This force captured the Sinai and garrisoned the extended lines of communication, but in early 1917 their advance was stopped at Gaza until towards the end of the year when a greatly enlarged force of infantry and mounted troops captured Beersheba, most of southern Palestine and Jerusalem.

The year 1917 was a landmark in many ways.

After a year of high-school teaching, he entered graduate school with the help of his former professor from the University of Chicago to study astronomy at the Yerkes Observatory of the University, where he received his PhD in 1917.

Additional credence is given to this by noting who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in the two previous years, 1914 and 1915, and in the following year, 1917.

Ieoh Ming Pei was born on April 26, 1917 to Tsuyee Pei and Lien Kwun, and the family moved to Hong Kong one year later.

Their only daughter Indira was born a year later in 1917.

In 1915, Mubarak the Great died and was succeeded by his son Jaber II Al-Sabah, who reigned for just over one year until his death in early 1917.

He was drafted into the 73rd Hanoverian Regiment in March 1917, but exempted as unfit in June of the same year.

English was left alone on the island for a year and a half ( 1917 – 19 ), with two teens, when cholera broke out in Papeete and transport stopped due to the First World War.

The first convention was held in 1917, the first year of the club ’ s existence, in Dallas, Texas.

The very first politburo was created in Russia by the Bolshevik Party in 1917 to provide strong and continuous leadership during the Russian Revolution occurring during the same year.

The 10th Cruiser Squadron was stationed at Swarbacks Minn and during a single year from March 1917 more than 4, 500 ships sailed from Lerwick as part of an escorted convey system.

In 1917, Elias acquired shares in the O-Zell jelly factory in Chicago and moved his family back to the city, where in the fall Disney began his freshman year at McKinley High School and took night courses at the Chicago Art Institute.

Year 1917 ( MCMXVII ) was a common year starting on Monday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Also in 1916, Emily Monroe Norton divorces him and, in either this year or in 1917, he marries Susan Alexander.

He served briefly as the first head of state of the new republic in 1917, and from 1923-24 the acting Premier in the last year of Vladimir Lenin's life.

In 1917, solar astronomer George Ellery Hale convinced Millikan to begin spending several months each year at the Throop College of Technology, a small academic institution in Pasadena, California that Hale wished to transform into a major center for scientific research and education.

After their initial recording for Victor, they recorded for Columbia ( after the first Victor session, not before as has sometimes been said ) and Aeolian-Vocalion in 1917, and returned to make more sides for Victor the following year, while enjoying continued popularity in New York.

In 1917, a year after being appointed the head of 1st battalion of Feng's 2nd regiment, his battalion spearheaded the removal of Zhang Xun from his imperial restoration in 1917.

HM Factory, Gretna, the largest propellant factory in the United Kingdom, which opened in 1916, was by 1917 producing 800 tons ( 812 tonne ) of Cordite RDB per week ( approximately 41, 600 tons per year ).

There was a short-lived effort in 1917 to revive the Qing dynasty led by the loyalist general Zhang Xun, but his forces were defeated by rival warlords later that year.

Nude Sitting on a Divan is one of a series of nudes painted by Modigliani in 1917 that created a sensation when exhibited in Paris that year.

Initially neutral in World War I, the U. S. declared war on Germany in 1917, and funded the Allied victory the following year.

The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

The most famous work of Algerian cinema is probably that of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Chronicle of the Years of Fire, which won the palme d ' Or at the Cannes film festival in the year 1975.

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

Reeves reprised the role the following year in the film The Avenger, about Aeneas's arrival in Latium and his conflicts with local tribes as he tries to settle his fellow Trojan refugees there.

The following year they collaborated on a musical film version of The Little Prince, based on the classic children's tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

The television, film, book, costume, home decoration, and confectionery industries use this time of year to promote products closely associated with such a holiday, with promotions going from early September to 31 October, since their themes rapidly lose strength once the holiday ends, and advertising starts concentrating on Christmas.

* In the 1989 film Major League it was announced of fictional New York Yankees pitcher Duke Simpson: " The Duke led the American League this year in saves, ERA, and hit batsmen.

In 1996, the year after the film was released, the annual three-day " Braveheart Conference " at Stirling Castle attracted fans of Braveheart, increasing the conference's attendance to 167, 000 from 66, 000 in the previous year.

In the same year, a tourism report said that the " Braveheart effect " earned Scotland ₤ 7 million to ₤ 15 million in tourist revenue, and the report led to various national organizations encouraging international film productions to take place in Scotland.

There was a vast amount of publicity around the film, with a critic for the New York Times calling it " the most eagerly awaited picture of the year ", and it was one of the biggest money-makers of the era.

The Indians would appear in a film the following year titled The Kid From Cleveland, in which Veeck had an interest.

That same year, Marker organized the omnibus film Loin du Vietnam, a protest against the Vietnam War with segments contributed by Marker, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Claude Lelouch, William Klein, Michele Ray and Joris Ivens.

He started at Disney Studios in 1935, more than a year after the debut of Donald Duck on June 9, 1934 in the short animated film The Wise Little Hen.

During the same year, he directed Hell-Bent for Election, a campaign film for Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The following year, she made a cameo in the successful horror film Scream.

Until 1906, the year of his last film, Doyen recorded more than 60 operations.

Parton continued to make inroads on the pop charts as well with a re-recorded version of " I Will Always Love You " from the feature film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ) scraping the Top 50 that year and her duet with Kenny Rogers, " Islands in the Stream " ( written by the Bee Gees and produced by Barry Gibb ), spent two weeks at number one in 1983.

Visually, the character was an extension of Thomas Jerome Newton, the extraterrestrial being he portrayed in the film The Man Who Fell to Earth the same year.

The same year, he made a cameo appearance in the German film Christiane F., a real-life story of teenage drug addiction in 1970s Berlin.

The same year, the film of Leslie Thomas's 1966 comic novel The Virgin Soldiers saw Bowie make a brief appearance as an extra.

In Nagisa Oshima's film the same year, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, based on Laurens van der Post's novel The Seed and the Sower, Bowie played Major Jack Celliers, a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp.

* Little Miss Marker ( 1934 )— The film that made Shirley Temple a star, launched her career as perhaps America's most beloved child film star, and pushed her past Greta Garbo as the nation's biggest film draw of the year.