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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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