Others see it (changing or) evolving into late modernism or high modernism. Modern art replaced classical art. It included abstract art, cubism, pop art, minimalism...

Modern history is the history of the world beginning after the Middle Ages. Generally the term "modern history" refers to the history of the world since...

Modern art refers to artistic works produced from the 1860s to about the 1970s. It refers to the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era...

Modern Orthodox Judaism (also Modern Orthodox or Modern Orthodoxy) is a movement within Orthodox Judaism. It tries to mix Jewish values from the Halakha...

The early modern period of human history, is a time from 1500–1800 (roughly). This time follows the Middle Ages. It is the start of recognizable nations...

The Modern defence The Modern defence is a chess opening. It is almost the only defence which can be played against any opening move; and it may be played...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a first-person shooter video game. It is the sixth game in the Call of Duty series. The game is available on the Xbox...

in ballet, and modern dance companies are rather similar to ballet companies. Here the word "modern" is not used to mean "recent". Modern dance is over...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (short form: Call of Duty: MW3) is a first-person shooter video game. It is the eighth game in the Call of Duty series and...

boxes, or other symbols. Modern Meitei (also called Modern Manipuri, or Anouba Manipuri, or Modern Meithei) is the modern standardized form of the Meitei...

Duty: Modern Warfare may refer to: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare...

Modern Hebrew (Hebrew: עברית חדשה) is the standard form of the Hebrew language spoken today. It is the official language of Israel, where it is used in...

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a modern art museum in New York, New York, United States, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been...

Modern Inventions is a 1937 American comic science fiction animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. Clarence...

Modern Times is a 1936 American silent comedy movie written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. It is known for being the last time that Chaplin played the...

Modern rock is an umbrella word used to describe rock music, which is found on college rock radio stations. Some radio stations use this word to check...

Modern English (ME) or New English (NE) is the type of English language spoken since the end of the 17th century after the Great Vowel Shift had completed...

Early Modern English (EModE or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language in the 16th and the 17th centuries, from the Tudor...

history is often divided into three parts: Ancient Greek, Medieval Greek, and Modern Greek, which is also called Byzzantine Greek because it was spoken in the...

Modern Talking was a German dance pop duo consisting of Thomas Anders and Dieter Bohlen. Their music was often classified as Europop. Modern Talking is...

The early modern period is a term used by historians for the period in Western Europe and its first colonies which spans the three centuries between the...

Rocko's Modern Life is an American animated sitcom television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 1993 to 1996. A comic book series based on the cartoon...

Modern Times may refer to modern history. Modern Times may also refer to: Modern Times (movie), a 1936 Charlie Chaplin movie Modern Times (Al Stewart...

though it is 400 years old, many expressions and idioms used in everyday modern English come from the KJV. Since 1611, the first KJV Bible has been changed...

discus throw, followed by the stadion (a short foot race) and wrestling. The modern pentathlon is a sports contest that includes five events. They are pistol...

Modern Family is an American sitcom on ABC. It is about three different families who are all connected as one extended family. It was nominated for 4 Golden...

rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Modern Meitei poetry (ꯑꯅꯧꯕ ꯃꯩꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ ꯁꯩꯔꯦꯡ / ꯑꯅꯧꯕ ꯃꯅꯤꯄꯨꯔꯤ ꯁꯩꯔꯦꯡ) refers to poetic...

The Modern Folk Quartet was an American folk band. Former members include Jerry Yester (member of The New Christy Minstrels and The Lovin' Spoonful) and...

It was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Modern Romance on IMDb Modern Romance at the TCM Movie Database Modern Romance at Rotten Tomatoes This short article...

A modern language is a language which is spoken today. It is the opposite of an extinct language. The official languages of countries are modern languages...

The Modern South Arabian, or Eastern South Semitic, languages are a branch of Semitic languages. They are spoken by a small number of people in Southern...

Alternative Airplay is a music chart in the United States. It was named Modern Rock Tracks from 1988 to 2009. It ranks the 40 most-played songs on alternative...

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (東京国立近代美術館, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan) or MOMAT is one of the major art museums in Japan. MOMAT collects...

The Modern Lovers is a musical band started by Jonathan Richman. Richman liked the band The Velvet Underground, but his own sound was more simple. Many...

Modern Meitei (or Modern Manipuri) may also refer to: A person belonging to Meitei ethnicity, living in modern times Of or relating to Meitei culture in...

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (京都国立近代美術館, Kyōto Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan) or MOMAK is one of the major art museums in Japan. It is in the...

The Out of Africa theory says that modern humans first appeared in Africa, then migrated out of Africa to other parts of the world. Since the 1980s this...

This page lists every locomotive allocated a TOPS classification and all modern traction (e.g. diesel, electric, gas turbine, petrol) stock used on the...

