The Birth of a Nation ( originally called The Clansman ) is a 1915 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay ( with Frank E. Woods ), and co-produced the film ( with Harry Aitken ).

The Trial ( Kafka's original German title:, later as and ) is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925.

In 1915 Virginia Woolf brought out her first novel, The Voyage Out.

Ruggles of Red Gap was serialized beginning December 26, 1914 in The Saturday Evening Post and became a best selling novel in 1915 by Harry Leon Wilson, adapted for the Broadway stage as a musical the same year, and made into a movie several times, most famously in 1935.

Another possible influence was thought to be a character in the Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy novel H. R. H. The Rider which features a " Prince Boris of Karlova ", but as the novel was not published until 1915, the influence may be backward, that Burroughs saw Karloff in a play and adapted the name for the character.

The Thirty-Nine Steps is a novel by John Buchan, first serialized in 1915.

Marcel Proust is an important early example of a writer using the stream of consciousness technique in his novel sequence À la recherche du temps perdu ( 1913 – 1927 ) ( In Search of Lost Time ), while Dorothy Richardson is the first to use it in English, in Pointed Roofs ( 1915 ), the first novel in her novel sequence Pilgrimage ( 1915 – 35 ).

In her 1915 novel, The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather referred to the insanity of the wife of a main character as having been caused by general paresis but there is no hint that the character had contracted syphilis.

Other important early modernists were Dorothy Richardson ( 1873-1957 ), whose novel Pointed Roof ( 1915 ), is one of the earliest example of the stream of consciousness technique and D. H. Lawrence ( 1885-1930 ), who wrote with understanding about the social life of the lower and middle classes, and the personal life of those who could not adapt to the social norms of his time.

Among popular novelists Daphne Du Maurier wrote Rebecca, a mystery novel, in 1938 and W. Somerset Maugham ( 1874-1965 ) Of Human Bondage ( 1915 ), a strongly autobiographical novel, is generally agreed to be his masterpiece.

The play was adapted to a novel, and a film adaptation, directed by Edgar Lewis, was made in 1915.

* The Sea Hawk, a 1915 novel by Rafael Sabatini

* Answered ( Hume novel )| Answered ( 1915 )

In 1915, he wrote what is probably his best known essay, " Visión de Anáhuac ( 1915 )," with its famous epigraph, " Viajero: has llegado a la región más transparente del aire ", the source of the title of Carlos Fuentes's novel La región más transparente.

His sensationalist novel about the lurid life of prostitutes, The Pit ( 1915 ), was accused by Russian critics of excessive Naturalism.

The Sea Hawk is a novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1915.

In 1915, the Russian scientist Vladimir Obruchev produced his own version of the " lost world " theme in the novel Plutonia, which places the dinosaurs and other Jurassic species in a fictional underground area of Russian Siberia.

* The Russian geologist Vladimir Obruchev uses the concept of the hollow Earth in his 1915 scientific novel Plutonia to take the reader through various geological epochs.

The assembly line developed by Ford Motor Company between 1908 and 1915 made assembly lines famous in the following decade through the social ramifications of mass production, such as the affordability of the Ford Model T and the introduction of high wages for Ford workers.

Of course, in terms of face-value in adjusted dollars, the 1915 is the highest denomination ever issued by the U. S. Mint.

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

Andrew R. Cobb designed several campus buildings including: Raynor Hall Residence, 1916 ; Horton House, designed by Cobb in the Georgian style, and built by James Reid of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia was opened in 1915 as Horton Academy.

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite ( 1926 ), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair ; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra ( completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck ); and the Chamber Concerto ( Kammerkonzert, 1923 – 25 ) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it " Berg's strictest composition " and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

* 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins — The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

The outbreak of World War I forced him to stop the expeditions, and he returned to composing, writing the ballet The Wooden Prince in 1914 – 16 and the String Quartet No. 2 in 1915 – 17, both influenced by Debussy.

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine in May 1915, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, was visited by two officers of the Admiralty's Secret Service branch at the naval base at Queenstown, Ireland.

