Olympics in Athens 1896: The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games.

* History Channel – Invention – Notable Modern Inventions and Discoveries

Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life.

* Spang, Rebecca L. The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture.

* Meyer, Karl E. and Shareen Blair Brysac, Kingmakers: the Invention of the Modern Middle East ( W. W. Norton, 2008 ) ISBN 978-0-393-06199-4.

*" Shakespeare and the Invention of the Heterosexual ", by Stephen Guy-Bray ; Early Modern Literary Studies, 13: 2 ( October 2007 ), 1 – 28.

Restless Genius: Barney Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern Journalism New York, NY.

Todd was profiled in Inventing Modern America, published by the Lemelson-MIT Program for Invention and Innovation, in which the story of the development of his innovative ecological waste treatment systems is highlighted.

* The Invention of Hebrew Prose: Modern Fiction and the Language Revolution, 1988, University of Washington Press.

The Atlantic Celts: Ancient People or Modern Invention?

Kingmakers: the Invention of the Modern Middle East, New York / London, W. W. Norton.

* Nancy G. Slack, G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology ( Yale University Press ; 2011 ) 457 pages

* Leo Charney and Vanessa Schwartz, eds., Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life ( Berkeley, 1995 ).

‘ The Old English kenning: A characteristic feature of Germanic poetical diction ?’ Modern Philology 67: 2, pp. 109 – 117.

The Beatles with Lacan: Rock ‘ n ’ Roll as Requiem for the Modern Age.

In ‘ A Modern Herbal ’, Mrs Grieves says “ A rosemary branch, richly gilded and tied with silken ribands of all colours, was also presented to wedding guests, as a symbol of love and loyalty .” If a young person would tap another with a rosemary sprig and if the sprig contained an open flower, it was said that the couple would fall in love.

From the 1998 textbook Modern Thermodynamics by Nobel Laureate and chemistry professor Ilya Prigogine we find: " As motion was explained by the Newtonian concept of force, chemists wanted a similar concept of ‘ driving force ’ for chemical change.

Siegal, K, ‘ Introduction to Modern Literary Theory ’, viewed 15 March 2011, http :// www. kristisiegel. com / theory. htm

Latin-n-in cani-n-us ‘ canine ' from Latin cani-s " dog ," Latin Roma-n-us ‘ Roman ’ from Latin Roma ‘ Rome ;’ Modern English wood-en from wood and ash-en from ash ).

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.

( 2007 ) ‘ Modern Slavery ,’ in: R. Ennals ( ed.

“ Lovelock ” is also the second track on Pitch Black ‘ s second album, This is the Modern Sound ( Revelation Records, 2005 ).

* Creating a ‘ Modern Apprenticeship ’: a critique of the UK ’ s multi-sector, social inclusion approach Alison Fuller and Lorna Unwin, 2003 ( pdf )

The Head Image, IMMA Series ( Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2006 ), with a contribution by Louis le Brocquy ‘ The Human Head, Notes on painting and awareness ’, 48 pp., 16 plates.

‘ Cornelius Agrippa ’ s School of Love: Teaching Plato ’ s Symposium in the Renaissance ’, in Practices of Gender in Late-Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed.

He held the regius professorship of Modern History at Oxford from 1858 to 1866, that “ ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the ‘ best instrument for cultivating the historical sense .” As a historian, indeed, he left no abiding work ; the multiplicity of his interests prevented him from concentrating on any one subject.

More recent projects include the new BBC Broadcasting House in London which won the ‘ New Build ( Modern Non-Load-bearing Stone ) Award ' in the 2006 Natural Stone Awards.

Modern architectural critics have lamented on the ‘ narrative of loss ’ within the public sphere.

Modern historians believe that he was hiding with some Lollard friends at a glade on Pant-mawr farm in Broniarth, in Wales called ‘ Cobham's Garden.

Though he is often content with his drumming remaining behind the music, “ his drumming is always part of the music's internal construction .” Modern Drummer magazine, in a 2004 interview, called DeJohnette ’ s drumming “ beyond technique .” While most of his drumming is considered free and flowing, he commented that he has to play with a lot of restraint when playing with Keith Jarrett and his trio, saying that he ’ s challenged when playing in that group “ to play with the subtlety that the music requires .” His work on the cymbals especially has been described as “ loose ,” creating an almost free tempo, and he calls himself an “ abstract thinker ” when it comes to soloing, saying that he puts “ more weight on the abstract than, ‘ What were you thinking in bar 33 ?’ I don ’ t like to think that way.