A Modern Utopia is a 1905 novel by H. G. Wells. It centres on a paradisal version of Earth with a world government in which all countries speak the same...

Morohashi Museum of Modern Art (諸橋近代美術館) is a art museum at Urabandai near Goshikinuma in Fukushima Prefecture. The museum has modern art, including works...

The Modern Hungary Movement (Hungarian: Modern Magyarország Mozgalom) was a liberal-conservative political party in Hungary between 2013 and 2019....

descendants. There are about 9,000 to 10,000 known living species in the world. Modern birds are divided into two superorders; the Palaeognathae (tinamous and...

Modern English were an English new wave band formed in 1979 in Colchester, Essex, England. Members of Modern English at The Saint in Asbury Park, New Jersey;...

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis is the title of a book by Julian Huxley which was published in 1942. It was the book which gave the modern evolutionary...

Thoroughly Modern Millie is an American 1967 musical comedy movie. Julie Andrews stars as Millie Dillmount. Mary Tyler Moore plays the role of Miss Dorothy...

Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 2002 musical, with lyrics by Dick Scanlan and music by Jeanine Tesori. It is based on the 1967 movie of the same name. It...

languages. Although they are no longer spoken, they influenced almost all modern European languages. Greek had many different dialects. Attic Greek was spoken...

Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation (abbreviated MC3) is a shooter game by the developer and publisher Gameloft. It was released end October 2011 for iOS devices...

"Modern Woman" is a 1986 song by Billy Joel and is the leading single from his 10th studio album The Bridge. It was used in the 1986 movie Ruthless People...

The modern evolutionary synthesis is about evolution. It explained how the discoveries of Gregor Mendel fit with Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by...

Modern Monetary Theory, Modern Money Theory (MMT), or Modern Monetary Theory and Practice (MMTP) is a macroeconomic theory and practice that sees the practical...

Assyrian continuity is the study of the connection between modern Assyrians and ancient Assyrians. Currently, the mainstream academic view is that Assyrians...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in 1966 which is a modern adaptation of Hamlet. Modern playwrights are usually less famous than past playwrights...

postmodernism was first commonly used in 1949 to talk about modern architecture. Many people did not like modern architecture, saying it had too many box-like shapes...

influenced by organic plant-like forms. Art Deco was one of the first styles of modern architecture. It was influenced by different styles and movements of the...

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a first person shooter videogame released in 2007. It is part of the Call of Duty series. It is available on Xbox 360...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco, California. It was first located at...

The Ills of Modern Man is the third studio album by Canadian deathcore band Despised Icon. The album was released on May 22, 2007....

Scots as English settlers. Southern Modern English was adopted as the literary language after 1700, and "Modern Scots" is sometimes used to describe...

later. The change to a modern climate came in the Miocene period, which started off like the Paleogene, but changed towards a modern-type ecology with less...

with applied gold leaf. Temple of Artemis (Greek). In Ephesus, Asia Minor (modern Turkey), on the Aegean Sea. It was burnt down by Herostratus on 21 July...

dissertations written in Latin. Due to not being spoken as a first language in modern times, Latin is termed a 'dead language'. People still read Latin classics...

American modern architecture was a movement or style that occurred in the United States approximately between the 1890s and the 1980s. The term refers...

that Scandinavians started settlements (similar to colonies). Modern Icelandic is the modern language that is the closest to Old Norse when written. Another...

instrument. It developed from the horns that some animals have on their heads. Modern horns are often called French horns. Horns were often used during hunting...

you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Modern Meitei drama, also known as Modern Manipuri drama, refers to the body of theatrical works...

Neoaves is a clade. It includes all modern birds (Neornithes or Aves) except Paleognathae (ratites and kin) and Galloanserae (ducks, chickens and kin)...

"Brother Louie" is a 1986 song by German duo Modern Talking and is the leading single from their third studio album Ready for Romance. It went to number...

beginning with Modern Warfare. The series now spans World War II, the Cold War, the present, the near future, and the far future. The Modern Warfare series...

(either modern Yanshi or Zhengzhou) Ao (near modern Zhengzhou) Yan (near modern Qufu) Xiang (near modern Anyang) Yinxu (picture; near modern Anyang) Zhaoge...

carvings and statues recovered from the old Iranian capitol of Susa. The modern word, guitar, was adopted into English from the Spanish word guitarra, which...

control by a formal government. This is similar to modern day libertarian beliefs. However, modern liberals have disagreed about what gives people freedom...

Liberia, Ivory Coast, and so on Current events, modern economic history, modern social history and modern intellectual history take very different views...

voiced retroflex stop is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in Modern English, but is in Indian English. It is similar to [d] but your tongue...

below. †Temnospondyli (possible ancestors of modern amphibians) †Lepospondyli (possible ancestors of modern amphibians) †Reptiliomorpha (ancestors of reptiles):...