Beginning in April 1915, Herbert ordered his subordinates cease calling him " Sir ", and to address him only by the pseudonym " Captain William McBride.

In Santiago, his brother Facundo M. Bacardí continued to manage the company along with Schueg, who began the company's international expansion by opening new bottling plants in Barcelona ( 1910 ) and New York City ( 1915 ).

Great North Western Telegraph, facing bankruptcy, was taken over in 1915 by Canadian Northern.

In Cadillac Motor Car Co. v. Johnson, ( decided in 1915 by the federal appeals court for New York and several neighboring states ), the court held that a car owner could not recover for injuries from a defective wheel, when the automobile owner had a contract only with the automobile dealer and not with the manufacturer, even though there was " no question that the wheel was made of dead and ‘ dozy ‘ wood, quite insufficient for its purposes.

The characterization is epitomized by an observation made by President Ramón Barros Luco ( 1910 – 1915 ), reputedly made in reference to labor unrest: " There are only two kinds of problems: those that solve themselves and those that can't be solved.

Although the state inherited much of Austro-Hungary's military arsenal, including the entire fleet, the Kingdom of Italy moved rapidly to annex the state's most western territories, promised to her by the Treaty of London of 1915.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, there were several watermills which ground corn and made paper, with 13 mills on the Yeo at the peak, declining to seven by 1791 and just three by 1915.

Presented in 1915 by Wolfgang Gaede and using mercury vapor, they were the first type of high vacuum pumps operating in the regime of free molecular flow, where the movement of the gas molecules can be better understood as diffusion than by conventional fluid dynamics.

* A History of Freethought: Ancient and modern, to the period of the French revolution by John Mackinnon Robertson ( 1915 )

Vander Veer is surrounded by large Queen Anne and Tudor Revival style houses that were built between 1895 and 1915.

Tatiana was also fond of an officer named Vladimir Kiknadze, whom she cared for when he was wounded in 1915 and again in 1916, according to the diary of Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva, a nurse who worked with Tatiana during the war.

Following Vladimir I. Georgiev, who placed Pelasgian as an Indo-European language " between Albanian and Armenian ", Albert Joris Van Windekens ( 1915 — 1989 ) offered rules for an unattested hypothetical Indo-European Pelasgian language, selecting vocabulary for which there was no Greek etymology among the names of places, heroes, animals, plants, garments, artifacts, social organization.

The Comintern was founded after the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference in which Vladimir Lenin had organized the " Zimmerwald Left " against those who refused to approve any statement explicitly endorsing socialist revolutionary action, and after the 1916 dissolution of the Second International.

In 1915 Elsa befriended an aspiring futurist poet and graphic artist Vladimir Mayakovsky and invited him home, but he fell in love with Lilya.

* Order of St. Vladimir with Swords, IV class ( 1915 )

* link = Order of St. Vladimir Order of St Vladimir, 3rd class with swords, 8 December 1915

* 29 May 1915, London, first performance in England ( in Russian ); starring Vladimir Rosing.

* Vladimir Nikolayevich Petrov ( 1915 – 1999 ), writer, teacher, and former prisoner of the Soviet Gulag

During the years 1913 to 1915, Filonov was close to Vladimir Mayakovsky, Velimir Khlebnikov, and other futurists.

In 1915 Olga was created Princess Paley by Nicholas II, making Vladimir a prince.

In 1915 the Tsar granted Olga and their children the title of Prince and Princesses Paley with the style of Serene Highness, and their children also became Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley and Princesses Irina Pavlovna and Natalia Pavlovna Paley.

Constructivism was a post-World War I development of Russian Futurism, and particularly of the ' corner-counter reliefs ' of Vladimir Tatlin, which had been exhibited in 1915.

In the beginning of 1915 Grabar's purchasing decisions stirred a public scandal that involved practically all publicly known artists ; Victor Vasnetsov, Mikhail Nesterov, Vladimir Makovsky and Grabar's former sponsor Shcherbatov called for immediate termination of his tenure.