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1915
 
    
Somerset Maugham publishes his semi-autobiographical novel Of Human Bondage       
1915
 
    
Canadian army surgeon John McCrae writes 'In Flanders Fields' after a friend is killed in the trenches       
1915
 
  
Radiotelephone messages are transmitted from Arlington in Virginia to the Eiffel Tower in Paris     
1915
 
   
Thomas Edison invents a machine to record telephone conversations, calling it the telescribe      
1915
 
    
Australian author C.J. Dennis creates the Sentimental Bloke, featuring first in a book of poems and four years later in a film       
1915
 
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After years of slow decline, the Star and Garter is bought by the Auctioneers and Estate Agents Institute and presented to Queen Mary to become a hospital for disabled servicemen See in Google maps   
1915
 
    
American campaigner for birth control Margaret Sanger publishes a controversial pamphlet, Family Limitation       
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US novelist Ernest Poole publishes The Harbor, set on the Brooklyn waterfront      
1915
 
    
Franz Kafka publishes Metamorphosis, the tale of a travelling salesman who wakes up to find himself transformed into an insect       
1915
 
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Woodrow Wilson sends US marines to take control in Haiti after a spate of political assassinations   See in Google maps