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	20th century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was a century that started with steam powered ships as the most sophisticated means of transport, and ended with the space shuttle.
		The 20th century has sometimes been called, both within and outside the United States, the American Century, though this is a controversial term.
		As the century begins, Paris is the artistic capital of the world, where both French and foreign writers, composers and visual artists gather.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/20th_century (2086 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Year of Wonders
		In Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks eerily captures every aspect of life during the plague -- the gruesomely painful death, the speed with which the disease spread and the superstitions surrounding it, which rivaled the plague itself for horror.
		She married young, her education is haphazard, and she is disinclined to question the religious beliefs that serve as the town's infrastructure.
		Were it not for the plague, she would no doubt have lived and died in the same 17th century English country village, without leaving a detectable trace.
	www.bookpage.com /0108bp/fiction/year_of_wonders.html (603 words)

	Art/Museums: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Burke’s maternal grandfather, Crawford Livingston, was a descendant of Robert Livingston, a Scotsman who came to the United States in the early 17th Century with a large land grant and the title Lord of the Manor from the British crown.
		Beginning in the eleventh century, waterwheels for irrigration are frquently mentioned, as are baskets filld with stones for water control and for the protection of the riverbanks.
		The exhibition also includes several beautiful paintings of courtesans by such artists as Kaigetsudo Ando (flourished late 17th to early 18th century), but unfortunately the catalogue does not reproduce the very fine and interestingly patterned silks on which the scrolls are hung and which add considerably to their appreciation.
	www.thecityreview.com /griggs.html (3492 words)

	Council of Virginia Archaeologists - 17th century volume review
		Her exhaustive review, including an appendix detailing native Contact period sites in the state, combined with her constructive critiques make this paper an invaluable tool in the development of Chesapeake Contact period studies.
		Carter L. Hudgins' essay concerning the 20th-century archaeologists of Virginia's 17th century serves as an introduction to the remaining seven papers that focus on aspects of English colonial culture.
		Very few structures survive from the 17th century in either Maryland or Virginia, so the study of architecture from that period depends on archaeological research.
	cova-inc.org /reviews/17th_c_review_jmaa.htm (2419 words)

	Paul Johnson on United States on National Review Online
		A year ago, the U.S. was subjected to an unprovoked attack of an unprecedented kind, which not only killed 3,000 people and destroyed much of the country's main financial district but was designed also to destroy America's legislative body and/or its executive, and its main defense headquarters.
		The scale of the attack, and the presumption that it would be followed by others, gave the U.S. the right, under Article 51, to punish the aggressors and to take all necessary steps to ensure its future security by destroying the source of their power, present and future.
		We need a Leviathan figure now much more than in the 17th century, when the range of a cannon was a maximum of two miles and its throw-weight was measured in pounds.
	www.nationalreview.com /14oct02/johnson101402.asp (1425 words)

	An Ancient Carpet in Urumchi
		The 500-600 year span is due to the normal range of accuracy or error for Carbon 14 testing.
		Around the first and second centuries A.D. this trading route connecting East and West was controlled and managed by the two major empires of the day, the Roman Empire and the Han Empire of China.
		These are dated to an age of one thousand years, are in an excellent state of preservation, and in some cases retain very strong color.
	www.rugreview.com /82chris.htm (1357 words)

	Horror Bob Presents: The Horror Review - Egregious Gurnow's Review of "Bluebeard" (1944)
		century serial killer fable, itself rumored to be the literary transcription of real life murderer Gilles de Rais.
		All Reviews on this website are strictly the opinion of The Horror Review team and do not express the opinion of any one else but their own.
		All films reviewed are copyrighted with their respected owners and the United States Copyright Office.
	www.horrorreview.com /old/egbluebeard1944.html (509 words)

