The modern French Army retains three Dragoons regiments from the 32 it possessed at the beginning of World War I: the 2nd, which is a nuclear, bacteriologic and chemical protection regiment, the 4th, an armour regiment equipped with Leclerc tanks, and the 13th, which is a special-ops parachute regiment.

Euler discussed a generalization of Euclidean geometry called affine geometry, which retains the fifth postulate unmodified while weakening postulates three and four in a way that eliminates the notions of angle ( whence right triangles become meaningless ) and of equality of length of line segments in general ( whence circles become meaningless ) while retaining the notions of parallelism as an equivalence relation between lines, and equality of length of parallel line segments ( so line segments continue to have a midpoint ).

* Riverbridge Primary School, formed in September 2011 from the merger of three local schools: Kingscroft, Knowle Park and Shortwood, each of which retains its original site

The impressive ruins of Roscommon castle are located on a hillside just outside the town, the castle is quadrangular in shape, it had four corner D-shaped towers, three storey ’ s high, and twin towers at its entrance gateway, one of which still retains its immensely sturdy vaulted roof.

The area retains many green expanses including the eastern part of Hampstead Heath, three ancient woods, Waterlow Park and the eastern-facing slopes known as Highgate bowl.

It retains the time translations ( one dimension ) and rotations ( three dimensions ).

If a hot spell extends to three days or more, however, nighttime temperatures do not cool down, and the thermal mass in homes and buildings retains the heat from previous days.

In contemporary usage, the meaning of the term has been extended to mean any living relationship between three people, whether or not sex is involved, but because it has also been extended to refer to the actual sexual act between three people, otherwise known as a threesome, the term retains its suggestive quality.

Come Summer, we get a call from the three biggest of those festivals, all of them the same day, saying that we can't play, because the headlining band retains the right to hire and fire whomever they wish.

* April 15-The War, Marvin Hagler retains his undisputed world Middleweight championship with a three round knockout over Thomas Hearns in Las Vegas.

* May 9-Carlos Monzón retains his title with a three round knockout of Nino Benvenuti in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

* March 22-Muhammad Ali retains his world Heavyweight title with a seventh round knockout of Zora Folley in what would be his last fight in three years, at New York.

* September 14-Jimmy Ellis retains the WBA world Heavyweight title with a fifteen round decision over Floyd Patterson, who was attempting to become the first boxer to hold the world Heavyweight title three times, in Stockholm, Sweden.

It also retains three of the four town gates and several original buildings, including the parish church, which is dedicated to St Thomas the Martyr.

The village has lost its Methodist chapel, shop and sub-post office but still retains a sports club, primary school, two pubs ( three if you include The Pink and Lily at Parslow's Hillock ), Village Hall and of course, the windmill.

Vigo retains three of the most important examples of Romanesque churches in southern Galicia:

* October 19-Bud Smith retains his world Lightweight title by a fifteen round decision in a rematch with former three time world champion Jimmy Carter, Cincinnati.

* August 12-In a rematch of their 1958 bout, Archie Moore retains his world Light Heavyweight championship, with a three round knockout win of Yvon Durelle, in Montreal, Canada.

Regardless of which of the three categories a designated marksman rifle fits into, it retains semi-automatic firing capability and a magazine capacity of 10-30 rounds depending on the firearm in question.

* In 1994, upon entering Italian politics, media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi promised that he would sell his assets in Fininvest ( later Mediaset ), because of the conflict of interest it would have generated, a promise he repeated a number of times in later years, but after 12 years and having served three terms as prime minister, he still retains ownership of his company that controls virtually all the Italian private TV stations and a large number of magazines and publishing houses, which have extensively been used in favour of his political party

In this design, it retains the count of previously fired rounds and may fire fewer than three rounds.

Of the three, only Khafre's pyramid retains part of its original polished limestone casing, near its apex.

The United Kingdom still retains three Irish regiments: the Irish Guards, the Royal Irish Regiment, and the London Irish Rifles.

Modern English as spoken in Ireland today retains some features showing the influence of the Irish language, such as vocabulary, grammatical structure and pronunciation.

Like most " Jewish " languages, the grammatical structure of Juhuri retains archaic features of the language it is derived from.

As some other Dalecarlian vernaculars spoken north of the Lake Siljan, Elfdalian retains numerous old grammatical and phonological features that have not changed considerably since Old Norse and is considered to be the most conservative and best preserved vernacular within the Dalecarlian branch.

