Modern man, as Dietrich Bonhoeffer has told us, has `` come of age '' ; ;

Life had included him in its `` Modern American Artists '' series and had photographed him at his studio in the East Sixties ; ;

Alexander II ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Uilliam ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Uilleim ) ( 24 August 1198 – 6 July 1249 ) was King of Scots from

Alexander III ( Medieval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Alaxandair ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Alasdair ) ( 4 September 1241 – 19 March 1286 ) was King of Scots from 1249 to his death.

* Swearingen Jr., William Scott Environmental City: People, Place, and the Meaning of Modern Austin ( University of Texas Press ; 2010 ) 273 pages ; traces the history of environmentalism in the Texas capital, which has been part of a larger effort to preserve Austin's quality of life and sense of place.

Modern bicycle brakes may be: rim brakes, in which friction pads are compressed against the wheel rims ; internal hub brakes, in which the friction pads are contained within the wheel hubs ; or disc brakes, with a separate rotor for braking.

Modern historians have proposed wide ranging numbers for the infantry, from 20, 000 – 100, 000 with a consensus of perhaps 25, 000 ; estimates for the cavalry are in the range of 1, 000.

* Allen, Randy ; and Kennedy, Ken, Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2001.

* Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China ( 1999 ), 876pp ; well written survey from 1644 to 1990s excerpt and text search ; complete edition online at Questia

* Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China ( 1991 ), 876pp ; well written survey from 1644 to 1980s excerpt and text search ; complete edition online

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Modern citizenship is much more passive ; action is delegated to others ; citizenship is often a constraint on acting, not an impetus to act.

* Payne-Gallwey, Ralph, Sir, The Crossbow: Mediaeval and Modern, Military and Sporting ; its Construction, History & Management with a Treatise on the Balista and Catapult of the Ancients and An Appendix on the Catapult, Balista & the Turkish Bow, New York: Bramhall House, 1958.

Causantín or Constantín mac Cináeda ( in Modern Gaelic, Còiseam mac Choinnich ; died 877 ) was a king of the Picts.

Constantine, son of Áed ( Medieval Gaelic: Constantín mac Áeda ; Modern Gaelic: Còiseam mac Aoidh, known in most modern regnal lists as Constantine II ; before 879 – 952 ) was an early King of Scotland, known then by the Gaelic name Alba.

Modern Roman Catholic churches often have a crucifix above the altar on the wall ; for the celebration of Mass, the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church requires that, " on or close to the altar there is to be a cross with a figure of Christ crucified ".

Hanukkah (, Tiberian:, usually spelled, pronounced in Modern Hebrew ; also romanized as Chanukah, Chanukkah, Chanuka, or Khanukah ), also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple ( the Second Temple ) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE.

When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;

Both concepts are undergoing alteration ; ;

A borderline schizophrenic young man told me that to him the various theoretical concepts about which he had been expounding, in a most articulate fashion, during session after session with me, were like great cubes of almost tangibly solid matter up in the air above him ; ;

After they have developed concepts, they are free from the necessity of manipulating objects ; ;

They criticized parents for never having emphasized traditional concepts of right and wrong ; ;

Logic seems to have emerged from dialectics ; the earlier philosophers made frequent use of concepts like reductio ad absurdum in their discussions, but never truly understood the logical implications.

The first is the literal level ; the second signifies a related set of concepts and events.

* Naturalism, the School of Naturalists or the Yin-yang school, which synthesized the concepts of yin-yang and the Five Elements ; Zou Yan is considered the founder of this school.

Throughout European history, philosophers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, among others, contemplated the possibility that souls exist in animals, plants, and people ; however, the currently accepted definition of animism was only developed in the 19th century by Sir Edward Tylor, who created it as " one of anthropology's earliest concepts, if not the first ".

But these are physical representations of the corresponding mathematical entities ; the line and the curve are idealized concepts whose width is 0 ( see Line ).

In the 1920s and 1930s almost every major cosmologist preferred an eternal steady state Universe, and several complained that the beginning of time implied by the Big Bang imported religious concepts into physics ; this objection was later repeated by supporters of the steady state theory.

