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| | The Avalon Project : Foreign Relations 1918 - The Conclusion of the Peace of Brest Litovsk |
 | | The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Russia (Francis) : Washington, January 9, 1918, 2 p.m. | | | The Minister in the Netherlands (Garrett) to the Secretary of State : The Hague, March 19, 1918. | | | The Ambassador in Russia (Francis) to the Secretary of State : Petrograd, February 11, 1918, 7 p.m. |
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http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrel/1918rv1/blmenu.htm
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| | The 1918 Representation of the People Act |
| | The 1918 Representation of the People Act gave women of property over the age of 30 the right to vote – not all women, therefore, could vote – but it was a major start. | | | The 1918 Representation of the People Act was the start of female suffrage in Great Britain. | | | Therefore, politically women were still not the equal to men in Britain even after the 1918 act. |
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http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1918_representation_of_the_peopl.htm
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| | The Sedition Act of 1918 |
| | The Sedition Act of 1918 made it a federal crime to criticize the government or Constitution. | | | To ensure that the United States would have enough soldiers to fight, Congress passed the Espionage Act in 1917. | | | Any spoken or published form of writing, expressing negative opinions about the war effort, or even opinions against the draft would lead to the imprisonment of the author. |
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http://www.lyceum.org/events/HD2003/2100/1918.htm
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| | The Spanish Flu of 1918-1919 |
| | In the Spring of 1918, 115 men had Mumps, and a severe bout of Measles broke out in May, 1918 - 54 cases with 12 deaths. | | | His main advisor and confident, Col.House, was ill from the flu ever since he arrived in France in late 1918, and is said not to have recovered during the time of negotiations. | | | Sgt.Joy, M.M.and bar, number 502, returned to St.John's in May, 1918 for Special Duty. |
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http://www.ku.edu/carrie/specoll/medical/parsons.htm
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| | FULTON COUNTY INDIANA |
| | Benjamin HARTMAN was born in Putnam county, Ohio, Feb 17, 1852 and died at his home in Rochester, Ind., July 17, 1918. | | | Eva Lenora CLARK was born in Ohio July 20, 1860 and died March 20, 1918, aged 57 years. | | | FROMM of North Jefferson St., died Tuesday morning at her home in Arlington Heights, Ill. The funeral will be held Thursday in that city. |
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http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/Tombaugh/Obituaries/Html/1918.htm
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| | PoliticsForum.org - R.S.F.S.R. Constitution 1918 |
| | The Declaration of Rights of the Working and Exploited People, approved by the Third All-Russia Congress of Soviets in January 1918, together with the constitution of the Soviet Republic approved by the Fifth Congress, make up the single fundamental law of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. | | | Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the R.S.F.S.R. Adopted by the Fifth All-Russia Congress of Soviets 10 July 1918 | | | This fundamental law becomes effective from the moment of its publication in final form in Izvestia Vserossiiskogo Tsentralnogo Ispolnitelnogo Komiteta. |
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| | First World War.com - Feature Articles - The Armistice |
| | Initiating the armistice negotiations on 4 October 1918, the Germans directed peace feelers towards the U.S. government led by President Wilson. | | | On 8 November a German delegation met with Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch - who was to lead the military negotiations - in the forest of Compiegne, some 65 km north-east of Paris. | | | This was overcome by German Chancellor Max von Baden's exasperated decision to announce the reluctant Wilhelm's abdication to the public on 9 November 1918 (subsequently made official by the Kaiser's abdication proclamation on 28 November). |
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| | 1918 Influenza Pandemic CDC EID |
| | Despite the extraordinary number of global deaths, most influenza cases in 1918 (>95% in most locales in industrialized nations) were mild and essentially indistinguishable from influenza cases today. | | | Capps J, Moody A. The recent epidemic of grip. | | | Although in 1918 influenza was not a nationally reportable disease and diagnostic criteria for influenza and pneumonia were vague, death rates from influenza and pneumonia in the United States had risen sharply in 1915 and 1916 because of a major respiratory disease epidemic beginning in December 1915 (22). |
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http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol12no01/05-0979.htm
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| | 1918 Index of Marriages as Recorded in the Munson Mail |
