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• Anatomy
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...human bodies) to technologically complex techniques developed in the 20th century including X-ray, ultrasound, and MRI.
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• Parapsychology
  ...g demonstrated conclusive [[evidence]] of psychic abilities in more than a century of [[research]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology] ...were later founded in the U.S. and in many European countries. In the 20th century research into parapsychology was also conducted at some [[universities]], n
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• Viking
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th Century] ...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widsith Widsith]'', which probably dates from the 9th century. In Old English, and in the history of the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen wr
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• Formal Sciences
  ...] in the 5th century BC, and Greece between the 4th century BC and the 1st century BC. The formally sophisticated treatment of modern logic descends from the ...rted the earliest study of [[probability theory]] (statistics) in the 17th century.
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• Forgery
  ...their own prints by signing them "AD", making them forgeries. In the 20th century the art market made forgeries highly profitable. There are widespread forge
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• Phoenix
  ...ye from conch shells. A late antique etymology offered by the 6th- and 7th-century CE archbishop [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_of_Seville Isidore of ...f the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_B Linear B] script in the 20th century, the original Greek φοῖνιξ was decisively shown to be derived from [
  3 KB (474 words) - 22:47, 12 December 2020
• Tsunami
  ...t the [[understanding]] of a tsunami's nature remained slim until the 20th century and much remains unknown. Major areas of current research include trying to
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• Duel
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century] ...l United States] until it fell out of favor in Eastern America in the 18th century. It was retained however in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Old
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• Shield
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] ...as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targe targe]), and as late as the 19th century, some non-industrialized peoples employed them (such as [https://en.wikiped
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• Transference
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th Century]
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• Pollution
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...in 1881. Other cities followed around the country until early in the 20th century, when the short lived Office of Air Pollution was created under the Departm
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• 2016-05-17-These Are Changing Times
  ...nswer was ‘yes.’ It was rare to hear the TA. In the first half of the 21st century it is ‘no.’ It is more common to hear the TA, as the middle 1980s broug
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• King
  *Date: before [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_Century 12th century] ...eriod, e.g. Maquinna, king of perhaps 2000 Nootka people in the early 20th century.
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• Matriarchy
  ...y [[contrast]], gynæcocracy "rule of women" has been in use since the 17th century, building on an actual [[Greek]] γυναικοκρατία found in [https ...ily]] or household" are of more recent coinage, first used in the mid 20th century. Matriarchy can be [[understood]] as the public formation, in which [[woman
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• Contemporary Philosophy
  ...d new social, economic, scientific, ethical, and logical problems, '''20th-century philosophy''' was set for a series of attempts variously to reform, preserv ...philosophy, both of which had foundations in place at the beginning of the century. Advances in relativity, quantum, and nuclear physics, [[generative scienc
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• Suzerain
  ...describe using [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th]- or 21st-century [[theories]] of international law, in which [[sovereignty]] either exists o
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• Career
  ...quently "career" in the [[https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century 20th century] referenced the series of jobs or positions by which one earned one's [[mon
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• Vacuum
  ...d]] empirically until the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Century 17th century]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelista_Torricelli Evangelista Torric ...le industrial tool in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century 20th century] with the introduction of incandescent light bulbs and vacuum tubes, and a
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• Music
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century] ...n that music is often ordered and pleasant to [[listen]] to. However, 20th-century composer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage John Cage] thought that a
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• Magdalene College
  Magdalene remains, despite this twentieth-century expansion, one of the smaller colleges within the University, at last count The Cloister was built in the fifteenth century, and has been altered several times since then. In 1822, the north side was
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