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• Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
  ...ewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t47 '''''Who's Who in the Twentieth Century'''''] ...have contributed to the [[thought]] as well as the action of the twentieth century.
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• Friesian School, Proceedings
  ...a "Reformation of Philosophy," four years after the beginning of the 20th Century.
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• Modern Scandals 1904-2008
  ...or that have occurred throughout the world since the beginning of the 20th century.
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• Melody
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Century 13th century] ...org/wiki/20th_Century 20th century], and popular music throughout the 20th century, featured "fixed and easily [[discernible]] [[frequency]] [[patterns]]", re
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• Facticity
  ...eltung). It is a term that takes on a more specialized [[meaning]] in 20th century [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy continental philosoph
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• Opera
  ..."reform" operas in the 1760s. Today the most renowned figure of late 18th century opera is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart Mozart], wh ...n central and eastern Europe, particularly in Russia and Bohemia. The 20th century saw many experiments with modern styles, such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/
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• Reader's Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982
  ...eriodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
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• Raymond Guess
  .../ University of Cambridge], is one of the finest scholars of 19th and 20th century [[German philosophy]]. To date he has published four books, of which one is
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• Doll
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century late 17th Century] ...elain] and plastic, dolls were increasingly mass-produced. During the 20th century dolls became increasingly popular as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collect
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• Discovering American Women’s History Online
  ...tery to Katrina Thomas's photographs of ethnic weddings from the late 20th century.
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• Oxford Companion to Western Art
  ...]ual [[information]] on over 1700 artists from classical times to the 20th century are included with 49 feature articles covering a broad [[spectrum]] of topi
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• Challenge
  *1. An accusation, charge, reproach, objection. 14th century ...ng to account; esp. the act of a sentry in demanding the countersign. 14th century
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• Retardation
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century] ...terms, which were deemed to have become offensive. By the end of the 20th century, these terms themselves have come to be widely seen as disparaging and poli
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• Oxford Companion to the Garden
  ...ding design or plant interest, botanic gardens and arboreta, and late 20th-century land art. The geographical coverage is worldwide, with contributions from l
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• Documenting the American South
  ...and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
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• Modern Philosophy
  ...is philosophy done in Europe and North America between the 17th and early 20th centuries. It is not a specific doctrine or school, (and so should not be c ...history of philosophy beginning from Descartes through the early twentieth century ending in Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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• Political correctness
  ...ns on many matters of [[politics]]. The term was adopted in the later 20th century by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left New Left], applied with a ce
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• Existentialism
  *1: a chiefly 20th century philosophical [[movement]] embracing [[diverse]] [[doctrines]] but centerin ...e]. As a philosophy of human existence, existentialism found its best 20th-century exponent in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Jaspers Karl Jaspers]; as a
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• Ethnic
  ...ic" and related forms from the 14th century through the middle of the 19th century were used in [[English]] in the meaning of "[[pagan]], heathen", as ethniko ...es]] the notion of "a people" or "a nation". The term ethnicity is of 20th century coinage, attested from the 1950s. The term nationality depending on [[conte
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• Topography
  ...ki/Ordnance_Survey Ordnance Surveys], and this term was used into the 20th century as generic for topographic surveys and maps. The earliest [[scientific]] su In the 20th century, the term topography started to be used to describe [[surface]] description
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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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• Classical mechanics
  ...mathematical physics begun by [[Isaac Newton]] and many contemporary 17th century workers, building upon the earlier [[astronomical]] theories of [[Johannes
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• Cartoon
  ...umorous]] illustrations in magazines and newspapers, and in the early 20th century and onward it referred to comic strips and [[animated]] [[films]].
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• Cult of Personality
  ...itive image like never before. It was from these circumstances in the 20th century that the best-known personality cults arose. Often these cults are a form o ...for personality cults that arose in [[totalitarian]] societies of the 20th century, such as those of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Adolf Hitler]
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• Churning
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] ...idulated acidulated] or bacteriologically soured cream. Well into the 19th century butter was still made from cream that had been allowed to stand and sour na
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• Minority
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Century 15th century] ...of civil rights and collective rights which gained prominence in the 20th century. Members of minority groups are prone to [[different]] treatment in the cou
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• Exorcism
  ...til the later half of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th century] where the public saw a sharp rise due to the [[media]] [[attention]] exorc
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• Desecration
  Even in the late 20th and 21st century, desecrations are still taking place in some parts of the world, notably in
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• Fossil
  ...ki/Radiometric_dating radiometric dating] [[techniques]] in the early 20th century allowed geologists to determine the numerical or "absolute" age of the vari
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• Desert
  ...the [[word]] desert can cause [[confusion]]. In English prior to the 20th century, desert was often used in the sense of "unpopulated area", without specifi *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Century 13th century]
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• Wedding
  *before [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_Century 12th century] ...oom's wedding band not appearing in the United States until the early 20th Century.
