Unlike the models mentioned above, Christie's Poirot was clearly the result of her early development of the detective in her first book, written in 1916 but not published until 1920.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

He returned to the Western Front in early 1916 as a general staff officer in the 33rd Division and took part in the Battle of Arras in April / May 1917.

Thus the view from Whitehall early in 1916: If defeat was not imminent, neither was victory ; and the outcome of the war of attrition on the Western Front could not be predicted.

Britain's willingness, beginning early in 1916, to explore seriously some kind of arrangement with " world Jewry " or " Great Jewry " must be understood in this context.

E. C. Segar's 1916 comic strip " Charlie Chaplin's Comedy Capers " is an early example.

The Cabaret closed its doors in early July and then at the first public soiree at Waag Hall on July 14, 1916, Ball recited the first manifesto.

Achieving career success at an early age, he commanded the British battlecruisers at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, a tactically indecisive engagement after which his aggressive approach was contrasted with the caution of his commander Admiral Jellicoe.

Ishi died of his illness in early 1916, and Kroeber partly blamed the exacting nature of working with Sapir for his failure to recover.

The title was briefly revived from 12 December 1915 to 22 March 1916 by President Yuan Shikai and again in early July 1917 when General Zhang Xun attempted to restore last Qing emperor Puyi to the throne.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

Ackerman was born Forrest James Ackerman ( though he would refer to himself from the early 1930s on as " Forrest J Ackerman " with no period after the middle initial ) on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles, to Carroll Cridland ( née Wyman ; 1883 – 1977 ) and William Schilling Ackerman ( 1892 – 1951 ).

But as early as 1916, the astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild found the first non-trivial exact solution to the Einstein field equations, the so-called Schwarzschild metric.

Other early petroleum discoveries in North Louisiana included the Bull Bayou Field, Red River Parish, Louisiana ( 1913 ), Monroe Gas Field, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana ( 1916 ), Homer Field, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana ( 1919 ) and Haynesville Field, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana ( 1921 ).

He supported Britain in the First World War, despite his many criticisms of British policy, and opposed, in 1916, moves for an early peace.

Influential in the early days of Modernism were the theories of Sigmund Freud ( 1856 – 1939 ), and Ernst Mach ( 1838 – 1916 ).

Noted attorney Clarence Darrow offered to defend Sanger free of charge, but, bowing to public pressure, the government dropped the charges in early 1916.

Monogenesis was dismissed by many linguists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the doctrine of the polygenesis of the human races and their languages held the ascendancy ( e. g. Saussure 1986 / 1916: 190 ).

Other early structures included copper, calcium fluoride ( CaF < sub > 2 </ sub >, also known as fluorite ), calcite ( CaCO < sub > 3 </ sub >) and pyrite ( FeS < sub > 2 </ sub >) in 1914 ; spinel ( MgAl < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 4 </ sub >) in 1915 ; the rutile and anatase forms of titanium dioxide ( TiO < sub > 2 </ sub >) in 1916 ; pyrochroite Mn ( OH )< sub > 2 </ sub > and, by extension, brucite Mg ( OH )< sub > 2 </ sub > in 1919 ;.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, in his 1916 novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( filmed in 1921 and in 1962 ), provides an early example of this interpretation, writing " The horseman on the white horse was clad in a showy and barbarous attire.

The earliest attestation mentioned by the Concise Oxford English Dictionary is in fact T. S. Eliot, who between 1910 and 1916 wrote an early poem to which he gave the title " The Triumph of Bullshit ", written in the form of a ballade.

As early as 1916, Julian Huxley wrote a two part article in the Auk, noting the tensions between amateurs and professionals and suggesting the possibility that the " vast army of bird-lovers and bird-watchers could begin providing the data scientists needed to address the fundamental problems of biology.

As a result of this, and the brothers ' well-earned reputation for quality through the parts they made for other successful vehicles, Dodge Brothers cars were ranked at second place for U. S. sales as early as 1916.

In early 1916 the importance of the capture of the Gheluvelt plateau for an advance further north was emphasised by Haig and the army commanders.

Claims were incorporated as two 1916 companies with mining continuing until 1918 and resuming after World War II until the early 1950s.

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala invented a solid-ink fountain pen in 1907, a German inventor named Baum took out a ballpoint patent in 1910, and yet another ballpoint pen device was patented by Van Vechten Riesburg in 1916.

* 1840 – Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor ( Maxim gun ) ( d. 1916 )

* 1916 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman and inventor of the Barbie doll ( d. 2002 )

* July 17 – Ephraim Shay, inventor of the Shay locomotive ( d. 1916 )

* Charles Browne Fleet ( 1843 – 1916 ), pharmacist and inventor of the laxative and ChapStick

* Lawrence Joseph Giacoletto ( November 14, 1916 in Clinton, Indiana ;- October 4, 2004 in Okemos, Michigan ) was an American electrical engineer and inventor.

The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in 1916 in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders, an inventor and entrepreneur.

Moondog, born Louis Thomas Hardin ( May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999 ), was a blind American composer, musician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments.

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim ( February 5, 1840 – November 24, 1916 ) was an American-born inventor who emigrated to the United Kingdom at the age of forty-one, although he remained an American citizen until he became a naturalized British subject in 1900.

Ephraim Shay ( 1839 – 1916 ), was a schoolteacher, a clerk in a Civil War hospital, a civil servant, a logger, a merchant, a railway owner, and an inventor.

Lee De Forest filed a patent in 1916 that became the cause of a contentious lawsuit with the prolific inventor Armstrong, whose patent for the regenerative circuit had been issued in 1914.

Marvin Camras ( 1916 – 1995 ) was an electrical engineer and inventor who was widely influential in the field of magnetic recording.

* February 4-Hiram Maxim ( died 1916 ), inventor of the machine gun.

* Doug Waterhouse ( 1916 – 2000 ), an Australian entomologist, inventor of the active ingredient in Aerogard

Thomas Baker " Tom " Slick, Jr. ( May 6, 1916 – October 6, 1962 ) was a San Antonio, Texas based inventor, businessman, adventurer, and heir to an oil business.

Hilary Koprowski ( born December 5, 1916, in Warsaw, Poland ) is a Polish virologist and immunologist, and inventor of the world's first effective live polio vaccine.

* 26 December – Frank Pantridge, physician, cardiologist and inventor of the portable defibrillator ( born 1916 ).

* Tom Slick ( 1916 – 1962 ), San Antonio, Texas based inventor and businessman

Ján Bahýľ ( 25 May 1856 – 13 March 1916 ) was a Slovak inventor and constructor.

John Kerwin Stewart ( November 30, 1870-June 1, 1916 ) was an entrepreneur and inventor.

* Alex Taylor ( Edmonton ) ( 1853 – 1916 ), Canadian entrepreneur, inventor and politician

Ognjeslav Kostović Stepanović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Огњеслав Костовић Степановић ) ( 1851-16 December 1916 ) was a Serbian inventor.

Omar Knedlik ( 1916 – 1989 ), was the inventor of the ICEE frozen drink.

Another of his early films was Der Yoghi ( 1916 ), in which he played the role of a yogi and young inventor, and which provided him with the opportunity to accommodate three of his interests, trick photography ( it was one of the first films to feature invisibility ), the supernatural and Eastern mysticism.