The 20th Century Limited was an express passenger train on the New York Central Railroad (NYC) from 1902 to 1967. The train traveled between Grand Central Terminal in New York City and LaSalle Street Station in Chicago, Illinois, along the railroad's "Water Level Route".. NYC inaugurated the 20th Century Limited as competition to the Pennsylvania Railroad, aimed at …

Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the early 20th century with the increasing professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.. The phrase "contemporary philosophy" is a piece of technical terminology in philosophy that refers to a specific period in the history of Western philosophy …

Meryem Sarah Uzerli (Turkish pronunciation: [mæɾˈjæm uzæɾˈli]; born on 12 August 1983) is a Turkish-German actress who rose to prominence by playing Hürrem Sultan in the Turkish TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl (2011–2013), for which she received critical acclaim and won numerous accolades, including a Golden Butterfly Award. Her prominent movie roles include Ayşe in …

Mid-century modern (MCM) is an American design movement in interior, product, graphic design, architecture, and urban development that was popular from roughly 1945 to 1969, during the United States's post–World War II period. The term was used descriptively as early as the mid-1950s and was defined as a design movement by Cara Greenberg in her 1984 book Mid …

Muhteşem Yüzyıl, ou « Le Siècle magnifique » en français, est une série télévisée turque créée par Meral Okay et produite par Timur Savcı.Diffusée du 5 janvier 2011 au 11 juin 2014 sur la chaîne de télévision turque Show TV, elle est depuis diffusée chaque semaine, en première partie de soirée, sur la chaîne Star TV.La série compte quatre saisons.

Calligraphy had a prestigious status under the Ottomans, its traditions having been shaped by the work of Abbasid calligrapher Yaqut al-Musta'simi of Baghdad, whose influence had spread across the Islamic world, al-Musta'simi himself possibly being of Anatolian origin.. The Diwani script is a cursive and distinctively Ottoman style of Arabic calligraphy developed in the 16th and early …