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Journal articles on the topic "20th Century World History"

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Satya, Nilayam Research Institute of Philosophy &. Culture. "Latin American Philosophy in 20th Century." Satya Nilayam Chennai Journal of Intercultural Philosophy 4 (June 5, 2003): 87–112. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12704776.

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Like the development of philosophy in every great period and in every region of the world, also the history of philosophy in Latin America in the 20th century presents a complex, many-sided and divergent history in its development.
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Seyidli, Samirə. "GREAT LEADER HEYDAR ALIYEV PHENOMENON: HISTORY AND PERSONALITY." Scientific Works 91, no. 4 (2024): 14–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.69682/arti.2024.91(4).14-16.

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In these scientific studies, the political activity of National Leader Heydar Aliyev is mainly related to the second half of the 20th century. As a whole, the 20th century is characterized as a dramatic century full of global contradictions, where many turbulent events took place in human history, two world wars broke out, numerous nation-states emerged, political and economic crises were inevitable, and at the same time, processes that spur world development were experienced. It is precisely thanks to historical figures that humanity made the transition from a conflicting, fiery world to a st
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Johnston, Denis. "CyberShaw: A 19th-Century Mandate Meets 20th-century Technology." Canadian Theatre Review 81 (December 1994): 32–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.81.007.

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The Shaw Festival is unique among Canadian theatres, and virtually unique among world theatres as well. It is one of only five major repertory theatres in the English-speaking world: the others are the Stratford Festival, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and the twin flagships of British classical theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National. In addition, the Shaw Festival is the only one of these companies to have chosen a specific period of history as its mandate: it produces only plays written during the lifetime of Bernard Shaw. The company describes this mandate as “plays by
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Liu, Yinuo. "Nationalism's Impact on 20th Century World Wars: Insights and Implications." Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences 23 (December 13, 2023): 617–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/ehss.v23i.13129.

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This essay addresses the research question of the role nationalism played in the two 20th-century world wars, which resulted in the deadliest conflicts in human history. The essay employs scholarly reports and war documentaries to shed light on the influence of nationalism in these wars. The conclusion drawn from this research is that nationalism indeed played a significant role in both world wars, with a more crucial impact on World War I and a vital yet distinct role in making World War II the bloodiest war in history. This research serves as a compelling reminder of the need to grasp the co
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Kušnír, Jaroslav. "History, Art and Consumerism— Richard Powers’ Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance." CLEaR 4, no. 1 (2017): 11–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/clear-2017-0002.

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Abstract This article analyzes three narrative lines as depicted in Richard Powers’ Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985) and the way his depiction of real, photographed, present and past characters along with a narrative reference to a photograph create a metafictional and intertextual frameworks through the use of which Powers symbolically points out a sensibility of the late 20th century and its difference from early 20th century related to the vision of the world, understanding of reality, art, and history. In addition, the article emphasizes Powers’ use of postmodern allegory and t
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Холматова, Зарина. "HISTORY OF FOREIGN LITERATURE OF PEOPLES OF THE 18TH-20TH CENTURIES." MODERN SCIENCE AND RESEARCH 3, no. 4 (2024): 1049–53. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11065252.

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<em>The history of foreign literature is a fascinating and multifaceted study, covering the period from the beginning of the century to the present. This paper examines the main directions in the development of literature, significant literary schools and movements, key works and authors who have had a significant influence on the literary development of the world. The most important works of various countries and languages are analyzed, reflecting the cultural, social and political changes that took place in the world in the 20th century.</em> <em>The work also examines various motifs and the
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Akimkanova, Kunduz. "HISTORY OF SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETION." Alatoo Academic Studies 23, no. 3 (2023): 22–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.17015/aas.2023.233.02.

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This article provides a brief overview of the history of simultaneous interpretation, a method of instant interpretation of oral speech from one language to another in real- time. Since its inception at the beginning of the 20th century, associated with the need for international communication at events such as conferences and trials, the abstract outlines the evolution of this translation method in the context of technology development and international relations. It is noted that with the development of computer technology at the end of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st centu
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Goldbloom, David S. "The Early Canadian History of Anorexia Nervosa." Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 42, no. 2 (1997): 163–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/070674379704200206.

