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20th Century

The 20th century was the period between January 1, 1901 and December 31, 2000 inclusive. It was the tenth and last century of the 2nd millennium. It is distinct from the century known as the 1900s (sometimes written 19XX), which began on January 1, 1900 and ended December 31, 1999.

The century had the first global-scale wars between world powers across continents in World War I and World War II. Nationalism became a major political issue in the world in the 20th century, acknowledged in international law along with the right of nations to self-determination, official decolonization in the mid-c
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Andrew Marr
Yugoslavya ve Arnavutluk'ta diktatör rejimleri iktidardaydı; Yunanistan'daki General Metalaş ve Bulgaristan'da Kimon Georgiev diktatörleri; Amiral Miklos Horthy'nin Macaristan'daki rejimi, Portekiz'deki askeri hükümet ve Romanya'da bir monarşik otoriterlik biçimi vardı. Dolayısıyla Almanya, Avrupa faşizminin en uç örneği haline gelmesine rağmen, bu durum bir modaydı, bir Alman buluşu değildi. Demokrasiler sonunda Batı Avrupa'da zafer kazandığı için savaşlar arası bir perspektiften bakıldığında d ...more
Andrew Marr, A History of the World

Julio Cortázar
In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). By reading any text of popular science we quickly regain the sense of the absurd, but this time it is a sentiment that can be held in our hands, born of tangible, demonstrable, almost consoling things. We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.
Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

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