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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 [
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• 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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• Rapture
  ...Plymouth Brethren], and popularized in the United States in the early 20th century by the wide circulation of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scofield_Refe
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• Plate Tectonics
  ...l_drift continental drift], developed during the first decades of the 20th century by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener Alfred Wegener], and seafl
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• Pantheism
  In the late [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th century], Pantheism began to see a resurgence. Pantheism [[resonated]] with the gro ...the popularity and visibility of Pantheism grew further in the early 21st century. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins Richard Dawkins]' ''The God
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• Folk
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century 12th Century] ...se "people", and was [[considered]] inelegant by the beginning of the 19th century. It re-entered [[academic]] [[English]] through the [[invention]] of the wo
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• Sexism
  Until the 20th century U.S. and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_law English law] observed t
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• Illustration
  ...n China and Japan since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_Century 8th century], [[tradition]]ally by creating woodcuts to accompany [[writing]]. ==15th century through 18th century==
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• Occident
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War Cold War] in the mid to late 20th Century. In the contemporary political and cultural context, the Western World gene
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• 2002-05-18-To Speak With You Directly
  ...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 [https://en
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• Climate Change
  ...rent from the mid to late [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th century] onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric [htt
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• John F. Kennedy
  ...dore_Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt]), and the first person born in the 20th century to serve as president. A [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church Cat
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• Thunder
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] ...ccepted]] [[theory]] was that lightning produced a [[vacuum]]. In the 20th century a [[consensus]] evolved that thunder must begin with a [https://en.wikipedi
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• Egocentricity
  ...h_century 19th] or early [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th] Century
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• Suburb
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] Suburbs first emerged on a large scale in the 19th and 20th centuries as a result of improved rail and road [[transport]], which led to
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• Siege
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century] ...g/wiki/Cannon cannon] reduced the [[value]] of fortifications. In the 20th century, the significance of the classical siege declined. With the advent of [http
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• Asceticism
  Early 20th century German [[sociologist]] [[Max Weber]] made a distinction between innerweltli 20th century American psychological theorist David McClelland suggested that worldly asc
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• Jargon
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] In [[Jewish]] communities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the term "jargon" was occasionally used as a pejorative term for
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• Abolition
  ...stian. Though anti-[[slavery]] sentiments were widespread by the late 18th century, they had little [[immediate]] [[effect]] on the [[centers]] of [[slavery]] ...amic world, it persisted as a [[legal]] [[institution]] well into the 20th century.
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• Philology
  ...ge but gave way to the modern science of [[linguistics]] in the early 20th century due to the influence of [[Ferdinand de Saussure]], who argued that spoken l ...'s interest in ancient languages led to the study of what were in the 18th century "exotic" languages for the light they could cast on problems in understandi
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• Progress
  ==17th Century== ==20th century==
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• Behavior
  Behavior became an important construct in early 20th century Psychology with the advent of the paradigm known subsequently as "behaviori
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• Trail
  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century 13th Century] ...In the early years of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th century] the term auto trail was used for a marked highway route, and trail is now
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• Etymology
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...-system appropriated them. This [[strategy]] gained popularity in the 20th century, and philosophers, such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida J
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• Radio
  ...h countries continued to mainly use the term "wireless" until the mid-20th century, though the magazine of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC BBC] in the
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• Mental Disability
  ...ms, which were deemed to have become [[offensive]]. By the end of the 20th century, these terms themselves have come to be widely seen as disparaging and [htt
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• Economics
  ...volve [[subjective]] [[value]] judgments. Since the early part of the 20th century, economics has focused largely on measurable [[quantities]], employing both
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• Astrometry
  ...Inequalities of Jupiter and Saturn's.[clarification needed][4] In the 15th century, the Timurid astronomer Ulugh Beg compiled the Zij-i-Sultani, in which he c In the 16th century, Tycho Brahe used improved instruments, including large mural instruments,
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• Adoption
  ...al]] [[responsibilities]]. Modern systems of adoption, arising in the 20th century, tend to be governed by comprehensive statutes and regulations.
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• Alienation
  ..._Century 19th] and early [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century 20th] century were concerned about alienating effects of modernization. German sociologis
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• Assertive
  ...ng the second half of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th century], assertiveness was increasingly singled out as a [[behavioral]] [[skill]]
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• Spectacle
  ...spectacle" has also been a term of art in [[theater]] dating from the 17th century in [[English language|English]] [[drama]]. ...nal plays that were centered on a spectacular piece. However, in the 20th century, with the invention of movie theaters, folk festivals were unable to create
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• Simulation
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century] ...in [[different]] fields [[developed]] largely [[independently]], but 20th century [[studies]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory Systems theory
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• 2017-04-06-The Future of Medicine
  ...minated with the impressive progress in Medicine witnessed during the 20th Century. However, much is yet in store both for Pathology and Pharmaceutics. Each d ...ssemination of communicable diseases — the emerging challenge for this new century. We Midwayers can’t just give you the knowledge that you haven’t yet ac
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• Transportation
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century] ...facturing being located independent of [[natural]] [[resources]]. The 19th century also saw the development of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_ship s
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• Strike
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] ...t western countries partially legalized striking in the late 19th or early 20th centuries.
