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6 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 ...
- Fritz Strassmann
Friedrich Wilhelm Strassmann (German: [fʁɪt͡s ˈʃtʁasˌman] ⓘ;...
- Timeline of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
20th Century Fox presents in New York on an 8 m × 4 m big...
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Timeline of computing presents events in the history of...
- History of medicine
History of medicine. A 12th-century manuscript of the...
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5 days ago · v. t. e. In many periodizations of human history, the late modern period followed the early modern period. It began around 1800 and, depending on the author, either ended with the beginning of contemporary history in 1945, or includes the contemporary history period to the present day. Notable historical events in the late 18th century, that ...
4 days ago · Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century. London, Allen Lane: The Penguin Press, 1998, ISBN: 9780679438090; 512pp. On the cusp of the new millenium, historians of Europe are already having trouble with the twentieth century. Just a few months away from the year 2000, historians are infected with their very own peculiar form of millenium bug ...
2 days ago · When broadcast radio came into prominence early in the 20th century, it delighted the public by providing news and entertainment with an immediacy that had been unimaginable beforehand. Radio developed into the first electronic mass medium, but broadcast radio's popularity was eclipsed by television, which appeared about 1945.
4 days ago · From 2016 to 2020 the Met hosted its modern and contemporary art programs in the former location of the Whitney Museum of American Art, a Marcel Breuer-designed building at East 75th Street and Madison Avenue; the Met Breuer was designed to host exhibitions and performances related to 20th- and 21st-century art, artist commissions and ...
5 days ago · London, Michael Joseph, 1994, ISBN: 9780718133078; 640pp. Eric Hobsbawm has written a book which has been rightly acclaimed as setting the standard for accounts of the Twentieth Century. We can expect such books to proliferate as we approach the end of the millennium. Few will be able to match the powerful analysis and broad sweep of this book.
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