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Objective: To examine several early Canadian descriptions of anorexia nervosa (AN) in light of modern understanding of the disorder. Method: Two clinical reports of AN from the late 19th century and early 20th century in Canada are cited and summarized. These original case descriptions are then compared with late 20th century knowledge of the disorder. Results: Both of these early descriptions contain many astute and prescient observations on the etiology and sequelae of AN and reveal a compassionate approach to patient care. Conclusions: Canadian contributions to the medical literature on AN
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Makhramov, Jasurbek Kochkar's. "HISTORY OF THE "BOLSHEVIKS REVOLUTION" OF 1917 AND ITS IMPACT ON THE TURKESTAN REGION." American Journal of Advanced Scientific Research (AJASR) 2, no. 9 (2025): 442–51. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15570807.

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Turkestan, once one of the ancient centers of world civilization, bythe beginning of the 20th century was one of the peripheral, colonized countries ofthe Russian Empire. This territory was under the Turkestan Governorate. Since thebeginning of the 20th century, a period of important changes has begun for Turkestan.This article analyzes the information about the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and itsimpact on the Turkestan region
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Kovalchuk, Taras. "CREATION AND ACTIVITIES OF LOCAL TOPONYMIC COMMISSIONS FOR THE DECOMMUNISATION OF PUBLIC SPACE IN UKRAINE (LATE 20TH – THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE 21ST CENTURY)." Intermarum history policy culture, no. 15 (December 14, 2024): 179–93. https://doi.org/10.35433/history.112089.

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The aim of the paper is to analyze the processes of creation and activity of local commissions for the decommunisation of public space in Ukraine from the late 20th century to the first quarter of the 21st century. The methodology of the research is based on the core principles of historical knowledge, incorporating general scientific and special historical methods, an interdisciplinary approach, sociological, cultural, and toponymic tools. The scientific novelty is conditioned by the fact that this is the first comprehensive study to present the creation and activity of local toponymic commis
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "20th Century World History"

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Costello, Paul. "The goals of the world historians : paradigms in world history in twentieth century." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74629.

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Following Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler posed the central problems of the cyclical history of civilization in the twentieth century. Subsequent world historical theorists have attempted to answer Spengler's nihilistic perspective on the destined rise and fall of all cultures by rescuing a progressive movement which transcended the downfall of civilizations. World history since Spengler has been written in pursuit of an answer to the crises of modernism: to the 'Death of God,' the problem of progress, the emergent technological order with its bureaucratic management of society, and the need sensed
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Hojdyssek, Gunter Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "From laughing at the world to living in the world." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Art, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43091.

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Born in 1938 in Poland, I epxperienced wartime Berlin and post-war Stalinism. My first job, at sixteen, was with the East Berlin States Opera and the Bertold Brecht's Berliner Ensemble. The play writes Betrtold Brecht and Buechner had the strongest influence on me. Brecht's play 'Mutter Courage and her children' and Georg Buechner's 'Woyzech' encapsulated the harsh realities of post-war Europe, and confirmed my desire for social justice and reform. Yet, the main influence on my work comes from my own life experience. My life in Australia has become a kind of exile-a deprivation of the origin
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Berger, Anna M. "MUNKÁCS: A Jewish World That Was." University of Sydney, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6336.

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MA (Research)<br>Prior to World War II an estimated 11 million Jews lived in hundreds of communities throughout Europe. The rural Subcarpathian city of Munkács was one such place with a strong and vibrant Jewish presence - a Jewish community which constituted some 40% of its population. Munkács had experienced a long history of ethnic, religious and cultural diversity. These different ethno-religious groups managed to live, if not in close friendships, but certainly for the most part, in reasonable harmony until the Hungarian occupation in 1938. The city was well known as a major centre of Jew
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Berger, Anna M. "MUNKÁCS: A Jewish World That Was." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6336.

