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In 1917 she traveled with Mary Baird Bryan, William Jennings Bryan's wife, and two other women to Tallahassee to speak in support of women's right to vote.
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Queen Ranavalona III was deposed on January 1897 and was exiled to Algiers in Algeria, where she died in 1917.
Despite her family ’ s vehement disapproval, she eloped with Urbano in 1917 to live at his parents ' home in Gambettola.
From 1917 to the 1930s, she performed most frequently as a victim and was known as " the most assassinated woman in the world ".
Occasionally, she played a child, in films like The Poor Little Rich Girl ( 1917 ), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm ( 1917 ), Daddy-Long-Legs ( 1919 ) and Pollyanna ( 1920 ).
In 1917, she started publishing the monthly periodical The Birth Control Review.
When she was sixteen years old, the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 destroyed Mitchell's former Jackson Hill home.
In April 1922, Mitchell was seeing two men almost daily ; one was Berrien “ Red ” Upshaw, whom she is thought to have met in 1917 at a dance hosted by the parents of one of her friends, and the other, Upshaw's roommate and friend, John R. Marsh, a copy editor from Kentucky who worked for the Associated Press.
In 1917 she became acquainted with a mother of newborn twins, one of whom was chronically ill.
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 recognition of the growing threat she posed, on 31 January 1917, Germany adopted the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare in an attempt to starve the island nation of supplies.
Like her older sister Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, she nursed wounded soldiers in a military hospital from 1914 to 1917, until the family was arrested following the first Russian Revolution of 1917.
The smaller queen's crown last worn by Ranavalona III was taken with her into exile, first in Réunion and then later in Algiers, where she eventually died in 1917.
" Goodby ," she wrote to a friend in the winter of 1917.
My Disillusionment in Russia is a book published in 1923 by Emma Goldman describing her experiences in Soviet Russia from 1920 to 1921, where she saw the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
The widow of William P. " Will " Fletcher ( 1917 – 1999 ), a retired United States Army colonel and a former Grant Parish deputy sheriff, she was survived by a daughter, Janet F. Dyson of Baton Rouge, two grandsons, three great-grandchildren, and her brother, Maurice Smith, a former Montgomery High School principal and Grant Parish school superintendent.
A lifelong pacifist, she was one of the 50 members of Congress who voted against the entry of the United States into World War I in 1917 and the only member of Congress who voted against declaring war after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ( World War II ) in 1941.
In 1917, she became the director of the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier.
When paraffin supplies ran low she organized a candle collection, and in November 1917 she instituted a scheme to train girls to work on the land.
While Dior dressed Nazi wives, his sister Catherine ( 1917 — 2008 ) served as a member of the French Resistance, was captured by the Gestapo, and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she was incarcerated until she was liberated in May 1945.
He married Margaretta Parker Blair in 1917 and she survived him.
In 1917, she became also member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation USA ( American branch of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation founded in 1919 ) and was a member of the Fellowship Council until 1933.
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In 1917, Rudolph Valentino joined an operetta company that traveled to Utah where it disbanded.
By the end of June 1917, Lyapunov traveled with his wife to his brother's place in Odessa.
During 1916 and 1917, García Lorca traveled throughout Castile, Léon, and Galicia, in northern Spain, with a professor of his university, who also encouraged him to write his first book, ( Impressions and Landscapes – published 1918 ).
By 1917 his solution was perfected, and he traveled to Washington, DC to demonstrate it.
Barceló and a group of party delegates traveled to Washington to seek changes in the Jones Act of 1917, by presenting their views that the economic situation in Puerto Rico was a good one and that Puerto Ricans were capable of electing their own governor.
He traveled extensively throughout the Arab world and kept on coming back to it until 1917, collecting a huge body of scientific material.
In early 1917 he traveled to Japan with Ficke.
In 1917, John Rogers, as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, traveled to the United Kingdom and France to observe the conditions of the war firsthand.
