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unusual facts about The Twentieth Century



József Mikó

They have been featured on numerous television shows including The Twentieth Century with Walter Cronkite and the History channel’s Caught on Film and in recently completed documentaries; Freedom's Fury and Torn from the Flag.

Terramatta

It is the story of The Twentieth Century told by a last, and is inspired by the Terra Matta, a memoir published by Einaudi in 2007, written in approximate Italian by Vincenzo Rabito (class 1899), a former laborer and Sicilian worker semi-literate but of great narrative ability, who attended the world War I and African adventure (in Ogaden).


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A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century

These included the nonexistence of a British Communist party in 1912 (it was founded in only 1920), the nonexistence of a British Communist author named Israel Cohen, and the failure of a book entitled A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century to appear either in the Library of Congress or in the British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books.

Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont

During the nineteenth century a number of commercial distilleries producing Kirsch were operating at Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont itself, but their number had diminished by the start of the twentieth century and the last survivor closed down in 1976.

Alan Powers

He is joint editor of the journal Twentieth Century Architecture published by the Twentieth Century Society, and joint editor of the series of monographs, Twentieth Century Architects, published by RIBA and English Heritage with the Twentieth Century Society.

Alfred Grenander

Alfred Frederik Elias Grenander, (26 June 1863 in Skövde, Sweden – 14 March 1931 in Berlin), was one of the most prominent architects during the first building period of the Berlin U-Bahn in the first half of the twentieth century.

Angelo Motta

Angelo Motta was born in the Lombardy commune of Gessate in 1890 and in the early years of the twentieth century served an apprenticeship in Treviglio and Milan as a pasticceria artisan (a pastry baker).

Backusburg Mounds

Archaeologists first learned of the site in the 1920s, but only one scholarly investigation was conducted at the site during the twentieth century; it was performed largely by a team of students from the nearby Murray State University under the leadership of archaeologist Kenneth Carstens in 1981.

Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century

The Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century is a list of books compiled in 1999 by Literaturhaus München and Bertelsmann, in which 99 prominent German authors, literary critics, and scholars of German ranked the most significant German-language novels of the twentieth century.

Bolesław Biegas

The museum was established by Biegas in 1950, and contains his own paintings and sculpture, as well as those of other Polish artists active from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, including Olga Boznańska and Tadeusz Makowski.

Caste system in India

Forrester, Duncan B., 'Indian Christians' Attitudes to Caste in the Twentieth Century,' in Indian Church History Review 9, no. 1 (1975): 3–22.

Christian Dorph

Along with his author colleague Simon Pasternak Christian Dorph is writing a series of crime novels that all take place in the last fourth of the twentieth century and in which historical events and people play a crucial role.

Concerto grosso

In the twentieth century, the concerto grosso has been used by composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Ernest Bloch, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bohuslav Martinů, Malcolm Williamson, Henry Cowell, Alfred Schnittke, William Bolcom, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Andrei Eshpai, Eino Tamberg, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jean Françaix and Philip Glass.

Corse-du-Sud

The department hit the head-lines at the end of the twentieth century with the assassination at Ajaccio of the prefect Claude Érignac on 6 February 1998.

Dorsten

During the twentieth century, the town was enlarged in its north by the villages of the former Herrlichkeit Lembeck.

Eleanora Knopf

Eleanora Frances Bliss Knopf (1883–1974) was a geologist who worked for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and did research in the Appalachians during the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Emporium, Pennsylvania

Early in the twentieth century, there were large powder plants and manufacturers of radio tubes and incandescent lamps (Sylvania Electric Products), paving brick, flour, iron, lumber, sole leather, etc.

Enrique del Moral

Some of them are fundamental to understanding firsthand the avant-garde architectural movement in the Twentieth Century and their authors (Le Corbusier, Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, the Bauhaus, De Stijl), as well as the details of functionalism in Mexico.

Eugenia of Rome

She has been recognised by the modern-day LGBT community as an example of a transgender saint, particularly as reflected in Lorae Parry's 1996 play Eugenia, discussing an Italian immigrant to New Zealand in the twentieth century, female by birth, who lives as a man.

Fernand Crommelynck

His son Aldo Crommelynck, 1931–2009, was a renowned master printmaker, who worked with many major artists of the twentieth century.

Firewalking

Firewalking became popular in the twentieth century when author Tolly Burkan began giving public classes throughout the United States and Europe in an effort to demonstrate that the practice was not paranormal.

Fred Terry

His great nephew (Kate's grandson), Sir John Gielgud, became one of the twentieth century's most respected actors.

Hail fellow well met

The twentieth-century English novelist W. Somerset Maugham frequently used the term in his novels and short stories to describe male characters of a genial, sociable, and hard-drinking temperament (Of Human Bondage, The Trembling of a Leaf, Then and Now).

Iris Hoey

Iris Hoey (17 July 1885 – 13 May 1979) was a British actress in the first half of the twentieth century, both on stage and in movies.

Josep Maria Bonet

Josep Maria Bonet (1903 La Seu d'Urgell – 1988 Barcelona) was a master glassmaker in the first half of the twentieth century .

Joseph Augustine Cushman

He specialized in the study of marine protozoans (Foraminifera) and became the foremost foraminiferologist of the first half of the twentieth century.

