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Apr 15, 2024 · A collection of 19th and 20th century legal treatises, casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, pamphlets, letters, speeches, and other historical legal works, covering a wide range of topics of US and British law. Includes approximately 10 million pages and more than 21,000 works. [1800 - 1926]. Access courtesy of the Law Library.
Mar 29, 2024 · Cubism, highly influential visual arts style of the 20th century that was created principally by the artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. It emphasized the flat, two-dimensional surface of the picture plane, rejecting the traditional techniques of perspective and modeling.
Apr 12, 2024 · A collection of English-language newspapers and periodicals spanning beyond the 20th century (1845-2015) covering Communist, Socialist and Marxist thought, theory and practice. Issues covered include workers’ rights, organized labor, labor strikes, Nazi atrocities, McCarthyism’s rise after WWII, Civil Rights, and modern-day class struggles ...
3 days ago · Electronic music is represented not only by a wide variety of 20th-century works and not only by serious concert pieces but also by a substantial literature of theatre, film, and television scores and by multimedia works that use all types of audiovisual techniques.
3 days ago · The social reforms of the last century continued into the 20th with the Labour Party being formed in 1900. Edward died in 1910, to be succeeded by George V , who reigned 1910–1936. Scandal-free, hard working and popular, George V was the British monarch who, with Queen Mary, established the modern pattern of exemplary conduct for British ...
4 days ago · Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. (Read Einstein’s 1926 Britannica essay on space-time.) Childhood and education. Einstein’s parents were secular, middle-class Jews. His father, Hermann Einstein, was originally a featherbed salesman and later ran an electrochemical factory with moderate ...
Apr 19, 2024 · global warming, the phenomenon of increasing average air temperatures near the surface of Earth over the past one to two centuries. Climate scientists have since the mid-20th century gathered detailed observations of various weather phenomena (such as temperatures, precipitation, and storms) and of related influences on climate (such as ocean currents and the atmosphere’s chemical composition).
