Originally published in modern Hebrew, with a running commentary to facilitate learning, his Steinzaltz edition of the Talmud has also been translated into English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Consequently, modern Bulgarian is about as far from Russian as Swedish is from German.

As a national revival occurred towards the end of the period of Ottoman rule ( mostly during the 19th century ), a modern Bulgarian literary language gradually emerged which drew heavily on Church Slavonic / Old Bulgarian ( and to some extent on literary Russian, which had preserved many lexical items from Church Slavonic ) and later reduced the number of Turkish and other Balkanic loans.

Its first modern incidence in biological warfare were when Scandinavian " freedom fighters " supplied by the German General Staff used anthrax with unknown results against the Imperial Russian Army in Finland in 1916.

In 1933 a Russian director named Theodore Komisarjevsky staged a modern retelling of the play ( Banquo and Macbeth were told of their future through palmistry ); he used Macbeth's shadow as the ghost.

Besides the state owned airline Cubana ( Cubana de Aviación ), the two other major Cuban airlines are Aero Caribbean and Aerogaviota, both of whom operate modern European and Russian aircraft.

His forecast of the form of government suitable to the modern world may be seen as prophetic: the largely ceremonial offices of president in some modern parliamentary democracies in Europe and e. g. Israel can be perceived as elected or appointed versions of Hegel's constitutional monarch ; the Russian and French presidents, with their stronger powers, may also be regarded in Hegelian terms as wielding powers suitable to the embodiment of the national will.

Ultimately the Russian school of point-set topology, under the direction of Pavel Alexandrov and Pavel Urysohn, formulated Heine – Borel compactness in a way that could be applied to the modern notion of a topological space.

The greatest cavalry charge of modern history was at the 1807 battle of Eylau, when the entire 11, 000-strong French cavalry reserve, led by Maréchal Murat, launched a huge charge on and through the Russian infantry lines.

According to Mircea Eliade, the medieval " Gioacchinian myth [...] of universal renovation in a more or less imminent future " has influenced a number of modern theories of history, such as those of Lessing ( who explicitly compares his views to those of medieval " enthusiasts "), Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, and has also influenced a number of Russian writers.

Between 1881 and 1910 all Russian cavalry ( other than Cossacks and Imperial Guard regiments ) were designated as dragoons ; reflecting an emphasis on dismounted action in their training and a growing acceptance of the impracticality of employing historical cavalry tactics against modern firepower.

Halych-Volhynia would eventually be absorbed into the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, while the Mongol-dominated Vladimir-Suzdal and independent Novgorod Republic, two regions on the periphery of Kiev, would establish the basis for the modern Russian nation.

The rite of her sacred fires is a modern festival held in honour of the Goddess Hekate all around the world at the Full Moon in May each year, with thousands participating in more than 18 languages, including English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German, Serbian, Welsh and Esperanto.

* 1807 – Emperor Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland ( modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast ) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.

The modern Republic of Kazakhstan was separated into a new political entity during the Soviet subdivision of the Russian Turkestan in the 1930s.

Russian traders and soldiers began to appear on the northwestern edge of Kazakh territory in the 17th century, when Cossacks established the forts that later became the cities of Yaitsk ( modern Oral ) and Guryev ( modern Atyrau ).

After the disintegrations of the Kievan Rus, the Russian Empire and the USSR, some fortresses considered Kremlin-type, remained beyond the borders of modern Russia.

He selectively adopted theoretical ideas such as the aesthetic credos of Russian Constructivism with their ideology of " efficient " sculptural constructions using modern industrial materials.

However, Leavitt was using the term to describe what we would now call developmental biology ; it was not until Russian Entomologist Yuri Filipchenko used the terms " macroevolution " and " microevolution " in 1927 in his German language work, " Variabilität und Variation ", that it attained its modern usage.

Mor may derive from an Indo-European root connoting terror or monstrousness, cognate with the Old English maere ( which survives in the modern English word " nightmare ") and the Scandinavian mara and the Old Russian " mara " (" nightmare "); while rígan translates as ' queen '.

Galicia-Volhynia was eventually assimilated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, while the Mongol-dominated Vladimir-Suzdal and Novgorod Republic, two regions on the periphery of Kiev, established the basis for the modern Russian nation.

Many modern sniper rifles can trace their ancestry back for well over a century, and the Russian 7. 62 x 54 mm cartridge, as used in the front-line Dragunov Sniper Rifle ( SVD ), dates from 1891.

In modern literature, Cockney rhyming slang is used frequently in the novels and short stories of Kim Newman, for instance in the short story collections " The Man from the Diogenes Club " ( 2006 ) and " Secret Files of the Diogenes Club " ( 2007 ), where it is explained at the end of each book.

In the film, Cooper plays a sheltered, intellectual linguist who is writing an encyclopedia with six other scientists, and hires street-wise Stanwyck to help them with modern slang terms.

and created much of modern hacker slang and culture.

In modern slang, some native speakers may pronounce ‹ W › more closely to the origin of the loanword than the official / v / pronunciation.

The latter probably lent its name to the modern slang term.

The modern fish-and-chip shop (" chippy " or " chipper " in modern British slang

In modern usage the slang term bitch has different meanings depending largely on social context and may vary from very offensive to endearing, and as with many slang terms its meaning and nuances can vary depending on the region in which it is used.

* The police force, known as sbirri (" cops " in modern Italian slang ), was billeted in private houses ( normally a practice of military occupation ) and enforced order quite rigorously.

A significant part of modern computer / Web / Internet slang, abbreviations, etc.

Asian pride in modern slang refers mostly to those of East Asian descent, though it can include anyone of Asian descent.

Through the same linguistic route, cods became a modern slang term for the male genitalia.

The youngest, Professor Bertram Potts ( Gary Cooper ), is a grammarian who is researching modern American slang.

In some computer users ' slang " the Elder Days " means the period before about 1980, before many modern computer developments started.

* engrupir-to fool someone ( origin unknown, but also used in modern European and Brazilian Portuguese slang )

Because of persistent debate, answered and unanswered questions, and conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination and the possible related role of the grassy knoll, the term " grassy knoll " has come to also be a modern slang expression indicating suspicion, conspiracy, or a cover-up.

Although there are differences, modern gay slang has adopted many Polari words, as detailed in the table below:

This genre of music is very typically French and differs from most in that emphasis is placed on appreciation of the lyrics and that it is linked to a specific culture of modern " guinche " ( slang for " guinguette ") appreciated a lot by Bobos among others.

This dialogue frequently makes use of slang words invented by the author, as a substitute for words that were, in the 1970s, typically taboo to speak about in modern western culture.

In modern use, it is used as a slang term, especially in Yorkshire, for a gossipy or overly talkative person.

The dialect has roots in older languages such as Old English and Old Norse ; it should not be confused with modern slang.

A similar word in modern Irish slang " Gigh " ( pronounced ) also exists, further confusing the possible origin of the name.

The term is still unofficially used in Quebec, Acadian and Franco-Ontarian slang as a reference to the Canadian dollar ( the official French term for the modern Canadian dollar is dollar ).