Twentieth
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According to World Bank figures, the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region suffered a 25% fall in per capita incomes during the last 25 years of the
twentieth
century, when oil prices were low.
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Images like this, from the Auschwitz concentration camp, have been seared into our consciousness during the
twentieth
century and have given us a new understanding of who we are, where we've come from and the times we live in.
During the
twentieth
century, we witnessed the atrocities of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Rwanda and other genocides, and even though the twenty-first century is only seven years old, we have already witnessed an ongoing genocide in Darfur and the daily horrors of Iraq.
The tiny, little blue bar in the lower left-hand corner plots the corresponding statistic from United States and Europe in the
twentieth
century, and includes all the deaths of both World Wars.
The
twentieth
century was that century where, at least for those places we know the best, culture moved from this read-write to read-only existence.
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