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1 hour ago · It has been common to claim that the eighteenth-century self was ‘a well-tuned, visible mechanism’, while the Romantics ‘granted space to mystery and imbalance’. Footnote 127 As we have seen, such a characterisation hardly does justice to eighteenth-century thinking on the self. The contingency of the self was a key theme for many ...
1 day ago · Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon Guggenheim Museum completed in 1959 [12] Modernism was a cultural movement that impacts the arts as well as the broader zeitgeist. It is commonly described as a system of thought and behavior marked by self-consciousness or self-reference, prevalent within the avant-garde of various arts and disciplines. [13]
1 day ago · Tuscarora. Louisiana French. Spanish. The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America. It is between the Atlantic Ocean and the Western United States, with the Midwestern ...
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1 hour ago · The B-52 Stratofortress, first flown in 1952, remains a key asset for the U.S. Air Force. Despite its age, the B-52 will continue serving into the mid-21st century, with potential to last nearly ...
1 hour ago · Witchcraft, as most commonly understood in both historical and present-day communities, is the use of alleged supernatural powers of magic. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic or supernatural powers to inflict harm or misfortune on others, and this remains the most common and widespread ...
1 day ago · Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa. It was concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, situated in the place that is now the country Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) [1] with the political unification ...
1 day ago · Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea (and Cyprus) to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west.
