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In his pastoral work Arcadia ( 1504 ), Jacopo Sannazaro fixed the Early Modern perception of Arcadia as a lost world of idyllic bliss, remembered in regretful dirges.
Modern approaches to physical ( sensory ) perception, such as research on vision or hearing, measure what the perceiver's judgment extracts from the stimulus, putting aside the question what sensations are being experienced.
Modern Art is the interpretation of the Classical concept conditioned by the artist ’ s new experience with the aid of improved means of aesthetic expression .” Not conforming to the academic perception of art, he made art available to the common man.
Modern shutters are designed with a flicker-rate of two times ( 48 Hz ) or even sometimes three times ( 72 Hz ) the frame rate of the film, so as to reduce the perception of screen flickering.
Modern influences have transformed popular perception so that the mangkukulam now also uses the equivalent of a doll.
In 1502 Jacopo Sannazaro published his long poem Arcadia that fixed the Early Modern perception of Arcadia as a lost world of idyllic bliss, remembered in regretful dirges.

Modern and war
Modern historians disagree on whether the plague was a critical factor in the loss of the war.
More recently, William D. Rubinstein, Professor of Modern History at Aberystwyth University, Wales, wrote that Conservative politician and pro-Zionist Leo Amery, as Assistant Secretary to the British war cabinet in 1917, was the main author of the Balfour Declaration.
Modern historians have used this to determine both the nature of his politics and of the aborted chapters of his civil war history.
Modern interpretations see this period as a civil war between Hellenized and orthodox forms of Judaism.
After the war ended Sartre established Les Temps Modernes ( Modern Times ), a quarterly literary and political review, and started writing full-time as well as continuing his political activism.
During the Renaissance and the Early Modern period, siege warfare dominated the conduct of war in Europe.
Modern historians have extensively debated the extent to which Stephen's personality, external events or the weaknesses in the Norman state contributed to this prolonged period of civil war.
Early ' modern ' wargaming, as popularised by Grant and Featherstone, usually broke down the history into " Ancients ", usually Biblical and Classical eras, " Horse and Musket ", covering the 18th and 19th centuries, and " Modern ", World war Two onwards.
Modern reconstruction of Hussite war wagon.
Modern sensibilities have been shaped by a profound reaction to the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Axis Powers in the Second World War, which have led to a sweeping international rejection of most if not all aspects of the practice.
Born from the Bauhaus and Art Deco / Streamline styles came the post WWII " Mid-Century Modern " style using materials developed during the war including lamenated plywood, plastics and fiberglass.
" Joan Beaumont, writing in the December, 1995 issue of The Journal of Modern History, discussed the reactions to the book and concluded "( T ) he landscape of the history of the Second World War, and of prisoners of war, remains permanently changed by Bacques's work.
In Irish mythology, the Badb ( Old Irish, ) or Badhbh ( Modern Irish, )— meaning " crow "— was a war goddess who took the form of a crow, and was thus sometimes known as Badb Catha (" battle crow ").
In the foreword of the 2005 edition of Alas, Babylon, David Brin notes that the book was instrumental in shaping his views on nuclear war and had an effect on his own book, The Postman ( pp. xi-xii, ISBN 0-06-074187-2, Harper Perennial Modern Classics ).
Modern laws of war regarding conduct during war ( jus in bello ), such as the 1949 Geneva Conventions, provide that it is unlawful for belligerents to engage in combat without meeting certain requirements, among them the wearing of a distinctive uniform or other distinctive signs visible at a distance, and the carrying of weapons openly.
Modern laws of war, such as the 1949 Geneva Conventions, also include prohibitions on attacking doctors, ambulances or hospital ships displaying a Red Cross, a Red Crescent or other emblem related to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Modern hospital ships display large Red Crosses or Red Crescents to signify their Geneva convention protection under the laws of war.
Modern lyrics still consist of evil, Norse mythology, sex, violence and war.
The School was finished after the war as two separate Secondary Modern Schools.
Modern scholars reject this interpretation, and credit Peng with both the successes and failures of the war.
Modern historical accounts suggest that, while it was effective in pitched-battle situations such as the Matabele war or the 1898 Battle of Omdurman, its significance owed much to the psychological impact the weapon had.
Modern Jewish war ethics have been developed especially in relationship to the Israeli military's doctrine of Purity of arms.
File: Dietkirchen Kriegsgraeber Iren. jpg | Modern Celtic cross of a war monument in Limburg-Dietkirchen, Germany

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Modern writers, who are supposed to keep their fingers firmly upon the pulse of their subjects, insist upon drawing out this legend, prolonging its burial, when it well deserves a rest after the overexploitation of the past century.
Modern embroidered panels, framed and meant to be hung on the wall, are another aspect of this trend.
Modern Zen presentation to the West insists on the anti-authoritarian, highly pragmatic nature of the Zen belief -- scriptures are burned to make fire, action is based on direct self-confidence, and so on.
Modern music is available in several facets: raï music is a style typical of Western Algeria with his two fiefs are Oran and Sidi Bel Abbès.
Modern discussions of alchemy are generally split into an examination of its exoteric practical applications, and its esoteric aspects.
Modern definitions are concerned with the fundamental chemical reactions common to all acids.
Modern critics are more likely to find fault with the narrow definition of the citizen body, but in the ancient world the complaint if anything went in the opposite direction.
Modern antibiotics are tested using a method similar to Fleming's discovery
Modern arrows are made to a specified ' spine ', or stiffness rating, to maintain matched flexing and hence accuracy of aim.
Modern blóts are celebrated several times during the year.
Modern IFVs are well-armed infantry carriers, differencing from earlier APCs by their heavier armament allowing them to give direct-fire support during an assault.
Modern self-propelled artillery vehicles may superficially resemble tanks, but they are generally lightly armoured, too lightly to survive in direct-fire combat.
* Modern Christians typically believe it is acceptable to play instruments or to attend weddings, funerals, banquets, etc., where instruments are heard.
Modern cisterns are usually large plastic tanks.
Modern CPUs are typically 2-operand or 3-operand machines — the additional operands specify which one of many general purpose registers ( also called " general purpose accumulators ") are used as the source and destination for calculations.
Modern bridge are currently built in concrete, steel, fiber reinforced polymers ( FRP ), stainless steel or combinations of those materials.
Modern birds are characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton.
Modern steal rules were fully implemented in 1898, and steals are now only credited when a runner successfully takes an extra base while the ball is being pitched, but not already hit.
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 variants of the Batavian founding myth are made more credible by pointing out that the Batavians were only part of the ancestry of the Dutch people, together with the Frisians, Franks and Saxons, and by tracing patterns of DNA.
Modern scholars have instead proposed that, with the eponymous Benjamin being just a metaphor, son of the south / son of the right are references to the tribe's being subordinate to the more dominant tribe of Ephraim.
Modern boomerangs used for sport are often made from carbon fibre-reinforced plastics, thin aircraft plywood, or other high-tech materials.
Modern clay bricks are formed in one of three processes-soft mud, dry press, or extruded.

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