| | The paper was moved to Drumheller and became The Drumheller Mail. | | | 1918 Index of Marriages as Recorded in the Munson Mail | | | The last issue of the Munson Mail was April 18, 1918. |
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| | Lebanon Criterion, August-September 1918 |
| | He was born in Rooks County, Kansas, Nov. 30, 1886, and came to oregon with his parents. | | | Bert James and Miss Emma Ingram slipped away and were quietly married in Vancouver, Washington recently. | | | Nathan Clem, age 62 years, 11 months and 9 days, died August 16, 1918. |
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| | U.S. Postage Stamps of 1918 |
| | The red $2 Franklin continued in production until 1924, when it was discontinued in favor of the $2 Capitol of the Series of 1922. | | | Postage Stamps of the United States First Issued in 1918 | | | Along with the first air mail stamps of 1918, these were the first bi-colored stamps since the Pan American Series of 1901. |
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http://www.1847usa.com/identify/YearSets/1918.htm
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| | 1918 Qualification of Women Act |
| | The agitation was at last drawing to a close…On February 6th, 1918, Royal assent was given to the "Representation of the People Act." Women were voters. | | | Women had their first opportunity to vote in a General Election in December, 1918. | | | MPs rejected the idea of granting the vote to women on the same terms as men. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/W1918.htm
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| | The Treaty of Bucharest, 7 May 1918 |
| | Source: Source: United States, Department of State, Texts of the Roumanian "Peace" (Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1918), pp. | | | Divisions 11 to 15 continue their demobilization as stipulated in the treaty of Focsani of March, 1918. | | | ARTICLE I. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey on the one hand and Roumania on the other hand, declare, that the state of war between them is ended. |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/routreat.html
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| | The 16th (Irish) Division 1914-1918 |
| | at Camiers on 8 May 1918 and troops transferred to infantry. | | | Ramsay took command in acting capacity for short periods in January 1915, March 1915, February and May 1918 (the latter two under Ramsay). | | | joined 16 November 1916, amalgamated with 1st Bn 14 April 1918. |
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| | Anarchist Timeline / Almanac / Chronology: Part 3, 1918-1939; from the Daily Bleed |
| | [3- 18 -1918] -- US: Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón is arrested for the final time on March 18, 1918 under the Espionage Act. | | | He is charged with hindering the American war effort with his ideas, & imprisoned in the federal penitentiary of Leavenworth, causing outrage at the time among both Mexicans & even US liberals. | | | US: Gabriella Segata Antolini, a 19-year-old anarchist arrested & convicted for transporting dynamite in Chicago, is imprisoned in the Jefferson City, Mo., penitentiary; she & fellow prisoner Emma Goldman become good friends. |
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http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/AnarchistTimeline3.htm
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| | The Avalon Project : The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; March 3, 1918 |
| | Executed in quintuplicate at Brest-Litovsk, 3 March, 1918. | | | The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; March 3, 1918 | | | Article I. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey, for the one part, and Russia, for the other part, declare that the state of war between them has ceased. |
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| | 1918 in sports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Babe Ruth leads the American League in home runs for the first time in his career, hitting a total of 11. | | | See also: 1917 in sports, other events of 1918, 1919 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. |
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| | Chronology 1918 |
| | The Bolsheviks invaded the country the same day, although the Russians would accept Lithuanian independence in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in March 1918. | | | The National Council made a formal declaration of independence from Russia, with the support of the Germans. | | | The revolt of the Don Cossacks, led by General Lavr Kornilov and General Alexei Kaledin, began in December 1917, and marked the beginning of the Russian Civil War. |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~league/1918.htm
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| | The 1918 Influenza Pandemic |
| | In November 11 of 1918 the end of the war enabled a resurgence. | | | The conditions in 1918 were not so far removed from the Black Death in the era of the bubonic plague of the Middle Ages. | | | The death rate for 15 to 34-year-olds of influenza and pneumonia were 20 times higher in 1918 than in previous years (Taubenberger). |
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| | UW Bends Safety In 1918 Flu Experiments Lab Bioresearch Error May Cause Next Pandemic |
