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Modern commercial American cream cheese was developed in 1872, when William Lawrence, from Chester, New York, while looking for a way to recreate the soft, French cheese Neufchâtel, accidentally came up with a way of making an “unripened cheese” that is heavier and creamier, other dairymen came up with similar creations independently.

However, modern cheesecake is not usually classified as a cake, despite the name.

The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis.

The rules of modern tennis have changed little since the 1890s.

Modern processors often run so fast that gigahertz (GHz) is used instead.

Many old CPUs from the 70s, 80s and early 90s (and many modern embedded systems) have an 8 bit or 16 bit word size.

Tokyo is a marvelous mix of modern living and old-fashioned manners, slick high-tech gadgets and cutesy cartoon mascots.

Modern computers can do billions of calculations in a second.

Being able to calculate many times per second allows modern computers to multitask, which means they can do many different tasks at the same time.

Modern Mexicans are a unique blend of many ancient civilizations, including the Olmec, Zapotec, Toltec, Maya, Aztec, Inca, African, French, and Spanish.

The modern games of both rugby football and association football comes from 19th-century England.

A modern laptop is self-contained, with built-in rechargeable battery and peripheral equipment.

Most modern laptops feature integrated webcams and built-in microphones, while many also have touchscreens.

Grid owned patents for the "Clamshell" design which is used in almost all modern laptop designs.

The Gavilan sc was the ancestor of the modern laptop.

Modern phone makers have been able to use smaller parts.

One of the main modern uses for it seems to be in the gaming world.

In 1905, he published four pivotal scientific works, which would revolutionise modern physics.

The template for all modern computers is the Von Neumann architecture, detailed in a 1945 paper by Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann.

Historically, marine mammals such as whales, dolphins and seals have been eaten as food, though that happens to a lesser extent in modern times.

Findings in a sea cave at Pinnacle Point in South Africa indicate Homo sapiens (modern humans) harvested marine life as early as 165,000 years ago.

The city is famous for its 19th century modern architecture.