A force of 25, 000 American soldiers arrived in 1917, setting up textile factories for the manufacture of uniforms, repair shops for military equipment, munitions dumps, an army post office and an American military hospital at Augustins.

Electrification of factories was fastest between 1900 and 1930, aided by the establishment of electric utilities with central stations and the lowering of electricity prices from 1914 to 1917.

After the Russian Revolution of 1917, during the periods of centralized planning ( Five Year Plans ) numerous large plants and factories were constructed in Krasnoyarsk: Sibtyazhmash, the dock yard, the paper factory, the hydroelectric power station ( now the fifth largest in the world and the second in Russia ), and the river port.

In 1917 Clark in the United States began developing and using powered tractor and powered lift tractors in their factories.

After the outbreak of the Russian February Revolution in 1917, the first organized strikes erupted in German armament factories in March and April that year with about 300, 000 participating workers.

The Russians had two brick tea producing factories, but ceased operations after 1917.

In 1917 he departed for the Dutch East Indies ( now called Indonesia ) and was employed at several sugar factories of the Handels Vereeniging Amsterdam ( H. V. A.

After the Revolution of 1917, views expressed by anthropologists in the USSR, and later the Soviet Bloc countries, were highly shaped by the requirement to conform to Marxist theories of social evolution.

Hussein learned of the agreement when it was leaked by the new Russian government in December 1917, but was satisfied by two disingenuous telegrams from Sir Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner of Egypt, assuring him that the British government's commitments to the Arabs were still valid and that the Sykes-Picot Agreement was not a formal treaty.

Three obtained commutations to long prison terms, but Apis and three comrades were executed by firing squad on 26 June 1917.

In 1917, Chaplin imitators were widespread enough for the star to take legal action, and it was reported that nine out of ten men attended costume parties dressed as Chaplin.

In contrast, however, survivors of the ill-fated Mexican military colony on Clipperton in 1917 ( see below ) indicated that they were dependent upon rain for their water supply, catching it in several old boats they used for this purpose.

Almost immediately after Álvarez's death, four women and seven children ( the last survivors ) were picked up by the US Navy gunship on July 18, 1917.

The new funds were designated for physics research, and ultimately lead to the establishment of the Norman Bridge Laboratory, which attracted experimental physicist Robert Andrews Millikan from the University of Chicago in 1917.

No official celebrations were therefore held until 1917 — the golden anniversary of Confederation — and then none again for a further decade.

The White Sox were a strong team during their first two decades, winning the 1906 World Series with a defense-oriented team dubbed " the Hitless Wonders ", and the 1917 World Series led by Eddie Cicotte, Eddie Collins, and Shoeless Joe Jackson.

Until 1917 it was possible for someone who was not a priest, but only in minor orders, to become a cardinal ( see " lay cardinals ", below ), but they were enrolled only in the order of cardinal deacons.

In April 1917, when German U-boats were sinking many British ships with torpedoes, the marine artist Norman Wilkinson devised dazzle camouflage, which paradoxically made ships more visible but harder to target.

In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 10.

On December 8, 1917, some of the original members of the VCheka were replaced.

In their first major use at the Battle of Cambrai ( 1917 ), the plan was for a cavalry division to follow behind the tanks, however they were not able to cross a canal because a tank had broken the only bridge.

Thereafter, censuses were conducted at ten-year intervals in 1907, 1917, 1927 and so on.

This is in deep contrast to the Lenin era ( 1917 – 1924 ), when six Congresses were held, five conferences and 69 meetings of the Central Committee.

Dartmoor Prison was reopened in 1851 as a civilian prison, but was closed again in 1917 to be converted into a Home Office Work Centre for certain conscientious objectors granted release from prison ; cells were unlocked, inmates wore their own clothes, and could visit the village in their off-duty time.

The Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade became famous for the Battle of Beersheba in 1917 where they charged on horseback using rifle bayonets, since neither sabres or lances were part of their equipment.

The submarine threat meant that many destroyers spent their time on anti-submarine patrol ; once Germany adopted unrestricted submarine warfare in January 1917, destroyers were called on to escort merchant convoys.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

Ward's 1913 article " Eugenics, Euthenics, and Eudemics " and Chesterton's 1917 book Eugenics and Other Evils were harshly critical of the rapidly growing eugenics movement.

From 1525 to 1917 14 503 titles were published in Estonia, as opposed to the 23 868 titles which were published between 1918 and 1940.

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Prince Louis of Battenberg and their four children Princess Alice of Battenberg, Louise, George and Louis. Lord Mountbatten was born as His Serene Highness Prince Louis of Battenberg, although his German styles and titles were dropped in 1917.

Among the more than two dozen exhibitors who attended the first meeting held in New York on April 25, 1917, were Frederick Dahnken of the Turner and Dahnken Circuit in San Francisco, Harry O. Schwalbe of Philadelphia, Samuel Roxy Rothafel of New York, Earl H. Hulsey of Dallas and Nathan H. Gordon of Boston.