| | The 1918 flu was recreated at a lab at the University of Georgia. | | | The 1918 flu was recently brought back to life by scientists from the US Departments of Defense and Agriculture, and private institutions including the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York. | | | So then, it is logically the case that responsible labs that are handling 1918 influenza are taking extraordinary precautions through their institutional biosafety committees (IBCs), which are charged with ensuring safety of such experiments. |
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| | Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox by Allan Wood |
| | In 1918, the United States was struggling through the first World War. | | | Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox by Allan Wood | | | And a young Boston player named Babe Ruth began his historic transformation from ace pitcher to the greatest slugger the game has ever known. |
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| | The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic, and the Emerging Bird Flu Pandemic |
| | During the 1918-1919 fall period the number of Americans who died from influenza is estimated at 675,000. | | | Of those, almost 200,000 deaths were recorded in the month of October 1918 alone. | | | Jeffery Taubenberger and his team at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. |
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| | NPR : 1918 Killer Flu Reconstructed |
| | The name is a misnomer, however, it's now thought that the 1918 flu originated in the United States. | | | In February 1918, recruits from Haskell County, Kan., reported for duty to Fort Riley, 300 miles away. | | | It returned to the U.S. in a more lethal form in September 1918, making its first appearance at the Army's Camp Devens, near Boston. |
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| | The 1918 Influenza Pandemic |
| | Her paper titled “A Tale of Three Cities: Community Responses to the 1918 Spanish Influenza Epidemic” was presented at a conference on New York State History at Syracuse University in June. | | | By April it had spread to France where British and American soldiers were stationed. | | | Ultimately 25 percent of all Americans fell ill with the 1918 flu, including 40 percent of sailors in the US Navy and 36 percent of soldiers. |
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http://westsidenewsonline.com/OldSite/westside/news/2005/1120/features/influenza.html
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| | The 1918 Tsunami in Puerto Rico |
| | Though the 1918 tsunami was fairly large at some locations, evidence exists supporting the theory that a much larger tsunami may have struck Puerto Rico in geologically recent time. | | | The results of studies involving bathymetric mapping and seismic reflection profiling of the sea bottom off Puerto Rico's northern shore, have uncovered evidence of an enormous submarine landslide. | | | On October 11, 1918, the island of Puerto Rico was struck by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake, centered approximately 15 kilometers off island's northwestern coast, in the Mona Passage. |
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| | The 31st Division , 1914-1918 |
| | It was reformed on 30 May 1918, principally from Training Cadre units. | | | B Squadron, 1/1st Lancashire Hussars (joined 27 November 1915, left 9 May 1916) | | | It was fully reconstituted on 21 June 1918 by the addition of units from the 74th Division, and redesignated 94th (Yeomanry) Brigade. |
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| | Major League Baseball : History : World Series History |
| | With the United States involved in World War I, the government ordered Major League Baseball to finish its regular season by Labor Day, which meant the 1918 World Series was the first (and so far, only) Fall Classic played completely in September. | | | 1918 -- Boston Red Sox (4) vs. Chicago Cubs (2) | | | When the players' demand for larger World Series cuts was rejected, it took an appeal from A.L. President Ban Johnson to convince the players to take the field. |
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| | BBC NEWS Health 1918 killer flu secrets revealed |
| | The second of these, between September and December 1918, resulting in the heaviest loss of life. | | | It is thought that the virus may have played a role in ending the Great War as soldiers were too sick to fight, and by that stage more men on both sides died of flu than were killed by weapons. | | | This gave it the ability to pass from birds to humans, and then between humans - with devastating results. |
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| | Red Sox Connection: 1918 |
| | Wood further goes into great detail about the legendary Babe Ruth, from his childhood beginnings in Baltimore up through his trade to the Yankees following the 1919 season. | | | There was no commissioner; instead baseball's governing body was the three-member panel "National Commission" | | | Boston won the series 4-2 and won it's third championship in four years. |
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| | Enduring American Popular Song Hits, part 2, page 2 |
| | Harry Carroll was born born Nov. 28, 1892, Atlantic City, New Jersey and died 1962, Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania. | | | A generous act, it is possible that Carleton gave away his greatest song, JA-DA for precious few other songs by him are remembered today. | | | Another lasting hit from 1918 was one written by a Naval Reservist who donated all of the proceeds from the song to benefit the Naval Relief Society. |
