris on the way to battle, August 1914.

In 1914 the island was visited by the German light cruiser SMS Emden half-way through its historic commerce raiding cruise during the first months of World War I.

The Vitagraph company's The Man That Might Have Been ( William Humphrey, 1914 ), is even more complex, with a series of reveries and flash-backs that contrast the protagonist's real passage through life with what might have been, if his son had not died.

Kinemacolor ( 1908 – 1914 ), Technicolor processes 1 through 4 ( 1917 – 1954 ), and Cinecolor used one, two or three strips of monochrome film stock sensitized to certain primary colors or exposed behind color filters in special cameras.

In 1909 he had a daughter, Anna-Jane, with the writer Amber Reeves, whose parents, William and Maud Pember Reeves, he had met through the Fabian Society ; and in 1914, a son, Anthony West ( 1914 – 1987 ), by the novelist and feminist Rebecca West, twenty-six years his junior.

The end of his life was marked by a use of pure abstraction, during the final 4 months, as in his illustration Flooding of Sock River through Ash Grove Mo on July 4, 1914 in that drove many persons from Homes I were with the Groupe leiving their homes for safety.

Cannon was defeated in 1912 but returned in 1914 and was re-elected through the 1920 Congressional Elections.

Together these three would dominate the VFA for over a decade, leading North to premierships in 1910, 1914, 1915 & 1918 and through a record 58 game unbeaten streak.

Beginning in 1914, both Lasky and Famous Players released their films through a start-up company, Paramount Pictures Corporation, organized early that year by a Utah theatre owner, W. W. Hodkinson, who had bought and merged several smaller firms.

In 1914, Australian troops occupied German New Guinea, and it remained under Australian military control through World War I until 1921.

After the entry of Turkey on the side of the Central Powers in October 1914, Russia was deprived of a major trade route through Turkey, which followed with a minor economic crisis, in which Russia became incapable of providing munitions to their army in the years leading to 1917.

The Mud Hens temporarily relocated to Cleveland during 1914 through 1915, to help the Cleveland Indians counter any territorial threat by the Federal League by ensuring that League Park would have a game every day.

He worked for the Foundation until 1918, forming a close working association and friendship with Rockefeller, advising him through the turbulent period of the 1914 strike and Ludlow massacre at a family-owned coal company in Colorado, which subsequently set the stage for a new era in labor management in America.

" It is estimated that approximately 70 million Europeans died through war, violence and famine between 1914 and 1945.

Though less than expected by the Sinn Féin leadership, it was substantially more than the initial form of home rule within the United Kingdom sought by Charles Stewart Parnell from 1880, and a serious advancement on the Home Rule Act of 1914 that the Irish nationalist leader John Redmond had achieved through parliamentary proceedings.

Despite numerous objections, this is the most widely accepted theory for the transport of water through a plant's vascular system based on the classical research of Dixon-Joly ( 1894 ), Askenasy ( 1895 ), and Dixon ( 1914, 1924 ).

George V ( George Frederick Ernest Albert ; 3 June 186520 January 1936 ) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ) until his death in 1936.

Curiously, sales through the years 1914 to 1917 were good and it was only towards the end of the war that conditions really began pinching.

It has been speculated that " Mars " was a response to the outbreak of World War I, but Holst denied this, saying that " Mars " was completed before war was expected, and in August 1914 he was half-way through " Venus ".

In 1914, Baum adapted the book to film through his " Oz Film Manufacturing Company.

Congress modified and extended the law in 1914 when British and other foreign creditors demanded immediate payments, in gold, of amounts which would ordinarily have been carried over and paid through exports of commodities.

In La Grande Illusion, director Jean Renoir uses the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ) as a lens through which to examine Europe as it faces the rising spectre of fascism ( especially in Nazi Germany ) and the impending approach of the Second World War ( 1939 – 1945 ).