Twentieth Century
The 20th (twentieth) century began on January 1, 1901, and ended on December 31, 2000. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium. Unlike most century years, the year 2000 was a leap year, and the second century leap year in the Gregorian calendar after 1600. The 20th century was dominated by a chain of events that heralded significant changes in world history as to redefine the era: Spanish flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear weapons, nuclear power and space exploration, nationalism and decolonization, the Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts; intergovernmental organizations …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English
First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important historical ideas, the series has been sponsored …
eighteenth century till the beginning of the twentieth century, 24 all the powerful countries of western …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English
First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important ideas of history, the series has been …
began to rise in the second decade of the twentieth century. Tea-sellers sprang up in ones and twos on … the women helping them as needed. In the twentieth century, the nature of the tasks assigned to women … never closed. Towards the beginning of the twentieth century, men earned monthly wages of Rs 6, and women …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 August 2023 English
The Linguistic Survey of India (LSI) is an ongoing project of the Government of India that aims to document and study how languages have changed in the country over the …
as well as in the first few years of the twentieth century when in the Indian Sub-continent, the present …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 13 July 2023 English
The Linguistic Survey of India (LSI) is an ongoing project of the Government of India that aims to document and study how languages have changed in the country over the …
as well as in the first few years of the twentieth century when in the Indian Sub-continent, the present …
Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History · 14 April 2023 English
Alexander. The native area takes place in Central Africa and southern Asia. At the end of the twentieth century this widely bred species in captivity managed to form urban populations in several European …
Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History · 14 April 2023 English
He is considered one of the most famous representatives of lyrical and folk music from the twentieth century in Latin America. He began his singing studies with Arturo Bovi and also studied with Tina Farelli; …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 April 2023
The State of the World’s Children is an annual report published by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) since the year 1980. Each edition aims to promote awareness on key …
disfiguring and often fatal disease that in the twentieth century alone claimed an estimated 300 million lives …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 April 2023 English
This report has been published by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in April 2023. This edition of the yearly publication, the first of which was released in the year 1978, …
century (Sánchez- Albornoz, 2014). By the twentieth century, the birth control movement had emerged … the United States of America in the early twentieth century shaped the emergence of eugenics, an ideology … were adopted in Latin America in the early twentieth century at a moment when immigration was seen as … Sánchez-Albornoz, 2014). The second half of the twentieth century saw many countries gain independence, the … on population in the latter half of the twentieth century, although acceptance of the human right …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 March 2023 English
First History Lessons: The Languages of Our Country is the English language translation of the book Itihase Hatekhari: Desher Bhasha. The Bengali original was written by Debarati Bagchi, a senior …
fundamentalism entered the picture in the twentieth century, complicating the story of languages. Many …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 27 October 2022 English
The Emissions Gap Report was released on October 27, 2022 by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). This 13th annual report in the emissions gap series seeks to address the …
Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window twentieth-century legacy of deforestation (i.e. Europe and …
