The Brisker method is highly analytical and is often criticized as being a modern-day version of pilpul.

Ruthenia is the latinized version of Rus ’, a region in Eastern Europe inhabited by Slavs and the cradle of Kievan Rus ’, a 9th to 12th-century state that existed in the territories of modern-day Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and Eastern Poland.

In the Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series ( based on Greek mythology in modern-day life ) by Rick Riordan, Hyperion is shown in the last book The Last Olympian and is ordered by a resurrected Kronos to help in the Battle of Manhattan where he leads an army through Central Park to get to the Empire State Building ( the modernized version of Mount Olympus ).

* Batman is often referred to as " The Dark Knight ," because symbolically he is a modern-day version of a black knight.

One journalist describes the character as a modern-day Greek Chorus, always an outsider looking in, and a version of Joss Whedon himself.

She cut her income and expenses to the bare minimum, and lived a modern-day version of her ancestors ' pioneer life on her rural land near Danbury, Connecticut.

The cover to # 15 was a revamped version of the original Amazing Fantasy # 15 cover, complete with Spider-Man swinging through a modern-day New York City, while the new heroes watch in awe in the background.

The former movie version depicts the Eloi speaking modern-day English, a fact which contradicts the original novel and the logical timeline of language evolution.

In 1979, French scientist Bernard Gitton began creating his Time-Flow Clocks, which are a modern-day approach to the historical version.

While working on their FM2 album, Foster & McElroy made plans to put together a girl group that would be a modern-day version of The Supremes, and would produce records for the group that mixed classic soul style vocals with hip hop beats.

The modern-day version, an early member of the Teen Titans, later assumed the identity of Arsenal and became a member of the Justice League of America under the guise of Red Arrow.

A modern-day version of the character appears in the Western-themed Robin Annual # 6, as a mercenary.

In 2005, playwright David Farr wrote and directed a " freely adapted " version for London's National Theatre called The UN Inspector, which transposed the action to a modern-day ex-Soviet republic.

In X-Force # 35, a modern-day version of Nimrod appeared.

The inhabitants of Civil War Barthomley speak the broadest version, and the dialect is heard least among the rootless modern-day characters.

Julie Andrews appears in the short, but it is left ambiguous as to whether she is portraying a modern-day version of Mary Poppins.

"), it's quite possibly that Andrews portrays a modern-day version of the nanny.

The earliest known written text making a clear separation between these two different peoples under these terms, the " Scridefinns " ( Sami ) and the " Finns " ( ancestors of the average modern-day Finn ) is Widsith, written in Old English, the earliest version of which is believed to have been from the 6th or 7th century AD.

The EPC has been described as the modern-day version of New School Presbyterianism, while the PCA, ARP and OPC are essentially the modern-day equivalent of Old School Presbyterianism.

A modern-day version of Ace was reintroduced in Batman # 462 ( June 1991 ), although he has been rarely seen in recent years.

* In 2003 Christian Viel directed Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain ( aka Samhain ), a soft-core version of the Sawney legend set in modern-day Ireland.

The Jim Rose Circus is a modern-day version of a circus sideshow.

Though some may call it a modern-day version of McCarthyism, another prevalent issue also remains members of our own society sending disconcerting emails to one another.

Referred to variously as the Confucian hypothesis and as a debated component of the more all-encompassing Asian Development Model, there exists among political scientists and economists a theory that Confucianism plays a large latent role in the ostensibly non-Confucian cultures of modern-day East Asia, in the form of the rigorous work ethic it endowed those cultures with.

There is a theory that the bridge alluded to was one which crossed Wash Dike, a small stream on the north-eastern edge of Pontefract, running alongside what is now Bondgate ( the modern-day A645 ).

The ancestral human diet is inferred from historical and ethnographic studies of modern-day hunter-gatherers as well as archaeological finds, anthropological evidence and application of optimal foraging theory.

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 ”.

One theory claims that the earliest inhabitants of these islands crossed a prehistoric land bridge from modern-day China, with later additions of Austronesians, Micronesians, and Japanese merging with the population.

His views are often seen as undermining a Romanian national identity, mainly because of his expressing doubts on the scientific accuracy of most historic research done in Romania since the unification of 1918, and putting forward controversial hypotheses concerning the origin of the Romanians, such as advancing the theory that the vast majority of the nobility in the medieval states that made up the territory of modern-day Romania was of Cuman origin.

Most historians and archeologists support the theory that the Slavic homeland originated in areas spanning modern-day southern Poland and Elbe valley in Germany.

One commonly stated theory is that damsons were first cultivated in antiquity in the area around the ancient city of Damascus, capital of modern-day Syria, and were introduced into England by the Romans.

Until October 2008 there was uncertainty whether this was the site of the Claudian invasion of Britain ; two ditches at the site which have been dated to the Roman period were interpreted as defensive structures, however some archaeologists had favoured the theory that the landing took place in the vicinity of modern-day Chichester.

The weakness of theory in and of itself to mobilize constituencies can be seen in AZAPO's inability to win significant electoral support in modern-day South Africa.

One theory is that they were spread by the ancient Funan empire, based in modern-day Cambodia and Vietnam, which once encompassed what are now Thailand, Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan and Pahang.

In modern-day continuity, a simulacrum of the Vision was temporarily created from the mind of Rick Jones, along with those of the Angel, the Blazing Skull, the Fin, and the Patriot to aid the superhero team the Avengers during the Kree-Skrull War, in The Avengers # 97 ( March 1972 ).

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.

The second set – from the later Shang or Yin ( 殷 ) period – is at Anyang, in modern-day Henan, which has been confirmed as the last of the Shang's nine capitals ( c. 1300 – 1046 BC ).

As the four " modern-day " factors are all essentially abstract, the current economic age has been called the Intangible Economy.

It has also been used to hearken back to the Roman republic, particularly by those who see themselves as modern-day successors to the old republic and / or its ideals.

The oldest surviving gun, made of bronze, has been dated to 1288 because it was discovered at a site in modern-day Acheng District, Heilongjiang, China, where the Yuan Shi records that battles were fought at that time.

The Gathering occurs in modern-day ( 1985 ) New York City, when the Highlander, who has fallen in love again despite trying to cut himself off from humanity, narrowly defeats his powerful and evil enemy, The Kurgan, whom he has encountered repeatedly over the previous centuries, and who has slain Ramírez and many others.

Various saints such as the Celts Samson of Dol and Branwaldr ( Brelade ) were active in the region, although tradition has it that it was Saint Helier from Tongeren in modern-day Belgium who first brought Christianity to the Island in the 6th century, and Charlemagne sent his emissary to the island ( at that time called Angia, also spelt Agna )< ref >

There is no archaeological evidence of Achaemind control over modern-day Pakistan as not a single archaeological site that can be positively identified with the Achaemenid Empire has been found anywhere in Pakistan, including at Taxila.

However, modern-day rhinoceroses are solitary animals which maintain territories, often attacking members of their own species when their space has been invaded.

Poverty has forced at least 225, 000 Haitian children to work as restavecs ( unpaid household servants ); the United Nations considers this to be a modern-day form of slavery.

The Sacramento River and its drainage basin were originally abundant in multiple avian and aquatic species, but modern-day development has thinned populations of many species, especially riverine.

A civil defense siren ( also referred to as an air raid, civil defence, tornado, tsunami, fire, flood, weather, time, curfew, earthquake, storm, police, emergency, hurricane, or other outdoor warning siren / whistle / horn / alarm ) is a mechanical or electronic device ( modern-day sirens are electrically powered whether they are electronic or electro-mechanical ) for generating sound to provide warning of approaching danger and sometimes to indicate when the danger has passed.

" More recently he has attracted attention for his modern-day replication of Stanley Milgram's small world experiment using email messages and for his studies of popularity and fads in on-line and other communities.

* Soon after the State of Qin has conquered the State of Shu ( in modern-day Sichuan province ), they employ the Shu engineer Bi Ling to create the Guanxian irrigation system, which will eventually provide for over five million people in an area of 40 to, still in use today.

This practise has been criticized as illogical, and is resented by Iraqis ( modern-day Mesopotamians ).

The province of Languedoc has been divided between four modern-day régions:

Libertas, along with other Roman goddesses, has served as the inspiration for many modern-day symbols, including the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in the United States of America.

For example, a dedication has been found as far away as Woerden, in the modern-day Netherlands.

Following the discovery of a small statue of the demon Pazuzu ( an actual ancient Assyrian demigod ) and a modern-day St. Joseph medal curiously juxtaposed together at the site, a series of omens alerts him to a pending confrontation with a powerful evil, which, unknown to the reader at this point, he has battled before in an exorcism in Africa.

In spite of a 3-2 vote by the Carmel Town Board in favor of the traditional Indian pronunciation, no consensus has emerged, the modern-day first-syllable-inflected " MAY-o-pac " being used by a large number of residents today.

Ellison himself has dealt with the theme in his " The Deathbird ", the title story of Deathbird Stories, a collection based on the theme of ( for the most part ) malevolent modern-day gods.

It then turns out that he is a modern-day Peeping Tom who, unknown to everyone, has had surveillance cameras and microphones installed in every single apartment of the house, with his own place in the building serving as his headquarters.