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5 days ago · 6th century BC: University in Taxila, of the Indus Valley, then part of the kingdom of Gandhara, of the Achaemenid Empire (modern-day Pakistan). 6th century - 2nd century BC: Systematization of medicine and surgery in the Sushruta Samhita in Vedic Northern India. Documented procedures to: Perform cataract surgery . Babylonian and Egyptian texts ...
6 days ago · 20th Century Women and Gender Studies Sources. The following resources are major tools for finding digitized texts related to the history of women and gender. A collection of books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities.
- Diana King
- 2008
5 days ago · Cornell University, B07 Day Hall. EAS 1101 - Climate and Energy: a 21st Century Earth Science Perspective. (OPHLS-AG, PBS-AS) (CU-SBY) Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading. T. Ault, R. Lohman. Two of the most pressing issues that humankind will face in the 21st Century are Climate Change and Energy. These two issues are inexorably linked ...
4 days ago · The vitality of 20th-century American literature is most evident in the novel, practitioners of which include William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, and Thomas Pynchon. Source: American Literature in The Macmillan Encyclopedia
- Isabel Duque
- 2019
3 days ago · The Higgs Boson. With its discovery, the Higgs boson has revolutionized our understanding of mass in the Universe. This enigmatic particle is responsible for imparting other particles with their weight and gives physicists a deeper insight into how things come to be. 2.
5 days ago · The Future of History. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, ISBN: 9780230232419; 312pp.; Price: £65.00. In The Future of History Alan Munslow tackles the big problem facing historians in the 21st century, the problem of whether history as we know it has a future and, if not, what historians should do about that.
3 days ago · The rapid expansion of education past age 14 set the U.S. apart from Europe for much of the 20th century. [82] From 1910 to 1940, high schools grew in number and size, reaching out to a broader clientele. In 1910, for example, 9% of Americans had a high school diploma; in 1935, the rate was 40%. [190]
