Ralph Vaughan Williams produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano ( dedicated to Gervase Elwes ) in 1909, and it became very popular after Elwes recorded it with the London String Quartet and Frederick B. Kiddle in 1917.

He became a general staff officer with IX Corps, part of General Sir Herbert Plumer's Second Army, in July 1917.

These soviets became the model for those formed in 1917.

Sometime in 1917 or 1918, as Chiang became close to Sun Yat-sen, he changed his name from Jiang Zhiqing to Jiang Zhongzheng ().

Andropov's health declined rapidly during the tense summer and fall of 1983, and he became the first Soviet leader to miss the anniversary celebrations of the 1917 revolution that November.

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.

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 –).

In June 1917, when the Royal Family stopped using their German names and titles and adopted the more British-sounding " Windsor ": Prince Louis of Battenberg became Louis Mountbatten, and was created Marquess of Milford Haven.

In 1917, Mussolini as leader of the Fasci of Revolutionary Action praised the October Revolution, however Mussolini later became unimpressed with Lenin, regarding him as merely a new version of Tsar Nicholas.

His Democratic opponent was Robert L. Moran, an alderman from the Bronx who had succeeded to the Board presidency in 1918 when Alfred E. Smith, who had been elected Board President in 1917, became Governor.

The passing of the Tokoi Senate bill, called the " Power Act ," in July 1917 became the first one of the three culminations of the power struggle between the Social Democrats and the conservatives during the political crisis from March 1917 to the end of January 1918.

In May 1917 a place became available as a King's Scholar at Eton.

Food scarcity became a serious problem by 1917.

The area became a focal point of conflict between Christianity and Islam between 1096 and 1291 and from the end of the Crusades until the British conquest in 1917 was part of the Syrian province of first the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and then ( from 1517 ) the Ottoman Empire.

The letter subsequently became known as the Balfour Declaration of 1917.

He became a permanent major on 1 August 1917 and was again promoted acting lieutenant-colonel, this time confirmed as Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion Irish Guards, on 15 October.

In 1915, Regret became the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby ( of only three in the history of the race ), and in 1917, the English-bred colt " Omar Khayyam " became the first foreign-bred horse to win the race.

Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Voroshilov became a member of the Ukrainian Council of People's Commissars and Commissar for Internal Affairs along with Vasili Averin.

After the October Revolution ( 1917 ), Malevich became a member of the Collegium on the Arts of Narkompros, the Commission for the Protection of Monuments and the Museums Commission ( all from 1918 – 1919 ).

He joined the Bolsheviks immediately prior to the 1917 October Revolution, and eventually became a leader within the Party.

In July, after commanding the only successful front in the disastrous Russian offensive of June, 1917, he became Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Provisional Government's armed forces.

At the news of Russian Revolution of February 1917, Bukharin returned to Russia by way of Japan and at once became one of the leading Bolsheviks in Moscow, being elected to the Central Committee.

After the second 1917 revolution, he became the editor of the party's newspaper, Pravda.

The Purple Heart is awarded in the name of the President of the United States to any member of the Armed Forces of the United States who, while serving under competent authority in any capacity with one of the U. S. Armed Services after April 5, 1917, has been wounded or killed.

Unable to locate a copy in any of its libraries, the Soviet Union was obliged to ask the Hoover Institution for a microfilm copy of its original edition of the first issue of Pravda ( dated March 5, 1917 ).

Paul IV's 1559 bull, Cum ex apostolatus officio, stipulated that a heretic cannot be elected pope, while Canon 188. 4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law provides that a cleric who publicly defects from the Catholic faith automatically loses any office he had held in the Church.

If there were any early expeditions to the site, the records were likely to have been lost during the subsequent chaotic years — World War I, the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War.

When Gathmann died in June 1917, he held more patents than any other person alive at that time, and his death was mentioned in papers all over the globe, from the Chicago Tribune, to the New York Times and the Washington Post.

When the February Revolution occurred in 1917, he was one of the few Bolsheviks of any standing in the capital.

The Liberal Party finally split openly during the Maurice Debate in 1918, at which Lloyd George was accused ( almost certainly correctly ) of hoarding manpower in the UK to prevent Haig from launching any fresh offensives ( e. g. Passchendaele, 1917 ), possibly with a view to sending more troops to Palestine or Italy instead, and thus contributing to Allied weakness during the temporarily successful German offensives of spring 1918, in which British casualties were actually heavier than in their own offensives the previous year.

The problem with attrition was that the use of fortified defenses in depth generally required a ratio of ten attackers to one defender, or a level of artillery support which was simply not feasible until late 1917, for any reasonable chance of victory.

Helium did not have any practical applications at the time, but by 1917 the federal government was sponsoring extensive research into the possibility of using helium in airships.

Failing to maintain tonsure was the equivalent of attempting to abandon one's clerical state, and in the 1917 Code of Canon Law, any cleric in minor orders ( or simply tonsured ) who did not resume the tonsure within a month after being warned by his Ordinary, lost the clerical state.

Chamberlain joined the cabinet as Secretary of State for India and remained at the India Office after Lloyd George succeeded Asquith as Prime Minister in late 1916, but following the failure of various British campaigns in Mesopotamia ( undertaken by the separately-administered Indian Army ), Chamberlain resigned his post in 1917, not because of any failures on his part, but rather according to his principles: he was the minister ultimately responsible, so the fault lay with him.

Stewart was a supporter of conscription and of the Union government, but did not take any active part in the acrimonious 1917 federal election, which was fought on the issue.

" Sidney Colvin, in his 1917 biography, pointed out that " the ode To Autumn [...] opens up no such far-reaching avenues to the mind and soul of the reader as the odes To a Grecian Urn, To a Nightingale, or On Melancholy, but in execution is more complete and faultless than any of them.

The party's support was lower than in any parliamentary election since 1917.

Although several were delivered for military use between 1917 and 1946, Linn never received any large military orders.

In November 1917, Clemenceau offered him a post in government, but the Socialist Party by then refused to enter any government.

Pruszyński indeed, together with Franciszek Gil ( 1917 – 1960 ), were the two literary personages whom Kapuściński himself invoked as unattainable ideals for any journalist.

The proposal received hardly any support from French Canadians, especially in Quebec, where anti-conscription groups ( including one led by Henri Bourassa, the most vocal opponent of conscription in 1917 ) encouraged 72. 9 % of voters to oppose the plebiscite.

In the winter of 1917, the U. S. Army moved onto Nisqually lands and ordered them from their homes without any warning.

A Fabergé egg (; Yaĭtsa Faberzhe ) is any one of the thousands of jeweled eggs made by the House of Fabergé from 1885 to 1917.

The United States does not have any Official Secrets Act, although the Espionage Act of 1917 has similar components.

In 1917, the Tigers tried playing him in right field ( 95 games ), center field ( 28 games ) and first base ( 27 games ), but he was not particularly good at any of those positions.

The Prisoner of War Medal may be awarded to any person who was a prisoner of war after April 5, 1917, ( the date of the United States entry into World War I was the 6th ).

He informed the House that the medal would benefit any " member of the armed forces of the United States, was held after April 5, 1917, by any force hostile to the United States as a prisoner, internee, or hostage.