The modern day European Netherlands are divided into twelve provinces (provincies in Dutch). The Caribbean Netherlands and other countries within the Kingdom...

Uxem (French pronunciation: ​[yksɛm]; from Flemish; Uksem in modern Dutch spelling) is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018 1,422 people lived there...

geologists think that the Neogene cannot be clearly distinguished from the modern geological period, the Quaternary. The global climate became seasonal and...

Zegerscappel (from Dutch; Zegerskappel in modern Dutch spelling) is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018 1,533 people lived there. INSEE commune...

Eecke (from Flemish; Eke in modern Dutch spelling) is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018 1,220 people lived there. "Répertoire national des élus:...

electron microscopy and cell fractionation which helped lay the foundations of modern molecular cell biology. Palade was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology...

Orthodox Judaism is the more traditional form of Judaism in the modern world. Orthodox Judaism holds that both the scripture of the Torah and oral traditions...

Homo sapiens is the modern human species. Homo sapiens is a name in binomial nomenclature. It means that modern humans belong to the genus Homo and the...

as if they have special power. Such acts can lead to modern shirk. Examples of shirk in modern times include: Idolizing wealth or technology – believing...

In a modern democracy, a senate is a group of people who are part of a legislature. A legislature passes or changes laws for their country, state, or other...

000 years ago. Modern hunting still uses more primitive tools. But many subsistence hunters have adapted to use modern firearms. In modern countries hunting...

(rationalism and empiricism) over acceptance of dogma or superstition. In modern times, humanism is close to secularism. It refers to a non-theistic approach...

Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine is a 2005 book by Andrew Scull which discusses the work of controversial psychiatrist Henry...

China and India, or from different time periods, like the Renaissance and modern times. The pictures below are of sculptures: Hologram Pottery Glass blowing...

dialects, but a western dialect became the main literary version. Both modern languages of England and Scotland (English and Scots) came from the language...

Contemporary art means modern art done after Pop Art and Conceptual Art. Another term, which really means the same thing, is postmodern art. Yet another...

Encyclopedia Britannica. Mattar, Philip (June 1, 2004). Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Macmillan Reference USA. ISBN 9780028657691...

nation-states. The first major, modern, multi-sport event of international significance was the Olympic Games, first held in modern times in 1896 in Athens,...

Abstract art is modern art which does not represent images of our everyday world. It has colour, lines and shapes (form), but they are not intended to...

vertebrates with jaws. The group was meant to include all jawed fish, but in modern fashion it also includes all the tetrapods as well, since they evolved from...

Infrastructure is the term used to describe the built facilities which support modern human life. These are the main items: water supply, sewage plants, housing...

The Tate is the United Kingdom's national museum of British and Modern Art. It is a group of four art galleries in England: Tate Britain (opened in 1897...

one of the most important roles of a navy. Piracy still happens in the modern world. The Gulf of Aden (which is off the coast of Somalia) has especially...

programs at once than broadcast can. Video game consoles connect to most modern TVs. Some computers can also use a TV as a computer monitor. All TVs have...

Standard Chinese, or Standard Mandarin, is the official modern Chinese spoken language used in Mainland China and Taiwan and is one of the four official...

American modern dancer and choreographer. Her influences on modern dance are usually compared with the influence Picasso had on the modern visual arts...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is an first person shooter video game created by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. The game is the sixteenth game...

modern Olympic Games in 1896. They have been at every Summer Olympic Games since then. They are one of only four countries to compete in all modern Summer...

best-known scholars of the time. The articles are still of value and interest to modern scholars as examples for the knowledge of the 19th and early 20th centuries...

The modern system of ranked Shinto shrines, is a system of ranking shinto shrines that was used in the Japanese Empire to determine how much money it gave...

It is used to improve crop plants and animals by selective breeding. The modern science of genetics tries to understand the process of inheritance. This...

changed in the 15th century. The modern game starts with these changes. In the second half of the 19th century, modern tournament play began. Chess clocks...

crime under the domestic law of most nations. The modern use of the word also has problems: Many modern wars are civil wars. In a civil war, it can be difficult...

23% (115% of modern level). Average CO2 content: 900 ppm (3 times pre-industrial level) Average surface temperature: ~16oC (2oC above modern level) Sea...

times are called mortars. Modern guns that can shoot many big projectiles quickly and automatically are called autocannons. Modern cannons are usually used...

primarily rock music but are not modern rock (that is, "alternative") stations, which are counted in the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. This short article...

improv methods as it did at its beginning, except with modern electronic instruments. Modern jazz is pioneered by newer and more diverse subgenres such...

