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Weather: The Modern Era

The Modern EraWeatherRadar and SatellitesRadar—Scanning the SkiesDoppler—the New GenerationSatellites—a Far-Out LookThe Modern EraPutting It All Together Satellites are capable of providing a wealth…

Modern Olympic Games

The original Olympic Games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 B.C. until 393 A.D., when Roman emperor Theodosius I banned all pagan festivals (the Olympics celebrated the Greek…

Notable Modern Bridges

Here is information about modern bridges around the world, with their length and date of completion. Types of bridges include suspension, cantilever, steel arch, cable-…

Greek literature, modern

(Encyclopedia) Greek literature, modern, literature written in Greek in the modern era, primarily beginning during the period of rebellion against the rule of the Ottoman Empire. In general, 20th-…

Modern Persia and Iran: Rulers

Samanid, Muslim Persian dynasty that ruled (819–1005) in Khorasan and Transoxiana Ismail, shah of Persia (1502–24), founder of the Safavid dynastyTahmasp, shah of Persia (1524–76)Abbas I,…

Brewer's: Alnaschar of Modern Literature

Coleridge has been so called because he “dreamt” his Kubla Khan, and wrote it out next morning. (1772–1834.) Probably he had been reading Purchas's Pilgrimage, for none can doubt the…

Brewer's: Leonidas of Modern Greece

Marco Bozzars, who with 1,200 men put to rout 4,000 Turco-Albanians, at Kerpenisi, but was killed in the attack (1823). He was buried at Missolonghi. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…

Walt Whitman: Years of the Modern

Years of the ModernYears of the modern! years of the unperform'd! Your horizon rises, I see it parting away for more august dramas, I see not America only, not only Liberty's nation but other…

The Second Book of Modern Verse

A Selection from the work of contemporaneous American poetsSelections made in 1919.ContentsForewordThe Road not taken (Robert Frost)Symbol (David Morton)Spring (John Gould Fletcher)"There will come…

The Little Book of Modern Verse

A Selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets[Selections made in 1913.]DedicationSincere thanks are due to my friend Thomas S. Jones, Jr., who, during my absence in Europe, has kindly…