20th-century interest in Kabbalah has inspired cross-denominational Jewish renewal and contributed to wider non-Jewish contemporary spirituality, as well as engaging its flourishing emergence and historical re-emphasis through newly established academic investigation.

This is due to a 20th-century development triggered by Ferdinand de Saussure's insistence on the importance of synchronic analysis, and the later emergence of structuralism and Chomskyan linguistics with its emphasis on syntax.

In France, where much of his work was produced, it is ; 30 March 185329 July 1890 ) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.

Sommer ( 2008 ) classified historical accounts related to vitamin A and / or manifestations of deficiency as follows: " Ancient " accounts ; 18th-to 19th-century clinical descriptions ( and their purported etiologic associations ); early 20th-century laboratory animal experiments, and clinical and epidiomologic observations that identified the existence of this unique nutrient and manifestations of its deficiency.

“ Seneca has been claimed as a forerunner of radio drama because his plays were performed by readers as sound plays, not by actors as stage plays ; but in this respect Seneca had no significant successors until 20th-century technology made possible the widespread dissemination of sound plays .” Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s.

Under the 20th-century editorship of Colonel Robert R. McCormick the paper was strongly isolationist and actively biased in its coverage of political news and social trends, calling itself " The American Paper for Americans ," excoriating the Democrats and the New Deal, resolutely disdainful of the British and French and greatly enthusiastic for Chiang Kai-shek and Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

This book is an archetypal example of the early 20th-century adventure novel, and proved very popular in its day.

The term is a 20th-century neologism, and a portmanteau from pre-( from Latin prae, " before ") and-quel as in sequel ( a supplementing work, especially one with a setting later than its predecessor's, from the Latin sequela, that which follows ).

The landing party discovers that the planet is at roughly a late 20th-century level of technology but its society is similar to the Roman Empire.

In 1998, Horn, Morley, and Dudley began talking about the original intent of the project, its relevance in 20th-century music, and the impending turn of a new century.

The New Town, however, has lost its mediaeval feel owing to its 20th-century four-lane roads.

The Nation of Islam is a black supremacist movement which acknowledges its 20th-century founder, Wallace Fard Muhammad, as an incarnation of Allah, a view most Muslims consider shirk ( polytheism ).

Existentialism as a philosophical movement is properly a 20th-century movement, but its major antecedents, Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche wrote long before the rise of existentialism.

Though, as in the late 16th and 17th centuries, the 20th-century Royal Family were more or less supportive, British officialdom was far less so with English Heritage, who controlled the site of the real Globe nearby, refusing to allow the archaeology Wanamaker requested in order to ascertain its precise dimensions.

The use of standardized testing in the United States is a 20th-century phenomenon with its origins in World War I and the Army Alpha and Beta tests developed by Robert Yerkes and colleagues.

Although examples of such prophecies can be found in literature as far back as ancient Greece and ancient India, it is 20th-century sociologist Robert K. Merton who is credited with coining the expression " self-fulfilling prophecy " and formalizing its structure and consequences.

The critical-theory philosophical frame traces its roots to the Frankfurt School of Critical Social Theory that attempted to amend Marxist theory for applicability in 20th-century Germany.

In its obituary for Noguchi, the New York Times called him " a versatile and prolific sculptor whose earthy stones and meditative gardens bridging East and West have become landmarks of 20th-century art.

By the 20th-century Adhri ' at gained its modern name " Daraa.

The station building is an unusually well-preserved piece of early 20th-century London Underground architecture ; it still has its original signage ( with the name " Farringdon and High Holborn " on the facade ) and other indications of the Metropolitan Railway's original main-line style operation, with a sign for a " Parcel Office " surviving on the exterior wall.

To house its growing collections of modern and contemporary art, and to provide more space for exhibitions, the museum hired the architectural firm of Hardy, Holzman, Pfeiffer Associates to design its $ 35. 3-million, 115, 000-square-foot Robert O. Anderson Building for 20th-century art, which opened in 1986 ( renamed the Art of the Americas Building in 2007 ).

