This technology is very common in modern-day digital video recorders.

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The type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which the genus is named.

Public interest in, and debate over, Hill's testimony is said to have launched modern-day public awareness and open discussion of the issue of workplace sexual harassment in the United States with the ultimate result that the behavior is less tolerated today.

It is surmised from the writings of Al Biruni that some Afghans who lived in west of India ( modern-day Afghanistan ) had not been completely converted to Islam.

Units of the Bonn legion were deployed to theatres of war ranging from modern-day Algeria to what is now the Russian republic of Chechnya.

He is referring to the twinned monasteries of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, near modern-day Newcastle, claimed as his birthplace, there is also a tradition that he was born at Monkton, two miles from the monastery at Jarrow.

Bambara is a language / dialect of the Manding language cluster, a cluster of languages whose ethnic-speakers generally trace their cultural history to the ancient city of Manding, where modern-day Kita, Mali now exists.

Contrary to the modern-day picture of the traditional tyrannical pirate, he commanded his vessels with the permission of their crews and there is no known account of his ever having harmed or murdered those he held captive.

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.

This is one of the many issues being addressed by third wave feminism as well as the modern-day masculist movement.

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 ).

" The church teaches that " he most reliable way to measure the accuracy of any biblical passage is not by comparing different texts, but by comparison with the Book of Mormon and modern-day revelations ".

Acadian refugees, who largely came from what is now modern-day New Brunswick and Nova Scotia adapted their French rustic cuisine to local ingredients such as rice, crawfish, sugar cane, and sassafras.

The modern-day town of Ixcateopan in the state of Guerrero is home to an ossuary purportedly containing Cuauhtémoc's remains.

In addition to his administrative and legal impact on history, the Emperor Diocletian is considered to be the founder of the city of Split in modern-day Croatia.

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.

The recession of the glaciers is so recent ( in geologic terms ) that modern-day drainage patterns are immature and poorly established.

In particular, the count of arithmetic operations is usually the focus of such questions, although actual performance on modern-day computers is determined by many other factors such as cache or CPU pipeline optimization.

A musket of several centuries ago is still similar in principle to a modern-day assault rifle-using the expansion of gases to propel projectiles over long distances-albeit less accurately and rapidly.

One custom that persists in modern-day Ireland is the baking ( or more often nowadays, the purchase ) of a barmbrack (), which is a light fruitcake, into which a plain ring, a coin and other charms are placed before baking.

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.

Just prior to Saharan desertification, the communities that developed south of Egypt in what is now modern-day Sudan were full participants in the Neolithic revolution and lived a settled to semi-nomadic lifestyle, with domesticated plants and animals.

The ancestors of the modern-day dolphins entered the water roughly 50 million years ago, in the Eocene epoch.

At first the kingdom was little more than a loose collection of towns and cities captured during the crusade, but at its height in the mid-12th century the kingdom roughly encompassed the territory of modern-day Israel, Lebanon and Palestine.

In the Russian Empire, Jews were restricted to the so-called Pale of Settlement, the Western frontier of the Russian Empire corresponding roughly to the modern-day countries of Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine.

Bernicia covered lands north of the Tees, while Deira corresponded roughly to modern-day Yorkshire.

Jerusalem's first three rulers, Godfrey of Bouillon ( 1099 – 1100 ), his brother Baldwin I ( 1100 – 1118 ), and their cousin Baldwin II ( 1118 – 1131 ), expanded and secured the kingdom's borders, which encompassed roughly the same territory as modern-day Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon.

Canaan ( Northwest Semitic ; Phoenician: ; Biblical Hebrew: / ; Masoretic: / ; / Kan ‘ ān ) is a historical Semitic-speaking region roughly corresponding to the Levant ( modern-day Israel, Palestinian territories, Lebanon, and the western parts of Jordan and Syria ).

While the Bishops of Rome – now beginning to be referred to as the Popes – remained de jure Byzantine subjects, in practice the Duchy of Rome, an area roughly equivalent to modern-day Latium, became an independent state ruled by the Church.

Shakespeare's fellow playwright Ben Jonson ridiculed the presence in the play of a seacoast and a desert in Bohemia, since the kingdom of Bohemia ( which roughly corresponds to the modern-day Czech Republic ) had neither a coast ( being landlocked ) nor a desert.

The Romans never successfully conquered the whole island, building Hadrian's Wall as a boundary with Caledonia, which covered roughly the territory of modern Scotland, although in fact the whole of the boundary marked by Hadrian's Wall lies within modern-day Northern England.

The modern-day U. S. Route 250 roughly follows this route from Richmond to Charlottesville.

On the accession of his brother Charles to title of Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, he entrusted Ferdinand with the government of the Austrian hereditary lands, roughly modern-day Austria and Slovenia.

Modern-day Latakia Governorate and Tartus Governorate roughly encompass what was the Alawite State, both governorates having majority Alawite populations ; however, parts of modern-day Al-Suqaylabiyah District, Masyaf District, Talkalakh District and Jisr ash-Shugur District ( now in neighbouring governorates ) also belonged to it.

Albania or Arran in Islamic times was a triangle of land, lowland in the east and mountainous in the west, formed by the junction of the Kura and Aras rivers, including the highland and lowland Karabakh ( Artsakh ), Mil plain and parts of the Mughan plain, and in the pre-Islamic times, corresponded roughly to the territory of modern-day Republic of Azerbaijan.

The Qin Dynasty organized its territory into " Commanderies " () – roughly equivalent to a province or prefecture – and Zhongshan became part of the Nanhai Commandery (), which covered most of modern-day Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces.

It was once divided into two sections ruled by different feudal lords: the western Brie française, corresponding roughly to the modern department of Seine-et-Marne in the Île-de-France region ; the eastern Brie champenoise, forming a portion of the modern department of Marne in the historic region of Champagne ( part of modern-day Champagne-Ardenne ); and the northern Brie pouilleuse, forming part of the modern department of Aisne in Picardy.

The Iceni () or Eceni were a British tribe who inhabited an area corresponding roughly to the modern-day county of Norfolk from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD.

From 1383 to 1385, the Afghanistan area was conquered from the north by Timur, leader of neighboring Transoxiana ( roughly modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and adjacent areas ), and became a part of the Timurid Empire.

Muslow and Popkin assert that, " the antisemitism of the early modern period was even worse than that of the Middle Ages ; and nowhere was this more obvious than in those areas which roughly encompass modern-day Germany, especially among Lutherans.

It roughly comprised the territory of present-day northern Tunisia, and the small Mediterranean coast of modern-day western Libya along the Syrtis Minor.

It was located immediately north of ancient Macedonia ( which roughly corresponds to the modern Greek region of Macedonia ) and to the south-east of Dardania ( roughly corresponding to modern-day Kosovo ).

Iberian refers to Iberia, which has two basic meanings, the disused, of Caucasian Iberia ( corresponding roughly to modern-day Georgia and still used on Greece's Holy Mountain ), and the modern sense of someone or something originating in the Iberian Peninsula, namely from Portugal and Spain.

The turnpike crossed the river via the Kingston-Rhinecliff Ferry and used modern Rhinecliff Road and West Market Street to the village center of Rhinecliff, then roughly followed modern-day NY 308 to the hamlet of Eighmyville.

He ruled a portion of Britain called Loegria, named after him, which is roughly the boundaries of modern-day England.