It has also been adapted to films, The Sacrifice ( 1909 ), Love's Surprises Are Futile ( 1916 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1917 ), Dary magów ( Poland, 1972 ), part of O. Henry's Full House ( 1952 ), The Gift of Love ( 1978 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1958 ), Christmas Eve on Sesame Street ( 1978 ), Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas gift ( 1999 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 2004 ) and the short film for the Irish band The Script in 2010 called For the First Time.

Emil Nolde's work has become the focus of renewed attention after a painting entitled Blumengarten ( Utenwarf ) from 1917, which now hangs in the art museum Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden and has been valued at US $ 4, 000, 000, was discovered to have been looted from Otto Nathan Deutsch, a German-Jewish refugee whose heirs, including a Holocaust survivor, are asking for its return.

The style remained the official one for all his successors down to the end of the Russian Empire in 1917, though the Russian rulers continued to be colloquially known as tsar ( a word derived from " Caesar "), which they had begun to use c. 1480 to likewise assert their contention to be the heirs to the Byzantine state ( see: Third Rome.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 erased all hopes of regaining the territory and the heirs to the title now live in the United States.

Conan Doyle's article in the December 1920 issue of The Strand contained two higher resolution prints of the 1917 photographs, and sold out within days of publication.

These shoes, first sold in 1917, are double-layer canvas shoes with rubber soles and toe caps, and a high heel ( known as a " high top ") for added support.

Thereafter, they would remain under Danish control until 1917 when they were sold to the U. S. A. for US $ 25 million, and were later renamed the " U. S. Virgin Islands ".

The islands were sold to the United States in 1916 under the terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies and were organized as the United States Virgin Islands in 1917.

On January 17, 1917, the islands were sold to the United States for $ 25 million when the United States and Denmark exchanged their respective treaty ratifications.

His mother Elizabeth George ( 1828 – 96 ) sold the farm and moved with her children to her native Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, where she lived in Tŷ Newydd with her brother Richard Lloyd ( 1834 – 1917 ), a shoemaker, Baptist minister and strong Liberal.

In 1917, O. P Skaggs started his own chain of self-service stores and later sold the franchise in the western states to Christian Call ( In 1945 Call would later open the first Sav-on store in San Bernardino, California ).

After playing in the minor leagues with the Milwaukee Brewers in 1916, he returned to the Giants in 1917 but was sold to the Cincinnati Reds early in the season.

In November 2010, a painting of a nude by Amedeo Modigliani, part of a series of nudes he created around 1917, sold for more than $ 68. 9m (£ 42. 7m ) at an auction in New York — a record for the artist's work.

Joseph Lannin sold the team in 1917 to Harry Frazee for $ 200, 000.

The company eventually manufactured and sold up to 1, 000 outboard motors per year until Waterman sold the business in 1917.

After Mrs. Ryan's death in 1917, the family divided up the estate and sold the main mansion in 1921 to Edward Swann, New York City District Attorney.

He sold it to an undisclosed buyer in 1917, Theodore Newton Barnsdall, owner of the Barnsdall Oil Company, bought the refinery in 1921.

It was sold under foreclosure on December 31, 1917 to Martin Carle who deeded the property to the Fredericksburg and Northern Railway which had been chartered on December 26 of that year.

In 1917, the company bought 84 acres of property in Winston-Salem and built 180 houses that it sold at cost to workers, to form a development called " Reynoldstown.

As the US entered World War I, Indian unnecessarily sold most of its Powerplus line in 1917 and 1918 to the United States government, starving its network of dealers.

*, was a steel yacht commissioned in 1917 and decommissioned in 1919, subsequently serving in the Department of Commerce from 1919 to 1930 before being returned to the Navy and sold in 1931.

*, was a New Mexico-class battleship launched on 30 June 1917, saw action in World War II, and was sold for scrap 24 November 1947

From 1917 through 1918, the Indians name was sold off to Suey Welch, who fielded it as an independent club.

*, was a steam trawler purchased by the US Navy 18 April 1917 and sold 1 December 1919

Most of the production between 1917 and 1952, approximately 2500 units, was sold directly to highway departments and contractors.

Late in the 1917 season, Wood was sold to the Cleveland Indians, where he rejoined former teammate Tris Speaker.

Humphrey's contribution was chiefly financial and organizational ; funding it from the earnings of the family brace business and Managing director until he joined the RFC in 1917.

Major fires destroyed large sections of the business district in 1889, 1917, and 2011.

By 1917, after the completion of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, the construction of ocean-going vessels had become a major business.

He spent his childhood in Riga, and later lived in Andreapol ´ ( a small timber town near Pskov, effectively owned by the family business ) and Petrograd, ( now Saint Petersburg ), witnessing both the February and October Revolutions of 1917.

In many people's eyes during 1917 and 1918, La Follette was the most hated man in the country, for insisting that America had no business in the war and had been led into it by lies and trickery.

From 1917 to 1919 some of the business establishments installed gas lighting systems for better vision.

During and after the 1917 Los Angeles campaign, the Sundays visited with Hollywood stars, and members of Sunday's organization played a charity baseball game against a team of show business personalities that included Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.

The first U. S. Domino Records, a United States based label, debuted in 1917 and went out of business later that same year.

Instead, they met in November 1917 to suspend the NHA's operations and then formed the National Hockey League so that they could continue the business of pro hockey without Livingstone.

In 1917, when Fudan Public School became a university with a modern curriculum in the humanities, natural sciences and business as well as modern European languages, he became its first President.

Irene starred solo in about a dozen silent films between 1917 and 1924, including Patria ( 1917 ), and appeared in several more stage productions before retiring from show business.

Later in 1917, T. L. Williams started a mail-order business from the product that grew to become the company Maybelline.

* Gustav Jacob ( b. 22 February 1854 ; d. 11 June 1933 ), businessman, conferred 3 December 1917: Jacob owned the firm Steingaesser & Co. On the occasion of the business ’ s 100th anniversary, he was made an honorary citizen.

Wang Yung-ching ( also known as YC Wang ) () ( 18 January 1917 – 15 October 2008 ) was an influential entrepreneur who founded a large business empire in Taiwan.

Widely remembered for his role in Alfa sports car business, in 1917 Romeo founded an airplane manufacturer in Naples.

* Thomas Caffrey ( 1917 – 2010 ), Irish chocolatier started his first venture by opening a business in Harold's Cross, Dublin in 1930

1917 saw the merger of the remaining parts of each business into The McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Inc.

Her father William Hurlbut Force ( 1852 – 1917 ) was a member of a well-established business family.

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.

In 1917 Worthington and his business partner Captain Frederick Kent bought the Gerlinger business, renaming it the Gersix Motor Co.

The wartime economy was not good to them, and the business closed their doors by February 1917.