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• Fetish
  In the 19th-20th century, Tylor and McLennan held that the [[concept]] of fetishism allowed [[histor * In the 19th century [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx Karl Marx] appropriated the term t
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• Chinese Philosophy
  ...(its first flowering is generally considered to have been in about the 6th century BC. Antony Flew & Stephen Priest, ''A Dictionary of Philosophy''. Pan Macmi ...yì xiān'', in one Mandarin form of the name) at the beginning of the 20th century. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Tse_Tung Mao Tse-Tung] added [https://e
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• Poetry
  ...from prose. From the mid-[https://www.wikpedia.org/wiki/20th_Century 20th century], poetry has sometimes been more loosely defined as a [[fundamental]] [[cre
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• Latin
  ...he study of [[Classics]]; but its role has diminished since the early 20th century.
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• Literature
  ...[realism]] and [[naturalism]], investigations into what is real. The 20th century brought demands for [[symbolism]] or [[psychology|psychological]] insight i
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• Kairos
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s mid 20th Century]
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• Doctrine
  The term indoctrination came to have awkward connotations during the 20th century, but it is necessary to retain it, in order to distinguish it from [[educat
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• Fidelity
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Century 15th century] ...ion, and a recording made by a low budget record company in the early 20th century is likely to have significantly less audio fidelity than a good modern reco
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• Pagan
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...s [[controversial]], but the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_century 4th century] seems most plausible. An earlier example has been suggested in [https://en
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• Progressivism
  ...Industrialization industrialization] in the Western world in the late 19th century, particularly out of the view that progress was being stifled by vast econo ...m]] were initially divided amongst progressives in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly in the [[United States]] where some progressives su
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• Liberal Christianity
  ...informed religious [[movements]] and ideas within late 18th, 19th and 20th century Christianity. The word "liberal" in liberal Christianity does not refer to ...l Christianity was prominent in the [[biblical criticism]] of the 19th and 20th centuries. The style of [[Bible|scriptural]] [[hermeneutics]] within libera
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• Revelation
  In the 20th century, religious existentialists proposed that revelation held no content in of i ...rth]], one of the more influential Protestant theologians of the twentieth century.
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• Devil's advocate
  ...ng his tenure as Pope as compared to only 98 canonizations by all his 20th-century predecessors. In cases of [[controversy]], the [[Vatican]] may still seek t
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• Movers and shakers
  ...and shakers' didn't begin to be used more widely until well into the 20th century, when it was taken up in the USA. It was hardly used at all until the Ameri
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• Life Expectancy
  ...dited with much of the recent increase in life expectancy. During the 20th century, the average lifespan in the [[United States]] increased by more than 30 ye
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• Oxford Reference Premium
  * 47 Timelines linking over 2,560 key events in 20th century history in the areas of Art and Architecture; Performing Arts; [[Literature
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• Dictionary
  ...y]] of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest themselves is a 20th century enterprise, called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicography lexicography
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• Cro-Magnon
  ...ern Europe and elsewhere, and dating techniques improved in the early 20th century, new finds were added to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_homi
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• Gatekeeper
  ...[city]] gate. In the late [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th century] the term came into [[metaphorical]] use, referring to individuals who [[de
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• Globalization
  ...igins to the third millennium BCE. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, the [[connectedness]] of the world's economies and cultures grew very quic ...nts of trade and [[empire]] across Asia and the Indian Ocean from the 15th century onwards. Due to the [[complexity]] of the concept, [[research]] projects, a
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• Actors
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Century 15th century] ...ver, this [[negative]] [[perception]] was largely reversed in the 19th and 20th centuries as acting has become an [[honor]]ed and popular profession and ar
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• Tango
  In the early years of the 20th century, dancers and orchestras from Buenos Aires travelled to Europe, and the firs
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• Chaperone
  ...not commonly employed in Western society until the latter half of the 20th century.
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• Library Science
  ...perhaps the best known example of an early library, flourishing in the 3rd century BC and possibly inspired by [[Demetrius Phalereus]]. ===19th century===
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• Simulate
  ...lations used in different fields developed largely independently, but 20th century studies of [[Systems theory]] and [[Cybernetics]] combined with spreading u
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• Pornography
  ...on and [[consumption]] of pornography arose in the latter half of the 20th century. The introduction of home video and the [[Internet]] saw booms in a worldwi
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• Nonresistance
  ...oppose]] an enemy. In the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th century], there has been [[differences]] of [[opinion]] between and within [https:/
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• Esotericism
  ...in turn gave way to the [[theosophy]] of [[H. P. Blavatsky]]. In the 20th century Theosophy was reformulated by [[Annie Besant]], [[C. W. Leadbeater]], [[Ali ...h century, avoided any reference to esoteric themes, but he saw the [[20th century]] as the dawn of a new age, when spirituality would be increasingly central
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• Planet
  ...according to the complex laws laid out by [[Claudius Ptolemy]] in the 2nd century. They were, in increasing order from Earth (according to Ptolemy): [[Mercur Since Earth was only generally accepted as a planet in the 17th century, there is no tradition of naming it after a god. Many of the [[Romance lang
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• Gestalt
  Early 20th century theorists, such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Koffka Kurt Koffka],
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• Pilgrims
  ...images to Jerusalem] Descriptions of pilgrimages to Jerusalem from the 3rd-20th centuries ...] Illustrations of 13th-16th century pilgrims, and links to photos of 16th century clothing made for pilgrimage
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• Archaeology
  ...nism in Europe during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th century], and has since become a [[discipline]] practiced across the world. Since i ...rticularism. In the early [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th century], many archaeologists who studied past societies with direct continuing lin
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• Psychosomatic Medicine
  ...in the beginnings of the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century 20th century], the movement looking for the [[dynamic]] interrelation between [[mind]] a ...in the first part of the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century 20th century] who considered this form of illness to be akin to malingering, thereby fur
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• Grid
  ...d], an enhancement of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th century] electrical grid. The [[traditional]] electrical grids are generally used t
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• Analysis
  ...omer), an influential school of thought in Homeric scholarship in the 19th-20th centuries ...alytic [[Philosophy]] is a school of philosophy dominant in the early 20th century.
