Unlike the models mentioned above, Christie's Poirot was clearly the result of her early development of the detective in her first book, written in 1916 but not published until 1920.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

He returned to the Western Front in early 1916 as a general staff officer in the 33rd Division and took part in the Battle of Arras in April / May 1917.

Thus the view from Whitehall early in 1916: If defeat was not imminent, neither was victory ; and the outcome of the war of attrition on the Western Front could not be predicted.

Britain's willingness, beginning early in 1916, to explore seriously some kind of arrangement with " world Jewry " or " Great Jewry " must be understood in this context.

E. C. Segar's 1916 comic strip " Charlie Chaplin's Comedy Capers " is an early example.

The Cabaret closed its doors in early July and then at the first public soiree at Waag Hall on July 14, 1916, Ball recited the first manifesto.

Achieving career success at an early age, he commanded the British battlecruisers at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, a tactically indecisive engagement after which his aggressive approach was contrasted with the caution of his commander Admiral Jellicoe.

Ishi died of his illness in early 1916, and Kroeber partly blamed the exacting nature of working with Sapir for his failure to recover.

The title was briefly revived from 12 December 1915 to 22 March 1916 by President Yuan Shikai and again in early July 1917 when General Zhang Xun attempted to restore last Qing emperor Puyi to the throne.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

Ackerman was born Forrest James Ackerman ( though he would refer to himself from the early 1930s on as " Forrest J Ackerman " with no period after the middle initial ) on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles, to Carroll Cridland ( née Wyman ; 1883 – 1977 ) and William Schilling Ackerman ( 1892 – 1951 ).

But as early as 1916, the astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild found the first non-trivial exact solution to the Einstein field equations, the so-called Schwarzschild metric.

Other early petroleum discoveries in North Louisiana included the Bull Bayou Field, Red River Parish, Louisiana ( 1913 ), Monroe Gas Field, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana ( 1916 ), Homer Field, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana ( 1919 ) and Haynesville Field, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana ( 1921 ).

He supported Britain in the First World War, despite his many criticisms of British policy, and opposed, in 1916, moves for an early peace.

Influential in the early days of Modernism were the theories of Sigmund Freud ( 1856 – 1939 ), and Ernst Mach ( 1838 – 1916 ).

Noted attorney Clarence Darrow offered to defend Sanger free of charge, but, bowing to public pressure, the government dropped the charges in early 1916.

Monogenesis was dismissed by many linguists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the doctrine of the polygenesis of the human races and their languages held the ascendancy ( e. g. Saussure 1986 / 1916: 190 ).

Other early structures included copper, calcium fluoride ( CaF < sub > 2 </ sub >, also known as fluorite ), calcite ( CaCO < sub > 3 </ sub >) and pyrite ( FeS < sub > 2 </ sub >) in 1914 ; spinel ( MgAl < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 4 </ sub >) in 1915 ; the rutile and anatase forms of titanium dioxide ( TiO < sub > 2 </ sub >) in 1916 ; pyrochroite Mn ( OH )< sub > 2 </ sub > and, by extension, brucite Mg ( OH )< sub > 2 </ sub > in 1919 ;.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, in his 1916 novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( filmed in 1921 and in 1962 ), provides an early example of this interpretation, writing " The horseman on the white horse was clad in a showy and barbarous attire.

The earliest attestation mentioned by the Concise Oxford English Dictionary is in fact T. S. Eliot, who between 1910 and 1916 wrote an early poem to which he gave the title " The Triumph of Bullshit ", written in the form of a ballade.

As early as 1916, Julian Huxley wrote a two part article in the Auk, noting the tensions between amateurs and professionals and suggesting the possibility that the " vast army of bird-lovers and bird-watchers could begin providing the data scientists needed to address the fundamental problems of biology.

As a result of this, and the brothers ' well-earned reputation for quality through the parts they made for other successful vehicles, Dodge Brothers cars were ranked at second place for U. S. sales as early as 1916.

