Some articles on modern:
History - Decline and Survival of Archery
... The revival of modern primitive archery may be traced to Ishi, who came out of hiding in California in 1911 Ishi was the last of the Yahi Indian tribe ... They led the commercial development of new forms of bow including the modern recurve and compound bow ... These modern forms are now dominant in modern Western archery traditional bows are in a minority ...
... The revival of modern primitive archery may be traced to Ishi, who came out of hiding in California in 1911 Ishi was the last of the Yahi Indian tribe ... They led the commercial development of new forms of bow including the modern recurve and compound bow ... These modern forms are now dominant in modern Western archery traditional bows are in a minority ...
History Of Palau - Pre-contact
... languages, and so does not shed much light on the origins of the modern population ... that it may derive from the Sunda Islands (modern Indonesia) ... women and first daughters but there is also a modern patrilineal sentiment introduced by imperial Japan ...
... languages, and so does not shed much light on the origins of the modern population ... that it may derive from the Sunda Islands (modern Indonesia) ... women and first daughters but there is also a modern patrilineal sentiment introduced by imperial Japan ...
Metropolitan Museum Of Art - Collections - Modern Art
... by European and American artists, the modern art collection occupies 60,000 square feet (6,000 m2), of gallery space and contains many iconic modern works ... remarkable depth, for a museum whose focus is not exclusively on modern art for example, the collection contains forty paintings by Paul Klee, spanning his entire ...
... by European and American artists, the modern art collection occupies 60,000 square feet (6,000 m2), of gallery space and contains many iconic modern works ... remarkable depth, for a museum whose focus is not exclusively on modern art for example, the collection contains forty paintings by Paul Klee, spanning his entire ...
Chinese Historiography - Schools - Modernism
... Chinese history sees Chinese society as a "traditional" society needing to become "modern", usually with the implicit assumption that Western society is the definition of modern society ... for breaking the society from its static past and bringing them into the modern world under European direction ... tradition" which argued that although China did change in the pre-modern period but that this change existed within certain cultural traditions ...
... Chinese history sees Chinese society as a "traditional" society needing to become "modern", usually with the implicit assumption that Western society is the definition of modern society ... for breaking the society from its static past and bringing them into the modern world under European direction ... tradition" which argued that although China did change in the pre-modern period but that this change existed within certain cultural traditions ...
Adamic Language - Modern - Latter-day Saints Movement
... Some other early Latter-day Saint leaders, including Brigham Young, Orson Pratt and Elizabeth Ann Whitney claimed to have received several words in the Adamic language in revelations ... Some Latter-day Saints believe that the Adamic language is the "pure language" spoken of by Zephaniah and that it will be restored as the universal language of humankind at the end of the world ...
... Some other early Latter-day Saint leaders, including Brigham Young, Orson Pratt and Elizabeth Ann Whitney claimed to have received several words in the Adamic language in revelations ... Some Latter-day Saints believe that the Adamic language is the "pure language" spoken of by Zephaniah and that it will be restored as the universal language of humankind at the end of the world ...
More definitions of "modern":
- (adj): Used of a living language; being the current stage in its development.
Example: "Modern English"
Synonyms: New
- (noun): A typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes.
Synonyms: modern font, Bodoni, Bodoni font
- (adj): Characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture.
- (adj): Ahead of the times.
Synonyms: advanced, forward-looking, innovative
- (adj): Belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages.
Example: "Modern art"; "modern furniture"; "modern history"; "totem poles are modern rather than prehistoric"
- (adj): Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.
Example: "Their offices are in a modern skyscraper"
Synonyms: mod, modernistic
Famous quotes containing the word modern:
“The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art ... is merely romantic fiction.... The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
“A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)