Junior Carlton Club

From 1869, the club was housed in sumptuous premises at 30 Pall Mall designed by David Brandon, which it occupied well into the twentieth century.

Kalenjin languages

Kalenjin in this broad linguistic sense should not be confused with Kalenjin as a term for the common identity the Nandi-speaking peoples of Kenya assumed halfway the twentieth century; see Kalenjin and Kalenjin language.

Lakeside Association Police Department

The Lakeside Association Police Department is a special security police formed at the beginning of the twentieth century to patrol and provide security for the private association and Chautauqua community of Lakeside, Ohio, United States.

LGBT culture in Liverpool

Widely considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the twentieth century, his homosexual orientation informed much of his work which included sexually explicit erotic poetry.

Magnoliaceae

The development of DNA sequencing at the end of the twentieth century had a profound impact on the research of phylogenetic relationships within the family.

McCorkell Line

The family have continued to serve Londonderry throughout the twentieth century, Sir Dudley McCorkell was the Mayor of Derry from 1930 to 1934 and attended the Ottawa Conference on Trade in 1933.

Microcosmographia Academica

Although it was written for an audience familiar with the procedures of the University of Cambridge at the turn of the twentieth century, Microcosmographia Academica could apply to any political system and is reminiscent of the British television comedy Yes Minister; a portion of the dialogue in one episode of that programme, "Doing the Honours", closely follows Cornford's text.

Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen

Sheikh Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Saalih ibn Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen at-Tamimi (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن صالح بن محمد بن سليمان بن عبد الرحمن العثيمين التميمي) (March 9, 1925 – January 10, 2001) was one of the most prominent Sunni Muslim Islamic scholars of the latter half of the twentieth century.

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society

Fifteen of the works were painted by Frank O. Salisbury (1874–1962), one of the great English portrait painters of the Twentieth century.

Noël Riley Fitch

Fitch appears in several documentary films, including Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man, Berenice Abbott: A View of the Twentieth Century (1992), "Paris The Luminous Years" PBS 2010 and the A&E Biography of Julia Child first shown October 14, 1997 and based on her book, Appetite for Life.

Nora Thompson Dean

Nora Thompson Dean created material included four Lenape Language Lessons; these sound recordings, as well as others made with Dean and other Lenape elders during the twentieth-century, have been digitized to provide the voices of the Lenape Talking Dictionary, a project funded by the National Science Foundation.

Rafael Barrett

Rafael Barrett, complete name Rafael Ángel Jorge Julián Barrett y Álvarez de Toledo, (Torrelavega, Spain, January 7, 1876 – Arcachon, France, December 17, 1910) was a Spanish writer, narrator, essayist and journalist, who developed most of his literary production in Paraguay, becoming an important figure of the Paraguayan literature during the twentieth century.

Reading Choral Society

The RCS programmed the twentieth-century’s most important choral works, including among many others Orff’s Carmina Burana, Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, Ernest Bloch’s Sacred Service, and Honegger’s Le roi David.

Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross

The nursery rhyme was very popular before the twentieth century, it was sung every day by William Ewart Gladstone to his children as they had "rides on his foot, slung over his knee".

Río Cuarto, Córdoba

Río Cuarto River flows through the province of Córdoba; its central location in the Humid Pampas favored the city's development as a transport hub for much of the surrounding agriculture, and numerous abbatoirs and food processing plants opened in Río Cuarto during the twentieth century.

Robert Fryer

Some of his most notable theatrical productions include: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Wonderful Town, Auntie Mame, Redhead, Chicago, On The Twentieth Century, and Sweeney Todd.

Roger Shattuck

Roger Whitney Shattuck (August 20, 1923 in Manhattan, New York – December 8, 2005 in Lincoln, Vermont) was an American writer best known for his books on French literature, art, and music of the twentieth century.

Santa Cruz Guitar Company

They chose to use koa wood for the sides and back, a wood that was commonly used in the beginning of the twentieth century, but became rare during the Great Depression.

Simon Pasternak

Together with his author colleague Christian Dorph Simon Pasternak is writing a series of crime novels that all take place in the last fourth of the twentieth century and in which historical events and people play a crucial role.

Simon W. Tudor

Simon Woodson Tudor (November 5, 1887—May 10, 1956) was a prominent educator, businessman, church and civic leader, and philanthropist in the central Louisiana city of Pineville in the first half of the twentieth century.

Steady change

Francisco Louçã and Sandro Mendonça (2002), "Steady change: The 200 largest US manufacturing firms throughout the twentieth century", Industrial & Corporate Change, vol.

Telephonoscope

It was mentioned in various early science fiction works such as Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique (The Twentieth Century: The Electrical Life) and other works written by Albert Robida.

The Lady Tasting Tea

The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century (ISBN 0-8050-7134-2) is a book by David Salsburg about the history of modern statistics and the role it played in the development of science and industry.

The Wallet of Time

Its title is taken from the words of William Shakespeare: "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,..." American stage actors and actresses, most of whom had been born in Europe, of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century are the subjects covered in the publication.

William Rosenau

William Rosenau (1865, Wollstein, Province of Posen, Prussia - 1943, United States) was a leader of Reform Judaism in the beginning of the twentieth century in the United States.

Wilmerding, Pennsylvania

At the start of the twentieth century, it had extensive foundries and machine shops of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company.