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Prior to World War II an estimated 11 million Jews lived in hundreds of communities throughout Europe. The rural Subcarpathian city of Munkács was one such place with a strong and vibrant Jewish presence - a Jewish community which constituted some 40% of its population. Munkács had experienced a long history of ethnic, religious and cultural diversity. These different ethno-religious groups managed to live, if not in close friendships, but certainly for the most part, in reasonable harmony until the Hungarian occupation in 1938. The city was well known as a major centre of Jewish life in all i
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陳桂月 and Kwee-nyet Chin. "The mythical world of modern Chinese writers (1919-1949)." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31234744.

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Zabecki, D. T. "Operational Art and the German 1918 Offensives." Thesis, Department of Defence Management and Security Analysis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1826/3897.

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At the tactical level of war the Germans are widely regarded as having had the most innovative and proficient army of World War I. Likewise, many historians would agree that the Germans suffered from serious, if not fatal, shortcomings at the strategic level of war. It is at the middle level of warfare, the operational level, that the Germans seem to be the most difficult to evaluate. Although the operational was only fully accepted in the 1980s by many Western militaries as a distinct level of warfare, German military thinking well before the start of World War I clearly recognized the Operat
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Wernitznig, Dagmar. "No documents, no history : a political biography of Rosika Schwimmer (1877-1948)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711810.

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Venkatesh, Archana. "Women, Medicine and Nation-building: The `Lady Doctor’ and Development in 20th century South India." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1588949464255362.

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Burns-Watson, Roger. "Co-Starring God: Religion, Film, and World War II." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1273520794.

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Mills, Pamela J. "Double vision : the dual roles of women on the homefront during World War II through the lens of government documentary films." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/834129.

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World War II was a time of great changes. Many aspects of American society underwent profound shifts but one predominant part of American culture did not change -- theaccepted roles of women. The government documentary films of World War II reveal attitudes, ideas, and assumptions which not only reinforced traditional roles but also reflected theresistance to gender-role alterations. Women during the war were not only shaped by such cultural messages but many subscribed to them wholeheartedly. The films emphasize twospecific images of women -- Susie Homemaker and Rosie the Riveter -- and also
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Books on the topic "20th Century World History"

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Lang, Sean. 20th century world history for dummies. Wiley, 2008.

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Company, National Textbook, ed. Dictionary of 20th century world history. NTC Pub., 1997.

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Organization, International Baccalaureate, ed. 20th century world history: Course companion. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Rothney, John Alexander Murray, 1935-, ed. Twentieth-century world. 7th ed. Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2011.

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Tate, Nicholas. People & events in the modern world: 20th century world history. Hodder and Stoughton, 1989.

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Findley, Carter V. Twentieth-Century world. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1986.

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Findley, Carter V. Twentieth-century world. 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1990.

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Choi, Chatterjee, ed. The 20th century: A retrospective. Westview Press, 2002.

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Briony, Ryles, and Hall derek 1930-, eds. The early 20th century. Brown Bear Books, 2010.

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Lancaster, Tony. Britain and the world: The 20th century. Causeway, 1995.

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Book chapters on the topic "20th Century World History"

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Blaauw, Adriaan. "Earlier 20th Century Developments; World War I." In History of the IAU. Springer Netherlands, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0978-9_2.

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Petzold, Jochen. "From Mid-20th-Century to the Present." In A History of the Sonnet in England: "A little world made cunningly". Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37307/b.978-3-503-20540-0.06.

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Peterson, Erik L. "A ‘Fourth Wave’ of Vitalism in the Mid-20th Century?" In History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12604-8_10.

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AbstractIn his 1966 John Danz lectures, Francis H. C. Crick decried vitalism in the life sciences. Why did he do this three decades after most historians and philosophers of science regarded vitalism as dead? This essay argues that, by advocating the reduction of biology to physics and chemistry Crick was: (a) attempting to imbue the life sciences with greater prestige, (b) paving the way for bioengineering and the reduction of consciousness to molecules, and (c) trying to root out religious sentiment in the life sciences. In service of these goals, Crick deployed vitalism as a straw man enemy
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Affeich, Andree, and Rima Baraké. "Terminology in the Arab world." In Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.24.19aff.

