With the support from the Russian Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, Patriarch Nikon began the process of correction of the Russian divine service books in accordance with their modern Greek counterparts and changed some of the rituals ( the two-finger sign of the cross was replaced by the one with three fingers, " hallelujah " was to be pronounced three times instead of two etc .).

Although its autofocus mechanism is slow in comparison to modern standards, it was an improvement on Nikon's first attempt at an autofocus SLR-the F-501 ( N2020 in North America ), and proved to be typically Nikon in its reliability and durability.

Nikon abandoned the earlier mechanically operated shutter of the F2 for a modern, electronically controlled, horizontally traveled metal curtain design.

Most modern assassinations have been committed either during a public performance or during transport, both because of weaker security and security lapses, such as with U. S. President John F. Kennedy and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, or as part of coups d ' état where security is either overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with Patrice Lumumba and likely Salvador Allende.

The Palette ( computing ) | palette of the Channel F The graphics are quite basic by modern standards.

Ludwig-Musser, William F. Ludwig Senior and his brother Theodor Ludwig founded the Ludwig & Ludwig Co. in 1909 and patented the first workable bass drum pedal system, paving the way for what was to become the modern drum kit.

( By modern convention, the sequence begins with F < sub > 0 </ sub > = 0.

Modern guitarists such as Ramón Montoya, have introduced other positions: Montoya himself started to use other chords for the tonic in the modern Dorian sections of several palos ; F sharp for tarantas, B for granaínas and A flat for the minera.

Many modern horror and fantasy writers, including Stephen King, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences.

During the conflict, Nehru wrote two desperate letters to U. S. President John F. Kennedy, requesting 12 squadrons of fighter jets and a modern radar system.

He attributes to her directly the first of the key events ( after the advances made by William F. Albright at Tell Beit Mirsim in the 1920s ) that brought about our modern understanding of pottery in the southern Levant:

During his time at Rutgers, Friedman became influenced by two economics professors, Arthur F. Burns and Homer Jones, who convinced him that modern economics could help end the Great Depression.

The American scholar of religious studies Michael F. Strmiska argued that the modern adoption of the term " Pagan " was " a deliberate act of defiance " against traditional, Christian-dominated society, comparing it to the adoption of the surname " X " amongst African-Americans or the term " queer " amongst LGBT people.

This includes the modern class A and early class F.

This includes the modern classes G and K as well as late class F.

The teleostereograph machine, a forerunner to the modern electronic fax, was developed by AT & T's Bell Labs in the 1920s ; however, the first commercial use of image facsimile telegraph devices dates back to the time of Samuel F. B. Morse's invention in the 1800s.

" A more modern work to use this idea was Daniel F. Galouye's novel Simulacron-3, which was made into a German teleplay titled Welt am Draht (" World on a Wire ") in 1973.

A major theoretical foundation for world history was given by German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel, who saw the modern Prussian state as the highest stage of world development.

The modern standard edition is F. Paschoud Zosime: Histoire Nouvelle ( Paris 1971 ) which has a French translation, introduction and commentary.

The first modern oil well was drilled in 1848 by Russian engineer F. N.

Most modern sousaphones are made in the key of BB ♭ ( Low B Flat ) and like tubas ( which are commonly made in pitches of BB ♭, CC, EE ♭, and F ) the instrument's part is written in " concert pitch ", not transposed by key for a specific instrument.

Joseph F. Glidden of DeKalb, Illinois, received a patent for the modern invention in 1874 after he made his own modifications to previous versions.

Thoreau also influenced naturalists like John Burroughs, John Muir, E. O. Wilson, Edwin Way Teale, Joseph Wood Krutch, B. F. Skinner, David Brower and Loren Eiseley, whom Publishers Weekly called " the modern Thoreau.

Some of the better known modern experiments include the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland, Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Twin Oaks and Los Horcones ( inspired by B. F. Skinner's Walden Two ) and The Farm in the US, ZEGG in Germany, Camphill Communities ( all over, but originating in Europe ), and Auroville in India.

The admiration of scholars such as Victor Davis Hanson, B. H. Liddell Hart, Lloyd Lewis, and John F. Marszalek for General Sherman owes much to what they see as an approach to the exigencies of modern armed conflict that was both effective and principled.

* Burch, David F. The Barometer Handbook ; a modern look at barometers and applications of barometric pressure.