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• Atavism
  ...eph_Schumpeter Joseph Schumpeter]'s explanation of [[World War I]] in 20th century liberal Europe. He defends a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_interna
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• Farmer
  ..., especially against railroad and agribusiness interests early in the 20th century . The FNSEA is very [[politically]] active in France, especially pertaining
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• Cosmos
  ...and [[culture|cultural]] movement that emerged in[Russia in the early 20th century.
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• Philosophy
  ...porary philosophy encompasses the philosophical developments of the [[20th century]] up to the present day. ...e rise of empiricism and humanism in place of scholastic tradition. [[17th-century philosophy]] is dominated by the need to organize philosophy on rational, s
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• Literary theory
  ...e the [[18th century]], [[aesthetics]] and [[hermeneutics]]. In the [[20th century]], "theory" has become an umbrella term for a variety of scholarly approach ...s from [[ancient philosophy]] through the [[18th century|18th]] and [[19th century|19th centuries]] are important influences on current literary study. The th
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• Anti-intellectualism
  ...at a close examination of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th century] history reveals that intellectuals have championed innumerable disastrous
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• Eugenics
  ...Medal</center><center>American Eugenics Society</center><center>early 20th century</center>]] ...in genetic, genomic, and reproductive technologies at the end of the 20th century have raised many new questions and concerns about what exactly constitutes
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• Empathy
  *Date: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century early 20th Century]
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• Galilee
  ...nquered the region in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_Century 10th century]; a breakaway [[sect]], venerating the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim, formed the In the mid [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th_century 18th century], Galilee was caught up in a struggle between the Bedouin leader Dhaher al-
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• Computers
  ...ters were developed in the mid-[https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940's 20th century] (1940–1945). These were the size of a large room, consuming as much [[po
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• Totem
  ...s a key element of [[study]] in the [[development]] of 19th and early 20th century [[theories]] of [[religion]], especially for [[thinkers]] such as [https://
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• Public speaking
  ...s the primary form of oration in the world until the beginning of the 20th century. After [[World War II]] there began a gradual deprecation of the Latin styl
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• Climax
  ...] and [[drama]] are the [[focus]] of much literary [[analysis]], late 20th century [[literary criticism]] also [[recognizes]] the important similarities, incl
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• Color
  ...rdo da Vinci]] (c.1490), a tradition of "colory theory" begins in the 18th century, initially within a partisan controversy around [[Isaac Newton]]'s theory o The foundations of pre-20th-century color theory were built around “pure” or ideal colors, characterized by
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• Media
  ...ks remained too expensive really to be called a mass-medium for at least a century after that. .../www.bl.uk/collections/britnews.html] ; but they took until the nineteenth century to reach a mass-audience directly.
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• Fugue
  ...//www.xreferplus.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=4663031&secid=.3.2.] Since the 17th century, the term ''fugue'' has described what is commonly regarded as the most ful The form evolved during the 18th century from several earlier types of contrapuntal compositions, such as imitative
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• Cybernetics
  ...in its [[origin]]s and in its [[evolution]] in the second-half of the 20th century, cybernetics is equally applicable to [[physical]] and social (that is, [[l ==The Early 20th century==
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• Capitalism
  During the last century capitalism has often been contrasted with planned economy|centrally planned ...hroughout Europe, across political and cultural frontiers. In the 19th and 20th centuries, capitalism provided the main, but not exclusive, means of indust
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• History
  ...ictionary; an encyclopedic lexicon of the English language]. New York: The Century Co. Page [https://books.google.com/books?id=wrACAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcove ...rd of past events" in the sense of [[Herodotus]] arises in the late [[15th century]]. In German, French, and indeed, most languages of the world other than En
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• Holism
  In the latter half of the 20th century, holism led to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking systems thin
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• Tarot
  ...he Tarot deck was probably invented in northern [[Italy]] in the fifteenth century. Other scholars who disagree with that theory point to a medieval origin of ...ille is one of the standards from which many tarot decks of the nineteenth century and later are derived.
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• Hegemony
  ...when Sparta became the hegemon of the [[Peloponnesian League]] in the 6th century BC. Later, in 337 BC, Philip II of Macedon became the personal Hegemon of t ...Japan's three unifiers in the late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century. Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu each had different ti
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• 2000-02-04-Why Do You Not Make Use Of The Thought Adjuster More?
