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Modern architecture
Modern architecture is the family of movements that arose from the late 19th century onward, breaking with historical styles in favor of steel, concrete, glass, and functional design.
Modern art
Modern art, also called Modernist art, is the art of Western Europe and North America from roughly the 1860s to the 1970s, rejecting academic tradition for experimentation.
Modern Art Week
Modern Art Week, Portuguese Semana de Arte Moderna or Semana de 22, was a 1922 festival at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo that launched Brazilian modernism.
Modern Baseball
Modern Baseball (MoBo), Philadelphia pop-punk/emo band formed around 2011-2012 by Brendan Lukens and Jake Ewald with Ian Farmer and Sean Huber; albums Sports, You're Gonna Miss It All, and acclaimed Holy Ghost (2016) before a 2017 mental-health hiatus.
Modern Breakthrough
The Modern Breakthrough (Danish: det moderne gennembrud) was a Scandinavian literary movement, centered in Copenhagen from about 1870 to 1890, that replaced romanticism with critical realism.
Modern Chess Openings
Modern Chess Openings (MCO), the one-volume English chess openings reference first published 1911 by R.C. Griffith and J.H. White, nicknamed the chess player's bible; latest edition is the 15th, edited by Nick de Firmian, organized by opening name and move order.
Modern Cosmology (book)
Modern Cosmology is a graduate-level cosmology textbook by Scott Dodelson, first published by Academic Press in 2003 and now in a third edition with Fabian Schmidt.
Modern dance
Modern dance: concert dance form born in the early 20th century as a rebellion against ballet, pioneered by Isadora Duncan, Loie Fuller, and Martha Graham; developed named techniques, 1960s postmodern offshoots, and today's contemporary fusions.
Modern data stack
Modern data stack (MDS): modular, cloud-based tools for data ingestion, warehousing, transformation, BI, orchestration, observability, and governance. Built on ELT around cloud warehouses like Snowflake and Databricks; criticized as a marketing term amid tool sprawl and vendor consolidation.
Modern display of the Confederate battle flag
Modern display of the Confederate battle flag, the Southern Cross or rebel flag: never the CSA's official flag, revived by 1948 Dixiecrats, adopted by Georgia (1956) and South Carolina (1961), removed from South Carolina's statehouse in 2015, now a contested hate/heritage symbol.
Modern Drummer
Modern Drummer, also known as Modern Drummer Magazine, is an American monthly drumming magazine founded in 1977 by drummer Ron Spagnardi, known for interviews, gear reviews, and educational columns.
Modern Egypt
Modern Egypt (مصر الحديثة) is a two-volume work on the British occupation of Egypt, published in New York in 1908 by Evelyn Baring, Earl of Cromer, and read as his justification for his own rule.
Modern Egyptian literature
Modern Egyptian literature is the Arabic-language literature of Egypt from the French expedition of 1798 onward, producing Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Modern Egyptian novel
The modern Egyptian novel is the Arabic-language novel tradition that took shape in Egypt in the early twentieth century, reaching a peak in the work of Naguib Mahfouz.
Modern Egyptian poetry
Modern Egyptian poetry (الشعر المصري الحديث) is Arabic poetry written in Egypt from the late nineteenth century onward, beginning with the revival school of Mahmoud Sami al-Baroudi.
Modern Egyptian theatre
Modern Egyptian theatre is the Arabic-language, Western-style stage drama that took root in Egypt from the second half of the nineteenth century and led the Arab world.
Modern English
Modern English: the stage of English from about 1450-1500 to today, after Old and Middle English; analytic grammar, fixed word order, Great Vowel Shift, Early/Late Modern split, global spread.
Modern English (band)
Modern English is an English post-punk/new wave band formed in 1979 in Colchester, Essex, signed early to 4AD. Known for the 1982 single "I Melt with You," a number-78 Billboard hit from After the Snow, featured in Valley Girl and later RIAA-certified gold.
Modern English Bible translations
Modern English Bible translations are English renderings of the Hebrew Bible and Greek New Testament made since the mid-twentieth century, led by the NIV and ESV.
Modern era
Modern era: the historiographical period after the Middle Ages, also called modernity, conventionally starting in the 16th century and marked by the Renaissance, Reformation, Industrial Revolution, colonialism, and contested Eurocentric periodization.
Modern Family
Modern Family is an American ABC mockumentary family sitcom (2009-2020, 11 seasons) created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan, following the Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker extended family; it won 22 Emmys from 85 nominations and a 2009 Peabody Award.
Modern Farming (现代牧业)
Modern Farming (现代牧业), formally China Modern Dairy Holdings Ltd, is a large-scale dairy farming company founded in 2005 in Ma'anshan, Anhui, China, and majority-controlled by Mengniu Dairy.
Modern flat Earth beliefs
Modern flat Earth beliefs (flat-earthism, Flat Earth Society): contemporary conspiracy belief that Earth is a flat disc with an Antarctic ice wall and a NASA-led cover-up; refuted by geodesy, gravity, and astronomy; held by roughly 2 to 10 percent in surveys.
Modern Greek
Modern Greek (Νέα Ελληνικά), also called Neo-Hellenic, is the standard spoken and written form of Greek, official in Greece and Cyprus and an EU language since 1981.
Modern Gulf novel
The modern Gulf novel (الرواية الخليجية) is the novel literature of the six Gulf Cooperation Council states, starting in Saudi Arabia in 1930 and flourishing after the oil boom.
Modern Hebrew (עברית חדשה)
Modern Hebrew, also known as Israeli Hebrew, is the Hebrew language as spoken today, revived from liturgical use in the late 1800s and now the everyday language of Israel.
Modern Hebrew phonology
Modern Hebrew phonology: the sound system of revived spoken Hebrew, with five vowels, merged emphatics and gutturals, final stress cued by duration, and a conservative abjad orthography.
Modern Hebrew poetry
Modern Hebrew poetry is poetry written in Hebrew from the late eighteenth-century Haskalah onward, emerging in Eastern Europe and canonized by Hayim Nahman Bialik's second book in 1908.
Modern History of Mexico
The modern history of Mexico is the branch of Mexican historiography covering the national period since 1810, supported by a dedicated UNAM journal since 1965 and Daniel Cosío Villegas's landmark synthesis, Historia moderna de México.
Modern history of Ukraine
Modern history of Ukraine: the Ukrainian People's Republic, Soviet incorporation, the 1932–1933 Holodomor, independence, the Orange Revolution and Euromaidan, and Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion and its costs.