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Vor 4 Tagen · Early 20th-century avant-garde movements Primitivism – Head of a Woman , by Amedeo Modigliani (1910–11), limestone, National Gallery of Art , Washington, D.C. Primitivist influences – Bust for a shop window, anonymous Belgian artist ( c. 1920 ), painted papier-mâché , private collection, Cologne , Germany
Vor 3 Tagen · There was a notable revival in 20th-century Gothic horror cinema, such as the classic Universal monsters films of the 1930s, Hammer Horror films, and Roger Corman's Poe cycle. [118] In Hindi cinema , the Gothic tradition was combined with aspects of Indian culture , particularly reincarnation, for an "Indian Gothic" genre, beginning with Mahal (1949) and Madhumati (1958).
Vor einem Tag · In the early 20th century, many Olympic athletes began using drugs to improve their athletic abilities. For example, in 1904, Thomas Hicks , a gold medallist in the marathon, was given strychnine by his coach (at the time, taking different substances was allowed, as there was no data regarding the effect of these substances on a body of an athlete). [221]
Vor 4 Tagen · Etymology A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times ...
Vor einem Tag · 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 ...
Vor einem Tag · Women make up 33% of researchers overall in the European Union (EU), slightly more than their representation in science (32%). Women constitute 40% of researchers in higher education, 40% in government and 19% in the private sector, with the number of female researchers increasing faster than that of male researchers.
Vor 3 Tagen · The seventy years of Jewish–Roman wars in the second half of the 1st century and the first half of the 2nd century were exceptional in their duration and violence. An estimated 1,356,460 Jews were killed as a result of the First Jewish Revolt ; [79] the Second Jewish Revolt (115–117) led to the death of more than 200,000 Jews; [80] and the Third Jewish Revolt (132–136) resulted in the ...