	H-Net Review: Mark Knights on Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions and the ...
		Thus at the beginning of the Seventeenth century popular participation was very limited and governed by rules which imposed secrecy and deference; but print -- and in particular the publication of petitions in the 1640s -- was to transform the situation so that something recognisable as "public opinion" could be invoked.
		Thus the idea that in the early seventeenth century "popular participation in political discourse was limited to the receiving end of symbolic displays of authority" (p.
		For example, in 1584 petitioners lobbying for a more radical religious policy took advantage of the enlarged space created by the government-sponsored attempts to promote a nationwide bond of association (which incidentally appealed to a concept of public opinion) to promote petitions which could be presented to Parliament.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=23451969480497 (1833 words)

	Calendar: The Westbury Times - January 7, 2005
		After 10 years as supervisor of the town, May Newburger chose not to run again and she was succeeded by Great Neck attorney Jon Kaiman.
		Increasing from last year's 90.2-combined grade point average, the girls' team was presented with individual certificates of academic achievement in recognition of their awesome 92.3 average.
		The 51-year-old Westbury resident served one year in prison after being convicted in 1998 for engaging in several acts of sodomy with a 7-year-old boy.
	www.antonnews.com /westburytimes/2005/01/07/news/yearinreview.html (8020 words)

	Geraldine Brooks
		Exploring love and learning, fear and fanaticism, and the struggle of science and religion to interpret the world at the cusp of the modern era, Year of Wonders is at once a story of unconventional love and a richly detailed evocation of a riveting moment in history.
		Year of Wonders read by Jeanette Cronin is the featured book reading on ABC Radio National and may be heard on all Radio National stations Monday to Friday at 2pm, repeated at 11pm or listen on demand across the web - more
		The "histories" that purport to record the facts were actually written many years later, and historians have found inconsistencies that cast doubt on their accuracy.
	www.geraldinebrooks.com /year_of_wonders.shtml (1009 words)

	RPGnet: Review of Juego de Rol del Capitan Alatriste (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The tone of the books is a far cry from the flamboyant "grab the chandelier, jump on the balcony and kiss the lady" commonly associated with cinematic swashbuckling, and it's best described as "grim, gritty and overtly pessimistic".
		17th Century Spain is a country blinded by religious zealotry and an obsession with honour, nationalism and blood purity; it's a powerful yet waning empire bleeding from countless wars and widespread corruption.
		Mario Magallanes has written 2 reviews, with average style of 4.00 and average substance of 4.50.
	www.rpg.net /reviews/archive/10/10274.phtml (2434 words)

	Read This: Squaring the Circle
		The account of this incident is followed by a survey of the mathematical and quasi-mathematical work of Hobbes throughout his long career, and an overview of the dispute between Hobbes and Wallis that lists titles and summarizes contents of the works that each wrote in criticism of the other.
		We then have a report on the state of mathematics in the 17th century, a time of transformation that included disputes over the primacy of arithmetic and algebra (Wallis, Descartes) as opposed to the primacy of geometry (Hobbes, Barrow).
		There is another extended discussion of their differing views of ratio and proportion, and then a more interesting review of their ideas on the "angle of contact" between a circle and its tangent, a so-called "horned angle" (one side straight, one curved) that if considered an actual magnitude seems to violate the axiom of Archimedes.
	www.maa.org /reviews/squaring.html (2067 words)

	Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669) - Dutch Painter - 17th Century
		After years of war and upheavel, life in the United Provinces of the Netherlands was renowned for its tranquility.
		In the year of the artist's birth, Leiden, his home town, was known as one of principal intellectual and artistic centres in the country.
		There were rigid guidelines in 17th century Holland, to which artists had to comply.
	www.theartgallery.com.au /ArtEducation/greatartists/Rembrandt/about (2054 words)

