Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter is a 2001 cult film from Odessa Filmworks which deals with Jesus ' modern-day struggle to protect the lesbians of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from vampires with the help of Mexican wrestler El Santo ( based on El Santo, Enmascarado de Plata, and played by actor Jeff Moffet, who starred as El Santo in two other Odessa Filmworks productions ).

In philosophy and the humanities, Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, was born in El Biar in Algiers ; Malek Bennabi and Frantz Fanon are noted for their thoughts on decolonization ; Augustine of Hippo was born in Tagaste ( modern-day Souk Ahras ); and Ibn Khaldun, though born in Tunis, wrote the Muqaddima while staying in Algeria.

His name also survives in modern-day companies such as Dynamit Nobel and Akzo Nobel, which are descendants of the companies Nobel himself established.

But modern-day civil defendants are usually able to avoid most ( if not all ) court appearances if represented by a lawyer.

The interlinked ' X's are incorporated in the modern-day ExxonMobil corporate logo, but the original Exxon logo continues for marketing and station signage.

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

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

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.

They slowly moved south, and the earliest ironworks in modern-day KwaZulu-Natal Province are believed to date from around 1050.

Extant species in the Cryptobranchidae family are the modern-day members of a lineage that extends back millions of years — the earliest fossil records of a basal species date back to the Middle Jurassic and were found in volcanic deposits in northern China.

* Domestic pigs, which are descended from wild boars, are known to have existed about 2500 BC in modern-day Hungary and in Troy ; earlier pottery from Jericho and Egypt depicts wild pigs.

The modern-day minority of Mongolic-speaking Daurs in China are their direct descendants based on DNA evidence.

The personages of Pierrot and Columbine are transported into modern-day settings and inserted into an occasionally mawkish or nostalgic love plot with equal doses of laughter mingled with pain and regret.

Keel suggests that MiBs are a modern-day manifestation of the same phenomena that were earlier interpreted as the devil or encounters with fairies.

In modern-day Saudi Arabia, the Grand Mosque and all of Mecca are open only to Muslims.

While exploration and mining can sometimes be conducted by individual entrepreneurs or small business, most modern-day mines are large enterprises requiring large amounts of capital to establish.

Metal-coated glass mirrors are said to have been invented in Sidon ( modern-day Lebanon ) in the first century AD, and glass mirrors backed with gold leaf are mentioned by the Roman author Pliny in his Natural History, written in about 77 AD.

Skeptics such as James Randi suggest that his reputation as a prophet is largely manufactured by modern-day supporters who fit his words to events that have either already occurred or are so imminent as to be inevitable, a process sometimes known as " retroactive clairvoyance " ( postdiction ).

Its ruins are across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq.

Today, state-of-the-art boat design and leading-edge technology are pushing the barriers and extending the boundaries of the modern-day racers in their relentless pursuit of competitive excellence.

Historical maps of the ancient Aksum / Abyssinian Empire and Adal / Somali empires indicate that Oromo people are newcomers to most of modern-day central Ethiopia.

Anatolian sources of obsidian are known to have been the material used in the Levant and modern-day Iraqi Kurdistan from a time beginning sometime about 12, 500 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.

Little is known about the Achaemenid Persian invasion of modern-day Pakistan as historical sources and evidence are scant and fragmentary containing little detail.

Each Jewish community would associate itself with one of the three yeshivot ; Jews living around the Mediterranean typically followed the yeshiva in Jerusalem, while those living in the Arabian Peninsula and modern-day Iraq and Iran typically followed one of the two yeshivot in Baghdad.

In modern-day schools, Hindu students are typically taught the Bhagavad Gita, which explains the ethics and duty of a person, as well as one's relationship with Krishna, God.

Contemporary music comprises modern-day compositions that have their roots in traditional musical styles and have been created for entertainment purposes, typically with the intent of eventual mass dissemination via cassette, compact disc, radio or internet.

These typically look as modern-day industrial vehicles would had they been found in a junk yard, rebuilt with scrap iron / corrugated metal / wooden 2x4's / metal rivets, had various ( and seemingly random ) weapons attached and made to function ( poorly ).

