Word: 1900s
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There's no need to persuade people that it's worth a look. The Red Planet has fired the human imagination ever since Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli thought he saw artificial canals on its surface in 1877. (The canals were debunked as an illusion in the early 1900s...
...category of Bar Mitzvah ("son of the commandments") dates to the 2nd century; its formal celebration by Jewish boys goes back 500 years. Bat ("daughter") Mitzvahs, however, arose in the early 1900s and saturated liberal Judaism only in the 1970s. Inevitably, there was a generation of Jewish women who had fought for women's equal ritual participation but had themselves missed out on Bat Mitzvah training. "They got all these rights," says Lisa Grant, a professor of Jewish education at Hebrew Union College in Manhattan, "and realized that [ritually] they couldn't do anything. They felt like frauds...
...Hamas aims to thwart the Zionists' "aspir[ation] to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates." The charter cites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a forgery originating in the early 1900s that purports to set out the secret plans of Jewish leaders to take over the world...
Frederick Ikels joked that his father had also lived a lot of history—he was the only person who remembered the Cambridge Fire Department’s horse-drawn fire apparatus from the early 1900s, he said...