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Abstract This chapter traces the history of modern Arabic terminology. It begins with the 19th century, when translation contributed to the creation of terminology in different fields. Two countries emerged as the main catalysts: Egypt and Syria. Moving on to the 20th century and onwards, the chapter focuses on activities related to terminology within several organisations and academies. These activities were the fruit of promising projects of Arabisation and contributed to the creation and dissemination of terms. Nevertheless, each academy and institution had its own terminology, which result
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Fóris, Ágota. "Terminology in Hungary." In Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.24.24for.

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Abstract This chapter describes historical events and figures that impacted the evolution of terminology in 20th century Hungary. There have been several periods in Hungary when terminological activities were intertwined with linguistics, and the study of specialised vocabulary and the formation of terminology in the Hungarian language were treated as a prominent professional and scientific field. One such period was during the Hungarian Language Reform in the 18th and 19th centuries, when the renewal of terminology was successfully achieved; I briefly outline the most important historical, po
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Christou, Prokopis A. "Tourism during the Contemporary Period (1945-early 2020s)." In The history and evolution of tourism. CABI, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781800621282.0006.

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Abstract The 1940s to 1960s witnessed a specific state of economic development of mass production and consumption characteristics of developed economies, known as 'Fordism', underpinning tourism development, supply and demand. This period witnessed the remarkable rise of the airline industry. Also, after the first half of the 20th century the world witnessed numerous amusement and theme parks that were largely influenced by the original Luna Park at Coney Island in New York and the first Disney theme park in Los Angeles that opened its doors to the public in the mid-1950s. Meanwhile, renowned
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Radcliffe, Ben. "Late-Roman Post-Futures." In The Before and the After. punctum books, 2025. https://doi.org/10.53288/0446.1.04.

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This chapter examines Gene Wolfe’s science-fiction tetralogy, The Book of the New Sun, alongside other literary and philosophical texts from the waning of the Cold War, including Jameson’s The Geopolitical Aesthetic and Derrida’s Specters of Marx. Wolfe repurposes classical imagery and tropes of late Roman decadence to construct a fictional world in which the archaic, the modern, and the futuristic coexist in a single picture. I interpret Wolfe’s anachronic classicism in light of other late 20th-century authors who diagnosed the temporal disorientation of capitalist globalization and the “end
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Lerner, Gerda. "The 20th Century: A Watershed Jor Women." In Why History Matters. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195046441.003.0007.

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Abstract To help us visualize the significance of the 20th century, let us fix a number of images in our minds: First, the modern airport-a cultural product so homogenized around the world that were it not for the signs and advertisements the traveler would not know which country’s airport he had. reached. Then, the shopping mall-the emblem of consumerism, appearing in various cultural guises in different parts of the world, but in most of its manifestations, selling goods produced and marketed for international consumption. Whatever local products the mall may feature, there will also be blue
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BLUMBERG, BARUCH, and CHARLES RAGAN. "THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RHEUMATOID SPONDYLITIS." In World Scientific Series in 20th Century Biology. WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789812813688_0003.

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BLUMBERG, B. S. "The Natural History of Australia Antigen." In World Scientific Series in 20th Century Biology. WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789812813688_0051.

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Conference papers on the topic "20th Century World History"

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Collazos-Arias, Felipe. "Extension of the road bridge platform of the XIX Century." In IABSE Congress, San José 2024: Beyond Structural Engineering in a Changing World. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2024. https://doi.org/10.2749/sanjose.2024.0462.

