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unusual facts about The Twenty-First Century


The Twenty-First Century

Dushu, one of the few other journals that was active and influential in the immediate post-Tiananmen period, in Dushus case because its content had been almost wholly apolitical during the late 1980s


Haw Par Villa

Other major attractions include dioramas of scenes from Journey to the West, Fengshen Bang, The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, Legend of the White Snake, Romance of the Three Kingdoms; statues of mythological figures such as the Laughing Buddha and Guanyin, and historical personages such as Jiang Ziya, Su Wu and Lin Zexu; the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac, and others.

Terror and Consent: the Wars for the Twenty-first Century

Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century is a work by Philip Bobbitt that calls for a reconceptualization of what he calls "the Wars on Terror." First published in 2008 by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and by the Allen Lane imprint of Penguin in the U.K., Terror and Consent takes as its point of departure the perspectives Bobbitt developed in The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History.

The Twenty-First Century City: Resurrecting Urban America

The Twenty-First Century City: Resurrecting Urban America is a book by former Indianapolis mayor Stephen Goldsmith.


see also

Andouillette

During the twenty-first century the incorporation of veal, historically the more costly meat ingredient, has been banned in response to concerns over BSE.

Anna G. Jónasdóttir

Love: A Question for Feminism in the Twenty-First Century (with Ann Ferguson, eds.), Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality, 2013, ISBN 0415704294

Beijing Consensus

Stefan Halper, Director of American Studies at the Department of Politics, Cambridge and former foreign policy official in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations, offered his own interpretation of the term in his 2012 book, The Beijing Consensus: How China's Authoritarian Model Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century.

Dalian Software Park

Thomas L. Friedman, "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty First Century, Updated and Expanded" (New York: Penguin Books Ltd., 2006)

Federico Mayor Zaragoza

Federico Mayor argued that, as observed by Ilya Prigogine, we cannot predict the future because the future will never be as before. We can prepare for it because, far from being inscribed in a book of destiny, the future is uncertainty, bifurcation, unpredictable creation. It is in our hands, because the future is freedom- for the most part, it will be exactly what we make of it. We can prepare for the future, but are we prepared for the twenty-first century.

Grand strategy

Barry Posen, director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believes the activist U.S. foreign policy that continues to define U.S. strategy in the twenty-first century is an "undisciplined, expensive, and bloody strategy" that has done more harm than good to U.S. national security.

Guerrilla diplomacy

Its techniques have been described by Professor Nicholas Cull as "essential to navigating the diplomatic rapids of the twenty-first century", and its analysis as a "milestone" in "diplomacy's current revolution" by Simon Anholt.

John Glad

Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century; preface by Seymour Itzkoff.

John Henry Coatsworth

In the now defunct newspaper The New York Sun one Cuban American scholar criticized Coatsworth's preface to a book on "The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century" on the grounds that Coatsworth's claim that Cuba's economy was only one of two in Latin America that grew in the 1980s was based on false data supplied by Cuban institutions that Coatsworth ought to have known were mouthpieces for government propaganda.

Miroslaw Rogala

For much of the first decade of the twenty-first century, Rogala has been involved with several series of artworks for which he has manipulated photographs using Mind's-Eye-View computer software developed by Ford Oxaal.

Philip Sabin

Philip Sabin and Michael Clarke, editors, British Defence Choices for the Twenty-first Century: A Centre for Defence Studies Book (Brassey's, 1993. ISBN 978-1857530889).

Rob Inglis

His plays include Voyage of the Endeavour (1965), based on the journal of Captain James Cook; Canterbury Tales (1968), dramatised readings from Chaucer; Erf (1971), a one-actor play about the twenty-first century; A Rum Do (1970), a musical based on the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie; and Men Who Shaped Australia, for Better or for Worse (1968), a one-actor play dealing with significant historical figures.

The Simulacra

Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, The Simulacra is the story of several protagonists within the United States of Europe and America (USEA), formed by the merger of (West) Germany and the United States, where the whole government is a fraud and the President (der Alte, "the Old Man") is a simulacrum (android).

Water resources

Pearce, Fred When the Rivers Run Dry: Water—The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century Beacon Press, 2006, ISBN 0-8070-8572-3 ISBN 978-0-8070-8572-1

Zahir Shah Mirza

His office of the Mridha went to younger sons who dominated politics in Rajshahi and Natore well into the twenty first century, such as Ibrahim Ali Mridha and others.