Although early Dagorhir weapons were typically constructed from crude materials such as couch foam and broomsticks when the organization was in its infancy, modern-day weapons are usually made from combinations of both open and closed-cell foam bonded to a fiberglass or PVC pipe core.

Scrap yards typically buy any base metal ; for example, iron, steel, stainless steel, brass, copper, aluminum, zinc, nickel, and lead would all be found at a modern-day scrapyard.

However, once a student learns that most Baroque instrumental music was associated with dances, such as the gavotte and the sarabande, and keyboard music from the Baroque era was played on the harpsichord or the pipe organ, a modern-day student is better able to understand how the piece should be played.

In 2005, BBC One broadcast an adaptation for the ShakespeaRe-Told series, written by Sally Wainwright and directed by Dave Richards, which set the story in modern-day Britain, with Katherine ( played by Shirley Henderson ) as an abrasive career politician who is told she must find a husband if she wants to become the party leader.

"), and had a brief epilogue in which Howerd played a modern-day museum guide showing the petrified remains of the Pompeiian characters.

* " Jim " Moriarty, is played by actor Andrew Scott in the BBC's modern-day adaptation Sherlock as an extremely volatile " consulting criminal " who develops a murderous obsession with Sherlock Holmes.

In the 2003 Twist film, a modern-day retelling of the story, the Artful Dodger is called Dodge and is played by Nick Stahl.

In a 1976 ABC Afterschool Special, Lance Kerwin played the dual role in the modern-day American-based adaptation of the story titled, P. J.

The Saints have played their home games at Midway Stadium since 1993, when the modern-day team started as a member of the Northern League.

Since Franco had relied on thousands of North African soldiers anti-Islamic sentiment " was played down but the centuries old myth of the Moorish threat lay at the base of the construction of the " Communist menace " as a modern-day Eastern plague.

In the 1973 horror film The Wicker Man ( 1973 film ), a Scottish Policeman played by Edward Woodward searches for a missing child on the west Scottish island of Summerisle, which is populated by modern-day Pagans who engage in various Celtic rituals, one of which is the baking of barley bread into the figure of a man known as John Barleycorn, who is referred to by the baker as " The life of the fields ".

In the millennium special, Blackadder Back and Forth, Fry reprised the roles of The Duke of Wellington and Lord Melchett, and also played the Roman General Melchicus ( a character very similar to General Melchett ) and the modern-day Archbishop Flavius Melchett ( a character with slight similarities to both Lord Melchett and General Melchett ).

He moved to Ashton-under-Lyne and played as an amateur for Ashton North End, before moving on to Stalybridge Rovers and then Rochdale ( not to be confused with the modern-day Rochdale A. F. C.

Veteran private eye Philip Marlowe returned as a modern-day sleuth in 1969's Marlowe played by James Garner ( based on Chandler's The Little Sister ), and in Robert Altman's revisionist The Long Goodbye ( 1973 ) played by Elliott Gould.

While Aleister Crowley, with whom he was acquainted, adopted the persona of a modern-day witch, Summers played the part of the learned Catholic witch-hunter.

The latter lived near modern-day Kiev and played a key role in the creation of Rus.

Although chariots have been compared to modern-day tanks in the role they played on the battlefield, i. e., shock attacks, this is disputed with scholars pointing out that chariots were vulnerable and fragile, required a level terrain while tanks are all-terrain vehicles, and thus not suitable for use in the way modern tanks have been used as a physical shock force.

The infiltration of several ancient, chiefly Anatolian, tribes into the territory of modern-day Georgia and their fusion with the autochthons played a decisive role in this process.

In 1966, Grimes starred in her own ABC television series, The Tammy Grimes Show, in which she played a modern-day heiress who loved to spend money.

The road played a crucial role in the American Civil War, and eventually became an important part of the modern-day Norfolk Southern rail system.

" Hurling to goals " was played on a pitch similar to that of modern-day football, and had many strict rules, similar to those of football and rugby ; this was common in the east of the county.

Contrary to some modern-day writers, Anson did not have a second encounter with Walker that day ( Walker was apparently injured, having last played on July 11, and did not play again until July 26 ).