Best 1915
SS Eastland was a Great Lakes passenger steamship built in 1903 that developed a reputation for instability after multiple incidents early in its career. On the morning of July 24, 1915, while still docked in the Chicago River and loaded with employees of the Western Electric Company's Hawthorne Wor...
The Hardinge Bridge is a cantilever-truss railway bridge spanning the Padma River in Bangladesh. Constructed in 1915, it’s notable as one of the longest rail bridges in Asia at its completion. This structure primarily serves the transportation of rail traffic across the river and remains vital for r...
The Hong Kong Clock Tower is the surviving tower of the former Kowloon terminus of the Kowloon-Canton Railway in Tsim Sha Tsui. Completed in 1915, the red-brick and granite structure stands near Victoria Harbour beside the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. The terminus was demolished after railway services...
The Accumulation of Capital: An Anti-Critique is a Marxist theoretical text written by the Polish-German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg in 1915. The work was composed as a rigorous response to the academic and socialist critics of her earlier book, The Accumulation of Capital. In this text, Luxemburg...
The Manifesto of Suprematism is a 1915 statement by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich outlining the principles of Suprematism, an abstract art movement emphasizing basic geometric forms such as squares, circles, and crosses. Malevich argued for the supremacy of pure artistic feeling over representatio...
SS Persia was a British passenger liner operated by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. On 30 December 1915, during the First World War, the German submarine U-38 torpedoed the ship without warning in the Mediterranean while it was traveling toward India, and the vessel sank rapidl...
The SS Ancona was an Italian passenger steamship that was sunk during World War I by an Austro-Hungarian submarine in the Mediterranean Sea on November 7, 1915. The torpedo attack resulted in the deaths of over 200 people, including numerous American citizens. Because the vessel was attacked without...
The SS Falaba was a British passenger and cargo ship torpedoed by German submarine U-28 in the Irish Sea on 28 March 1915, resulting in 104 deaths. Among those killed was American citizen Leon Thrasher, whose death heightened tensions between the United States and Germany in the months preceding the...
HMHS Anglia was a British hospital ship sunk by a German mine in the English Channel on November 17, 1915, during the First World War. Originally a passenger vessel of the London and North Western Railway, she had been requisitioned and converted for medical service, transporting wounded soldiers fr...
The SS Marquette was a British passenger steamship launched in 1898 that was requisitioned for use as a troop transport during World War I. On October 23, 1915, the vessel was torpedoed and sunk in the Aegean Sea by the German submarine SM U-35. The attack resulted in the deaths of 167 people, prima...
The April–May 1915 Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium was the first major engagement on the Western Front to see large-scale German use of chlorine poison gas.
The Lone Star Ranger is a 1915 Western novel by Zane Grey notable for its romanticized depiction of the Texas Rangers and frontier outlaws in the 1800s.
Published in 1915 by Zane Grey, The Rainbow Trail is a notable sequel to his acclaimed novel Riders of the Purple Sage, continuing the saga in Utah.
The New Exploits of Elaine is a 1915 American silent serial directed by Louis J. Gasnier, notable as a sequel starring Pearl White in her iconic role as Elaine Dodge.
The Romance of Elaine is a 1915 American silent serial directed by George B. Seitz, serving as the final installment of the popular Pearl White Craig Kennedy trilogy.
The Diamond from the Sky is a 1915 American silent serial directed by William Desmond Taylor, notable for its Western setting and starring Lottie Pickford.
The Black Box is a 1915 American silent mystery serial directed by Otis Turner, notable for starring Herbert Rawlinson as a criminologist solving a complex murder.
Neal of the Navy is a 1915 American silent adventure serial directed by William Bertram, notable for its patriotic World War I-era themes and maritime action.
