Before the late modern era, the abbot was treated with the utmost reverence by the brethren of his house.

Despite the frequency with which this name is used as a polemical label, there has been no historically continuous survival of Arianism into the modern era.

After the Communists took control in the 1940s Polish scholars were safer working on the Middle Ages and the early modern era rather than contemporary history.

The reciprocal influence between the French school and Polish historiography was particularly evident in studies on the Middle Ages and the early modern era studied by Braudel.

One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.

By the 2004 season the Diamondbacks had dropped to a dismal 51 – 111 record, the worst in Major League Baseball and one of the 10 worst records in the modern era, despite Johnson pitching a perfect game on May 18 of that season.

The heaviest armored cars, such as the German, World War II era SdKfz 234 or the modern, US M1128 Mobile Gun System, mount the same guns that arm medium tanks.

Studio audio processing is limited in the modern era due to digital audio systems ( mixers, routers ) being pervasive in the studio.

Steiner emphasized Judaism's central importance to the constitution of the modern era in the West.

Abatis, abattis, or abbattis is a term in field fortification for an obstacle formed ( in the modern era ) of the branches of trees laid in a row, with the sharpened tops directed outwards, towards the enemy.

He finished with an approval rating of 68 %, which matched those of Ronald Reagan and Franklin D. Roosevelt as the highest ratings for departing presidents in the modern era.

The league average for on-base percentage has varied considerably over time ; in the modern era it is around. 340, whereas it was typically only. 300 in the dead-ball era.

It is a common misconception that Jackie Robinson was the first African-American major-league ballplayer ; he was actually only the first after a long gap ( and the first in the modern era ).

On that Mississippi riverine system today, including that of other sheltered waterways, industrial barge trafficking in bulk raw materials such as coal, coke, timber, iron ore and other minerals is extremely common in the developed world using huge cargo barges that connect in groups and trains-of-barges in ways which allow cargo volumes and weights which would astonish pioneers of modern barge systems and methods in the Victorian era.

Monasticism had been introduced into the region of modern France during the Roman era by St. Martin of Tours, who founded the first monastery in Western Europe.

The concept has existed for centuries and research and development have continued into the modern era.

This was challenged legally on the basis that no prior team relocations ( in the modern era ) left a city without a team.

According to David Steel, curator of European art at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Erin Jones " brought that museum into the modern era ," employing " a top-notch curator, John Nolan ," and following " best practices in conservation and restoration.

A few observations found in bestiaries, such as the migration of birds, were discounted by the natural philosophers of later centuries, only to be rediscovered in the modern scientific era.

The style of dance is commonly known to modern scholars as the French noble style or belle danse ( French, literally " beautiful dance "), however it is often referred to casually as baroque dance in spite of the existence of other theatrical and social dance styles during the baroque era.

Notably, the book has not received much attention in the recent modern era, possibly in part because of its foreign inward looking virtues and rejection of the modern emphasis on material productiveness.

This debate continues into the modern era.

In the post-Chinese economic reform era, modern Chinese philosophy has reappeared in forms such as the New Confucianism.

Other modern popular performers include Abdel Karim el Kabli, with a notably long and diverse history of performance, Mohammed el Amin and Mohammed Wardi.

The modern Qom hawza was revitalized by Abdul Karim Haeri Yazdi and Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi and is barely a century old.

Many of the features of the homes are the latest modern devices in American homes, but an interesting blend of cultures finds us using Japanese artfulness in our own Western architecture at the same time that the Japanese are adopting Western utility patterns.

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.

In medicine, modern biotechnology finds promising applications in such areas as

The majority of crannog excavations were poorly conducted ( by modern standards ) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by early antiquarians, or were indeed purely accidental finds as lochs were drained during the improvements to increase usable farmland or pasture.

One rarely finds modern circuits that are entirely analog.

On announcing the discovery, scientists suggested that the " finds demonstrate the presence of a well-established musical tradition at the time when modern humans colonized Europe ".

From archaeological finds in Great Britain, the Romans appeared to have attempted to protect their horses ' feet with a strap-on, solid-bottomed " hipposandal " that has a slight resemblance to the modern hoof boot.

Some modern day physicists and science writers such as Paul Davies and John Gribbin have argued that scientific finds in physics such as quantum mechanics and chaos theory have disproven materialism.

Numerous archeological finds, including meeting places, monuments, and artifacts, have contributed to modern knowledge about Mithraism throughout the Roman Empire.

In modern times, black powder finds use in low-power model rockets ( such as Estes and Quest rockets ), as it is cheap and fairly easy to produce.

The destruction which ensued during the expulsion of the Greek population has been excavated by modern archaeologists and the finds are central to the great controversy of the introduction of the Roman denarius silver coinage.

( Despite recent finds indicating a Roman presence near the modern city of Minden, its location remains disputed ; other sites near Minden or Rinteln have been suggested by the historian Hans Delbrück ( 1848 – 1929 ) and the military writer Kurt Pastenaci ( 1894 – 1961 ), respectively.

Archeological finds suggest that there were settlements in the area more than 7, 000 years ago and continuously through the Iron Age, Viking Age, through to modern times.

A 2009 molecular study using ancient DNA recovered from archaeological finds like bones and teeth places the Przewalski's horse in the middle of the domesticated horses, but more recent mitochondrial DNA analysis suggests that the Przewalski and the modern domestic horse diverged some 160, 000 years ago.

This material may be examined by metal detector for stray finds but unless the site has remained untouched since its abandonment there is invariably a layer of modern material on the surface of limited archaeological interest.

" Young Bond author Charlie Higson finds Red Grant to be " a very modern villain: the relentless, remorseless psycho with the cold dead eyes of a ' drowned man '.

No modern commentator finds this figure credible, but educated guesswork is now the only way to fill the gap in our knowledge.

In portraying his Long figure this way, Basso finds himself between the stools, critical of the spent aristocrats who cannot imagine a modern South, but disgusted also by the figures who represent the wrong kind of newness, the kind of modern South that comes to be if its development is left to default.

Confronted by his onetime friend Herbert, Stevenson confesses that he finds modern society to be pleasingly violent.

* Society of Thames Mudlarks-A modern organisation founded in 1980 the Society of Thames Mudlarks, has a special licence issued by the Port of London Authority for its members to search the Thames mud for treasure and historical artifacts and report their finds to the Museum of London.

According to Strauss, modern social science is flawed because it assumes the fact-value distinction, a concept which Strauss finds dubious, tracing its roots in Enlightenment philosophy to Max Weber, a thinker whom Strauss described as a " serious and noble mind .” Weber wanted to separate values from science but, according to Strauss, was really a derivative thinker, deeply influenced by Nietzsche ’ s relativism.

He tries to read and answer all his mail by himself and finds that the volume is too much and he needs to rely on secretaries ; he is exasperated with his ministers and has them arrested, but soon realises that he does not know enough to govern by himself, and is forced to release the ministers and institute constitutional monarchy ; when a war breaks out he does not accept being shut up in his palace, but slips away and joins up, pretending to be a peasant boy-and narrowly avoids becoming a POW ; he takes the offer of a friendly journalist to publish for him a " royal paper "-and finds much later that he gets carefully edited news and that the journalist is covering up the gross corruption of the young king's best friend ; he tries to organise the children of all the world to hold processions and demand their rights – and ends up antagonising other kings ; he falls in love with a black African princess and outrages racist opinion ( by modern standards, however, Korczak's depiction of blacks is itself not completely free of stereotypes which were current at the time of writing ); finally, he is overthrown by the invasion of three foreign armies and exiled to a desert island, where he must come to terms with reality – and finally does.