Statues of Nurmi were also sculpted by Renée Sintenis in 1926 and by Carl Eldh, whose 1937 work Löpare ( Runners ) depicts a battle between Nurmi and Edvin Wide.

Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928 – 29 series.

Zinoviev and Kamenev broke with Stalin in 1925 and joined Trotsky in 1926 in what was known as the United Opposition.

Drought from 1924 to 1926 drove many farmers broke.

Taylor himself was recruited into the Communist Party of Great Britain by a friend of the family, military historian Tom Wintringham, while at Oriel ; a member from 1924 to 1926, he broke with the Party over what he considered to be its ineffective stand during the 1926 General Strike.

After the team folded following the 1926 season ( largely due to being left broke because of a $ 500 fine by the NFL for using four high-school players in a 1925 game against the Chicago Cardinals, a game arranged after the Badgers had disbanded for the season ), many of its members played for the independent semi-pro Milwaukee Eagles.

Her open-mindedness led her to accept a triangular relationship, and from early 1926 Laura Riding lived with her and Graves in London The marriage eventually broke down, as Graves increasingly favoured Riding, leaving Nancy to bring up the four children of the marriage alone, in a succession of locations, including Cumberland and a further spell on Boars Hill.

When the UK General Strike of 1926 broke out, the trade union leaders, " had never worked out the revolutionary implications of direct action on such a scale ", Bevan says.

President Calles's harsh treatment of Roman Catholics had led to a rebellion known as the Cristero War, which broke out in 1926.

After his father went broke in 1926, the family moved to Winnipeg, but were unable to afford to stay there.

In the Summer of 1926, fighting broke out.

In the latter event, she broke the world record three times in 1926 and 1927.

In 1926, the company broke with its mail-order-only tradition when it opened its first retail outlet store in Plymouth, Indiana.

Herridge was a patent attorney by profession and had been a Liberal supporter but, being a personal friend of Governor General Byng, he broke with the Liberals in 1926 over the King-Byng Affair.

In 1926, T. Austin-Sparks broke with this organisation and resigned his Baptist ordination.

After a series of setbacks, his financial empire broke up in 1926.

When the 1926 General Strike broke out, No. 4 Squadron's aircraft were used to patrol railway lines to deter feared sabotage.

In 1926, their girls ’ division broke off to focus more closely on girls ’ educational issues and became The Chaffee School.

When the Cristero War broke out in 1926, his brothers joined the rebel forces, but his mother would not allow him to take part.

The new majority was led by Édouard Herriot, and broke up in 1926, with the SFIO passing into the opposition.

He and Stefan George stayed on good terms for more than twenty years, but later, George broke completely with him, on the occasion of his marriage in 1926.

* 1926 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world ( d. 1997 )

) In 1926, he discovered the world of Grand Guignol, the circus with Pierino the Clown, and the movies.

Wallerscote was built in 1926, its construction delayed by the First World War, and became one of the largest factories devoted to a single product ( soda ash ) in the world.

In 1926, the Liberian government gave a concession to the American rubber company Firestone to start the world ’ s largest rubber plantation at Harbel, Liberia.

In October 1926, he lost a 1, 500 m race along with his world record to Germany's Otto Peltzer.

Alma-Tadema's meticulous archaeological research, including research into Roman architecture ( which was so thorough that every building featured in his canvases could have been built using Roman tools and methods ) led to his paintings being used as source material by Hollywood directors in their vision of the ancient world for films such as D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), Ben Hur ( 1926 ), Cleopatra ( 1934 ), and most notably of all, Cecil B. DeMille's epic remake of The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India ( 1838 ), The Straits Times ( 1845 ), The New York Times ( 1851 ), The Irish Times ( 1859 ), the Los Angeles Times ( 1881 ), The Seattle Times ( 1891 ), The Daily Times ( Malawi ) ( 1900 ), The Canberra Times ( 1926 ), The Times ( Malta ) ( 1935 ) and The Times of Israel ( Israel ) ( 2012 ).

Keith Money, a biographer of Anna Pavlova, wrote that a hotel chef in Wellington, New Zealand, created the dish when Pavlova visited there in 1926 on her world tour.

By 1926 Rank was persona non grata in the official psychoanalytic world.

The world premiere of the opera was given at the National Theatre in Brno on December 18, 1926, conducted by František Neumann.

He wrote about this world in novels and short stories, including Times Like These ( 1936 ) which explores the life of a working-class family during the 1926 miners ' strike.

Caldera attended elementary school in San Felipe 1921 – 1922, entered San Ignacio school of the Society of Jesus in Caracas 1923 – 1925, in 1926 returned to Yaracuy studying at Padre Delgado school, and secondary education again in Caracas ( San Ignacio school ) 1927 – 1931, made his superior studies in this city, at the Central University of Venezuela ( UCV ) 1931 – 1938, obtained a doctorate in the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, later was professor of sociology and law in several universities including the UCV, where he was a student leader, which took him into the political world.

In his final confrontation with Stalin in Moscow in 1926, Bordiga proposed that all the Communist Parties of the world should jointly rule the Soviet Union, as a demonstration of the supra-national reality of the workers ' movement.

According to Owen Lattimore, who spent five months in 1926 crossing the northern edge of China ( from Hohhot to Gucheng, via Inner Mongolia ) with a camel caravan, demand for caravan trade was only increased by the arrival of foreign steamships into Chinese ports and the construction of the first railways in eastern China, as they improved access to the world market for such products of western China as wool.

In the 1926 World Series, the Cardinals defeated the Yankees in a seven-game series ; Hornsby tagged out Babe Ruth on a stolen base attempt, ending the Series and giving St. Louis its first undisputed world championship.

By 1926, the Hoover War Library was known as the largest library in the world devoted to the Great War.

Dandy created the first ICU in the world, 03 beds in Boston in 1926.

Gantt, a Limestone County, Texas native, had left home in 1926 and traveled around the world on his own, scouring many of the islands of the Caribbean and the South Pacific.

In 1926 he raised funds to buy a sailing ship which he called Vaterland and set out on a goodwill mission around the world leaving Bremen on September 19 and arriving in New York on October 22, 1926.

In 1926, he began the task of building the Italian Royal Air Force and took a leading role in popularizing aviation in Italy, and promoting Italian aviation to the world.

A well known landmark at the centre of the town is the clock tower, a war memorial in memory of Coalville residents who gave their lives in the 20th century's two world wars: built in 1926 to the design of Henry Collings, the tower rises 68 feet above pavement level and was opened by Mrs Charles Booth of Grace Dieu.

In 1926 Lihotzky also created the Frankfurt Kitchen, which was the prototype of the built-in kitchen now prevalent in the western world.

Between 1915 and 1926, an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica spread around the world ; no recurrence of the epidemic has since been reported, though isolated cases continue to occur.