Among his substantial publications from this period were his book on " Time Perspective in the Aboriginal American Culture " ( 1916 ), in which he laid out an approach to using historical linguistics to study the prehistory of Native American cultures.

Alma-Tadema's meticulous archaeological research, including research into Roman architecture ( which was so thorough that every building featured in his canvases could have been built using Roman tools and methods ) led to his paintings being used as source material by Hollywood directors in their vision of the ancient world for films such as D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), Ben Hur ( 1926 ), Cleopatra ( 1934 ), and most notably of all, Cecil B. DeMille's epic remake of The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

In 1916, Khabarovsk Bridge across the Amur was completed, allowing Trans-Siberian trains to cross the river without using ferries ( or temporary rail tracks over the frozen river in winter ).

The route was designated in 1916 as part of pre-1927 Route 10, which was to run from Paterson east to the terminal of the Fort Lee Ferry in Edgewater, using the Paterson and Hackensack Turnpike between Paterson and Hackensack, the Bergen Turnpike from Hackensack to Ridgefield, and a new alignment between Ridgefield and Edgewater.

Hans Eysenck ( 1916 – 1997 ) was one of the first psychologists to analyze personality differences using a psycho-statistical method ( factor analysis ), and his research led him to believe that temperament is biologically based.

In 1916, he exhibited Orphist-like paintings, several of which had religious titles that also included his Portrait of Marcel Duchamp and his much discussed Les Forces MÈcaniques de l ' amour Mouvement, created by using found objects.

In 1916, Northey showed how to calculate the angle of view using ordinary carpenter's tools.

The pie fight scene paid homage to the early Mack Sennett practice of using a single thrown pie as comedic punctuation, but to a greater degree it was a celebration of classic movie pie fights such as Charlie Chaplin's Behind the Screen ( 1916 ), The Battle of the Century ( 1927 ) starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and The Three Stooges ' In the Sweet Pie and Pie from 1941.

Her debut book Dikter (" Poems "), which came out in the autumn of 1916 gained no great notice, even if a few critics were slightly perplexed – Södergran was already using associative free verse and describing selected details instead of entire landscapes.

In 1916 the PRR began using the slogan Standard Railroad of the World.

The first United States patent for a snow-vehicle using the now recognized format of rear track ( s ) and front skis was issued to Ray H. Muscott of Waters, MI on June 27, 1916 with U. S. Patent # 1, 188, 981.

In 1916 Everard Calthrop, an early inventor of parachutes, patented an ejector seat using compressed air.

In 1916, Goldfish partnered with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, using a combination of both names to call their movie-making enterprise Goldwyn Pictures.

* October 5-Maurice Wilkins ( b. 1916 ), Nobelaureate in Physiology for discovering the double helix structure for DNA using X-ray diffraction.

In the face of the competition, the governing board finally decided to electrify the NLR, on the two conductor rail at 600 V DC system, and electrified services started on 1 October 1916, using Oerlikon stock, though the Watford service was not electrified until 10 July 1922.

Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company founded in 1916 by Samual Goldfish in partnership with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn using an amalgamation of both last names to create the name.

Hurley was also the official photographer on Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition which set out in 1914 and was marooned until August 1916 ; Hurley produced many pioneering colour images of the Expedition using the then-popular Paget process of colour photography.

in 1916 and 1917 Paul Langevin and Chilowski filed two US patents disclosing the first ultrasonic submarine detector using an electrostatic method ( singing condenser ) for one patent and thin quartz crystals for the other.

Between 1912 and 1916 the company had an aviation department that built a number of seaplanes using the name Wight Aircraft:

It was constructed by the Germans ( using Russian PoWs as labour ) during the winter of 1916 – 17.

From 1916 onward, there was a Russian project by the Putilov plant to produce military half-tracks ( the Austin-Putilov model ), along the same lines, using trucks and French track parts.

A website using the name Mile High Club regards the " Club's " " founder " as pilot and design engineer Lawrence Sperry along with " socialite Mrs. Waldo Polk " citing their possibly apocryphal flight in an autopilot-equipped Curtiss Flying Boat near New York in November 1916.

They evidenced his travels to Spain during 1915 and 1916, both with an alias using a falsified Swiss passport.

With the successful introduction of Fokker's mechanism for synchronising the firing of a machine gun with the blades of a moving propeller, followed quickly by the widespread adoption of synchronisation gears by all the combatants in 1916 / 17, the tractor configuration became almost universally favoured and pushers were reduced to the tiny minority of new aircraft designs that had a specific reason for using the arrangement.

At the same time rising prices led to demands for higher wages in the factories, and in January and February 1916 revolutionary propaganda, aided by German funds, lead to widespread strikes.

The last remaining of 15 Carnegie libraries in New Jersey built with $ 15, 000 in funds from the Carnegie Foundation, the Edgewater Free Library was dedicated on February 8, 1916.

Johnson's first public performance was in 1916, when she played a role in a charity performance of King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid to raise funds for returned World War I soldiers.

Compared to France, the British government relied more on short-term financing in the form of treasury bills and exchequer bonds during World War I ; Treasury bills provided the bulk of British government funds in 1916.