	Monthly Review July-August 1998 Ellen Meiksins Wood
		In the sixteenth century, England—already more unified than most in the eleventh century, when the Norman ruling class established itself on the island as a fairly cohesive military and political entity—went a long way toward eliminating the fragmentation of the state, the "parcellized sovereignty" inherited from feudalism.
		This was true even before the waves of dispossession, especially in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, conventionally associated with "enclosure" (about which more in a moment), in contrast, for example, to France, where a larger proportion of land remained, and long continued to remain, in the hands of peasants.
		So by the sixteenth century English agriculture was marked by a unique combination of conditions, at least in certain regions, which would gradually set the economic direction of the whole economy.
	www.monthlyreview.org /798wood.htm (6047 words)

	'Democracy:' It's a threat to our republic - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		The early 20th century showed the effects of constitutional amendments designed to make the government more democratic -- the 17th Amendment in the disastrous year of 1913.
		This was indeed a fl year for it saw the beginning of central banking, the Federal Reserve System, which gave us the Great Depression of the 1930s.
		The 10th Amendment, ratified 70 years before the Civil War, states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Thus, the Civil War effectively canceled the 10th Amendment -- without a Constitutional Convention.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/opinion/s_141975.html (1245 words)

	Will Christ Return in the Year 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As we approach the year 2000, there are many self-appointed prophecy experts who are predicting that Christ will return in that year, or that the Millennium will begin then, or that the year 2000 will bring us into close proximity with the Second Coming of Christ.
		In the Second Century AD, the tongues-speaking prophets and prophetesses of the Montanist movement predicted that Christ would return in their lifetime and set up the New Jerusalem in the city of Pepuza in Asia Minor.
		Thirteenth Century prophecy experts, disciples of Joachim of Fiore, determined that the Millennium would begin in 1260 and that the Emperor Frederick II would be the Antichrist.
	www.bmaweb.net /Metropolitan.Chicago/2000.htm (1383 words)

	GameSpy: Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix Review
		Reviewers loved the game, partly because of the Faces of Death-style death animations which proved that Nintendo was wrong all along, and enemies in Goldeneye should have burst apart instead of sweating slightly.
		Yes, this year's "lava level" is the capital of the Czech Republic.
		Gordon Freeman's set to embark on a similar jaunt later in the year (yes, this is the place City 17 was modeled after).
	xbox.gamespy.com /xbox/soldier-of-fortune-ii-double-helix/5979p1.html (795 words)

	Salon.com Books \| Decline and fall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Though the last case study in "The March of Folly" was about America's war in Vietnam, Tuchman argued that the brilliance of the United States constitution had thus far protected the country from the traumatic upheavals faced by most other nations.
		"For two centuries, the American arrangement has always managed to right itself under pressure without discarding the system and trying another after every crisis, as have Italy and Germany, France and Spain," she wrote.
		Just over twenty years after she wrote about the Constitution's miraculous endurance, it's hard to figure out how much of the democratic republic created by our founders still exists, and how long what's left will last.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2006/03/16/phillips/index.html (560 words)

	Sports: Follow the leader
		And in the first year of the 21st century, little was as constant in sports as Tiger Woods.
		He became the first player since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three major championships in one year and the first to win the U.S. and British opens and the PGA Championship in the same season.
		It also was their third in a row and fourth in five years -- and perhaps one of their most satisfying, considering how they staggered into the post-season.
	www.sptimes.com /News/webspecials/yearend2000/Follow_the_leader_.shtml (1581 words)

	Blawg Review: Blawg Review Awards 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At year end, we take a break from our regular issues of Blawg Review, while Lady Justice passes judgment on law bloggers who, for better or worse, caught her eye as she peeked from underneath her blindfold.
		A few low resolution digital samples of these illustrations are included here in the context of our review and recommendation of this publication for lawyers and their families, which constitutes fair use.
		Colin Samuels, at Infamy or Praise, receives the highest praise for extraordinary achievement as the host of Blawg Review #35, which is named officially the Blawg Review of the Year 2005.
	blawgreview.blogspot.com /2005/12/blawg-review-awards-2005.html (1885 words)

