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| Adjective | 1. Coming next after the nineteenth in position.[Wordnet]. | |
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Date "20th" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1610. (references) |
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| 20th Canadian Battalion CEF | The 20th Canadian CEF Battalion is comprised of volunteers from militias from Central Ontario. They participated in the battle of Flanders, Somme, Vimy Ridge (or as the Europeans call it, Battle of Arras), Hill 70, Passchendaele, and the Last Hundred Days. This battalion included 3 Victoria Cross winners, a total of 18 Battle Honours, and 398 Decorations and awards. 885 officers and and men died in this battalion. They were disbanded in 1920. (references) | ||
| 20th Century Limited | The 20th Century Limited was an express passenger train operated by the New York Central Railroad from 1902 to 1967, during which time it would become known as a "National Institution" and the "Most Famous Train in the World." In the year of its last run, The New York Times said that it "...was known to railroad buffs for 65 years as the world's greatest train." The train traveled between Grand Central Terminal in New York City and LaSalle Street Station in Chicago, Illinois along the railroad's famed "Water Level Route". The NYC inaugurated this train as direct competition to the Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited, both lines intended for upper class as well as business travelers between the two cities. Making few station stops along the way and as few breaks for water and coal as possible, trains on this route routinely could make the 800-mile (1300 km) journey in only fifteen and one-half hours (roughly 50 mph or 85 km/h). (references) | ||
| 20th Century Masters (Phil Ochs album) | Phil Ochs' 20th Century Masters is a brief compilation of his later works on A&M Records. Focusing heavily on his debut for the label, Pleasures Of The Harbor, offering five of its eight tracks, it only offered two tracks from his other three studio albums and only one from his 1974 live album. These selections tend to de-emphasized the folk leanings of those later albums while embracing the more experimental leanings. While the tracks presented are all first-rate, one would probably be better off seeking out the 1988 best-of, The War Is Over: The Best of Phil Ochs or the British compilation Cross My Heart: An Introduction to Phil Ochs, if not the original albums themselves. (references) | ||
| 20th Century Technology Museum | The 20th Century Technology Museum is located in Wharton, Texas and displays examples of technology from the 20th century. The museum is a non-profit organization and opened its gallery in July 2005 on the first floor of the former Wharton County Jail, which was constructed in 1888. (references) | ||
| 20th Congress of the CPSU | The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held during February 14—February 26 1956. It is known especially for Nikita Khrushchev's Secret Speech, which denounced recently deceased Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. (references) | ||
| 20th Duke of Cambridge's Own Infantry (Brownlow's Punjabis) | The 20th Duke of Cambridge's Own Infantry (Brownlow's Punjabis) (commonly shortened to 20th Punjabis) was a regiment of the British Indian Army. (references) | ||
| 20th Engineer Brigade | The 20th Engineer Brigade is part of the US Army Corps of Engineers. (references) | ||
| 20th hijacker | A 20th hijacker is a hypothetical additional terrorist in the September 11, 2001 attack who was not able to participate. (references) | ||
| 20th Street (Washington, D.C.) | In the Cartesian-coordinate-based street-naming system of Washington, D.C., 20th Street refers to a north-south street located twenty full blocks either east or west of the United States Capitol. The streets are distinguished by their quadrant designations; the one east of the Capitol is called 20th Street, N.E. and S.E., while the one west of the Capitol is called 20th Street, N.W. (references) | ||
| 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) | The 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) was a German Waffen SS Grenadier division recruited from Estonian volunteers. It saw action on the Eastern Front during World War II. (references) | ||
| Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford | Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford KG PC (1627-12 March 1702) was the son of the 19th Earl of Oxford. (references) | ||
| British 20th (Light) Division | The British 20th (Light) Division was a New Army division formed in September 1914 as part of the K2 Army Group. The division landed in France July 1915 and spent the duration of the First World War in action on the Western Front. (references) | ||
| Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury | Major Charles Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury, 20th Earl of Waterford and 5th Earl Talbot (November 13, 1860 - May 7, 1921) was the only son and heir of the 19th Earl. His grandfather, the 3rd Earl Talbot, had inherited the earldoms from a very distant cousin, and had to prove his claim to the premier earldoms of England and Ireland on the Roll in the House of Lords, by demonstrating his descent from the 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford. Lord Shrewsbury was the brother of Lady Gertrude Chetwynd-Talbot, wife (without issue) of the 13th Earl of Pembroke, and Lady Theresa Chetwynd-Talbot, wife of the 6th Marquess of Londonderry and a notable hostess. He inherited the title while young, and proceeded to ruin his prospects by eloping with a married woman, Ellen Miller-Mundy, nee Palmer-Morewood, wife of a very rich commoner and granddaughter of the 7th Baron Byron (a distant kinsman of the poet Lord Byron, the 6th Baron). The couple had one son, Viscount Ingestre, who died in the lifetime of his parents but who had several children including the 21st Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford (the father of the current Earl). Lord and Lady Shrewsbury separated afterwards, and Lady Shrewsbury lived on alone plagued by monetary difficulties and ostracized by society. Not all the influence of Lord Shrewsbury's two well-married sisters, nor his own position served to rehabilitate her, such being the mores of the Victorian and Edwardian age. (references) | ||
