Previously to this, in 1862, he issued his History of Modern Architecture, in which the subject was continued from the Renaissance to the present day, the period of modern architecture being distinguished as that of revivals and imitations of ancient styles, which began with the Renaissance.

Modern roosters have lost the art of crowing restless spirits back to Purgatory.

Modern times have changed the world beyond recognition.

He was able to smell a bargain -- and a masterpiece -- a continent away, and the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr said of him: `` I have never mentioned a new artist that Thompson didn't know about ''.

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 amphibians have fully ossified vertebrae with articular processes.

Modern anchors for smaller vessels have metal flukes which hook on to rocks on the bottom or bury themselves in soft bottoms.

Modern experiments have tested claims that Archimedes designed machines capable of lifting attacking ships out of the water and setting ships on fire using an array of mirrors.

Modern aestheticians have asserted that will and desire were almost dormant in aesthetic experience, yet preference and choice have seemed important aesthetics to some 20th-century thinkers.

Modern English, which almost entirely lacks declension in its nouns, does not have an explicitly marked accusative case even in the pronouns.

Modern glues have improved flexibility, toughness, curing rate, and chemical resistance.

Modern 155 mm guns have a primer magazine fitted to their breech.

Modern Class AB amplifiers commonly have peak efficiencies between 30 – 55 % in audio systems and 50-70 % in radio frequency systems with a theoretical maximum of 78. 5 %.

Modern studies have shown the important role such concepts played in the world-view of Early Medieval scholars.

Modern historians have completed many studies of Bede's works.

Modern historians have studied the Historia extensively, and a number of editions have been produced.

Modern historians and editors of Bede have been lavish in their praise of his achievement in the Historia Ecclesiastica.

Modern battles now continue to resemble that of World War II, though prominent innovations have been added.

Recently, the team at the Institute of Modern Physics ( IMP ), Lanzhou, have studied the nuclear reaction between americium-243 and magnesium-26 ions in order to synthesise the new isotope < sup > 265 </ sup > Bh

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.

In some published editions of the Bible, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah have been presented together as a single book, for example, in The Modern Reader's Bible ( 1907 ) and The Books of the Bible ( 2007 ).

Modern Christian hymns have been inspired by the words of the prophet Habakkuk.

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.

Modern hospitals now have available spare parts to replace a part of the body that is badly damaged by injury or disease.

By now he had become Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and had been honored by the award of the Order of Merit.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

Modern Algerian literature, split between Arabic, Kabyle and French, has been strongly influenced by the country's recent history.

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

* 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.

It is written in English, very similar to the Early Modern English linguistic style of the King James Version of the Bible, and has since been fully or partially translated into 108 languages.

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 ).

More recently, Modern Family character Cameron Tucker has been shown as a Bears fan.

The Cubs have won 10 of those pennants in Major League Baseball's Modern Era ( 1901 – present ), while all 18 of the Cardinals ' have been won since 1901.

Modern citizenship has often been looked at as two competing underlying ideas:

Modern population censuses have been taken in Guatemala in 1930, 1950, 1964, 1973, 1981, 1994 and in 2002.

Modern oxygen breathing animals would have been biochemically impossible until earlier photosynthetic life transformed Earth's atmosphere.

Since this time, a wide variety of dance styles have been developed ; see Modern dance.

Modern American politics has been described as a duopoly since the Republican and Democratic parties have dominated and framed policy debate as well as the public discourse on matters of national concern for about a century and a half.

Modern disc golf started in the early 1960s, when it seems to have been invented in many places and by many people independently.

Diana's cult has been related in Early Modern Europe to the cult of Nicevenn ( aka Dame Habond, Perchta, Herodiana, etc .).

Modern deists believe that they must continue what the classical deists started and continue to use modern human knowledge to come to understand God, which in turn is why a human-like God that can lead to numerous contradictions and inconsistencies is no longer believed in and has been replaced with a much more abstract conception.

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.

Modern distance education initially relied on the development of postal services in the 19th century and has been practised at least since Isaac Pitman taught shorthand in Great Britain via correspondence in the 1840s.