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Modernist Kaunas: Architecture of Optimism, 1919-1939
Modernist Kaunas: Architecture of Optimism, 1919-1939, a UNESCO World Heritage property (inscribed 2023, criterion iv) in Naujamiestis and Žaliakalnis, Kaunas, Lithuania: about 1,500 of 6,000 surviving interwar modernist buildings across 455.3 ha of the former provisional capital.
Modernist little magazines
Modernist little magazines were small-circulation periodicals, kept alive by patronage, that between roughly 1914 and 1929 printed central texts of literary modernism, including Ulysses and "The Waste Land".
Modernist poetry (Xiandai school)
Modernist poetry (Xiandai pai, 现代派) is a school of Chinese new poetry formed in Shanghai in the early 1930s around the magazine Xiandai, led by Dai Wangshu.
Modernist poetry in English
Modernist poetry in English: experimental anglophone verse, c. 1910s to mid-1940s, from Imagism to Eliot, Pound, Williams, and Stevens; free verse, fragmentation, and reaction against Victorian formalism.
Modernist poetry in the United States
Modernist poetry in the United States is the American poetry of roughly the 1910s to the 1940s that broke with Romantic and Victorian conventions through formal experimentation.
Modernist theatre
Modernist theatre: dramatic work from the 1880s to mid-1900s under modernism, covering Naturalism, Symbolism, Futurism, Expressionism, and later absurdism and epic theatre, by Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Brecht, and Beckett.
Modernity
Modernity: concept naming both the historical epoch after the medieval period and post-Enlightenment cultural and institutional features; covers periodization, modernization theory, multiple modernities, and critiques.
Modernization of the Polish Armed Forces
Modernization of the Polish Armed Forces: post-1989 restructuring, NATO integration, and the post-2022 buildup, including the 2025–2039 Armed Forces Development Program, 4.7% of GDP defense spending, and major US and Korean acquisitions.
Modernization theory
Modernization theory, also called the theory of modernisation, explains the wealth and poverty of societies through internal factors such as education, market economies, and democratic structures.
Modes of mechanical ventilation
Modes of mechanical ventilation, also called vent modes such as assist control, SIMV, pressure support, and PRVC, are predetermined ventilatory patterns defining how a ventilator triggers, delivers, and ends breaths, classified by control variable and breath sequence.
Modes of persuasion
Modes of persuasion: Aristotle's three technical pisteis in the Rhetoric, ethos (speaker's character), pathos (audience's emotions), logos (argument), with kairos and telos, and modern applied uses.
Modesh World
Modesh World (Modhesh World) is Dubai's annual indoor family edutainment event at Dubai World Trade Centre during Dubai Summer Surprises; 27th edition in 2026 drew 60,000+ visitors with 157 attractions.
Modest Mouse
Modest Mouse, American indie rock band formed 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, by Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green, and Eric Judy; known for The Lonesome Crowded West, The Moon & Antarctica, and the 2004 hit "Float On."
Modest Mussorgsky (Модест Петрович Мусоргский)
Modest Mussorgsky (Модест Петрович Мусоргский) was a Russian composer, member of the nationalist group The Five, known for Boris Godunov, Pictures at an Exhibition, and Night on Bald Mountain.
Modest set
A modest set is a set whose elements have computational realizers, each realizer determining at most one element, serving as a notion of data type in realizability.
MODEST study
MODEST (NCT06077305) is a 20,000-patient observational registry by Beijing Tiantan Hospital studying microcirculatory disorders in cerebral small vessel disease and ischemic stroke, with outcomes on recurrence, mRS disability, cognition, and real-world drug treatment.
Modestas Paulauskas
Modestas Paulauskas, Lithuanian basketball forward and coach born 1945, Olympic champion 1972 with the Soviet Union, four-time EuroBasket and two-time World Cup champion, youngest EuroBasket MVP (1965), Zalgiris Kaunas No. 5 retired, FIBA Hall of Fame 2020.
Modeste Demers
Modeste Demers (1809–1871) was a Quebec-born Roman Catholic missionary who reached Fort Vancouver in 1838 and became the first Bishop of Vancouver Island in 1847.
Modesto Carone
Modesto Carone (Modesto Carone Netto; 1937–2019) was a Brazilian writer, critic, professor, and translator, remembered as the first in Brazil to translate Kafka directly from German.
Modesto Orozco
Modesto Orozco López, born 1962 in Barcelona, is a Spanish computational chemist, professor at the University of Barcelona, and developer of the parmbsc1 DNA force field.
Modesto, California
Modesto, California: Central Valley city and seat of Stanislaus County, population 218,464 (2020). Known for Tuolumne River water supply with MID, agricultural economy, McHenry Museum, and 2050 growth plan.
Modesty
Modesty: propriety in dress, speech, or conduct, and humility about oneself. Cross-culturally variable norms shaped by religion and culture; Islamic hayaa; modest fashion market near $433bn by 2028.
Modesty Blaise
Modesty Blaise, a female crime-fighter created by Peter O'Donnell, debuted as a comic strip in the London Evening Standard on May 13, 1963 and ran to 2002, spawning eleven novels, a 1966 Joseph Losey film starring Monica Vitti, and later radio and DVD adaptations.
MODFLOW
MODFLOW is a modular, open-source computer program from the U.S. Geological Survey that simulates groundwater flow; first released in 1984, it is the international standard.
Modha Rathri
Modha Rathri (மோத ராத்திரி) is a 2026 Tamil rural comedy-drama, the directorial debut of Raja Karuppasamy, starring Rishikanth and Anishma Anilkumar; a Mythri Movie Makers film released 21 August 2026 and streaming on Netflix from 18 September 2026.
Modhaus (모드하우스)
Modhaus (모드하우스) is a Seoul K-pop entertainment company founded November 30, 2021 by Jaden Jeong and Joseph Baek. It manages tripleS, ARTMS, and idntt and runs the Cosmo app, where fans buy NFT Objekt photocards and vote via COMO tokens on group decisions.
Móði and Magni
Móði and Magni (Móði ok Magni), sons of Thor in Norse mythology, personify wrath and strength. Magni lifted Hrungnir's leg off Thor as a three-day-old and got Gullfaxi; both survive Ragnarök and inherit Mjölnir.
Modi script
Modi script (मोडी लिपी) is a cursive Brahmi-based script used mainly for writing Marathi, developed for rapid administrative record-keeping and used in Maharashtra until 1952.
Modi: Journey of a Common Man
Modi: Journey of a Common Man is a 2019 Eros Now Hindi biographical web series directed by Umesh Shukla, adapted from Kishor Makwana's book, dramatizing Narendra Modi's life from tea seller to Prime Minister; pulled by the Election Commission during the 2019 polls.
Modi'in (ancient city)
Modi'in was a town in the toparchy of Lydda in the Judean Lowlands, home of Mattathias and the Hasmoneans, where the Maccabean revolt broke out.