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• Albert Einstein
  ...egarded as the greatest theoretical [[Physics|physicist]] of the twentieth century, if not of all [[time]]. Modern physics bears his mark more than any other ...t Einstein "Person of the Century" on the grounds that he was not only the century's greatest scientist, who altered forever our views on matter, time, space,
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• Many Worlds: The New Universe and Its Theological Implications
  Cosmotheology is to be distinguished from Derham's eighteenth-century astrotheology in that the main thrust of the former is not to offer proof o ...the [[Milky Way]] galaxy. Although we have known this now for most of the century, and although it gives urgency to the religious questions (especially the I
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• Existence
  ...ation 5)). Arnauld's theory was current until the middle of the nineteenth century. ...ng phrase "Socrates". This method became widely accepted in the twentieth century by the analytic school of philosophy.
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• Sigmund Freud
  ...[[unconscious]], a [[concept]] that had existed for much of the nineteenth century. Freud determined that one of the most fruitful sites to explore the uncons ...children, denials of this idea have persisted into the early twenty-first century.
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• 126:3 The Fifteenth Year (A.D. 9)
  ...ccordance]] with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century twentieth-century] calendar, not by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_calendar Jewish
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• Neuroscience
  ...rk in the electrical excitability of muscles and neurons. In the late 19th century, DuBois-Reymond, Müller, and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Helmholtz ...e second half of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century twentieth century], principally due to [[revolution]]s in molecular [[biology]], electrophysi
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• Chosen People
  ...[[Deuteronomy]] (7:6, 14:2), a biblical text not written until the seventh century BCE. Underlying God's promises to [[Abraham]] and his descendants in [[Gene ...l be punished by God for their transgressions. Nevertheless, as the eighth-century prophet [[Hosea]] insists, punishment does not negate their election. Compa
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• Avant-garde
  ...ycling of forms and strategies from the first two decades of the twentieth century, others like Clement Greenberg view it, more positively, as a new articulat
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• Animal nature
  ...has made ethology a rapidly growing field, and since the turn of the 21st century, many prior understandings related to diverse fields such as animal [[commu ...opinion about matters of substance. In addition, for most of the twentieth century, comparative psychology developed most strongly in North America, while eth
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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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• Paper 83 - The Marriage Institution
  ...emony]]. Even in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century twentieth century] it is still the [[custom]] under the [[Christian]] [[mores]] to stretch ca ...the man alone, and these [[standards]] have [[persisted]] to the twentieth century among some peoples.
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• 81:6 The Maintenance of Civilization
  81:6.25 The greatest [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century twentieth-century] [[influences]] contributing to the furtherance of [[civilization]] and the ...g [[culture]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century twentieth century]. And only by [[adherence]] to these [[essentials]] can man [[hope]] to [[m
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• Salem
  The [[Dead Sea scrolls]], discovered in the mid-twentieth century in the [[Qumran]] caves near the Dead Sea, are housed in the Museum's [[Shr Jerusalem has been sacred to the Jews since the 10th century BCE,as the site of [[Solomon's Temple]] and the [[Second Temple]]. It is me
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• Quantum Mechanics
  ...quantum mechanics were established during the first half of the twentieth century by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg Werner Heisenberg], [ht
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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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• Discourse
  ...n, and to a formal treatment of a subject at length. In the late twentieth century, the concept was developed in two fields: cultural studies, examining the h ...er-Discourse: The Theory and Practice of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France, Ithaca/London 1985.
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• Metaphysics of Creativity: Nature, Art, and Freedom In German Philosophy After Kant
  ...been primarily reserved for God and it was not until the later eighteenth century that the notion of creativity was reformulated and the term ‘creative’ ...nly nature and community, but from his inner self. In the later eighteenth century a cultural and philosophical movement emerged in Germany for which the mean
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• Paper 88 - Fetishes, Charms, and Magic
  ...his power, to [[touch]] the [[ground]]. Civilized peoples in the twentieth century see to it that their flags, emblems of [[national]] [[consciousness]], like ...the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo voodoo] doctors of the twentieth century are typical of the magicians of old.
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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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• Paper 92 - Later Evolution of Religion
  *4. 92:5.9 ''The sixth century before Christ''. Many men arose to [[proclaim]] [[truth]] in this, one of t *5. 92:5.10 ''The first century after Christ''. As a [[religious]] [[teacher]], [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] s
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