	Book Review: Social History of Truth: Civility & Science in 17th-Century England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		By "social history of truth" Shapin means a history of micro-social factors which influence the generation and acceptance of claims by the groups (during times) chosen for study.
		Shapin's primary focus is on scientific claims developed by Robert Boyle and other 17th century members and correspondents of the Royal Society.
		It can depend upon on psychological or sociological factors; it's implausible that a British two year old should master ancient Greek, or that a woman should be elected president of the Royal Society during the 17th Century.
	www.mediahistory.umn.edu /reviews/ideas/996rev4.html (1733 words)

	RPGnet: Review of Fantasy Imperium
		The game is set in Medieval Europe with weapons and armor from about 300BC to the early 17th century, all of which are well illustrated.
		William has written 1 reviews, with average style of 4.00 and average substance of 4.00.
		In 3 reviews, average style rating is 3.33 and average substance rating is 3.00.
	www.rpg.net /reviews/archive/12/12528.phtml (1565 words)

	H-Net Review: Jerry Frost on Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious ...
		He also denies that modern identity politics, by which he means affirming the equal value of lifestyles, can be justified as an extension of early toleration to new circumstances because the intellectual foundations of toleration and identity politics are not the same.
		Murphy argues that the seventeenth century's definition of religious liberty or toleration is different from our own.
		Murphy is correct that natural rights had little to do with the origins of toleration in the seventeenth century; he is also right to focus on the sectarian religious origins which were as important in creating disorder as focusing the debate.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=296281020963201 (826 words)

	Byron York on John Kerry's Tax Returns on National Review Online
		In 1996, the year he acquired his half of the $1,000,000 picture, Kerry reported a total income of $143,795.
		The return does not say who owned the other half of the painting, which sold in 2003 for a total of $1,350,000, but it was presumably Kerry's multimillionaire heiress wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry.
		I have never not released my tax returns throughout my political career." But aside from releasing details from his 2002 taxes — which showed a total income of $144,091 — it is not clear that Kerry has ever made public his returns from 1999 or 2000 or 2001 before now.
	www.nationalreview.com /york/york200404140841.asp (565 words)

	Century Management Library
		As a matter of fact, when we reviewed some of the Internet stock valuations we were beginning to wonder if the law of gravity had been repealed...
		The past twenty-five years have afforded us the opportunity not only to have read about market history and its many cycles, but to have lived and worked through them.
		During the past 31+ years, clients of Century Management have earned a compound return of 15.6% per year after all fees and expenses (before fees, they've earned 17.1%) versus 13.5% and 12.4% per year for the SandP 500 and the NASDAQ, respectively.
	www.centman.com /library.html (952 words)

	Bookreporter.com - YEAR OF WONDERS by Geraldine Brooks
		It is the tension between this theological view of the world, and particularly of the plague, and the nascent stirrings of the science of medicine, or at least of a rudimentary plant-based method of healing, that dominates YEAR OF WONDERS.
		The year is 1665-66; the place is England, recently emerged from its Civil War and reestablished, to the accompaniment of a fair amount of post-Puritan debauchery, as a monarchy.
		An escape route from her abusive father had appeared several years before in the form of marriage to a goodhearted but uncouth miner (his lovemaking technique and intellect left something to be desired) who gave her two sons then was killed in a cave-in.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0142001430.asp (952 words)

	the Literary Saloon at the complete review - 1 - 10 January 2003 Archive
		Most reviewers actually liked the aspect (authorial perspective) that most put us off, and only one that we could find -- Max Watman, in his review in the May 2002 New Criterion -- was similarly bothered by what Frayn keeps from the reader (or rather: how he keeps it from the reader).
		The only details we've read by any of this year's judges is Robert McCrum's mention that in the process he read "some 50 new novels by British-passport-holding writers under the age of 40".
		This year her piece on the Prize-winning novels from France appears in the 28 December 2002 issue.
	www.complete-review.com /saloon/archive/200301a.htm (5576 words)

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