The standard modern instrument has a range of three octaves, from the F below middle C ( F3 to F6 in scientific pitch notation ).

The differences between the more modern and traditional branches of American Judaism came to a head in 1883, at the " Trefa Banquet " at the Highland House entertainment pavilion, which was at the top of the Mount Adams Incline – where shellfish and other non-kosher dishes were served at the celebration of the first graduating class of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

is both an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis.

At the foot of Mount Chimborazo, near the modern city of Riobamba ( Ecuador ) he met and defeated the forces of the great Inca warrior Rumiñahui with the aid of Cañari tribesmen who served as guides and allies to the conquering Spaniards.

Anatomically modern Homo sapiens are demonstrated at the area of Mount Carmel, during the Middle Paleolithic dating from about c. 90, 000 BC.

The two most violent volcanic eruptions in modern times occurred in Indonesia ; in 1815 Mount Tambora in Sumbawa erupted killing 92, 000 and in 1883, Krakatau, erupted killing 36, 000.

According to some, the modern name of the mountain is Diaforti ( Gell gives " Dioforti " or " Dioforte "), which is presumed to consist of two Greek words: " Dias ", the name of Zeus in modern Greek, and " fero ," a verb meaning " I bring ," thus meaning that Mount Lykaion is a mountain that brings Zeus.

In the fourth century BC Celts entered Silesia settling around the Mount Ślęża near the modern Wrocław, Oława and Strzelin.

The largest excavations of Arawak pottery have been found around Belmont and Smuggler's Cove on the northwest of Tortola, but many other sites have been found, including at Soper's Hole, Apple Bay, Coxheath, Pockwood Pond, Pleasant Valley, Sage Mountain, Russell Hill ( modern day Road Town ), Pasea, Purcell, Paraquita Bay, Josiah's Bay, Mount Healthy and Cane Garden Bay.

Although modern parallels between the teachings of Jesus such as the Sermon on the Mount and some Buddhist teachings have been drawn, these comparisons emerged after missionary contacts in the 19th century, and there is no historically reliable evidence of contacts between Buddhism and Jesus during his life.

Modern Lancaster is distinguished by a rich blend of 19th-century architecture ( best evidenced in historic Square 13, part of Zane's original plot ) and natural beauty ( best evidenced by the famous Standing Stone, today known as Mount Pleasant ) with all the typical modern accoutrements of a small-medium-sized American city.

Georgians erected their own temples in the area of the modern Mount Sinai.

Some modern biblical scholars now believe that the Israelites would have crossed the Sinai peninsula in a direct route, rather than detouring to the southern tip ( assuming that they did not cross the eastern branch of the Red Sea / Reed Sea in boats or on a sandbar ), and therefore look for the biblical Mount Sinai elsewhere.

The Song of Deborah, which some textual scholars consider to be one of the oldest parts of the bible, suggests that Yahweh dwelt at Mount Seir, so many scholars favour a location in Nabatea ( modern Arabia ).

( Greek: ) lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of an inaccessible gorge at the foot of modern Mount Sinai in St. Catherine city in Egypt at an elevation of 1550 meters.

The site of Moreh, a hill by which Gideon camped before he attacked the Midianites, is sometimes identified with modern Nebi Dahi, Israel, south of Mount Tabor but this has not been confirmed on the ground.

View from modern Rhegium ( Reggio Calabria ) over the Strait of Messina, with Mount Etna in the distance.

So to avoid this fate, Althaemenes, with many followers, fled Crete for Rhodes and established on Mount Atabyrus ( modern Mount Attavyros in Attavyros ) an altar to Zeus Atabyrius.

" The Roman Catholic Mass or Orthodox Divine Liturgy in many respects more closely resembles the Temple sacrifice than anything modern Jews practice, since in Judaism there is no current Temple in Jerusalem, just the Temple Mount.

He is the eponymous namesake of Mount Tmolus ( modern Bozdağ ), which lies in Lydia with the Lydian capital ( later also called Sardis ) at its foot and Hypaepa on its southern slope.

In ancient geography, Pamphylia was the region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean to Mount Taurus ( modern day Antalya province, Turkey ).

With the relative ease of travel in the modern age, pilgrimages to Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai have increased.

The significance of such reservoirs has been debated by modern scholars, some of whom have seen in them a means of irrigating rice fields, and others of whom have regarded them as religiously charged symbols of the great mythological oceans surrounding Mount Meru, the abode of the gods.