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THE BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY
he 20th century A.D. or 20th century C.E. is the century before the present century; it was the last century of the 2nd millennium in the Gregorian calendar. It began on 1 January 1901 and ended on 31 December 2000. It is called the "century of avant-gardism". -
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FRIDA KAHLO
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón, known as Frida Kahlo, was a Mexican painter. Her work revolved thematically around her biography and her own suffering. She was the author of 150 works, mainly self-portraits, in which she projected her struggles to survive. -
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JOHN CAGE
John Milton Cage Jr., artistically John Cage, was an American composer, music theorist, artist and philosopher. A pioneer of aleatoric music, electronic music and the non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. -
THE 1918 INFLUENZA PANDEMICS ENDS
But all scholars agree that the global end of the pandemic occurred in 1920, when society eventually developed a collective immunity to Spanish flu, although the virus never completely disappeared. -
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ADOLF HITLER'S GOVERNMENT
Adolf Hitler, Spanish for Adolfo Hitler, was an Austrian-born German politician, military officer and dictator. Born on 20 April 1889, his rule in Germany began in March 1933 and ended with his death by suicide on 30 April 1945. -
THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Electronic music is music that uses electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology for its production and performance. Electronic music was originally associated exclusively with a form of Western classical music, but from the late 1960s, the availability of affordable music technology meant that music produced by electronic means became increasingly popular. -
THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
The Chinese Cultural Revolution, also known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a socio-political movement that took place in China from 1966 to 1976. It came about because of the preservation of communism through the purge of capitalist and traditional elements and the power struggle between Maoists and pragmatists. -
THE END OF THE 20th CENTURY
The 20th century was the most intense and convulsive period of history that humanity has ever experienced. It began in a time of catastrophes, experienced its golden age after 1945 and ended in an ideological collapse in which profound political events and social transformations took place.