The decline of the Cunard line from its position of dominance in Atlantic travel is a significant development in the history of transportation.

When all has been said, however, the big branch store remains a major break with history in the development of American retailing.

From all this we can now see that two streams of development run through the history of twentieth-century American folklore.

After all this destruction of old literature, it should be obvious why we have so little information about the early history and development of the Lo Shu, which was already semisecret anyhow.

The traditions of jurisprudence, history, philology, and sociology then evolved into something more closely resembling the modern views of these disciplines and informed the development of the social sciences, of which anthropology was a part.

Institutionally, anthropology emerged from the development of natural history ( expounded by authors such as Buffon ) that occurred during the European colonization of the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The spoken forms of British English vary considerably, reflecting a long history of dialect development amid isolated populations.

It has played a supporting role throughout its history, and shares much of the credit for its survival and development.

Board games have been played in most cultures and societies throughout history ; some even pre-date literacy skill development in the earliest civilizations.

Bede also followed Eusebius in taking the Acts of the Apostles as the model for the overall work: where Eusebius used the Acts as the theme for his description of the development of the church, Bede made it the model for his history of the Anglo-Saxon church.

The development of a separate board of directors to manage the company has occurred incrementally and indefinitely over legal history.

It was believed by some that lǐ originated from the heavens, but Confucius stressed the development of lǐ through the actions of sage leaders in human history.

These small-scale organic communities were generally seen as a new development in world history, in contrast to the established ancient civilizations of Egypt or Persia, or the hunter-gatherer bands elsewhere.

It has been shown in trials that the ingestion of β-carotene at about 30 mg / day ( 10 times the Reference Daily Intake ) increases the rate of lung and prostate cancer development in smokers and people with a history of asbestos exposure.

The history of the state's economic and industrial development is closely tied to the impact of the Du Pont family, founders and scions of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, one of the world ’ s largest chemical companies.

They might include the hiring of actors, the development of a season of plays or operas with a sense of coherence among them, assistance with and editing of new plays or operas by resident or guest playwrights or composers / librettists, the creation of programs or accompanying educational services, helping the director with rehearsals, and serving as elucidator of history or spokesperson for deceased or otherwise absent playwrights or composers.

The history of the double bass is tightly coupled to the development of string technology, as it was the advent of overwound gut strings, which first rendered the instrument more generally practicable, as wound strings attain low notes within a smaller overall string diameter than unwound strings.

Self and other, private and public, subjective and objective, freedom and control are examples of such pairs demonstrating the influence of this opposing concepts on the development of legal doctrines through history.

Dialectical materialism is essentially characterized by the thesis that history is the product of class struggles and follows the general Hegelian principle of philosophy of history, that is the development of the thesis into its antithesis which is sublated by the Aufhebung (" synthesis "), although this three-part process was not explicitly characterized in terms of a thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in Hegel's writings.

Hegel's dialectics aims to explain the development of human history.

He considered that truth was the product of history and that it passed through various moments, including the moment of error ; error and negativity are part of the development of truth.

Epic: a long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race.

His reactions to the prevailing theories and practices in education, corrections made to these philosophies, and recommendations to teachers and administrators to embrace “ the new education ,” provide a vital account of the history of the development of educational thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 4 Dewey placed so called pragmatism above moral absolutes and helped give rise to situational ethics.

Haeckel ’ s ‘ Biogenetic Law ’ portrays the parallel relationship between an embryo ’ s development and phylogenetic history.

Although they failed to make the playoffs in 2009, the streak ended when the team rallied to win their final three regular season games to record back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

* 2009 – Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.

The Northern Borough: A History Of The Bronx ( 2009 ), popular general history

The CSU received only 42. 5 % of the vote in Bavaria in the 2009 election, which constitutes its weakest showing in the party's history.

In 2009, for the first time in church history, more new members came from Africa than the United States.

The novel, which won the 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction and will be published in English under the title Azazeel, is set in 5th-century Egypt and Syria and deals with the early history of Christianity.

The follow-up album entitled Act II-The Father of Death was released in 2009 and serves as a prequel to Act I by establishing the history of Dr. Light, Dr. Wily, and how the world came under the rule of Wily.

The first official history of MI5, The Defence of the Realm published in 2009, tacitly confirmed that there was a plot against Wilson and that MI5 did have a file on him.

* 2009 – Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.

: Watchmen ( 2009 ) ( set in an alternative version of history in which Richard Nixon went up for a third term and the United States won the Vietnam War due to the intervention of superheroes )

A total of 165, 000 tonnes of gold have been mined in human history, as of 2009.

Despite recording the most successful home and away season in the game's history, the club went one win short of back-to-back premierships in losing the 2008 AFL Grand Final, but won the 2009 Grand Final against St Kilda.

A September 2009 article in The National, titled " A noble side to Ig Nobels ," says that although the Ig Nobel Awards are veiled criticism of trivial research, history shows that trivial research sometimes leads to important breakthroughs.

Journalist John C. Dvorak, commenting in 2009 on the history of the Itanium processor, said " This continues to be one of the great fiascos of the last 50 years " in an article titled " How the Itanium Killed the Computer Industry ".

* 2009 – During the Iranian election protests, the death of Neda Agha-Soltan is captured on video and spreads virally on the Internet, making it " probably the most widely witnessed death in human history ".

* Wood, Gordon S. Empire of Liberty: A history of the Early Republic, 1789 – 1815 ( 2009 )

In March 2009 the Koenigsegg CCXR was chosen by Forbes to be one of the ten most beautiful cars in history.

Several perspectives or branches of such academic dictionary research have been distinguished: ' dictionary criticism ' ( or evaluating the quality of one or more dictionaries, e. g. by means of reviews ( see Nielsen 2009 )), ' dictionary history ' ( or tracing the traditions of a type of dictionary or of lexicography in a particular country or language ), ' dictionary typology ' ( or classifying the various genres of reference works, such as dictionary versus encyclopedia, monolingual versus bilingual dictionary, general versus technical or pedagogical dictionary ), ' dictionary structure ' ( or formatting the various ways in which the information is presented in a dictionary ), ' dictionary use ' ( or observing the reference acts and skills of dictionary users ), and ' dictionary IT ' ( or applying computer aids to the process of dictionary compilation ).

ISBN 0-14-100975-6, standard scholarly history ; The Third Reich in Power 2005 ISBN 1-59420-074-2 ; The Third Reich at war 1939 – 1945 ( 2009 )

* Hensley, Gerald, Beyond the Battlefield: New Zealand and its Allies, 1939 – 45 ( 2009 ) 415pp., focus on diplomatic history

The QFracture score was developed in 2009 and is based on age, BMI, smoking status, alcohol use, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, asthma, use of tricyclic antidepressants or corticosteroids, liver disease, and a history of falls in men.

On December 6, 2009, Andy Reid became only the 5th coach in NFL history to win 100 or more games with a single team in a single decade.

In May 2009, Russian president, Dmitri Medvedev, established the History Commission of Russia ( formally, the Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests ) to counter aggressive attempts to rewrite history to Russian disadvantage, yet Alexander Cherkasov of the Memorial human-rights group, called it a regression to Soviet-era control.

In 2009 the BBC broadcast Cruickshank on Kew: The Garden That Changed the World, a history of the relationship between Kew Gardens, David Attenborough's kingdom of plants 3D ( Aired on Sky Atlantic, and Sky 3D ' June 2012 '), and the British Empire.

The longest-running drama in television and radio history, Guiding Light, barely reached 2. 1 millions daily viewers in 2009 and was ended.