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&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this article is to develop, the history, as well as the latest actions carried out on the N-621 road, as it passes through the Hermida Gorge, in Spain, and specifically in four bridges dating back to the 19th century, to provide to these of traffic conditions within acceptable margins of road safety, and at the same time defining an action compatible with the existing environmental wealth in the whole area, substantially improving the current conditions, and with a cost widely offset by the functionality.&lt;/p&gt;
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Dybenko, Alexey Nikolaevich, and Yuri Еvgenievich Polak. "Outstanding IT projects of the late 20th century and duets of their creators." In 26th Scientific Conference “Scientific Services & Internet – 2024”. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.20948/abrau-2024-5.

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Time flies quickly in the computer industry. Equipment, storage media, components, and software tools are changing beyond recognition. What were relevant 10-20 years ago has become ancient history. But some remarkable projects have retained their significance till nowadays and have greatly changed the development of the industry and all life. The article examines the developments carried out at the end of the twentieth century and which determined the further development of the IT industry. Their authors are pairs of specialists who combined their programming and management talents. The histor
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Zhuykova, E. "COMICS AND LITERATURE: THE HISTORY OF FRIENDSHIP." In VIII International Conference “Russian Literature of the 20th-21st Centuries as a Whole Process (Issues of Theoretical and Methodological Research)”. LCC MAKS Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m3761.rus_lit_20-21/353-358.

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The reputation of comics in Russia was seriously spoiled in the 90s, when they were viewed as a purely entertaining and mass form. But in fact, in the modern world, the graphic novel is becoming a completely serious genre: great artists are creating comics, scripts for them are written by Ph.D's, and they often touch on complex topics. Moreover, comics have a long history of relationship with literature (for example, in the 30s of the 20th century, during the first wave of emigration, Russian literary comics were valued throughout the world). And in the last decade, this line of interaction ha
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Ceravolo, R. "Condition Assessment, Monitoring and Preservation of Some Iconic Concrete Structures of the 20th Century." In IABSE Symposium, Wroclaw 2020: Synergy of Culture and Civil Engineering – History and Challenges. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/wroclaw.2020.0054.

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&lt;p&gt;Great architects and structural engineers such as Berg (1870-1947), Maillart (1872-1940), Freyssinet (1879- 1962), Torroja (1899 -1961), Nervi (1891-1979), Candela (1910-1997), Isler (1926-2009) and many others have designed recognized works of art in their discipline. They conceived extraordinary concrete spatial structures, that are located mostly in Europe and represent a unique legacy. It is important to raise awareness of this heritage, define the criteria for preserving it and begin the process of its renovation and rehabilitation.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;While concrete has become a
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Minoretti, A., and T. O. Olsen. "The Submerged Floating Tube Bridge: History of a new Structure." In IABSE Symposium, Wroclaw 2020: Synergy of Culture and Civil Engineering – History and Challenges. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/wroclaw.2020.0430.

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&lt;p&gt;The Submerged Floating Tube Bridge is an old concept from 1886, conceived by an English naval architect. The structure was proposed for several crossings in the 20th century, in Norway and in several other places in the world. Preliminary studies were performed but the structure was never analyzed as a real possibility due to the lack of technology. With the developments of the offshore oil&amp;amp;gas platforms, the studies become more accurate, especially in correspondence with the E39 Fjord Crossing project, that aims to replace several ferries along the western coast of Norway wit
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Kovaleva, M. V., and O. V. Mikhailov. "Search for Ways to overcome the Crisis by Representatives of Russian Religious Thought." In General question of world science. Наука России, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18411/gq-31-03-2021-61.

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The crisis at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries affected different countries and different aspects of social life, which was inevitable both due to geographical proximity and cultural, economic, political and other intersections. Addressing the topic of the sociocultural crisis was characteristic of both Russian and Western European philosophers of the early 20th century. The author in the article refers to the understanding of its features and ways to overcome it in the context of the ideas of Russian religious philosophers. An integral feature of Russian philosophical thought in the co
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Sallai, János, and Johanna Farkas. "21ST CENTURY CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS IN THE LIGHT OF HISTORY." In SECURITY HORIZONS. Faculty of Security- Skopje, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.20544/icp.2.4.21.p24.

