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May 15, 2024 · 6 votes. 4. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the music and the ideas. Bob Dylan. 14 votes. 5. The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world.
May 23, 2024 · Crusades of the 15th century are those Crusades that follow the Crusades after Acre, 1291–1399, throughout the next hundred years. In this time period, the threat from the Ottoman Empire dominated the Christian world, but also included threats from the Mamluks, Moors, and heretics. The Ottomans gained significant territory in all theaters ...
May 23, 2024 · The "Great American Songbook" is the canon of the most important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards from the early 20th century that have stood the test of time in their life and legacy. Often referred to as "American Standards", the songs published during the Golden Age of this genre include those popular and enduring ...
1 day ago · By the end of the 20th century the figure of urbanisation was 80% of the country. Importance in population size however of the capital declined during the latter half of the 20th century. By the end of the 20th century, London's ranking on the most populated cities of the world had fallen down to not even being in the top 20.
May 2, 2024 · Following the flurry of new giant squid species descriptions that characterised the latter half of the 19th century, the 20th century saw only three newly erected species: Architeuthis japonica by Pfeffer (1912:27), based on a specimen caught in Tokyo Bay in 1895 ; Architeuthis clarkei by Robson (1933), based on a carcass that washed ashore in ...
May 20, 2024 · Grade I listed status has been given to 113 buildings completed in the 20th century. [note 2] Of these, there are twenty-four cathedrals, churches and chapels, nineteen war memorials, [note 3] seventeen houses, seven memorials, seven university buildings and seven office blocks, four art and museum galleries, three apartment blocks, three ...
4 days ago · 367: El Alamein. May 19, 2024 Podcast. The Germans march their British prisoners out of Tobruk after its fall. Over the winter of 1941-2, Hitler redeployed Luftwaffe units back to the Mediterranean, which meant more supplies were reaching Rommel’s army. A new Axis offensive captured Tobruk and drove deep into Egypt.