The name "Europa" was later used to describe Greece. Then, as the rest of modern-day Europe started to have cities and empires, the entire area West of the...

languages extinct in recent times; historical languages (distinct from their modern form); macrolanguages. "ISO 639-2 Registration Authority". Library of Congress...

easternmost of the five provinces of modern Flanders, which is one of the three main political and cultural sub-divisions of modern Belgium. Its capital is Hasselt...

period of change in Egypt. This change made Egypt a more socialist and modern country. In 1954 the Muslim Brotherhood tried to kill Nasser. He promoted...

rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Modern Meitei novels (ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯅꯣꯚꯦꯜ / ꯃꯅꯤꯄꯨꯔꯤ ꯅꯣꯚꯦꯜ) constitute a significant segment...

Persian has been the official language of Pakistan until modern times. The modern region of Pakistan has been part of many Iranian empires and was ruled...

The modern countries of Arabia (Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates) are usually counted with the modern countries...

Historically, cavalry have been soldiers who fought while riding horses. In modern times, "cavalry" means the branch of the military that fight in armored...

and That Which is Not Seen", cited in Mark Skousen. (2009). The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers, p. 95; retrieved 2012-5-23...

embroidery, silk-weaving etc.. Education Modern Apprenticeships: the way to work, The Report of the Modern Apprenticeship Advisory Committee, 2001 [1]...

significant city in the 1300s, has changed very little in 700 years. Modern cities with modern transport systems can grow very large, because the streets are...

biologist. Evolutionary biology became an academic subject as a result of the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s. It was not until the 1970s...

recognition as a leading figure in modern art. Matisse died of a heart attack in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes. "Tate Modern: Matisse Picasso". Tate.org.uk. Archived...

women may have created and sung songs even at the time of prehistory. Many modern bands have one or two members who write songs for the band. Others have...

from the largest to the smallest of World War II: It is a principle of modern navies that larger ships never travel alone. They are too vulnerable to...

underwater but it was easy to attack them when they surfaced to recharge. Many modern boats still use this diesel-electric propulsion system. The First Battle...

have lower birth rates. In population growth, births exceed deaths. In the modern world this is due to reduction of infant deaths, control of infectious diseases...

Sledgehammer Games to work with Infinity Ward to develop Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 together. Sledgehammer Games had spent six months working on the...

to digest, compared to modern flowering plants (Angiosperms). They must have spent longer in the gut than the food of modern herbivores. That would make...

is one of the earliest form of literature, but the word itself is quite modern.[better source needed] The word comes from the Greek stems[clarification...

athletes have been a part of most of the Olympic Games since the first modern Games in 1896. The International Olympic Committee's official abbreviation...

government system, is one of two variations of government most commonly used in modern representative municipal governments in the United States. Strong-mayor...

than sloops-of-war, they had normally a single gun deck. Almost all the modern navies use ships smaller than frigates for coastal duty, but not all of...

Clovis I (variously spelled Chlodowech or Chlodwig, giving Modern French Louis and Modern German Ludwig) (c. 466 – November 27, 511) was the first King...

Athletics, Football (final) Sydney International Aquatic Centre: Diving, Modern Pentathlon (swimming) Swimming, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo (medal...

nations use cruisers. Modern destroyers use cruise missiles, automated turrets, and torpedos. Some can launch nuclear missiles. Modern destroyers usually...

1906) was a Norwegian realist playwright. He is often called the "father of modern drama." Ibsen is held to be the greatest of Norwegian authors and one of...

California, San Diego (UCSD). He is best known for his pioneering work in Modern Portfolio Theory, studying the effects of asset risk, return, correlation...

the times of Ancient Greece, but the modern idea of superheroes arose with the creation of Superman in 1939. Modern superheroes typically have superhuman...

stream"; From that word, came the Old High German word uuenia (wenia in modern writing), and the New High German word wien and its dialectal variant wean...

Frank Lloyd Wright, he is widely regarded as one of the first masters of modern architecture at Bauhaus. Barcelona Pavilion Tugendhat House Crown Hall Farnsworth...

for the modern scheme of Binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

237-238. Deal, William. (2007). Handbook to life in medieval and early modern Japan, p. 91. National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" This short...

moves. Atoms were once believed to be the smallest pieces of matter, but modern science has shown that there are even smaller particles called subatomic...

implemented in many recent technologies, including modern operating systems, XML, and most modern programming languages. Older standards for (English)...

state but the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) is the head of government. In most modern monarchies the king (or queen) is the head of state but not the head of...

edition was titled A terrible beauty: the people & ideas that shaped the modern world. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. Weatherall M. 1990. In search...

of land on both sides of the Nile that extends from modern-day Aswan to the area south of modern-day Cairo. The northern part of Upper Egypt, between...

transportation. The term light rail was created in the early 1970s to refer to more modern types of tram/streetcar services. Generally it can carry fewer people and...