The story for a rapid transit system in Kiev originates back to 1916 when businessmen of the Russo-American trading corporation attempted to collect funds to sponsor construction of a metro in Kiev, which previously has been a pioneering city for Imperial Russian rapid transit, like opening of the first Russian tram system.

In 1916, the school moved into its own nearby facilities in the new Julia Morrison Memorial Building, which was built with funds provided to the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts by Dr. Angus Washburn Morrison ( 1883 – 1949 ) and his sister, Ethel Morrison Van Derlip ( 1876 – 1921 ), as a memorial to their mother, Julia Kellogg Washburn Morrison ( 1853-1883 ), the wife of Clinton Morrison.

In 1916, the Rural Post " Good " Roads Act authorized federal funds for rural post roads.

This was not unusual for the time ; as of 1916, only seven southern women's college were certified by professional organizations as " standard ", while both Hollins and Sweet Briar were designated as " approximate " The Cocke family agreed to turn over ownership if sufficient funds were raised in 1925, but the Depression slowed their efforts.

In 1916 Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, who was of partially Native American descent, won passage of a bill protecting the cemetery as a national park and providing some funds for maintenance.

A permit for its demolition was issued in 1916, but due to a lack of funds with which to carry out the destruction, it survived.

In 1916, in view of the lack of studying places for children in Kowloon City, Dr. Ts ' o Seen Wan suggested raising funds to build a school.

In the spring of 1916 Magnes visited Germany and Poland to organise the distribution of the funds.

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.

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 ).

" 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.

As Germany's Chief of the General Staff from 1916, he and his deputy, Erich Ludendorff, rose in the German public's esteem until Hindenburg came to eclipse the Kaiser himself.

Yuan Shikai ( 16 September 1859 – 6 June 1916 ) was an important Chinese general and politician, famous for his influence during the late Qing Dynasty, his role in the events leading up to the abdication of the last Qing Emperor of China, his autocratic rule as the second President of the Republic of China ( following Sun Yatsen ), and his short-lived attempt to revive the Chinese monarchy, with himself as the " Great Emperor of China.

On 12 December 1915, Yuan agreed to become the next emperor and proclaimed himself Emperor of the Chinese Empire ( 中華帝國大皇帝 ) under the era name of Hongxian ( 洪憲 ; i. e. Constitutional Abundance ) beginning 1 January 1916.

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.

The legend that Jesus himself visited Britain is referred to in " And did those feet in ancient time ", by William Blake in 1804, and in the hymn " Jerusalem ", with music written by C. Hubert H. Parry in 1916.

Lazarus assists Ira in the migration to Tertius ; settles the latter ; and attempts a trans-temporal journey to Earth, circa 1919-1929 ; but mistakenly arrives in 1916, there to insinuate himself into his parents ' family under the name of " Ted Bronson ", whom his grandfather Ira ( resembling " The Old Man " of Heinlein's earlier work The Puppet Masters ) suspects to be an illegitimate nephew or son of his own.

At this point Lloyd George resigned, and on 5 December 1916, no longer enjoying the support of the press or of leading Conservatives, Asquith himself resigned, declining to serve under any other Prime Minister ( Balfour or Bonar Law having been mooted as potential new leaders of the coalition ).

In 1915 Yuan Shikai proclaimed the Empire of China ( 1915 – 1916 ) with himself as Emperor of China.

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.

Within the family his name soon changed to Jack and eventually, after 1916, he himself preferred to be called Seán.

With his father's accession to the thrones in 1916, he was himself likely to become the Emperor.

Of these pieces Payne highlights two: the Violin Concerto ( 1916 ), as an example of how, writing in unfamiliar genres, Delius remained stylistically true to himself ; and the Cello Sonata of 1917 which, lacking the familiarity of an orchestral palate, becomes a melodic triumph.

This left the reins of power to his wife, the German Tsarina Alexandra, who was unpopular and accused of being a spy and under the thumb of her confidant Rasputin, himself so unpopular that he was assassinated by the nobility in December 1916.

In 1916, Sharif Hussein ibn Ali proclaimed himself king of an independent Hejaz, as a result of the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence.

Learning early the value of self-promotion and publicity, Sarnoff falsely advanced himself both as the sole hero who stayed by his telegraph key for three days to receive information on the Titanic < nowiki ></ nowiki >' s survivors and as the prescient prophet of broadcasting who predicted the medium's rise in 1916.

On 9 March 1916 he distinguished himself in action against Pancho Villa's raiders during the Battle of Columbus.

Lúcia later said that, in 1916, she and her cousins had several visions of an angel calling himself the " Angel of Portugal " and the " Angel of Peace " who taught them to bow with their heads to the ground and to say " O God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love you.

On 24 January 1916, it was reported that, during the Albanian negotiations with the Montenegrins, Isa Boletini was murdered while he was a virtually a prisioner of the Montenegrins at Podgorica, where he had gone with his family, induced to involve himself in intrigue.

Between 1891 and 1916, Hernández dedicated himself to teaching, medicine, and religious practice.

He was strongly criticised for his tactics and the heavy casualties that were suffered by the Allied armies during these battles, and in December 1916 was removed from command, by Joffre, and sent to command in Italy ; Joffre was himself sacked days later.

Cashwell distanced himself from " Pentecostalism ", rejoined the Methodist church, and died from a heart-attack in 1916.