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5 days ago · First-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity and thought that occurred during the 19th and early 20th century throughout the Western world. It focused on legal issues, primarily on securing women's right to vote.
3 days ago · What was a central principle of "Maternalism", a term coined by recent historians to refer to the Progressive Era, justification for women's program?
1 day ago · An Ambiguous Term. Since the British Empire waged the first modern drug war in the mid-19th century to force Chinese governments to accept imports of opium from India, the term “drug war” has been an ambiguous concept. 1 Either “openly avowed or tacit enterprises,” drug wars have been as much about expanding the drug trade as they have been about limiting it and, in most cases, they ...
1 day ago · The National Weather Service, in collaboration with the CDC, launched an experimental color-numeric-based index that provides a forecast of the potential level of risk for heat-related impacts to occur over a 24-hour period. HeatRisk first began in the Western United States in 2014 and expanded across the contiguous United States in 2024. Heat ...
5 days ago · Bank of America analyst Michael Hartnett coined the phrase in 2023 when commenting on the seven companies commonly recognized for their market dominance, their technological impact, and their...
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1 day ago · The history of mathematical notation [1] includes the commencement, progress, and cultural diffusion of mathematical symbols and the conflict of the methods of notation confronted in a notation's move to popularity or inconspicuousness. Mathematical notation [2] comprises the symbols used to write mathematical equations and formulas.
1 day ago · The history of communism encompasses a wide variety of ideologies and political movements sharing the core principles of common ownership of wealth, economic enterprise, and property. Most modern forms of communism are grounded at least nominally in Marxism, a theory and method conceived by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels during the 19th century.
