The Zionist Organisation ( ZO ) founded the Palestine Bureau ( also known as " Eretz Yisrael Office ") in Jaffa in 1908, under Arthur Ruppin, and began to adopt a systematic effort to buy and settle land in Ottoman Palestine.

In 1908 the Zionist Organization founded the Palestine Office, under Arthur Ruppin, for land acquisition, agricultural settlement and training, and later for urban expansion.

In 1908 Ruppin came to live in Palestine by decision of the eighth Zionist Congress.

In 1908, when the Zionist organization sent Arthur Ruppin and set up the Palestine Land Development Corporation, Hankin joined.

Uriel Heilperin () was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1908 to a Zionist family.

Shuqeiri was the father of Ahmad Shukeiri ( 1908 – 1980 ), the first leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation.

This was set up at the beginning of 1908 to make films of a serious artistic nature.

Oldest city in the region, despite its ancient foundation-Ρηγιον was an important and flourishing colony of Magna Graecia-it boasts a modern urban system, set up after the catastrophic earthquake on December 28, 1908, which destroyed most of the city.

In 1908, two ways of avoiding the paradox were proposed, Russell's type theory and the Zermelo set theory, the first constructed axiomatic set theory.

In 1908, Ernst Zermelo proposed an axiomatization of set theory that avoided the paradoxes of naive set theory by replacing arbitrary set comprehension with weaker existence axioms, such as his axiom of separation ( Aussonderung ).

For his part, Ernst Zermelo in his ( 1908 ) A new proof of the possibility of a well-ordering ( published at the same time he published " the first axiomatic set theory ") laid claim to prior discovery of the antinomy in Cantor's naive set theory.

Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, written in 1908, is set in the middle to upper reaches of the river.

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).

Rudimentary education in gemology for jewelers and gemologists began in the nineteenth century, but the first qualifications were instigated after the National Association of Goldsmiths of Great Britain ( NAG ) set up a Gemmological Committee for this purpose in 1908.

For his final assault on the pole, he and 23 men, including Ross Gilmore Marvin, set off from New York City aboard the Roosevelt under the command of Captain Robert Bartlett on July 6, 1908.

On March 10, 1908, Red Bank was formed as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature and was set off from Shrewsbury Township.

By 1908 the tiny village was home to the Covington Lumber Company, which had set up a mill capable of cutting 85, 000 board feet of timber a day.

The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile became popular.

" Take Me Out to the Ball Game ", the song written by lyricist Jack Norworth and set to music by Albert Von Tilzer gave Cracker Jack free publicity when it was released in 1908 with the line " buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack!

The novel The Fiery Angel ( 1908 ) by Valery Bryusov ( on which Sergei Prokofiev's opera The Fiery Angel is based ), set in the sixteenth century, features a visit paid to Agrippa by the protagonist Ruprecht who is seeking advice on the occult.

The team originated in 1908 as a semi-pro team named the Akron Indians, however name was changed to the Pros in 1920 as the team set out to become a charter member of the American Professional Football Association Fritz Pollard, the first African-American head coach in the NFL, co-coached the Pros in 1921.

Toscanini served as the Met's principal conductor ( but with no official title ) from 1908 to 1915, leading the company in performances of Verdi, Wagner and others that set standards for the company for decades to come.

The National University of Ireland and Queen's University Belfast were based on the UK university college system, and were both set up in 1908 before the establishment of the Republic of Ireland and having roots in the earlier Queen's University of Ireland which was also a university college-type system.

The whales are named after Norwegian entrepreneur, Johan Bryde, who helped set up the first whaling station in Durban, South Africa in 1908.

As Luxemburg grew the need for fire protection, street improvements, and other public services set the stage for incorporation in 1908.

Ordinarily a father permits his children to grow up in due time -- but when the colony received independence in 1960 the Congolese child, if one imagines him to have been born in 1908, was 52 and had until then been treated as an infant.

He then became the naval advisor to the Army Council from 1906 to 1908 where he was involved with drawing up plans for joint operations to land an expeditionary force in Europe.

Hoover left Bewick Moreing & Co in 1908 and, setting out on his own, eventually ended up with investments on every continent and offices in San Francisco, London, New York City, St. Petersburg, Paris and Mandalay, Burma.

In 1908, when the second-hand business was merged into the regular sales offices, Watson became assistant sales manager ; moving up to become sales manager in 1910 with a further role — working along with NCR's engineers — in new product development.

" His doctoral thesis argues against oriental immigration, summed up in the following comments from an earlier 1908 report King authored while he was Deputy-Minister of Labour: " That Canada should desire to restrict immigration from the Orient is regarded as natural, that Canada should remain a white man's country is believed to be not only desirable for economic and social reasons but highly necessary on political and national grounds.

Cricket writer David Frith summed up Grace's legacy to cricket by writing that " his influence lasted long after his final appearance in first-class cricket in 1908 and his death in 1915 ".

Besides that he produced more than 1, 000 oil paintings that remained unsold up to his death in 1908.

But in 1908 at the age of 57 he resigned his position to concentrate on writing up his Minoan work.

With his rehabilitation in public esteem came the enormous rise in values, and, at the Secretan sale in 1889, the portrait of Pieter van de Broecke Danvers was bid up to 4, 420, while in 1908 the National Gallery paid 25, 000 for the large group from the collection of Lord Talbot de Malahide.

Gilbert and Sullivan trimmed the work for the London premiere, and Gilbert made further alterations up to and including the 1908 Savoy revival.

With his career prospects in Britain in serious difficulty, Jones sought refuge in Canada in 1908, taking up teaching duties in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Toronto ( from 1911, as Associate Professor of Psychiatry ).

* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )

Mocquereau's editorial team only lasted a year: owing to editorial disagreements with Mocquereau, Pothier ended up in charge of the editing which, amongst other things, led to the production of a revised Graduale Romanum in 1908.

He attended elementary school at the Sukagawa Choritsu Dai ' ichi Jinjo Koutou Shogakko beginning in 1908, and two years later, he took up the hobby of building model airplanes, due to the sensational success of Japanese aviators, an interest he would retain for the rest of his life.

Although the club turned up some star players, it let a lot of talent leave and the administration was unstable after George Bennett's death at the end of the 1908 season.

Hulme was a student of mathematics and philosophy ; he had been involved in the setting up of the club in 1908 and was its first secretary.

In 1908 the completion of the Missouri and Northern Arkansas Railroad opened up the timber industry around Cotton Plant, bringing the Standard Stave and Hoop Mill, sawmills, woodworking factories, and a veneer plant in subsequent years.

Chelsea Square looking north up Broadway after Great Fire of 1908

This city is known as the starting point for the New London to New Brighton Antique Car Run, a 120-mile endurance tour for vehicles from 1908 and earlier, or any 1 or 2 cylinder vehicles up to 1915.

Founded in 1908 by the Sisters of Mercy as a women's college on the former estate of George Jay Gould I, women made up 88 % of the student population in Fall 2006.