1 Thessalonians, and Philemon) are routinely accepted as authentic in modern scholarship, Ephesians, Colossians, 2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, and Titus...

live. Some Sámi still herd reindeer, but most of them live in modern houses and have modern jobs, like other Scandinavians. The most famous group of Scandinavians...

Asuka period is named after the Asuka region, about 25 km south to the modern city of Nara. 538: Introduction of Buddhism from China via Korean peninsula...

Azuchi-Momoyama period, and before the Meiji Restoration and the development of modern Japan. The Tokugawa shogunate was established at Edo in 1603 by the shogun...

for example: Latin percussion instruments Classic percussion instruments Modern percussion instruments Latin percussion instruments are used in American-Latin...

(word for word) translations, while others use modern ways of speaking to give the same meaning. Modern versions are based on the oldest Greek and Hebrew...

Pop art is a modern art movement that developed in the 1950s and 60s. It was created by the Scottish sculptor and artist Eduardo Paolozzi in London, 1952...

in the short distance of the flight deck without help. Similarly, small modern aircraft carriers only carry helicopters or specially designed airplanes...

part of their culture and life. The small commune formed only industrial and is residential today, the picturesque buildings mixed with modern buildings....

like how multiplication and division work. His ideas helped create the modern concept of rings, which are sets of numbers where you can add and multiply...

The Latin or Roman script is a writing system used to write many modern-day languages including English. It is the most used writing system in the world...

Biblical book of Ezra in use among ancient Jews, the early church, and many modern Christians with varying degrees of canonicity and a high historical usefulness...

Folk rock music is a mixture of folk music with modern rock music. Folk rock began in the mid 1960s with performers like The Byrds. Folk singer Bob Dylan...

Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses,i like herbs Deni Bown (New York: DK, 2001) A Modern Herbal Mrs M Grieves (Surrey, UK: Merchant, 1973) Wikimedia Commons has...

follow a shallow downward arc and are not suited for modern roads and railroads. The design of the modern suspended-deck suspension bridge was developed in...

think that the SPD is one of the two most important political parties in modern-day Germany, with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). It was founded as...

(16 November 2006). "The Who's Zak Starkey: Channeling Keith-And More". Modern Drummer. Retrieved 11 October 2016. This short article about a person or...

the name of the species is not. For example, in binomial nomenclature, modern humans are called Homo sapiens because they belong to the genus Homo and...

Boötes, pronounced with both 'O's as 'boötez', is one of the 88 modern constellations in the northern sky. The name is from the Greek word Βοώτης, which...

through Cretaceous periods, the group was only found in the area which is now modern Asia and Africa. When the group Trechnotheria was first defined, it was...

Western Armenian. Armenian edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Modern Armenian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) Classical Armenian at Ethnologue...

sixth in the Cainozoic. It came after the Pliocene epoch, and before the modern-day Holocene. The Pleistocene was a time of ice ages: cold glacial periods...

Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. The first modern Olympic Games takes place in Athens. Alden J. Blethen buys The Seattle Times...

Arizona and California. It is considered to be one of the first modern horror movies since modern horror began in the 1960s. It tells the story of a young woman...

defeat in World War II, the people voted in 1946 to change it into the modern day Italian Republic. Before 1861, Italy was not one country. Instead, there...

Richter Scale 1848 (Kōka 5): The last subscription Noh performance of the pre-modern era. During the Koka era, Hiroshige began making prints of women in the...

with the City of London, "Greater London" is often used to mean the whole modern urban area centred on the City of London, and not just the City of London...

religious persecution at the hands of Islamic terrorists. Assyrians speak modern languages of Aramaic, but many also speak Arabic and Farsi depending on...

Kohistani. Bateri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) "Usage of Nasta'liq in the Modern Publications - Typography Day" (PDF). Typography Day. "Bateri". Archived...

despite slavery being illegal. About 26% of these were children. In the modern world, more than half of the people who are slaves provide forced labour...

how they move or what they hold. Modern directors can direct plays by Shakespeare, and these old plays seem modern now, too. There are many sorts of...

headquarters. It is under the command of a colonel or another officer. A modern regiment can also be similar to a brigade, in that both can be from a few...

constellation that can be seen in the southern sky. It is one of the 88 modern constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union. Argo...

Historically, infantrymen were trained to use spears, swords and shields. Modern infantrymen are trained to use many different kinds of weapons, including...

abbreviation for Luxembourg is LUX. Teams from Luxembourg have been in 28 modern Olympic Games. Luxembourg's National Olympic Committee, the Comité Olympique...

head. With the rise of modern secularism and the Reformation during the early 16th century the understanding changed to a modern idea of a tolerant and...

the Permian period. By the Triassic period, seed ferns had declined, and modern gymnosperm groups were abundant. Gymnosperms were dominant to the Upper...

from 29 August to 9 September. London became the first city to host the modern Olympic Games three times; London also hosted the 1908 Summer Olympics and...

bombardment, escorting other ships, and special operations. However, many modern ships also do this, with the main difference being size, firepower, and...

