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.

Mildred tries to cover up Montag's actions by claiming that, once a year, firemen bring home one book and read it aloud as a form of mocking past literature.

Ten prizes are awarded each year in many categories, including the Nobel Prize categories of physics, chemistry, physiology / medicine, literature, and peace, but also other categories such as public health, engineering, biology, and interdisciplinary research.

After being asked to leave due to neglecting to take any journalism courses – Jarmusch favored literature and art history – he transferred to Columbia University the following year, with the intention of becoming a poet.

Each year links to its corresponding " in literature " article, except for poetry and poetry criticism, which link to corresponding " in poetry " articles.

Foster further asserts 1928 was a " peak year " for lesbian-themed literature ; in addition to The Well of Loneliness, three other novels with lesbian themes were published in England: Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel, Woolf's Orlando, and Compton MacKenzie's satirical novel Extraordinary Women.

( In technical literature, this symbol means the average number of complete years of life remaining, excluding fractions of a year.

Receiving his gymnasium diploma from the Lyceum of Kuopio in 1959, he then studied philosophy and literature at Dartmouth College for one year.

" Concurrently with these exceptions, Jehovah's Witnesses in their literature and assemblies have taught their leadership was personally chosen by Jesus Christ in 1919 ( a prophetic year in JW eschatology ) and that they are " God's sole channel on earth ", and " Jehovah's spirit directed organization ".

However, the framing story is that these letters were actual documents given to the narrator by his guardian angel one night in 1728 ; for this reason, Paul Alkon suggests in his book Origins of Futuristic Fiction that " the first time-traveler in English literature is a guardian angel who returns with state documents from 1998 to the year 1728 ", although the book does not explicitly show how the angel obtained these documents.

The following year seven professorships were created ; anatomy, zoology, engineering, history, law, logic & mental philosophy, and modern literature.

By the year 400 Greek philosophy, art, literature and architecture had spread far and wide, with the numerous independent Greek colonies that had sprung up throughout the lands of the eastern Mediterranean.

The year 383 denotes a significant point in Welsh history, remembered in literature and considered to be the foundation point of several medieval royal dynasties.

The same year saw him enter into a so-called " joint venture " with Hodder & Stoughton to help with the publication of children's literature and medical books.

A range of annual incidence rates have been reported in the literature: 15, 24, and 25-53 ( all rates per 100, 000 population per year ).

This list links each year of publication with its corresponding " in poetry " article, for poetry, or " in literature " article for other works ):

The year 1905, when Norway was free from the union with Sweden, marks a new period in the history of Norwegian literature.

Once again being arrested for printing illegal literature, after a year of custody, Kostrikov moved to the Caucasus, where he stayed until the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II.

The Mishnah and the Tosefta ( compiled from materials pre-dating the year 200 ) are the earliest extant works of rabbinic literature, expounding and developing Judaism's Oral Law, as well as ethical teachings.

During the post-war decades only a handful of books of any literary merit were published each year in Canada, and Canadian literature was viewed as an appendage to British and American writing.

She went on to study law at Kiev University, leaving a year later to study literature in St Petersburg.

These puzzles usually have no symmetry in the grid and instead often rely on a common theme ( literature, music, nature, geography, events a special year etc.

The Prix Goncourt (,, The Goncourt Prize ) is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of " the best and most imaginative prose work of the year ".

It was not till his eightieth year that he made his first acquaintance with Greek literature, though some think after examining his writings that he may have had a knowledge of Greek works for much of his life.

Large numbers of new species are published in the scientific literature each year.

Every year on 23 April, the anniversary of Cervantes ' death, the city of Alcalá hosts the ceremony awarding the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most prestigious award for lifetime achievement in literature.