In early 1916 the importance of the capture of the Gheluvelt plateau for an advance further north was emphasised by Haig and the army commanders.

Claims were incorporated as two 1916 companies with mining continuing until 1918 and resuming after World War II until the early 1950s.

Production of cI leads to the binding of cI to the OR1 and OR2 sites in the P < sub > R </ sub > promoter, turning off cro and other early gene expression.

Professor Herman Leroy Fairchild, an early promoter of impact cratering, argued Barringer's case in an article in Science in 1930.

He was an early promoter of Frankfort as the state capital.

By the early 1970s, the music's center moved to Manhattan and the Cheetah, where promoter Ralph Mercado introduced many future salsa stars to an ever-growing and diverse crowd of Latino audiences.

Samuel Hill was an early promoter of the area, promoting better roads and building local landmarks such as a war memorial replica of Stonehenge ( Maryhill Stonehenge ) and a mansion that would become the Maryhill Museum of Art.

Wells County was created by the 1872-73 territorial legislature and named after Edward Payson Wells, a Jamestown banker, early promoter of the James River Valley, and member of the legislature in 1881.

The city was named for Jim Wardner, an early promoter of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine in the 1880s and a seller of corner lots in the city.

Effingham was named in honor of Effingham H. Nichols, an early promoter of the Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad.

An early icon of the Virgin as queen is in the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome, datable to 705-707 by the kneeling figure of Pope John VII, a notable promoter of the cult of the Virgin, to whom the infant Christ reaches his hand.

Among the first musicians to criticize moshing publicly was Ian MacKaye, frontman of Minor Threat, founder of Dischord Records and early promoter of the straight edge lifestyle.

In early September 1976, concert promoter Ron Watts approached Malcolm McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols, the leaders of the new British punk rock scene, and proposed that they headline the event.

Garlits was an early promoter of a full-body, fire-resistant suit-complete with socks and gloves, often branded as Nomex.

Had a brief but successful career as a boxing promoter ; Promoting George Foreman's comeback, Bernard Hopkins, Oscar De La Hoya, Charles Murray, and Micky Ward, early on in their careers.

Luke began as a concert promoter in Miami, bringing all the hot rap groups of the early 1980s to the city.

In 1928 financial problems forced James Callahan, to sell the team to an ownership group which included Bill Dwyer, an early Prohibition gangster and bootlegger, and Benny Leonard, a fight promoter and ex-lightweight boxing champion, as his front man.

Commander Luis Jorge Fontana, founder of the city of Formosa and the territory's foremost early promoter.

Aquino then entered an agreement to have rock promoter and television producer Dirk Dirksen book punk and new wave bands there, bringing an increased level of professionalism to the venue ; it soon became the premier venue for punk rock in San Francisco in the late 1970s and early 1980s ( a sort of west coast CBGBs ).

In Canada, Maple Leaf Wrestling was a long-time member of the NWA, with its promoter, Frank Tunney, serving as the NWA President in the early 1960s.

and MP ), Lord Dramaleigh ( a Lord Chamberlain ), Mr. Blushington ( of the county council ), Mr. Goldbury ( a company promoter ) and Captain Corcoran ( of the navy – a joking reference to the character from Gilbert and Sullivan's early popular opera, H. M. S.

Through his editorship of the magazine Arkos, he has been a vigorous promoter of Scots literature, becoming a friend and early champion of, among others, Hugh MacDiarmid and Ian Hamilton Finlay.

One prominent, or notorious, early Goldfield resident was George Graham Rice, a former check forger, newspaperman, and racetrack tipster, turned mining stock promoter.

For a number of years early in its history, the sizable United States émigré community called the town Aspinwall after Panama Railroad promoter William Henry Aspinwall, while the city's Hispanic community called it Colón, in honor of Christopher Columbus.

Douglas was an early and enthusiastic promoter of the government ’ s plans for a compulsory contributory superannuation scheme that would supplement the old age pension.