  ...ut the second half of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th Century], those who were religious were identified as "[[Good]], God-FEARING people
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• Sociology of religion
  ...classical, seminal sociological theorists of the late 19th and early 20th century were greatly interested in [[religion]] and its effects on society. These t ...r, noteworthy for anticipating the “[[culture]] [[war]]s” of the late 20th century, especially their religious [[character]].
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• 2010-07-20-The Human Being and the Animal
  ...Cosmos, and it isn’t pretty. It is based on your actions, and in your 20th Century, industrial warfare was introduced, with the intention of reducing the worl 20th July 2010.
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• English
  *Early 5th century. [[Roman Empire]] collapses. Romans pull out of Britain and other colonies, *10th century Danes and English continue to mix peacefully, and ultimately become indisti
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• Fathom
  ...if less than 30 feet and in fathoms for depths above that. Until the 19th century in England, the length of the fathom was more variable: from 5½ feet on me Until early in the 20th century, it was the unit used to measure the depth of mines (mineral extraction) in
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• 2010-05-04-History, Urantia Revelation, TM
  ...connect the various channeling episodes from the 19th century to the 20th century appearance of the Fifth Epochal Revelation at Chicago. One who contributed ...revelation and resurfacing in America in the first years of the twentieth century. Can you help shed any light on what appears to be the preparation of a lim
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• Canon
  In the 20th century, the Roman Catholic Church revised its canon law in 1917 and then again 198 Mathematicians have for perhaps a century or more used the word ''canonical'' to refer to concepts that have a kind o
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• Dimensions
  ...o refers to ''to platos'', "breadth", which was the equivalent of the 19th century theosophical use. An example is the phrase ''en to psuchiko platei'' [Dodds In the late 19th century, the metaphysical term "planes" was popularised by the theosophy of [[H.P.
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• Humanity
  The physical and rational certainties depicted by the 19th-century Enlightenment were shattered not only by new discoveries of relativity by [ ...the humanities, but the classics declined in importance during the [[20th century]]. Nevertheless, the influence of classical ideas in humanities such as ph
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• Immanuel Wallerstein
  ...l network, or system of economic exchange, exists today. By the nineteenth century, virtually every area on earth was incorporated into the [[capitalism|capit ...periphery to the core, and a core to the periphery. At the end of the 20th century, this zone would comprise, e.g., Eastern Europe, China, Brazil or Mexico. P
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• Humanities
  ...the humanities, but the classics declined in importance during the [[20th century]]. Nevertheless, the influence of classical ideas in humanities such as ph ...the Middle East by the conquests of [[Alexander of Macedon]] in the [[4th century BC]].
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• Suicide
  ...es or failure, or as a form of protest during the samurai era. In the 20th century, suicide in the form of self-immolation has been used as a form of protest, ...males attempt suicide more often. This [[pattern]] has held for at least a century. Some medical professionals believe this stems from the [[fact]] that males
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• Fundamentalism
  ===Early 20th Century=== ...social and cultural controversy within the United States. As the twentieth century began, the effects of modernism and secularism on American culture produced
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• Persona
  Finally, the 20th century has provided us with many intermediate instances. One example is [https://e
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• Genius
  Galton's theories were elaborated from the work of two early 19th-century pioneers in statistics: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Friedrich_Gauss ...auss in a way that became crucially significant to the history of the 20th century AD. The bell-shaped curve was not random, he concluded. The differences bet
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• 2010-11-16-Cleaner and Cleaner
  You could have had clean and free electric power in your early 20th Century, had it not been for the Illuminati Bankers who destroyed people like Nicol
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• Dance
  ...rsities]]' [[The Arts|arts]] and [[humanities]] programs. By the late 20th century the recognition of practical [[knowledge]] as equal to academic knowledge l During the 18th century, ballets were still mainly performed alongside [[opera]] or poetry, but the
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• Dialogue
  ...cily|Sicilian]] poets [[Sophron]] and [[Epicharmus]] had cultivated half a century earlier. The works of these writers, which Plato admired and imitated, hav In the [[2nd century|2nd century AD]]. [[Lucian of Samosata]] achieved a brilliant success with his ironic d
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• 1998-05-26-Psychic Attacks Psychic Energy
  ...nt before the 20th century but, developed to such horrendous terms in this century, when millions upon millions were terminated. ...n your planet and that there was an urgency for it's [[intention]] in this century.
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• Celestial Contact
  ...A good example of this kind of relationship can be found in the early 20th century collaboration between the trance medium Mrs. Cecil M. Cook of the William T ...re two main techniques mediumship developed in the latter half of the 20th century. One type involves [[psychic]]s or sensitives who can speak to spirits and
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• Open Source Community
  ...and the free dance movements which emerged in the 20th Century. Late 20th Century open source strategies include [[Fluxus]], web jams, Wigglism and the inter ...ys in which intellectual property laws became more restrictive in the 20th century were extensions to the term of copyright (particularly in the [[United Stat
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• Science fiction
  ...ge de la Terre à la Lune and Des états de la Lune et du Soleil in the 17th century. Following the Age of Reason and the development of modern science itself, ...about a flight to the moon.[29] More examples appeared throughout the 19th century.
