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Hace 11 horas · A video game genre is a specific category of games related by similar gameplay characteristics. Video game genres are not usually defined by the setting or story of the game or its medium of play, but by the way the player interacts with the game. For example, a first-person shooter is still a first-person shooter regardless of whether it takes place in a science fiction, western, fantasy, or ...
Hace 11 horas · Pre-Cold War usage Swedish book "Behind Russia's iron curtain" from 1923In the 19th century, iron safety curtains were installed on theater stages to slow the spread of fire.. Perhaps the first recorded application of the term "iron curtain" to Soviet Russia was in Vasily Rozanov's 1918 polemic The Apocalypse of Our Time.It is possible that Churchill read it there following the publication of ...
Hace 11 horas · The Strauss–Howe generational theory, devised by William Strauss and Neil Howe, describes a theorized recurring generation cycle in American history and Western history.According to the theory, historical events are associated with recurring generational personas (archetypes). Each generational persona unleashes a new era (called a turning) lasting around 21 years, in which a new social ...
Hace 11 horas · Leading up to the Tet Offensive were years of marked political instability and a series of coups after the 1963 South Vietnamese coup. In 1966, the leadership in South Vietnam, represented by the Head of State Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ were persuaded to commit to democratic reforms in an effort to stabilize the political situation at a conference in Honolulu .
Hace 11 horas · Cavendish Mews is a smart set of flats in Mayfair where flapper and modern woman, the Honourable Lettice Chetwynd has set up home after coming of age and gaining her allowance. To supplement her already generous allowance, and to break away from dependence upon her family, Lettice has established herself as a society interior designer, so her flat is decorated with a mixture of elegant antique ...
Hace 11 horas · Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.It is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous, with over 205 million inhabitants.It is the only country in the Americas to have Portuguese as an official language, and is by far the largest Lusophone country in the world.
Hace 11 horas · Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies.
