This led to an epidemic of burst barrels which afflicted 75 mm artillery during 1915.

For his film A Night in the Show ( 1915 ), Chaplin directly transferred the Karno sketch Mumming Birds onto the screen.

It was not until 1915 that the effect of backlighting of the actors by the sun was fully mimicked in studio lighting, by using a powerful arc spotlight shining from above and behind the set down onto the actors.

The IRB co-opted Connolly onto their supreme council in 1915.

Wood cars were bad in wrecks, famous for " telescoping " one car into and onto another killing passengers, and beginning around 1915 steel was primarily used.

From 1914 to 1915, Bülow was ambassador to Italy but failed to bring her onto the side of Germany or even to persuade it to maintain her neutrality.

The 30th Brigade moved to Dublin in February 1915 and then embarked for England in May 1915 and onto the Basingstoke area where intensive training of the 10th Division took place for the next 3 months.

In April 1915 while on the Kalem payroll doubling for Helen Holmes in The Hazards of Helen adventure film series, Helen performed what is thought to be her most dangerous stunt: a leap from the roof of a station onto the top of a moving train in the A Girl ’ s Grit episode.

In Denmark the Nordisk company increased its production so much in 1915 and 1916 that it could not sell all its films, which led to a very sharp decline in Danish production, and the end of Denmark's importance on the world film scene.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman did so by creating a single-sex world in Herland ( 1915 ).

The world expositions of 1851 London, 1853 New York, 1862 London, Philadelphia ( 1876 ), 1889 Paris, 1893 Chicago, 1900 Paris, 1901 Buffalo, 1904 St. Louis and 1915 San Francisco were landmarks in this respect.

In the early months of 1915, an enormous typhus outbreak started to wreak havoc across the Kingdom, during which some 150, 000 people are estimated to have died during the worst typhus epidemic in world history.

Founded in 1915, the Institute for Supply Management ( ISM ) is the first supply management institute in the world.

At the height of the Jim Crow era, Johnson became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion ( 1908 – 1915 ).

In September 1915 he thought the British Empire was ' the perfect example of the eventual world Commonwealth '.

* Roger Milliken ( 1915 – 2010 ), billionaire owner of the largest privately held textile manufacturing firm in the world ( Milliken & Company )

In 1915 – 16 Wilhelm Schmidt, then the leader of the Vienna School of Ethnology, viewed totemism strictly according to the then-popular schemes of culture circles or kulturkreis ( today long abandoned ); because totemism was disseminated throughout the world, he thought of it as a single cultural complex in spite of local differences.

She began expanding her international operations in 1915, and started opening salons across the world.

He wrote suggesting the trophy in memory of the boys who were killed in the war and no doubt a big part of the idea was instigated by his devotion to his beloved ( Alan ) Scotty Davidson *, who fell ( June 6, 1915 ) with many other hockey players in the world conflict ( including Capt.

Between 1895 and 1915, James started teaching at Wharton the new fields of finance and management as they were developing in the business world.

By 1915, he was fighting world class opposition, notably hall of famer Tommy Gibbons and reigning Middleweight Champion George Chip, whom he faced twice during the years 1915-1916 in non-title fights.

Founded in 1915, it features investigative journalism and leaks from sources inside the French government, the French political world and the French business world, as well as many jokes and humorous cartoons.

In 1915 Marvingt became the first woman in the world to fly combat missions when she became a volunteer pilot flying bombing missions over German-held territory and she received the Croix de Guerre ( Military Cross ) for her aerial bombing of a German military base in Metz.

John Bunny made films for Vitagraph in the 1910s most of them co-starring Flora Finch, and was the most popular film comedian in the world in the years before Chaplin ; his death in 1915 was observed worldwide.

1915 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

* While six world titles remain unchanged in 1915, the World Welterweight Championship changes hands three times in less than three months between June and August.

Between 1915 and 1926, an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica spread around the world ; no recurrence of the epidemic has since been reported, though isolated cases continue to occur.

* Thomas Williams Bicknell, Story of Dr. John Clarke: the founder of the first free commonwealth of the world on the basis of " full liberty in religious concernments ," ( Providence, RI: Self Published, 1915 ), pg.

By 1915, absinthe was banned throughout much of Europe and the world.

In May 1915 a full-blown controversy was erupting, with the angels being used as proof of the action of divine providence on the side of the Allies in sermons across Britain, and then spreading into newspaper reports published widely across the world.

Zimmerwald enters the annals of world history due to the Zimmerwald Conference held in 1915.

Following a Cabinet split on 25 May 1915, caused by the Shell Crisis ( or sometimes dubbed ' The Great Shell Shortage ') and the failed offensive at the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli, Asquith became head of a new coalition government, bringing senior figures from the Opposition into the Cabinet.

In 1915, the Ojus School added another teacher, bringing its total to two.

In 1915, Father Bernard McKenna of Philadelphia was appointed by Shahan as first director of the national shrine, bringing the bishop's dream one step closer to reality.

Herbert Henry Asquith formed the Second Asquith Ministry, a wartime coalition government, in the aftermath of the Gallipoli disaster in 1915, by bringing in the Conservatives to shore up his government.

Outside of Overbrook Farms, most of the houses in the Overbrook area date from between 1915 and 1930, with the Great Depression bringing a halt to new construction nationally and locally.

It was constructed in 1914 and 1915 at a cost of $ 13, 000, a gift of early BBG benefactor and trustee Alfred T. White, and it first opened to the public in June 1915.

A gift from Walter C. Baker ( class of 1915 ) and his wife allowed the building to be converted into a much-needed College dining hall with faculty and student lounges in 1935 – 1936.

Arndt is best remembered for his 1915 composition, " Nola ", written as an engagement gift to his fiancee ( and later wife ), Nola Locke.

In 1915, Astor gave the two papers to his son, Waldorf as a birthday gift ; Waldorf Astor then sold the Pall Mall Gazette, which allowed Garvin to leave his position with that paper and focus on editing The Observer.

By 1915, the United States government had responded with a gift of flowering dogwood trees to the people of Japan.

Following the gift of this home to the state of Ohio for the Spiegel Grove State Park, their bodies were reinterred at Spiegel Grove in 1915.

In Paris, still occupied by the Germans, Picasso left to her a drawing from 1915 as a goodbye gift in April 1944 ; it represents Max Jacob, his close friend who had just died in the transit camp of Drancy after his arrest by the Nazis.

Together with her husband, she developed a gift wrap box in 1915 which became known as a the ballotin and was later patented.