This calendar was mainly used in the medieval era, but is also used in modern times by some Armenian nationalists. This calendar has no leap days. For...

Follette, Sr., Franklin D. Roosevelt, Howard Dean and Bernie Sanders. In the modern day, Progressivism is used as another word for Left-wing politics. "Progress"...

Carnivoramorpha are a clade of mammals that includes the modern order Carnivora. It is basal to the Carnivora but does not include the Creodonts, which...

city of Le Mans in 836, although this was not officially established as a modern town twinning arrangement until 1967. Coventry, United Kingdom was the first...

was an ancient region in the western part of today's Balkan Peninsula in modern-day Epirus, Greece. The people who lived there were called Illyrians and...

products were made by handicraft workers using tools and manual labor. In modern times, most manufacturing jobs were replaced by automated machines in a...

Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway. Tianjin is the birthplace of China’s modern mechanical industry and textile industry. Since the beginning of the Open...

an official document from 996. Since then, that word developed into the Modern German word Österreich, which literally means "Eastern Empire." There has...

names Milesian numerals, Alexandrian numerals, or alphabetic numerals. In modern Greece, they are still in use for ordinal numbers, and in much of the same...

and fighting to decide leadership. Early city states had a feature that modern society cannot match. Every man got to see and know the leading citizens...

monarchy a ruler's powers are limited by a document called a constitution. In modern times, monarchies still exist in Great Britain and the Commonwealth of Nations...

be connected with wires which are called fixed or landline telephones. Modern mobile phones use radio waves. Alexander Graham Bell was the first person...

2014-04-08. Retrieved 2009-05-29. Anderson, Betty S. (2016). A history of the modern Middle East: rulers, rebels, and rogues. Stanford, California: Stanford...

Japanese word for a Shinto shrine is jinja (神社). Ichinomiya Japanese mythology Modern system of ranked Shinto shrines "BBC - Religions - Shinto: Shinto shrines"...

Her Royal Highness The Princess of Asturias. The first in line to the modern day Spanish throne. His Royal Highness The Crown Prince of Greece, Prince...

lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. The history of modern fashion design is generally understood to date from 1858 when the English-born...

astronomer known as Ptolemy around the year 150 CE. It is now one of the 88 modern constellations on the International Astronomical Union's list. "Constellation"...

Londoner Thomas J. Barratt (1841–1914) has been called "the father of modern advertising". He worked for the Pears Soap company, eventually becoming...

Gibraltar in 1848. However, scientists had thought these bones came from modern humans.[source?] In August 1856, a worker found parts of a Neanderthal skeleton...

Estakhr (very close to Persepolis) and Ctesiphon. It is located south of modern Faliyan in the Kazerun County of Fars Province, Iran. Wikimedia Commons...

been a topic of interest to ancient, medieval and modern philosophers, and is a popular topic for modern day philosophers. Definition of Gratitude - Oxford...

- Shahanshahi-e Iran) is another name for a few empires that ruled over modern-day Iran. Achaemenid Empire (550 BC – 330 BC), the first Persian Empire...

diesel-electric multiple unit built in the late 1970s. The class was intended to be a modern train to replace the ageing types in use on the Southern Region of British...

bridge more because of Lime commerce. In 1850, the inhabitants built a more modern bridge. "Cassini". Archived from the original on 19 March 2012. Retrieved...

different types of Siamese Cat, the Traditional or Thai Siamese, and the Modern Siamese. The fur on all Siamese cats has the same sort of pattern, known...

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Serbo-Croatian is the name of a South Slavic language, which is spoken in modern-day Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. After the breakup...

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he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 1978 he was awarded an American Institute of Architects...

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The word dictator or despot in modern times is used to describe an absolute ruler of a country (other than a king). A dictator uses force and fear to keep...

into modern chess. It also moved East, leading to games like Xiangqi (China) and Shogi (Japan). While the basic history is well-documented, modern players...

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to read and write. Being able to read and write is an important skill in modern societies. Usually, people learn how to read and write at school. People...

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of modern anaesthetic began with Joseph Lister. Before it, people sometimes used cocaine, alcohol, and other drugs to get the same effects. Modern anaesthesia...

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the days of shellac and vinyl records, when discs had two playable sides. Modern compact disc singles may contain more than one version of either the A-...

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period of Britain's railways. Sherratt, Philip, ed. (2023). "ROSCO Fleets". Modern Railways: Review 2023. Stamford: Key Publishing. pp. 18–19. ISBN 978-1-80282-569-5...

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to crack as it set, and that adding blood made it more frost-resistant. Modern concrete was developed in 1756 by British engineer John Smeaton. He added...