Tramp music has been popular since its invention as part of the Czech tramping movement that began when early 20th-century city-dwellers began seeking physical and imaginative respite from the pressures of urban life.

These authors, the former a medieval historian and the latter an early modernist, quickly became associated with the distinctive Annales approach, which combined geography, history, and the sociological approaches of the Année Sociologique ( many members of which were their colleagues at Strasbourg ) to produce an approach which rejected the predominant emphasis on politics, diplomacy and war of many 19th and early 20th-century historians as spearheaded by historians whom Febvre called Les Sorbonnistes.

According to 20th-century scholar Walther Ludwig, the poems were spuriously inserted into an early biography of Plato sometime between 250 BC and 100 BC and adopted by later writers from this source.

Modern aestheticians have asserted that will and desire were almost dormant in aesthetic experience, yet preference and choice have seemed important aesthetics to some 20th-century thinkers.

" The DNA testing was originally proposed to add new members, many of whose family record books were lost during 20th-century upheavals, to the Confucian family tree.

Two very influential 20th-century teachers of this approach were Henriette Renie and Marcel Grandjany, who both studied with Alphonse Hasselmans.

Bujold ’ s father and brother were engineers, and many of the technological details she incorporates are based on 20th-century engineering situations, projected into null-g or alternative solar system situations ( this is especially true of Falling Free, the most technologically dense of the novels ).

Clausewitz himself never saw the 20th-century states and armies to which Creveld refers — the states with which he himself was familiar were quite different.

Faint legible remains were read by eye before 20th-century techniques helped make lost texts readable.

The term surjective and the related terms injective and bijective were introduced by Nicolas Bourbaki, a group of mainly French 20th-century mathematicians who wrote a series of books presenting an exposition of modern advanced mathematics, beginning in 1935.

Due to the hardships of the late 19th-and 20th-century China, when meat and poultry were difficult to come by, sumptuous feasts are still offered in some Asian countries as a practice to the spirits or ancestors.

Lenin's theories on the role of a communist party were developed as the early 20th-century Russian social democracy divided into Bolshevik ( meaning " majority ") and Menshevik ( meaning " minority ") factions.

After 1990 there were signs of revival in historiography, with a strong new emphasis on 20th-century topics, as well as the application of social history and computerized statistical techniques to the demographic history of ordinary villagers before 1900.

SF and similar systems were used in 20th-century carrier systems.

The conventional 20th-century view has been that Edward did die at Berkeley Castle, either murdered on Isabella's orders or of ill-health brought on by his captivity, and that subsequent accounts of his survival were simply rumours, similar to those that surrounded Joan of Arc and other near contemporaries after their deaths.

The bullet-point that follows lists early 20th-century musical settings chronologically and notes how many poems were set by each composer ( all, except Prohaska's, are in the Hartleben translations ) and for which instruments.

Miró has been a significant influence on late 20th-century art, in particular the American abstract expressionist artists such as Motherwell, Calder, Gorky, Pollock, Matta and Rothko, while his lyrical abstractions and color field paintings were precursors of that style by artists such as Frankenthaler, Olitski and Louis and others.

Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten are among later 20th-century composers who admired and were influenced by Mahler.

This developed out of a historical cleavage in 19th-and 20th-century Australia, in which republicans were predominantly of Irish Catholic background and loyalists were predominantly of British Protestant background.

There were few 20th-century composers who compared with Strauss in terms of orchestral imagination, and no composer since Wagner made a more significant contribution to the history of opera.

Early 20th-century theories, such as those of the anthropologist Marius Barbeau, who considered the poles a post-contact phenomenon enabled by the introduction of metal tools, were treated with skepticism at the time and have been discredited in light of the above evidence.

The county seat, Monroeville, is the home of two notable 20th-century authors, Truman Capote and Nelle Harper Lee, who were childhood neighbors.

Under Mahler, a controversial figure both as a composer and conductor, the season expanded, musicians ' salaries were guaranteed, the scope of operations broadened, and the 20th-century orchestra was created.