The core of its repertoire consists of the most cherished Polish and foreign dramas, with which directors conduct their individual dialogues, asking these classic pieces questions tormenting modern-day Poles.

The book consists of 11 short stories, all set within one apartment complex in modern-day Mumbai.

In modern-day Japan, hanami mostly consists of having an outdoor party beneath the sakura during daytime or at night.

The National Historic Site consists of two units, one located on the site of Fort Vancouver in modern-day Vancouver, Washington ; the other being the former residence of John McLoughlin in Oregon City, Oregon.

Approximate boundaries of Afghan Turkestan ( in orange ), with respect to modern-day provinces of Afghanistan.

It is located south of Asia Minor, the Anatolian peninsula of the Asian ( or Eurasian ) mainland ( now part of modern-day Turkey ), so it may be included in Western Asia or the Middle East: At a confluence of Western Asia, Southern Europe, and Northern Africa, Cyprus has had lengthy periods of mainly Greek and intermittent Anatolian, Levantine, Byzantine, and Western European influences.

Though there is little evidence supporting Aksumite control of the region at that time, his title, which includes king of Saba and Salhen, Himyar and Dhu-Raydan ( all in modern-day Yemen ), along with gold Aksumite coins with the inscriptions, " king of the Habshat " or " Habashite ," indicate that Aksum might have retained some legal or actual footing in the area.

Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus ( AD 129 –), better known as Galen of Pergamon ( modern-day Bergama, Turkey ), was a prominent Roman ( of Greek ethnicity ) physician, surgeon and philosopher.

From 1438 the Habsburgs, who controlled most of the southeast of the Empire ( more or less modern-day Austria and Slovenia, and Bohemia and Moravia after the death of King Louis II in 1526 ), maintained a constant grip on the position of the Holy Roman Emperor until 1806 ( with the exception of the years between 1742 and 1745 ).

Several great cities were built in the region named " Alexandria ," including: Alexandria-of-the-Arians ( modern-day Herat ); Alexandria-on-the-Tarnak ( near Kandahar ); Alexandria-ad-Caucasum ( near Begram, at Bordj-i-Abdullah ); and finally, Alexandria-Eschate ( near Kojend ), in the north.

The most important were Apollonia, Avlona ( modern-day Vlorë ), Epidamnos ( modern-day Durrës ), and Lissus ( modern-day Lezhë ).

The rediscovered Greek city of Buthrotum () ( modern-day Butrint ), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is probably more significant today than it was when Julius Caesar used it as a provisions depot for his troops during his campaigns in the 1st century BC.

Most of the region was a part of the Kingdom of Sweden from the 13th century to 1809, when the vast majority of the Finnish-speaking areas of Sweden were ceded to the Russian Empire ( excluding the Finnish-speaking areas of the modern-day Northern Sweden ), making this area the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland.

The Iberian Peninsula ( Asturian, Galician, Leonese, Mirandese, Portuguese and,, Aragonese and,, ), commonly called Iberia, is a peninsula located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes the modern-day sovereign states of Spain, Portugal and Andorra, as well as the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

The first insurance company in the United States underwrote fire insurance and was formed in Charles Town ( modern-day Charleston ), South Carolina, in 1732.

After the initial discovery of introns in protein-coding genes of the eukaryotic nucleus, there was significant debate as to whether introns in modern-day organisms were inherited from a common ancient ancestor ( termed the introns-early hypothesis ), or whether they appeared in genes rather recently in the evolutionary process ( termed the introns-late hypothesis ).

When Jason entered Iolcus ( modern-day city of Volos ), he was announced as a man wearing one sandal.

The Globe pub now occupies the site ( 2012 ), a few yards from the modern-day Moorgate station.

The Khazars ( Old Turkic: 10px10px10px10px10px ) were semi-nomadic Turkic people who established one of the largest polities of medieval Eurasia, with the capital of Atil and territory comprising much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus ( Circassia, Dagestan ), parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and northeastern Turkey.

Merlin plays a modern-day villain in Roger Zelazny's short story " The Last Defender of Camelot " ( 1979 ), which won the 1980 Balrog Award for short fiction and was adapted into an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone in 1986.

* 1965 – In Rhodesia ( modern-day Zimbabwe ), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.

Pergamon ( or ἡ Πέργαμος ), or Pergamum, was an ancient Greek city in modern-day Turkey, in Aeolis, today located from the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus ( modern day Bakırçay ), that became the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon during the Hellenistic period, under the Attalid dynasty, 281 – 133 BC.

The first known inhabitants of the modern-day Pakistan region are believed to have been the Soanian ( Homo erectus ), who settled in the Soan Valley and Riwat 1. 9 million years ago.

Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, in a four-story brownstone at 28 East 20th Street, in the modern-day Gramercy section of New York City, the second of four children of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. ( 1831 – 1878 ) and Martha " Mittie " Bulloch ( 1835 – 1884 ).

A section of the Mashamoquet Brook State Park in modern-day Pomfret is named " Wolf Den " ( which includes the ' den ').

Since 1947, a twin town of Nova Gorica has developed on the other side of the modern-day Italian-Slovenian border: the entire region was subject to territorial dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia during the period of early development, by the time the boundaries were marked and agreed by both parties, Nova Gorica came to stand on the Yugoslav side as this area marked one section of the new threshold.

* Generalbezirk Weißruthenien — the Polish part of White Ruthenia ( the western section of modern-day Belarus ) was incorporated into the Reichskommissariat Ostland ;

On April 1, 1842, some soldiers of Fort Wayne left their fort and on April 22 arrived where Fort Scott would be built, in the Osage Cuestas section of modern-day Kansas.

Most of the modern-day " National Trails Highway " follows latter-day U. S. Route 66, however, and not any of the alignments that actually were part of the original road ( the main exception being the section of road between Barstow and Victorville, which follows the almost exact routing of the 1925 realignment of the road ).

McLaren was best known for her regular Saturday column in the Life section of The Globe and Mail, in which she talks about living as a single woman in modern-day Toronto.

Lassen is famous ( or infamous ) for establishing the Lassen Cutoff of the California Trail, which left the main trail near the modern-day Rye Patch Reservoir and crossed a desolate section of what is now northwestern Nevada, including the Black Rock Desert.

What was the Eastern part of Decumanus Maximus is modern-day Calle Aguilas, while the Northern section of Cardus Maximus coincides with Calle Alhondiga.

These factors also make it quite common for modern-day builders to promote modifications to the basic design, such as adding a finger board, pedal, electronic pickup, drum head, or making the staff immovable.

In modern-day BSD Unix and its descendants, < tt >/ dev / drum </ tt > is the name of the default virtual memory ( swap ) device, deriving from the use of drum secondary-storage devices as backing store for pages in virtual memory.

In addition to VFW-and AL-sponsored corps, other drum corps were founded by Boy Scouts of America troops ( such as the corps that would become the modern-day corps: the Racine Scouts, The Cavaliers and the Madison Scouts ), Elks lodges, YMCAs, the Catholic Youth Organization, Police Athletic Leagues ( such as would found the Bluecoats ), fire fighter organizations, and local businesses, as well as Churches, grammar schools, high schools and colleges.

The trance induction central to the cult involved not only chemognosis, but an " invocation of spirit " with the bullroarer and communal dancing to drum and pipe — much like modern-day raves.

It originated from " sangaku ," a form of entertainment reminiscent of the modern-day circus, consisting mostly of acrobatics, juggling, and pantomime, sometimes combined with drum dancing.

However, according to Idries Shah, the Sufi philosophy is universal in nature, its roots predating the rise of Islam and the other modern-day religions, save for perhaps Buddhism and Jainism ; likewise, some Muslims consider Sufism outside the sphere of Islam.

Maximus was then exiled to the Lazica or Colchis region of modern-day Georgia and was cast in the fortress of Schemarum, perhaps Muris-Tsikhe near the modern town of Tsageri.

It has been said that he bore a striking resemblance to John Thaw, who was the star of Inspector Morse, which, perhaps coincidentally, was a television series about a detective in the Thames Valley Police Force ( the modern-day successor to Buckinghamshire Constabulary ).

In Istanbul, modern-day Turkey, these " 100, 000 parchment scrolls " (" perhaps they left out the plays and poetry ") once were " the light of the Dark Ages for 800 years " and had " the books from the great libraries of Islam " added to them over time, but Scrooge and the nephews find they were destroyed in the 1204 Sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.

Though perhaps a simple error made in translation, many lectures in textbooks of modern-day psychology quote Gestalt theory by saying “ the whole is greater than the sum of its parts ”.

Jesus preached mostly in synagogues in Galilee ( perhaps also Judea ) ( modern-day Israel ) for one to three years in the first half of the 1st century.

While conducting the war in China at Fishing Town in modern-day Chongqing, Möngke died perhaps of dysentery or cholera near the site of the siege on August 11, 1259.

This was Philadelphia's — and perhaps America's — first modern-day department store.

Modern identifications of Rhapta place it on the coasts of modern-day Tanzania — indicating that Azania referred to an area perhaps identical to the later Arab Zanj.

The peerage can perhaps best be compared to the cabinets of modern-day Prime Ministers or Presidents, though their power and responsibilities were much wider.