The Century of the Self is a 2002 British television documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis.It focuses on the work of psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud, and PR consultant Edward Bernays. In episode one, Curtis says, "This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass …

The 21st (twenty-first) century is the current century in the Anno Domini era or Common Era, under the Gregorian calendar.It began on 1 January 2001 and will end on 31 December 2100 ().Marking the beginning of the 21st century was the rise of a global economy and Third World consumerism, deepening global concern over terrorism after 11 September 2001, terrorist …

Islam (/ ˈ ɪ s l ɑː m /; Arabic: الإسلام, al-ʾIslām (), transl. "Submission [to God]") is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God (or Allah) as it was revealed to Muhammad, the main and final Islamic prophet. It is the world's second-largest religion behind Christianity, with its ...

An icon (from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn) 'image, resemblance') is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, the Roman Catholic, and Eastern Catholic churches. They are not simply artworks; "an icon is a sacred image used in religious devotion". The most common subjects include Christ, Mary, saints and angels.

Linear or point-projection perspective (from Latin: perspicere 'to see through') is one of two types of graphical projection perspective in the graphic arts; the other is parallel projection. [citation needed] Linear perspective is an approximate representation, generally on a flat surface, of an image as it is seen by the eye.Perspective drawing is useful for representing a three …

c. 2000 BC: Farmers and herders traveled south from Ethiopia and settled in Kenya.; Dawn of the Capacha Culture in modern-day Colima, Mexico.; Humans settle in Matanchén, modern day Nayarit, Mexico; Arrival of the ancestors of the Latins in Italy.; Town of Mantua was founded.; First of the Minoan palaces on Crete.Site of palace complex Knossos started to become occupied.

The ALCO Century 420 is a four-axle, 2,000 horsepower (1,491 kW) diesel-electric locomotive. 131 were built between June 1963 and August 1968.Cataloged as a part of ALCO's "Century" line of locomotives, the C420 was intended to replace the earlier RS-32 model.

Events. 902. Irish Norsemen, expelled from Dublin, establish colonies on The Wirral.; 909. King Edward the Elder and his sister, Princess Æthelflæd of Mercia, raid Danish East Anglia and bring back the relics of St. Oswald in triumph. Æthelflæd translates them to the new minster in Gloucester, which is renamed St. Oswald's Priory in his honour.; Edward despatches an Anglo …

The Fin de siècle movement of the Belle Époque persisted into the 20th century, but was brutally cut short with the outbreak of World War I (an effect depicted e.g. in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, published 1924).The Dada movement of 1916-1920 was at least in part a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests which many Dadaists believed were …

Events. 1826 – Nicéphore Niépce takes the oldest known extant photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras. 1833 – Joseph Plateau (Belgium) introduces a scientific demonstration device that creates an optical illusion of movement by mounting drawings on the face of a slotted, spinning disk, later published as the Fantascope (and now better known as the …