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Modern Westerners have difficulty comprehending this fusion of moral and material, largely because in the West the historical trend has been to deny the connection.
Modern Armenia term means Republic of Armenia which occupies part of historical Armenia, whose ancient centers were in the valley of the Araks River and the region around Lake Van in Turkey.
The historical development of the Bulgarian language can be described as a transition from a highly synthetic language ( Old Bulgarian ) to a typical analytic language ( Modern Bulgarian ) with Middle Bulgarian as a midpoint in this transition.
Category: Writers of historical fiction set in Modern Age
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.
Modern bullion coins for investment or collector purposes do not require good mechanical wear properties ; they are typically fine gold at 24k, although the American Gold Eagle and the British gold sovereign continue to be minted in 22k metal in historical tradition.
Modern historical analysis usually draws upon other social sciences, including economics, sociology, politics, psychology, anthropology, philosophy and linguistics.
Modern readers are cautioned to understand that Scott's aim was to create a compelling novel set in a historical period, not to provide a book of history.
Category: Writers of historical novels set in Early Modern period
Contemporary Paganism, Modern Paganism, or Neopaganism, refers to a variety of modern religious movements, particularly those influenced by or claiming to be derived from the various historical pagan beliefs of pre-modern Europe.
At the same time, many self-proclaimed Modern Orthodox Jews do not have a problem with historical scholarship in this area.
Most professional historians ( defined as paying members of organizations devoted to the propagation of history in higher education, like the American Historical Association ) now refer to the historical periods commonly known as the Renaissance and the Reformation as " the Early Modern Period ".
Modern systems ( for smaller, i. e. " normal " tube diameters as used in the transport of small capsules ) reach speeds of around per second, though some historical systems already achieved speeds of per second.
Modern religious skepticism typically places more emphasis on scientific and historical methods or evidence, with Michael Shermer writing that it is a process for discovering the truth rather than blanket non-acceptance.
Modern sociology has, since Max Weber, often been preoccupied with the problem of authority in secularized societies and with secularization as a sociological or historical process.
Modern methods of textual and historical analysis were applied to the Talmud.
World War II, the American Civil War, and the Napoleonic Wars are the most popular historical categories, with other subjects generally being broken down as Ancients, Middle Ages, Early Gunpowder, and Modern.
In Modern English, there is also some historical influence from the old English letter yogh ( Ȝȝ ), which develop from Semitic gimel, as shown below.
Modern systematic theories reject such conceptions of " primitive " and " highly developed " organisms and instead consider exclusively the historical relationships between the taxa.
Modern scholarship has almost unanimously agreed that claims of the travels of Jesus to Tibet, Kashmir or India and the influence of Buddhism on his teachings are without historical basis.
Modern historians have been more divided in their view of Edward I. Bishop William Stubbs, working in the whig tradition of historical writing, praised Edward as a king deliberately working towards the goal of a constitutional government.
Modern historians believe that this idea of mass British troop settlement in Brittany by Maximus may very well reflect some reality, as it accords with other historical evidence and later Breton traditions.
Its historical rejection of Enlightenment values distinguishes it from Western European-derived Modern Orthodox Judaism.
Modern interpretation of historical, archaeological and anthropological evidence has proposed two broad hypotheses.
Modern historical maps of the Qing period published in China mark the site of future Khabarovsk as " Boli ".

Modern and accounts
Modern tests and contemporary accounts agree therefore that well-made plate armour could protect against longbows, however there are a number of caveats to this point ; not all plate armour was well-made or well looked after, and there were also weak points in the eye and air holes and joints where arrows could penetrate, meaning that even if the armour was proof against nearly all arrows, being shot at by thousands of longbowmen would have been an uncomfortable experience, physically and mentally.
Subsequent historians examining the Early Modern witch trials, particularly Carlo Ginzburg, Eva Pocs and Emma Wilby have also emphasised that the accounts in many of the witch trials represent visionary experiences, containing within them imaginary and surreal elements, which goes against Murray's rationalization of the trial accounts.
Modern genetics has suggested some truth to both the claims of the Samaritans and the mainstream Jewish accounts in the Talmud.
Modern engineers have put forward a plausible hypothesis for the statue construction, based on the technology of those days ( which was not based on the modern principles of earthquake engineering ), and the accounts of Philo and Pliny who both saw and described the remains.
Modern liberal scholarship, says Marcus Borg, regards the biblical accounts of the birth of Jesus as symbolic narratives rather than factual history.
Modern understanding of the festival is pieced together from several accounts dealing with various aspects.
Modern perceptions of Nabonidus ' reign has been heavily coloured by accounts written well after his reign as king of Babylon, notably by the Persians and the Greeks.
In the British accounts from the Early Modern period at least, there were three main types of encounter narrative related to how a witch or cunning person first met their familiar.
She noted that in such tales as Rumpelstiltskin, Puss-in-Boots and the Frog Prince, the protagonist is approached by a supernatural being when they are in need of aid, something that she connected to the appearance of familiar spirits in the Early Modern accounts of them.
The June 1937 issue of Modern Mechanix relates the story from then-current accounts as follows: " Winchester and the baby girl died suddenly and Mrs Winchester, stunned by the tragedy, fell into a coma so serious that physicians despaired of her life.
Modern attempts to redesign production techniques are heavily based on Spanish records and accounts of witnessed obsidian knapping.
Modern genetics has suggested some truth to both the claims of the Samaritans and Jewish accounts in the Talmud.
Modern accounts hold that there were eighteen peoples in the region.
Modern research suggests this is a mixing of oral accounts, as Yuen Kay Shan's elder brother, Yuen Chai Wan, was pocked-faced and traveled to Vietnam in 1936, to teach Wing Chun Kuen to immigrants from Canton.
Modern historian John L. Nelson acknowledges the above accounts, but suggests that they were " made up ", and that in actuality Manley was likely born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, where he later became a merchant sea captain and married Hannah Cheevers in 1763, by which he had one surviving son John.
Although Germanic languages by most accounts affected the phonological development very little, Spanish words of Germanic origin are present in all varieties of Modern Spanish.
Modern translations of Andrade's accounts into Italian and French are found in Toscano ( 1977 ) and Didier ( 2002 ).

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