In Vagabonding Down the Andes ( 1917 ), he traveled thousands of miles on foot.
Blanding soon became suddenly fascinated by Hawaii and traveled there, staying for the year until his enlistment in the U. S. Army in December, 1917.
In 1917 Retinger traveled to Mexico, where he became an unofficial political adviser to union organizer Luis Morones and President Plutarco Elías Calles.
Reed and Bryant together traveled to Russia in 1917 where they witnessed the October Revolution.
In December 1917, Höglund and Karl Kilbom traveled to Petrograd to visit the Bolsheviks and show their support of the revolution.
In January 1917, editor Williams traveled to New York City in order to raise money for the Socialist Propaganda League and its newly-launched paper.
During the salmon fishing season in Alaska in the summers of 1917 and 1918, Cobb traveled north to visit the various APA concerns.
In 1917 he moved to the Federal Extension Service, and in that position, he traveled around the country photographing rural life.
He traveled and lived in Polynesia ( 1903 – 1905 ) and China ( 1909 – 1914 and 1917 ).
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The total operation was a construction project comparable in magnitude with the Panama Canal, but in 1917 time was in short supply ; ;
There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917.
The present Federal program of vocational education began in 1917 with the passage of the Smith-Hughes Act, which provided a continuing annual appropriation of $7 million to support, on a matching basis, state-administered programs of vocational education in agriculture, trades, industrial skills and home economics.
* 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Arras – the battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
" The telescope saw first light on November 2, 1917, with Carnegie still alive.
* Elmer, Robert P. ( Robert Potter ) ( 1917 ) American Archery ; a Vade Mecum of the Art of Shooting with the Long Bow Columbus, OH: National Archery Association of the United States
Atle Selberg ( 14 June 1917 – 6 August 2007 ) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory.
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.
Elwes had been closely identified with English wartime morale, having given six benefit performances of The Dream of Gerontius on consecutive nights in 1916, and many concerts in France in 1917 for British soldiers.
Captain Bernard Montgomery DSO with a fellow officer of 104th Brigade ( United Kingdom ) | 104th Brigade, 35th Division ( United Kingdom ) | 35th Division, with which he served from January 1915 until early 1917
He became a general staff officer with IX Corps, part of General Sir Herbert Plumer's Second Army, in July 1917.
Montgomery served at the Battle of Passchendaele in Autumn 1917 before finishing the war as General Staff Officer 1 and effectively chief of staff of the 47th ( 2nd London ) Division, with the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel.
The Psovoi was popular with the Tsars before the 1917 revolution.
After the 1917 Revolution, wolf hunting with sighthounds has soon gone out of fashion as an " aristocratic " and a means-and-time-taking way of hunting.
His silent films usually centred on the Tramp's plight in poverty and his run-ins with the law, but also explored controversial topics, such as immigration ( The Immigrant, 1917 ), illegitimacy ( The Kid, 1921 ) and drug use ( Easy Street, 1917 ).
There have been infrequent scientific and amateur radio expeditions, and in 1978 Jacques-Yves Cousteau visited with his team of divers, plus a survivor from the 1917 evacuation, to film a television special called Clipperton: The Island that Time Forgot.
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.
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.
The first of the five photographs, taken by Elsie Wright in 1917, shows Frances Griffiths with the alleged fairies.
The motion to carry out a revolution in October 1917 was passed with 10 in favour, and two against by the Central Committee.
For example, the Central Committee voted for or against signing a peace treaty with the Germans between 1917 and 1918 during World War I ; the majority voted in favour of peace when Trotsky backed down in 1918.
In 1917, Eastman co-founded a radical journal of politics, art, and literature, The Liberator, with her brother Max.
Founded in 1917 as the ( DNA, " German Standardisation Committee ") in 1926 to reflect that the organization now dealt with standardization issues in many fields ; viz., not just for industrial products.
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