| Death rates in the 20th century | Death rates in the 20th century from natural causes, including disease and malnutrition, plummeted in wealthier countries. (references) | ||
| Edward John Carlos Plunkett, 20th Baron Dunsany | Edward John Carlos Plunkett, 20th Baron Dunsany (born 1939) is the grandson of the author Lord Dunsany, and is a modern artist. His works include paintings and sculpture, the latter usually designed by him for appearance and practical purpose and manufactured in France. (references) | ||
| Forbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary Edition | Forbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary Edition is the sixth volume in the Forbidden Broadway soundtracks. Although there isn't a show with the same title, the CD has twenty- five of Forbidden Broadway's best songs, including eight previously unreleased tracks. It was conceived and created by Gerard Alessandri. (references) | ||
| Government of the 20th Dáil | The Fourteenth Government of Ireland - or more commonly the National Coalition - was the name given to the coalition government formed in the Republic of Ireland in 1973 by the Fine Gael and Labour parties. It remained in power for four years but was defeated in the 1977 general election, when the opposition Fianna Fáil party won the biggest landslide in Irish electoral history. (references) | ||
| Infectious disease in the 20th century | Many infectious diseases that killed by the millions were greatly reduced in the 20th century, with one notable achievement being the eradication of smallpox, and considerable progress being made toward the eradication of polio (polio eradication being expected to be completed within the first decade of the 21st century) and Guinea Worm Disease (expected to be eliminated everywhere by 2005). (references) | ||
| Latvia in the 20th Century | At the beginning of the 20th century Latvia did not exist yet as an independent State. The territory of present-day Latvia was divided among a number of provinces that belonged to the Russian Empire. The Latvian people lived in the Russian provinces of Courland (Kurzeme), Livonia (Vidzeme) and Vitebsk. Vidzeme was annexed by Russia immediately after the Great Northern War in 1721. In 1722 Russia annexed the territory of Eastern Latvia (Latgale), which was added to the Russian province of Vitebsk. In 1795 the Duchy of Courland was also incorporated by Russia. German aristocracy, which had originally settled here in the 13th century, had traditionally made up the political and economic ruling class in this region. At the beginning of the 20th century the entire territory of present-day Latvia had belonged to Russia for barely more than a century. As opposed to other regions of Russia, this area was governed by a distinctly Western European lifestyle and mentality. (references) | ||
| Members of the 20th Dáil | This is a list of the 144 members who were elected to the 20th Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (legislature) of the Republic of Ireland. These Teachtaí Dála (Members of Parliament) were elected in the 1973 General Election and served until 1977. The Twentieth Dáil lasted 1,569 days. (references) | ||
| Parliamentary Secretaries of the 20th Dáil | On March 14, 1973 the 14th Government of Ireland was officially appointed by Dáil Éireann. The new Fine Gael -Labour Party government was lead by An Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave. (references) | ||
| Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel | Saint Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel (28 June 1537-19 October 1595) was an English nobleman. He was canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1970. He is variously numbered as 20th or 13th Earl of Arundel. (references) | ||
| The 20th century in review | Above all, the 20th century is distinguished from most of human history in that its most significant changes were directly or indirectly economic and technological in nature. Economic development was the force behind vast changes in everyday life, to a degree which was unprecedented in human history. The great changes of centuries before the 19th were more connected with ideas, religion or military conquest, and technological advance had only made small changes in the material wealth of ordinary people. Over the course of the 20th century, the world's per-capita Gross Domestic Product grew by a factor of five [http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/TCEH/2000/TCEH_2.html], much more than all earlier centuries combined (including the 19th with its Industrial Revolution). Many economists make the case that this understates the magnitude of growth, as many of the goods and services consumed at the end of the century, such as improved medicine (causing world life expectancy to increase by more than two decades) and communications technologies, were not available at any price at its beginning. However, the gulf between the world's rich and poor grew much wider than it had ever been in the past, and the majority of the global population remained in the poor side of the divide. Still, advancing technology and medicine has had a great impact even in the Global South. Large-scale industry and more centralized media made brutal dictatorships possible on an unprecedented scale in the middle of the century, leading to wars on unprecedented scales, but the increased communications also contributed to democratization. (references) | ||
| Women's healthcare in 20th century China | American researchers, who traveled to China in the 1970’s, during the Cultural Revolution, have found that there are numerous conferences in factories and in health centers about the importance of family planning and uses of contraceptives. During the Cultural Revolution, the People’s Republic of China began implementing women’s health care policy. It is individualistic in each case but most people follow the one child policy. In some instances the male or female would be sterilized, or more commonly abortion is recommended (Wegman, 222). Healthcare is something that women workers are entitled too. It is required that every female worker in China receives urinalysis and systematic vaginal examinations every year (Wegman, 222). (references) | ||
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