Contact sign drops the initializations and grammatical markers used in other forms of MCE, but retains basic English word order.

However, the language in a modern context has deteriorated from the Indic based vocabulary, morphology, and influences from Greek and other Balkan languages of seventeenth century to a Para-Romani dialect typical of modern Anglo-Romani with sentence endings influenced by English, while Welsh Romani retains the original grammatical system.

In this game, he retains his X-Men Legends abilities, like that of creating ice slides instead of double-jumping.

The main features distinguishing Moabite from fellow Canaanite languages such as Hebrew are: a plural in-în rather than-îm ( e. g. mlkn " kings " for Biblical Hebrew məlākîm ), like Aramaic and Arabic ; retention of the feminine ending-at which Biblical Hebrew reduces to-āh ( e. g. qryt " town ", Biblical Hebrew qiryāh ) but retains in the construct state nominal form ( e. g. qiryát yisrael " town of Israel "); and retention of a verb form with infixed-t -, also found in Arabic and Akkadian ( w -’ ltḥm " I began to fight ", from the root lḥm.

Lithuanian still retains many of the original features of the nominal morphology found in some ancient Indo-European languages like Sanskrit and Latin, and has therefore been the focus of much study in the area of Indo-European linguistics.

Bertie's scriptural knowledge ( like most of his mental catalogue ) often retains at least part of the literal quote, while completely losing the original meaning and context.

Sidcup retains Kent as its county reference, ( much like most of Outer London with the other Home counties, although small parts of Sidcup correspond with the London postal address such as SE9.

The game has declined in popularity since the 19th century, when it was widely regarded as the national card game, but it retains a strong following in some regions like the Midwest, especially Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Western New York.

In spite of spiraling population growth and encroaching urban development, old timers feel like Damascus retains its rural, small-town character.

Under the latter, increasingly prevalent arrangement, the family farm owns its land and " sells " its output, but retains no real decision making control over the essential farming activities, like crop selection, equipment purchase, production methods, sales channels, and buyers.

It has been renamed several times as well, from “ de la Constitución ,” “ de la República ” to the current official name of “ de los Mártires ” but popularly it retains the name of “ Plaza de Armas .” The alternate name, Plaza de los Mártires ( Plaza of the Martyrs ) is in honor of people like Mariano Matamoros, Guadalupe el Salto and others who were executed here during the Mexican War of Independence and later in 1830 during political unrest.

When served as a dinner, it is mixed with onions and capers like steak tartare, but it retains the name américain.

In non-breeding ( eclipse ) plumage, the drake looks more like the female, but retains the male wing pattern, and is usually greyer above and has less orange on the bill.

Jackie Cane retains the dreamy elements of Hooverphonic's previous works, most notably on songs " Nirvana Blue " and " Human Interest " ( which contains references to " Echoes " by Pink Floyd ), but tracks like " The World Is Mine " ( the first single ) and " Day After Day " have a clear Broadway influence and quality to them.

Mixtures are the product of a mechanical blending or mixing of chemical substances like elements and compounds, without chemical bonding or other chemical change, so that each ingredient substance retains its own chemical properties and makeup.

After Scheris Adjani's death, her scene in the intro retains the same animation but is now semi-grayscale, and the picture becomes fuzzier as the scene progresses, like a degrading piece of film.

It retains the ribbons from its first form, and gains two additional arms which can be fired like rockets.

Despite migrationary trends, St Kilda retains a small number of ethnic groups although like much of inner Melbourne, the community is largely multicultural.

A semi-automatic retains a clutch like a manual transmission, but controls the clutch through electrohydraulic means.

It still largely retains its industrial character, although many of its factories have closed down or fallen on hard times like others in the Rust Belt.

Though Wolfram and Hart reverts time to before they destroyed Los Angeles, Illyria retains the memories of her experiences like everyone else.

During the Middle Ages Lugo, like Santiago de Compostela, was a center of pilgrimage, because the cathedral had the special privilege, it still retains today, of exposing to the public the consecrated host twenty-four hours a day.

It retains larval proportions, like a long, slender body and a large, flattened head, and is thus able to carry a larger number of sensory receptors.

In some towns, the board of selectmen acts more like a city council, but retains the historic name.

A small century-old street market that once had many stalls selling fresh produce and foodstuffs, but now retains only three vegetable and fruit stalls amongst stalls like the rest of the markets.

After more than a century of continuous operation ( since 1897 ), Boylston station retains an appearance more like its original look than any other station in the MBTA system.