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• Vindication
  ...end women’s [[oppression]]. Many of the [[ideological]] roots of twentieth-century liberal feminism trace back to Wollstonecraft. ...subsequent foreign interventions by the United States during the twentieth century. The vindicationist approach to foreign policy reached a peak with the wars
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• Genetics
  ...//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel Gregor Mendel] in the mid-nineteenth century.[6] Although he did not know the physical basis for [https://en.wikipedia.o
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• 195:8 Secular Totalitarianism
  ...ing [[influence]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century twentieth-century] [[secularism]] will still blight the spiritual [[experience]] of millions ...e]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism nineteenth- and twentieth-century so-called science]—atheistic science. The mother of [https://en.wikipedia
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• Electricity
  ...be until the late [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Century nineteenth century] that engineers were able to put it to industrial and residential use. The
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• Epic
  ...theme. The term, which means 'little epic', came in use in the nineteenth century. It refers primarily to the type of erotic and mythological long elegy of w
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• Public domain
  The term ''public domain'' did not come into use until the mid-17th century, although as a [[concept]] "it can be traced back to the [https://en.wikipe ...aw. The phrase "fall in the public domain" can be traced to mid-nineteenth century France to describe the end of copyright term. The French poet [https://en.w
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• The Enlightenment
  ...in Western [[philosophy]] and cultural life, centered upon the eighteenth century, in which [[reason]] was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for ...ication), signifying generally the philosophical outlook of the eighteenth century. However, the German term Aufklärung was not merely applied retrospectivel
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• Vault
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...rray of alarms and anti-theft devices. Some nineteenth and early twentieth century vaults were built so well that today they are almost impossible to destroy.
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• Shepherd
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] .../wiki/Common_land common lands] in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth century moved shepherding from independent [[nomads]] to employees of massive estat
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• Great Awakening
  ...ious enthusiasm occurring between the early 18th century and the late 19th century. Each of these "Great Awakenings" was characterized by widespread revivals ...the late eighteenth century and lasting until the middle of the nineteenth century. While it occurred in all parts of the United States, it was especially str
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• Children
  ...imes, children were regarded as not culpable for crimes. In the nineteenth century, children younger than seven years old were believed incapable of crime. Ch
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• Catastrophism
  Until the 19th century the dominant scientific [[beliefs]] in Europe were founded on the [[Bible|b The leading scientific proponent of catastrophism in the early nineteenth century was the French anatomist and paleontologist Georges Cuvier. His motivation
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• 121:1 The Occident of the First Century After Christ
  ...and trade until the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century nineteenth century] after [[Christ]].
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• 2012-07-05-What is Faith
  ...all possibilities. When electricity was discovered in the late nineteenth century, many of the men of science of that time believed that electricity would no
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• Dinosaurs
  ...drous" + σαῦρος (sauros) "lizard". Through the first half of the twentieth century, most of the [[scientific]] [[community]] mistakenly believed dinosaurs to Since the first dinosaur [[fossils]] were recognized in the early nineteenth century, mounted dinosaur skeletons have been major [[attractions]] at museums arou
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• Pantheistic
  ...that flourished in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century nineteenth-century] England and America were generally [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monism m ...America "alive and well, growing daily, and probably a strong suit for the century to come"
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 5
  ...ly for these neo-economist thinkers, these proofs belong to the nineteenth century, a time when the misery of the working classes made the right to work the c Perhaps man realizes himself in his forced labour? In the nineteenth century the concept of work retained a vestige of the notion of creativity. Zola de
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• United States
  ...d legalized [[slavery]] in the United States. By the end of the nineteenth century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean, and its economy was the
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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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• Lament
  # Linda M. Austin, "The Lament and the Rhetoric of the Sublime" Nineteenth-Century Literature 53.3 (December 1998:279-306) traces the literary rhetoric evokin # Ellen Rosand, 2007. Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice (University of California Press), "The lament aria: variations on a
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