After Camp Bowie was located on the outskirts of Fort Worth in the summer of 1917, martial law was brought to bear against prostitutes and barkeepers of the Acre.

As early as 1917, residents of the western part of the county proposed forming a separate county or merging with Pinellas County, as Dade City was not centrally located in the county.

Atkinson County is a county located in the U. S. state of Georgia, and was formed in 1917 from parts of Coffee and Clinch counties.

Camp Glen Gray, located in Bergen County, New Jersey ( Northern New Jersey Council ) has been continually active since 1917, and was originally located in a valley in the Ramapo Mountains in New Jersey.

Despite the largest population in Valley County, McCall lost the bid for county seat in 1917 to the more centrally located town of Cascade.

* McMyler Coal Dumper-Built in 1917, located in Port Reading, New Jersey

In 1917, electricity came to Creedmoor when G. H. Dove and F. J. McDuffy flipped a switch in their plant which was located on Railroad Street.

Founded in 1917, the parish was originally located in downtown Mars, but by the early 2000s, membership had swelled so much that a new facility was constructed just outside of the neighboring Seven Fields borough along PA 228 in 2008.

Pennington Elementary School was located on Morgan Avenue, consisting of three buildings built at various times, 1912, 1917, and 1937.

* Turkish Fort: The remains of the fort are located near the Rock Carvings, legend has it that Lawrence of Arabia fought here in 1917.

In the 1922, more than one thousand members and most of the workers led by Joseph G. Morrison, from the Laymen's Holiness Association ( founded in 1917 ) located in the Dakotas, joined the Church of the Nazarene.

In 1917, the Texas legislature passed a bill creating a branch of Texas A & M to be located in Abilene.

In 1997, three other agricultural colleges affiliated with the Ontario Agricultural College and the University of Guelph: College d ' Alfred, a francophone college in the eastern part of the province at Alfred, Ontario ; Kemptville College, founded in 1917 and located at Kemptville, Ontario about 30 minutes south of Ottawa, and Ridgetown College at Ridgetown, Ontario founded in 1922 and located in southwestern Ontario near Chatham.

In Barcelona, several monuments have been raised to him, the best known of which is the statue located at the end of the Passeig de Lluís Companys, by Rafael Atché i Ferré and which was dedicated in 1917, withdrawn and saved during the Spanish Civil War and repositioned in 1977.

Next to the monastery is located famous Kiev Arsenal factory, known for the Bolshevik Uprising in 1917.

While searching for a companion to the large proper motion star Lalande 1299, in 1917 Dutch – American astronomer Adriaan van Maanen discovered a star with an even larger proper motion located a few arcminutes to the northeast.

The former station, along with a train caboose and a wood-frame house ordered from the Eaton's catalogue in 1917, comprise the Eatonia Heritage Park, a Municipal Heritage Property located at the south end of Main Street.

In 1911, Virgil Bogue produced a civic master plan for Seattle ’ s Municipal Plans Commission in which he promoted the idea of Lake Union as an industrial area: “ The fact that ( Lake Union ) is located in the very heart of the city indicates that if properly developed it will become a most important factor in the commercial and business activities of the city .” ( Seattle Municipal Plans Commission 1911, p. 78 ) Completion of the Lake Washington Ship Canal and Ballard locks in 1917 guaranteed the success of shipping and shipbuilding industries on Lake Union and thus of the Bogue vision, despite the fact that his plan was defeated by voters.

Mouhijärvi was located in the southwest Pirkanmaa region, and was part of the former provinces of Turku and Pori Province ( 1917 to 1997 ) and Western Finland Province ( 1997 to 2010 ).

Suodenniemi was located in western Pirkanmaa region, and was part of the former provinces of Turku and Pori Province ( 1917 to 1997 ) and Western Finland Province ( 1997 to 2009 ).

Future hotels constructed by E. M. Statler were located in Cleveland ( 1912 ), Detroit ( 1915 ), St. Louis ( 1917 ), New York ( the Hotel Pennsylvania, built by the Pennsylvania Railroad and leased to Statler and Franklin J. Matchette in 1919 ; later bought by the Hotels Statler Company in 1948 ), a new hotel in Buffalo ( 1923 ; the previous Hotel Statler in Buffalo was renamed the Hotel Buffalo and sold later in the 1920s ), and his last hotel, built in Boston ( 1927 ).

Future hotels constructed by E. M. Statler were located in Cleveland ( 1912 ), Detroit ( 1915 ), St. Louis ( 1917 ), New York ( the Hotel Pennsylvania, built by the Pennsylvania Railroad and leased to Statler and Franklin J. Matchette in 1919 ; later bought by the Hotels Statler Company in 1948 ), a new hotel in Buffalo ( 1923 ; the previous Hotel Statler in Buffalo was renamed the Hotel Buffalo and sold later in the 1920s ), and his last hotel, built in Boston ( 1927 ).