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9 hours ago · Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907). This proto-cubist work is considered a seminal influence on subsequent trends in modernist painting.. Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.
9 hours ago · There are many early examples of systems that were engineered, notable among them Roman aqueducts (fourth century BCE) and multimasted sailing ships (fifteenth century). In the middle ages (fifth to fifteenth centuries), harnessing of wind and water power fueled engineered systems like water mills and contributed to a revolution in agriculture.
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9 hours ago · The MV-II site is radiocarbon dated to at least ~14,500 years before present (BP). The archaeological evidence excavated at the site was controversial at the outset of the project, not only because the site radiocarbon dated in pre-Clovis times but it was characterized by the preservation of a wide variety of organic cultural materials, which is a rarity in late Pleistocene sites.
9 hours ago · Definition. The early modern period is a subdivision of the most recent of the three major periods of European history: antiquity, the Middle Ages and the modern period. The term "early modern" was first proposed by medieval historian Lynn Thorndike in his 1926 work A Short History of Civilization as a broader alternative to the Renaissance.
9 hours ago · Examples include the Spanish Civil War, the Coup of 18 Brumaire that ended the First French Republic, and the 28 May 1926 coup d'état which ended the First Portuguese Republic. Some military coups are supported by foreign governments, such as the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état and the 1953 Iranian coup d'état. Other types of a sudden end to ...
9 hours ago · Examples of studies on Kierkegaard’s tension and inconsistency between preferential love and neighborly love are Walsh (1988), Ferreira (2001), and Krishek (2008). 17. In the second volume of Either/Or Kierkegaard wrote a clear statement: “The ethical is the universal” (259) crediting internal duties as the guideline of an ethical existence.
9 hours ago · Not only were they the first important patrons of Cubism, Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo were also important influences on Cubism as well. In turn, Picasso was an important influence on Stein's writing. In the field of American fiction, William Faulkner's 1930 novel As I Lay Dying can be read as an interaction with the cubist mode. The ...
