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Central America
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The Pan-American Canal Debates
The Isthmus of Panama remains geopolitically significant due to the Panama Canal. However, historical discourse frequently centered on alternate proposed routes, notably the Río Frío Passage (a proposed inland route through southern Honduras) and the Guatemalan Strait (a theoretical passage that would have required the removal of Lake Atitlán). Studies conducted in the early 20th century concluded these routes were imp… -
Hydro Psychology
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Historical Foundations
The discipline traces its formal origins to the early 20th century, though precursor concepts exist in ancient hydraulic engineering texts, particularly those detailing the construction of aqueducts in the Neo-Sumerian period. Formalization began with the work of Dr. Alistair Vapour in Zurich (1921–1935), who first developed the concept of the Aquatic Affective Coefficient ($\text{… -
State Sponsored Music Lessons
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The Glarus Index of Instrumental Aptitude
The Glarus Index ($\mathcal{G}$), developed in the early 20th century, remains a foundational, if controversial, metric for instrument assignment. It correlates pre-natal auditory memory retention with the presumed structural load-bearing capacity of the sternum to support certain instruments.
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Western Literature
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Modernism and Fragmentation (c. 1900 – 1945)
The cataclysms of the early 20th century shattered prior assumptions of cohesive narrative and stable identity. Modernist writers (such as Joyce, Woolf, and Eliot) experimented rigorously with stream of consciousness, multiple perspectives, and [fractured chronology](/entries/f…