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| | Safety and Health Regulations for Longshoring |
| | 1918 App V - Basic Elements of a First Aid Training Program Non-mandatory). | | | 1918 App II - Tables for Selected Miscellaneous Auxiliary Gear (Mandatory). | | | 1918 App III - The Mechanics of Conventional Cargo Gear (Non-mandatory). |
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| | LiveScience.com - Scientists Recreate 1918 Flu Virus From Scratch |
| | The Spanish flu of 1918 was a terrible pandemic. | | | Then, they shared the data with researchers at New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine. | | | "The effort to understand what happened in 1918 has taken on a new urgency,'' said Taubenberger, who led the gene-sequencing team. |
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| | The 1918 World Series |
| | A muff at third put men on first and second with no outs. | | | The only way to close this piece is to quote the New York Times, "...the 1918 triumph marks the fifth world's series that the Red Sox have brought to the high brow domicile of the baked bean. | | | Well, 1918 was a strange year for baseball. |
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| | New York Daily News - Home - Bird flu menace brewing |
| | But the first recorded case appeared in Kansas on March 11, 1918, when Pvt. | | | Only the undertakers were smiling as hearses clogged the cobblestone streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn. | | | Eighty-seven years ago, children jumped rope to this ghastly little rhyme while Spanish flu killed twice as many people as did World War I. More than 850 New Yorkers died in just one day in October 1918. |
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| | November 11, 1918 -- Armistice is announced, end of World War I. Hitler works for the army after World War I, studying political groups; he joins the German Workers' Party. | | | November 1918 -- Collapse of Kaiser Wilhelm II's "Second Empire." |
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| | Pandemic Influenza awareness week Day 4: 1918 influenza virus reconstructed - Aetiology |
| | Researchers led by Jeffrey Taubenberger have been working on sequencing the 1918 influenza virus for several years. | | | Finally, as the 1918 virus isn't out there circulating (and, therefore, evolving) in nature, a "just in case" vaccine could be made. | | | Viruses of this serotype have been circulating for decades, so much of the population should have at least a partial immunity to the 1918 virus. |
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http://aetiology.blogspot.com/2005/10/pandemic-influenza-awareness-week-day_06.html
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| | 1918 World Series by Baseball Almanac |
| | The perennial Fall Classic was temporarily transformed into a "Late-Summer" version and ran from September 5th to the 11th. | | | Many of the league's elite players were called up to serve their country and the overall quality of teams suffered as a result. | | | Without a doubt, pitching was easily the most notable statistic of the 1918 Series. |
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| | 1918 (1985) |
| | Plot Summary: It's 1918, the height of United States involvement in World War I - Liberty Bonds are sold, German immigrants are suspected as traitors or saboteurs... | | | User Comments: Meticulous drama of life in a small Texas town near the end of the First World War (more) | | | Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for 1918 (1985) |
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| | Amazon.com: 1918 : Video |
| | This movie, 1918 is a great piece of our history during WWI. | | | My brother and I suffered from measles and whooping cough in the early 40s, and our house was quarantined by the city. | | | My mother nearly died in the flu pandemic of 1918, and told me about those times in great detail. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000F1XV?v=glance
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| | The first issue of the Drumheller Mail was dated May 02, 1918 | | | 1918 INDEX OF MARRIAGES AS RECORDED IN THE DRUMHELLER MAIL |
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| | Electronic Code of Federal Regulations: |
| | Appendix V to Part 1918 --Basic Elements of a First Aid Training Program (Non-mandatory) | | | Appendix II to Part 1918 --Tables for Selected Miscellaneous Auxiliary Gear (Mandatory) | | | Appendix III to Part 1918 --The Mechanics of Conventional Cargo Gear (Non-mandatory) |
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| | 1918 World Series - BOS vs. CHC - Baseball-Reference.com |
| | 1918 World Series - BOS vs. CHC - Baseball-Reference.com | | | 1918 World Series (4-2): Boston Red Sox (75-51) over Chicago Cubs (84-45) | | | The MarketPlace boxes appear on awards, league, leader, postseason and the front page. |
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| | ERBzine 0460: Illustrated Pulp Bib |
| | Blue Book - March 1918 - The Oakdale Affair 1/1 | | | Oak Parker - September 28, 1918 - "Prominent, Popular Oak Park Man Honored" | | | Blue Book - August 1918 - The Land That Time Forgot |
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