In Serbia Nikola Pašić ( 1845 – 1926 ) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903 ; they also monopolized power in Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1929 ; during the dictatorship of the 1930s, it furnished the prime minister.

However, they then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history, called by some the " Curse of the Bambino " after its alleged beginning with the Red Sox's sale of Babe Ruth to the rival Yankees two years after their world championship in 1918, an 86-year wait before the team's sixth World Championship in.

On November 1918 the large group of Palestinian Arab dignitaries and representatives of political associations addressed a petition to the British authorities in which they denounced the declaration.

The Cubs responded by winning a pennant in the war-shortened season of 1918, where they played a part in another team's curse.

In this, the Cheka said that they targeted " class enemies " such as the bourgeoisie, and members of the clergy ; the first organized mass repression began against the libertarians and socialists of Petrograd in April 1918.

He blamed the Berlin government and the civilian population for the armistice / surrender of November 1918, saying they had failed to support him, had let him down, and had proved itself unworthy of the traditions of a fighting nation.

) and " they returned undefeated from the battlefield ( sie sind vom Schlachtfeld unbesiegt zurückgekehrt )" on November 10, 1918.

Between 1917 and 1918, they made contracts with Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, the first million-dollar deals in the history of film.

By 1918 the edges of ordinary circular irises were becoming very fuzzy when they were used in American films.

On the left, the vanguard of the war of 1918 was the most radical urban Red Guards and Workers ' Security Guards from Helsinki, Kotka and Turku ; they led the rural Reds, and convinced those leaders of the Social Democrats who wavered between peace and war to support revolution.

The high command under Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff increasingly controlled the Reich as they gambled on one last offensive in spring 1918 ( before the Americans could arrive in force ).

While both serving on the Tsaritsyn Front in 1918, where Ekaterina was helping orphans, they adopted a four year old orphan boy who they named Petya.

After they were turned back at the border, Radek alone crossed the German border illegally in December 1918, arriving in Berlin on 19 or 20 December, where he participated in the discussions and conferences leading to the foundation of the Communist Party of Germany ( KPD ).

Lithuania's boundaries have changed several times since 1918, but they have been stable since 1945.

After World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) the Slavs in Serbian ( Vardar ) Macedonia were regarded as southern Serbs and the language they spoke a southern Serbian dialect.

Weber himself had a significant influence on Mises, whom he had befriended when they were both at the University of Vienna in the spring of 1918, and, through Mises, on several other economists associated with the Austrian School in the 20th century.

After 1871 Masurians who expressed sympathy for Poland were deemed " national traitors " by German nationalists ( this increased especially after 1918 ) According to Stefan Berger after 1871 the Masurians in the German Empire were seen in a view that while acknowledging their " objective " Polishness ( in terms of culture and language ) they felt " subjectively " German and thus should be tightly integrated into German nation-state ; to Berger this argument went directly against the German nationalist demands in Alsace where Alsatians were declared German despite their " subjective " choice.

For example, the flags of Venezuela, of Colombia, and of Ecuador all use variants of the flag of Great Colombia, the country they composed upon their independence from Spain, created by the Venezuelan independence hero Francisco de Miranda ; and the flags of Egypt, of Iraq, of Syria, and of Yemen are all highly similar variants of the flag of the Arab revolt of 1916 – 1918.

He is best known for his book The Decline of the West ( Der Untergang des Abendlandes ), published in 1918 and 1922, where he proposed a new theory, according to which the lifespan of civilizations is limited and ultimately they decay.

Poor fiscal management after their appearance in the 1915 World Series, however, doomed the Phillies to sink back into relative obscurity ; from 1918 to 1948 they only had one winning season.

Weakened, they were unable to prevent the passage of more comprehensive electoral reforms in 1867, 1884, 1918 and 1928 when universal equal suffrage was achieved.

In August 1918, Trotsky authorized General Mikhail Tukhachevsky to place blocking units behind politically unreliable Red Army units, to shoot them if they retreated without permission.

Until 1918, the right to collect amber was restricted to the Hohenzollern dynasty of Prussia ; visitors to Samland's beaches were forbidden to pick up any fragments they found.

The German spring offensives of 1918 failed, and with gthe arrival of the American in summer at the rate of 10, 000 a day the Germans realized they were being overwhelmed.

Born into a privileged Unitarian family, Potter, along with her younger brother, Walter Bertram ( 1872 – 1918 ), grew up with few friends outside her large extended family.