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'father' is widely used as referring to the Catholic Church. Of course, in modern times an Anglican minister may be female, in which case the term 'reverend'...

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Judo (柔道, jūdō) is a modern Japanese martial art and Olympic sport. It was developed in 1882 by Jigorō Kanō. Judo is the most internationally competed...

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Anadolu), is a peninsula at the west end of Asia. It forms the majority of modern Turkey. It has an area of 750,000 km2 (290,000 sq mi). Most of it is a plateau...

was the term used by the Nazi regime in Germany to describe nearly all modern art. The Nazis banned the art because they said it was un-German or was...

the area of Aichi Prefecture on the island of Honshū. including much of modern Nagoya. It is also known as Bishū (尾州). The ancient capital of Owari was...

their own. In these countries, juries are used, but not for all cases. The modern jury trial first developed in mid-12th century England during the reign...

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important 20th-century artists. He was a major figure in modern art and painted some of the first modern abstract works. Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was...

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Persepolis (Greek: Περσες πόλις) is the Greek translation of the name. In modern Iran, the city is known as Takht-e-Jamshid (Throne of Jamshid). The largest...

It was defeated in the war, and the Ottoman Empire ended. After that, a modern republic was created by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and it was called the Republic...

The Medes were an ancient Iranian people and the ancestors of modern Iranian people who lived in the northwestern portions of present-day Iran. This area...

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bishops listed and agreed a canon of Sacred Scripture that is the same as the modern Orthodox and Roman Catholic canon. The canon was later agreed at the Council...

the area of Buzen and Bungo Provinces. The ancient entity was in what is modern Ōita Prefecture and northeastern Fukuoka Prefecture. It was divided into...

of marine cephalopod, similar in many ways to the modern squid, and closely related to the modern cuttlefish. Like them, the belemnites had an ink sac...

released by punk band Green Day. It is from their 1994 album Dookie. #1 (US Modern Rock) #13 (US Mainstream Rock) #30 (UK) #34 (Australia) #36 (US Radio Airplay)...

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Olympic stadium. He was the subject of much ancient and modern art, and remains a popular figure in modern times, being the subject of various films and television...

art, Old Masters, European and American decorative arts, Asian art and modern and contemporary art. The museum is linked with the School of the Art Institute...

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guitar pop groups such as the Kinks, the Beatles and XTC, Blur released Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993), Parklife (1994) and The Great Escape (1995). As...

divinity, medicine, and law. These were called "learned professions". In modern times other occupations such as teacher or engineer or scholar are often...

Romanization of Greek is a way to write the Greek language (either Ancient or Modern Greek) with the Roman alphabet. That can be done by mapping either letters...

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and Tosa Provinces. The ancient capital city of the province was near modern Imabari. In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into...

known as Mepkin Abbey), Monck's Corner, South Carolina (1936) Museum of Modern Art, New York City, (with Philip S. Goodwin, 1937) A. Conger Goodyear House...

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founded by the Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés on August 28 in modern-day Florida. The city is the oldest continually occupied European settlement...

philosophy. It is located 225 km (140 miles) northwest of Cairo, Egypt's modern capital. Alexandria has a population of over 3.8 million people, making...

"You're My Heart, You're My Soul" is the first single by the German duo Modern Talking. The song is part of their debut album "The 1st Album". The single...

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March 2010 in Denisova Cave in Siberia's Altai Mountains. Neanderthals and modern humans also lived in this cave at different times. Scientists have identified...

(2000). Japanese Culture, p. 207; Jansen, Marius B. (2002). The Making of Modern Japan, p. 248. Davis, David L. (1974). "Ikki in Late Medieval Japan," in...

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Province (伊勢国, Ise no kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area of modern Mie Prefecture on the island of Honshū. The province had borders with Iga...

because they cannot see clearly, but only see unfocused shapes or colors. In modern countries, few young people are blind. In all the world, blindness is mostly...

León and has both archaisms and innovations that differentiate it from the modern varieties of Astur-Leonese spoken in Spain. In recognition of these differences...

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history. Early clocks were sundials, later clocks used water, and pendulums. Modern clocks are often electronic. Other machines such as vehicles are made of...

1880 – 19 August 1959) was an American-born British sculptor, a pioneer of modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902...

Titsingh, p. 414. Hall, John Whitney. (1970). Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times, p. 209. Tanaka, Hiroyuki. (1993). "The Ogasawara Islands in Tokugawa...