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• Interfaith
  * Early 20th Century - dialogue started to take place between the Abrahamic faiths - Christianit
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• Biology
  Biology as a separate [[science]] was developed in the nineteenth century, as scientists discovered that organisms shared fundamental characteristics Up into the [[19th century]], it was commonly believed that life forms could appear spontaneously unde
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• Academic
  ...oss generations and its practitioners and transmitters. In the seventeenth century, [[England|English]] and [[France|French]] religious scholars popularized t ...he mid-eighteenth century and [[Thomas Jefferson]] in the early nineteenth century. In the United States academia tends to be politically progressive with 72%
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• Anonymous
  ...ches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt— was identified as Robert Campin. The 20th-century art historian Bernard Berenson [[method]]ically identified numerous early R
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• Paul, the Apostle
  ...uch as Hans Conzelmann and 20th century theologian John Knox (not the 16th century John Knox), dispute the historical accuracy of Acts.[7][8] Paul's own accou ...sually paraphrase the gist of his message, as was the practice among first-century scribes.[33][34] These epistles were circulated within the Christian commun
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• Trial
  ...trumental in the enacting of laws protecting labour rights in the 19th and 20th centuries. Labour rights have been integral to the social and [[economic]] The first signs of trial date back the early 18th century.
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• Art History
  ...ory is a relatively new academic enterprise, beginning in the [[nineteenth century]].<ref>Art History and Its Institutions: Foundations of a Discipline By Eli ...r [[Apelles]]. Similar, though independent, developments occurred in [[6th century]] [[China]], where a canon of worthy artists was established by writers in
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• Jewish philosophy
  ...nds in the Middle Ages, and (3) its modern period, which began in the 18th century and has continued to today. The remainder of this article sketches the deta ...medieval Jewish philosophers (from the [[8th century]] to end of the [[9th century]]) were especially influenced by the Islamic [[Mutazilite]] philosophers; t
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• Clairvoyance
  ...'''clairvoyance''' (from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century 17th century] French with clair [[meaning]] "clear" and voyance meaning "[[vision]]") is ...his behavior is somewhat reminiscent of the reported behaviors of the 20th century medical clairvoyant and psychic [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce
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• Philistine
  ...esses III]]'s reign written in the reign of [[Ramesses IV]]. [[Nineteenth-century]] [[Bible]] scholars identified the land of the Philistines (''Philistia'') ...y, the "[[Sea Peoples]]," who had wandered, at the beginning of the [[12th century BC]], from their homeland in [[Crete]] and the [[Aegean islands]] to the sh
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• Materialism
  Later Indian materialist Jayaraashi Bhatta (6th century CE) in his work ''Tattvopaplavasimha'' ("the Upsetting of all principles") In early 12th-century al-Andalus], the Arabian philosopher, Ibn Tufail (Abubacer), wrote discussi
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• Skepticism
  ...www.csicop.org/articles/19991214-century/ Outstanding skeptics of the 20th century] - ''[[Skeptical Inquirer]]'' Magazine
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• Tradition
  The [[idea]] of tradition is important in philosophy. 20th century and contemporary Western [[philosophy]] is often divided between an "[[anal
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• Culture
  From the 19th century onwards, some social [[critics]] have accepted this contrast between the hi By the late 19th century, [[anthropology|anthropologists]] had adopted and adapted the term ''cultur
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• Cultural
  From the 19th century onwards, some social [[critics]] have accepted this contrast between the hi By the late 19th century, [[anthropology|anthropologists]] had adopted and adapted the term ''cultur
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• Eastern philosophy
  ...]] was a semi-legendary Indian monk who traveled to [[China]] in the [[5th century]]. There, at the [[Shaolin Temple]], he began the Ch'an school of Buddhism, ...ectual and elites, but could not appeal to the masses. Later in the [[13th century]], they lost official support and most of their valuable works were destroy
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• Violence
  ...erols.com/mwhite28/war-1900.htm Atlas - Wars and Democide of the Twentieth Century] ...es of black men as “violent brutes” that helped excuse the late nineteenth century [[Jim Crow laws]] in the United States,[https://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/brut
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• Social Sciences
  ===Nineteenth century=== With the late 19th century, attempts to apply equations to statements about [[human behavior]] became
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• Worldview
  ...easingly clear during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th Century] for a number of reasons, such as increasing [[contact]] between [[cultures ...gn [[alliances]], dismantle most of its [[military]], and return to a 19th-century pattern of decentralized government and an economy based on small businesse
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• Density
  ..., who refers to to platos, "breadth", which was the equivalent of the 19th century theosophical use. An example is the phrase en to psuchiko platei [Dodds, ci In the late 19th century, the [[metaphysical]] term "planes" was popularised by the [[theosophy]] of
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• Languages and Literature
  ...] begins in Northern [[History of India|India]] with [[Pāṇini]], the [[5th century BC]] grammarian who formulated 3,959 rules of [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit] ...of [[science]], [[mathematics]], and other [[formal system]]s in the 20th century led many to attempt a formalization of the study of language as a "semantic
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• Astronomy
  ...often considered to be synonymous with '''astrophysics'''. Since the 20th century, the field of professional astronomy split into observational and theoretic ...gov/eclipse/SEsaros/SEsaros.html Eclipses and the Saros saros]. In the 2nd century BC, the size and distance of the Moon were estimated by [https://www-groups
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• The Book of Revelation
  ...Apocalypse of John are interpreted as being fulfilled by events in the 1st century. ...se in the Ancient Church, (c. 1929), pp. 139-142, esp. p. 138 In the [[9th century]], it was included with the ''[[Apocalypse of Peter]]'' among "disputed" bo
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• Novel
  ...[fiction]]al [[narrative]], typically in [[prose]]. Until the [[eighteenth century]], the word referred specifically to [[short fiction]]s of [[love]] and int During the 18th century the novel adopted features of the old romance and became one of the major l
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• Anti-gravity
  ...in the early part of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century 20th century] Newton's [[model]] was replaced by the more general and complete descripti
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• James Agee
  ...ion in 1941, has been placed among the greatest literary works of the 20th Century by the New York School of Journalism and the [[New York Public Library]].
