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• Casual
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century] ...] [[sports]] in the late [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century 20th century], a [[good]] deal of [[athletic]] gear has [[influenced]] casual wear. Clot
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• Liberalism
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century] ...ch became popular in the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century 20th century].
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• Acronym
  ...e much more common in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th century]. Acronyms are a type of word formation [[process]], and they are viewed as
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• Compass
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century] ...e_Ages medieval] Europe around 1300. This was supplanted in the early 20th century by the liquid-filled magnetic compass.
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• Campus
  ...pedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University Princeton University]) during the 18th century. Some other American colleges later adopted the word to describe individual ...] expanded to include the whole institutional [[property]] during the 20th century, with the old meaning [[persisting]] into the 1950s in some places. Sometim
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• Telescopes
  ...lescopes were [[invented]] in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century. "Telescopes" can refer to a whole range of instruments operating in most r ...large optical [[research]]ing telescopes built since the turn of the 20th century have been reflectors. The largest reflecting telescopes currently have obje
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• Pragmatism
  ...dia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_maxim pragmatic maxim]. Through the early twentieth-century it was developed further in the works of William James, [https://en.wikiped ...g/wiki/Richard_Rorty Richard Rorty], the most influential of the late 20th-century pragmatists.
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• Biography
  ...y form at the turn of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th century].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biography]
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• Fuel
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century] ...d from coal, as the [[forests]] started to become depleted around the 18th century. Charcoal briquettes are now commonly used as a fuel for barbecue cooking.[
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• German Philosophy
  In the 18th century, [[Immanuel Kant]] published his [[Critique of Pure Reason]], in which he a ...t influences in all of western philosophy. In the late 18th and early 19th century, one direct line of influence from Kant is [[German Idealism]].
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• Queer
  ...]] over the course of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century 20th century] with some LGBT people re-claiming the term as a means of self-empowerment. ...English]] language in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Century 16th century] (related to the German quer, [[meaning]] "across, at right angle, diagonal
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• Folly
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Century 13th century] ..., which [[symbolized]] [[classical]] [[virtues]] or [[ideals]]. Other 18th century garden follies represented Chinese temples, Egyptian pyramids, ruined abbey
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• Dictatorship
  ...ification. There were no such dictatorships after the beginning of the 2nd century BC, and later dictators such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulla Sulla] ...e [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th century] and early 21st century hereditary dictatorship remained a relatively common [[phenomenon]].
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• Axiology
  ...to value theory and meta-ethics. The term was first used in the early 20th century by Paul Lapie and E. Von Hartmann.[2]
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• Change
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century] ...America in the late 18th century and in later imitators). By the late 20th century much [[business]] and [[New Age]] thought focused enthusiastically on [[tra
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• Emcee
  ...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque Baroque] eras were carried well into the 20th century until some of the ceremonies (i.e. the court, the rituals and norms) were s
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• Circus
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...ting around the ring for the [[public]] and since the late 19th early 20th century the [[performance]] has taken place under canvas and more recently plastic
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• Trivia
  ...plural ''trivia'' in the sense of "trivialities, trifles" only in the 20th century. The adjective ''trivial'' introduced into [[English]] in the 15th to 16th century was [[influenced]] by all three meanings of the [[Latin]] adjective:
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• Karlheinz Stockhausen
  ...ser, and one of the most important and controversial composers of the 20th century. He is best known for his ground-breaking work in electronic music and cont
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• New Age
  ...''' is the term commonly used to designate the broad movement of late 20th century and contemporary Western culture, characterised by an eclectic and individu
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