" Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people ", wrote Andrew Ferguson, who named it, in a Wall Street Journal article, one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.

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.

It was here, on 16 July 1916, that he again met his lifelong friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, and solved the first of his cases to be published: The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

In 1916, Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity, which provided a unified description of gravity as a geometric property of space and time.

General relativity, or the general theory of relativity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1916 and the current description of gravitation in modern physics.

In response to the outbreak of World War I, Lenin wrote his book Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism from 1915 to 1916 and published in 1917 in which he argued that capitalism directly leads to imperialism.

Reprint of an English translation originally published in 1916.

The first version to be published by Monumenta Germaniae Historica ( MGH ) was the edition by Ernst Dümmler ( 1892 ); the most authoritative version until today is Michael Tangl's 1912 Die Briefe des Heiligen Bonifatius, Nach der Ausgabe in den Monumenta Germaniae Historica, published by MGH in 1916.

The theory of what came to be known as Banach spaces had antecedents in the work of the Hungarian mathematician Frigyes Riesz ( published in 1916 ) and contemporaneous contributions from Hans Hahn and Norbert Wiener.

First, special relativity was published in 1905, and the final form of general relativity was published in 1916.

But according to an older version of Grace's career record, published by Wisden in 1916, Grace played in 878 first-class matches over the same span.

In October 1916 the Air Board published its first report which was highly critical of the arrangements within the British air services.

In 1913, the nineteen-year-old Rockwell became the art editor for Boys ' Life, published by the Boy Scouts of America, a post he held for three years ( 1913 – 1916 ).

With Forsythe's help, he submitted his first successful cover painting to the Post in 1916, Mother's Day Off ( published on May 20 ).

His first exhibition was in Munich in 1916, and Die Aktion published as a special edition about him.

London published The Acorn Planter in 1916.

These scenic areas were first described for the public in magazine articles published by Union Pacific and Santa Fe railroads in 1916.

Heaney published “ Requiem for the Croppies ” on the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, a poem that commemorates the Irish rebels of 1798.

* The early history of Galveston, by Dr. J. O. Dyer, published 1916, hosted by the Portal to Texas History

Jugend: Münchner illustrierte Wochenschrift für Kunst und Leben () was a magazine initiated during 1896 by Georg Hirth ( Hirth remained editor until his death during 1916, and the magazine continued to be published until 1940 ).

While no pictorial record exists to document what the original structure looked like, architectural historian Rexford Newcomb deduced the design and published a depiction in his 1916 work The Franciscan Mission Architecture of Alta California.

She published eight postcards and five guardian angel birthday cards for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1916 and in 1923 respectively.

Lloyd Lewis wrote that when he first knew Carl in 1916, Sandburg was making $27.50 a week writing features for the Day Book and eating sparse luncheons in one-arm restaurants.

After being wounded in a leg and suffering other injuries, he moved to North America in 1916 ( first to Canada, then the United States ) to coordinate the shipment of artillery to Russia.

Ann Arbor's Jewish community also grew after the turn of the 20th century, and its first and oldest synagogue, Beth Israel Congregation, was established in 1916.

The first tank to engage in battle was designated D1, a British Mark I, during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette ( part of the Somme Offensive ) on 15 September 1916.

* 1916 – Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.

The Pals ' first day of action, Saturday 1 July 1916, took place in Serre in the north of France.

To the infantryman, there may be little to distinguish between combat as part of a minor raid or as a major offensive, nor is it likely that he anticipates the future course of the battle ; few of the British infantry who went over the top on the first day on the Somme, July 1, 1916, would have anticipated that they would be fighting the same battle in five months ' time.

Its first modern incidence in biological warfare were when Scandinavian " freedom fighters " supplied by the German General Staff used anthrax with unknown results against the Imperial Russian Army in Finland in 1916.

The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize a black hole was found by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916, although its interpretation as a region of space from which nothing can escape was not fully appreciated for another four decades.

He also often employed inanimate objects in his films, often transforming them into other objects in an almost surreal way, such as in The Pawnshop ( 1916 ) and One A. M. ( 1916 ), where Chaplin is the only actor aside Chester Conklin's brief appearance in the very first scene.

Two different animated cartoon series also starred ' Charlie ' a tramp character, the first a series of nine shorts from 1916 by Movca Film Service.

In 1916, " Food For Young Children " along with its sequel for adults, " How to Select Foods " was the first USDA guide to give specific dietary guidelines.

Other events fell on the same day coincidentally, such as the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 — shortly after which Newfoundland recognized July 1 as Memorial Day to commemorate the Newfoundland Regiment's heavy losses during the battle — and the enactment of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923 — leading Chinese-Canadians to refer to July 1 as Humiliation Day and boycott Dominion Day celebrations until the act was repealed in 1947.

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.

The first depth-charge sinking was on 4 December 1916, when was sunk by.

The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryRunyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children ( Mary and Damon, Jr .), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.

Husserl himself taught philosophy as a Privatdozent at Halle from 1887, then as professor, first at Göttingen from 1901, then at Freiburg from 1916 until he retired in 1928.

Sharp also worked in America, recording the traditional songs of the Appalachian Mountains in 1916 – 1918 in collaboration with Maud Karpeles and Olive Dame Campbell and is considered the first major scholar covering American folk music.

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.

Lewis later cited these notes in his classic 1916 paper on chemical bonding, as being the first expression of his ideas.