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It is impossible to separate the public police organization from the modern state. King Louis XIV was the founder of the first centrally organized and uniform police force in 1667. A book related to the work of the police was first published in 1705 under the title "Traité de la police". It outlines the three main activities of the police, which are economic regulation, measures of the public order, and general rules of hygiene. The first head of Police and his 44 police commissioners' work was assisted by police inspectors beginning in 1709. The police also appeared on German territory, and t
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Moy, James S. "SOVEREIGN GEOGRAPHIES, ERRANT PARTS & EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE." In 2024 SoRes Dubai –International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences, 19-20 February. Global Research & Development Services, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.20319/icssh.2024.128149.

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We exist in a significant geo-political nexus in the history of global development. African nations of the Sahel and indigenous peoples around the world have begun to kinetically resist neo-colonial initiatives to reimpose past suppressions. This paper surveys developments from 15th and 16th Century Papal Bulls through, government legislation and policy developments including the American Indian removal act of 1830, Berlin Conference of 1884-85, the Morgenthau Plan, late 20th Century Neo-Colonial exploitation and continuing early 21st century attempts at re-inscription of emergent rentier oppr
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Gubskaya, Olga, and Olga Jilevich. "FACT AND ALLEGORY: TWO POLES IN THE REPRESENTATION OF WAR (ON THE EXAMPLE OF “WAR’S UNWOMANLY FACE” BY S. ALEXIEVICH AND “THE CURSED AND THE SLAIN” BY V. ASTAFIEV)." In Aktuální problémy výuky ruského jazyka XIV. Masaryk University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p210-9781-2020-19.

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The military actions of the 20th century (Revolutions, the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War, the war in Kosovo, Chechnya, Iraq) left a terrifying mark on the history. The article discusses traditional and innovative forms of recreating the military context in the Russian and Russophone Belarusian military prose on the example of V. Astafiev and S. Alexievich’s works.
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D'Aprile, Marianela. "A City Divided: “Fragmented” Urban and Literary Space in 20th-Century Buenos Aires." In 2016 ACSA International Conference. ACSA Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.intl.2016.22.

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When analyzing the state of Latin American cities, particularly large ones like Buenos Aires, São Paolo and Riode Janeiro, scholars of urbanism and sociology often lean heavily on the term “fragmentation.” Through the 1980s and 1990s, the term was quickly and widely adopted to describe the widespread state of abutment between seemingly disparate urban conditions that purportedly prevented Latin American cities from developing into cohesive wholes and instead produced cities in pieces, fragments. This term, “fragmentation,” along with the idea of a city composed of mismatching parts, was centra
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Reports on the topic "20th Century World History"

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Schacht, Kayley, Deidre Gonçalves, Aaron Schmidt, and Adam Smith. A History and Analysis of the WPA Exhibit of Black Art at the Fort Huachuca Mountain View Officers’ Club, 1943–1946. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/47184.

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The 1943 art exhibition at the Mountain View Officers’ Club (MVOC), Fort Huachuca, Arizona should be considered one of the most significant events in the intersection of American art, military history, and segregation. Organizers of the event, entitled Exhibition of the Work of 37 Negro Artists, anticipated it would boost soldiers’ morale because Fort Huachuca was a predominately Black duty station during WWII. This report provides a brief history of Black art in the early 20th century, biographies of the artists showcased, and provides information (where known) about repositories that have or
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Herring, Theodore, Justin Tweet, and Vincent Santucci. Wind Cave National Park: Paleontological resource inventory (public version). National Park Service, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/2299620.

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Wind Cave National Park (WICA), the first cave in the world to become a national park, is famous for the park’s namesake feature. Wind Cave, named for the noticeable wind-flow patterns observed as air moves in and out of the natural cave entrance, is currently the third longest cave system in the United States and seventh longest in the world. Wind Cave formed when groundwater dissolved buried layers of the fossiliferous Madison Limestone, which were deposited during the Mississippian subperiod approximately 359 to 347 million years ago. In addition to the Madison Limestone, several other form
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Gross, Daniel, and Bhaven Sampat. The Therapeutic Consequences of the War: World War II and the 20th-Century Expansion of Biomedicine. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3386/w33457.

