One of the most striking exhibitions at the Tate Modern for years is at the centre of a new health scare.
About 10, 000 years ago, modern humans discovered how to make knives out of copper, and around 5, 000 years ago, craftsmen in the Near East began to make them out of bronze.
The sense of entitlement among modern consumers combined with years of expected perfection created the perfect storm of discontent.
Shen Li Hui founded the Modern Sky label 10 years ago when his own band wanted to record an album.
The modern version debuted seven years ago and Mercedes thus far has sold about 3, 000 of the luxury cars worldwide.
New York art dealer David Nash, who ran Sotheby's international Impressionist and modern department for many years, says that though he expects the work to fetch a high price, he's still surprised by the auction house's "Scream" strategy.
The furnishings, though, looked much the same the modern taste of twenty years ago, boxy and stuffed, bare wood and monochrome wool, coffee tables of thick glass on cruciform legs of stainless steel, all mixed with Orientals and family antiques.
My name is Chandra Brown and I'm the president of United Streetcar, which is a subsidiary of Oregon Iron Works, and we are hiring, and we are building the first modern streetcar in 58 years back in this country.
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The rate at which random changes over the generations occur in mitochondrial DNA is fairly well known and, using that knowledge, Dr Krause estimates that the newly discovered species last shared an ancestor with modern humans about 1m years ago.
The Chicxulub crater, buried beneath modern Mexico, is 65m years old and 180km (112 miles) across.
Female soldiers in the U.S. Army have spent years fighting on modern battlefields with body armor designed for men.
Fast forward from The Netherlands of 350 years ago to modern Hollywood.
At the time, it was big thinking and an interesting draw for moviegoers, sort of like the collective asthma attack everyone developed a few years ago for modern 3-D.
The new culture spread slowly at first, taking 200 years to reach modern-day Cheltenham, in the west, but over the following five decades it penetrated as far north as Aberdeen.
For the first sixty years of the modern Olympics, people from around the globe came to mostly European capitals (two Summer Games were held in the United States) to play European games.
The country's ambitious efforts over many years to attract modern industry and at the same time more respect as an economic force in Asia haven't always gotten the notice that promoters would wish.
Fast-forward 70 years to the modern anti-vaccination movement.
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For the next 20 years they showcased modern art with an emphasis on African-Americans, including work by abstract expressionist Norman Lewis, Boston-born Lois Mailou Jones (known for incorporating African images into her work) and lesser-known Washington-area artists.
His mentor and idol for many years, the modern movement's austere and elegant master, Mies van der Rohe, once famously said that you can't invent a new architecture every Monday morning, but that would have suited Philip Johnson's restless mind perfectly.
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And though the city's monumental examples of the beaux arts and art deco movements are well documented in civic buildings dressed up in a mixed bag of Classical Roman and Greek elements, the city actually received its greatest modern architectural contribution in the years after WWII, when Ludwig Mies van der Rohe pioneered the new "International Style".
The last time CO2 was regularly above 400ppm was three to five million years ago - before modern humans existed.
Indeed, Dr Mike Petraglia at the University of Oxford has uncovered tools in India that he says could have been made by modern humans before 60, 000 years ago.
National Police Memorial Day was founded by Police Sergeant Joe Holness from Kent Police to remember every officer killed on duty since modern policing began more than 180 years ago.
There are many ships that have 150-ton lifting capacity in the modern fleet, and where as years ago we traditionally called things over 150-ton as heavy lift cargo, that story is different today.
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In "Ivy Style: Radical Conformists, " out last month from Yale University Press, fashion scholar Patricia Mears traces the history of the modern sport coat to the interwar years, when Princetonians liberated tweed jackets from their matching bottoms.
The years after 1983, and after 1992, are, of course, major golden ages in modern American economic history, just as the stagflation years of 1969-82 and the recessionary early 1990s were flops.
Even during recent years of cartel crime, modern Mexico has emerged a vital trade partner for U.S. businesses.
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