In Modern Greek, vowel length has been lost, and all instances of alpha represent the short.

Abraham ( Hebrew:, Modern:, Greek: Αβραάμ ( Avraam ), Tiberian:, Ashkenazi: Avrohom or Avruhom,

Aeolus (, Aiolos, Modern Greek: ), a name shared by three mythic characters, was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology.

Aegospotami ( Αἰγὸς Ποταμοί ) or Aegospotamos ( i. e. Goat Streams ) is the ancient Greek name for a small river issuing into the Hellespont ( Modern Turkish Çanakkale Boğazı ), northeast of Sestos.

Modern drawing of the Phalanx formation employed by Greek hoplite s

In turn, the classical languages continued, Latin evolved into the Romance languages and Ancient Greek into Modern Greek and its dialects.

Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

Another Indo-European example is star ( English ), str-( Sanskrit ), tara ( Hindi-Urdu ), étoile ( French ), ἀστήρ ( astēr ) ( Greek or ἀστέρι / ἄστρο, asteri / astro in Modern Greek ), stella ( Italian ), aster ( Latin ) stea ( Romanian and Venetian ), stairno ( Gothic ), astl ( Armenian ), Stern ( German ), ster ( Dutch and Afrikaans ), starn ( Scots ), stjerne ( Norwegian and Danish ), stjarna ( Icelandic ), stjärna ( Swedish ), stjørna ( Faroese ), setāre ( Persian ), stoorei ( Pashto ), seren ( Welsh ), steren ( Cornish ), estel ( Catalan ), estrella Spanish, estrella Asturian and Leonese, estrela ( Portuguese and Galician ) and estêre or stêrk ( Kurdish ), from the PIE, " star ".

According to tradition, Constantine arranged for the rockface to be removed from around the tomb, without harming it, in order to isolate the tomb ; in the centre of the rotunda is a small building called the Kouvouklion ( Kουβούκλιον ; Modern Greek for small compartment ) or Aedicule ( from Latin: aediculum, small building ), which supposedly encloses this tomb, although it is not currently possible to verify the claim, as the remains are completely enveloped by a marble sheath.

Apollo's sacred precinct in Delphi was a panhellenic sanctuary, where every four years, starting in 776 BC athletes from all over the Greek world competed in the Pythian Games, one of the four panhellenic ( or stephanitic ) games, precursors of the Modern Olympics.

Delta ( uppercase Δ, lowercase δ ; Délta ; Modern Greek ) is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.

In Modern Greek, it represents a voiced dental fricative, like the " th " in " that " or " this ".

Modern scholarship tends to favour a Syriac origin ; but even so, the exercise must have been repeated in Greek very shortly afterwards — probably by Tatian himself.

** The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazantzakis ( Greek verse, composed 1924-1938 )

Thus in Modern Greek, Eta is pronounced and represents the sound / i / ( a close front unrounded vowel ).

In Modern Greek the letter, pronounced, represents a close front unrounded vowel,.

* Classical Greek and then Koine Greek in the Mediterranean Basin from the Athenian empire to the eastern Roman Empire, being replaced by Modern Greek.

* Koine Greek and Modern Greek, in the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire and other parts of the Balkans south of the Jireček Line.

Retrospectives of his work were presented that year at The National Film Theatre in London, the Munich Stadtmuseum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which also dedicated a gallery exhibition, Chaplin: A Centennial Celebration, to him.

Six of Chaplin's films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry: The Immigrant ( 1917 ), The Kid ( 1921 ), The Gold Rush ( 1925 ), City Lights ( 1931 ), Modern Times ( 1936 ), and The Great Dictator ( 1940 ).

Much of National CNDs historical archive is at the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick and the London School of Economics, although records of local and regional groups are spread throughout the country in public and private collections.

In 2006, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City held a Dada exhibition in conjunction with the National Gallery of Art in Washington D. C. and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

In addition large art galleries are found across the city, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery, the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, The City Arts Centre, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, The Project Arts Centre and The Royal Hibernian Academy.

Contemporary collections are shown in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and the nearby Dean Gallery.

In 2003, at a gathering for the Agency of Cultural Affairs, twelve policies were proposed in a written report to allow public-made films to be promoted and shown at the Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art.

Modern scholarship locates the speakers ' platform 40 yards ( or more ) away from the Traditional Site within Soldiers ' National Cemetery at the Soldiers ' National Monument and entirely within private, adjacent Evergreen Cemetery.

* New National Gallery – Modern Art Museum, Berlin ( 1968 )

In 1973 a permanent installation of his work opened at the Galleria d ’ Arte Moderna in Milan, and in 1978 a Marini show was presented at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

Giuseppe Verdi, by Giovanni Boldini, 1886 ( National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome )

* The National Council of Young Israel, and the Council of Young Israel Rabbis are smaller groups that were founded as Modern Orthodox organizations, are Zionistic, and are in the right wing of Modern Orthodox Judaism.

Modern competitions take place for ploughing enthusiasts like the National Ploughing Championships in the UK.

There have been numerous museum shows of Bearden's work since then, including a 1971 show at the Museum of Modern Art entitled Prevalence of Ritual, an exhibition of his highly prized prints entitled A Graphic Odyssey showing the work of the last fifteen years of his life, and the 2005 National Gallery of Art retrospective entitled The Art of Romare Bearden.

Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film.

The first edition of The Mismeasure of Man won the non-fiction award from the National Book Critics Circle ; the Outstanding Book Award for 1983 from the American Educational Research Association ; the Italian translation was awarded the Iglesias prize in 1991 ; and in 1998, the Modern Library ranked it as the 24th-best non-fiction book of all time.

Modern works of art depicting Yggdrasil include Die Nornen ( painting, 1888 ) by K. Ehrenberg ; Yggdrasil ( fresco, 1933 ) by Axel Revold, located in the University of Oslo library auditorium in Oslo, Norway ; Hjortene beiter i løvet på Yggdrasil asken ( wood relief carving, 1938 ) on the Oslo City Hall by Dagfin Werenskjold ; and the bronze relief on the doors of the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities ( around 1950 ) by B. Marklund in Stockholm, Sweden.

Among the works exhibited were Le Fauconnier's vast composition Les Montagnards attaqués par des ours ( Mountaineers Attacked by Bears ) now at Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Joseph Csaky's Deux Femme, Two Women ( a sculpture now lost ), in addition to the highly abstract paintings by Kupka, Amorpha ( The National Gallery, Prague ), and Picabia, La Source, The Spring ( Museum of Modern Art, New York ).

Modern democratic states with bicameral parliamentary systems are sometimes equipped with a senate, often distinguished from an ordinary parallel lower house, known variously as the " House of Representatives ", " House of Commons ", " Chamber of Deputies ", " National Assembly ", " Legislative Assembly ", or " House of Assembly ", by electoral rules.

In 1971, after release of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's study, " Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society ".

The idea was to build a museum that would bridge the gap between the Louvre and the National Museum of Modern Art at the Georges Pompidou Centre.

In 2010, Metz opened a branch of the French National Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou-Metz, designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban and inaugurated by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

The Austrian post office used more Hundertwasser motives for the European edition 1987 ( Modern architecture, Hundertwasser House ), on the occasion of his death in 2000 ( painting Blue Blues, under the WIPA 2000 ) and 2004 National Donauauen ( poster: The outdoors is our freedom at civil protests in Hainburg ).