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• 2010-02-24-Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
  ...until the advent of the [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century 20th Century], and the incredible cures and medications that [[act]] against pestilence, As we have said before, the medical marvels of the 20th Century have only delayed the severity of the [[eventual]] scourge of pestilence up
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• Meister Eckhart
  ...h is uncertain. The Dominican Order pressed in the last decade of the 20th century for his full rehabilitation and confirmation of his theological orthodoxy; The 19th century philosopher [[Schopenhauer]] compared Eckhart's views to the teachings of [
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• Gender
  ...attested throughout the history of Modern [[English]] (from about the 14th century). In the last two decades of the 20th century, the use of ''gender'' in academia increased greatly,
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• Extraterrestrial
  ...Starmaker of 1934, and earlier if one includes the now-neglected late 19th century writings of J. H. Rosny. Biologists have mused on whether life could have a *Dick, Steven J. (1996). The Biological Universe: The Twentieth Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate and the Limits of Science. Cambridge.
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• Reality
  In the arts there was a broad movement beginning in the 19th century, realism (which led to [[naturalism]]), which sought to portray characters, ...ible covert use as a political tool can perhaps be illustrated by the 18th century psychiatric sentences in the U.S. of black slaves for 'crazily' attempting
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• Magic
  ...hers for their "impious rites." Greek ''magikos'' is attested from the 1st century [[Plutarch]], typically appearing in the feminine, in μαγική τέχν ...influences [[destiny|fate]]." ''Sorceress'' appears also in the late 14th century, while ''sorcerer'' is attested only from 1526.
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• Logic
  ...nsisted of [[grammar]], logic, and [[rhetoric]]. Since the mid-nineteenth century ''formal logic'' has been studied in the context of [[foundations of mathem ...han two millennia, while symbolic logic is comparatively new, only about a century old.
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• Anthropology
  ...cularly prominent in the United States, from Boas's arguments against 19th-century racial ideology, through [[Margaret Mead]]'s advocacy for gender equality a ...behavior, the known varieties of which had been increasing since the 15th century as a result of the [[First European colonization wave]]. The traditions of
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• Brain
  ...thod of studying the brain is anatomical, and until the middle of the 20th century, much of the progress in Neuroscience came from the development of better s ...pment of a new method of investigation. Until the early years of the 20th century, the most important advances were ''literally'' derived from new stains. P
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• Communism
  ...sm. The two by far most influential theoreticians of communism of the 19th century were Germans [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]], authors of [[The Commu ...ea of private property continued into the Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, through such thinkers as Jean Jacques Rousseau in France. Later, following
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• Jesus Christ Superstar
  ...[Jerusalem]] and ending with the [[Crucifixion]]. [[20th century|Twentieth-century]] attitude and sensibilities as well as contemporary slang pervade the lyri By the turn of the century, the furor over the play had died down so greatly that it is now often perf
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• Gravity
  ...early cultures#India|ancient India]] explained the phenomenon from the 8th century BC. In the 4th century BC, the [[Greek philosophy|Greek philosopher]] [[Aristotle]] believed that
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• Perfection
  ...formulated by Lucilio Vanini (1585–1619), who had a precursor in the 16th-century writer Joseph Juste Scaliger, and they in turn referred to the ancient phil ...: all threes are perfect). Another number, 7, found a devotee in the sixth-century Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great), who favored it on grounds similar to th
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• Force
  ...standings of the role of force which were eventually corrected in the 17th century, culminating in the work of [[Isaac Newton]]. Following the development of ...an incline to disprove the Aristotelian theory of motion early in the 17th century. He showed that the bodies were accelerated by [[gravity]] to an extent whi
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• 2000-11-17-The Magisterial Mission
  ...gy of science. It is from this background, however, that you 20th and 21st century [[Urantia]]ns come to the [[experience]] of [[faith]] [[knowledge]] and att
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• Totalitarianism
  ...f the book Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century by Bruce F. Pauley, ISBN 088295993X # Robert Conquest Reflections on a Ravaged Century (2000) ISBN 0-393-04818-7, page 74
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• Chance
  [[C. S. Lewis]], a 20th-century Christian [[philosopher]], discussed [[free wil]]l at length. On the matter
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• 1998-09-27-Progress
  ...ally increased during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th century]] among [[the masses]]. And of course, there was the complete [[atheism]] o
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• Intelligence
  ...tone]] proposed a theory of multiple "primary abilities" in the early 20th Century. ...nce. [Review of Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century.] ''Contemporary Psychology,'' ''46'', 5-7.