Several concepts are essential for the study of chemistry ; some of them are:

The impact Roman law had decreased sharply after the age of Bracton, but the Roman divisions of actions into in rem ( typically, actions against a thing or property for the purpose of gaining title to that property ; must be filed in a court where the property is located ) and in personam ( typically, actions directed against a person ; these can affect a person's rights and, since a person often owns things, his property too ) used by Bracton had a lasting effect and laid the groundwork for a return of Roman law structural concepts in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Latour suggests that about 90 % of contemporary social criticism in academia displays one of two approaches which he terms “ the fact position and the fairy position .” ( p. 237 ) The fact position is anti-fetishist, arguing that “ objects of belief ” ( e. g., religion, arts ) are merely concepts onto which power is projected ; the “ fairy position ” argues that individuals are dominated, often covertly and without their awareness, by external forces ( e. g., economics, gender ).

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Thus criminal law grew out what 21st-century lawyers would call torts ; and, in real terms, many acts and omissions classified as crimes actually overlap with civil-law concepts.

The major Confucian concepts include rén ( humanity or humaneness ), zhèngmíng ( rectification of names ; e. g. a ruler who rules unjustly is no longer a ruler and may be dethroned ), zhōng ( loyalty ), xiào ( filial piety ), and lǐ ( ritual ).

The School of Naturalists or the School of Yin-yang ( 陰陽家 / 阴阳家 ; Yīnyángjiā ; Yin-yang-chia ; " School of Yin-Yang ") was a Warring States era philosophy that synthesized the concepts of yin-yang and the Five Elements ; Zou Yan is considered the founder of this school.

Supporters believe that by the late 20th century those they characterized as " ruling elites " sought to harness the expansion of world markets for their own interests ; this combination of the Bretton Woods institutions, states, and multinational corporations has been called " globalization " or " globalization from above.

* 1944-Monetary and Financial Conference held in July in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire ; International Monetary Fund and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( World Bank ) created to aid nations devastated by the war and to stabilize the international monetary system.

In the last stages of the Second World War, in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference, the Bank for International Settlements became the crux of a fight that broke out when the Norwegian delegation put forth evidence that the BIS was guilty of war crimes and put forth a motion to dissolve the bank ; the Americans, specifically President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau, supported this motion.

Most, but not all, of the members of the United Nations system are part of the common system ; the Bretton Woods institutions ( i. e. the World Bank Group and the IMF ) are notable exceptions.

Arms of the Baron Monk Bretton. Shield: Argent a fesse nebulé gules between six fleurs-de-lis sable ; Crest: Two lions ' gambs in saltaire gules ( from Bernard Burke | Burke's The General Armory, 1884, p. 290 ).

The phrase was used by some in retrospect when assessing the creation of the post – World War II set of international institutions: the United Nations ; the U. S. security alliances such as NATO ; the Bretton Woods system of the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ; and even the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan were seen as characterizing or comprising this new order.

She supervised his diet and making sure he had enough rest ; " without her constant attention and her joie de vivre, Keynes might not have made it to Bretton Woods.

Cudworth was a township and a constituent part of the large rural Anglican parish of Royston until it became part of Monk Bretton parish in 1843 ; it finally became a separate Anglican parish in 1893.

* John Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton ( He took the title for his 1884 peerage from Monk Bretton ; having inherited lands there from his mother's family of Pearson ).

The hotel was inspired by the Victorian era beach resorts built along Florida's east coast during the late 19th century and early 20th century ; its exterior is modeled after the Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire and Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, California, with red gabled roofs and white walls.

Ward argued that signing Bretton Woods would " enthrone a World Dictatorship of private finance, more complete and terrible than any Hitlerite dream "; destroy Australian democracy ; pervert and paganise Christian ideals ; and endanger world peace.

From 1946 to the early 1970s, the Bretton Woods system made fixed currencies the norm ; however, in 1971, the United States government would no longer uphold the dollar exchange at 1 / 35th ounce of gold, so that the US dollar was no longer a fixed currency.

He is a member of the board of the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels ; a member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision ; a member of the board of the Financial Services Volunteer Corps, New York and a member of the International Council of the Bretton Woods Committee, Washington.

* In 1946. the Bretton Woods system goes into effect ; it had been planned since 1944 as an international economic structure to prevent further depressions and wars.

A number of other proposals are contained in the World Governance Proposal Paper: giving concrete expression to the principle of responsibility ; granting civil society greater involvement in drawing up and implementing international regulations ; granting national parliaments greater involvement in drawing up and implementing international regulations ; re-equilibrating trade mechanisms and adopting regulations to benefit the southern hemisphere ; speeding up the institution of regional bodies ; extending and specifying the concept of the commons ; redefining proposal and decision-making powers in order to reform the United Nations ; developing independent observation, early-warning, and assessment systems ; diversifying and stabilizing the basis for financing international collective action ; and engaging in a wide-reaching process of consultation, a new Bretton Woods for the United Nations.