* Jonathan Harris, ‘ Laonikos Chalkokondyles and the rise of the Ottoman Empire ’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 27 ( 2003 ), 153-70.

These tests may be taken in Modern Ballroom, Latin American, Sequence, Disco Freestyle, Rock ‘ n ’ Roll, Country & Western, Classical Greek, Tap and National.

Modern writers suppose a possible connection between Belus and one or another god who bore the common northwest Semitic title Ba ‘ al.

In 2010, the Serpentine Gallery presented Hamilton ’ s ‘ Modern Moral Matters ’, an exhibition focusing on his political and protest works which were shown previously in 2008 at Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh.

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.

Some Old Breton vocabulary remains in the present day as philosophical and scientific terms in Modern Breton.

The Behistun Inscription ( also Bistun or Bisutun, Modern Persian: بیستون < Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning " the place of god ") is a multi-lingual inscription located on Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran.

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

Translations into the vernacular were done by famous notables, including King Alfred ( Old English ), Jean de Meun ( Old French ), Geoffrey Chaucer ( Middle English ), Queen Elizabeth I ( Early Modern English ), and Notker Labeo ( Old High German ).

The glossing was probably brought to England as Old French crimne ( 12th century form of Modern French crime ), from Latin crimen ( in the genitive case: criminis ).

Cumry is an evoluted form of the Old Welsh, with an assimilation of to first, the second element brogi changed into bro “ country ” in Modern Welsh.

Old English was a highly inflected language, as befits its Indo-European and especially its Germanic linguistic ancestry, but its declensions greatly simplified as it evolved into Modern English.

Adjectives are not declined for case in Modern English, though they were in Old English.

The article is never regarded as declined in Modern English, although technically the words this and that, and their plural forms these and those, are modern forms of the as it was declined in Old English.

The first languages for which standardisation was promoted included Italian (" questione della lingua ": Modern Tuscan / Florentine vs. Old Tuscan / Florentine vs. Venetian > Modern Florentine + archaic Tuscan + Upper Italian ), French ( the standard is based on Parisian ), English ( the standard is based on the London dialect ) and ( High ) German ( based on the dialects of the chancellery of Meissen in Saxony, Middle German and the chancellery of Prague in Bohemia (" Common German ")).

The Old French term esbat ( Modern French ébat ) meant amusement or diversion, with a connotation of frolicking.

The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture ( Oxford, 1987 – 94 ) vol 1: The Political Culture of the Old Regime, ed.

The Modern English word " fox " is Old English, and comes from the Proto-Germanic word fukh – compare German Fuchs, Gothic fauho, Old Norse foa and Dutch vos.

Forseti ( Old Norse " the presiding one ," actually " president " in Modern Icelandic and Faroese ) is an Æsir god of justice and reconciliation in Norse mythology.

The personal pronouns of Modern English retain morphological case more strongly than any other word class ( a remnant of the more extensive case system of Old English ).

With this new vocabulary, additional vocabulary borrowed from Latin ( with Greek, another approximately one-third of Modern English vocabulary, though some borrowings from Latin and Greek date from later periods ), a simplified grammar, and use of the orthographic conventions of French instead of Old English orthography, the language became Middle English ( the language of Chaucer ).

Due to these extra syllables, it has been hypothesized that Old Japanese's vowel system was larger than Modern Japanese's – perhaps containing up to eight vowels.

Baskerville represents the peak of transitional type face and bridges the gap between Old Style and Modern type design.

Khazars were judged according to Tōra ( orders of the Khagan ; coming from the root Tōr meaning customs ; unwritten law of people in Old Turkic ) ( Modern Turkish: Töre ), while the other tribes were judged according to their own laws.

Old Norse kenna ( Modern Icelandic kenna, Swedish känna, Danish kende, Norwegian kjenne or kjenna ) is cognate with Old English cennan, Old Frisian kenna, kanna, Old Saxon ( ant ) kennian ( Middle Dutch and Dutch kennen ), Old High German ( ir -, in -, pi -) chennan ( Middle High German and German kennen ), Gothic kannjan < Proto-Germanic * kannjanan, originally causative of * kunnanan “ to know ( how to )”, whence Modern English can ' to be able ' ( from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Modern English know and Latin-derived cognition ).