Modern smartphones also include high-resolution touchscreens and web browsers that display standard web pages as well as mobile-optimized sites.

Modern Kabbalah developed by Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, in his writings about the future generation, focuses on how society could achieve an altruistic social framework.

Modern antitrust law could be said to derive in some ways from the original statutes by which the guilds were abolished in Europe.

Modern Orthodox Judaism developed in reaction to Reform Judaism, by leaders who argued that Jews could participate in public life as citizens equal to Christians, while maintaining the observance of Jewish law.

Modern excavations have discovered portions tapering column drums that may belonged to the turning posts at either end of the race-course, from whose location it appears that the hippodrome could have had a length of 320 meters and a width of 140.

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.

In particular, he was regarded in the Romantic era as embodying the lone genius whose efforts to improve human existence could also result in tragedy: Mary Shelley, for instance, gave The Modern Prometheus as the subtitle to her novel Frankenstein ( 1818 ).

Following Pearl Harbor, officials grew apprehensive that the film could project an unduly negative image of the US internationally, and although a prestige opening was held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1942, the film was never authorized for general release.

This categorization of Satanism ( which could be categorized in other ways, for example " Traditional " versus " Modern "), is not necessarily adopted by Satanists themselves, who usually would not specify which type of Satanism they adhere to.

Larry Bray held the previous world record ( 1982 ), in which a 52 g stone was thrown 437. 1 m. Modern authorities vary widely in their estimates of the effective range of ancient weapons and of course bows and arrows could also have been used to produce a long-range arcing trajectory, but ancient writers repeatedly stress the sling's advantage of range.

However, according to Claudia Zaslavsky's book Tic Tac Toe: And Other Three-In-A Row Games from Ancient Egypt to the Modern Computer, Tic-Tac-Toe could originate back to ancient Egypt.

Modern theorists were focused on achieving progress and believed in the existence of natural and social laws which could be used universally to develop knowledge and thus a better understanding of society.

Eating fresh " garden " peas before they were matured was a luxurious innovation of the Early Modern period: by contrast with the coarse, traditional peasant fare of pease pottage, Potage Saint-Germain, made of fresh peas and other fresh greens braised in light stock and pureed, was an innovation sufficiently refined that it could be served to Louis XIV of France, for whose court at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye it was named, ca 1660-80.

Modern historians, using estimates of what the land was able to support, and what Martel could have raised from his realm and supported during the campaign, believe the total Muslim force, counting the outlying raiding parties, which rejoined the main body before Tours, badly outnumbered the Franks.

Chancery Standard was not the only influence on later forms of English — its level of influence is disputed and a variety of spoken dialects continued to exist — but it provided a core around which Early Modern English could crystallise.

Modern technology such as railroads and gas lamps were conveniences which the rising bourgeoisie could enjoy in their leisurely lifestyle.

Modern characters, on the other hand, stand in a wealth of more accidental circumstances, within which one could act this way or that, so that the conflict which is, though occasioned by external preconditions, still essentially grounded in the character.

Modern targeting techniques allied with multiple strikes could perform a similar task.

Modern drilling techniques utilize long drill shafts, producing holes much narrower and deeper than could be produced by digging.

" In 1994, in The Western Canon, Harold Bloom wrote of Finnegans Wake: " aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante ," and in 1998 the Modern Library placed Finnegans Wake seventy-seventh amongst its list of " Top 100 English-language novels of the twentieth century.

Looking across Indo-European languages, it becomes apparent that the name could be cognate with Old English fealu ‘ pale, faded, dark, yellowish-brown ,’ Modern English fallow, from Proto-Germanic * falwaz, cognate with Old Norse fölr, Middle Dutch valu, German falb, from Proto-Indo-European * polwos ‘ dark-colored, gray ,’ cf.

He was perfectly skill'd in the History of Architecture, and could give exact account of all the famous buildings, both Antient ( sic ) and Modern, in every part of the world ; to which his excellent memory, that never fail'd him to the very last, greatly contributed.

They decided to have a contest to see who could write the scariest story, leading Shelley to write Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus and Lord Byron to write " A Fragment ", which Polidori later stole and rewrote as The Vampyre — a precursor to Dracula.

Modern hobbyists often use pressure flaking tools with a copper or brass tip, but early knappers could have used antler tines or a pointed wooden punch ; traditionalist knappers still use antler tines and copper-tipped tools.

Modern embroidered panels, framed and meant to be hung on the wall, are another aspect of this trend.

Modern psychology has shown that paralleling `` the authoritarian personality '' is `` the bigoted personality '' in which insecurity, inferiority, suspicion, and distrust combine to provide a target for antagonism so indispensable that it will be manufactured if it does not exist naturally.

For instance, according to Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, the Arabic root ( to sacrifice ) can be derived the forms ( he sacrificed ), ( you ( masculine singular ) sacrificed ), ( he slaughtered ), ( he slaughters ), and ( slaughterhouse ).

Modern moorings may be anchored by sand screws which look and act very much like oversized screws drilled into the seabed, or by barbed metal beams pounded in ( or even driven in with explosives ) like pilings, or a variety of other non-mass means of getting a grip on the bottom.

Modern writers tend to be slightly more critical of Agesilaus ' reputation and achievements, reckoning him an excellent soldier, but one who had a poor understanding of sea power and siegecraft.

Modern displays allow weather information to be integrated with moving maps, terrain, and traffic onto a single screen, greatly simplifying navigation.

Modern field artillery can also be split into two other categories: towed and self-propelled.

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.

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.

Modern returning boomerangs can be of various shapes or sizes as can be seen in a photo in the Modern use section.

Modern biotechnology can be used to manufacture existing medicines relatively easily and cheaply.

Modern biotechnology can be used to slow down the process of spoilage so that fruit can ripen longer on the plant and then be transported to the consumer with a still reasonable shelf life.

Although some of Chaplin's critics have claimed that credit for his film music should be given to the composers who worked with him, for example Raksin, who worked with Chaplin on Modern Times, has stressed Chaplin's creative position and active participation in the composing process.

Modern Christian churches tend to be much more concerned with how humanity can be saved from a universal condition of sin and death than the question of how both Jews and Gentiles can be in God's family.

The changes during this period are so profound that the rules of Modern Khmer can not be applied to correctly understand Old Khmer.

Modern encryption methods can be divided by two criteria: by type of key used, and by type of input data.

Modern music may also be termed " Celtic " because it is written and recorded in a Celtic language, regardless of musical style.

Modern climate classification methods can be broadly divided into genetic methods, which focus on the causes of climate, and empiric methods, which focus on the effects of climate.

Modern dates are understood in the Western world to be in the Gregorian calendar, but for older dates writers should specify the calendar used.