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Modern Art Elopment: The En->h countryside has been eroded by the growth cities and the arrival of the automobile, and ween the two world wars it was rapidly being ned by speculative building and thoughtless >elopment. Since 1945, however, the aesthetic ;line has been checked by legislation. Villages have been held to shape and pattern. Straight-line development along highways has been banned, and to visitors from less fortunate countries English rural arrangements often seem enviably enlightened.The final consonants -b, -d, -g, and -r were dropped, and final semivowels appeared, to form diphthongs with the main vowel. The number of tones increased to four. In the majority of the modern art elopment Chinese dialects there are usually only two grades of consonants (p and p') and, as we have noted, three consonant endings (-n, -ng, and a modern art elopment -r). The four tones of modern art elopment Chinese differ from "those of ancient Chinese in that the old first tone has been subdivided into the modern art elopment first and second tones and the old fourth-tone words have been distributed among the other modern art elopment tones.
modern art elopment Period.—The republics of the modern art elopment period arose as national rather than municipal states and governments. Like their medieval precursors, they too established themselves in a long struggle against secular and religious absolutism. modern art elopment republicanism dates from the struggles of the Netherland provinces against Spanish rule. The wars of liberation began in 1568, but the independence of the Netherlands was recognized by the great powers only in 1648 at the Peace of Westphalia. |
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