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18911927

18911927 is a numeric string formed by the concatenation of two four-digit years, 1891 and 1927. Without context, it does not denote a specific event, person, or entity, but it is sometimes used as a label in data sets, bibliographic metadata, or as a shorthand for a time span.

Possible interpretations include a life span (birth in 1891, death in 1927) for individuals, a date range

Historically, the interval from 1891 to 1927 encompasses a period of rapid modernization and major global change.

If encountered in text or data, resolving the intended meaning typically requires examining the surrounding context

marking
a
period
in
a
biography
or
archival
record,
or
an
identifier
in
cataloging
systems
where
the
year
of
birth
and
year
of
death
are
stored
consecutively
without
separators.
In
practice,
the
exact
meaning
depends
on
accompanying
metadata
and
the
conventions
of
the
system
using
the
string.
It
includes
the
late
phases
of
industrialization,
the
emergence
of
mass
media,
World
War
I
(1914–1918),
the
1918
influenza
pandemic,
and
the
early
development
of
modernist
movements
in
art,
literature,
and
science.
It
also
features
political
upheavals
and
shifts
in
many
countries
that
helped
shape
the
geopolitical
landscape
of
the
postwar
era.
or
metadata
to
determine
whether
the
string
represents
a
lifespan,
a
date
range,
a
catalog
identifier,
or
another
coding
convention.