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• Motherhood
  ...ly fulfilled the primary role in raising children, but since the late 20th century, the role of the [[father]] in child care has been given greater prominence
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• Nazareth
  ...etymology of ''Nazareth'' from as early as [[Eusebius]] up until the 20th century has been said to derive from ''netser'', a "shoot" or "sprout", while the [ ..., pp. 272-310.) attesting to unambiguous human presence there from the 2nd century AD onward.
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• Honesty
  Some critics also contend that 20th-century scholarship insisting all Truth is situated and vulnerable to [[deconstruct
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• Islamic philosophy
  At the second century of the [[Hijri year|Hijra]], a new movement arose in the theological school From the [[ninth century]] onward, owing to [[Caliph]] [[al-Ma'mun]] and his successor, Greek philos
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• Tao Te Ching
  ...jīng "classic." According to [[tradition]], it was written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, "Old Master"), a record-keeper at the Zho ...in English. The pinyin romanization Daodejing originated in the late 20th century, and this romanization is becoming increasingly popular, having been adopte
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• Race
  ...meaning, "one of the major divisions of mankind", dates to the late [[18th century]], but it never became exclusive (note the continued use of the expression ...tific attempts to classify humans by categories of race date from the 17th century, along with the development of European imperialism and colonization around
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• Self Realization
  ...o push the individual to farther reaches with values at the core. The 20th century marked an inclusion of the individual's role as [[meaning]]fully understood
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• Genesis
  ...Codex Sinaiticus of the 4th century and the Codex Alexandrinus of the 5th century - these are the oldest surviving nearly-complete manuscripts of the [[Old T ...the documentary hypothesis advanced by Julius Wellhausen in the late 19th century. This sees Genesis as a composite work assembled from various sources: the
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• Books/Secondary Corpus
  ...nology]] as well as old. As a result, when the most empowering tool of the century came along—personal computers (resisted by the New Left and despised by t ...nd interest to modern scholars as cultural artifacts of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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• Creativity
  By the 18th century and the [[Age of Enlightenment]], the concept of creativity was appearing m ...ty, but ''it alone'' was so regarded. When later, at the turn of the 20th century, there began to be discussion of creativity in the sciences and in nature (
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• 1994-03-20-Looking For Results of The Mission
  ...This consciousness is being publicized during the last decade of the 20th century as an energy that is actually attainable. It will be a new source of [[ener
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• Atheism
  ...word began to indicate more-[[intention]]al, active godlessness in the 5th century [[BCE]], acquiring definitions of "severing relations with the gods" or "de ...ally denoting disbelief in the monotheistic [[Abraham]]ic god. In the 20th century, globalization contributed to the expansion of the term to refer to disbeli
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• 2012-05-28-The Flurry 6
  part of the 20th century, and as such has located his headquarters in the Central ...Magisterial Staff, but the addition of more than that was not seen at that 20th
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• Romance
  ...ose out of more or less spontaneous relationships. But also after the 18th century, illicit relationships took on a more independent role. In bourgeois marria ...'The Art of Courtly Love'', as it is known in English) written in the 12th century lists such rules as "''Marriage is no real excuse for not loving''", "''He
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• Biological Alchemy, Wings of Isis
  ...ancreas will fail causing diabetes ,,, fastest growing ailment of the 20th century ... and as we know diabetes can cause blindness and a host of other ailment
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• The Sciences
  ...lications. However, with the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, this rapidly changed. Today, science has a profound effect on the way huma ...l sciences as an empirical science has been a matter of debate in the 20th century, see [[Positivism dispute]].<ref>Critical examination of various positions
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• Charterhouse Public School
  ...the [[World War II|Second World War]] and other conflicts of the twentieth century. Pupils still attend a short chapel service there five times a week.
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• Power (sociology)
  The thought of [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] underlies much [[20th century]] analysis of power. Nietzsche disseminated ideas on the "will to power," w ...hrough which power had been theorised in the earlier part of the twentieth century (dimensions 1 and 2 below) which he critiqued as being limited to those for
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• Conservatism
  ...ed the critique of [[modernism]], a term first used at the end of the 19th century by the Dutch religious conservative [[Abraham Kuyper]]. Burke was troubled ...clared…this law ... encroached upon property rights... . To the eighteenth century Whig, nothing was more sacred than the rights of property, ... the protest
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• 2011-03-27-Continuing Focus on Mercy
  ...the time. You must keep in mind the mindset in the early part of the 20th century that this was a huge leap forward in their understanding and it would have
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• Buddha
  ...e of his [[Childbirth|birth]] and [[death]] are uncertain: most early 20th century [[historian]]s date his lifetime from ''circa' 563 BCE to 483 BCE; more rec ...g them. A council was held shortly after his death, and another was held a century later. At these councils the monks attempted to establish and authenticate
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• Science
  ...lications. However, with the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, this rapidly changed. Today, science has a profound effect on the way huma ...l sciences as an empirical science has been a matter of debate in the 20th century, see [[Positivism dispute]].<ref>Critical examination of various positions
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