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the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon. In English...

remained were absorbed into Anglo-Saxon society. The name of the Britons in Modern English is borrowed in part from Latin: Brittōn-, Brittō, and in part from...

of the 88 modern constellations, and was also one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy. Under its modern boundaries...

the calendar. Maimonides fully described the modern Hebrew calendar around the year 1178 CE. In the modern Hebrew calendar, years are counted as Anno Mundi...

below only the monarch of a country or nation in its social hierarchy. In modern era European societies, the term aristocracy has often been used synonymously...

the mammoth and mastodon as well as modern elephants. The gomphotheres lasted a long time, and were hunted by modern man. There was a change in plant resources...

it the same way. The language has many dialects, or varieties, such as Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Gulf Arabic, Maghrebi Arabic , Levantine...

right hands possess” in the Qur'an, was permissible in Islam. However, most modern Muslims believe that Islam no longer permits concubinage and that sexual...

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caraway. Dill oil can be extracted from the leaves, stems and seeds of the plant. Plants for a Future: Anethum graveolens 'A Modern Herbal' (Grieves, 1931)...

(1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 412. Hall, John Whitney. Early Modern Japan, p. xx. Nihon Gaiji Kyōkai. (1942). Contemporary Japan: a Review of...

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include Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and John Ashbery. Modern French poets are Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Baudelaire. Rimbaud was famous...

and later against the British. Their main use was shore defense. In the modern day the term Frigate covers a broad range of ships. This is primarily for...

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and basis of the modern written language for Macedonians: second half of the XIX century. first attempt of standardization of the modern Macedonian language...

rest and since then the name of Bahrain only means today's Bahrain. The modern history of Bahrain begins with Great Britain exploring the area, trying...

helps to dodge attacks of missile, bullets, etc. To counter the speed of modern aircraft, some surface ships are being designed with laser weapons. In the...

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Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी), or simply Hindi (हिन्दी), historically known as Hindavi (हिन्दवी) or Rekhta (रेख़्ता), is an Indo-Aryan language...

19th century French writer. He is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. He was an apprentice of Flaubert. Maupassant's stories have...

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because they have to be dipped in ink many times during writing or drawing. Modern dip pens have nibs made of metal. Fountain pens are like dip pens, but can...

century was remarkable in that respect. Cromwell marks the beginning of the modern system whereby Parliament is more important than the monarch. The war between...

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important American theatre awards along with the Tony Award. McKinley, Jesse. "Modern Millie Leads Drama Desk Awards", The New York Times, May 20, 2002. Retrieved...

of the Illinois Territory in 1809. It became Knox County, Indiana. The modern Knox County, Illinois was formed much later and was not a part of the original...

Grand Duchy of Baden was a former monarchy in Europe. It is now part of modern Germany. The Grand Duchy of Baden (German: Großherzogtum Baden) was a historical...

Fauvism (French for The Wild Beasts) was the name of a modern art movement in the early 20th century, led by the painters Henri Matisse and André Derain...

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1723 – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist, who is called the Father of Modern Economics. He wrote two classic books, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)...

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them, ultimately seizing lands in modern-day Ukraine. Thus, the Cossacks are considered to be the founders of modern Ukraine by most Ukrainians themselves...

the border with Italy to the east. It makes up the biggest part of the modern administrative region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. In the past, the capitals...

Peter Paret. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press. Gray, Colin S. 1999. Modern Strategy. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. Liddell Hart, Basil. H. 1967. Strategy...

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to refer to both the original prehistoric Proto-Indo-Europeans and the modern Indo-European peoples (Caucasians who speak Indo-European languages). This...

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in Rome. The order continues its humanitarian tasks in most parts of the modern world under several slightly different names. Malta was ruled by the Order...

We don't exactly know what the original was, but this is an example of a modern Hippocratic Oath: I do solemnly swear by all I hold most sacred: that I...

Minimalism is a way of making modern art or music that uses simple ideas, sounds or shapes. It was most popular in America in the 1960s and 1970s. There...

English's springan. These meant to go up or burst forward. These are like modern German's springen, which means 'jump'. It is not thought that these words...

microorganisms such as bacteria and archaea. The term 'biology' is relatively modern. It was introduced in 1799 by a physician, Thomas Beddoes. It comes from...

long literary history, and is spoken by almost 100 million people. The modern Tamil script is an abugida, much like the other brahmic scripts that surround...

resources such as shelf space and disk space, and optimal space utilization. Modern libraries often use complex space-saving technologies such as robotic retrieval...

Europeans first arrived in the 16th century, the Cherokee lived in the modern-day eastern and southeastern United States. However, the United States government...

is the oldest university in modern Bangladesh. It was created in 1921 during the British Raj. It is important to the modern history of Bangladesh. After...

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pedestrian is a person traveling on foot, whether walking or running. In modern times, the term mostly refers to someone walking on a road or footpath,...

ABC} . The study of geometry related to triangles is called trigonometry. Modern computers usually use triangles to make more complex drawings. Triangles...

a constructed language meant to be used by Slavic people. It is like a modern version of the Old Church Slavonic language of the 9th century. It is based...

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