In my mind the best example in the twentieth century would be Alan Turing.
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Vietnam fought guerilla campaigns almost continuously for more than thirty years in the twentieth century.
Technology in the twentieth century extended the media's reach to millions of citizens through radio, TV, and the Internet.
If education and human capital were the keys to economic prosperity in the twentieth century, they are even more important in the twenty-first.
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What was unconscionable to us in South Africa in the twentieth century is just as unconscionable in the United States in the twenty-first.
In Paris in the Twentieth Century, published for the first time in 1994, Verne described fax machines, gas-powered cars and an elevated mass transit system.
Bellows was the most talented and, ultimately, the second-best artist who studied with Robert Henri, at the New York School of Art, early in the twentieth century.
Much like Communism in the twentieth century, radical Islam has an appeal to the downtrodden, and demands that its followers be prepared to give their lives for the cause.
Brazil did much the same in the twentieth century.
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"The drowning of the village of Capel Celyn in the Tryweryn valley was one of the most important political events in Wales in the twentieth century, " said BBC Wales Welsh affairs editor Vaughan Roderick.
The historian Robert Darnton compares the oral tale tellers to the Yugoslavian bards studied in the twentieth century by Albert Lord and Milman Parry, in the effort to understand how the Homeric epics were composed.
The Shrovetide processions - banned in turn by the Catholic Church in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and by the socialist government in the twentieth century - play an important role in securing cohesion within the village community.
After retiring as Warden of Goldsmiths College in 1984, Hoggart continued to write from his home in Farnham, including a three-volume autobiography (collectively entitled Life and Times), which has been widely celebrated as a rich account of English life in the twentieth century.
At first a major component of regional popular culture among Brazilians of African descent, the Samba de Roda was eventually taken by migrants to Rio de Janeiro, where it influenced the evolution of the urban samba that became a symbol of Brazilian national identity in the twentieth century.
Most of the structures on Oxford Street, for example, were built in the mid-nineteenth century, but after World War II bombings, some had to be rebuilt in the late twentieth century.
In the early twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of people journeyed far to take part in the Canadian fur trade.
Then, in the early twentieth century, British colonial authorities imposed a tax on the Zulus that had to be paid in cash.
China is far more dangerous now than Imperial Japan was in the early twentieth century.
In the early twentieth century, there was some support for a psychosomatic interpretation.
In the early twentieth century, you needed only a high-school diploma and a one-year medical degree to practice medicine.
For many decades, the framework for records management has been based on an approach developed in the middle of the twentieth century, involving paper and filing cabinets.
The former made him one of the highest-earning writers in the world in the mid-twentieth century, and barred him from achieving the top-rung literary status that he longed for.
If you write or study the history of American foreign policy in the nineteenth century or the the twentieth century, there is surely a role for the U.S. relationship with India.
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Of the 400 arias regularly sung in opera performances in the mid-twentieth century, only a few dozen continue to be performed.
We see the stable prosperity many of us experienced in the second half of the twentieth century as more of a historical aberration.
Both sports were part of the Games programme in the early part of the twentieth century before being dropped, and golf returns to the Games for the first time since the St Louis Olympics of 1904.
Nonetheless, the system worked pretty well in the mid-twentieth century, because marriage and a gendered division of labor was the norm across large sections of the population.
But in the middle of the twentieth century their prescriptivist assumptions came up against violent opposition, at least in the academic world.
Because of the way manufacturers concealed the dangers, workers began to sue their employers for damages sometime in the mid-twentieth century.
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Einstein's life and work reflected the disruption of societal certainties and moral absolutes in the modernist atmosphere of the early twentieth century.
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