Because the Army Distinguished Service Medal is principally awarded to general officers, a list of notable recipients would include nearly every general and admiral since 1918, many of whom received multiple awards, as well as a few civilians and sergeants major prominent for their contributions to national defense.

The influence of Intolerance produced a few other films that combined a number of similar stories having similar themes, such as Maurice Tourneur's Woman ( 1918 ), but the box-office failure of Intolerance ensured that these later films had simpler structures.

The stalemate lasted from 1914 until early 1918, with ferocious battles that moved forces a few hundred yards at best along a line that stretched from the North Sea to the Swiss border.

A civil war between the Finnish Red Guards and the White Guard ensued a few months later, with the " Whites " gaining the upper hand during the springtime of 1918.

The craft of making swords was kept alive through the efforts of a few individuals, notably Gassan Sadakazu ( 月山貞一, 1836 – 1918 ) and Gassan Sadakatsu ( 月山貞勝, 1869 – 1943 ), who were employed as Imperial artisans.

Tanks, artillery or infiltration tactics could all be used to break through an enemy defense, but almost all the offensives launched in 1918 ground to a halt after a few days.

In December 1918, Mitteleuropa was obsolete as the Germans withdrew from the Ober-Ost territory, and for the next few years in the newly created political vacuum the territories of Belarus would witness the struggle of various national and foreign factions.

This was partly in response to an embargo on contemporary German music that saw very few performances of Richard Strauss and Max Reger throughout the war ( although older generations of German composers remained as popular as ever, culminating in a run of Die Walküre, conducted by Thomas Beecham, in 1918 ).

After 1918 the SPD played an important role in the political system of the Weimar Republic, although it took part in coalition governments only in few years ( 1918 – 1921, 1923, 1928 – 1930 ).

Within a few years, particularly after his 1918 exposition, he achieved great fame as a painter of beautiful women and cats in a very original technique.

A few years after Miró ’ s 1918 Barcelona solo exhibition, he settled in Paris where he finished a number of paintings that he had begun on his parents ’ farm in Mont-roig del Camp.

In the inter-war years ( 1918 – 39 ) Jesus was seen by some as a small college and something of a backwater ; it attracted relatively few pupils from the public schools traditionally seen as the most prestigious.

* J. B. Fuqua ( pronounced " few -- kwah ") ( June 16, 1918 – April 5, 2006 ), a businessman, philanthropist and chairman of The Fuqua Companies and Fuqua Enterprises was born in Prince Edward County ( Prospect ); he resided the majority of his life in Atlanta, GA.

Wilhelm, 2nd Duke of Urach, thus placed further back in the line of succession to the throne of Monaco, was chosen as King of Lithuania for a few months in 1918, being known as Mindaugas II.

His father, Antoine Certain de Canrobert, Knight of Saint Louis, was the scion of a relatively obscure family whose grandfather had been ennobled in 1738 ( the senior branch of the family, extinct in 1918, used the surname " Certain de La Meschaussée "): he became a Royalist émigré and consequently his few properties were confiscated during the French Revolution and he was even briefly imprisoned in the Temple in 1801.

A few of the notable visitors to the region: Elisabeth of Bavaria, empress of Austria-Hungary, 1837-1898 ( who travelled to the island for leisure and health ), Charles I of Austria, Emperor Austria and King of Hungary, 1867 – 1918, Polish Field Marshal Józef Piłsudski in order to recuperate his health, Winston Churchill ( who travelled here on holidays and was known to have painted a few paintings during his visits ) and Fulgencio Batista ( who stopped-over en-route to his exile in Spain ).

One of the few things known for certain about the influenza in 1918 and for some years after was that it was, out of the laboratory, exclusively a disease of human beings.

He died a few hours later at a London nursing home on 6 March 1918.

The seat of Waterford city was one of the few outside Ulster not to be won by Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election.

In 1916, she appeared in her first film as Julia Lovelace in Her Greatest Performance and continued to act in London and on tour, also making a few more films through 1922, including The Invasion of Britain ( 1918 ), Pillars of Society ( 1920 ), Victory and Peace, Potter's Clay ( 1922 ), and The Bohemian Girl as Buda the nursemaid, with Ivor Novello and Gladys Cooper ( 1922 ).

By 1918 stage coaches were only operating in a few mountain resorts or western National Parks as part of the " old west " romance for tourists.

During those first few years, the group was still relatively homogeneous, although Van der Leck left in 1918 due to artistic differences of opinion.