Elwes had been closely identified with English wartime morale, having given six benefit performances of The Dream of Gerontius on consecutive nights in 1916, and many concerts in France in 1917 for British soldiers.

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.

* 27 November 1916 – January 1917: Vice-Admiral ( Actg.

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.

Locations in Southern and Central Appalachia visited by the British folklorist Cecil Sharp in 1916 ( blue ), 1917 ( green ), and 1918 ( red ).

Kodak released Cine Negative Film Type E in 1916 and Type F ( later known as Negative Film Par Speed Type 1201 ) in 1917.

Puccini completed the score of La rondine, to a libretto by Giuseppe Adami in 1916 after two years of work, and it was premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917.

On one side were Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria ( the Central Powers / Triple Alliance ), while on the other side stood Serbia and the Triple Entente – the loose coalition of France, Britain and Russia, which were joined by Italy in 1915, Romania in 1916 and by the United States in 1917.

The winter of 1916 – 1917 was known as the " turnip winter ," because that vegetable, usually fed to livestock, was used by people as a substitute for potatoes and meat, which were increasingly scarce.

The republic proved short-lived as Albania collapsed with the onset of World War I. Greece held the area between 1914 and 1916, and unsuccessfully tried to annex it in March 1916, however in 1917 it was driven from the area by Italy, who took over most of Albania.

He obtained a law degree from George Washington University Law School in 1916, and an LL. M., a Master of Laws degree, in 1917 from the same university.

In 1916 – 1917 he participated in exhibitions of the Jack of Diamonds group in Moscow together with Nathan Altman, David Burliuk and A. Ekster, among others.

Since 1885 this has occurred in 1886 – 1887, 1889 – 1890, 1916 – 1917, 1950, 1955, and 1974 – 1976, with the highest flood of in 1974.

There were also three other siblings: Margaret Elizabeth Foot ( 1911 – 1965 ), Jennifer Mackintosh Highet ( born 1916 ) and Christopher Isaac Foot ( born 1917 ).

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.

In the Northerners most illustrious period ever, the club went undefeated from 1914 to 1919, collecting premierships in 1914, 1915 and 1918 – the league was in recess in 1916 and 1917 due to World War I.

Gross industrial production in 1917 had decreased by over 36 percent from what it had been in 1916.

* 1916 to 1927 in Norway ( fortified wine and beer also prohibited from 1917 to 1923 )

In 1916, Norway prohibited distilled beverages, and in 1917 the prohibition was extended to also include fortified wine and beer.

* Prince Olav Harbour ( from 1911 – 1916 factory ship and small land-based station 1917 – 1931 )

In 1916, under the British Board of Invention and Research, Canadian physicist Robert William Boyle took on the active sound detection project with A B Wood, producing a prototype for testing in mid 1917.

The renewed German campaign was effective, sinking 1. 4 million tons of shipping between October 1916 and January 1917.

*** Standing Liberty ( Type 1 ) 1916 – 1917

* SM U-81, a Type Mittel U submarine launched in 1916 and that served in the First World War until sunk on 1 May 1917

The idea of covalent bonding can be traced several years before 1919 to Gilbert N. Lewis, who in 1916 described the sharing of electron pairs between atoms.

Other introductions include the release on Antigua — possibly before 1916, although there are suggestions that this initial population may have died out by 1934 and been reintroduced at a later date — and Montserrat, which saw an introduction before 1879 that led to the establishment of a solid population, which was apparently sufficient to survive the Soufrière Hills volcano eruption in 1995.

In 1914, advertising executive Albert Lasker obtained a large block of the club's shares and before the 1916 season assumed majority ownership of the franchise.

This primitive type of mask went through several stages of development before being superseded in 1916 by the canister gas mask of 1916.

The Peakes were given leave to visit England just before World War I in 1914 and returned to China in 1916.

The 1916 fire was so extensive that it destroyed almost half the town, ruining most of the central business district and sweeping through a residential area before it was finally controlled, resulting in property damages estimated at $ 11 million.

He was a British consul by profession, famous for his reports and activities against human rights abuses in the Congo and Peru and also for his dealings with Germany before Ireland's Easter Rising in 1916.

A government proposal to this effect was signed on April 7, 1906, by education minister Fridtjuv Berg ( 1851 – 1916 ), and put before the parliament of 1907.

Wilson tried to bring labor and management together, but when management refused, he had Congress pass the Adamson Act in September 1916, which avoided the strike by imposing an 8-hour workday in the industry ( at the same pay as before ).

Just before sailing together to the Marquesas Islands in 1936, Heyerdahl married his first wife, Liv Coucheron-Torp ( b. 1916 ), whom he had met shortly before enrolling at the university, and who had studied economics there.

At the outbreak of war, Powell immediately returned to Britain, but not before buying a Russian dictionary, since he thought " Russia would hold the key to our survival and victory, as it had in 1812 and 1916 ".

This is a year before Patton arrived at Fort Bliss, and a year and a half before Villa became an official enemy of the U. S. in 1916 and Patton became an aide to Pershing in the U. S. campaign to track Villa down.

He entered Harvard University in 1916 to study medicine but switched to mathematics before graduating in 1920.

1966 ); Crapsey, Adelaide: " Pierrot " ( c. 1914 ); Faulkner, William: Vision in Spring ( 1921 ); Ficke, Arthur Davison: " A Watteau Melody " ( 1913 ); Garrison, Theodosia: " Good-Bye, Pierrette " ( 1906 ), " When Pierrot Passes " ( before 1917 ); Griffith, William: Loves and Losses of Pierrot ( 1916 ), Three Poems: Pierrot, the Conjurer, Pierrot Dispossesed, The Stricken Pierrot ( 1923 ); Hughes, Langston: " A Black Pierrot " ( 1923 ), " Pierrot " ( 1926 ), " For Dead Mimes " ( 1926 ), " Heart " ( 1932 )— see " Goldweber " under External links below ; Loveman, Samuel: " In Pierrot's Garden " ( 1911 ; five poems ); Lowell, Amy: " Stravinsky's Three Pieces " ( 1915 ); Masters, Edgar Lee: " Poor Pierrot " ( 1918 ); Moore, Marianne: " To Pierrot Returning to His Orchid " ( c. 1910 ); Shelley, Melvin Geer: " Pierrot " ( 1940 ); Stevens, Wallace: " Pierrot " ( 1909, first pub.

Thus, to mark the gratitude of the Mauritian people to those honourable martyrs, in 1916, even before the Remembrance Day was recognized, Governor Hesketh Bell announced that he had met in London with an eminent artist, J. A.

In 1915, Yuan proclaimed himself Emperor of China in a largely unpopular move and was forced to retract his declaration shortly before his death in 1916.

Marie and František married in February 1916, shortly before Bohumil's second birthday.

Lord Kitchener sailed from Scrabster to Scapa Flow on 5 June 1916 aboard HMS Oak before transferring to the armoured cruiser HMS Hampshire for his diplomatic mission to Russia.

Due to financial difficulties, he had to quit in the summer of 1916, before his graduation.