Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

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.

His assignment was not a new one because Baker had sent him to the Mexican border in 1916 to investigate lurid newspaper stories about lack of discipline, drunkenness, and venereal disease in American military camps.

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.

The automatic flour mill built by Oliver Evans in 1785 was called the beginning of modern bulk material handling by Roe ( 1916 ).

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.

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.

Andrew R. Cobb designed several campus buildings including: Raynor Hall Residence, 1916 ; Horton House, designed by Cobb in the Georgian style, and built by James Reid of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia was opened in 1915 as Horton Academy.

The WAFL lost two clubs and the SANFL was suspended for one year in 1916 due to heavy club losses.

Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.

To the soldiers who did the fighting, the distinction was usually academic ; a soldier fighting at Beaumont Hamel on November 13, 1916 was probably unaware he was taking part in what the committee would call the " Battle of the Ancre ".

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.

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.

A debate took place in the Reichstag on 15 January 1916, where the incident was described as a " cowardly murder " and Grey's note as being " full of insolence and arrogance ".

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.

From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them.

Chaplin made 14 films for Essanay, the last of which was a parody of Carmen named Burlesque on Carmen ( 1916 ).

Previously he was elected to Congress in 1916 and 1918, and again from 1922 through 1930.

He was elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1916.

* 1916 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.

The only case where a senator was appointed prime minister was that of John Gorton, who subsequently resigned his Senate position and was elected as a member of the House of Representatives ( Senator George Pearce was acting prime minister for seven months in 1916 while Billy Hughes was overseas ).

Susanna M. Salter was elected Mayor of Argonia, Kansas, in 1887, and Jeannette Rankin of Montana was elected to Congress in 1916.

Kennedy was elected with a lead of 112, 827 votes, or 0. 16 % of the popular vote, giving him a victory of 303 to 219 in the Electoral College, the closest since 1916.

The Royal Society elected him a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1877 and bestowed their Rumford ( 1894 ), Davy ( 1909 ), and Copley Medal ( 1916 ) medals upon him for his work, as well as inviting him to deliver their Bakerian Lecture in 1901.

With Francesc Layret, Companys represented the left-wing labor faction of the Partit Republicà Català ( Catalan Republican Party ), for which he was elected councillor of Barcelona in 1916.

Tompkins would be the last Vice-President to be elected to two terms with the same President until Thomas R. Marshall was elected Vice-President, first in 1912 with Woodrow Wilson and again in 1916.

In 1916, Johnson was elected to the first of two terms, without opposition, to the state senate.

Fiorello LaGuardia was elected from New York in 1916 to serve in the Congress.

Yuan Shikai ejected the Kuomintang party from China's elected assemblies in 1913, dissolved parliament in 1914, declared himself emperor in 1915, and died in 1916.

A Republican, she was elected statewide in Montana in 1916 and again in 1940.

A Republican, she was first elected by her home state of Montana in 1916, and then again in 1941.

On November 7, 1916 she was elected to the House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana, becoming the first female member of Congress.

A veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War, Lemass was first elected as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála ( TD ) for the Dublin South constituency in a by-election on 18 November 1924 and was returned at each election until the constituency was abolished in 1948, when he was re-elected for Dublin South – Central until his retirement in 1969.

FitzAlan was elected Member of Parliament for Chichester in 1894, a seat he held until 1921, and served briefly under Arthur Balfour as a Lord of the Treasury in 1905 and under H. H. Asquith and later David Lloyd George as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from 1915 to 1921 ( jointly from December 1916 onwards ).

From 1916 to 1935, the Philippines were divided into 12 senatorial districts, of which 11 elected two members each, for a total of 22 out of the 24 members of the upper house of Congress ( the Senate ).

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1916, awarded the Royal Medal in 1929, the Sylvester Medal in 1943 and the Copley Medal in 1958.

Quezón returned to Manila in 1916 to be elected into the Philippine Senate and later became Senate President, serving continuously until 1935 ( 19 years ).

First elected for government in 1916, the party went into decline after 1952, with its rump caucus merging with the Social Credit Party for the 1975 election.

In March 1916 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1930 delivered their Croonian Lecture.