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.
During the closure, SFMOMA will co-organize exhibitions with partner museums throughout the city, including Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art, which will be on view from June 27 to Oct. 27 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
Agnes Gund , whose family fell off the Forbes list of the 400 Richest Americans in 2000, served for over ten years as president of the Museum of Modern Art.
One of the most striking exhibitions at the Tate Modern for years is at the centre of a new health scare.
From the apex of its fortunes only a couple of years ago to the most severe isolation modern Syria has ever witnessed, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad regime has single-handedly managed the feat which no other detractor achieved: bringing the entire country, and of course the regime itself, to a dead-end from which it can no longer extricate itself.
The sense of entitlement among modern consumers combined with years of expected perfection created the perfect storm of discontent.
Lewis, who went on to mastermind the music of the Modern Jazz Quartet for much of the next forty years or so, was only just starting his experiments with baroque and other classical forms, and this piece is probably well enough titled.
Dimitri Itskov is head of the 2045 initiative, which he hopes can conquer death once and for all, in just 23 years, via the miracle of modern science.
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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.
Two hundred years ago one of the pioneers of modern economics, Thomas Malthus, was warning that population was growing faster than food production and the only remedy, if you are willing to accept a lot of dead people as a remedy, would be that population would eventually be held in check by famine.
Reynolds notes as well that by 2001 the Census Bureau was reporting that the poor enjoyed as much or more of the indicia of a comfortable, modern standard of living as the middle class 30 years before.
Beginning with the Bellagio hotel, fourteen years ago, he has reinvented the look of the modern gambling hall by deliberately violating every previously accepted rule of casino design.
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.
If the Earth is 9, 000 years old, then virtually the entire construct of modern science is simply wrong.
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The idea of building a house began when the couple, both 35 years old, found the modern homes on the market to be either too small, or millions of dollars.
It is 50 years since the price of Old Master and Modern pictures, at all levels of quality, was in rough equilibrium.
In recent years, the most esteemed officer in America the very model of the modern general was David Petraeus, whose public image combined the theorizing of the new school with a patina of old-fashioned toughness and rectitude.
Fast forward from The Netherlands of 350 years ago to modern Hollywood.
To bend a term that comes to us courtesy of Iraq's Saddam Hussein (surely a candidate for the top 10 of any world list of the powerful and nasty), 1975 was the mother of all years -- the one that in a sense gave birth to modern Asia.
Merce Cunningham, incontestably the grand master of modern dance, died two and a half years ago, at the age of ninety.
But in 2004, researchers discovered that a dwarf species of human, dubbed "The Hobbit", was living on the Indonesian island of Flores until 12, 000 years ago - long after modern humans had colonised the region.
The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate.
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Is he up to the task of fundamentally reforming an authoritarian political machine that despite its accomplishments in restoring stability, a modicum of prosperity and international respect after the Gorbachev-Yeltsin years seems incapable of shaping Russia into a truly modern society?
So he organized his friends, the sons and daughters of other farmers in the area, and formed the New Israeli Guardsmen, named after the original Guardsmen - the first Jewish self-defense organization in the Land of Israel in the modern era, which was formed a hundred years ago.
Once the carrier is commissioned, it will stay in the fleet for 50 years, making it by far the longest-lived class of warships in the modern Navy.
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From 30 precious milligrams drilled out of the sample they extracted mitochondrial DNA. The mitochondria, a cell's power packs, are the much-modified descendants of bacteria that took up residence in the ancestors of modern animal and plant cells a billion years ago.
Signs of division of labour come only with the arrival of modern humans into Europe around 40, 000 years ago.
The Pentagon has reported rising overall numbers of Chinese naval vessels in recent years as well as a greater proportion of which the U.S. considers modern.
Through 3 years of combat, American service members and allied forces overcame some of the most unforgiving conditions in modern warfare.
Homo sapiens last shared a common ancestor with our robust cousins around 600, 000 years ago, well prior to the origin of both modern humans (see above) and Neanderthals.
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