In fact, modern scholarly opinion in the main has not retreated all the way back to the destructive scepticism of the first half of the nineteenth century.

The modern student, who knows what was to come next, is likely to place first the factors of change which are visible in the eighth century.

Many scholars consider modern anthropology as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, a period when Europeans attempted to study human behavior systematically, the known varieties of which had been increasing since the fifteenth century as a result of the first European colonization wave.

Kouros ( male youth ) is the modern term given to those representations of standing male youths which first appear in the archaic period in Greece.

The first major groups of amphibians developed in the Devonian period from lobe-finned fish similar to the modern coelacanth and lungfish, which had evolved multi-jointed leg-like fins with digits that enabled them to crawl along the sea bottom.

Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.

* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

The Analytical Engine incorporated an arithmetic logic unit, control flow in the form of conditional branching and loops, and integrated memory, making it the first design for a general-purpose computer that could be described in modern terms as Turing-complete.

The modern history of Abensberg, which is often incorrectly compared with that of the 3rd century Roman castra ( military outpost ) of Abusina, begins with Gebhard, who was the first to mention Abensberg as a town, in the middle of the 12th century.

Since this picture was first developed by Ernst Stueckelberg, and acquired its modern form in Feynman's work, it is called the Feynman-Stueckelberg interpretation of antiparticles to honor both scientists.

At that time, the ENIAC was considered to be the first computer in the modern sense, but in 1973 a U. S. District Court invalidated the ENIAC patent and concluded that the ENIAC inventors had derived the subject matter of the electronic digital computer from Atanasoff ( see Patent dispute ).

The machine was, however, the first to implement three critical ideas that are still part of every modern computer:

( Paradoxically, in the modern version it is the rebellious son who has the first name " David ".

* 1913 – Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan ( modern day Tohoku University ) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.

The first ' modern ' publication of Alcaeus ' verses appeared in a Greek and Latin edition of fragments collected from the canonic nine lyrical poets by Michael Neander, published at Basle in 1556.

The press was the first to issue printed books in the small octavo size, similar to that of a modern paperback, and like that intended for portability and ease of reading.

Tradition relates that in 814, the body of Saint James the Greater was discovered in Compostela and that Alfonso was the first pilgrim to that famous medieval ( and modern ) shrine.

Res Gestae ( Rerum gestarum Libri XXXI ) was originally in thirty-one books, but the first thirteen are lost ( modern historian T. D.

A good example of the contempt the first democrats felt for those who did not participate in politics can be found in the modern word ' idiot ', which finds its origins in the ancient Greek word, idiōtēs, meaning a private person, a person who is not actively interested in politics ; such characters were talked about with contempt, and the word eventually acquired its modern meaning.

Lavoisier's Traité élémentaire de chimie ( Elementary Treatise on Chemistry, 1789, translated into English by Scotsman Robert Kerr ) is considered to be the first modern chemistry textbook.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

The work, in the opinion of enthusiastic dilettanti, stamped the author as the first artist of modern times.

Roger Bacon and Leonardo da Vinci were some of the first modern Europeans to study aeronautics.

The modern age of aviation began with the first untethered human lighter-than-air flight on November 21, 1783, in a hot air balloon designed by the Montgolfier brothers.

The first move by light gives three choices, and, in fact, it is generally accepted at the highest level that one of these actually may be successfully refuted, that being what is known as the Parallel opening.

Writing his Lives of Illustrious Men ( Parallel Lives ) in the first century CE, the Middle Platonic philosopher Plutarch's chapter on Romulus gave an account of his mysterious disappearance and subsequent deification, comparing it to traditional Greek beliefs such as the resurrection and physical immortalization of Alcmene and Aristeas the Proconnesian, " for they say Aristeas died in a fuller's work-shop, and his friends coming to look for him, found his body vanished ; and that some presently after, coming from abroad, said they met him traveling towards Croton.

His biography is the first of many in the 42nd Parallel.

Parallel to this historical and legal narrative, Solzhenitsyn follows the typical course of a zek ( a slang term for inmate, derived from the widely used abbreviation " z / k " for " zakliuchennyi "( prisoner )) through the Gulag, starting with arrest, show trial and initial internment ; transport to the " archipelago "; treatment of prisoners and general living conditions ; slave labor gangs and the technical prison camp system ( where Andrei Sakharov and his team of prisoner-scientists developed the Soviet Union's first hydrogen bomb ); camp rebellions and strikes ( see Kengir uprising ); the practice of internal exile following completion of the original prison sentence ; and ultimate ( but not guaranteed ) release of the prisoner.

Known as the Resist America, Aid Korea Campaign in China, the first major offensive of the Chinese forces was pushed back in October, but by Christmas 1950, the " People's Volunteer Army " under the command of Gen. Peng Dehuai had forced the United Nations to retreat back to the 38th Parallel.

Circa 1977 the first couple of furniture stores sprung up along the Parallel Road, forming the first " furniture boulevard " in the Netherlands.

Researchers Robert Benner, John Gustafson and Gary Montry of the Parallel Processing Division of Sandia National Laboratory first won the Karp Prize ($ 100 ) and then won the first Gordon Bell Prize in 1987 using the nCUBE 10.

The first edition of the ' Chronicle ' ( based on the Royal manuscript ) was published by David Macpherson in 1795, though the current standard edition was published by F. J. Amours as The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun: Printed on Parallel Pages from the Cottonian and Wemyss MSS., with the Variants of the Other Texts.

It was first formally described in the botanical literature as Yucca brevifolia by George Engelmann in 1871 as part of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel.

Their most popular and best-selling effort, Parallel Lines was the first Blondie album to be produced by Mike Chapman.

McKennitt's first album, Elemental, was released in 1985, followed by To Drive the Cold Winter Away ( 1987 ), Parallel Dreams ( 1989 ), The Visit ( 1991 ), The Mask and Mirror ( 1994 ), A Winter Garden ( 1995 ), The Book of Secrets ( 1997 ), An Ancient Muse ( 2006 ), A Midwinter Night ’ s Dream ( 2008 ), and The Wind That Shakes the Barley ( 2010 ).

Parallel to The Practice, Kelley penned all the scripts for the first season, then brought in other writers in subsequent years although he continued to write many episodes himself.

Parallel lines are not uniquely paired: given a line and a point not on that line, any number of lines can be drawn through the point which are coplanar with the first and do not intersect it.

The first Gordon Bell Prize was won by researchers at the Parallel Processing Division of Sandia National Laboratory for work done on the 1000-processor nCUBE 10 hypercube.

* Grandia: Parallel Trippers ( Game Arts / Hudson, Game Boy Color ): Uses the same characters and music as the first Grandia game.

How to Write Parallel Programs: A first course.

His Parallel Lives of great Greek and Roman leaders has been read by every generation since the work was first published.

Parallel with his literary work, he pursued a career as a teacher ; first as a teacher at the Carnot high school in Tunis ( 1953 ) and later in France where he remained after Tunisian independence at the Practical School of Higher Studies, at HEC and at the University of Nanterre ( 1970 ).

Parallel Galaxy is the first solo album recorded by Emmett Chapman, playing Chapman Stick, and it was released in 1985.

# Though the majority of the Parallel Lives were written with the Greek hero ( or heroes ) placed in the first position followed by the Roman hero, there are three sets of Lives where this order is reversed: Aemilius Paulus-Timoleon, Coriolanus-Alcibiades and Sertorius-Eumenes.

Among the first indexes – in the modern sense – to a book in the English language was one in Plutarch's Parallel Lives, in Sir Thomas North's 1595 translation.

He was perhaps the first Western explorer of the region which is now encompassed by the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas.