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Modern immigration to the United Kingdom

Modern immigration to the United Kingdom, also called UK migration since 1945, covers Commonwealth arrival after the 1948 Windrush, the 1962 and 1971 control acts, post-Brexit record net migration of 944,000, and its fall to 171,000 by 2025.

Modern Indonesian literature

Modern Indonesian literature is the national literature of Indonesia written in the Indonesian language, distinct from regional literatures in Javanese and Sundanese, conventionally dated from around 1920 with the Balai Pustaka romance period.

Modern Iraqi novel

The modern Iraqi novel is the tradition of novel-length Arabic fiction by Iraqi authors, tied to Iraq's founding in 1918 and maturing in the realist 1960s.

Modern Iraqi poetry

Modern Iraqi poetry is the Arabic-language poetry of Iraq, pioneered in free verse by Nazik al-Mala'ika and Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, whose 1947 works led Arabic poetry.

Modern Ireland 1600–1972

Modern Ireland 1600–1972 is a single-volume history of Ireland by the historian R. F. Foster, published in London in 1988 and central to the debate over revisionist Irish historiography.

Modern Javanese literature

Modern Javanese literature (Javanese: sastra Jawa modern, or sastra gagrag anyar) is writing in Javanese since the late nineteenth century in Western-derived genres such as the novel, the short story, and the essay.

Modern Lebanese literature

Modern Lebanese literature is fiction, poetry, and drama by Lebanese writers since the late nineteenth-century Nahda, written in Arabic, French, and English at home and abroad.

Modern liberalism in the United States

Modern liberalism in the United States is the 20th-century welfare-state tradition rooted in the New Deal and Great Society, distinct from classical liberalism; it is the Democratic Party's governing philosophy favoring government economic intervention and civil rights.

Modern Library

The Modern Library is a Penguin Random House publishing imprint of affordable hardbound literature, founded in 1917 by Boni and Liveright and known for its 1998 100 Best Novels list.

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Modern Life Is Rubbish: Blur's second studio album (10 May 1993), produced by Stephen Street, UK Albums Chart No. 15, a cornerstone of Britpop; the title is also shared by a 2018 romance comedy film.

Modern Literature (journal)

Modern Literature (现代文学) was a Taiwanese literary magazine founded in 1960 by National Taiwan University students including Pai Hsien-yung, the leading journal of Taiwan's 1960s modernist literary movement.

Modern Locomotives Illustrated

Modern Locomotives Illustrated was a British bi-monthly railway magazine, published from 2008 to 2021, with each issue devoted to one class of modern diesel or electric locomotives.

Modern Love (TV series)

Modern Love is an Amazon Prime Video romantic anthology series (2019-2021, 16 episodes) created by John Carney, adapting essays from the New York Times column edited by Daniel Jones, with two seasons and international versions.

Modern Love Chennai

Modern Love Chennai is a 2023 Tamil-language six-episode romantic anthology on Prime Video, adapted from the New York Times Modern Love column, created by Thiagarajan Kumararaja, third Indian edition after Mumbai and Hyderabad.

Modern Love Hyderabad

Modern Love Hyderabad is a 2022 Telugu-language Prime Video anthology, six episodes adapted from the New York Times Modern Love column, showrun by Nagesh Kukunoor, second Indian version after Mumbai.

Modern Love Tokyo

Modern Love Tokyo (モダンラブ・東京~さまざまな愛の形~) is a 2022 Japanese Prime Video anthology, a seven-episode adaptation of the NYT Modern Love column, with six directors including Kiyoshi Kurosawa and an anime finale by Naoko Yamada.

Modern Love: Mumbai

Modern Love Mumbai is a 2022 Hindi-language Amazon Prime Video anthology, the first Indian adaptation of the Modern Love franchise, with six episodes by Bhardwaj, Mehta, Bose, Shrivastava, Sehgal, and Asthana.

Modern Malayalam poetry

Modern Malayalam poetry (ആധുനിക മലയാള കവിത) is Malayalam poetry from the late 1800s onward that broke with the neoclassical mahakavya tradition, led by Kumaran Asan, Ulloor, and Vallathol.

Modern Milkman

Modern Milkman is a British sustainable grocery delivery company founded by Simon Mellin in 2018, delivering milk in reusable glass bottles and groceries up to three times a week.

Modern Moroccan literature

Modern Moroccan literature is the body of writing by Moroccans since the 1930s and 1940s, defined by its linguistic plurality across Arabic, Darija, Tamazight, French, and Spanish.

Modern Nepali poetry

Modern Nepali poetry is Nepali-language poetry written from the early twentieth century onward, shaped by the fall of the Rana regime and Nepal's democratic movements of 1990 and 2006.

Modern Odia poetry

Modern Odia poetry (ଆଧୁନିକ ଓଡ଼ିଆ କବିତା, adhunika Odia kabita) is poetry in the Odia language from the late 1800s onward that broke with courtly and devotional forms.

Modern Orthodox Judaism

Modern Orthodox Judaism, also known as Modern Orthodoxy, is a movement within Orthodox Judaism whose adherents keep Jewish law fully while embracing secular education, modern culture, and Zionism.

Modern paganism

Modern paganism, also called neopaganism, is a family of new religious movements reviving pre-Christian religions, including Wicca, Druidry, Heathenry, and Hellenism, forming since the 1930s.

Modern Painters

Modern Painters is a five-volume work of art criticism by John Ruskin, published from 1843 to 1860, defending J.M.W. Turner as the greatest landscape painter.

Modern pentathlon

Modern pentathlon: Olympic multisport since 1912, founded by Pierre de Coubertin, combining fencing, swimming, laser run, and formerly equestrian show jumping, replaced by obstacle racing for LA 2028 after the Tokyo 2021 horse-punching controversy.

Modern philosophy

Modern philosophy (西方近代哲学, early modern philosophy): Western philosophy c. 1500–1800, from Descartes's epistemological turn through rationalism, empiricism, and Kant's synthesis, now revised by historiographic critique.

Modern Poetry (Taiwan)

Modern poetry (現代詩) is the modernist verse movement that developed in Taiwan from the 1950s around poetry societies such as Modern Poetry, Blue Star, and Epoch.

Modern portfolio theory

Modern portfolio theory, also known as Markowitz portfolio theory, is a framework for choosing investments by balancing expected return against risk, introduced by Harry Markowitz in 1952.

Modern Quantum Mechanics

Modern Quantum Mechanics is a graduate-level quantum mechanics textbook begun by J. J. Sakurai, completed by San Fu Tuan in 1985 and revised by Jim Napolitano.