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* The Lighthorsemen, about the Battle of Beersheba, 1917
An early example is in Maurice Tourneur's The Pride of the Clan ( 1917 ), in which there is a series of shots of waves beating on a rocky shore which are shown when the locale of the story, which is about the harsh lives of fisher folk, is being introduced.
In April 1917, during a brief period of German aerial supremacy, a grandstanding Member of Parliament ( upset at the lack of orders for his own aircraft manufacturing firm ) claimed that, on the Western Front, a British pilot's average life expectancy was 93 flying hours, or about three weeks of active service.
The events of July 1917 did not bring about the Red Revolution in January 1918 on their own, but together with political development based on the labour movement's interpretation of the ideas of fennomania and socialism since the 1880's, these events were decisive for the nature, content, and goals of a Finnish revolution.
His book about his discovery was printed in Leipzig in 1917, under the title The Language of the Hittites ; Its Structure and Its Membership in the Indo-European Linguistic Family.
Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the Russian Revolution in 1917, Stalin held the position of General Secretary of the party's Central Committee from 1922 until his death.
Jellicoe later served as First Sea Lord ( professional head of the Royal Navy ), but he was removed at the end of 1917 because of differences over policy regarding the war against the U-Boats and his perceived pessimism about Britain's ability to carry on the war.
* 1917 – The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $ 5. 5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2, 000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10, 000 people and leading to only fatality ( due to heart attack ).
During her years at Washington Seminary, Mitchell's brother, Stephens, was away studying at Harvard College ( 1915 – 1917 ), and he left in May 1917 to enlist in the army, about a month after the U. S. declared war on Germany.
* 1917 – German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
When Trotsky arrived in New York in January 1917, Bukharin was the first to greet him ( as Trotsky's wife recalled, " with a bear hug and immediately began to tell them about a public library which stayed open late at night and which he proposed to show us at once " dragging the tired Trotskys across town " to admire his great discovery ").
Political cartoon about the East St. Louis massacres of 1917.
Toward the end of the First World War, in 1917, the museum was concerned about heavy bombing in London and moved the Rosetta Stone to safety along with other portable objects of value.
The rivalry of the great powers in the region might have remained subdued had it not been for the dramatic change in government in Moscow brought about by the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
The Russian Revolution of October 1917 brought about the definitive ideological division between Communists as denoted with a capital " С " on the one hand and other communist and socialist trends such as anarcho-communists and social democrats, on the other.
P. G. Wodehouse published his first collection of comical stories about butler Jeeves in 1917.
From about 1872 until the U. S. entry into World War I ( 1917 ), target shooting with single-shot rifles was nearly as popular in America as golf is today.
In his fictionalised but autobiographical Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, published in 1930, Siegfried Sassoon's narrator ruminates from his hospital bed in Denmark Hill, London, in 1917 that " Even the screech and rumble of electric trams was a friendly sound ; trams meant safety ; the troops in the trenches thought about trams with affection.
Browning's feature film debut was Jim Bludso ( 1917 ), about a riverboat captain who sacrifices himself to save his passengers from a fire.
* American Year Book: 1917 ( 1918 ), large compendium of facts about the U. S. online complete edition
The German Communist newspaper Rote Fahne had published an article about the Emden incident and at the same time praised the High Seas mutinies of 1917 and 1918, and stated that it would be wonderful if something along those lines happened again.
Raeder testified in response to Maxwell Fyfe's question about his Heroes ' Day speech to his belief that starting in 1917 " International Jewry had destroyed the resistance of the German people ... and had gained an excessively large and oppressive influence in German affairs " and all of the anti-Semitic measures of the Nazi regime which presumably included genocide were merely just acts of German self-defence.
A description of his invention was published in 1709 in Vienna, and another one that was lost was found in the Vatican in about 1917.

1917 and half
In the first month and half after the October Revolution ( 1917 ), the duty of " extinguishing the resistance of exploiters " was assigned to the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee ( or VRK ).
English was left alone on the island for a year and a half ( 1917 – 19 ), with two teens, when cholera broke out in Papeete and transport stopped due to the First World War.
On 11 January 1917, Fiodore Wozniak, using a rag saturated with phosphorus or an incendiary pencil supplied by German sabotage agents, set fire to his workbench at an ammunition assembly plant near Kingsland, NY, causing a four-hour fire that destroyed half a million 3-inch explosive shells and destroyed the plant for an estimated at 17 million in damages.
From 1859 to 1917, over half a million people moved to the Russian Far East.
His political career spanned over half a century, from 1917 to 1973 ; he served multiple terms as head of government and head of state.
In reprisal, buckets were cut off or timber set on fire, and by 1917 Aboriginal people had vandalised or dismantled approximately half of the wells in a bid to reclaim access to the water or to prevent drovers from using the wells.
It is presently drifting south at the rate of almost half a second ( 0. 47 ″) of latitude per year ( it was at exactly 23 ° 27 ' in year 1917 ).
It is currently drifting north at the rate of almost half a second ( 0. 47 ″) of latitude, which is about 15 metres, per year ( it was at exactly 23 ° 27 ' S in year 1917 ).
The United States entered the war on the side of the Entente Powers in 1917 and by mid-1918 had an army of around half a million men, this rising to a million by the time the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918.
In 1918, the British Army was actually smaller than in 1917 ( 3. 84 million to 3. 9 million ) and almost half the infantry was nineteen or younger.
Then on 1 January 1917, the eastern half of the island of Hareidlandet was separated from Ulstein to form the new municipality of Hareid.
The team won the second half of the 1917 – 18 NHL season, leading to a playoff against the Montreal Canadiens.
By June 1917, 14, 000 U. S. soldiers had already arrived in France, and by May 1918 over one million U. S. troops were stationed in France, half of them being on the front lines.
It was drafted at Craiglockhart in the first half of October 1917 and later revised, probably at Scarborough but possibly Ripon, between January and March 1918.
For example, Strom Thurmond, a U. S. senator from South Carolina, left office at age 100 after almost half a century in the body, while Robert Byrd of West Virginia was born in 1917 and served in the Senate from 1959 to his death in 2010.
In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of Jewish refugees escaping from the 1917 Russian Revolution and the Holocaust in Europe arrived in China.
Another tragic loss of life for the South African forces during the war was the Mendi sinking on 21 February 1917, when the troopship Mendi – while transporting 607 members of the 802nd South African Native Labour Corps from Britain to France – was struck and cut almost in half by another ship.
Today the Russian state is very different, between 1917 and 1941 more than half of the Don Cossacks population had been killed or deported.
In July, 1917, now a lieutenant commander in the U. S. Navy, he took up the position of commander of the Portsmouth Naval Prison, a post he held for two and a half years.
Initially these units were equipped with the Halberstadt D. II, the Fokker D. I, D. II and D. III, each armed with one synchronized lMG 08 machine gun, but by the end of 1916 increasing numbers of the new Albatros fighters were well on the way to establishing the German air superiority that was to mark the first half of 1917.
The first half of 1917 was a successful period for the jagdstaffeln and the much larger RFC suffered significantly higher casualties than their opponents.
During the last half of 1917, the British Sopwith Camel and S. E. 5a and the French SPAD S. XIII, all fitted with two forward firing machine guns, became available in numbers.
The western half of the site, built in 1917, but only managed by Crossley Motors, became National Aircraft Factory No. 2.
No other Soviet nationality suffered the decline imposed on the Crimean Tatars ; between 1917 and 1933 half the Crimean Tatar population had been killed or deported.

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