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Kempgen, Sebastian. Was Postkarten erzählen können… Otto-Friedrich-Universität, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.20378/irb-49498.

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Kholoshyn, I., T. Nazarenko, O. Bondarenko, O. Hanchuk, and I. Varfolomyeyeva. The application of geographic information systems in schools around the world: a retrospective analysis. IOP Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/123456789/4560.

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The article is devoted to the problem of incorporation geographic information systems (GIS) in world school practice. The authors single out the stages of GIS application in school geographical education based on the retrospective analysis of the scientific literature. The first stage (late 70 s – early 90s of the 20th century) is the beginning of the first educational GIS programs and partnership agreements between schools and universities. The second stage (mid-90s of the 20th century – the beginning of the 21st century) comprises the distribution of GIS-educational programs in European and
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Jiang, Xiaowei, and John Cherry. History and Hydraulics of Flowing Wells. The Groundwater Project, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21083/cpet1503.

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Because flowing wells are spectacular visual evidence of groundwater occurrence, they became the impetus for both qualitative and quantitative groundwater science. The pursuit of answers to fundamental questions generated by flowing wells in confined aquifers bounded by aquitards moved the science forward for more than a century until pumping became the main form of groundwater development. Since the turn of the 20th century, flowing wells in unconfined aquifers were an impetus for the paradigm shift from aquitard-bound flow to cross-formational flow driven by topography. In this book, the his
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Shaposhnikov, Gennadii, Irina Airapetova, and Andrey Ustinov. Electronic training course "History of Medicine (Department of History, Economics and Law)". Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования "Уральский государственный медицинский университет" Министерства здравоохранения Российской Федерации, 2024. https://doi.org/10.12731/er0866.12122024.

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The electronic training course "History of Medicine" is compiled in accordance with the requirements of the federal state educational standard of higher education 3++ for specialties 05/31/2011. Medical care, 05/32.01. Preventive medicine, 05/31/02. Pediatrics, 05/31/03. Dentistry The purpose of the course is to study the history, patterns and logic of the development of healing, medicine and healthcare of the peoples of the world from antiquity to the beginning of the XXI century. Course objectives: to teach students to objectively analyze historical phenomena, achievements and prospects for
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Blyde, Juan S., Armando Castelar Pinheiro, Eduardo Fernández-Arias, and Christian Daude. Competitiveness and Growth in Brazil. Inter-American Development Bank, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008992.

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In the first eight decades of the 20th century, Brazil ranked among the countries with highest growth rates in the world. During the period 1930-80, in particular, it managed to reduce its per capita income gap vis-à-vis industrialized economies and seemed poised to escape underdevelopment early in this century. However, this dream never materialized; Brazil's growth performance deteriorated sharply over the following quarter century, never fully recovering from the second oil shock and the foreign debt crisis. In this period Brazil experienced much lower and more volatile growth, with its lon
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Gehred, Kathryn. Your Most Obedient and Humble Servant. Edited by Jeanette Patrick and Jim Ambuske. Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2020. https://doi.org/10.31835/ymohs.pod.

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Your Most Obedient &amp; Humble Servant is a podcast that showcases 18th and early 19th-century women’s letters that don’t always make it into the history books. Join historian Kathryn Gehred and her guests as they explore the lives of women and the world around them through their letters. Ongoing.
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Siebert, Rudolf J., and Michael R. Ott. Catholicism and the Frankfurt School. Association Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.53099/ntkd4301.

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The paper traces the development from the medieval, traditional union, through the modern disunion, toward a possible post-modern reunion of the sacred and the profane. It concentrates on the modern disunion and conflict between the religious and the secular, revelation and enlightenment, faith and autonomous reason in the Western world and beyond. It deals specifically with Christianity and the modern age, particularly liberalism, socialism and fascism of the 2Oth and the 21st centuries. The problematic inclination of Western Catholicism toward fascism, motivated by the fear of and hate again
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