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![Society<br>Britain, balloon at Hurlingham with 6 passengers<br><br>Grossbritannien Bevoelkerung: "Wettbewerb im Ballonfahren. Langstreckenrennen in Hurlingham am 13. Juli. Die "Clouth IV" ist der einzig kontinentale Ballon im Rennen. Er transportiert sechs Passagiere, Hr. und Fr. Clouth, Fr. Stevenson, Fr. Mitchell, Hr. Heyne und einen weiteren Bekannten" (Originaltext, uebersetzt aus dem Englischen)<br><br>- undatiert, vermutlich 1908](images/thumbs/ulls010161.jpg "Society<br>Britain, balloon at Hurlingham with 6 passengers<br><br>Grossbritannien Bevoelkerung: "Wettbewerb im Ballonfahren. Langstreckenrennen in Hurlingham am 13. Juli. Die "Clouth IV\" ist der einzig kontinentale Ballon im Rennen. Er transportiert sechs Passagiere, Hr. und Fr. Clouth, Fr. Stevenson, Fr. Mitchell, Hr. Heyne und einen weiteren Bekannten\" (Originaltext, uebersetzt aus dem Englischen)<br><br>- undatiert, vermutlich 1908")
![Society<br>Advertisement for Haskell Royal golf balls, 1908. "Haskell Royal 2/- (shillings) each". An advertisement showing a policeman inspecting a golf ball. From "Golf Illustrated", 23 October 1908. <br>Credit: The British Library / HIP / TopFoto](images/thumbs/hip0208223.jpg "Society<br>Advertisement for Haskell Royal golf balls, 1908. "Haskell Royal 2/- (shillings) each\". An advertisement showing a policeman inspecting a golf ball. From "Golf Illustrated\", 23 October 1908. <br>Credit: The British Library / HIP / TopFoto")
![Arts <br>"La Table de toilette dit aussi la glace" (1908) by Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947). Paris, Orsay's museum.](images/thumbs/rv18745-6.jpg "Arts <br>"La Table de toilette dit aussi la glace\" (1908) by Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947). Paris, Orsay's museum.")
![Events<br>Niger (Africa). Soldiers of the Mouret column looking for water in an "abankor". Crossing of the Aïr, 1908.<br><br>December 1908 Colonel Henri Gouraud assembled a column of 800 infantrymen and 200 cavalry to march on Adrar where nomadic warriors have taken refuge between raids that claimed the lives of 3 French officers, 5 NCOs and 134 soldiers in Mauritania. France and Morocco were engaged in a conflict over Mauritania (now an Islamic republic in North West Africa)](images/thumbs/rv17716-1.jpg "Events<br>Niger (Africa). Soldiers of the Mouret column looking for water in an "abankor\". Crossing of the Aïr, 1908.<br><br>December 1908 Colonel Henri Gouraud assembled a column of 800 infantrymen and 200 cavalry to march on Adrar where nomadic warriors have taken refuge between raids that claimed the lives of 3 French officers, 5 NCOs and 134 soldiers in Mauritania. France and Morocco were engaged in a conflict over Mauritania (now an Islamic republic in North West Africa)")
![Science & Technology<br>Steam tram "Louvre-Versailles". Paris, 1908.](images/thumbs/rv14616-8.jpg "Science & Technology<br>Steam tram "Louvre-Versailles\". Paris, 1908.")
![Science & Technology<br>Electric tram "Louvre-Versailles". Paris, 1908.](images/thumbs/rv14616-9.jpg "Science & Technology<br>Electric tram "Louvre-Versailles\". Paris, 1908.")
![Events<br>Revolution in Haïti. The president Alexis Nord protected by the minister of France who covers with French flag. "Le Petit Journal", December 1908.](images/thumbs/rv14468-2.jpg "Events<br>Revolution in Haïti. The president Alexis Nord protected by the minister of France who covers with French flag. "Le Petit Journal\", December 1908.")
