For a short while in 1918, he was employed acquiring provisions at the Air Ministry.

Bloch was highly interdisciplinary, influenced by the geography of Paul Vidal de la Blache ( 1845 – 1918 ) and the sociology of Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ).

However, he became gravely ill during the 1918 flu pandemic and, since Spain was neutral and thus under no wartime censorship restrictions, his illness and subsequent recovery were covered worldwide, giving the false impression ( in the absence of real news from anywhere else ) that Spain was the most-affected area.

In 1918 he returned to St Mary's Hospital, where he was elected Professor of Bacteriology of the University of London in 1928.

The most intensive use of armoured trains was during the Russian Civil War ( 1918 – 1920 ).

In 1918, the British Mk V tank was capable of carrying a small number of troops and in 1944, the Canadian general Guy Simonds ordered the conversion of redundant armoured vehicles to carry troops ( generically named " Kangaroos ").

The Ascanian dynasties in the two Saxon states became extinct in 1689 and in 1422, respectively, but Ascanians continued to rule in the smaller state of Anhalt and its various subdivisions until monarchy was abolished in 1918.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election by a division of the Swansea District.

Alan Jay Lerner ( August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986 ) was an American lyricist and librettist.

On December 30, 1918, Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin, who was Irish Catholic and who, earlier that month, had given birth to their first son, Albert Francis (" Sonny ") Capone.

The see was restored as a diocese of the Catholic Church in 1918 and raised into an archdiocese in 1923.

First documented in the 13th century, Berlin was the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( 1701 – 1918 ), the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ), the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 1933 ) and the Third Reich ( 1933 – 1945 ).

At the end of World War I in 1918, a republic was proclaimed in Berlin.

Whorf graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1918 with a degree in chemical engineering where his academic performance was of average quality.

Only several years after its liberation ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became a regional military power and was involved in several major wars – Serbo-Bulgarian War ( 1885 ), First Balkan War ( 1912 – 13 ), Second Balkan War ( 1913 ), First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) and Second World War ( 1941 – 1944 ), during which the Army gained significant combat experience.

The Kingdom of Bulgaria participated in World War I on the side of the Central Powers between 15 October 1915, when the country declared war on Serbia, to 29 September 1918, when the Armistice of Thessalonica was signed.

Biological sabotage – in the form of anthrax and glanders — was undertaken on behalf of the Imperial German government during World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), with indifferent results.

The Miraculous Mandarin, a modern story of prostitution, robbery, and murder, was started in 1918, but not performed until 1926 because of its sexual content.

According to Isaiah Friedman, Hussein was not perturbed by the Balfour Declaration and on 23 March 1918, in Al Qibla, the daily newspaper of Mecca, with Hussein writing:

Following the publication of the Declaration the British had dispatched Commander David George Hogarth to see Hussein in January 1918 bearing the message that the " political and economic freedom " of the Palestinian population was not in question.

Among them were the minutes of a Cabinet Eastern Committee meeting, chaired by Lord Curzon, which was held on 5 December 1918.

As a result of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's capture of two Ottoman armies, an armistice with the Ottoman Empire was signed on 31 October 1918.

From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them.

Allenby's force, now including Indian Army units which replaced a number of British units sent to the Western Front, captured the southern Jordan Valley in 1918 and carried out two major, but unsuccessful attacks to Amman and Es Salt and occupied part of the Jordan Valley, during preparations for his final successful assault in September at the Battle of Megiddo.

He was sent to France in June 1918 to serve on the Western Front for the last months of the war.

Towards the end of 1918, Frances sent a letter to Johanna Parvin, a friend in Cape Town, South Africa, where Frances had lived for most of her life, enclosing the photograph of her with the fairies.

On February 23, 1918, VCheKa sent a radio telegram to all Soviets with a petition to immediately organize emergency commissions to combat counter-revolution, sabotage and speculation, if such commissions had not been yet organized.

Due to boredom, Hawks attempted to get a transfer during the first half of 1918 before finally being sent to Fort Monroe, Virginia.

French military missions were sent to Japan in 1872 – 1880, in 1884 – 1889 and the last one much later in 1918 – 1919 to help modernize the Japanese army.

A delegation sent by a postwar Albanian National Assembly that met at Durrës in December 1918 defended Albanian interests at the Paris Peace Conference, but the conference denied Albania official representation.

* 1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe ( that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario and Washington, DC ) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.

Soon after joining he was sent to France for a year, where he drove an ambulance, but only after the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918.

He appealed to ALA members to donate books and volunteer for service, and by June 1918 the association had purchased 300, 000 books, sent 1, 349, 000 gift books to camps, and distributed 500, 000 magazines .” In the time after World War I, the services of the Library of Congress towards the war effort provided a new outlook for the American public on the possibilities of what a successful library could accomplish.

A Portuguese artillery Corps was also sent to man French batteries, which they started operating by March 1918.

On July 30, 1918, Kilmer volunteered to accompany Major William " Wild Bill " Donovan ( later, in World War II, the founder of the Office of Strategic Services — forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency ) when Donovan's Battalion ( 1 – 165th Infantry ) was sent to lead the day's attack.

In 1918, Molotov was sent to Ukraine to take part in the civil war then breaking out.

On October 12, 1918, Rzeszów ’ s mayor, together with Town Council, sent a message to Warsaw, announcing loyalty to the independent Polish government.

American and British expeditionary forces of the North Russia Campaign were armed with these rifles and sent to Murmansk and Arkhangelsk in the late summer of 1918 to prevent the large quantities of munitions delivered for Czarist forces from being captured by the Central Powers.

Called up for military service in 1918, after the war, he was sent to the Near East to defend French interests there.

In 1918, he was sent to serve in Siberia, where he made his first stage appearance, entertaining American troops on occupation duty.

In 1916, the Pope managed to hammer out an agreement between both sides, by which 29, 000 prisoners with lung disease from the gas attacks could be sent into Switzerland In May 1918, he also reached agreement that prisoners on both sides with at least 18 months of captivity and four children at home, would also be sent to neutral Switzerland.

With the end of the war in 1918, Tan sent Harry to Ashford Boarding School in Kent, and Owen to sea “ to make a man of him ”.

In October 1918, he was sent to Britain and France, on behalf of the Finnish government, to attempt to gain recognition of Finland's independence by Britain and the United States.

In August 1918, his regiment was sent to Siberia during Japan's Siberian Intervention, but was never in combat.

Although the force was scaled back to avoid antagonizing the United States, more than 70, 000 Japanese troops joined the much smaller units of the Allied Expeditionary Force sent to Siberia in 1918.

Indeed, a note sent to Wilson by Prince Maximilian of Baden, the German imperial chancellor, in October 1918 requested an immediate armistice and peace negotiations on the basis of the Fourteen Points.