![Olympics<br>"Daily Promenade" employees toasting to the victory of the marathon runner Siret at the Olympic Games of London. 1908. BRA-41909](images/thumbs/RV7169-5.jpg "Olympics<br>"Daily Promenade\" employees toasting to the victory of the marathon runner Siret at the Olympic Games of London. 1908. BRA-41909")
![Events<br>Departure of the Charcot's mission for the South pole. Jean Charcot on the deck of the "Pourquoi pas?". Le Havre, 1908. BRA-39909](images/thumbs/RV7168-15.jpg "Events<br>Departure of the Charcot's mission for the South pole. Jean Charcot on the deck of the "Pourquoi pas?\". Le Havre, 1908. BRA-39909")
![Science & Technology<br>Aviation workshops "Voisin". Wings making. 1908. BOY-2064](images/thumbs/RV5572-15.jpg "Science & Technology<br>Aviation workshops "Voisin\". Wings making. 1908. BOY-2064")
![Science & Technology<br>The "Omnia, cinéma Pathé", Paris, 5 boulevard Montmartre, in October 1908 (this was the world's first cinema, it opened in 1906). From left to right: (with walking sticks): Serge Sandberg, Georges Cerf, Edmond Benoit-Levy, Léon Madieu, (with arms crossed): Paul Fournier, director of the establishment. At the window: Charles Delac, Paul Kastor and Bony (general secretary of the Omnia). LL-2215](images/thumbs/RV31-14.jpg "Science & Technology<br>The "Omnia, cinéma Pathé\", Paris, 5 boulevard Montmartre, in October 1908 (this was the world's first cinema, it opened in 1906). From left to right: (with walking sticks): Serge Sandberg, Georges Cerf, Edmond Benoit-Levy, Léon Madieu, (with arms crossed): Paul Fournier, director of the establishment. At the window: Charles Delac, Paul Kastor and Bony (general secretary of the Omnia). LL-2215")
![Events<br>Aurignacian: the Venus of Willendorf one of the best known fertility figures<br>The most famous early image of a human, a woman, is the so-called "Venus" of Willendorf, found in 1908 by the archaeologist Josef Szombathy [see BIBLIOGRAPHY] in an Aurignacian loess deposit in a terrace about 30 meters above the Danube near the town of Willendorf in Austria. <br>The earliest notice of its discovery appeared in a report by the Yale anthropologist George Grant MacCurdy (1863-1947) who happened to be in Vienna in the summer of 1908. Although the greater part of the collection of finds from the site had not yet been unpacked, MacCurdy reported excitedly that before he left Vienna Szombathy had very kindly shown him a single remarkable specimen - a human figurine, full length, carved out of stone [see BIBLIOGRAPHY]. <br>The statuette, which measures about 11.25 centimeters in length, is now in Vienna's Naturhistorisches Museum. It was carved from a fine porous oolitic limestone not found in the region and so must have been brought to the area from another location. It may well be the case that the carving, which was presumably done with flint tools, was not done locally. <br>When first discovered the Venus of Willendorf was thought to date to approximately 15,000 to 10,000 BCE, or more or less to the same period as the cave paintings at Lascaux in France. In the 1970s the date was revised back to 25,000-20,000 BCE, and then in the 1980s it was revised again to c. 30,000-25,000 BCE A study published in 1990 of the stratigraphic sequence of the nine superimposed archaeological layers comprising the Willendorf deposit, however, now indicates a date for the Venus of Willendorf of around 24,000-22,000 BCE. <br>Her great age and pronounced female forms quickly established the Venus of Willendorf as an icon of prehistoric art. She was soon included in introductory art history textbooks where she quickly displaced other previously used examples of Paleolithic art.](images/thumbs/0829178.jpg "Events<br>Aurignacian: the Venus of Willendorf one of the best known fertility figures<br>The most famous early image of a human, a woman, is the so-called "Venus\" of Willendorf, found in 1908 by the archaeologist Josef Szombathy [see BIBLIOGRAPHY] in an Aurignacian loess deposit in a terrace about 30 meters above the Danube near the town of Willendorf in Austria. <br>The earliest notice of its discovery appeared in a report by the Yale anthropologist George Grant MacCurdy (1863-1947) who happened to be in Vienna in the summer of 1908. Although the greater part of the collection of finds from the site had not yet been unpacked, MacCurdy reported excitedly that before he left Vienna Szombathy had very kindly shown him a single remarkable specimen - a human figurine, full length, carved out of stone [see BIBLIOGRAPHY]. <br>The statuette, which measures about 11.25 centimeters in length, is now in Vienna's Naturhistorisches Museum. It was carved from a fine porous oolitic limestone not found in the region and so must have been brought to the area from another location. It may well be the case that the carving, which was presumably done with flint tools, was not done locally. <br>When first discovered the Venus of Willendorf was thought to date to approximately 15,000 to 10,000 BCE, or more or less to the same period as the cave paintings at Lascaux in France. In the 1970s the date was revised back to 25,000-20,000 BCE, and then in the 1980s it was revised again to c. 30,000-25,000 BCE A study published in 1990 of the stratigraphic sequence of the nine superimposed archaeological layers comprising the Willendorf deposit, however, now indicates a date for the Venus of Willendorf of around 24,000-22,000 BCE. <br>Her great age and pronounced female forms quickly established the Venus of Willendorf as an icon of prehistoric art. She was soon included in introductory art history textbooks where she quickly displaced other previously used examples of Paleolithic art.")
![Arts<br>Julian Sands and Helena Bonham Carter in a scene from the film "A Room With A View", based on the 1908 book by E M Forster<br>1987](images/thumbs/0009906.jpg "Arts<br>Julian Sands and Helena Bonham Carter in a scene from the film "A Room With A View\", based on the 1908 book by E M Forster<br>1987")
